Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1920 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Localities. •— ANOTHER RENEGADE GETS HIS Tennessee Democrats Censure Senator for Opposition to Treaty. Nashville, Tenn., June 9.—Tennessee Democrats, at their state con* vention here, adopted resolutions det nounclng the stand taken by Senator Shields in opposition to the treaty and league of nations covenant as presented by President Wilson. The resolutions approved the Wilson administration and the action of Senator McKellar in voting for ratification of the treaty as presented. The resolution directed at Senator Shields aroused a bitter fight in the convention, Governor Roberts sup-, porting the senator. A motion to table the amendment to the party platform containing the denunciation was lost, 1,279 to M 4. Women were seated in the convention for the first time in the history of the party In Tennessee, and it was due to them that Davidson county, the second largest delegation, changed its vote before the roll call was announced and voted to censure Senator Shields. * Delegates-at-large to the Democratic national convention were elected as follows: Senator McKellar, T. R. Preston of Chattanooga; Colonel Harry S. Berry of Sumner county, and Mrs. Guilford Dudley of Nashville. The delegates-at-large, as well as the district delegates, will go unlnstructed for the presidential nomination, but directed to place the name of Brigadier-General L. D. Tyson of Knoxville before the convention as a candidate for vice-president.