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SITUATION AT
CHICAGO ONE
BIG MUDDLE
Candidates. Managers and
Delegates All Swimming in
Sea of Doubt as to Outcome
Of Republican Convention.
WOOD SLATED FOR FIRST
SQUEEZEOUT PROCESS
Opinion Growing That Once
Drift of Importance Sets in,
Final Choice Will Be Reached
Sooner Than Expected.
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By, ARTHUR M. EVANS.
Clitrnffo Tribune -Omtilm Beo Wire.
Chicago, June 6. "Nobody Knows'
as a convention anthem has crowd
ed "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All
Here," and "Onward Christian
Soldiers," off the hoards. Candi
dates, managers, committeemen and
delegates were still swimming' in
a sea of doubt today and for the
fiist time in 32 years the Sunday
. her ore a G. O. P. national pow-wow
found the old timers unable to get
a real line on the candidate who
would land on the ticket.
In theTlobbies there was a toss
ing up of hands and none of the
wise birds hazarded a forecast.
Managers in every camp, of course,
smiled genially and said, "Our can
didate will be the winner," but so
far as having a real tab on the del
legates who. In turn, have the votes,
the managers know about as much
as the outsiders.
"Nobody Knows."
"Nobody Knows" was the diag
nosis. "All is chaos." said Murrav Crane,
oracle of the old guard, which this
time is shot to pieces. He expressed,
it.
The day's deyelopcmcnts. how
ever, did indicate some discernible
tendencies. They were: '
The episode of Mayor Thompson
and his tossing up of the sponge for
national committeeman after a count
of noses showed hi would lose, was
held to have strengthened Governor
Lowden, who has made a "no com
promise" fight against Thompson
ism. ,
Incoming delegates from the prai
ries indicated that Lowdcn's candi
dacy has not been impaired by the
matter of the two Missouri delegates
who salted away funds given them
to organize for the primary fight.
JoHnson to Show World.
Hiram Johnson is ready to show
the world at his auditorium meet
, , (Continued cn Titge Two, C olumn One.)
Dentist Is Arrested
When His Automobile
Crashes Into Window
' Dr. - G. F. Eadcs, dentist, 601 Pax
ton block, was arrested by the
police 'a.;t night charged 'with in
toxication and reckless idriving after
his automobile had crashed through
a plate rlass window in the front
of the Lricm Insurance office, 1715
Druglrs street.
His t automoblie collided with a
car driven by Dick Egan, of Coun
cil Bluffs, who was driving east on
Douglas street, and then crashed
ovfr the curb into the window. His
machine was badly damaged, one
front wheel being completely broken
and the. front of the car being badly
smashed.
Eades sustained a few facial lac
erations. A dog'in the back seat of
the car was undisturbed by the acci
dent. Boost Prichard for Vice
President As Last Resort
Chicago. June 6. Judge J. C. Prii
chard of North Carolina will be pro
posed for the vice presidential nomi
nation if members of the North
Carolina delegation become con
vinced that he cannot be nominated
for the presidency. Former United
States Senator Marion Butler made
the announcement that Judge Prit-
chard had finally consented to this
program.
Capitol Lunch Room Is
Destroyed by Night Fire
The Capitol lunch room,- 1610
Capitol avenue, was . destroyed by
fire shorty after midnight last night.
The btaze is believed to have start
ed from a fire in the kitthen stove.
The fire was well tinder way in
the rear of the building before it
was discovered. The loss is esti
mated atabout $1,500. The Victory
tailor shop, 1612 Capitol jivenue,
also was slightly damaged. '
May Stop Bullfights If
Children Are Not Educated
Valencia, Spain, June 6. Munic
ipal Counsellor -. Margaia, in fhe
course cf a council meeting last
night threatened to invoke the exist
ing laVv prohibiting bull fights un
les the city provides sufficient op
portunities of educating the chil
dren. He charged the council with
neglect in not appointing-the neces
sary amount for erecting schools
Convention
Along to Jazzless Grave
Whoop 'Em Up
Ginger and Pep A. W. 0. L. So Far As Chicago Is
Concerned, Dorothy Dix Says After Hunt for
Excitement Looks Bad for the General, She
Finds.
