The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 2, 1924, Page 2

Be udience for sentimental spots, the old Page Two THE DAILY WORKER HUGE NEGRO GAT REPUBLICANS A HERING FLAYS ND DEMOCRATS AS ENSLAVERS OF THEIR RACE By ROBERT MINOR, (Staff Writer, Daily Worker.) PHILADELPHIA, July 1.—The Coolidge administration suf- fered one of the most humiliating defeats of its life today when the great Metropolitan Opera House, packed to the roof with sup- posedly republican Negroes, w as turned into an uproarious demonstration against the republican party. It was an impressive sight. delphia and neighboring towns, i all parts of the country, had fi biggest day of the annual confer for the Advancement of Colored Five thousand Negroes of Phila- n addition to the delegates from lied the sweltering hall for the ence of the National Association People. Republicans Send Best Orator. Republican party leaders, warned of smouldering discontent, had sent their most brilliant orat ton, temporary chairman of th democratic leaders, apparently; anxious to capitalize the in- cipient revolt, were able to spare their convention’s permanent chairman, Senator David I. Walsh, who ran down from New York for the occasion. The “insurgent” preacher, John Haynes Holmes, of New York, the first speaker, set fire to the already exist- ing powder-mine by launching a vigor- ous attack, declaring that he had “no respect at all” for either the demo- eratic or the republican party, which are the “the two political sins.” The reverend avowed himself an adherent of a “Third party which is destined to accomplish what the‘Free Soilers did seventy years ago.” He muddled a little, confusing a “third party” with the Farmer-Labor party and predict- ing its origin at the Cleveland confer- ence of July 4; but his speech none the less aroused against the republican party an outburst that made old man Burton gasp with astonishment and visibly tremble in his chair. Hogs At Political Trough The “third-party” preacher analyzed the treason of the republican party to the Negro race and excoriated the Negro political job-hunters who mis- lead their people to “crowd around the through like black pigs among the white pigs looking for political swill.” Political appointments from the party which betrays the Negro’s hope for equality, shouted the preacher, “are dope to drug the race into dreamy illusion that it is getting somewhere G. O. P. And The Klan The great sea of black faces roared aprroval “hen the preacher decfaimed: “The party of Abraham Lincoln is one thing and the party of Calvin Coolidge is another. In the Negro question the Republican party no longer has any interest.” He declared the republican party met the Ku Klux Klan issue “with an evasive cowardice,” and the applause shook the roof. “In two con- gresses dominated by the republican party with a republican president” that party could have enacted the Dyer anti-lynching bill, but failed to do so, he said, and it is time that the Negroes “free themselves from the republican superstition.” Owe Republicans Nothing. Holmes said that he acknowledged the debt that the Negroes once owed to the republican party “but they have paid that debt, and it’s time to burn up the mortgage.” He would not ad- vocate the Negroes joining the demo- cratic party, which was out of all con- sideration, nor even joining the “third party” which he could not guarantee would espouse the Negro’s cause. Then the good minister got mixed again be- tween the “non-partisan policy” and the vision of a “new commonwealth of toil in which the Negro will find liber- ty at last,” and wound up with impas sioned advocacy of “a Republic of the Workers of the World,” which brought down the house before the bewildered eyes of the old man, Burton. Burton Mourns About Byegones When the chairman, Arthur B. Spin- garn of New York, introduced Burton with a few gentle words commending him as “one of the few friends in real- ity” who had done what he could for the anti-lynching bill, the old man pulled himself together and faced the audience which received him with a polite sattering of applause. He de- clared he did not come to make a political speech, and wanuered back to his boyhoud when, he said, he lived in an Ohio community which was a station on the underground railway for runaway slaves, Cagily feeling out his ‘eteran at last got his hearers half AMALGAMATED WINS UNEMPLOYMENT FUND POINT FROM BOSSES cial to the DAILY WORKER) EW YORK, July 1—The clothing manufacturers’ associa- tion conference with the Alamga- mated Clothing Workers Union on strike here and offered to grant the insurance fund for unemployed workers, the plan which is In opera- tion in Chicago. More than 300 pickets were arrested this morning with much violence against the striking workers on the part of the police. More shops have come out inst the bosses and the big strike meeting was enthusiastic and hopeful of winning all the jon demands within a short time, or, ex-Senator Theodore E. Bur- eir last convention, while the Re a eh ne SR Aa as a under the spell of softly spoken ora- torial flights about Abraham Lincoln. Then, suddenly, with a stroke of real oratorical genius, he