Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 June 1920 — Page 15

■RYAN LIKENS fPLATFORM TO r CHOICE MOSAIC Subscribes to Every Issue, Then Dodges Point, He Declares. SACRIFICE TO HARMONY y WILLIAM j. BRYAN. (Copyright, 1020, by W. J. Bryan.) CHICAGO, Jane IL—Oh, harmony, what crimes have been committed In thy name! Harmony la the giant of the Philistines In this convention and no David near with a pebble and sling. A thousand delegates, leaders In public life and not more than a handful who are willing to tight for their convictions in the face of opposition. One man tried to present a minority report on a number of economic questions. Chairman Lodge had difficulty In comBflllug the crowd to listen —he had to threaten to clear the galleries and then the dissenting committeeman could get no state to second his demand for a roll call. The league of nations plank Is one of the most perfect specimens of art in the way of compromise that can be found in aU convention literature. Practically every delegate accepts it with mental reservations. It is a mosaic, made up of sentences of all sixes and colors. Those who believe that our nation ought to lend its counsel to other nations in the interest of universal peace can thunder forth approval of the first sentence: “The republican party stands for agreement among the nations to preserve the pea'' of t*r> rid." Could anything be more emphatic? Abu ,vuu. it.uu of an agreement shall It be? One like the president brought back from Paris with the approval of some twenty or more nations? Never I Os this the platform says: “The covenant signed by the president in Paris fails signally to accomplish this great purpose, and contains stipulations *ot only Intolerable for Independent people, but certain to produce injustice, hos tility and controversy among nations which it proposes to prevent.” REPUBLICAN SENATE’S WORK INTO DISCARD. If not the covenant as brought back by the president, what abont the covenant as amended by more than twothirds of the republican senate? Even this is thrown into the discard with the preident’s covenant at the demand of the lrreconeilables. Bat the platform says: “The senators performed their duty voted for ratification with reservations and the fifteen who prevented ratification wih reservations.” Evidently they were both right. They were complements of each other, although the language with which they described each other was * not always ■ complimentary. the plktform proceeds to say: “We approve their conduct and honor their courage and fidelity." . No matter whnt they did, it was honorable, and above all. they were courageous.

They showed their fidelity by fighting each other. Why did they not save some of their fidelity for this convention and fight here? Why did the lion and the lamb lie down together, the lamb on the Inside? The convention Is so Inspired by the honor, “courage" and "fidelity" shown by Its senators that It concludes its platform by “pointing to Its history and relying on Its fundamental principles." It admits, nay even declares, that the party has the “genius, courage and constructive ability” to do the Job. Suppose those who read the platform happen to consult history—not ancient history, but history about eight years old. What will they find A convention much like this, managed by the same Identical men, quite as proud of themselves then as they are now. and Just as sure that they had a monopoly of “genius, courage and constructive ahiljpr " and yet only two states In the Pinion applauded their remarks. Forty-tlx states voted no on the roll call, leaving Utah and Vermont to certify to their “genius, courage and constructive ability." LEADERS WILL CONTINUE TO ACT THEIR PARTS. But they laid their crowns at the feet of King Harmony, and the leaders will proceed to play the clairvoyant act and tell how a great pie ceof good fortune is coming to the republican party about the fourth of March. And what will Senator have to say, who has been exposing the profiteers and’ demanding legislation that will protect producers and consumers from the greed of the middlemen? What answer will he make when the audience hurls that little eighteen-word anti-profiteering plan at him, and gives him the horselaugh? But harmony demands acquiescence, aye, even the appearance of gratification. A story Is told of a party of men who went out on a hunting trip. It was agreed that they would take turns cooking, and to prevent conflict, any person who criticised the cooking would have to take his turn next. The first morning one of the party had trouble with his steak, and with some emphasis declared: “This Is the toughest piece of steak I ever ate" —and then remembering the rule, added: “But I like It.” And Col. , won’t he be a little embarrassed when he reads the soldier plank at a meeting of the legion? It Is much easier to give the service men an “imperishable remembrance" apiece than a bonus. The soldiers asked for bread and received a bouquet. It doesn’t cost so much and isn’t so hard to collect.