By DOROTHY DIX.
Chicago, June 6. The main trou
ble with this convention is that it
lucks ginger and pep.
It's not the Sabbath calm either,
for the delegates"a"re playing poli
tics of a Sunday when they wouldn't
dare play poker after passing the
plate in the First Baptist church
back home. About the time the
heathen among us swere turning
over for a second snooze this morn
ing. The president of the First Na
tional bank of Cedar Creek and the
leading merchant of Four Corners
were out, clad in comfortable sack
suits with a red necktie and pos
sibly a Wood1- feather.
But were they church bound?
Not a bit of it. They were bound
for the Congress lobby, there to
swap cigars and conversation until
the ltjncheon bell rang.
Conversation is about all ther is
to the doings so far. The crowds
are here and some of the hopeful
candidates are here. There is a good
deal of the usual blah blah and deep
and dark and mysterious prognos
tication. But the awful truth must
be paged: Deep down in his heart
nobody seems to give a dern who
gets the nomination except the can
didates themselves.
It's a Dead Affair.
The convention is dying on it's
feet before it begins. Old man
Gloom has the delegates by the
throat. A political frost has nipped
it in the bud. It's lifeless, ossi
fied, frapped. At least that's what
the men say. It was the men's
game first and they know the rules.
The very air of patience and indul
gence and patronizing , superiority
with which they answer our simplest
ARMISTICE WITH
MUSTAPHA KEMAL
BLOW TO BRITISH
Leaves Route to Suez Canal
Open for Drive by Turkish
Forces.
BY HENRY WALES.
New York Tlmea-Chlraso Tribune Cable,
Copyright, 1920.
Paris, June 6. Because Prime
Minister Lloyd George insists on
dealing with' Krassin, Premier Mil
lerand replies by recognizing Musta
pha Kemal Pasha.'
;For the same reason that the
British prime minister urges peace
with lie bolsheviki betause Great
Britain cannot affor to send troops
to fight them the French premier
states he is forced to make an armi
stice with the Turk nationalists, be
cause "France cannot maintain an
army of 80,000 troops in p'h'cia and
Syria, as they are needed elsewhere,
cn the Rhine for example
General Gouroud's armistice with
Mustapha Kemal, which is a prelude
to French retirement to the littoral
and withdrawal of more than half
its forces from Asia-Minor, is a
bitter blow to the British because
it leaves the route toward Egypt
wide open and permits the Turks
to make a drive on the Suez canal.
That the Turk treaty of San
Rcmo becomes a scrap of paper
through recognition of Mutsapha
Kemal and that France will draft a
new treaty is the belief of the foreign
office.
"The Turks never will accept the
less of Smyrna and Thrace," said
the foreign office oifficiat. "and
France never supported Clcmen
ccau's act in sejndingyan army to
.Cilicia to watch over the British in
terests. France will benefit greatly
b-' making a separate peace with
Turkey along lines with which" the
Turks will comply.
"Marshal Foche warned the su
preme council it required an army
of 300,000 to enforce the Tuii
treaty, and Lloyd George believed
Venzelos when he offered 300,000
Greeks. But the Greek troops were
solely for Thrace and Symrna and
not to protect the British, French
and Armenian interests. The bol
sheviki occupying Teheran and
Mesopotamia, the arising Arabian
foment,, and the Egyptian troubles
sound the death knell to the ambi
tions of the British in Asia-Minor."
VENNING MISSED
Tkf Bee rVgrets to announce that
Arthur Sears Hennlnj, etiief Waah
IngtonTorrefcnondrnt of the Chicago
Tribune and one of The Bee's special
orreapondenti at the republican na
tional convention, nas oeen recaucq
to Washington, by
of his wife, he
by the serious illness
hopes to return to
Chicago by Thursday.
While Mr. I Hennlng's Illuminating
1 accounts will be missed. The Bee's
convention service) is so complete that
the loss of no single writer can 'be a
serious handicap. Edne C. Snyder,
Arthur M. Evans, E.trhilllps, Fhil
ftlnnler and William Phillip Sims, all
expert newspaper men, will lead the
field of a score or mors of lesser
lights.
