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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON : : D. ¢ s SEPTEMBER 2, 1923—PART 1 7 . WHEAT AND KLAN ISSUES IN KANSAS Stand Out as Major Problems for Officeseekers as Elec- tions Draw Near. Special Dispateh to The Star, TOPEKA, Xan., September Tolitically, Kansas is struggling fall with two complexes in the y preceding the national campaisn—the wheat complex, more or less chronie; and a Ku Klux Klan complex, which may or may not become acute by the time the campaign really is on. Klan leaders believe it will, although Kan- #as is not an especially good “hating™ ground. The wheat situation Is expected to be a big factor. Western and central Kansas depend on wheat for a living. Iastern Kansas and Kansas Clty are largely dependent on wheat for good Lusiness. Whether political leaders like it or not, wheat and wheat markets cut a big figure in political campaigns. If crops and markets are good, the party in power gets the benefit. If they're mot. the party in power is on the defensive, particularly if this con- ('((l'nn has extended over several yes Not that wheat and farm always are dominant iactors. issue may obscure t m el rely with the descendants of New I land that form the backhone of the Kansas state of mind. Demoerats 1 With this condition i democrats are looking forward hope- fully toward a good year. They elected a “dirt farmer governor.” Jonathan M. Davis, last year, although otherwise all state offices and the state legislature went republican. The Minnesota election also further en- couraged Kansas Democrats. The Democrat News, a weekly democratic publication, is carrying a series of 1.— th conditions A moral opeful. mind, Kansas s (death of United States Senator Willlam | RACE IN VERMONT Three Republicans and Two Democrats Seek Dilling- ham’s Seat. Bpeclal Dispatch to The Star. BURLINGTON, Vt., September 1.—The | . Dillingham has precipitated a politi- cal campaign which Is llkely to prove | {the moet hotly-contested in the Green Mountaln state for many years. There are flve avowed candidates for 'the senatorial vacancy and seeven for lthe vacancy @aused by the resignation | of Representative Porter H. Dale, who {desires to succeed Senator Dilling-| iham. | | Here is the list of republican |candidates: For the senatorlal va- {cancy: Porter H. Dale of Island Pond, a lawyer, who has represented the (second Vermont district in Congress {snce 1815; John W. Redmond of | iNewport, a lawyer. general counsel for the Central Vermont railway: Stanley C. Wilson of Chelsea, a lawyer, and at present a judge of the, {superior court’ of the state; and | toland Stevens of White River | Junction, also a lawyer. All of these | cendidates live In the second con- {grersional district, which is com- {posed of the seven counties on the | {eastern side of the Green Mountain, { {no man on the west side of the state | having the tem ty to attempt to! Ak the “mountain rule” which has { o observed in Vermont politics {for many years. Contest for House, For the vacancy in the House of cpresentatives the candidates are Orlando L. Martin of Plainfield, farmer, master of the State Grange nd speaker of the Vermont house representatives; former Lieutenant FIVE IN SENATORIAL {ndiana Looking Forward To Fight for Favorite Sons May Have Big Crop of Presidential Candidates for Presentation to Both Party Conventions in 1924, Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., September 1. —Indlana. long known for the fre- quency with which it has produced Vica Presidents, will bend its efforts in the next months to raising a crop of presidential possibilities for both tickets, although the vice presidential output will not be entirely neglected, it seems. If everything goes as the political leaders and friends of the possibili- ties hope Senator James E. Watson will seek the republican presidential nomination and the name of Senator {Samuel M. Ralston will be presented to the democratic national conven- tion. Neither man has said anything publicly that could be construed as even indicating that his ambition lald White Houseward, but never- theless each |8 looked upon as a po- tential candidate for the highest political gift within the power of the American people. Beveridge Rated a “Posslbility.” Another possibility, Albert J. Bev- eridge, Jooms In the eyes of his ardent supporters, but there is litte to In- dleate that the former senator will get into the race and the Increase of Watson sentiment renders the Bev- eridge candidacy extremely remote. Beveridge, now is in Europe, but a number of him in past campalgns are ready to start a band-wagon in his behalf if he would glve them the least en- couragement. Senator Ralston, tacular campalgn, stands men who have supported | who was elected | last fall over Mr. Heveridge In a spec- | in a far|presidential candidate. some outsider should be entered, as it is the desire of