straightened out and shouted “You know I am a re- publican.” Turning upon John Haynes Holmes, he made a sharp and effective attack upon the railroad brotherhood officials who are the core of the Cleve- land conference of July 4. Brotherhood’s Color Line. “Do they,” he \demanded, “freely ad- mit into their orders the members of your race?” It was the republican spokesman’s one telling point, but it went home. Impatiently squelching an interrupter who shouted: “No more than the republican party!” he fer- vently pleaded with the crowd to be- lieve that the anti-lynching bill was “defeated thru the salid obstruction of the democratic party.” “Do not be carried away with discontent,” he beg- ged, and then attacked “blocs and co- teries” and “professional uplifters who think they are better then you and who build themselves up by casting somebody down,” winding up with the last card which the old-time politicians think they can forever befuddle the Negro with soft-spoken sentences a- bout the sanctity of the Christian religion which the Negro learned from the southern slave-master. He talked long, slowly, as tho afraid to stop, lest some strange young whirlwind would whirl him to oblivion. Coolidge’s spokesman sat down, his almost terrified eyes searching the ‘owd which applauded only in a per- functory way. The old man’s mission had failed. The faded, white head, spotted against, the sea of black, nod- ded aimlessly up and down, and sank on his breast. Walsh Keeps To Cover News came to the press tables that Senator Walsh had arrived in the city from the New York democratic convention. But he had not reached the hall. The audience waited. There was some singing, and some scurrying around to find Senator Walsh. But apparently the senator had heard what kind of a reception could be expected by a spokesman for the de- mocratic party at this gathering, and was laying low in some other part of town. The chairman announced that altho Senator Walsh had arrived in the city, he had not come to the hall, and the program would proceed without him. James Weldon Johnson of New York, young and brilliant Negro secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., made the last speech, and it was the straw that broke the camel's back and made this conference an unforgetable landmark in the be- ginning revolt of the Black Man from the republican party. 4 Mr. Johnson, altho hé expressed gratitude for the help which Mr. Bur- ton had on numerous occasions ex- tended him, and altho he declared himself “by tradition and inheritance a very commonplace thing, a Negro Republican,” quietly framed a sen- tence which every hearer recognized as his summing up of all there was to Burton's flowery speech: “Sentiment in politics is nothing but pure bunk.” Abe Lincoln Isn’t Running. He proceeded to lay down the Ne- gro declaration of independence from the republican party. “I would not for a moment,” he said, “ask the Negroes to be unmindful nor to for- get what has been done for them by the republican party, nor to forget the name of Abraham Lincoln, coupled as it is with the name of John Brown. But Abraham Lincoln is not running for office today.” (Great applause). Johnson’s careful sentences gave the impression that he regarded in- dependence of the Negro from the republican party and the policy of “independent political action” as a temporary phase leading perhaps to the lining up of the Negro with some new party unreservedly committed to the Negroes’ demand for equality. “It is a first step,” he said, “to achieve Political independence.” f G. O. P. Double-Dealing. Repeating his thanks to Burton for past favors, Johnson demanded “but what did we find in the senate?” He continued with an unmerciful, cold analysis of the double-dealing process by which the republican party deliber- ately strangles every measure of real value to the Negro in carefully con- cealed co-operation with the demo- cratic party. He described a visit to Senator Lodge, whom he told that if the G. O. P. majority did not pass the anti-lynching bill, their failure to do so would shake the faith of the Negro in the republican party. “What!” exclaimed Lodge, “do you mean to tell me that if we don’t pass this anti-lynching bill the Negroes wil vote against the republican party? I don't believe it.” United Against Negro. Johnson turned on Burton and de- clared that there exists between the democratic and republican parties a “gentlemen's agreement” to defeat hy subterfuge every measure aiming at equality for the Negro. Under this “gentlemen’s agreement,” he said, “the republican party will do as little as possible for the Negro, and the democratic party will have nothing to do with us at all.” As long as the Negro is bound by the traditional chains, of obligation to vote for the republican party, the Negro will get nothing, he said. “Senator Lodge in his heart never had any intention that the anti-lynching bill should pass. If I am not a fool or an idiot, if the republican leader, Senator Lodge, had considered it half as im- portant as appropriation bills or presi- dential nominations, that bill would now be a law.” Mr. Johnson explained that the re- publican party and democratic