And don't forget W. J. Bryan,
Senator Borah .and Dorothy Dix la
The Bee, i
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is Dragging
GangJNfeeded
question; the words of one syllable
with which they frame their replies,
leads us to but one conclusion: We
are still classed with imbeciles,
aliens and convicts politically.
But when, a male person has been
attending '"conventions since he was
a callow young thing he really ought
to know what he's talking about
when his wife isn't around to con
tradict him. .
The reminiscent individual is
abroad who shakes his head dole
fully and siighs, "This isn't like the
old days. There were real conven
tions in' my time. Now, back in '84,
them were the happy days."
Jazz Is Needed.
And you do a quick duck while ha
is enveloped in the haze of memory
and make your getaway and g'i
around looking for something with a
little more pep. But it's hard to
find. All manner of excitement is
being promised us. -Each candidate'.;
own particular gang claims that it is
going to whoop it up. But the prom
ises snuff out like Roman candles on
a wet Fourth of July.
The California delegation arrived
after a loud fanfare of vocal trum
pets by native sons already on the
job. For the last two days I had
been heading nothing but "Wait 'till
California arrives, then things will
begm to cut loose." So I stood my
?elf along with a few hundred others
in a conspicuous position on Michi
gan avenue, where I couldn't by any
chance miss the arrival and what
happened?
And Then More Quiet.
The Califomians arrived about
five hours late, headed by a discour
aged brass band. When the delega
(Continued on Vage Two, Column One.)
DELEGATES FROM
NEBRASKA LEAVE
FOR CONVENTION
Groups Divided Between Wood
- And Johnson Leave Omaha
Sunday for Chicago
Meeting.
Members of the Nebraska delega
tion to the republican national con
vention at Chicago learned as they
entrained last evening at 6:30 on the
Burlington, that there will be 2,300
sergeants-at-arms at the big conven
tion and that they will have to be
"good little boys" while away, from
home.
Gould Dietz, delegate from the
Second Congressional district, was
in charge of the party which will
have headquarters in room No. 130,
Auditorium hotel.
Delegates were elected from this
state to the republican national con
vention as follows:
At-large: L. D. Richards, Fre
mont; Don L. Love, Lincoln;
Charles E. Sandall, York; JohnW.
Towle, Omaha.
First district: W. A.lsclleck, Lin
coln; O. A. Cooper, Humboldt.
Second district: W. G. Ure, Oma
ha: Gould Dietz, Omaha.
Third district: Ber Mapes, Nor
folk; A. R. Davis, Wayne.
Fourth district: H. E. Sackett,
Beatrice; H. C. Beebe, Osceola.
Fifth district: W. H. Miller,
Bloomington; H. E. Stein, Hastings.
Sixth district: Horace F. Ken
nedy, Broken Bow; Earl D. Mall
wry, Alliance.
John H-. Caldwell1 and Amos
Thomas went from Omaha as alter
nates. R. B. Howell, national
committeeman, was iji Chicago last
week, attending meetings of the na
tional committee.
Rev. John Albert AVilliams, negro,
of this city, who was a candidate for
district delegate, accompanied the
party, to attend a meeting for negro
editors in Chicago this afternoon at
2, and also to attend the convention.
Republican voters at the. primary
.on April 20 instructed for Leonard
Wood in the First and Second Con
gressional districts and for Hiram
Johnson in the other districts. All
of the district delegates elected
except Gould Dietz of the Second
and Bert Mapes of the Third were
known as Wood delegates during
the primary campaign, although
pledged to abide by the instructions
of the voters. v
Fire Destroys TNant of
St. Joseph Paper Company
St. Joseph, Mo., June 6. Fire of
undetermined origin destroyed the
plant of the American Paper Stock
Co.. just after midnight Sunday
morning. The loss was estimated at
$100,000 and was not covered by in
surance, according to J. Ungerman,
owner.
Denver Educator Dies.