the democrats to keep the senator more in the dark horse status until the proper time comes to spring his name on the con- vention. _The leaders feel that by keeping Ralston In the background they can dlscourage the entrance of any candidates who might cast long- ing eyes on Indiana’s thirty delegates to the natlorial convention. The Ral- ston boom is in the hands of Thomas Taggart, the veteran democratic chieftian. Want Coolldge to Have Chance. Watson’s friends all subseribe to the hope expressed in Washington that President Coolidge should be given an opportunity “to make good” before rival candidates are brought out and they even assert that the senator will ot seek the nomination unless the field is open, although at the same time declaring in cock-sure fashion that the field will be opened to all who desire to enter. This atti- tude here, whether it reflocts the sen- ator's mind or not, is taken to mean that Watson will become a_candidate unless all opposition to Coolidge is thoroughly stifled. Men acting independently, they as- sert, of Watson's knowledge, already are ‘looking about with a' view o bullding up the delegation to th next republican national convention out of tried and true friends of the senator. That means, to the political wise, that every effort will be made on the part of Senator Watson's friends to win for him a friendly delegation and the Indorsement of { the next republican state convention ! in Indiana Will Meet Old Feudws, Witheut the support of his home state Watson cannot get far as a The ol feud, i shortcomings. COOLIDGE PROVES POPULAR IN JERSEY Progressive Wing of Party Seems to Lack Strength to Fight. Special Dispatch to The Star. SWARK, N. J., September 1.—If the republicans of New Jersey had now to register their choice for a candidate for president in 1924 they would name Calvin Coolidge. Among republican leaders the Coolidge sentiment Is prac- tically unanimous. They do not see any probability that the twenty-four votes of the state will go to any other than Mr. Coolidge, in the national con- vention less than a year hence. The rank and flle of conservative repub- licans, and most New Jersey repub- lieans are today conservative, think likewise. The political reasoning among republicans is that if Mr. Coolidge makes mistakes they will be mistakes of his party as weil as his own—the very mistakes that they themselves would make, arlsing from a political viewpoint rather than from any lack of ability to lead or from any other Mr. Coolidge Is re- garded by the dominant group of New Jersey republicans as one who em- bodies their political bellefs even bet- ter than Mr. Harding did. There is a Hiram Johnson movement, thus early supported by paid advertisements in newspapers, but there is no sign that the general public glves it more than passing interest. Back in the Old Fold. Most of those New Jersey repub- licans who Interested themselyes in the progressive uprisings of 1912 and thereabouts have returned into are not now in a mood to take up with yveform enterprises. This is not to say that oMher, younger republicans the {settled order of party regularity and MAINE GOVERNOR BOOSTS COOLIDGE Urges Prominent Republi- cans of State to Join Move for President. Special Dispatch to The Star. AUGUSTA, Me., Sept. 1.—Gov. Bax- ter has sent telegrams to several prominent citizens of the state urging the formation of a state of Maine Coolidge club, to further the nom- ination of Calvin Coolidge for the presidency. Telegrams among others were sent to John P. Deering of Saco, who was the roommate of President Coolidge at Amherst College; Mrs. Althea G. Quimby of North Turner, Charles P. Barnes of Houlton, Col. Fred N. Dow of Portland, Hannibal E. Hamlin of Ellsworth, Mrs. Fy M. Lawrence of Rockland, Forrest E. Ware of Jeffer- con, Henry H. Hastings of Bethel, Mavor Albert R. Day of Bangor, Frank H. Holley of North Anson, Or- lando E. Frost of Belfast, John R. Bass of Wilton, Mrs. Blaine 8. Viles of Augusta, Mrs. Jennie Price White of East Machias, Franklin R. Chesley of Saco, Dr. Clarence . Little of Orono, president of the University of Maine; Arthur G. Staples of Auburn, Dr. Clifton D. ay, president of Bates College; Mrs. Jennie Flood Kreger of Fairfleld, Arthur J. Roberts of Waterville, president of Colby Col- lege; Judge Ralph W. Crockett and Congressman Wallace H. White of Lewiston and Edward W. Wheeler of Brunswick. Mrs. Guy P. Gannett of Augusta has been appointed Maine member of the woman's advisory committee to the Republican national committee, the appointment being made by Hon. Harold M. Sewall of Bath, who was recently elected as member of the nationa] committee from DOUBT G. 0. P. VERDICT IN OREGON PRIMARY Harding Was Seen as Choice for President, But Coolidge Must Earn Indorsement. Special Dispatch to The Star. PORTLAND, Ore., September 1.