I wonder how many of the war profiteers would be willing to trade their newly made fortunes for an “Imperishable remembrance.” Merchant gives his SON GOOD ADVICE. The republican party started out quite braTely in the bonus matter, but It couldn’t keep up Its gait. A merchant, who on retiring from to win. The same faction of the republican

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business, turned his store over to his son, advised him how to be popular without expense to himself. “Subscribe to the building fund of every church proposed, and then fight the location.” The republican party can’t find a location for a soldiers’ bonus. But the most apathetic situation is presented by the dodging of the prohibition question. Read the platform and se how gleeful the republican party is over the record of its senators and members of congress—with what “honor,” "“courage’’ and “fidelity” they have done things great and small; see how proudly they assert the position of the republican party on other questions big and little, and then to think that they would run away from their most stupendous act because a few ex-llquor dealers and some thirsty worshippers of the rum god made threats. Think of the homes that prohibition safeguards, of the lives It saves from ruin, of the Jails It Is emptying, of the crimes it is preventing. Think of the example we have set to those <n other lands as we shake the strongholds of the demon alcohol with the testimony that our nation gives. And then pity the cowardice of the representatives of the thirty-four prohibition states without a gpokelman when the crisis came—of forty-five ratifying states without a delegate brave enough to propose an amendment Indorsing the prohibition poller of pledging enforcement of a law passed jy congress and upheld by the supreme court. But by the surrender of their convictions on a great moral question anu by their abandonment of the priceless Interests of the people on this subject they prevented discord. O, harmony, I repeat, what crimes are committed in thy name!

CHEER LOWDEN FOR 42 MINUTES (Continued From Page One.) hit by paying a tersely worded tribute to her candidate, seconding his nomination, and withdrawing after using up less than two minutes of her alloted five. “In the name of the women of America,” she said, “I have the honor of seconding the nomination of Gov. Lowden.” Gov. Edwin T. Morrow of Kentucky, mentioned as a vice presidential possibility, also seconded Lowden’s nomination. MORROW “TAKES SHOT” AT SOUTH. “Fully conscious of every responsibility of this great hour," said Morrow of Kentucky, republican Kentucky brings you this message: ‘Give us to lead the hosts of battle In November Frank Bowden, and with him to lead we’ll smash the Htndenburg line of southern democracy forever.’ “Kentucky is the neighbor of Illinois. ‘‘lt Is said in the good book, blessed is the man who loves his neighbor. "Kentucky will vote for Bowden until he is nominated by this convention." Charles Wheeler of California put In nomination the name of Hiram Johnson. At the outset Wheeler's speech was quietly received, several of his pauses passing In silence. A quotation from B'.ncoln—“Govern ment of the people, for the people ami by the people" got the first applause lor Wheeler, but the crowd was slow!/ farmlag up. When he asked If the people wanted four years more of the Wilson family in the whitehouse there were cries of “no." lie demanded whether the people would "force the head of the dynasty to abdicate and then take on the crown price.” It took h:s hearers a minute to get It and then there was a laugh and the nemo of McAdoo ran through the crowd.

ALLEN MAKES STIRRING PLEA (Continued From Page One.) Mrs. Robinson’s voice rang clearly through the hall. She had the true Rooseveltlan gestures. reminiscent of her brother. She bared her teeth, as did the colonel, and snapped out her words, much as he did In his most vigorous speeches. She concluded her speech with a vigorous stamp of her foot, saying America must have a man who looks from America out, rather than from outside of America In. "And Indeed,” she cried, “Beonard Wood Is the kind of man who says ’come’ and I want Leonhrd Wood.” There was a pause of emphasis between each word, and so vigorously did she pound the table that it rocked. A huge life size photograph of Wood standing with Roosevelt was lowered from the gallery. Allen’s nomination of Wood provoked a demonstration that lasted thirty-nine minutes. The affair was well staged and was opened with showers of many colored feathers from the roof, labeled with the name of General Wood. Crews Stop Trains to Steal Chickens ABILENE, Kas.. June 10. —Rock Island train schedules between this place and Herlngton will be more uniform henceforth. It has been a habit of train crews to stop trains while they chased down barnyard fowls, fnrmers living along the right-of-way declare. Asa first step to stop the practice, J. E. Johnson, a fireman, has been arrested on complaint of a farmer's wife that he left his cab and attempted to “shanghai" one of her white turkeys. Would Deny State Jobs to Rich Women SABEM, Ore., June 11.—Ousting of all married women from state positions whose husbands are physically able to provide for their support Is the objective aimed for at a proposed conference of state officials and men prominent In brtior circles of Oregon. The conference will aim also to see that only women and girls are given state positions who are thrown upon their own MILLIONS FOR TIRE*. This year the American people will spend more than $300,000,000 for automobile tires.

