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THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1920. . m X . S LODGE REALLY OPPOSED TO ANY : t LEAGUE AT ALL i rcnd of Argument In Keynote Speech to Reject Covenant In Any Form, Borah Says. 3y WILLIAM E. BORAH, U. S. SENATOR FROM IDAHO. - ' Written Expressly for the International New Service. tCspyrlgbt, I20. by International Now! Service ) .. Chicago, June 9. Senator Lodge's peech was, as expected a scholarly , iddress. It covered quite generally th-e important questions now be fore the people. Upon the dimi nant issue as to whether this gov ernment is to be come a co-partner w it h European powers and take part in all the Eu ropean conflicts, the address be comes more satis- J, factory 'the more it is 5 i u u i e u. . ; ' While it does riot ay so in so many words', the effect if the argument presented by the iistinguished senator is to reject any , eague at all. , If hjs aigurnf nt and his logic are ,'ollowed to their legitimate con tusion, then we must have no league it all. In order to support a league . jnder the presentation of the ques . -ion as found in this address, you A-tfuld have to charge the senator ith insincerity and with mere, flaying of politics upon this great question. The republicans, in the coming campaign, would find themselves greatly embarrassed bv Senator Lodge s speech if his convention, in fit suicidal intent, should endorse :ht league of nations or pledge the republican party to ratify the pres ?nt treaty and the league in any form. Drag Soldiers Into War. For instance, Senator Lodge says, 'we found that it dragged us not inly into every dispute and in every ?ar in Europe and in the rest of ;ht world, but that our soldiers and uilors might be forced to give their ,,ive$ in quarrels not their own at :he bidding of foreign govern ments," It is true that that was precisely what the league bound us :o do and it is precisely what the eague binds us to do with the so called reservations. If it is seriously dangerous be :aue it dragged us into foreien dis- lute, as it did in the first instanee. -t has that same serious element of langer'in it still For instance, as he league now stands with the res ovations" attached, we would be :mbers of a council, the jurisdic ion of which council would be to leal with every possible subject aris ng in Europe, Asia or Africa which ould be in any way, in the judg nent of the council, calculated q , affect one way or another the juestion of peace. We would be members of an as .tmbly where England would have )ix votes to our one. The assem bly would have jurisdiction in ter ritory with the world and commen- turate in subjects with every ques-J :ion which touched the peace of the! vorld. There is no reservation pro i josed nor has there been any res- trvatfon proposed which relieves us from this great danger of being a ' )art of every European dispute A'hich Senator Lodge so graphi cally portrays as the great danger )f the league. , Concerned By Any War. 'Under Article XI, for instance, ny war or threat of war in any part of the world is declared to be aj matter -of concern to the league md the league is imperatively com manded to take jurisdiction of the juestion and deal with it in any vay that the league deems wise. Under Article XII we could be a party to the conflict now going on n Russia, to the fight that is now ?oing on in Egypt, to the trouble 'that s brewing in India, to the strife hat has been raging in Ireland for several hundred years, to the con tention between the Koreans and the Japanese and to all other dis iarhanceS. In other words the dan gers which Senator Lodge points iut and most ably and clearly joints out, are still in the league, let the people'of this country make ao mistake about that. If the republican party here as sembled, departs from the city of Chicago with a pledge to ratify the league of nations, with or without the reservations, it has betrayed and surrendered every principle with ref erence to foreign affairs for which ahe republican party has stood for jO years. Turn Down Lincoln. V turns its back upon the teach ings of Lincoln, upon the things for which Grant and Sumner and Sew jrd and Garfield and McKinley and ' Roosevelt stood unflinchingly and uncompromisingly, and when it be-i-ame necessary for any critic of the republican party to show that it had surrendered its principles arjd be trayed its government, jt would only be necessary to take down the speeches of Lincoln and the letters rf William H. Seward, the platforms of the party since 1860, and finally the keynote speech of 1920 to prove it. There are millions of citizens who will never permit that surren der to be made. And I take it from the. speech of Senator Lodge that he is unequivocally ef the opin ion that it shall not he made. Safe Milk Forkfuls &Iartdt A Nutritious Diet for AH Ages Quicjc Lunch t Horuc or Office KM' IT?', ra i 3, 1 M! i 1 Mi 1 First IJTJITlPFr ORATORY WILL HOLD SWAY FOR