Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 29, 1924, Page 4

PAGE FOUR. ANTLKLAN PLANK IS LOST IN D SINGLE VOTE IS NEEDED TO PUT ITN PLATFORM (Continued from Pago One.) to-avoid mentioning the klan. A Aeng lst of speakers appeared for ‘hoth sides. ‘The sentiment of the eonvention certainly seemed to be antiklan, whether the hooded order was to be mentioned or not. Every danunciatory reference to the Klan was cheered, and follovimg a speech hy Andrew C. Erwin of Georgia. a demonstration broke, which lasted for several minutes and was é¢nded only after a parade of delegations from a dozen states behind their standards. ‘Then came two hours of utter confusion as the roll call ‘was taken and delegations began changing and challenging. The party thus passed through -what had threatened to develop into a serious crisis. Feeling was at fever heat. Hundreds of policemen were in the con¥ention hall. There haf been open talk of fears of riot- ing. Nerves were on edge, and at every slight commotion within a delegation, two or three policemen were immédiately on the job. The night passed, however, without. serious disturbance. With the failure of tiv Klan plank Senator Oscor Underwood is ex- pected to announce his immediate retirement as a candidate. Under- wood had staked everything on his ti-klan fight and announced sev- eral days ago he would withdraw if such a plank was not adopted. As to other candidates the turn of affairs is without doubt favor- able to W. G. McAdoo. Governor Al Smith of New York, was closely associated with the forces endeavor- ing to jam denunciation of the klan inte the matters. am BAKER ARGU i LEAGUE ENDORSEMEN? Newton D. Baker opened the de- hate for the minority report on the league afte® Alfred BE. Lucking and Senator Jones of New Mexico. had spoken for the majority. ~ “There is no subject on this earth, Raker said. “apart from my duties to my God and my family, that meas- ures with my feeling on the league of nations. I have fought with you, marched with you—and if at any time in the past I have merited your feeling that I deserved your sympa- thy and help, give it to me now. “The man who ought to be pleag- ing here for this cguse fis resting in hitowen ‘round, MB Eaeppred ine broken voice. He then denounced the majority report as “fantastic and revolution. aker, showing the wearipess and strain of his Jong fight in the com- mittee on resolutions, declared there was nothing in the majority plank that provided that “we should - go into the league before we go throu with this proposed unconstitutional fantnstic, revolutionary refrendunt.’ “They march through the diction- ary, give it their confidence, but promise it no ald whatever. “Our attitude is that we are af- fectionately inclined, but not dispos- ed to marry it. “The mfajority report proposed that we lift the league out of party politics and deposit it nowhere.” Baker riduculed the provision in the majority plank that would give “full time for consideration.” He prayed that some man, some time, somewhere, would in the next great dictionary define; what was actually required in “full time for considera tion.” by the United States senate. The former war secretary made an impassioned appeal. “I’m not talking to Democrats,"" he’ said. “T am talking to lovers of mankind. I have over there in that room for days and nights without sleep. I have heard talk of expediency and votes, till I'm sick of it. I'm talk- ing of life and death and love of ovr fellow man. “When we get thru with ‘full time for consideration, he said “my boy that I am trying to save from war will be dead on a field of battle.” ATTACKS UPON LODGE APPLAUDED. ‘He won o great cheer when he at- tacked Lodge. “Senator Lodge,” he sait, “and when I say that name I am not speaking of a person, but a malevol- ent institution. What this majority report means in that we are. substi- tuting for the Democratic party, the attitude ef the Republican party— we are substituting Henry Cabot Lodge for Woodrow Wilson,” The committee, he said, he had no quarrel with and had mixed harsh words with none on it during the long days and nights of work. “But the trouble is,” he sald “that they (the senators on the resolutions committee) have been in the senate until they can’t think on a foreign subject.” . Baker charged in his speech that the referendum as proposed was actually an election he!d under fec- 1 control. It would take years he said, to get all of the referendums taken if they were taken through the state election. machinery, which will be one way of taking it. under he other way would told it through the census bu. control reau. ‘Postal cards could be sent out to everyone by the census bureau #0 that the answer could be sent back on a ballot to be clipped off and matied Washington. “If you got the next election un der this program and had plenty of votes