—It Is difficult to attempt to guess what Oregon voters will do about the presidency at the 1924 primary elec tion In the face of the sudden change that has come with Harding's death and the succession of Coolidge to the presidency, and under the Oregon primary law what the voters say will determine what the Oregon delega- tion does at the national convention. Harding made a good impression in Oregon. Had he lived the republican voters probably would have sent a Harding delegation to the convention. What they will do about President Coolidge will depend upon what the President does in the meantime. Oregon 18 a republican state, but its republicans are not of the conserva- tive segment of the party, generally speaking. Johnson carried’ the presi- dential primary election in 1920. It would be surprising to see him do 5o | agaln in 1924, but time will have to | settle political conditions here a little before any logical guess can be made. There {8 a lot of Ford talk here. Wera he in the democratic primary poli- ticlans contend he and McAdoo would put up a pretty contest over the dele- gatlon to the democratic convention, but among the known and labeled democratic possibllities McAdoo keems | to have the most vocal support the present time at least, RALPH WATSON. VETERAN RAIL EMPLOYES ON THREE ROADS UNITE, Nickel Plate and Clover Leaf Work- ers Who Have Served 25 Years Hold Convention. CONNECTICUT SLOW 10 PICK CANDIDATE Voters Waiting for Coolidge to Make Good Before Indorsing Him. Special Dispatel to The Star. HARTFORD, Conn., September 1.— While the republicans of Connecticut are inclined to move slowly in get- ting aboard a Coolidge band wag the early indications necticut eventually ill line up with her sister New England states in sup- port of the President as his own suc- cessor in 1924, While President Cool- idge comes from the next door state to Connecticut, the voters do not feel that they know him overwell and they want to see results from the new administration before linirg up for its head. However, they alto- gether favorable the Massachusett: to g.ve a fair trial and back him up t limit if he makes good. There Httle sentiment for a New E President, which, other things being equal, will mean that Coolidge dele- gates will be sent from Connecticut Walt on Coal Solution. It is felt here that the solution of the present coal problem will have much to do with the success or failure of the movement to put the President the head of the republican ticket In this connection ther interest in the ttitude of Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania, native of this stat who has the coal strike complications in hand and there a those who a disposition on the part of the Pennsylvania executive to make political capital for himseclf out tuation, poseibly in the hopo can be nominated to suc- are that Con- from him > the is no gland to man willing Republican this state. At a meeting_of the Republican state committee, Mrs. Garrett received the unanimous endorsement for this position, and the sentiment of the committee was formally conveyed to Mr. Sewall. Mrs. Gannett was a leading suf- tragist and even before the vote was finally granted to the women of her tate, she was the head of a woman's auxiliary committee to the Republi- can state committee and was engaged in assisting to form loca] auxiliary organizations of Republican women. i She has been state leader of the women through two state campaigns and one presidential campaign and fn 19 was made one of the secr taries of the Republican national con- vention articles on' the old populist days, and finding parallels in conditions then and now. There one has the Kansas democerats’ reasons for feeling opto- mistic over 1921 The only thing certain about the senatorial situation at this stage. of the game appears to be that Senator Arthur Capper, Itepublican, will be a canaidatel for re dection.. He tons have opposition in the primary, but 0 far no name has been nti A #s a possible ¢cpponent. Pa: lead- ers who might like fo see Capper displaced believe that but for Capper Kansas might follo the lead of | Minnesota and elect another Magnus J:rl\xnun, nd as a result the junior Kansas senator may get by the pri- mary without mich of a fight. Three democratic possibiliti are being considered for the senate at this time, Judge Ed Sapp of Galena, on another “raise morée hell and less corn™ plat- form Gov. Jonathan 3. Davi; Representative W. A Ayre Wichita, Davis Is Doubtful. have not taken thelr place in suffi- cient numbers to make a respectable demonstration in favor of more ad- vanced policles, but not in such strength as to carry a presidential primary. Among that class, part of whom “always, and part of whom usually, vote republican, the recent tendency has been to become more conservative. There are certain ex- asperations working against persist- ence of this attitude of mind. State Has No Coal. The state, for household use, has no coal. Just now, owing to a strike of motormen and