NEXTFEW DAYS Dread Day of - Nominating Speeches Close at Hand Escape Impossible for Coliseum Visitors. By CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL. Written Expressly for InternatUyvftl Nwrs service. (Copyright, 1920, hy International News Service.) Chicago, June 9. If tfiis conven tion has any sympathy for virtue, if it knows the beating of any chord responsive , t o modest merit, jt will end all this controversy (real and pifflicated) about candidates and choose Henry Cabot Lodge to be the party's standard bearer. I anj forLpdge and after that great speech he maje to as yes terday wlio could iktinnui icei oinerwiser All that heard it must admit that it reveals him as the man for the occasion. It was indeed a keynote effort, for this convention and this occasion flawless. By no possibility could there have been a more beautifully adjusted and ac curate expression. Mr. Lodget chose for his text the well known and justly admired sen timent, "We 'should worry," and made of it a masterly exposition. Is the country confronted with des perate problems that threaten its etonomic safety? Leave them to the next administration, which will be republican and therefore will know exactly what to do about these things. . ' Ihe high cost of living, I am told, disturbs many person. There is nothing we can . do about it. Profiteering is said by some to be a great evil. Let the laws be en forced and some profiteers be pun ished. The currency is reported on good authority to be inflated. Leave that to the federal reserve board, which is now clothed with the nec essary power. We are reliably in formed that there is need of in creased production. If that is the case, let production be increased. Hit With Convention. The convention received with joy these original thoughts. Not with so much joy as might perhaps be wished in our best circles, but still dutifully and with joy. It liked Mr. Lodge, or parts of it did. I hope it will nominate him. It could find no other man so accurately reflect ing the ideas that are going to dom inate its final action. But the dreaded day that is ahead for us is the day of ,the nominating speeches. Mr. Lodge is a scholar in Shakespeare and Milton ajid takes from these popular authorities quo tations that are always enjoyed for the day of wrath to come. I have succeeded in getting a line on an advance collection of these speeches and arise from its perusal toward the impressionable. If you are not immune to boredom, and have no ready access to an aes thetic, avoid the Coliseum that day as yon would the pestilence. The gates of flubdub are to be opened wide and out will come a deluge. Some fiend has invented and rigged up an apparatus that carries to the remotest corner of the build ing, the lightest word utteed on the platform. There will be no escape; you haven't ; a chance oji earth. Oratory, rhetoric and Noah's flood of wojrds will inundate the place and my advice is to keep strictly away. Saginaw, Mich., Gains 11,393 People During Last Decade Washington, June 9. Saginaw, Mich., 61,903; increase 11,393 or 22.6 per cent , Chillicothe. Mo., 6,525; increase 260 or 4.2 per cent. Boy $prfue Tire at the IU1. Picture "of Delegates Seated in Convention .-. . . - : - m 1 tmm f w . PERMANENT ROLL OF CONVENTION IS DETERMINED No Change Made In Standing of Delegates as Result of All-Night Session of Cre dentials Committee. By A. O. HAYWARD. International News Service, Staff Correspondent. Chicago, June 9. Gen. Leonard Wood gained, 'two votes through action taken early today by the con vention credentials committee on contested election cases. s Governor Lowden lost the two votes gained by General Wood but regained them by decision of the committee seating two delegates from Kansas City, Mo., which dis trict had been denied representation by the national committee. The two votes gained by General Wood were from the Fourth Georgia and the Tenth Tennessee districts. The committee reversed the action of the national committee in these contested cases, unseating the dele-l gates who participated in the tem porary organization of the .com mittee and seating C. D. Williams, Georgia; and Charles B. Quinn, Tennessee. The unseated men were for Lowden. Those seated are tor Wood. A total of 103 contests appealed from the national committee were disposed of by the credentials com mittee at an all-night sitting. The decisions of the national committee were allowed in all except four cases. The credentials committee was to report finally to the commit tee thjs morning.. The committea finished its labors at 5 o'clock. " ' Lightning Kills Six Avila, Spain, June 9. Six persons, including the mayor of this city, were killed yesterday when lignining s"Kk a chu.vk No Vice-Presidency for Me, Says Hiram to Tieup Rumor By JOHN F. DELANEY. Staff Correspondent of the International Mews Service. . Chicago, June 9. Any report that I am to accept second place on the republican ticket is absolutely false apd just another suggestion