THE EEE: OMAHA. THURSDAY. JULY 1, 1920.
Woman Fight Vigorously for Nomination of McAdoo
DOWNFALL OF
SENATOR REED
DUE TO WOMAN
William Morten Leads
ensive inai nesuus in
fusing Seat to Missouri
Senator.
By WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD.
(Written Exprmnly for the International
w Smrlce).
San Francisco. June 30 A wo
man "got" Jim Reed.
When Mrs. William Woodrow
Martin of Cape Girardeau, a little
town in Missouri, got onto a street
car in front of the conventibn hall
at 2 o'clock yesterday morning and
vent to a little room in an incon
spicuous hotel to retire fcr the
right; she was due to awaken fa
tncus. .- Between the hours of 11 and 2 she
had "polished off" Senator James
A. Reed of Missouri, had read him
out of the Missouri delegation, out
of the convention and practically out
, of the democratic party. Eight
hours later the great convention it
self was hissing the very name of
the man she had overthrown.
Monday night at midnight the
credentials committee, made up of
master democrats, one from each
state, got around to hearing the
Reed case in the committee room at
the auditorium.
The committeemen were sleepy
end tired; what's more they are all
political acquaintances of the men
who were speaking and they were
taking things pretty much for
granted when Edward Galtra, na
tional committeeman from Mis
souri, asked the committee if they
would hear Mrs. Martin, and an al
ternate delegate.
Not Experienced Politician.
No one had heard of Mrs. Martin
in politics bef6ie outside of Missouri.
Mrs. Martin took the "witness chair"
and within five minutes she had the
sleepy and ponderous committeemen
laughing at her sound wit and home
ly common sense.
She told the whole story of how
Missourians had elected Reed to the
senate at a rime when Reed was
supporting Wilson with might and
main.
"But as soon as he was all safely
elected." she said, "he turned on us
all and began to oppose everything
that Wilson did. He was against food
measures in the war; he opposed
conscription; he blocked us in every
way. We mothers of Missouri were
giving our sons to the country and
Reed was in our path." She spoke
with an easy smile; committee mem
bers said afterward that they felt
like boys who were being tolerantly
scoiaea Dy a wise and common-
se mother.
Calls Him Unruly Boy.
speaking of Kansas City and
ssea clique she introduced a
ot domestic life that won her
'Kansas City couldn't get
4nu.-u m me siaie conven-
aid. SO it tried to crtt it"l
Kansas City was given
name a delegate beside
but it didn't do so. It was
a bad bov." she said, drollv.
"whose mother gives him a chance
to have any number of good things
to eat, but who keeps from him one
certain thing that will make him
sick and perhaps make the whole
family unhappy. The boy says if he
can't have the one thing, he will
starve; he won't take the other
things that are offered him. But
he doesn't starve. At night, after
everyone is in bed, he goes to the
cupboard and tres to steal what was
denied him. There's nothing for
that boy," Mrs. Martin added, with
i quiet smile, "but a good spank
ing." : Mrs. Martin's picture of home life
was so true and so completely de
scribed the Reed case that it over
rode all the eloquent arguments of
the attorneys and the great political
leaders on the other side and. still
smiling, the committee voted 39 to 9
against seating Senator Reed.
Will Address Meeting.
Today Mrs. Martin is to talk of
the convention. One of the honors
that Came to her, before the day was
old. was to be officially invited by a
representative of . the governor of
Georgia td speak to the legislature
of that state on woman suffrage.
'-Mrs. Martin is a simply dressed
lady of middle age. She speaks with
t Missouri drawl and gives one an
impression of extreme common
sense, with no frills.
"My husband is a professor in
the Missouri State Teachers' col-
1es " tnM m. "H' snlnHirl
He believes just as I do about things
and he helps me to do things. Reed
got so bad in our state that he didn't
represent the folks any longer and
when I was asked to tell the creden
tials committee about him I agreed
to do so."
Was Not Embarrassed.
"Didn't the big moguls embarrass
you?" I asked her. She smiled
benignantly. I caught her fleeting
thought "Did they really seem like
boys to you?" I asked.