conductors on the pub- lic service system, which extends {from Camden to Jersey City, and ow- {ing also to jitney competition, th state has not adequate local transpor- tation. Thess situations may have i political reactions, Also, the cities| Mrs. Gannett recently resigned as Dre atill Tustlly the Clties ! vice chairman of the Republican state L e e “Tum~ | committee, feeling that she could not Talkns. of Tecent vears: Judging by |devote sufiicient of her time to the Phe last two gubernatorial elections,{ 1arge amount of work which the New Jersey will warm to a candidate | POSION reauite o oy who is suspected, even {f he does not 10 DIE IN AUGUST TRAFFIC avow it, of favoring modification from traffic accidents the Volstead act The democrats are more active and oceurred in this city last month, the scond highest number any month more hopeful than they have been at nce the first of the year, the high- me since Woodrow Wilson left the governorship at Trenton to be- lcome President of the United States. | est having been in ‘the month of July, when the number was fourteen. The total number of such deaths The Jersey delegation to the next| laemocratic’ national convention will| during the past eight months was fitty-five, drivers of sixteen of the probably be pledged to support Gov.| vehicles that took life having been Silzer JOHN J. McGOWAN. held for the action of the grand jury. BANKER WEDS IN PARIS. The total number of deaths from PARIS, September 1.—Fred W Woodruff, president of the First Na- violence recorded during the eight months was 207. There were twenty tional Rank of Jollet, Ill, and Mis: cases of murder and one of man- Grace Healy, granddaughter of th founder of the music firm of Lyons & slaughter reported. Accidental deaths, exclusive of traffic fatalities, num- Healy, Chicago, were married here toda The ceremony was perform- bered seventy-eight, and there were -three sulcid v ernor Mason 'S. Stone of Mont- pelier, long prominent in educational affairs; Col. Ernest W. Gibson of Brattleboro, a lawyer and command- ing officer 'of the Vermont National Guard; John W. Gordon of Barre, a lawver; James A. Stacey of White River Junction, a’ manufacturer, and Charles A. Webb of Montpelier, for fourteen years in the office of the late Senator Dillingham at Washington, The only national issue thus far ralsed in the campaign has to do with the cighteenth amendment and the Volstead act, and even this is con- fined to the senatorial campaign. The reason for this limitation is obvious. {The second district, where Represent- ative Dale's successor is to be chosen, is admittedly “dry” and no pros nounced “wet” candidate would stand any chance of success at the primary. The balance of the state, which makes up the first distrjct, on the {other hand, may be “dry® or it may be “wet,” evidences not belng lack- ing that it is close. When the local more enviable position than does | dating back to 1916, between Senator Benator Watson as regards party| Watson and Postmaster General solidarity. The democratic party of | Harry 8. New never has been amic- Indiana will stand solidly back of |ably adjusted. And the differences Benator Ralston If he seeks the pres- ( hetween the senator and James I identlal nomination, and the leaders | Goodrich, former governor, and Will already have holsted “no trespassing” | H. Hays, formerly republican nation- signs as a warning to all other dem- | al chairman, still are unsettled. It ocratic aspirants to keep out of this | these ghosts of the past rise to haunt state. the senator it Is easily possible thaf Ralston's name will not be filed in |his boom may die a-borning. the primary eet for May 6, unless| HAROLD C. FREIGHT NO STATE CONTEST |GUT IN DELEGATES DUE IN MARYLAND DEBATED BY €. 0.P. Present indications are that the first district was decidedly wet, Primaries swtember 10 to}Party Divided Over PFODOSEII Davis, just recovering from an attack |and the campaign of one year ago i 5 SR Tl FUTer 0 LY | whon 5, gemorratle ot sapdlasto 1| Be Purely Local t B Nationst Con- Affairs. vention Representation. By the Associated Press. CEDAR POINT, Ohio, September 1. Union of Veteran Employes of the , York, Chicago and "St. Louis| (Nickel Plate), the Lake Erle and| Western and the Toledo, St. Louts and | Western (Clover Leaf) raliroads, | owned by the Vanswerigen interests. | was effected here today at the twelfth annual convention of the Veterans' Association of the Nickle Plate road. The association {s claimed by its officers to be the oldest organization of railroad veterans in the United States. Between 700 and 800 employes who have served on the constituent roads | for twenty-five years or more at-! tended the meeting. Included were | three general superintendents, eight | division superintendents and five | trainmasters. | Field day events followed the con- vention, LANDIS BESTOWS KiSS. Veterans Cheer Embrace Given Fair Presenter of Flowers. READING, Pa., September 1.