or invi tation of some of my "friends" who do not believe I am fit to be presi dent, but want to place me just a heartbeat from the president. I have received many of these invitations. I am in this fight to win and we are going, to win." Senator Hiram - Johnson today thus branded the report that was current today that he-agreed to ac cept the nomination for the vice presidency as a running mate of Philander C. Knox. The Californian was visibly peeved at the report and made it plain beyond a question that he is not a candidate tor vice president and will not take the nomination for any office but the presidency. Another important announcement Col. E. P. Thayer Is I Handling Crowds' at Chicago Coliseum SERGEANT-AT-ARMS So Says "Bugs" By "BUGS" BAER. Written Expressly for International News Service. (Copyright 1920, by International News Service.) Chicago, June 9. Outside of the scarcity of liquor, eveything is har monious in the convention. All is quiet on the bevo lake Michigan. About Friday the dele gates will have to check their lead pipes ai the door. Floor is an inspiring sight. Se of facS. Lowden delegation is the black sea. Wood's is the dea.d sea. Ought to let Bryan speak if jnly to prove convention theory of voices from the departed. TYi.Mt U 1 today from thfi Johnson leaders was the arrangement for their fight K the convention floor for the Califor nian. Senator Borah of Idaho has been selected as the man who wijl fire the big guns in the various floor fights and John Francis Neylan, publisher of the San Francisco Call, ha been selected as the assistant floor man ager. There was a conference late yes terday afternoon ' between Senator Borah and Mr. Neylan and Senator Johnson at the Johnson , Weadquar- ers and the plaos for the entire fight iwTre gjne over. The Johnson managers are elated at the selections .'that have been made and declare that Borah and Neylan are a winning combination. Mr. Neylan was seen about early to day meeting various men of influ ence and otherwise lining up sthe forces that are expected to carry the Californian ' fght to succe 1 l 1' I JSPROUL BOOM IS GAINING AS 8.0. P. STARTS LABORS Combination of Johnson and Wood Forces Causes Alarm i -Hqw Far Will They Go ' Is Question. By GEORGE RHOLMES. International News Service, Staff Correspondent. Chicago,, June 9. The second ses sion of the republican national con vention got unler way today with no startling changes in the standing of the tjire leading candidates, but with several new developments .which may tend to show the way the political winds are blowing. The most significant of these was th.e combination of the forces of General Wood and Senator Johnson in the committee on credentials. This combination succeeded in elec tion of a Wood chairman of the committee and it also upset the ac tion of the full national committee and resead several Wood delegates who had been ousted by the full committee. Instances where the judgment of the national committee has been disregarded have been very rare. How far the combination of John son and Wood elements would go was a matter today which would give the politicians food for much thought For one thing, it recalled vividly the warning of Senator George H. Moses on the eve of the convention, that the Johnson and Wood delegates between them formed a majority of the convention. Sproul Boom Gains. Of the "dak horses," the most talked of today was Governor Wil liam C Sproul of Pennsylvania. The Keystone delegation has been engaged constantly 6ince its arrival in Chicago in boosting the Pennsyl vania governor. The effect of their evangelism is noticeable in the in creased consideration being given Governor Sproul. The Sproul thoora is being engi neered by Gen. W. W. A,tte,rbury, chairman oQthe Pennsylvania dele gation and vice president of the delegation. There is a perfect un derstanding, i is said, between Pen rose, Sproul and Atterbury.. Consider Plans to Unseat Georgia Negro Delegate Chicago, June 9. The Georgia delegation decided to hpld a second caucus to consider a move to unseat Henry Lincoln Johnson, i the At lanta rjegro, who was elected nation al committeeman Tuesday The credentials committee, in passing on the Georgia contests, unseated a Johnson delegate and plans then were formed to call the delegation together witfi a view of unseating Johnson. ' Search Warrants Unnecessary. St. Louis, June 9. Federal Judge Faris ruled that it was not nc&tsi sary for prohibition enforcement of ficers to have search warrants to raid places wjjere it is suspected the prohibition law is beine violated. mm mm Law8on to Finance Third Party if G. O.P. SteamroUs Johnson Boston, June 9. Thomas W. Lawson is still in Boston. This, despite arrangements completed last Monday for spe cial reservation by fast express to the Chicago convention. However at 2:55 this afternoon he announced that he had just concluded a long distance conver sation with the Johnson headquar ters in Chicago and "If they give Hiram