Denver, June 6. Carlos N.Cole,
superintendent of the Denver public
schools since 1915, died in a local
hospital Sunday afternoon. Mr. Cole
had Teen suffering from influenza
since an operation for appendicitis
May 28and Saturday suffered a re
hfcse which ended in death.
SEC. DANIELS
RAPS ACTION
OF CONGRESS
Failure to Appropriate Full
Account Asked for Naval" Air
Development Arouses Ire of
Cabinet Member.
WILL RENEW EFFORTS
'AT DECEMBER SESSION
Criticizes Clause Slipped Into
Bill Over Protest, to Limit
Coast and Overseas Aviation
Will Ask Repeal.
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee leaned Wire.
Washington, June 6. Failure of
congress to appropriate as much as
was requested for naval aviation
drew a criticism from Secretary of
the Navy Daniels today. The sec
retary took a shot at republicans in
congress and particularly Repre
sentative Mondell, the party leader
in the house, nvho hoasted of a re
duction of $139,851,680. In all naval
estimates.
"As a matter of fact." said Sec
retary Daniels, discussing the an
nual naval appropriation bill, "the
bill only postpones expenditures'un
til after the election and makes no
reductions except it the cost of
naval efficiency."
Secretary Daniels aired . three
other grievances in addition to his
criticism of the slashing of the
aviation item. These were a failure
to make provision for a desired
nnval expansion on he Pacific;
failure to authorize the construction
of a single new ship and failure to
appropriate sufficient money to re
pair and keep in condition the ships
of the fleet.
A clause slipped into the army ap
propriation bill over the protest of
both Secretary of War Baker and
Secretary of the Navy Daniels, limit
ing the coast and overseas activities
of jiaval aviation aroused Mr. Dan
iels'ire. He said , he intended, to.ask
congress at the next session to re
verse this action, which he described
as arj unnecessary and unwise limita
tion upon r.aval efficiency in avia
tion: A special commission of senators
and representatives will visit the Pa
cific coast this summer to investigate
the needs of naval development nec
essary bv reasop of the presence of
the Pacific fleet. Secretary Daniels
said he believed this commission
would see the need of the enlarge-'
ment of naval bases als recommended
by the department.
Announce Names of
Temporary Officers
For G. 0. P. Convention
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Chicago Tribune-Omaha nee Leased Wire.
Chicago, June 6. Announcement
of the selection of temporary officers
of the republican national conven
tion, to be elected was made by the
subcommittee on arrangements to
day. The selections are:
Chairman, Henry Cabot Lodge,
Massachusetst; secretary, Lafayette
B. Gleason, New York; sergeant-at-arms,
Edward P. Thayer, Indiana;
chief assistant sergeant-at-arms, Guy
V. Howard," Minnesota; second as
sistant sergeant-at-arms, McGinais
Hatfield, West Virginia; . parlia
mentarian, Lehr Fess, Ohio; official
reporters, Herman A. Phjllips, New
York, George L. Hart, Virginia;
chief doorkeeper, Brig. Gen. James
A. Ryan.
Chaplains, Cardinal Gibbons ftf
Baltimore; Bishop Thomas P. Nich
olson of the Chicago area of the
Methodist Episcopal church; the Rt.
Rev. Charles E. Woodcock, Epis
copal bishgp of the diocese of Louis
ville, Ky.; tjie Rev. John Timothy
Stone, D. D., of the Fourth Presby
terian church; the Rev. Johnston
Myers, pastor of Immanuel Baptist
church, Chicago; Dr.Emil G. Hirsch
of Sinai Congregation church and
the Rev. Gardiner A. McWhorter of
St Chrysostom's Protestant Epis
copal church, Chicago.
Ask 5,000 Mexican Troops Be
Sent to Lower California
Calcxico, Lower Cal., June 6. A
recommendation that 5,000 Mexican
troops be sent to the port of En
senada, Lower California, was tele
graphed from here to ,Gen. Alvaro
Obregon at Mexico Crty by Baldo
mero A. Almada Mexican de facto
appointee to the governorship of the
northern district of Lower Califor
nia, i
The telegram contalnnig the rec
ommendation was made public by
M. Paredes, consul here for the
provisional Mexican government,
after Senor Ahnada bad announced
his intention to start for the Mexi
can capital to discuss the situation in
Lower California, with Gen. Obre
gon and, Adolfo de La Huerta, pro
visional president.
