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KILL TWO-THIRD RULE. DEMANDS SON OF BRYAN William Jennings Jr. Joins Roosevelt Forces in Convention War. William Jennings Bryan Jr., whose father In IM electrified the Democratic convention In Chicago, and became it* .presidential candidate, ha* prepared thl* comment on development* at the Democratic convention for the Vnited Pres*. Bryan attended hi* firtt Democratic convention to hear hi* father apeak. He ha* missed but two convention* since that time. He now i* a resident of California. BY WM. JENNINGS BRYAN JR. • Written for United Pressi 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, carsed 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 We 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 Jn 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 w r as 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 con- ‘ vention.’ ” , Step in Right Direction : i This not only is a smart move •on the part of the Roosevelt 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 element 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 i£ 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 inter- * ests of democrack the rule should • be changed.

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Following is the third In a scries of live 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 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. n n u 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.’’ nun 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 hij 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. nun 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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tears of all the mothers whose heroic sons have gone down to sustain its glory and its independence. •‘I decline to set up any government greater than the government of the United States of America!” The fight was on. It raged in the senate, it raged throughout the country as Jim Reed carried his battle to the people with speaking engagements and defied threatening crowds to fling his challenge. It colored the presidential campaign of 1920 that sent Cox down in defeat before the Harding landslide, it extended into the Missouri senatorial race in 1922 which found Reed turning defensive into offensive. Today, the historic league battle is a memory. Woodrow Wilson is dead of a broken heart. And Jim Reed .. . “Fighting, fighting, always fighting” . turns now to new issues as he seeks to win the seat in the White House that his arch enemy held for eight long years. Next—Harry Byre!. Virginia’s favorite. DEFENDS MARKET PAY Grain Corporation Head Answers Criticism of High Salaries. Criticism of co-operative marketing executives’ high salaries was answered by C. E. Huff, Chicago, Farmers National Grain Corporation president, before county representatives of the Central States Grain Association Thursday. Huff declared that if all of the grain corporation’s officers drew no salaries, the farmer would receive less than one-fifth of a cent more for a bushel of wheat. The $50,000 annual salary of George S. Milnor, general manager, is less than executives of big private concerns, he said, adding that all officers recently have taken a 10 per cent pay cut.

CITY TO FIGHT RULINGON CDP Judge Upholds Policeman Ousted in Rum Case. Ruling of Superior Judge William A. Pickens mandating the safety board to reinstate Martin O'Brien as a patrolman will be appealed to the supreme court, city attorneys stated today. The order paves way for four other men. who have been cleared of charges in a federal liquor conspiracy case, to regain places on the force. Happy over the outcome of the trial. O’Brien declared today he was “confident the higher court would not rule against him.” Pickens also ordered that O’Brien receive back pay from September, 1931, date of his suspension as an officer. The total is $3,600. O’Brien and the four officers were convicted in federal court of conspiring to violate the federal prohibition law. The convictions were reversed by the United States circuit court of appeals. Since the officers were removed because of this conviction, Pickens held, in view of the reversal, that they were ousted from the police force without cause. Other removals were: Ralph Lambert, who recently dismissed a suit asking reinstatement; Thomas Gray, whose case was taken under advisement in Hendricks circuit court at Danville, and Floyd Reidenbach and David Curran, who have suits pending in the Marion circuit court, quarreL fataUt(Ttwo 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.

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‘Seeing Red’ By United press CARMEL. Cal., June 25. John Catlin. who retired from a prosperous legal career to become Carmel's village blacksmith. has discovered he is the only Communist mayor in the United States. The smith a mighty man was he—mighty kngry. “I signed a petition to permit the Communists a place on the ballot—but I didn’t know 7 there was an oath of allegiance to the party in it,” Mayor Catlin protested. Frank Sheridan, actor, another of the signers, was equally surprised. “What will A1 Smith think w’hen he hears of this?” mused Sheridan, a staunch Democrat. About forty Carmel signers appealed to have their names stricken from the petition—w’hich the supreme court has thrown out anyway.

DROP TWO INSULL LINES Abandoned Petition Granted; Service Ends June 30. Public service commission apI proval was given Friday for aban- | donment of two more Insull inter- ; urban lines. They are the Northern | Indiana Power Company line between Marion and Frankfort, through Kokomo, and the Indiana railroad’s line between Anderson and Marion. Both are scheduled to discontinue operation at midnight June 30. Leland H. Osborne was granted permission to operate a freight truck line between Ft. Wayne and Indianapolis and Ft. Wayne and Marion. Agreed electric rate reductions were approved for the Northern Indiana Public Service Company at Warsaw 7 , Waterloo and Pine Village. Wounded Hitch-Hiker Held After giving conflicting versious of how he received a wound in the knee, Albert Murphy, 21, of Wenona, 111., a hitch-hiker, was arrested Friday night by police on a charge of vagrancy pending • invtsigation. Murphy was arrested after he hobbled into an east side restaurant wheer he requested the proprietor to help him dress the wound.

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TRACTION BOND ISSUE APPROVED Harmony Marks Session of Public Service Body. For the first time In many months, entire harmony prevailed at the Friday afternoon conference of public service commissioners and all orders were approved without a dissenting vote. The reason was that only three of the five commissioners were present and all were of the same politi- : cal faith—G. O. P. Chairman John W. McCardle prei sided and Commissioners Howell Ellis and Frank Singleton cast the | “yea” votes. Those absent were Commissioners Jere West and Harry K. Cuthbertson. both Democrats. Cuthbertson is the stormy petrel iof the usual weekly sessions, but, despite opposition, has succeeded in getting across about the only rate reductions that have accrued to Indianapolis utility patrons. Among approvals by commission - ers Friday was for a $7,977,650 securities issue for the Indianapolis Railways. Inc., these to be used to replace some $15,000,000 of securities of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, from whom the new company purchased the street car properties here. TTie new securities issue will include $6,278,000 worth of 5 per cent second mortgage bonds, $650,000 worth of prefered stock and 104.965 shares of no-par common stock at $lO a share. First mortgage bonds, not to exceed 75 per cent of all betterments, are to be issued later by the company to finance a $9,000,000 rehablitation program, first $1,000,000 of which is to be expended by Nov. 1, according to Charles W. Chase, company president. Eye Cut in Auto Collision Carl Magenmaier, 18, of 1550 Bradbury avenue, incurred a cut above the right eye Friday when an automobile in w’hich he was a passenger collided with another car at Olive and Orange streets. Drivers w’ere Adolph Scheifeld. 21, of 1550 Bradbury avenue, and Noble Shane, 33, of 303 South State avenue.

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