party defeat such measures by connivance while agreeing to create the appear- ance that the democrats alone had defeated them. bd Bares G. O. P. Nightshirt. Announcing that he had voted for Al Smith for Governor of New York, Johnson asked, “what are we going to do about the Ku Klux Klan? In Indiana the republican senator, James E. Watson, who stands high in ad- ministration circles, is hobnobbing WAGE WAR ON COLOR BARRIERS (Continued from page 1.) this will be the position of the con- ference—in principle. But whether the conference will accept the Workers Party proposal to make the principle a living reality thru the only possible means of na- tionalizing the entire public school system of South and North and pro- hibiting segregation of pupils or teachers by national law, is another question, Sabotage By Republicans. Not by any means is it certain that any of such measures will go thru. This conference no less than any oth- er conference that was ever held by American Negroes, is liberally sprink- led with very busy, quick-witted and suave members of the party which is still trying to associate itself with the name of Lincoln. In this case they are mostly white men. These gentlemen of the party of Bascom Slemp are not publicly uttering a word in defense of the Republican party against the avalanche of criti- cism that has fallen upon it. But their presence on committees may be felt when it comes to passing resolutions which boldly attack the fundamental property interests which stand in the way of the liberation of the Negro in matters of segregation and labor or- ganization, as well as interfering with the present republican policy of catering to the southern ruling-ceste vote, Workers Must Unite. Perhaps the real test of the con- ference will come when the commit- tee on resolutions reports, or fails to report, on the resolution of the Com- munist dele; on the question of the Negro and the labor unions. This resolution requires that an intensive drive be made to organize the Negro industrial workers, that a concrete plan be pushed before the American Federation of Labor, the railroad brotherhoods and all other union bodies, that these bodies shall work in conjunction with the Negro organiza- tion to organize the Negro workers in the same unions with the whites, to conduct a nation-wide campaign against color prejudice and discrimin- ation in the unions and to insist on the actual practice of full equality in labor unions. Organizing Tenant Farmers. Along with this resolution goes an- other concrete proposal for the or- ganizing of Negro tenant and dirt farmers, together with the white ten- ant and dirt farmers if the latter can be brought to co-operate, but to or- ganize, the Negro farmers in any case. As this proposal is not only fundamentally radical, but obviously and immediately leads in the direc- tion of the Farmer-Labor movement, it may be opposed by the republican element. The conference so far appears to be dangerously weak on what is des- tined ultimately to show itself to all as the fundamental question — the Question of the Negro as an indus- trial worker and as an exploited far- mer or peon, Minor made an im- passioned plea to the conference Fri- day not to neglect this supremely im- portant question. | But the horizon in this respect look# bad, with Mr. James J. Davis, the strike-breaker-president’s secretary of labor, as the only other Altogether, the speakers’ list pre- sents a strange mixture of extremes one that could hardly be found any- where in the world except in an Amer- ican Negro conference, a mixture ranging from the Communist to the Democratic Senator Walsh and arch- reactionary keynoter of the ublican convention—Theodore BH. Burton. , reads as follows: To all labor unions, Workers’ Poli- tical Parties, Workers’ Co-operatives and fraternal organizations in Cook County— Greetings:—Workers and Farmers are uniting for the presidential elec- tion. The National Farmer-Labor Party was organized at the convention held in St. Paul, Minn, June 17. A Farmer-Labor presidential ticket is in the field, On May 18, at the convention held in Peoria, the Labor Party of Illinois, was formed. It is placing a ticket in the field for the November state elec- tions. In Illinois several counties are being organized. In Cook County it is of equal importance that the labor moyement get into political life inde- pendent of the old political parties. The November elections offer the op- portunity to unite labor's forces every- where. With a national Farmer-Labor Party in the field, the great rallying center has been established. In Cook county the need for inde- pendent political action by the work- ers has become more pressing than ever. The existing political institu- tions have been utilized to help es tablish the notorious Landis award in the city of Chicago. Injunctions against labor ‘unions are becoming ever more numerous. Lately the Up- holsterers’ Union, the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, the Food Workers’ Union and others have felt the force of the capitalist govern- ment being use@ against them. The state’s attorney's office has become one part of the onslaught against