Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 39, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 June 1932 Edition 02 — Page 3

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KILL TWO-THIRD RULE, DEMANDS SON OF BRYAN William Jennings Jr. Joins Roosevelt Forces in Convention War. William JrnninKß Bryan Jr., wb*t father in IMB electrified the Democratic convention in Chicago, and became its presidential candidate. has prepared this comment on developments at the Democratic convention for the United Press. Bryan attended his first Democratic convention to hear his father speak. He. has missed but two conventions since that time. He now is a resident of California. BY WM. JENNINGS BRYAN JR. (Written for United Press! CHICAGO. June 25.—We are meeting at the critical hours of our nation’s history. The political events of the next few months will determine largely whether this nation shall lift itself out of depression and go on as the greatest example of popular government, or whether it shall go down into chaos and stand in history as a colossal monument to man’s failure to govern himself. For more than three years this nation has been experiencing a depression unparalleled in history. For more than three years we have been experiencing the creeping paralysis, caused by steadily falling prices. The people groan under the burden of taxation —foreclosures are increasing on every hand and business enterprise is at a standstill. Indicts Republican Party Wc find ourselves in an anomalous situation with a tremendous surplus in all products, and yet widespread want and unemployment. We have a tremendous surplus of gold, yet credits are frozen and restricted; a tremendous surplus of cotton and wool and yet people need clothing; a tremendous surplus of wheat and farm products—yet millions of our people are hungry and unemployed. It is to the shame of our civilization that such conditions can exist in this so-called land of opportunity. That they do exist is abundant proof that our government has failed to function for the general good. The Republican party stands indicted for this failure. Never has a Democratic convention been held in times more pregnant with possibilities for good or evil for both the party and for the nation. No party has ever been faced with a more critical, a more aroused or a more desperate citizenry. Candidates Must Unite The advance guard of the Democratic hast already is here. All are talking of but one thing—party victory. It will be all in vain unless candidates cease fighting one another and unite to face the common foe. It will be in vain—unless the convention adopts a platform upon all the economic issues—so clear, so severely and briefly plain that all can understand and that no official can take refuge in false interpretation nor evasion. The most significant announcement yet made by any of the party leaders was issued by James A. Farley, manager for Franklin D. Roosevelt, when he said: “At a meeting of the friends of Governor Roosevelt, consisting of leading Democrats from practically every state and territory, the following resolution was adopted unanimously; ‘That it be the sense of this gathering that we pledge ourselves to do all within our power to bring about the abolition of the two-thirds rule and the adoption of the majority rule in this convention.’ ” Step in Right Direction This not only is a smart move on the part of the Roasevelt forces —but it is a step in the right direction in party government. This so-called “two-thirds rule” is incorrectly named—it is in reality a “one-third rule.” It has stood for 100 years a flat contradiction to the fundamental principle of government laid down by Thomas Jefferson—that absolute acquiesence in the decision of the majority is a vital principle. It always has worked to the party’s detriment. The conservative element of the east—dominated by the corporate interests and typified by the compact control of the Tammany machine and the more loosely organized liberal elements of the south and west are opposed. They view the problems of government from opposite points of the compass. Under the so-called two-thirds rule either clement has the power to block the other—and as a result, infrequently the man with the greatest popularity is sacrificed to the injury of the party. Rules Should Be Changed There perhaps is no better example of this than the nomination of John W. Davis in 1924. After the 103rd ballot he was nominated as the compromise candidate. The bitterness engendered in that long fight had much to do with th defeat of the party in that election. The south has nothing to fear from the abrogation of this rule. On the present basis of representation - the strictly southern states have far less than one-third of the total vote of the convention. On the other hand it is easy for New York with her ninety-four votes to join with other great states of the north and east and muster more than onethird of the votes. The convention has the power to make or change its own rules by a simple majority vote. In the interests of democrack the rule should be changed.