"Well, I felt sort of maternal
withthem." she answered.
Then she gave me a little touch of
the homtly common sense " with
which she won over the credentials
committee in the wee hours Tuesday
morning.
. "Y6u know," she said, "when men
and women get together in politics
it ought to be just like Paw and
Maw talking over family affairs."
Woman's Ashes Are
Scattered From Seaplane
New York, June 30. In compli
ance with her request, written and
sealed 14 years ago, the ashes of
Mrs. Sarah D. Brown, who died last
w eek, were scattered over the Statue
of-Liberty from a seaplane soaring
above it.
Nine white and two red roses, sym
bolic of the age of 92 years, at which
Mrs. Brown died, were dropped with
the ashes.
" Mrs. Brown was noted during her
lifetime aa temperance worker and
writer of jjbildrtn's stories,
"Dry" Nebraskans at Frisco Convention
Lef to right: Elmer E. Thomas,
Wilson's Ideas
Followed
By MA.RLEN E. PEW,
International S'ewn Service Staff
Correspondent.
San Francisco, June 30. Herewith
is presented an authoritative fore
cast of essential planks in the tenta
tive draft of the democratic platform
which probably will be finally
adopted within the next 24 hours.
Foreign Relations.
As previously stated in these dis
patches, the famous Virginia plat
form which unqualifiedly endorses
President Wilson's league of na
tions, is the model of the foreign
relations plank, the changes being
for the purpose of making the doc
ument more simple and comprehen
sive, the altered phraseology in no
way modifying the meaning of the
original paper. Article X stands in
tact. The plank purports to declare
that nothing in the covenant may be
construed to take from the United
States the control of her own troops,
(hat no internal questions, of inter
est to the United States alone, shall
be surrendered to the league of na
tions; that the MonrOe doctrine shall
not in any way be affected by the
covenant. Unless some change is
made after the subcommittee has
submitted the platform to the com
mittee on resolutions and platform,
the plank will stand exactly as
President Wilson, as represented
here by Senator Carter Glass, would
have it. There was much time spent
hy the subcommittee in a discussion
of shades of meaning of words and
phrases, but there was no serious
effort to disturb the essential mean
ing. Text of Wilson's Plank.
As submitted to the subcommittee
the Wilsonian draft of the league
plank is as follows:
"League of nations.
"The democratic party favors a
league of nations as the surest, if not
the only, practicable means of main
taining the permanent peace of the
world and terminating the insuffer
able burden of great military and
naval establishments.
"It was for.lhis that America broke
away from traditional isolation and
f.pent her blood and treasure to
crush a colossal scheme of conquest.
"It was upon this basis that the
president of the United States, in
prearrangement with our allies, con
sented to a cessation of hostilities
against the imperial German govern
ment and upon this 'basis "that the
armistice was granted and a treaty
of peace was negotiated.
"The honor and integrity of the
United States are involved in ratifi
cation oi this agreement, which
brought war to an end.
Senator Walsh of Montana, thi
only opposition senator on the sub
committee, objected at the outset to
some of the phraseology in the
plank, which is an amplification of
the Virginia convention expression
on the subject. For that reason the
subcommittee had not, at a late hour,
given final approval to the plank, but
administration senators said there
would be no change in its substance.
Score Knox Resolution.
"The Knox substitute for the Ver
sailles treaty was passed by republi
can senate and house and this con
vention can contrive no more fitting
characterizing of its infamy than that
made for the Forum magazine of
December, 1918, by Henry Cabot
Lodge when he said: 'If we send our
armies and young men abroad to be
killed and wounded in northern
France and Flanders with no result
but this, our entrance into war with
such an intention was a crime which
nothing can justify. The intent of
congress and the intent of the presi
dent was that there cOuld be no
peace until we could create a situa
tion where no such war as this could
occur. We can expect no peace ex
cept in company with our allies. It
would brand us with everlasting dis
honor and bring ruin to us also if
we undertook to make a separate
peace.'