la- with the Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan.” Declaring that one of the fundamental purposes of the Klan is to put down the Negro, Johnson said the Klan’s present apparent let- up on the Negro is due only to the fact that it is now out for bigger game—to obtain control of the gov- ernment, before proceeding to crush the Negro. And the Negro must cut loose from the republican party. (Tre- mendous applause). When Johnson had finished, the old man who had come to defend the rul- ing party of America before its once blind followers, sat trembling, his head jerking from side to side, his faded eyes blinking tute Space. The meeting closed with Senator Walsh still out of sight. Negro Breaking Political Chain. The Negro is roaming the political field, searching for a new party. He is not yet free of old entanglements. Neither Al Smith, who thrives in the shadows of Wall Street, nor the July 4th affair which loves McAdoo who loves the Klan, nor Mr. Gompers’ non- partisian policy which has won pre- cisely nothing, nor yet the good min- ister’s as yet unborn, “third party” will lead the Negro out of bondage. But no one who has seen this con- vention can doubt that the American Negro has begun to break chains two generations old, and he’ll find the road to make common cause with his white brother of the working class. Russia Wants Postal Rights. . BERNE, Switzerland, July 1— Soviet Russia has asked to join the international postal union. With most of the main governments of the world now on speaking terms with Russia, there is no good reason why ‘the Soviet government should not be ad- mitted to the postal exchange agree- ment. Send in that Subscription Today. ALL WORKERS TO. JOIN ANTI-FASCIST PROTEST MEETING ON JULY 3RD The brutal murder of the Italian Socialist deputy, Matteotti, in the hands of the bloody fascist gang has its connection with’ the United States not only thru the oll deals of Fascisti with Harry F, Sinclair, ‘ but thru the international solidarity of the workers, The workingclass of Italy and thruout |Europe has been aroused by this Fascist act. They realize the danger that is threatening them from such an organized murder band. In the United States the workers are looking upon this as a portend of what may happen if the American Fascisti gain power. The workers here are united with the International proletariat in pro- test against this high-handed action. The solidarity shown by the Ital- jan workers, has seriously shaken, the power of Mussolini and a real united protest will also have its ef- fect on the American Fascleti. A meeting therefore, has bi ar. ranged in Chicago in the West Side Auditorium, Taylor and Roscoe Sts., on Thursday, July the 3rd. Speakers in English, Itallan and Polish will address the meeting. ‘ WORKERS OF CHICAGO voice your protest against this anti-labor gang by attending the meeting on July the 3rd CALL ISSUED FOR ORGANIZATION OF COOK COUNTY BRANCH OF LABOR PARTY OF ILLINOIS The Labor Party of IIlinois, thru its secretary, Duncan McDonald, has issued a call for a convention to be held on July 30 at 180 West Washington St. for the purpose of organizing the Cook County’ branch of the Labor Party of Illinois and nominate candidates for the November elections. The call is sent out to all working class organizations in Cook County and stresses the need for independent working cl. political action, and bor. Housing conditions are becom- ing more acute, Unemployment is growing. The workers must organ- ize some effective remedy for this situ- ation, For this purpose, the Labor Party of Illinois considers it advisable to call a conference of all labor organ- izations in Cook County, to be held July 20th, at 10 a, m., at 180 W. Wash- ington St., Hall 300. This conference to be based on the following principles: 1, Municipal ownership of public utilities; 2, social and unemployment insurance; 3, equal wages for men and women in industry; 4, abolition of child labor; with ¢ompulsory educa- tion and energetic action against the proposed junior high and platoon system of education; 5, abolition of the use of injunctions in labor dis- putes. Further, this conference will also organize the Cook county branch of the Labor Party of Illinois and nom- inate candidates for the November elections. Invited to send delegates to this con- ference are all existing working class groups, political or industrial, local unions, workers’ co-operatives and fm- ternal organizations, who endorse the principles set forth. Fraternally yours, LABOR PARTY OF ILLINOIS, Duncan McDonald, Secretary. Send credentials and any financial contributions you may be able to make to the Chicago headquarters, 166 W. Washington St., Room 303. CANDY SLAVES ARE AROUSED BY Y, WL. CAMPAIGN Leaflets Get Goat of Bunte Bosses By BARNEY MASS. The campaign against the Bunte Brothers, being conducted by the Young Workers’ League, has been getting good results. Being chased off the premises of the company, while distributing leaflets, only served to further urge the members of the Young Workers League and its Junior Section to continue the good work in a more enthusiastic spirit. The leaflets announced the fact that