Evening Star Newspaper, June 9, 1924, Page 4

’ * zation. .ably me man INTEREST CENTERED IN VICE PRESIDENCY Running Mate for Coolidge Only Subject of Interest to Delegates. b BOOM FOB DR. BURTON SEEN | College Head Believed Favored by | White House. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. CONVENTION HALL. CLEVELAND, | Ohio. June ® —it not a national convention that’ will assemble in Cleveland tomorrow. Tt is a guessing contest. It match of wits in prophecy as to who will be nominated for vice president. On no other sub- dect there the slightest semblance of emotion. The complete domination ©f the situation Calvin Coolidge, gver-shadowing in one-man rule any- thing in convention history, has re- duced even the President's impending glorification to secondary interest. His nomination, under circumstance: that entitle hime to be catalogued as | the master politician of the era. hardly mentioned. Talk, gossip. speculation and conjecture range ex- olusively around the identity of his running mate. ii Votaries of great party conclaves apn recall no other occasion when it [Fas necessary Lo Rratify their passion $or thrills by wondering who is going o have second place wished upon fim In that respect, and that respect #done, is the convention notable and interesting. Calvin Coolidge is neither exciting nor an_excitable person its disconcerting lack of excite- ant the convention perfectly cpito- izes the man it is about to love, :ulor and obey. Solution in Washington. White House proteststions to the fontrary notwithstanding. the solu- ion of the vice presidential puzzle is Universally believed to lie in Wash- fagton, and mot in Cleveland. The donvention will act when it hears its ter’s voice. It may go through ge form of ballote and & seemingly is is a is ted contest, but when the votes re counted and the din has subsided e tail-end of the ticket will be of a jue and fiber that are something fiore than merely agreeable (o ite Head. Thesc things are not being shouted from the housetops of the @ke Erie metropolis, but they are on evervbody's lips and at the back 9f evervbody 1f, as_vocifer- Gusly alleged on his behalf. the Presi lent i8 leaving the selection of his * funning mate to the convention, it is bout the only thing of importance | hat has been left to it Everything ¢lse that counts has been attended to in advance. The temporary chairmin w8 picked. The permanent chair- | man was named ‘The chairman of | the committee on resolutions was ¢hosen. The chairman of the com- | mittee on credentials—the only bone | ¥hich the poor dog of the Senate has been given—was appointed | Admiration of Coolidge. H Cleveland is cogitating about these things in no spirit of disparagement of Calvin Coqlidge. On the contrary, | they are discussed in terms of admira. fion for the master craftsmanship of the President as a political mana- | zer. The obliteration of the “Semate oligarchy” which prevailed at Chicago four years ago is the overwhelmingi outstanding feature of the convention, barring the vice presidential situation. Vanished and gone, as completely as if they had never flourished, are those auto- crats of yesteryear. Some of them are on the scene, like “JIm” Watson of In- diana. But they are still, small voices in & wilderness ruled by William M. Butler, Frank W. Stearns, James B. Rey- nolds and other unobtrusive monarchs of all they survey. Four vears ago this week Col. Harvey, Senator Frank B. Brandegee and Senator Warren G Harding sat is the colonel's room in the Biackstone Hotel, in the sweltering \houre of a Chicago dewn. and made cortain fateful decisions and arrange- ments. Today Col. Harvey is function. ing at Cleveland merely as a super- reporter of events in which he is a dis- tinguished but unofficial participant. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, an engi- neer-in-chief at Chicago, is at Cleve- Jand nothing but one of the section- hards, and hardly that. Thus have the senatorial mighty faillen. There is nothing reminiscent of the old times or of the omnipotent sway of the old Zuerd. Hard 40 Find Man. With former Gov. Frank O. Lowden putting _the vice presidential crown from him. the question of the ultimate bestowal of that seemingly Tittle-coveted headpiace knottier than ever. Herbert Hoover mounted forthwith into popular faver with the competitors in the guessing contest. despite his avowals that he will not consent to @ four-vear sentence to neutrality and silence. It will probably require as public and categorical a renunciation by Heover, as Lowden finally made to convince Cleyeland that the Secretary of