NO ONE KNOWS WHERE TO TURN FOR CANDIDATE Something the Matter With Every Offering Before the Republican Convention. EXPECT BALLOTS TODAY By WM. PHILIP SIMMS. CHICAGO, June 11. —With all the candidates, including the dark horses, publicly expressing absolute confidence in the result, but privateadmitting that there is positively no telling what the outcome will be, the G. O. P. today got down to the bedrock business of nominations. The belief was that the first ballots would be cast for the candidates before adjournment this evening. Counting seconding speeches, it was estimated that at least thirty addresses of varying length would come before the real task of voting could begin. The betting is almost nil. No money to speak of is being staked on the fight at the Coliseum. And what little there is has been put up for sentimental, rather than for sporting, reasons. LOIYDEN’B CHANCES NOT EXTRAORDINARY. The chances for Gov. Frank O. Lowden being nominated, as seen today, but a few hours before somebody must be nominated, are very small. Senator Boies Penrose and the republican old guard are against him. Not personally, but against him Just the same, because of the row kicked up over his campaign expenditures. “Pick a winner," Senator Penrose has commanded ov°r the telephone from his home in Philadelphia. Gov. Lowden, old-line republicans here fear, would be too heavily handicapped to win. The same faction of the republican party at this moment seems to be against MaJ. Gen. Leonard Wood. The impression one gets here today, as the nominating speeches are being made, is that the general has been lined up against the wall with the governor. Still thefre is no telling.

JOHNSON MUST WHIP OLD GUARD. Senator Hiram Johnson, it is equally certain, will not be nominated if the old guard leaders can possibly prevent it. This goes for today, when the -ballots are prepared and waiting, quite as emphatically as it did weeks ago before the Californian had demonstrated his political strength in a nation-wide campaign. Senator William E. Borah of Ilaho, one of Senator Johnson's seconders, said today before Chairman Henry Cabot Lodge called the convention to order, that the league of nations plank as adopted, was nothing less than an out and out victory for Johnson and under the circumstances to nominate any but the leader of the “lrreconeilables" would be illogical in the extreme. Johnsoff must be nominated, Senator Borah said. The "regulars” of the republican part*, however, view the situation In a different light. They oppose Johnson; they Just don't want him to be president; and they give their reasons, which are long.

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So they are claiming today that they have given Johnson everything he has asked for in the platform, in the committee, on the floor ami in the convention—that Is, all save one thing; the nomination. That, they say, he can't have. The vice presidency, yes. The presidency, no. This may, or may not, be logical, but It Is the Johnson situation here as the real work of the caucus starts. Johnson may seize the first opportunity which presents Itself and start a stampede If he can, but the delegates thus far have manifested little inclination In that direction. SPKOI'L BOOM STILL GROWING. The boom for Gov. Win. C. Bproul is bigger today than ever. This does not mean he will be nominated, even If he does have the backingof Senator Boles Penrose, tl does mean, however, that he will act as a magnet when the balloting gets fairly under way, and pull over to his camp, which U the camp of Penrose, a considerable number of delegates. Pennsylvania alone has 70 votes. These, with such others-as may respond to the call of the PenroseSproul combination, It is admitted, would be a powerful Influence in the convention. In the event of anything like a deadlock happening, the Penrose Sproul delegates, If Sproul dropped out of the race and gave the word, might very well be, politicians admit, the balance of power necessary to swing the caucus In any direction desired. The Knox-Johnson combination talk was heard again today. It will not down. The same feeling of uncertainty which has hung over the ball since the beginning, was still conspicuously present. The order in which the various candidates will be nominated has not been definitely fixed, but the understanding early today was that the three leaders would come In this order: First, MaJ. Gen. Leonard Wood; second, Gov. Frank O. Lovrden, and Senator Hiram Johnson. The rollcall will be alphabetically and by states. Alabama being first on the list and having no candidate herself to offer, may cede the floor to Gov. Henry I. Allen of Kansas, to place Gen. Wood’s name before the convention. Or Arkansas might cede to the Kansan. Arkansas or Arizona Is expected to yield to Congressman William A. Rodenberg of East St. Louis to nominate Gov. Low den. California, being up near the top of the list, will take her turn when called, and Charles S. Wheeler of San Francisco will rise and name Senator Johnson. Seconding speeches will be made to all of these. Er-Oov. Runyon of New Jersey, William H. Boyd of Oklahoma, C. B. Moynlban of Colorado, MaJ. Frank Knox of New Jersey, Gov. John A. A. Burnqulst and I>r. J. R. E. Grosman, a negro, will second the Wood nomination. Seconding speeches to the Lowden nomination ok the schedule are from former Congreaeman Charles E. Pickett of Jowl|

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Gov. Edwin P. Morrow of Kentucky, Senator Selden P. Spencer of Missouri, E. J. Murphy of Oklahoma and Isaiah T. Montgomery of Mississippi, Senator William E. Borah of Idaho will second Senator Johnson’s nomination. He will be followed by Robert Doherty of New Jersey and Thomas D. Schall of Minnesota. Herbert Hoover may not be placed reg-ula-ly in nomination. After the balloting begins Judge Nathan L. Miller of Syracuse, N. Y., may ask the floor in order to explain his vote and make what would be tantamount to a nominating speech at that time. This would take the Hoover nomination out of the flood of speeches which came earlier. Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio will be nominated by Frank B. Willis; Senator Miles Poindexter of Washington, by George H. Walker of Seattle. The nomination is now but a question of hours.