the coming issue of the Young Worker, as well as following issues, would contain exposures of the Bunte Candy Factory and point out the rot- ten conditions under which a few thousand young workers are em- ployed. Successful Campaign. Threats have been made by the bosses against the Young Workers League members. The young wage slaves of Bunte’s are so much inter- ested that they have even offered to pay for the leaflets. From present indications, this campaign promises to be the most successful undertak- ing of the YWL. During four or five months every year, the young workers employed in this candy factory face unemployment and the misery following from it. The rotten conditions under which the young workers are compelled to toil, coupled with the dangers of the big unemployment period, makes their lite a living hell. Ss! Opportunities Still these Monsters of Greed, the owners of the Bunte factories, boast of the opportunities in America for all young workers. They close their eyes, however, to the fact that the children working inside the hot and steaming building, which on the outside looks so beautiful, are being paid the lowest possible wage andesubjected to the most terrible conditions of exploita- tion. What provisions are made by the Binte Brothers, and the directors of this large institution, for the upkeep and well-being of these children? NONE! In order to pile up larger dividends, such greedy int ts as those of Bunte Brothers are even willing to crush the child while in its womb. To Fly Over Continents, NEW YORK, July 1.—Aerial serv- ice between here and South American cities for mail and passengers will be a reality soon, according to the an- nouncement of agents of the Colom- bian government. RHODE ISLAND PLANNING FARM-LABOR CAMPAIGN TO BEAT FILIBUSTERERS (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) PROVIDENCE, R. 1, July 1.— Charges that the Farmer-Labor movement of Rhode Island was ‘be- ing fostered by the Republican par- ty of the state to split the labor vote were vehemently denied at the meeting «here at which the state Farmer-Labor ticket was announced. Thomas F, McMahon, president of the United Textile Workers of America, made the charges which Dr. James P. Reid, former Socialist legislator emphatically denied. Thomas Conroy, secretary of the Machinists’ union of Worcester and Prominent in the Massachusetts Farmer-Labor party, delivered a powerful speech in the Vasa Park meeting, in which he denounced Dawes and Coolidge for represent- ing the interests of Wall Street in- stead of the people of the United States. Joseph M. Coldwell presided and condemned the two old parties in Rhode Island particularly, and the governor, William S. Flynn, for fail- ing to enforce the 48-hour law, 3,000 BUY DAILY WORKER SPECIAL IN ELECTRIC CITY Thugs Assault Plucky Woman at Shop Gate Enraged by the dismissal of the DAILY WORKER reporter Monday in the Cicero police court, and by the successful sale of three thousand DAILY WORKERS of the special Cic- ero Edition, two drunken men who showed police badges roughly handled Matilda Kalousek of 2306 58th Court and her two young children near the Western Electric gates Monday. Mrs. Kalousek has been aiding in the sup- port of her two children by selling the DAILY WORKER in front of the Western Electric gates every day. The two thugs accosted Mrs. Kalou- sek and her two children on the corner of 22nd and Seymour Streets, just opposite the Western Electric plant, as they were starting to sell their papers Monday at the noon hour. One of the brutes grabbed a bundle of papers from Mrs, Kalousek’s arms, and cursed at her. He ordered her not to sell “that damn paper here any more.” Beats Children The other man likewise took the papers from Mrs. Kalousek’s two small children. He hit them over the head and kicked them as he did so. “Who are you?” asked Mrs. Kal- ousek. “Are you police officers?” Thereupon each thug showed Mrs. Kalousek a badge, and were about to depart with her papers. Mrs. Kalousek called them back and pleaded with them to return her papers. “I paid for them, and I have a perfect right according to the law to sell papers on the streets,” Mrs. Kal- ousek protested. Flashed a Star “Well then, here’s your money for them,” said the more intoxicated of the two brutes. He threw four dollars in front of her on the sidewalk, and said “Pick it up, damn you,” and then walked away. His companion, who was the cooler of the two, and who Mrs. Kalousek said showed an offi- cer’s badge shaped somewhat like a star, remained behind and attempted to question Mrs. Kalousek as to who supplied her with the DAILY WORKERS. “He tried to get me to promise not to sell the DAILY WORKER any more,” said Mrs. Kalousek, “He told me the paper was no good and that I had no righ’to sell it, He told me the Western Electric company was a good, company, but it would get after me if I sold the paper any more. But I knew better, and protested at their stealing my papers.” Mrs. Kalousek is a member of the Workers Party. The two ruffians, who appeared to Wednesday, July 2, 1924 TEACHERS UNION FAILS TO FIGHT RACE SEPARATION Negro Segregation is “State’s Right’! Representation of the American