in the senate to go into the league, you would be compelled to tay out of ft until you had gone through with the fantastic proposal made in the majority report,” he naid He then asked “will we w lose votes by going into the “I don’t know. I do know ever, that the league of no a subject, and Weodrow W sa personality are,two things that have only to be mentioned to make the hearts of men jump.” “The referendum propos d is un- constitutional, he added, ‘and I know that there are thousands who would like to for the league but who would vote to do some- thing unconstitutional. : “What wil! the Republicans ‘say about this?” he asked. “Tomorrow morning, should you adopt that, there would be # headline, ‘The Democratic Party Repudiates Wood-' row Wilson.” “Now I con't know that I love Woodrow Wilson more than I love you. I merely know. him better. I can jest imagine him looking over my shoulder here and see the fine con- tempt on his face if he were asked to approve this majority proposal.” ‘Old Virginia's right with you, a man shouted from the floor. “Tho newspaper, the second day will give our party's history, What is our history? Let me give it to you: Voodrow Wilson won the war. ‘Woodrow Wilson won the world. “Woodrow Wilson won the peace. Woodrow Wilson died for what he won for us. “That's our histo: CANDIDATE MAY BE EMBARRASSED. “And whoever is nominated by this convention—I assume we will nominate a candidate some time— what will he say when asked for his first interview and the first ques- ton asked him is, ‘are you in favor of the league of nations?’ “If he says ‘no,’ then the partyj has ceased to be blessed by Wood- row Wilson. “If he says ‘yes,’ then his ques- tioners may answer, ‘well, your party was afraid to say so. Thank God it nominated a man’. “Others have opposed this cause. Hiram Johnson opposed it once. Where is he now? “My plank—the plank of the minority—is to go into the league.” At this, there was a great out- burst of applause. “I'm past the military age. I have memories. I have closed the eyes of soldiers dying on the battle- field, and they have whispered mes- sages to me to take to their mothers, They were so superbly splendid! they were willing to go—if they could be sure of two things: one that thoir mothers be notified and the other that some one might carry on and build upon this earth a temple whence might go forth the appeal. to end forever sacrifices bred of hate. “I served Woodrow Wilson for five years. I say to him: “I did my best. I'm doing it now. You're still the captain of my soul’, he’s stand- ing here—using me to say to you, ‘save = mankind. Do America’s duty’. At Baker's conclusion, hun- dreds cf delegates leaped to their feet waving their state standards, shouting, cheering, swinging flags and posters. It was a full blast demonstration, with the band play- ing and the entire floor in a furor of excitement. Tears streamed down the faces of men and women throughout the delegations and on the -platform as Baker referred in touching terms to Wilson. Spread- ing out his arms, Baker cried: “He is here now, he is standing beside me. He is speaking through my voice to call upon you to keep the faith to save mankind. I do not refer to the pale or shrunken figure that I last saw—a living sacrifiee to a cause—but to the great leader as we knew him in his strength—the captain of my soul.” As the demonstration quieted, the band strick up: “Onward Christian Soldiers,” and for several minutes the vast throng stood with tears streaming, down cheeks, and heads bowed. A rol call by states resulted in he defeat of Baker's plank, 742 to The Wyoming delegation was divided. TWO-HOUR DEBATE ON KLAN LAUNCHED After the vote was taken on the Baker minorty report, on the league plank, the two hour debata on the anti-klan nk was begun. anstne Bower Owen of Oklahoma, ‘was selected by Chairman Cummings of the resolutions committee, to lead off with a 15.minutes support of the majority repprt, containing no refer- ence directly to the klan. “This is not a question of the klan winning or losing this election,” Owen declaréd in opening. ~ ‘Your committee recommends a plank strongly insisting upon freedom of religion, speech and press. The question is merely whet the Democratic convention shall stigma- tize the klan by name as being guilty of interfering with religipus Uberty and disregarding the lawful rights of their fellow citizens. “Let it be understood that I would not support any organization, the klan or any others, who would trample on the rights and privileges of our citizens. i “It probably ts true that they go about doing midnight frolics in their nightie: Tt also is true that there may be criminals among the klan and that some of them do carry on depredations upon their neighbors But there are. lunatics outside that organiaztion and there are criminals also who do not wear