Com- merce is really not a receptive can- didate. There is pretty general un- deretanding that Hoover does not want to be nominated. But there is less certainty that he would refuse to @ecept nomination if “drafted”— 1. e, placed o3 the ticket ggainst his exprege wish. If the eavior of Bel- glum is determined to evade and »scape the vice presidency, the hour has come for him to emulate William Tepumsch Sherman's immortal ulti- matam to another Republican econ. vemtion: I will nmot accept if nominated, or serve if elected.” Till Hopver commits himself as irrevo- cably as that, is y in danger of becoming Calvin Coolidge's Tunning mate. Dr. Burton Favered. With Hoover self-elimissted, Dr. Mgrion Leroy Burton, president of the University of Michigan, is un- auestionably in strategic position. There is a wealth of evidence, in- deed, to suggest that Burton in real- 1ty {8 the White House cendidate apd hag been for some time. He spent last Saturday in Washington, sgoing over with the President the® final draft of the speech in which Burton will on Thursday of this week place Coglidge in nomination for the presi- defoy. Burton is probably mot kmown 1o five delegates in the entire con- vention outside of the Michigan dele- When he stretches his six Teeaf and two inches of ahtletic stature into space at Convention. Hall on June 12 he will be an entirely new figure in Republican politics. Jn the academic circles of the land, in ich Dr. Burton's lot hitherto hes n exclusively cast, he has the rep- utgtion of being a brilliant orator. Michiganders mcw at Cleveland say Buptos has it in him to clectrify the comvemton as William Jennings Bryan did with his cross-of-gold speech at Chicago in 1836. They predict that his panegyric on Calvin Coolidge will set. the convention with en thusiasm. Then, Michigan men de clare, Marion Lerev Burton will have e himeelf the “logical candidate” for Vice President, and they prophesy that hie nemination will follow as inevitably as the tornadoes of ap- nlause that will be evoked by his gloriffcation of Coolidge. Not Entirely Unkmown. Grapevine reports from Washing- ton have it that exactly that sort of a devglopment is contemplated by the Tre t. My Coelidge is said to ex- tHat Burten will “do the Bryan If he do=s, history will be able record tha: the_ convention was Twept off its feet. The White House will kgve an alibi. Old-guard politi- CiaRs are inelined to seoff at the Bur- ton suggestion. They call him an “unknewn.” say he “kmows nothing about _politics," and, beeause he looks less than forty, assail him as a_ ‘voungster, although he will be fifty in another six weeks. Dr. Bur- ton isn't quite as unknown as the politieians think, Everybody kmows the ¥alue af alumni afliations. Prob- in_the country com- manda sueh a diversified range of | such eomnectipns. | to | vention manager. BOSS AT €LEVELAND WILLIAM M. BUTLER. BUTLER NOW RULES AS 6. 0. P. DICTATOR Convention Looks to Him as Cool- idge Spokesman to Point Way for_Party. | | LODGE ACTIONS RESENTED DPelegates Incensed at Failure of | Senator to Aid President. | BY DAVID LAWRENCE. CLEVELAND, June 9.—William M. Butler of Massachusetts—that's all He is the new dictator of the Repub- lean party. He is the man whose word is law with the assembled dele- gates. Ho is the man who dethroned Senator Henry Cabot lodge. He speaks for Calvin Coolidge—and though he speaks but little he wields today the power to select a Vice President and to make the platform ©of the party Mr. Butler has heen the precon- For ten months he has been actively gathering dele- gates, picking them carefully and winning the regular state organiza- tions to his side. He will he the next chairman of the Republican national gcommittee and “the mai.zer of the Coolidge campaign for election. Some people here think the con-- vention ~atmosphere unenthusiastie and dull. ~ Some newspaper men, ac- customed to more excitement, say it is uninteresting. To be sure it isn't epectacular, there is no sign of ten- sion. but it ie, on the other hand, a remarkable contrast to 1920 toolidge Rules Convention. Here the senatorial club has mo power. no prominence. Calvin Cool- idgo rules. The all-important resolu- tions committee, which frames a plat- form. had none of Mr. Coolidge's opponents from the Senate and House on it. There will bo no embarrass- ments. Mr. Coolidge has assumed the | leadership. His nosition rather than | that of men who voted to override his vetoes will be sunported ; bis pro- posals for 8 world eourt, his program of exeoutive reform will be embedied in the platform. And ~while he is not trying to pick a Vice President, whoever is selected will bo in har- mony with his views. Whence comes this development of Coolidge power? 