Johnson a rough deal out there, I'm ready to organize and finance a third party and put him over for presi dent in jig time," thus says Thomas W. And continuing, "to show that I mean what I say, I'm tired of the everlasting juggling and pull ing and hauling, and if the party turns on Hiram Johnson I'll pro vide $100,000 toward the new party support of this sterling American." s l r l ix Lnmmals oeek man "Who Failed to Make Good" When Befriended ' New York, June 9. Scores of re formed criminals, including several murderers and gangsters, aided the police today in search tor the only man who ever failed to make good" after being befriended by Oeorge B Ellis, social worker, known as "the Bowery Caruso," who has helped more than 5,000 down-and-outers to return to honest living. Lillian, the 12-year-old daughter of the slum missionary, sustained serious injuries in a desperate strug gle with this unnamed man, who beat her into unconsciousness and fled. .Recently Mr. Ulus bougpt a new suit of clothes and secured a posi tion for the man, who had just been released from pripn and received into the Ellis home. Mexican Officers Arrest Alleged American Smuggler Juarez, Mexico, June 9. An Amr ican, notorious as a smuggler, was arrested by Mexican authorities here Wednesday afternoon in connection with the alleged smuggling of am munition to Francisco Villa, the bandit. He later was released. Mex ican authorities announced eight Mexicans also were arrested at va rious points between here ajid St. Helena, in the Big Bend district in connection what they said was a widespread plot to supply Villa with munitions. Sure Relief 6 BfLL-ANS Hot water Sure Relief E LL-ANS Frost Is On Political Pumpkin and Convention Not Up to Former Years- Commoner Deplores Lack of Pep at Chicago Pow Wqw Wood Has Strongest Machine But General Is at Disadvantage Because of Military Rank . Opposition Too Strong to Overcome. By WILLIAM J. BRYAN. Written Expressly For the International News Service. Copyright, 1920, Br W. J. Brn. Chicago, June 9. I fear that any j visitors who may have come to the I convention because of my rosy 'view of national gatherings and mv description, of the enthusiasm ex cited among the followers of rival candidates will blame me for their disappointment. The convention isn't what it used to be, if I am able to compare this with former ones. The pep is lacking. There are no shouting paraders, no march ers singing the praises of their heroes. "The frost is on the po litical pumpkin and the fodder's in the shock." The headquarters are manned and womaned with workers. You can have a button of the asking, and the literary department is abundantly furnished with printed information. Likenesses of aspiring statesmen and near-statesmen adorn the walls of the respective headquarters and occasionally overflow into adjoin ing corridors. Groups of curious move about through the halls, eager to see the prominent men of whom they have read, but the atmosphere is not charged with confidence, and the visitors are not vocal with ex pressions of loyality to the party or devotion to those who have entered the lists. Realize Hopelessness. The reason is not difficulty to find. The friends of the leading men are beginning to realize even if they do notadmit the hopelessness of agreement upon any of the mei prominently mentioned. - It is not necessary to scrutinize the daily reports from the commit tee or to speculate upon the seating or unseating of delegates. There are the usual scandals from the southern states but these have re curred so regularly as to excite no surprise and but little comment. No candidate comes near enough to the required number of votes to make the action of the national commit tee of the credentials committee a matter of moment. Consider the leading candidates. General Wood has the best organ ized political machine. According to the evidence presented to the in vestigating committee, he has by far the largest campaign fund. The pri maries showed that he had a na tional following; that is, friends in every state. He is not a favorite sou candidate; he went at the busi ness of presidential nomination as ("earnestly as he has gone on other business. Wood Strong Ma a General Wood is a strong man; he has his views on public ques tions and he presents himself with vigor, but he has been handicapped from the beginning by the fact that he is a professional soldier. This objection is so strong in the minds of a great multitude that no personal virtues can overcome it. The reac tion against militarism is in full Swing and grows stronger day by day. That he recognizes this change in sentiment is evident from the fact that his managers do not, stress universal military training. He has been one of the foremost champions xf a compulsory system under which every young man would be compelled to devote a cer tain period of time to military train ing. The policy had ardent support ers in congress. The house com mittee was about to report