that badge.” Senator Owen spoke of his own feelings for Catholicsm, the care that has been taken of him by negro ser- yants all his life and added: ‘om the Jews, we have received the blessings of the Bible, Our Christian church is founded upon the doctrine of a jew. And when the great war came,” he added, “we did not ask @ man whether he was a Catholie, a Protes- tant, a Gentilo or a Jew. “Shall we now use this question to Promote or demote any candidaties whatever? When we hesitated to put this itsue into the platform plank they sald we were afraid to mention Ku Klux Klan. Well, I'm not aid of the Ku Klux Klan, I’m afraid of any kluxer, not fe é ... SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 1924. Canal Zone asked that its vote be polled and the.cordon of police which had been around the: Philippine standard moved on down to the Pan. The Canal Zon ped 1:4 was. w chafiged after the ' aes Canal zone voted aye 2, no 4; The Georgia delegation then askea to be polléd and the the equad of police moved into-that on. A slight change in the eount re- sulted from the poll. Following announcement of; the official count showing 541 3-20 for plank and 542 3-20 for the plank WS! and 642 dgainst”the platform’ wa: adopted as submitted by. the reso- lutions committee and the conven- tlon was adjourned until 9:30 a. m. Monday when balloting for the pres- idential nominee will begin. fhe Casper Sundap- Cridune -- challenge on the latter was not al- Towed. 4 A long discussion followed over tht Philippine vote when it was discover- ed that not all of the delegates were OC MEASURE DEFEATED ‘William Jennings Bryan concluded “for the majority at 11:20 and the ‘reheat i sac down to ven: us Hberty.| After. the resylt of the Philippine Five minutes wan'given in which ‘the Fi announced, police rushed delegations might poll their mem-| in to Quell a disturbance in the dele- beras ‘The-entire hall was soon in ‘The secretary began calling: the roll at 11:36 p. m. The roll call: $ Alabama, aye 24, Arizona, aye 1, no 6. Arkansas, no 18, fornia, aye 7, no 19, Colorado, aye 6, no 6, Connecticut, aye 15, no 1. Delaware, aye 6. Florida, aye 1, no 1. Georgia, aye 2%, no 17. Idaho, no 8. at Illinois, aye 45, no 13. Indiana, aye 5, no‘2%. Towa, aye 13%, no 12%. Kansas, no 20, Kentucky, aye 9% no 16%. - Another row broke out in Philippine delegation and it necesary to poll again, This time onthe poll the vote was yes 2 no 2, narrowing the margin by which those opposing the klan being named had obtained on the vote. Are Headquarters We 4 FOR ALL KINDS OF Fireworks From the Smallest ‘Cracker’ to thé Most Gorgeous Rocket f AT REASONABLE PRICES JOHN TRIPENY CO. DRUGS AND JEWELRY 241 S. Center Maryland, aye 16. Massachusetts, iiye 35%, no %4. Michigan aye, 12%, no 16%. Minnesota, aye 1%, no 7. Mississippi, no 20. ‘ Missourl, aye 10%, no. 25%. Montana, aye 1, no 17. Nebraska, aye 3, no’ 13. Ne no 6. New Hampshire, aye 2%, no 5%. New Jersey, aye 38. New Mexico, aye 1, no 5. New York, aye 90. North Carolina aye 3.85, no ‘20.15. North Dakota, aye 9, no 1. Ohio, aye 31%, no 16%. Oklahoma, no 20. Oregon, no 20, Pennsylvania, 39%, It will take two and a half days for Casper to absorb all the water out of its 10,000,000-gallon reservoir efter it has been finished and filled. Ex’avation work which meant the removal of the top of a small peak and the digging of a hole 350 feet long, 270 feet wide and 25 feet deep, was completed a week ago. Now everything is in readiness for the pouring of concrete, of which 38,000 cubic yards will be used. The (aed is runniag on schedule and it should s be finished. Column footing has been provided in the sloping walls of the reservoir so that a roof may later be provided, if desired. Curley and Scott are the contractors. This great storage place for Casper’s reserve supply of water is on a hill just west of the clubhouse on the community golf course. (Photo by Bert Bell) Phone 72 no 29%. ship down there recéntl these men like three words—ku| tle of hisses, booes and cheers,/each| node Island, aye 10. Owen asked if this convention] klux Klan. struggling for supremacy. South Carolina, no 18. wished to pass condemnation on} “I call you to withess that the “The Democratic party,” he went South Dakota, aye 6, no 4, members of the klan without there being evidence submitted on the other side. There was a shout of ‘yes’ from the anti-klan section. men took the standards of their state} and marched on great prin- ciples. _ It was only when the men- tion of the ku. klux klan occurred that-they marched.” on, “has done more for me than any, other, man. _I can only say Partisanship is the party. It pro- tected. me. I'll protect it now, “Isn't it worth while to unite the ‘Tennessee, aye 3, no 21. Texas, no 40. yee Utah, aye 4, no 4, ‘Vermont, aye 8. Virginia, aye 2%, no 21%. Owen concluded with an appeal