"Thus to that which the republican
senator leader considered the 'black
est crime' his party in congress
would give its sanctity of law, that
which 18 months ago was of 'ever
lasting dishonor,' the republican
congress accepted as the esesnce of
faith. And because a democratic
president blocks the way of this im
moral thing he is hated and reviled
for his obduracy.
"We enddrse the president's view
of our international obligations and
commend democratic senators for
voting against reservations designed
to cut to pieces the vital provisions
of the Versailles treaty and against
resolutions for separate peace which
would disgrace the nation. We ad
vocate the prompt ratification of the
treaty without reservations, which
would impair its essential integrity.
"Only by doing this may we re
trieve the reputation of this nation
among the powers of the earth and
Dr. Jennie Callfas, William J. Bry
Closely
in Platform
recover the moral leadership which
Wilson won and which, with Amer
ica's seeming indifference, paltering
republican politicians at Washington
sacrificed.
"Only by doing this may we hope
to aid effectually in the restoration
of order throughout the world and
take the 'place that we should as
sume in the front rank in spiritual,
commercial and industrial advance
ment." Labor.
The labor planks are construed
by members of the committee as
highly progressive. A strong
argument was made to recognize the
right of labor to be represented in
collective bargaining by repre
sentatives of their own choosing.
The last four words, it will be re
membered, were the rock on which
the president's industrial relations
committee foundered last October
at Washington. The demands of
labor for restricted immigration
were not favored but rather the open
door was to be proclaimed to work
men of the world. The plank sug
gests that immigrants must be en
couraged to take on American
standards of living and customs and
that segregation of foreigners should
be deprecated. Child labor is in
veighed against. The program of
the woman's party having to do
with such as old age pensions, non
employment insurance, maternity
benefits, improvements of conditions
among workers has been met favor
ably, it is said. The use of the in
junction in labor disputes was the
subject of long discussion, but con
demnation of it may be omitted.
Ireland.
An effort has been made to put
into the platform an Irish plank
which will declare the futility of
passing resolutions in favor of the
Irish republic or even recognizing
the republic, but the importance of
turning the question over to the
league of nations is favored. It is
not clear at this time what form
this plank will take.
Mexico.
The sentiment of the committee
is for a plank which will withhold
recognition from any government
of Mexico that does not comply
with such responsibilities as main
tenance of effective border patrol,
honest government, enactment of
laws fit to protect foreign invest
ments and legitimate enterprises,
fair taxation of foreigners and pay
ment of international obligations.
Soldier Bonuses.
It is doubtful if the platform will
favor the flat payment of soldiers'
bonuses, but will provide for proper
assistance for maimed, crippled or
sick soldiers as a government duty
through an efficient board. The
tentative draft denies that able
bodied men who fought for Amer
ica expect financial rewards, but in
sists that a scheme for putting vet
erans in possession of land for ag
ricultural pursuits, when desired,
should be effected without delay.
The entire platform, it is said, will
make about 5100 or 6,000 words, if
the tentative subcommittee draft is
accepted and indeed reaches the
committee on resolutions and plat
form in about the same form that it
was in this morning.
Senator Carter Glass is the chief
voice in the document.
Pay More for Dead
Thief Than Stolen Auto
Ottawa, Kan., June 30. Automo
bile thieves here are worth more
dead than alive. In telegrams sent
out to police headquarters of sur
rounding cities a reward of $500 was
offered for the body of the thief who
stole a motor car from an Ottawa
automobile company. An additional
$100 was offered for the recovery of
the car.
George Creel Will
Put the Finishing
Touch On Platform
San Francisco. June 30. George
Creel, who was chairman of Presi
dent Wilson's committee on pub
lic information during the war,
joined" the committee of nine
which is drafting the democratic
platform, and it was understood
he would work with the subcom
mittee in drafting the document.
Mr. Creel came to San Francisco
with Secretary Daniels. His part
in the drafting of the platform, it
is said, would be to look after its
literary qualities in somewhat the
same manner that Col. George
Harvey polished up the republican
platform at the Chicago conven
tion. "
an, Mrs. P. T. McGeere, Charles Bryan.