Federation of Teachers on the Edu- cation Committee of the American Federation of Labor is demanded by the teachers’ union, a labor organiga- tion with four thousand members in all parts of the country which is holding its annual convention at the Webster Hotel this week. The de- mand was brought before the con- vention by the committee on work- ers’ education yesterday. Brookwood school monopolized the time of the federation at yesterday's session. The union has nothing but praise for Katonah’s “labor” college, recently characterized by Harl Brow- der, prominent Communist leader, as a college “supported by a group of well-intentioned middle-class © ele- ments,” which is fast “committing it- self, lock, stock, and barrel, to the propaganda of class collaboration,” and which gives special attention to the study of such plans as the ‘in- famous B, & ©.’ plan in the railroad industry, a scheme that is being used to* poison and maim the railroad unions.” The American Federation of teachers through a report pre- sented by the committee on workers’ education, urges “all members of the federation to avail themselves of the opportunities provided by Brook- wood.” Not For Negro Rights. Segregation of Negro children in southern schools, an evil which is be- ing bitterly attacked by even such mild organizations as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is disregarded by the American Federation of Teachers as a matter of “policy.” “To impose a law prohibiting such segregation in the south would be a gross infringement of states’ rights,” said A. G. Stecker, Secre- tary-Treasurer of the federation. “For this reason, the American Federation can take no definite stand on the mat- ter.” Mr. Stecker admitted that the poverty of many communities and the unfair distribution of public funds by politically-manipulated boards is bringing about a segregation on class lines as definite as the segregation of Negroes in the south. This class segregation is particularly bad in Illinois. Attack Principals’ N. E. A. Panning of the N. E. A. and its re- actionary officialdom went on with the usual degree of acrimony. “The N. E. A. does not seem to trouble itself about the corruption in the two big political parties. For this reason it can give its undivided sanction to the Sterling-Reed education _ bill, which provides for a federal depart- ment of education with an officer in the President’s cabinet. It does not see, and it does not care to see, that such a measure might be almost as harmful to really progressive teach- ers as the department of labor has been to the laboring classes, Six years ago we might have been-whole- heartedly in favor of such a bill.” Copies of Upton Sinclair's “Gos- lings,” and Scott Nearing’s pamphlet on “Oil and the Germs of War” were on sale at the meeting of the federa- tion, Gompers Says “Where Do We Go from Here?” At Jackass Convention (By The Fe Press) “If we are to be ppointed here as we were in Cleveland,” said. Sam- uel Gompers to the Democratic reso- lutions committee in New York, “I leave it to your imagination where the great masses of the people of the United States will go. We cannot go on, with disappointment after disap- be Western Blectric private police or |pointment.” Cicero policemen, stole 198 papers from Mrs. Kalousek, Send in that Subscription Today. | BIG BIZ CRACKS WHIP ON DONKEY (Continued from page 1.) Street, is the financial agent in Amer- ica for the Vatican and that the presi- dent of the Steel Corporation, is a Knight of St. Gregory. A Catholic and protestant might the demo- cratic party and serve the money in- terests effectively. The Ku Klux Klan is on the job with about 200 delegates in the con- vention, led by Imperial Wizard Hiram W. Evans, who is located in a sumptuous suite in the Hotel McAl- OIL PIRATES’ CASES COME UP IN OCTOBER IN COURT OF “FRIENDS” (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, July 1.—The federal government's fight to regain posses- sion of the naval oil reserves is now at a standstill, until October. Trial of Albert B. Fall, Harry F. Sinolair, E. L. Doheny and his son, ine dicted for conspiracy to defraud the government, will not begin here before then. oo} Suits instituted in Wyoming and C: leases likewise will not be heard until Octobi fornia for cancellation of the pine. The Wizard is suffering from a sick stomach, which prevents him from taking solid food. Artificial feeding has been resorted to. The Klux chieftain is a@business man first and a howling Catholic killer second, Wall Street is now the master hand in the triangle, If the religious scruples of the Imperial Wizard can be soothed with a protestant candi- date, like John W. Davis, Al Smith may take his seat on the donkey cart and the drive for Washington will begin, Wall Street does not want any split in the democratic party. It wants to keep its two tried and true parties intact. That Wall Street was getting its licks in, around the 2ist ballot was indicated when Davis nosed out from the other dark horses and trotted up almost to the front where McAdoo and Smith were grinding away but progressing backwards. The vote stood then: McAdoo, 438; Smith, 298; Davis, 126,