Bolsheviki Massacree
Many Japanese Nationals
Honolulu,' June 6. The bolsheviki
massacred Japanese nationals at Ni
kolaevsk and set fire to the city be
fore evacuating it, according to. a
statement of the Japanese war
quoted in a Tokio-dispatch to the
Nippu Jiji, a Japanese language
newspaper here, .
Home Brew Continues
To Brew to Delight of
Bottle-Nosed Bums
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee laaed Wire.
Chicago, June 6. For months
there has been something com
pelling about the atmosphere of
the federal building. Coincident
a'ly it was noticed that a large
number of bottle-nosed bums
were hanging around the place,
sniffing the air. The aroma per
vaded the corridors, seeped into
the courtrooms and filtered into
the offices. Undoubtedly it was
the bouquet of spiritous fermenti,
but its source remained a mys
tery. With the arrival of spring
days the odor became more no
ticeable and the loungers arrived
in droves and haunted the corri
dors all day.
Secret service men were final
ly called in after two or three
floors had been searched without
avail. One of the sleuths watched
a bottle-nosed gent, one of the
steady visitors, ascended the
stairs and stopped before a seaJeJ
door sniffing and sighing. The
secret service man oriened the
door and found a great quantity
of sewed stills and tubs of mash
that had been fermenting for
months and truckloads of home
brew that had blown out the
corks and was filling the air with
their fragrance. Much of the
stuff had been locked in the room
for a year and had been forgot
ten but it kept right on working.
Inasmuch as most of it is wanted
for evidence, it cannot be de
stroyed, but a force of officials
cleared the building of the snif
fing hoboes. '
JOHNSON CLAIMS
BIG VICTORY IN
NORTH .CAROLINA
Says Meagre Returns Show He
Has Carried State by 10 to 1
Waxes Sarcastic
Toward Press.
1 Chicago, June, 6. Senator John
son had a stack of telegraphic re
turn from the1 North Carolina pri
mary election when he met newspa
per correspondents for his regular
interview today. ,
"My reports which ( are very
meagre," said he, "say that I have
carried the metropolis of the state
10 to 1, and that it is safe to say
that I have carried the entire'state.
North Carolina is the purest Ameri
can state in the union, with less
than 1 per cent of its population
of foreign birth. Yfct.I suppose that
a certain section of the press will
announce tomorrow that these
Americans have been metamor
phosed into Sein Feiners, pacifists,"
pro-Germans, and 'red' radicals by
the act of voting for me.
"How, logically, a candidate can
be selected by the republican na
tional convention for presidential
nomination from among a field of
four, who has never been better than
third or fourth, passes belief with
rrre, - I'm convinced that a republican
convention will heed the will of re
publican voters. y
"It will be very unfortunate if the
convention forgets the wishes of the
rank and file of the party, who make
the party and make the country as,
well." ,
Somebody asked him how much of
a vote was cast in the state.
A questioneri asked the senator if
he was "weakening on the league
of nations."
"Rot!" he declared. "Rot! I
have said I came here to make a
fight in relation to. the platform.
I'll be represented in the ultimate
conference on the league of nations,
wiherever that will be anywhere it
comes up."
Niece oLBuffalo Bill
Breezes Into Windy
City for Convention
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Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leased Wire.
Chicago, June 6. From a ranch in
Wyoming, "upstcen miles from no
where," Mrs. Mary Jester Allen, a !
niece of Buffalo Bill Cody, breezed I
into the national republican women s
headquarters. She had stopped in
Iowa on the way here, to organize
Baby Elephant clubs among college
Eirls.
Her mother was Helen Cody :
Wettmore, youngest sister of Buf-1
falo Bill and the author of "The Last !
of the Great Scouts," a story of west
ern life, which has been translated
into more languages than any other
book except the Bible.