DEMOCRATS TO GO ON SPECIAL Train Carrying Indiana Party to ’Frisco Leaves June 19. Indiana democracy will be represented at the San Francisco convention by a tralnload of enthusiastic members of the party from this state. They will leave here Saturday, June 10, at 2 p. in., on a special train chartered by the \ Indiana Democratic club and managed by Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Hinkle. The party will have nine days in which to make the trip to the convention city, visiting points of Interest on the way Arrangements have been made for stops at Salt Lake City. Denver. Colorado Springs. Chicago, Omaha, Los Angeles and other national interest points, and folders giving rates end other information regarding the trip have been Issued by the Democratic ciub. ELDER IN CHART,E OF ARRANGEMENTS. Bowman Elder, 063 North Pennsylvania street. Is in charge of arrangements for the trip for the Democratic club. He Is assisted by John Spiegel, and each day this committee la receiving requests for reservations and information regarding the trip. Delegates to the convention, from Indiana. as well as others who will attend the convention, will go on the club's special. It is expected that a number of persons will be picked up at Chicago and other points north by the Indianapolis special. The Indiana delegation will have Its quota of women representatives, aa, according to information given by those In charge of the train, a number of women have already taken out reservations. GIRL SECRETARY ALREADY ON WAY. Miss Gertrude F. McHugh, assistant secretary of the Indiana state committee, and secretary of the woman's state committee, left Wednesday for San Francisco, where she wIU make arrangements for the Indtsna party. The fact that Mrs. Alice Foster McCulloch of Ft. WHjno will represent the party in Indlann as delegate-at large in the convention and that three women are alternate delegates, accounts for the fact that a large number of women will go to the national convention. One week remains for completing arrangement* for the convention trip, and the state committee requests that those desiring to become a member of the party communicate at once with Bowman Elder or John Speigel.

TAKE ’EM OFF! ‘HOTTEST DAY’ (Continued From Page One.) recreation and pleasure for a week or two ns a trip to Turkey ltun, Brown county or Bake Michigan. Week-end fishing parties along the hanks of White river have become popular already this season. HEAVY DEMAND FOR CANOES. The boating houses have been swamped with demands for canoes. Hundreds of padillers may he seen or. White river every night hunting a cool spot. Broad Btpple park Is a busy spot. The management at Broad Ripple predicts a crowd next Sundny even greater than the crowd of 1.300 persons who went swimming there Inst Sunday. The Y. M. C. A. reports between four and five hundred men patronizing tbeir swimming pool every day. The “Y" Is issuing n summer rate ticket to men who are not members of the organization. The Independent Athletic club, which is also selling a season ticket. Is doing a “rushing business" in Us swimming pool. The pool nt the Y. W. C. A. is continuously crowded with women members of tbe organization. In fact, Indianapolis is now dovotlng more attention to keeping cool than to almost anything else. Farmers Catch Their Fish With Pitchforks SPRINGFIELD, 111., June 11.—Anglers, attention I Fish are so numerous around Granite City, 111., whore the recent rains have caused floods from the Mississippi, that farmers are henvlng them out of the flooded fields with pltchforl.j. This in tbe information brought here by an Illinois traction system motormau. Plan $1,000,000 School to Train Executives NEW YORK, June 11.—The National Association of Corporation Schools at Its convention here took preliminary steps In the organization of an American institution of Industry and commerce, which will teach the science of employment and the art of dealing with problems of personnel in large business establlshmeuts. NATURE CLUB TAKES HIKE. The Nature Study club will take a hiko along Sugar creek from Mohawk :.o Philadelphia tomorrow afternoon. The party, which will be led by Mrs. Cecil Deublg, will take the 2 o'clock car on the Honey Bee line with well-filled lunch tejksta for Mohawk.