Iowa Delegate Who
Is Treasurer of the
National Committee
'W.
MARSH
Wilbur W. Marsh, delegate to the
democratic national convention at
San Francisco from Iowa, is also
treasurer of the democratic national
committe. This photograph was
made at San Francisco.
We Request
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Forenoon
I - I
DENIAL OF SEAT
WILL NOT ALTER
REED'S ATTITUDE
Missouri Senator Still Opposed
To League Despite Action
Of Committee.
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leaned Wire.
San Francisco, June 30. Senator
James A. Reed of Missouri, who
was denied a seat in the democratic
national convention, Tuesday issued
the following statement:
"The great democratic Kansas
City district of Missouri was dis
franchised solely because it named
me for one of its representatives.
"I was objectionable only because
on the floor of the senate, acting
under my oath of office, I refused
to consent to the abandonment of
the policies of Washington, Jeffer
son and Monroe and to enter into
a contract to send young men of
America to fight and die in defense
of the territories of foreign govern
ments. In a word, I was excluded
because I refused to support the
league of nations.
"My title to a seat in the conven
tion was so clear as to indubitably
demonstrate the truth of the iorego
ing. The action taken will in no re
spect affect my lifelong democracy,
neither will it change my course in
the senate.
"I am still a democrat. I am still
opposed to the league of nations. I
will never surrender the destiny of
the republic into the hands of the
representatives of foreign powers. I
am an American nationalist, not an
internationalist." .
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OmaTia
Bryan in Fine Fighting
Trim, Defends His Policies
Nebraskan Tells Congressman Bell He Attends Con
ventjert1, as Democrat to "Defend Homes and
Children" Not in Pay of Anti-Saloon League.
By ilYE WITNESS.
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bm Leaied Wire.
San Francisco, Jun . 30. "I
would like to ask whom you came
here to represent," said former Con
gressman Theodore A. Bell of San
Francisco, turning to William J.
Bryan at Tuesday's session f the
committee of rsolutions of he dem
ocratic convention.
With a resounding bark that made
Mr. Bell vibrate, Mr. Bryan replied:
"I came here as a democrat. I
came as a defender of the homes of
this land and the children of this
land whom your traffic would slay.
I want you to be just as open as
we are. If you are here for pay,
you ought to tell them you are here
as an attorney."
Mr. Bryan settled himself to
gehter physically in the manner of
a lion that has made the spring
and is satisfied with the distance
covered. He also allowed silence,
copious and tense, to settle upon
the big committee room, which was
crowded to the window ledges.
Mr. Bell broke it by not unman
fully acknowledging that he had
come to represent the California
Grape Growers' association, of which
his father was a member, and he
did not propose to have Mr. Bryan
and his associates put his father in
the criminal classes.
No Salary from Drys.
Bourke Cockran, who had been
resting his chin upon his cane,
looked up relishingly, his old eyes
brightening with an Irishman's joy
in a good fight.
Mr. Bell continued: "I would like
also to ask, do you get a salary
from the Anti-Saloon league?"
Not moving a muscle save those
required for the delivery of the
words, Mr. Bryan replied:
"None whatever, not any."
"Not a nickel?" interjected Mr
Bell in a tone meant to admonish.
"For a period of four months,"
continued Mr. Bryan, so rapidly that
Mr. Bell's interruption was lost save
to the nearby listeners, "I-receiveci
compensation for specific speeches.
But for nine years I fought at my
own cost the damnable traffic you
represent."
Senator Carter Glass, wishful that
all, including himself, should be
handled with care, rapped for order,
and in soft and southernly drawl
from the side oi liL jicuth depre
cated intemperate speech.
Mr. Bell, who went to the Fifty
eighth congress from the Second
California district, was the demo
cratic nominee for governor of Cali
fornia in 1906 and 1910, and was
temporary chairfnan of the demo
cratic national convention at Denver
in 1908, subsided into his chair,
rather pink about the ears, and Mr.