When she is not expending her
western energy in political spellbind
ing, Mrys. Allen is managing her own
ranch. Mrs. Allen is expecting the
arrival of her 17-year-old daughter
before the close of the convention,
who will ride in the South Shore
Country club horse show here next
week. . .(
Alleged Confidence Man
- Arid His Wife Arrested
Elmer Seiglar and his wife, Mrs.
Goldie Seiglar, 1813 Chicago street,
were arrested at the Loyal hotel
last night by Detective George Sum
mitt and are being, held by the po
lice for investigation.
Seiglar is an alleged fToufidcnce
mart-and is an associate of W. O.
Woodward, who was arrested vith
his wife at thei.Flomar hotel last
Thursday night, according to the
police.
Nebraskans Arriving in
Chicago Join in General
Scramble for pasteboards
National Committeeman Howell Spends Sunday
Counting Tickets for Friends, While Many Must
Be Refused Governor McKelvie Delivers
Address Omaha Men Are on the Job. i
By E. C. SNYDER.
Washington Correspondent Omaha Bee.
Chicago, June 6. (Special Tele
gramsNational Committeeman R.
B. Howell, who is extremely popu
lar with his associates in the com
mittee, notwithstanding his indepen
dent and fearle;); attitude on many
questions that properly come before
that body, had a most strenuous
week assisting in ironing out anum
bcr of contests that had to bet set
tled before the temporary roll of the
convention could be made. Although
he was a witness to the crushing
force of the steam roller, or the tank
as Senator Moses of New Hamp
shire and one of Gen. Leonard
Wood's managers, called the ma
chine that flattened out a number
of Wood delegates from the south
ern states, he was diplomatic enough
to say that the methods used by
the committee on contests were very
much less revolutionaryand obnox
ious than those of 1912 when the
"steam roller first came into use
as a descriptive phrase for "rough
work."
Frankly, Mr. Howell is of the
opinion that in some of the contests
all of the contestants should have
been thrown out because of the glar
ing irregularities n the selection
of delegates, but generally he be
lieves that the decisions of the com
mittee were fair and as impartial as
they well could be under all the cir
cumstances. Many Without Ticket
Today Mr. HoweH speiit in a con
scientious effort to parcel out the
seats allotted to him as national
committeeman and to assign the es
sential pasteboard to a multitude of
friends who had made requests upon
SUFFS IN EIGHTH
WORLD CONGRESS
IN SWITZERLAND
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Carrie Chapman Catt Principal
Speaker at First Official
Meeting.
Geneva, June 6. Theeighth con
gress of the International Woman
Suffrage alliance was opened Sun
day morning with a sermon deliv
ered in Geneva cathedral by Miss
Maud Royden, up to a. short time
;igO pastor of the City temple In
London. Miss Royden's rail fig
ure in black seemed almost lost in
the great pulpit from which Calvin
and Knox preached. The cathedral
was crowded. A touch of qolor was
lent by 10 Indian women delegates
in their costumes of many hues.
The first official meeting of the
congress was held Sunday night in
Communal hall. . The principal
speaker was Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Catt, president of the alliance.
Among those, present were Lady
Astor, member of the British house
of commons, and Mrs. Josephus
Daniels, wfe of the secretary of the
United States navy.
No Easy Chairs for j ?
Delegates Attending (
Chicago Convention
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Beo Leaned Wire.
Chicago, June 6. Delegates to the
republican national convention are
going to sit on hard wooden chairs
of the old-time kitchen, variety
which may prove irksome during a
long speech. The Wood delegates
say it is a good sign.
In the . gallaries, however..-thert
are soft. folding chairs for the 'vis
itors. The tables and chairs on the
platform where the committeemen
and distinguished guests will sit ar;
of handsome pattern and built for
comfort. Built-in benches are pro
vided for the press.
Mexican Embassy Formally
Delivered to Alvaro Diaz
Washington. June 6. The Mexi
can embassy has been formally de
livered to Alvaro Torre Diaz, repre
sentative of the de facto government
of Mexico, by Salvardor Diego Fer
nandez, minister and charge d'af
faires appointed by the late Presi
dent Carranza.