—Judge < Mountain Landis of Chicago. | commissio r of base bzll, delivered | a rousing speech before the state con- | vention of the American Leglon today. He said the soldiers’ bonus is a just debt and denounced socialists and | profitcers, He flayed the stay-at- homes during the war and offered his services to the legion at any and all times for any purpose. He was round- 1y applauded Mrs. James Francis Ryan of Phila- delphia presented him with a bouquet of flowers on behalf of the Depart- ment of Pennsylvania and in return Judge Landis kissed her. The con- ntion showed its delight. ceed necti Preslden Coolid To Con- readers of political news, {s appropriating the lime- 1d apparently willing to shut Coolidge out of it. Stand for Cammings. Homer 8. Cummings of Stamford, former chalrman of the democratic national committee and a candidat for the presidential nomination i 1920, appears willing play th favorite son role i has jus returned from a but he has not been his ab- sence or since his return. It is sug- gested that the likelihood that Cool- idge wil] be the republican nominee encourages Cummings to believe that man, of being named opponent. He cs doubtedly have his own state's vote in the national convention, but his strength elsewhe is an un owr quantity and, at present. appears negligible. HARRY L HORTON P. R. R. GRANTS INCREASE TO MANTENANCE CREWS By the Assoclated P CHICAGO, September 1 creases of $5 and $10 a month for foremen and assistants and inspec- tors in the maintenance of de- partment of the road have been granted, September 16, according to tion received today by the Labor Board. Track foreme receive an increase of $10 a mont and bridge and building departmer foremen foremen and inepectors of the bridge and building will recelve an advance of $5 monthiv The increase aggrogates $552,102 ly and will affect 3,5%% em- °R. his democrati ite son" vote in the Democrat jority of 15,000 to a paltry 1,600 on tional convention for president, and [that fssue 'alone, proved that the that Ayres will run again for con-|workings of the 'Volstead act were gressman from the eighth, the only |not entirely satisfactory to many Ver- district to be represented by a demo- | monters. ;r:lv“m the coming session of Con- Two Candidates Dry. 136 seveniepublitantcon Brans ne Of the senatorial candidates, Mr. from Kansas Will be candidates for |Dale fs thoroughly in accord "with the party nomination for re-election, | the present law, and so is Mr. Stevens. unless Reprosentative J. N Tincher | Mr. Redmond.’ on the other hand, of Madicing Lodge, seventh dittriet | Would “modify” the law, belleving finally decides to run for governer | that the restriction to one-half of W. I. Stubbs of Lawrence, governor |1 ber cent of alcohol Is extreme, from 1009 to 1913, Whtee wile made{and therafors unwise, Juige Wilson the “salt ralsing bread” for Theodore | f8VOrs a “correction’ s Vol arty i of Roosevelt, has “announecd. himeelf | stead act, holding that It contains |Cumberland the only democratic can- (N Party inimical to the attitude of cana,date’for the republican nomina- | Misstatement” as to what is in fact | qigate for that office. T o he e adcretary itg tion for governor in 1924, Whether | Intoxicating liquor, Both Mr. Red- s , P ¢ demo- | Fresident Coolidge, can see nothing Tincher will care to run against the |mond and Judge Wilson declare, how-| ¥ollowing a conference of d ibut the destruction of the party in red headed man from Lawrcnce Is re ver, tha the elghteenth amendment |cratic city leaders at the office of |y niove The state will have f garded in political circles as doubt- |i¥ @ part of the crganic law of theifFrank A. Furst Thureday it was said| s 2 o fonts Tul, espectally as party leaders in the | nation and must be obeyed and ef-|by participants of the conference !°en votes in the approaching na- seventh are laving down on Tincher | fectively enforced. Mr. Redmond isfthat the field would be clear of all|tlonal convention of the new appor- Ten deaths Pay in- Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. Special Dispatch to The BALTIMORE, Md., September 1.—| RICHMOND, Va., September 1.— There will be no state-wide primary |There is divislon of sentiment amonsg on September 10. Luther H. Gadd of | the republicans of the state on the Annapolis this week withdrew as a|proposition to reduce the represneta- candidate for the democratic nomi-|tion in the national convention to a nation for clerk of the court of ap-|PAsis of 2,500 votes cast in each con- peals, ‘leaving James A. Young of |Efessional district. The members of ed by the mayor of the sixteenth arrondissement in the fashionabie Henri Martin district of the ecity. to run for Congress agair Battle In Forecasi The sixth district, represented by Hays B. White of Minkato, promises to be a battle ground in the prim campaizn. Apparently a large section of White's “constituency intends now to run against him for t nomination. Of course, if the nearly a dozen mentioned do get Into the race, White's renomination will be assured. 