1t isn't sudden. It i€ the result of ten meonths of in- tensive campaigning by Willlam M. Butler and his associates. They cap- tured the west and middle west by s simple appeal to the conservative business interests of the country, The delegates here are business men largely. There are 1e"wa¢:lt huuc:‘u— led radical nd the dele- e R Coolidge, faith that in him lies the opportunity fer a business revival snd a steady course for the ship of state. Resentment Against Congress. It would be inaccurate to say all the delegates are happy. Some of them are voting for Coolidge against their own wishes. Some of the old leaders who used to take part in the inner conferences dre on the outside. Members of Congress who have been anubbed are not joyful about it. The resentment against Congress is the outstanding feature of the comven- tion. It is the most promounced in the Massachusetts delegation, where every ten minutes some one is talk- ing about punishing Henry Cabot Lodge. Indeed, some of the delegates say the feeling in Massachusetts is so bitter aainst their senior senator that he would be beaten five to one if he ran in a Repjublican primary today. Some of the opposition has developed because Mr. Lodge failed to support the President on the soldiers’ bonus issue, some of it because he failed to help the President's proposal on the world court and some of it because he hasp’t functioned as a majority leader and made the fight for Cool- idge policies in the affirmative and aggressive fashion. So Mr. Lodge will not help make the platform, will not be in the limelight at all, and the friends of the President are eager to have the country know what's going on. so that the impression of Cool- jdge strength and leadership will be breadcast. No Promises Made. ‘William M. Butler is almost as silent his_hero, Calvin Coolidge. In talk- fo with Lred Upham. fthe national treasurer, Mr. Butler speaking of his own reticence, said: “Compared to me, Cal Coolidge is a chatterbox.” This means that Mr. Butler has been slow to make pledges and promises. There bave been no appointments promised. no cabinet portfolios distributed, no commitments of any kind. The old- line leaders look askance and wonder how the money for the campaign is going to be raised if the individual leaders aren't given a little more lee- way, and they hope that, politically speaking, the Coolidge management will loosen up before autumn comes. But Mr. Butler is no novice. He learned in his politics at the elbow of former Senator Murray Crane of Mas- sachusetts, a skillful master of politi- cal strategy. He has converted the Republican convention into something less cumbersome than it was in 1920. It is more cohesive, 1t is the kind of convention that aohes to be led and controlled. It Wants the vice presidential candidate #elected in advance, but Mr. Butler is wigely refraining from an insistence on/any one candidate To the talk of Maj. Gen._Harbord, - Representative Burton .af Ohio or Senatar Capper of Kansas he listens, but without com- ment. He would like to see the con- vention lisfen to the speeches of nomination and make up its mind on the floor. Frank Lowden's refusal to aceept even if tendered has been a disappointment, but he is looking to 1828. So, no doubt, is Herbert Hoover. Mr. Burton of Michigan, who nomi- nates Mr. Coolidge, is said to be a spelibinder. He may win the vice residential nomination by oratory. ranger things have happened. (Copyright, 1924.) Children: Bie in Sewer Pit. ROME, June 9.—A number of chil- dren were precipitated into a sewage pit forty feet deep in the Campagna yesterday when the planks covering the opening collapsed. Patroms in a nearby restaurant rushed to the res- cue, but were overcome by the-fumes. The firemen were oalled and found six dead and two Injured. v If you want work read the want colymns of The Star, . _ T 6. 0. P. ‘KING MAKERS’ | ed Republican THE “EVENING ST MUM AT CLEVELAND Familiar Faces of Powerful ‘Group of Yesteryear Missing at Convention. DEATH TOOK HEAVY “TOLL Daugherty, “Very Regular,” Will Vote “Solemnly for Coolidge.” BY ROBERT T. SMALL. CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 3.