DEMONSTRATION PROVES USELESS (Continued From Page One.) ment and in a few moments had several volunteer supporters. At 1:40 p. m. the demonstration was still on, but obviously as in the case of each of the previous demonstrations the outbursts were mechanical and almost entirely lacking in spontaneity. Delegates in various parts of the hall rend newspapers, fanned themselves or visited among themselves, taking little or no part in any of thq proceedings. LODGE HOLDS GAVEL IN CHECK. Senator Lodge who had resumed charge of the gavel, made no attempt to head off the demonstration or to bring the convention to order dliring any of the lulls until 1:41, when, remarking to the press box that the delegates needed a little recess, he stepped forward and banged half heartedly with his gavel, restoring quiet. The demonstration lasted twentyeight minutes. As quiet was resumed, Representative Thomas W. Schall of Minnesota, a blind congressman, was led forward by his eight-year-old oon, aud started the first seconding speech for Johnson's nomination. Representative Schall described how his little son when 4 years old crept to his knee and asked if he could see him. “Can't you see me, daddy?” the boy asked, and his father replied. “Not with my eyes, but with my heart.” It in the heart of the people that is demanding Johnson, Schall declared, aud a shout went up from the galleries. Schall referred to Senator Penrose's sending from Philadelphia a message that the convention should nominate the man who could win. "That can mean no other man than Illram Johnson," cried Schall, and there was a real cheer. Schall had little trouble from the minute he started speaking. He had a penetrating voice and an energetic personality not unlike the candidate he was there to second. HU success in putting a bit of Jaz* Into the proceedings stirred the galleries and caused frequent murmurs of approval aud rounds of applause. SAYS HIRAM FITS PLATFORM.

"Johnson," he said, “Is the only candidate who fits the republican platform.” SchJll, bis sightless eyes open, rattled his knuckles .on the table as be spoke and hit enthusiasm seemed contagious. He reached his time limit and was reminded of It. “Can't 1 have a moment?” pleaded Sehall, turning toward Bodge. “Go on, go on!” yelled the galleries. Bodge explained that It was necessary enforce the five-minute rule. As the crowd started to hiss his apparent Intention to adhere to the letter of the rule, Lodge gracefully asked uu- - imoua consent to the granting of an additional two minutes to the speaker. A chorus of "ayes” swept the hall. And Sehall went on with bis speech. As Sehall spoke, au attendant stood behind him. ready to clutch his arm whenever he stepped too near the edge of the narrow platform. A he concluded Judge Richard Dougherty of Jersey City stepped forward to make the last seconding speech for Johnson. Dougherty made sn elaborate apology for coming from the state of New Jersey, which had also sent Wilson to the whitehouse. There was a silence. Dougherty declared the confidence of the republicans In the force and Intel, rlty of Hiram Johnson was not confined to that party, but declared that the same confidence In his ability exists to a very marked degree within the ranks of the democratic party. Bodge dropped the gavel on the speaker before he had concluded but relented and gave him an extra moment to conclude his sentence. GETS HIS HOME STATE TANGLED. The speaker concluded by nervously turning to Lodge and saying: “And so sir, I second the nomination of tbn Hon. Hiram Johnson of New Jereey." The crowd got a real laugh from the speaker's twisted geography. Philip O'Neill of Michigan was then allowed throe minutes to make the third Johnson nominating speech. He was a clean cut looking youngster with a penetrating voice and a rapid fire delivery which won the crowd and brought forth lusty cheers. WOMAN adds FRA IS E TO JOHNSON. Mrs. Katherine P. L.:lsun of California, on behalf of Johnson's own state, seconded the senator's namiuatlon. f’lad in white, Mrs. Edson, In a voice that shook a little with nervousness at first, told how California had adopted woman suffrage and passed progressive Industrial legislation while Johnson was governor. She asked that Johnson be nominated as a man who understands the great humanitarian problems and give the women voters a candidate they can enthusiastically support. Speaker Glllet then came to the platform to place In nomination the name of Gov. Calvin Coolldge of Massachusetts. Glllet was well received by tht delegates and they were ready to help him along at every opportunity with polite applause.

H<> gave the convention “a straight talking to" about Coolldge, explaining why he should get t. ho nomination, emphasizing the fact that he came suddenly to the foro In one year through his administration as governor of Massachusetts. "Wouldn’t It be a restful change to see such a ma nas Coolldge in the whitehouse?” Glllet wanted to know. The applause, however, became Increasingly polite, and finally barely audible. The nomination of a candidate for president on the republican ticket was distinctly the problem of approximately 500 uninstructed delegates who gathered slowly in the heat of the convention hall today. With the platform out of the way and the most of the preliminaries things of the past, the outstanding feature of the situation was the fact that no one had been able to gather to the support of any one candidate sufficient of the unlnstructed delegates to make the candidacy likely of success. In other words, the plans of the old guard of the republican party to create in Chicago a situation whore the sentiment. for the candidate would have to bo crystallized after the convention opened was still unshattered. When the republican convention session began tho raco was still open, not only to those candidates who entered long ago, but also to any who cared to back into It now and had any chance of corrallug the support of those 500 uninstructed delegates. Senator Johnson undoubtedly had his way in regard to the league of nations plunk.- But his victory there had little if any effect on the delegates who are unpledged and whose votes will eventually name the presidential candidate. No eloventh-hour withdrawals were reported up to the time the convention opened. At that hour it seemed certain that at least a dozen men would figure In the initial balloting, which may come late this afternoon. This situation was so beclouded with doubt, so bound round with claims and camouflage and uncertainty that evidently none of tho candidates has yet figured himself out of the running. Experienced observers anticipated ,the breaking would begin about the third ballot. ' HOT UNDER THE GIRDERS.. In expectation of seeing & speotad*