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Following is the third in series of five articles on favorite sons who will figure in the Democratic national convention. BY ROBERT TALLEY NEA Service Writer Kansas city, mo., June 25. A turbulent political career of more than thirty *years and one of the greatest comebacks in history lie behind him . . . Now ex-Senator Jim Reed, a grayhaired veteran past the allotted threescore-and-ten, is making his final bid for public honor. Missouri’s “favorite son” in the race for the Democratic nomination is one of the oldest men ever to seek the highest prize within the gift of his party. If he should be elected in November, the honor would come within a few days of his 71st birthday. Jim Reed’s record has been one of the most remarkable in the history of political comebacks. Twelve years ago, after he had broken with President Woodrow Wilson on the league of nations issue, he was rotten-egged in Ardmore, Okla., condemned by the North Carolina legislature as "a traitor who ought to be shot,” threatened in Arkansas with being ridden out of town on a rail. “Rid Us of Reed” clubs rose overnight in his home state, he was upbraided by millions in his own party, and even barred from the Democratic national convention at San Francisco. That was in 1920, when it seemed every man’s hand was turned against him. With dismal prospects for success, Jim Reed came up for re-election to the senate in 1922. From his sick bed at Washington, Wilson sent a scathing denunciation of Reed and an appeal for Missouri voters to elect his Democratic opponent. Jim Reed met this problem as he has met every other problem in his long career, by fighting . . . “Fighting, fighting, fighting; everything I’ve ever got in this world I’ve had to fight for,” he once said . . . Instead of trying to make amends, he fought the League of Nations with far more bitterness than therefore, changed Missouri Democrats to his way of thinking, and was re-elected triumphantly by 43,000 majority. When Reed finished this term in the senate—his third —he retired voluntarily on March 4, 1929, after having represented his state in the upper house of congress for eighteen consecutive years. He returned to Kansas City to resume the practice of law. tt tt tt IN 1928, Reed was put forward by Missouri as her “favorite son” for the presidential nomination, which A1 Smith won almost by acclamation at Houston. In 1932, he again is the state's “favorite son” candidate, with Missouri's 36 convention votes pledged to him—at least, for the first few ballots. “We will have in due course of time a return to normal conditions,” Reed says. “But the advance toward prosperity will come from the grass roots. It will be born of the energies of our people. “It never can be conferred by the government. We are suffering, not from want of necessities or even luxuries, of life, but from a disarrangement and temporary paralysis of our economic machinery. “These conditions may be traced largely to governmental blunders, both here and throughout the world.” Nor does Reed, always a wet, forget prohibition. He says it is costing the nation many millions of dollars yearly in lost taxes, necessitating huge expenditures for futile attempts at enforcement, and is promoting the interests of the bootlegger and the criminal. Here is a typical example of the brand of biting sarcasm for which Reed has always been famous. “In his speech of acceptance, Mr. Hoover said ‘The poorhouse is vanishing from amongst us. We shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation.’ “Evidently,” Reed continues, with a smile, “God has dissolved the partnership.” tt tt tt Throughout the long story of his life there appears repeated proof of Jim Reed’s statement: “Fighting, fighting, fighting . . . everything I’ve ever got in this world I’ve had to fight for.” His struggles began early. Orphaned at 8 by the death of his father, he and an older brother had to fight to support' their widowed mother on a farm in

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lowa, to which the family had moved after hi. birth near Mansfield, 0., in 1861. He fought to get an education during the three months of winter that the country schools ran, he fought to continue his studies at Coe college, he fought poverty to study law in a lawyer's office, he fought his way into politics as prosecuting attorney at Kansas City. He fought his way into the mayor’s office at Kansas City for two terms, he fought his way into the United States senate in 1910, fought his way back there in 1916 and again in 1922. The silvery-haired veteran, always appearing as elegant as if he had just stepped from a bandbox, admittedly was one of the greatest orators in the senate. But Washington observers found little lovely about him. He was a man given to lashing and ripping sarcasm, a man given to sour and bitter moods who could hate with a passion. It is even said that Jim Reed laid awake at night just to hate Woodrow Wilson. tt tt THE historic break between the two men—which found Reed the chief Democratic opponent of Wilson’s cherished League of Nations—had its beginning with the debate on the federal reserve act. Wilson tried to rush the act through congress; Reed demanded hearings and succeeded in making 543 amendments before the bill finally was passed. Prior to that time, Reed had supported Wilson’s measures and had voted for the declaration of war “and every dollar, every man, every ship, and every gun the President asked to carry on the war.” The split gradually widened and in 1919 Wilson came back from Europe, riding on the crest of a world-wide wave of popularity and bringing with him his cherished League of Nations covenant for adoption by the senate. For a time, it seemed inevitable that it would be accepted; Wilson’s tremendous prestige seemed certain to carry it over. Jim Reed, the fighter, sprang into action as the leading Democratic foe to Wilson’s dream. “I decline,” he shouted in a fiery speech late in 1919, “to help set up any government that is greater than that established by my fathers, greater than that

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PULLET FALLSs HOSPITAL PLANT WORKERKILLED Skull Fracture Is Fatal to Fred Sellmeyer, 70, a Fireman. Struck on the head by a falling pulley wheel while working in the Riley hospital power plant Friday night, Fred Sellmeyer, 70. of 909 North Riley avenue, a fireman, was injured fatally. He died within a few minutes in the hospital admitting room, after walking unaided from the power plant. His skull was fractured. Funeral services will be held at the home at 8:15 Monday morning and at St. Mary’s Catholic church at 9. Burial will be in St. Joseph’s cemetery. Fellow workmen said Sellmeyer was working with a chain pulley while adjusting a boiler valve. An iron pulley wheel, weighing fifteen pounds, became loose and fell on Sellmyer's head. Sellmeyer came to this city thirtyfive years ago from Oldenburg, Ind., where he was born. His wife died in 1929. Survivors are four sons, Edgar, Delbert and William Sellmeyer, all of Indianapolis, and Arnold Sellmeyer of Pasadena, Cal., and two daughters, Alvina and Olivia Sellmeyer of Indianapolis. QUARREL FATAL TO TRIO Ex-Lebanon Man Slays His Son, Father-In-Law and Self. By United Press JERSEY CITY. N. J., June 25. Three persons were dead here today, the result of a quarrel between George Glendenning. 29, bakery wagon driver, and his estranged wife, Julia, over their 2-year-old son. Glendenning shot and killed his father-in-law, Richard Vannamin, 50, and fatally wounded his son and himself. Glendenning is a former Lebanon (Ind.) resident.