1f the opposition should narrow down, to Charles Mann of Osborn speaker of the 3 Kansas house, White would have a real primary fight on_his hands. Mann will be a candidate if some half dozen others now in the race or about to enter it withdraw, but not otherwise, he says. Among the sixth district republicans definitely in the ce are State S r John M. Gray of Kirwin, Judge C. P. Falconer of Rawlins county: others present include Arch C. Coolidze of Smith_ Cent ccusin of President Coolidge former chairman of the w. means committee of the K State Senator Henry M. Laing of Rus- sell; Mrs. I1da M. Walker. member of the Kansas house from Norton; Judge Charles A. Sparks of Goodland; and Fred Jensen of Trego county. The democrats are considering John B. Con- nolley of Colby, former congressman, and Frank W. 'Boyd of Phillipsburg, who already 1S campaizning. Without Opposition. James G. Strong of Blue Rapids and Jomer Hoch of Marion, representing e republican | already’ conducting an active cam- paign for the nomination. Mr. Dale is mot ldle, and the other candidates are expected to be busy during the next month Vermont democrats usually make a minary selection of candldafes at a mass meeting of party leaders, and this has already been done in connection with the present cam- paign. Park H. Pollard of Cavendish, a merchant and cousin of President Calvin Coolidge, and leading demo- crat in the last Vermont legislature, has been selected as the party’s can- didate for senator, and Burton E. Bailey of Montpeller, a lawyer, who also represented his city In the last legislature, is to be the congressional candidate. Both stand squarely and without slipping on the “wet" plat- form which the mass convention adopted, and it is doubtful if the party could find two more popular candidates anywhere in the state. However, it is not considered among the possibilities that Vermont, Presi- dent Coolidge’s native state, will send a democrat to Washington at this time. The primaries will be held on Tuesday, October 9, and the election for both senator and representative on Tuesday, November . W. B. GATES. ‘CANCER SPECIALIST ! TO VISIT HYLAN the fifth and fourth districts, respec- | tively, =0 far have no opposition primary, and Hoch ma Stories from the fifth are that Strong probably will have, but the opposition has not centered on any one &t this time. The third district. the Balkans of Kansas politics, i< quietly, though not wistfully, watching to see what W. H. Sproul will do in the coming session. Sproul put Representative Phil P. Campbeil out of business in the primary last year, after Campbell apparently had a life leasc on the joby While all I8 quict now. it is pretty certain that whatever Sproul does, he will stir up a row. The third is that kind of a district; Lut political good takte secins to demand that Sproul be given his chance hefore any action is taken. Incidentally, Kan is taking a similar President Coolicxgc, fort of some of fricnds Jast wi presidential tis promptiy on the plan, The storm clouds at present are not hovering close to Dan Anthony of Leavenworth, representing the first district, nor’ over Ed C. Little of Kansas City, from the second, An- thony is Aitting pretty, politically, not have any from the fact that Shawnee county,| the lar, United cst in his distriet, fates senators at Washing ton now, and friends of these promptly squelch any Shawnee can- didates for Congress, The ground swell has two f discontent that the demoerats see coming so plainly, | if it is real, should produce soma active opposition for the seven R publican congressmen from Kansas in the near future, if it really exists, Of course the voters might sit tight and swat, but If that is their inten- tion, some enterprising voung men with congressional aspirations should be able to discover it pretty soon and start thelr campaigns. Meanwhile leaders of both parties are studying the “complexes,” and trying to dis- cover if the reported revolt is real or imaginary., CLIF STRATTON. —_— Archeological Finds. W. E. Meyer, a_Smithsonian Tnsti- tution archeologist who for several weeks has been exploring ancient mounds In the vicinity of Nashville, Tenn., reports the discovery of an an- cient ‘camp fire, in the ashes of which were fragments of animal bones, broken pottery and arrow heads. A well defined layer cf pleistocene clay covered the remains of the fir Meyer estimates the age of the k= clent civilization of the region at be- tween 25,000 and 50,000 years. —_—————— Cologne is the first German city to ‘policewomens in the | | Relatives Deny, However, That | Mayor Is Viotim of Malig- | nant Growth. Epecin] Dispatch to The Star. SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., Sep- tember 1.—Dr. John J. McGrath, pres- . 