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Here's Gen Wood, candidate for the republican nomination for president, and Gov. Allen of Kansas, who today p’aced the general’s name before the republican national convention meeting at Chicago.

CHICAGO FIRMS HOLD MONSTER SUGAR SUPPLY $75,000,000 of Commodity Found Stored by Newspaper Man. WAREHOUSES VISITED By JOHN F. DELANEY. CHICAGO. 111., June 12.—The sugar trail—a pathway through the Chlcngi warehouse paved with approximately $75,000,(100 worth of cane sugar, millions and millions of pounds—leads In and out of every dry storage warehouse In Chicago, Into the swltehtag yards behind the warehouses, Into the freight terminals, out onto the tracks, down the tracks t< railroad slips, onto docks, into heavy laden Tcssels and Into refineries. Every vehicle, whether It be handtruck, motor truck, horse-drawn wsgon. automobile, fright car or starushlp. is packd with sugar. Incoming fright cars by tth bunded repose on the railroad tracks for from fifteen days to a month, with millions of pounds on board. SUGAR FILED ON ALL SIDES. One could hardly throw a brick nt random In the warehouse district without having the missile land on a million pounds of sugar. With the millions and millions of pounds of sugar consigned to sugar brokers, candyroakers, biscuit companies, soft drink manufacturers, breweries, canneries and packers one is amazed at the small amount of sugar reported as being consigned to the reputable wholesale grocers who make It a point to get their sugar Into the bands of the retail grocers and then to the public. Out of one lot of fifty freight cars, loaded double, In some eases, with sugar, It was found thnt seven cars were consigned to wholesale grocers. On the other hand. In the same lot sugar brokers, manufacturers and others who have or take no opportunity lo aid the police In the relief of their so culled “sugar shortage" rcc*jipng the lion’s share of the shipments. In the Wett Side Warehouse at Grand avenue and the river there are inlllHous and millions of pounds of sugar owned by various brokers und also by packers. STILL PLACING IT IN STORAGE. Muller Fox Brokerage Company, sugar brokers, have placed In this storage house alone within the last fifteen days 30.W10 sacks of sugar, or 3.000,000 pounds. On the same day the last of this shipment came In on a freighter of Duluth 500 tons of sugar was put In storage from tbe freighter Arthur Orr of Duluth. The ship's owners refused to dtsoloso the name of the broker that was receavlng the same. At the same time tliero were nearly 5,000 sacks of sugar in tbe warehouse. The same day 7,000 sacks of sugar were received at tbe Chicago, Burlington & Quincy docks by the Fetor Schoenhofen Brewing Company. In the warehouses of Griswold &

thousands of gallery tlcketholders were in their seats an hour before the time for starting, staring down from all sides at the comparatively small sparo reserved for the delegates. It was hot up under the steel girders, and soon the galleries were aflutter with waving fans. So universally were coats and vests discarded among delegates as well as spectators that the throng looked like a bleacher baseball crowd on tho Fourth of July. This effect was heightened by the presence of white coated, white capped attendants who looked exactly like tho peanut salesmen of tho league parks. In this case they were In charge of the water coolers. CONVENTIONALITIES COLISEUM, CHICAGO, June 11. Three hundred policemen and 425 ser-geants-at-arms are ou duty at the convention and business has been pretty dull for them thus far. * • • LAUNDRIES DOING WELL. It was another big day for the laundries. It was a brave collar that stood up for more than twenty minutes. • * * LAST NIGHT WAS A BUSY ONE FOR THE BANDS. THERE WAS A RALLY ON EVERY CORNER AND THE MICHIGAN BOULEVARDIERS WERE HARD AT WORK UNTIL SHORTLY BEFORE SUNRISE. * * * J. Hampton Moore, mayos tss Philadelphia, had a throut massage last night. He expects to nominate Gov. Sproul today. • • • Chicago society has lost interest In tho convention and turned Ha attention to a horee show.