Hisses and boos greeted these re-| Christian church behind the ten Washington, vote challenged and for no indictmentof the klan until/ marks. Cries from the floor an@| commandments and the sermon on|was passed. the klan was asked to present its} galleries resulted in| demands to] the Mount instead of dividing them|” West Virginia, aye 7, no 9. case, “clear the gallertes of thy hoodlums. in fighting factions? “There is only one thing that can bring pea¢e to the world and that is the prince of peace. “Jew and gentile, Catholic and Protestant, stands for God on whom All religion rests. All stand for the Prince of peace. It is possible now that when J is more needed, we are to have a religious discussion, and a religiots warfare. Are you Wisconsin, aye 26, no 1. Wyoming, aye 2, no 4. Alaska, aye 6. District of Columbia, aye 6. Hawali, aye 4, No 2. Philippines, aye 1, no 5. Porto Rico, aye no 4. Canal Zone, aye 2, no 4. ‘With several delegations demand- ing a poll of delegations, the un- official. résults indicated the | plank William R. Pattangall of Maine led off on behalf of thos¢ on the resolu- tions committee who ‘submitted a minority report which would namo directly the Ku Klux Klan. “The amendment we offer you is a splendid document,” he sald. “We ask nothing but that you apply the abstract principles offered in the ma- jority plenk to the concrete example We want order. speaker is shouted Chairm: galleries will be c! interrupted There was order and Bryah con- tinued. “In this plank” he sald, three words are Tot necessary.’ Artistic Mountings ‘these : which we give in our proposed] WOMAN CONDEMNS Going to start-a blaze.that may cost/ mentioning the ‘klan directly had Perfect Diamonds “ amendment: KLAN “OUTLAWRY.” you many lives sacrificed on’ the|lost by a narrow»margin, the un- ‘ KLAN NOT TO BE - Mrs. Carrell Miller of Pennsyl-} altars of religigus prejudice? I call | of vote being’640% yes, against CONDEMNED ‘UNHEARD,’ vanla was introduced to Garry on of ‘ you back in the name of God; Chris-] 545%~no. ea tlans stop fighting and save the | VEBIFICATION OF world from the materialism that| VOTE DEMANDED x robs life of its real valu ; ~ ¥n- the confusion preliminary to Bryan concluded in a storm of] the announcement of the vote, a dele- mingled jeers, hisses and cheers.| gate in the Illinois sectioh. demand- Tho, McAdoo delegates all stood and}ed verification of the whole conven- cheeretl., Ac yglid mass of delegates] tion vote. At the same time. E. H. down thkough® the’ New Jersey ‘and | Moore, of Ohio, leaped to agehair and New York, tons, “however,” ré/ehallenged the _ vote of "both the mained : Philippines and the Canal Zone. The ——————S = JOS. I. SCHWARTZ, JEWELER IRIS BLDG: ‘a We don't condemn the Ku Klux Klan unheard; we do oppose the klan or any other organization in- terfering with the religions freedom or civic rights of any citizen. Every one knows the society we |pame lays down that no man-who fs ew or Catholic or allen-berif is re- liable for office. i “Therefore we say we oppose any pattempt of that organization;or any other to interfere with American in- stitutions, “Senator Owen {s willing to name "the klan from the platform here in New York City. “I want jt named all over United States. “If it is unwise to name the klan it is unwise to put something in the platform that means the klan. There has crept into American life such. an influence that United States senators toli me last night that if the klan opposed them they would be defeated in the next elec- tion, It is time that some party took a definite stand on this, “If all citizens had the tolerance in support. of the. minority | plank favoring referénce to they klan. Mrs. Miller defiotinced’ the “out< awry and crimifality” of the“klan. Since when has the Democratic party knelt before the God of ex- pediency?” she asked. “Wel never ave won When we've quibbled. I'd Tather go downits defeat on asclear cut ‘inoral yissue® than win ‘oh. an issue'which you Can’t recognize for, tho hideous mask that is inJtront of It. “Let us remember it is better to be a doorkeeper in the house of God than remain in the tents of the wicked forever.” When Mrs. Miler finished there was another sharp outbreak of ap- plause. Delegates rose-and shouted their approval—but lasted only a minute. Governor Morrison of North Caro- lina was next introduced to continue the debate. : He declared the principles of the klan are not things that should come in for governmental action. It Js a problem for the’ ministers of. the Last Chance To Buy Hoover Sweepers At $5.00 DOWN Saturday, July 5th, at the close of business all vacuum cleaners .will return. to the regular price level as to down payment and terms, : \. Five dollars:\down-and:a year: to~pay out the balance as well:as a greatly reduced car- of Senator Owen or the liberal prin. | th© gospel, he