Bryan resumed whispered but em
phatic conference with his retinue
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Windows
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of bishops, statisticians and petition
bearers.
All the morning Mr. Bryan was
in fine fighting form, taking capa
cious bites out of everybody from
the faltering Congressman Adolph
Sabath of Chicago to Senator Glass,
chairman of the resolutions commit
tee. "Do you," asked the congressman,
who is not expeditious in parlia
mentary rough and tumble, "Do you
er do you want to enforce er
this impossible of enforcement
Volstead law?"
Mr. Bryan, dispensing with "er,"
shot back: "We will favor enforce
ment instead of demoralization."
Congressman Sabath resumed a
sitting posture.
Another speaker got his head up
long enough to ask whether Mr.
Bryan proposed to endorse the Vol
stead act in the democratic plat
form. Accurately measuring the dis
tance, Mr. Bryan shied at the head
this sentence:
"We propose to endorse this law
and not to run from it.'
Represents Church Members.
The head disappeared. He em
ployed short sentences heavily bal
lasted. While he was announcing
one of his dignitaries as represent
ing such and such interests, the ques
tion reached his ears:
"Who do you represent?"
"I shall not speak now," he said.
"I will speak later when the time
is not so short, but I will sav now
that I represent 20,000,000 church
members in the United States."
There was no more heckling
along those lines. $
The swift exchange of warm
words between Mr. Bryan and Sen
ator Glass grew out of the sena
tor's not very well concealed dis
position to take the proceedings
over which he presided as merely
an opportunity for zealots to blow
off steam.
U. S. Red Cross to Fight
Plague in Vera Cruz
Mexico City, June 30. Conditions
in Vera Cruz have become such that
Provisional President Adolfo De La
Huerta has decided to accept the
offer of the services of an American
Red Cross unit to aid in fighting the
epidemic of bubonic plague in that
city.
President Huerta has made the ac
ceptance subject to the condition
that the members of the American
unit place themselves under the
orders of the Mexican sanitary au
thorities, however.
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WOMEN AMUSED
BY CONDUCT OF
MEN DELEGATES
Are Given First Intimate rk
sight Into "Conventional
Ways of Other Sex at
Frisco Meeting.
By MRS. GEORGE BASS,
f'hnirmaa of th Woman Bui-mo
Democratic Committee.
Written Eiprrnolr for International Newt
Servlre.
San Francisco, June 30. A good
many women are having their first
insight into the may 1 say the con
ventional ways of men for the
time they are dazed, amazed,
amused, confused and interested all
the time.
Some of the women here were at
the recent Biennial, so they have an
xeccllent chance to compare this
convention fwith that one this with
its brief indefinite day-to-day spon
tancous program so different frotr
the league, carefully worked out,
sometimes exhaustive and always
exhausting mental bill of fare that
gives every good club woman brain
fag biennially. However, there are
certain points of agreement.
Most of the delegates to both club
and political conventions are in dead
earnest, burning in its zeal for some
great cause and with no little iute of
their own to grind, and if weare
all acquainted with the occasional
woman delegate whose main idea i
as possible, she has her counterpart
in me man who thinks his one,
emn, urgent uutv is to make as
much noise as possible on every
possible occasion.
Men are used to going to conven
tions and letting the committees do
the work, but in women's conven
tions we all of us have a great deal
to do right along, and 1 am willing
to predict that within the next dozea
years the meetings of the platfor
and resolutions committee, and they
should be separate committees, will
make up a far more important and
integral part of the convention than
they now do. All these women are
together and interesfed and they
want to know what is going on and
hear the discussions that precede
the recommendations of the com
mittees.
The sinister jest that platforms '
are meant to get in on, rather than'
to stand upon, has gone into the dis
card forever, and if women had done
only this in the year of '.heir great
advent into politics they would have
more than justified their presence.
New Timekeeping System.
London, June 30. The British ad
morality has published a new sys
tem of timekeeping at sea. This
has been adopted by the navies of
the United States, Great Britain,
France, Italy and Spain.
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