While the new charge d'affaires
has no diplomatic standing here, as
the new regime in Mexico has not
been recognized by the United
States, he will be in touch with of
ficials of the State department un
officially. The Weather
Forecast.
Nebraska Fair Monday and
probably Tuesday; not much: change
in temperature.
Iowa Partly cloudy Monday and
probably Tuesday; not much change
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him to view a great convention at
work in the making of a presiden
tial nominee. Like every other com
mitteeman, Mr. Howell is far short
of the number of tickets needed to
take care of applicants and innurrf:
berable somebodies will have to re
sign themselves to the inevitable
and content themselves with watch
ing the parade, listening to the bands
and soap box orators loudly extoll
ing the attributes of the various
presidential candidates.
Omahans Arriving.
Assisting Mr. HowelJ in making
his ticket assignments was Robert
Smith of Omaha who had been in
Chicago since last Wednesday ready
to do yeoman service for both the
national committeemen and the
party and the rooms of the Nebraska
delegation, which are adjacent to
the Johnson headquarters in the
Auditorium hotel, have been put in
shipshape condition v by the same
Robert Smith. Mr. Howell also had
the assistance of Robert C. Druese
dori, a Omaha dealer in stocks and
bonds, who with Mrs. Druesedon ar
rived in the convention city this
morning.
Frank A. Harrison of Lincoln is
much in evidence at the Johnson
headquarters when not giving out
badges and Hiram literature orates
on the vote getting qualities of the
CaVifornian and his splendid person
ality Across the street in the Congress
hotel F. P. Corrick, also of the
Nebraska capital, holds forth in the
Wood headquarters which is run for
all the world like a great manufac
turing plant with the names of the
managers and their assistants over
(Continued on Fage Two, Column One.)
PUBLIC'S RIGHTS
SAME AS TOILERS,
GOfflPERS SAYS
Labor Leader Makes State
ment in Reply to -Queries by
Governor Allen Qf
Kansas.
Chlraco Tribune-Omaha Bee Leased Wire.
Washington, June 6. Replying to
a question as to the rights of the
public in strikes, Samuel Gomper,
presidont of the American Federa
tion of Labor, in a statement issued
today, declared that "the public has
no rights which are superior to the
toilrrs' right to live and to his right
to defend himself against oppres
sion." "
The statement was an answer to
queries propounded to him by Gov.
Henry Allen of Kansas in their re
cent joint debate in New York rela
tive to the workings of the new Kan
sas industrial court. Mr. Gompers
said rre had not been able to do full
justice to the question of the rights
of the public in the debate and so
has elaborated his views on the sub
ject. "The question propounded by
Governor Allen is an inquiry as to
whether the public has any rights
when strikes affect production or
distribution of the necessaries of life,
thus threatening the public peace,
and impairing the public health,"
said Mr. Gompers. "In such cases
the public, including union men, has
rights and the striking union usually
is first 'to recognize those rights.
Fe,w strikes affecting production 01
distribution, "actually threaten the
public peace and fewer become a
menace to the public health.
"Labor has m desire to cause in
convenience to the public, of which
it is a part. "The public has no rights
which are superior to the toilers'
right to live and to his right to de
fend himself against oppression.
"When but a few were organized,
when employers were able to dictate
and enforce their will, there was no
great outcry against strikes. So long
as labor was ineffective and unable
to protest there was little concern
for labor.
"The right to strike, with all its
disadvantages, is an agency of prog
ress, a buttress of manhood, of
health and vigor, a promoter of pub
lic thought and education an instru
ment for good; democratic in concept
and essential to freedom. Its great
est justification is found in" its re
sults." Mexico to Elect Chamber .
Of Deputies-on August 1
Mexico City, June r. Members of
the chamber of deputies and the sen
ate will be elected - on Sunday,
August 1, and the presidential elec
tions will be held on September 5,
according to a decision reached by
Adolfa de la Huerta, provisional
president.
Declaration vwas made that the
government had determined not to
enter into any negotiation's with
Felix Diaz, a revolutionary leader
for "Some time past in the, state of
Vera Cruz. General Diaz recently
announced he desired to support the
government.