1dent of Bellevue and allled hospitals, inoted cancer diagnosticlan, who re turned to New York today after two months' study of the disease in Qer- man hospitals, will arrive here to- night, and tomorrow morning is to examine Mayor Hylan's sore throat. which his regular physician still in- | sists is due to inflammation follow- ing a strain. When it became known that Dr. McGrath had been summoned to_the mayor's bedside, Dr, George F. Com- i stock. physician’ to the family of John F. Sinnott, Mr. Hylan's_son-in-law, hastened to explain that Dr. McGrath iis a close, personal friend of the mayor and that his visit here is to be regarded as social rather than | professional. Dr. Comstock reiter- as “not alarming.” This explanation, { however, did not allay the apprehen: sion of Mr. Hylan's friends who re- { gard as omnious persistent rumors to the effect that his throat affection is of_a malignant _character. Mayor Hylan's maximum temperas ture today was 103, with a mean of 1023, this being minimized in the physicians' report by the fact that his pulse and respiration are, respec- tively, 72 and 20. NINE PRISONERS FLEE WEST VIRGINIA JAIL By the Associated Press WELLSBURG, W. Va., September 1. —Nine prisoners escaped from the Brooks county Jjail tonight by filing the bars in one of the windows. The escape was discovered when Deputy Sheriff J. V. Hough went to_lack up the prisoners for the night. He found #even men, committed for minor of- fenses, who had refused to make the break. Among those who escaped was William Petros, under sentence of life imprisonment for murder, who was being detained in the county jail pending an appeal to the state su- preme court. Posses tonight were scouring the czntnr: panhandle for the escaped prisone. ated his former statement as to the mayor's condition, which he ancrndl" chancs of suce important opposition to cratic ticket with the exception of the race for the office of sheriff of Balti- more city. In this contest John Potee, the or-| ganiaation candiate is expected to meet- with “stiff opposition. Sheriff “Tom" McNulty, incumbent, is deter- mined to put up a strong fight for re- election. Former United States Mar- shal W. W, Stockham is equally de- termined to stick in the race. In the case of McNulty the organization leaders recognize the fact that he hi some strength, it was sald. Candidates Withdraw. There were two withdrawals among | the candidates for the republican city committee. These were Samuel C. Maconacny, twenty-eighth ward, leav- ing a_Marchant-Cameron man, Ed- ward B. Hargest, jr., in the field, and Charles A. Brown, seventeenth ward, Two other candidates remain in this ward. : Charles Albert Lynch withdrew as a candidate for delegate to the re- publican state convention from a contest, as there are ten candidates fot seven places, A conference attended by fourteen républican representatives of various elements in the party was held here this week at the invitation of Galen L. Talt, chairman of the republican state central committee. | Issues of the republican campaign | and the framing of a republican plat- form were discussed. The discussion ended with the appointment of a sub- committee, authorized to begin imme- diately the drafting of a platform. In addition to Mr. Taft, the platform com- mittee comprises Messrs. Fisher, Met- zerott, Woodcock and Coleman. 1t {8 =ald that the republicans will at- tack the present state administration for allewed extravagance. The reor- ganisation act, one of the features of the Ritchie administration, will come under fire, it is belleved, being at- tacked as a measure dictated by po- litical consideration and not by con- sideration of the public welfare. Race Track Fight. It is said that republican leaders are considering making the race tracks an {ssue of the campaign, and back the reform element in its fight against the so-cailed “unholy aili- ance” betwcen the tracks and the state, Democtats who belleve the tracks firmly intrenched probably would be glad to see the issue drawn, and they are responsible for reports that re- publican leaders have about decided to_take the step. Even should neither major party adopt the anti-race-track plank, the n?hz is almost sure to reach the floor of the legislature through efforts of the reform element. It will have lit- s, however, with- out party backing. Governor Holds Conferences. Gov. Ritchie has held several con- ferences with state leaders this week. Thursday he was in conference at Annapolls with Willlam S. Gordy, ir. candidate for re-election as con- troller; J. Enos Ray, chairman of the democratic stute oentral committee, and E. Brooks Lee of Montgomery county. A tentative campaign itin- erary was arranged for submission to the committees in the counties. Afterward the governor conferred with Howard Bruce, chairman of the campaign finance committee. There has been an unexpected and unique development in political eir- cles in Harford