said. It is nothing Pe “s ; Spolen ae Cole Dee rh etal Soe maverecpanital “ARON whet) Poe rying charge are in effect now but will change next Saturday. never have need for mich a plank in | embers commit some crime. Then i it should be the duty of the police to take prompt action, our platform, “When they ask us as to our race, creed or color, I wonder if when | BRYAN SPEAKS 4 ; they draft us to defend: country | AGAINST PLANK, they would ask us if-we were white or black, Protestant or $:tholic or native born. PY “So long as they sey that a man Bryan. in addressing the conven- tion ‘said: “There is not a-state in the Union where anyone whose rights mre de- cannot. hold “office if he is Jew, black or Catholic, but that he must defend his country in time of war whether or not he Js Jew, Catholic or black. I ‘will denounce them wherever I meet them throughout this Isnd. “I want to say our party opposes bigotry and intolerance and because it Coes hate bigotry and Intolera {t calls them by tholr right r when it meets them.” Pattangall was given a great dom- onstration when he concluded For several minutes the galleries Joined ‘with the delegates’ in cheer- ing and applauding. Many delegates leaped to their chairs, beconing to the McAdoo delegates who remained seated to s:and up. There was no indication, “however, of any trouble on the floor and within a couple of minute ler was restored. COLBY GIVEN GREAT HAND A big cheer wont up when Bain bridge Colby came on for the anti- klan group as thelr foremost spokes. man ‘I advance ise it S08 the minority report is lucid, simple, true and the thought and feeling of this convention. mighty cheer, Bryan stepped to the front of the platform dressed as always in his striped trousers, black alpaca coat and small black tie, Since tonight I am speaking to your hearts and heads, and not te your hands, keep still and let me have the full extent of my limited time,” he urged living or | dena." Owen was recelving loud approba | tlon for his line of attack In Oklahoma,” he said, ‘we're not afraid of the klan, We're not afraid of them politically or in any other wa We licked the stuffing out of a kluxer candidate for the governor nied: cannot go and obtain redress. It is not necessary to protest any chureh. “I have such confidence in the Catholic church which was for over ‘a thousand years my mother chutch as well as yours. B “The Catholic church with Its legacy of martyred and with all the testimany its taisgloparies who went to land—it does not need a to protect. it frem:a million men, “The Jews,” he continued, “do not need a great party to protect it from a million men. “The. Jews," he. continued, “do not need this resolution. They have Moses—they have Elijah, and both Catholic church and the Jewish race has its great characters today who plead for for them and + my friends, the Ku Klux Klan” does “not “deserve — the advertisement this would bring. The minority who could not Join with us to leave out these three magic and mysti words have raised the Klan to m higher altitude than the Ku Klux Klan themselves ever raised their flery cross, ‘We have mo right-to let the Klan sountry that erfes aloud for relief, and while we have a war.worn world that cries for help and guidance, thise nority men day we lack courage if we pass these by and start out on a hunt for a thing that is dead and will pass away, “E have left forth last what I regard as the greatest argument. J by & < w Buy Now and Effect a Large Cash Saving WESTERN ELECTRIC WASHING MACHINE business at a greatl This saving we are passing on to our custome y reduced price. long as these macttines last, then the price goes back up. BE WISE AND BUY WHILE YOU CAN SAVE CASH as it Sweeps - as it Cleans “The ku klux klan is o 4 divert us from the greatest ‘issue vielous be n alle ‘ons peonaie sa! we ever had. It requires more Have Been Selling at $145.00 The climax of th ebate was Courage to fight the Republican reached when Chairman Walsh in-| Party than it does to fight the Ku 0 troduceé “the Hon, William J. Bry- aire i. i‘ Agee Weh b e > an” and the delegates ros a “We find farmers in bankruptcy a roared out a mi SA) and while we have distress in thie & have been able to purchase a few of thes Phone Us for a Demonstration Any Time— Day or Night e washers from a concern quitting Ts to the tune of a $25.00 reduction as “Let's understand each other,”| If the Democratic party is diverted " he sald. “We sald to those 6n the] from Its duty #ome other party will . | committee, “we'll take your plank] take up its task.” if you'll take out three words.’ But Bryan, continulng, ald these three words meant more to] “I am not willing to divide tho theya than the great Democratic | Christian church when we ought to @ party stand together to fight battles that ¢ our pleas stirred«the hearts of There was a great outcry—a bat — ——