INJECT NEW
ISSUE INTO
CONVENTION
Disclosure of Plank to Curb
Walkouts in Tentative Plat
form of Republicans Enliv
ens Proceedings at Chicago.
BUTLR REITERATES
CHALLENGE ON LEAGUE
Renews Offer to Johnson and
Borah for Showdown Over
Irreconcilable Attitude
. Towards Covenant. '
By CRAFTON WILCOX.
Chicago Trihune-Omaha Bee I.eaaed Wire,
Chicago, June 6. Republican con
vention proceedings were enlivened
today by the injection of a new issue
into the platform deliberations.
President Wilson's defiance of con
gress to strip him of autocratic war
powers, disclosed that the tentative
platform includes a plank for gov
ernment curbing of strikes which is
certain to provoke desperate opposi
tion from labor. Continued efforts
of party leaders to reconcile all ele
ments to the tentative league of na
tions plank, and revival of the fight
against Senator Watson of Indiana,
for chairman of the resolutions com
mittee, also enlivened .tKe prelimi
naries. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, New
York's candidate for the presidential
nomination, reiterated last night his
challenge to Senators Johnson and
Borah for a fight o;er their irrecon
cilable attitude toward the league of
nations, but at the same time de
clared thatthe league would by no
means be regarded as the prime
issue of the campaign. The high
cost of living and economic prob
lems before the country, he said, .
must be gfyen carfful attention by !
the party in its declaration of prin
ciples,' and the president's retention,
of ( war powers through his veto of
the repeal resolution, he insisted,
must alsd be given attention.
Makes New Issue.
"President Wilson has made a
new issue," said Dr. Butler, "which
the republican party cannot afford
to ignore. His defiance of congress
in its effort to take away from the
executive powers of an autocrat
which were granted him in war,
must not be ignored. The presi
dent's action is a culmination of a
long series of congressional defi
ances by the chief executive which
this convention must consider."
That the tentative pfftform fram
ers had completed an anti-strike
plank with tseth in it had not been
generally known until last night.
This resolution is certain to start
the fur flying when it reaches the
resolutions committee, and wilt
send the labor leaders scurrying
toward Chicago from their conven
tion in Montreal. ,
The antistrike clause deals pri
marily with settlement of transpor
tation industrial disputes and is said
to go even farther than the indus
trial court proposal urged, by Gov
ernor Allen of Kansas. It cites
forcibly that strikes which interfere
with -traffic and are fatal to peace
ful industries should be restrained
by government means, recommends
the creation of an industrial rela
tions court, patterned after the la
bor war board, but would create a
court with a punch -in it and with
power toenforce its decrees through '
application of the commercial law
and authority to protect employes
at their work.
No Changes in Plank.
The arrival of Senator Lodge;
leader of the senate league reserva- '"
tionists: Senator Borah, the treaty
irreconcilable, and others interested.:1
primarily in the treatv issue did not'.:
serve to clear up the differences over,
the peace treaty, although party
leaders were-Ied to believe that con
ferences which began immediate!
would result in final acceptance b
all factions of the tentative league
plank, which would leave the candi
date to be nominated to give it his
own interpretation. No changes
were made in the league- plank by
the "preliminary framers during the
day. It stands where it was, re
pudiating the Wilsonian leaguei
commending the senate for its
course in rejecting the peace treaty,,
urging establishment of an indus
trial court for -adjudication of jus
ticiable disputes and reaffirming the
policies of Washington antTMonroe
in international relations.
y .
Two Professionals Turn y
In Perfect Spores at Shoot ,.
Coffeyville, Kan., June 6. Two
perfect scores in the y)-targct
professional registered shoM herc
today were scored by Phil RMvil
ler, Dallas, Texas, and James HeedT' t
St. Louis. Perfect shooting con
tiinied in shooting off the tie. until
Mr. Head missed On the 125th shot,
Mr. Miller breaking 125 for the
honor. ;
Police Car Damaged.
An automobile belonging to the
police partment was slightly dam
aged last night at Eighteenth an J
Davenport strces when it wns
Mruck by an automobile driven hv
; R. I.ebron, 116 South ThirteentU
I street
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