county. Miss Goldle Smith_of Darlington has qualified as a candidate for the legislature in the democratic primaries. This makes two_woman candldates for the house Miss Mary E. W. Ristau of deligate, several having announced herself Wweeks ago. Miss Smith is particularly interest- ed in agricultural and horticultural affairs of the county. She is a char- ter member of the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revo- lution and is county lecturer for the granges. The fight between two woman can- didates is believed to be the first of its kind in the Unil‘:tl“.flkltcl. the demo- | tionment shall obtain iand proper thing to do {does not express such conviction. And Inational convention will he members the | sedond district. His withdrawal, how- | ever, still leaves the republicans with |act The vote of Virginia will go to President Coolidge under the new ar- rangement, and he will not have any trouble in having the delegation in- structed for him. The supporters of Mr. Slemp hold that it is the wise to arouse the voters to their full duty in every dis- trict. Vote nt Last Election. As a matter of fact, in the last congressional election, there were just five of the districts’ which cast as much as 2,500 votes for the repub can nominees for Congress—the fifth, sixth, seventh. ninth and tenth. The first, second, third, fourth and eighth failed to come to the minimum in der to be entitled to the two dele- gates which each district will have. The Influential men in the repub- Ilican party are unanimous in the be- { ilief that Virginla will be solid for President Coolidga. Not a man who what is more, the delegates to the of the lily white organization, the colored voters are tion unto themselves, by their own having abandoned the par when they failed to receive recogni- tion of their demands at the last stata conventlon and then on appeal to the national convention having no better success. They have named their own candidates in contests since that time., and the lily whites have not shown the least signs of olive branch extension under the new order of things. It is no secret that_ the republi- cans will not carry Virginia, and they do not hope to do that. But the leaders of the organization will keep intact the machinery; they will make a fight; they will be ac- tive and they hope to increase the strength of their vote by such ap- peals and the naming of men for places that will show that they have the welfare of the people and the commonwealth as the principle ac- tuating them. And when the time comes to cast a vote the “outs” of the party will march to the polls and will” support the choice of the republican national convention. ‘W1l Name Gongress Candidates. Next vear the republicans will name a candidate for Congress in| for an organiza- every district, and they wil ‘conduct | a campaign in earnest, and while few of them will entertain a hope for success they will be found on the stump. That is a presidential year. and the voters will come out in much larger numbers than they did last year—the “off” year in pol- itles. Eyes are turned at this time to the ninth district, formerly rep- resented by Mr. Slemp, and which switched after he refused to make the race last year. The question now is to get a man who will be able to retake that former republican stronghold. That man is not yet in sight, but the men from that section of the state say that at the proper time he will be found. Trinkle Not a Candidate. Gov. Trinkle, who was suggest- ed as a_possible opponent of United States Senator Carter Glass next year, says he will not make the race: that he has no idea of doing so In _the past the former governors of Virginia have retired from politics when they quitted the governor's office, and for fifty years or more there is no record of any governor having been sent to the Senate by direct vote of the people for his first term. Senator Swanson, when Sena- tor Danle] died, was apointed to fill the vacancy, and after that appoint- ment he was nominated by the people. It is a fact that several former gov- ernors have essayed the come back, but with no success, as the succes- sive defeat of these former govern- ors will show. It looks llke Senator Glass will have a clear fleld for the nomination next year, he had following his appointment &t the hands of Gov. Davis. HORACE A. HAWKINS. Mrs. Clara M. Miller, a saleswoman in Los Angeles, was left $250,000 in the will of Theodore Tibbits, Massa- chusetts leather manufacturer, whom aved ffom drowning when he small boy CHEVROLET Price Reduction Sept. 1st, Effective Chevrclet Motor Co. Announces the Following Prices—Cash Superior Roadster. . . . Superior Touring . . . . Superior Utility Coupe . Superior Sedan ... .. $490 $495 $640 $795 e o o Superior Commercial Chassis $395 Superior Light Delivery . . . $495 Utility Express Truck Chassis $550 All Prices F. O. B. 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