Walker a large portion of the twentyfive carloads of sugar owned by Bunte Brothers, which the government charges were hoarded and a S3OO 000 profit received thereby were found stocked ceding high. Millions of pounds of sugar were also located at the Soo terminal warehouse, where the I. Wall Commission Company has Its warerooms. LARGE SUPPLY FOUND ON DOCKS. On the Graham & Morton docks a large consignment of the sugar supply of W. A. Havemeyer A Cos., sugar brokers, was found. Other sugar was found on the docks here and an Indication of the length oi time the sugar found here there has been In storage was given by a shipment of ten bags of sugar, consigned to Kesner A Kahn—l,ooo pounds—which had beeu refused because there was a shrinkage of 135 pounds !n the allotment—the bags were black from age and the sugar was hard like cement. On every dock I visited hundreds and hundreds of . sacks were piled up, and In some cases the sugar was camouflaged as flour. In lnquillng into the sugar situation 1 was aided considerably by the president of the Truck Drivers and Chauffeurs' Union. His drivers, having han died most of the sugar in Chicago, have Informed him of the places where it has been stored. Beshipment of large amounts of sugar In small lots to candy makrs, bakers and other than grocers is another track of keeping the supply from the public. I made photographs of the bills of lading showing this situation when I found a large amount of sugar owned by a brokerage firm o ntbe docks of a steamship Company. It showed the method of handling amounts of sugar so that it does not get to the public. It is being sent out in lots of fifteen bags 7 to fifty bags, but not to public outlets. Little trouble in getting sugar is experienced by manufacturers of new soft drniks to take the place of beer and wine. I found millions of pounds of sugar on its way to these concerns. The browcries are packed with sugar. Combination grocery houses who advertise In farm magazines to sell sugar at an amazingly low price if other goods are also bought at a high price were found to be oversupplied. Sugar! Sugar! everywhere—whereever one takes the trouble to look for It, but sugar is not the only commodity that Is held in storage. What about flour, and coffee and tea?

Campaign Against Dandelion Failed STOCKTON. Kas., June 11.—A campaign against the dandelion by the Civic Federation of Women’s Clubs here has failed. In an effort to eradicate the pest the women offered 2V4 cents a pound for all dandelions brought in. Small hoys reaped a rich harvest until the club’s treasury was bankrupt. A call has been made upon the city council to make up the deficiency. State Places 235,000 Fish in Streams The fish and game division of the state conservation department has completed the planting of 235,000 advanced bass from the state hatcheries at Riverside park in a number of small streams In Indiana. Os this number 10,000 were placed In Sugar creek; 85,000 in Flatrock creek, near Newcastle; 10,000 In Buck creek, near Acton; 20,000 in White river, near Muncle; 5,000 in each of two private ponds; 30,000 In Sugar creek, near Greenfield, and 10,000 in Brandywine creek. Breckinridge Long 111 ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 11.—Breckenridge Long, who has resigned as third assistant secretary of state to make the race for democratic nomination for United States senator, Is confined to bed suffering from tonsilltls, it was learned today. BOHEMIAN VIOLINIST TO PL A A’. Rudolf Kafka, Bohemian violin virtuoso, and Wilmot Goodwin, baritone, will be presented in concert the night of June 16 In Hollenbeck hall of the Y. W. C. A. under the auspices of the W. C. T. U. Mrs. W. W. Reedy, W 32 Bellefontaiue street, is in charge of arrangements. WOULD FINGER-PRINT ALL. DETROIT, Mich., June 11.—A federal law requiring the registration by finger print of every person In the country, was recommended by tbe convention of the International Police Chiefs’ association yesterday. TO MAKE LEGION ADDRESS. The opening address at the state convention of the American Legion at Vlncennee June 28 will be mad® by Franklin IF Oiler, national president of the American Legion.