a bill when a democratic caucus regis tered a protest by a ivote of 106 to 17. It became evident that the dem ocratic vote with the addition of protesting republicans could defeat the measure and it was abandoned. Afterwards the military affairs com mittee of the senate reported a com pulsory training bill, which the chairman assured the senate would not require an appropriation of more than $700,000,000. A poll of the senate showed nearly all the democrats and many of the repub licans, against the bill. A vote on military training system was substi tuted and this was stricken out of the bill in conference. The desire to have our nation lead the world towards universal peace is very strong and a professional soldier would, in the opinion of many, nis represent the nation before the world. The investigations have also em barrassed General 'Wood. Regard less of any questions affecting the nature of the expenditures, the The Greatest Accom plishment No accomplishment oqutli that of th musician. Make) miuieiatu out of yqftr children and they will blest you throufh the years to com. START THE LITTLE ONES 13 MUSIC Extraordinary value at our stora from which you may choof. Ask to tea the beautiful new Kurtamann, Weber, Cable and Clarendon. We also have some dandy used pianos at $119, $178, $285, $310, ete. Easy payments if you wish. '(MS2SP 1807 Farnam Street One Price The lowest i Unjted States. amount itself would prove a great handicap in the campaign. The friends of Senator Johnson have spoken very emphatically on the subject and the feeling is shared by all who are not personally attached lo a money supported candidacy. It is abhorrent to the patriotic senti ment of the country to encourag the idea that a poor man is, by his very poverty, disqualified for this high position. The men who give their lives to public service 66 not, as a rule, make fortunes; neither do they attach to themselves friends of great wealth if they champion the cause of the plain people. Some way will be devised by which presidential aspirants will be placed upon an approximate eouality irrespective of their own wealth or the wealth of their friends. Until that time, large expenditures will be deemed a liability rather than an as set. Governor Lowden has won many friends by his administration. He has not only pleased the business ' clement by his methods, but he has gratified the temperance element by signing an enforcement law quite as drastic as the Volstead act. He has the backing of the old guard atjJ. viuum jnuuduiy uc more acceptanie -to the conservative element of the party than any other candidate, hut this is his greatest weakness. The Johnson following is so great and his demonstrated strength so ap parent that the convention will hardly dare to nominate a man so closely identified by his corporate Luunetuons witn Dig ousiness. Hurt By Investigation. The investigation .of campaign funds has embarrassed Governor Lowden about as much as it has General Wood. While the total sum spent in his behalf is not as great as that rxpended by the Wood man agers, it is probably nearly as large per capita for the area covered. It is true that more than three-fourths of the Lowden fund was supplied by himself and members of his fam ily, but the sum invested by him in the presidential race is so large as to effectually bar any man of mod erate means from rivalry. The ques tion discussed by the supporters of General Wood with the supporters of Governor Lowden, viz: Whether it is better for a candidate to spend his own money or the money of other people, is not trie most vital issue raised. The real instance is whether a golden ladder is to be the only means by which a candidate may reach the White House. Senator Harding's candidacy is in the hands of a group of insurance inspectors. They have commodious headquarters and his charming wife is giving as much aid to his candi dacy as a congenial helpmate can. But the senator is running with a handicap that greatly retards his speed. He is so closely identified witn reactionary element of the nan that his nomination would alienate witn progressive element as much as Governor Lowden's nomination would. Enthusiasm for Johnson. Senator Johnson has aroused an enthusiasm far beyond "that which any other candidate has awakened bit he is the exponent of an element that is outnumbered in this conven tion. He may have a majority of the rank and file with some as Roosevelt did, but he falls consider ably short of having a majority of the leaders. His position on the treaty antagonizes the record made by the republicans in the senate. It looks to me as if a compromise can didate is inevitable. They are look ing for a man who has enough of progressiveness in him to hold th progressives without having enough to alienate the standpatters. The situation reminds me of a story: A traveling man, on leaving, the hotel, gay the colored porter a bottle or baa whisky. 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