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LODGE REALLY
OPPOSED TO ANY
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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.
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New Service.
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.. 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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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
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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. Returning a few months
later he responded to the porter's
greeting by inquiring how he liked
the whisky. "It was just exactly
right, boss,' exactly right," said the
porter. "If it had been any worse
it would not have .been fit to drink;
if it had, been any better you would
not have giv'n it to me."
Papers Raise Prices
Springfield,, 111., June 9. The Il
linois State Journal and the Illinois
State Register, morning and after
noon papers, respectively, an
nounced today an increase in the
street sale price from 3 to 5 cents.
Increased cost of paper is given as
the reason.
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