SAYS JOHNSON IS LOGICAL MAN FOR PLATFORM Borah Gives His Interpretation of Report Made by Resolution Committee. AGAINST GEN. WOOD NOW ' By WILLIAM E. BORAH. (Copyright, I*2o, by International Now* Service.' CHICAGO, June 11.—Tne attempt to pledge the party to a ratification of lb* treaty and league of nations he# wholly failed. A treaty and a league which can no* have /an affirmative endorsement witk reservations after eighteen months of dobate is a dead treaty and league. The principle upon which this leagw# is built is denounced in the platform, the league itself is denounced in the platform and there is no pledge to ratify any bind of a league. This ought to terminate and end one* and for all the attempt to surrender th* Independence of the United State# and I think it does. The defeat of the plank to ratify th* league makes Johnson the logical candidate. One of the most famous and conscientious supporters of the league of nations, a man who has taken an active part in the fight for a league for th* last several years and who ha# contributed large sums of money to th*. cause, stated to iae this afternoon that the only logical thing for the conventio* now was to put the man upon the plat-'' form who is in harmony with the form and that we should therefore nominate Johnson. While he is very much opposed to Johnson individually and very much in favor of the league, he said there was only on* logical thing to do and that is to make the only man who is a candidate that fits the platform the nominee. It must inevitably be the Judgment of every one that Johnson is now the logical candidate of the convention. It grow* more and more apparent each day that he la not only the logical candidate, bat that he is the one who commands th* popular support and arouse# the publis interest necessary to a certain election. It Is one of the most remarkable things I have ever heard in a convention to hear delegate after delegate say that Gen. Wood could not carry his state, because, first, the farming classes were ia a great major.ty against the nomination of Wood; second, on account of hia belief of compulsory military training, and third, because pf the per ectly intolerable 1 expenditure of money to secure the nomination. Yet this delegate by reason of som* situation or some conditions felt be had to vote for Wood at least for a ballot of two. SEE BLCNDER

OF CONSEQUENCE. The republican congress rejected universal compulsory military training, th® republican convention has rejected It, now to nominate a man who stands for that and that alone as a distinct issue would be a blunder the fruits of which would be gathered later. When there is added to this the fact that millions havs been expended to secure the nomination it seems Incredible that a republican convention would even contemplate such action. Hourly, therefore, by reason of th® platform, by reason of the policies for which Gen. Wood stands, of the practice* preceding his nomination, Johnson becomes the logical candidate of the co*Tentlon. _ j We hare 'put out a platform covering a multitude of subjects of most vital concern to the American people, a plat'form which would admit of a catnpaig* upon the highest level, dealing with subjects of vital concern to the America* people. This convention is certainly, therefore, not going to make the dominant issue of the campaign the questlo* of the Improper nse of money In el®®tions. We hare Just decided that yo® cannot sell the republic, now we shoul4 decide that you cannot sell the presidency. CLEANUP WAVE LOOMS IN PARIS Newspapers Get Behind Mov# Against Immorality. PARIS, June 11.—The campaign I* clear Paris streets of their hordes of Immoral women, launched by Jean de Bonnefon, In the Intranslgeant, Is now receiving support from other French editorial writers, notably Max Viterbo, In the Parts Midi, a rival afternoon newspaper. Bonnefon headed his first article* “Those Who Never Strike," and contrasted the scenes on the streets of big American cities with those In Parts. He laid stress on the necessity of economic legislation making it possible for French girls to make a decent living wage rather than on police mens- 1 nres. Since 1913, says Bonnefon, men’s wages have tripled In France. In marked contrast the wages of girl needleworker®,. thousands of whom are employed in big dressmaking establishments that cate® to American buyers, have Increased only 23 per cent. "The woman without family is the® caught between two alternatives,” he continued, “death or r lover. “If she does not find a lover, or If her, lover abandons her, she must go to the streets to make both ends meet.” Viterbo called upon other French writers to cast aside false modesty and acquaint the public with the facts. “Perhßps never hare we seen upon our streets so many professional immoral' women,” he said. "It Is easy to guess the reasons. At the hour of the night, when the establishments close battalions of girls walk the streets to avoid starvation. There Is no eight-hour day for them. Hunger drives them out upon' the streets early In the day and they are still at It late at night."

Larry Cheney Showing Some of Old-Time Form as Comeback in Minors Larry Cheney, formerly of Indianapolis and for many years a big leagu® hurling star, Is shining for anew record of baseball fans now. He’s pitching for the Columbia team In the South Atlantic league and going l great guns, ne won his first five gam®® and allowed but one hit when he was nicked his sixth time out. Errors cost Columbia the ball game. He keeps on 1 winning most of his starts. Larry halls from Bartlesville, 0k1a.,, where he was born in 1886. He broke Into the game with his home town team and played with Topeka and again with Bartlesville before getting his first big; league tryout with tbe White Sox in 1007. The Sox decided he needed more seasoning and Larry went to Oklahoma City and then to Indianapolis. At the close of the 1909 campaign th® Reds picked him for a tryout, but sent him back to Indianapolis In exchange for Slagle. The next year Indianapolis let Cheney go to Louisville and the Colonels sent him up to the Cubs In a deal. Larry had three good years with th* Cubs, but In 1915 was obtained by th® 1 Dodgers via the waiver route. He went good for the Dodgers in 1916, winning: eighteen and losing twelve games. He had only fair success, however, th® next two seasons and the Dodgers let: him go to the Phils. He was given hi* unconditional release by that club laak winter and announced his retirement. 1 Evidently he couldn’t (toy eut of th® pastime.

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