—Whers are the “king makers” of yesteryear? ‘What has become of that powerful little group of statesmen which could meet in the back room of a hotel or any other place and say just what a Republican convention should do? Four years ago they were in their glory. Today they are scattered to the four winds. Small wonder then that the Cleveland convention seems different. Call the roll of the president | makers of 1929, They met in the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago early on a Saturday morning. when the delegates and the casual observers thought the convention was in a se- rious deadiock. There was Senator Lodge of Massachusetts and ox-Sen- tor Murray Crane of the same state: Pussyfoot” they used to call him. There was Senator Smoot of Utah: Senaior Knox of Pennsylvania, and there was the all-powerful Senator Penrose on the far end of a long- distance telephone line leading to his sick room at Atlantic City. There was George Hurvey, the journalist, who had “made” Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson hefore he turn- to “make” Warren G. Harding. There was Will H. Hays of Indiana, chairman of the Republican national committee; and last but by no means least, there was Harry M. Daugherty of Ohio, the Yery man who had " predicted from the beginning that the nomination of 1920 would £0 to the winner of the back-room conference. Stricken by Death. Death laid a heavy hand upon that assemblage. Murray Crane was first to go, then Knox, and then Penrose. Four of the others are here in Cleve- land, but they are scattered among the crowds far from the throne room or even the pproaches to the seats of the mighty There is Senator Lodge, all power- ful in_the selection of a candidate from Ohio four years ago, but not | consulied today about any detail of | the candidacy of a man from his own home state. Few persons realize the full extent of the political ignominy which has come to the senior senator from the land of the sacred cod. For twenty-four years Henry Cabot Lodge has been a masterful figure at his party conventions. He actually has presided over three of the last six national gatherings. He was per- manent chairman at Philadelphia in 1900 when McKinley was named for second term. He wielded the gavel again in 1308 when Taft first was mamed. and he steered the ship of the G. O. P.at Chicago four yvears ago when Warren Harding received what proved (o be a sentence of death. At the intervening conventions Cabot Lodge either was chamman of the resolutions committee, which drafted the platform, or held other high of- fice. It has remained for 1924 to see his fall from grace. It is asserted that he has failed to support Presi- dent Coolidge and he is paying the penalty. He has been bereft of al- most eversthing except his vote, and that he must cast for Calvin Coolidge. Smoot's Gremp Loyal. Senator Smoot i3 here also, but, like his colleague from the old Bay state, he is no longer in the inner circle. His state delegation still is loyal to him, however, and he has been given the committee memberships of his own selection. Mr. Smoot would like to have a good word said for the Senate in the platform. but he will mot be surprised if he is disappointed. Harry M. Daugherty, former Attor- ney General, is here as a delegate at large from Ohio. This was an honor he could not win when he was “mak- ing” a President. but it has come to him at the hands of the people of his state after his resignation from the cabinet was requested. Mr. Daugh- erty is very “regular.” and is going along with his delegation. ready to vote solemnly and solidly for Mr. Coolidge when the day of the ballot- ing begins. But the Coolidge “ma- chine” heeds him not. Col. Harvey “on Deck.” Col. George Harvey, the President maker extraordinary and President breaker plenipotentiary, is here in all the glory of his new occupation as the editor-in-chief of a daily new: paper. The colonel arrived with a couple of secretaries, a valet, and a retinue of reporters. He came out on a train from Washington with Frank W. Stearns of the Coolidge campaign cabinet, but never the twain did meet. There will be no conferences in the colonel's rooms in Cleveland, only the busy cliclk of a couple of versatile and volatile typewriters. Perhaps the colonel is waiting to do his stuff at the New York conven- tion later in the month. It may be the Democrats’ turn. Will Hays Missing. This accounts for all but one of the President makers of 1920. The missing one is Will H. Hays. Some- how or other, the party seems de- termined to carry on this year with- out this little Napeleon of politica. Mr. Hays deserted some three years ago to go imlo_the movies, and since that time has been spending most of Wis busy moments in Hollywood and New York. Batween absenting him- self from Indiana and not living long CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 9.—Ticket speculators were asking $150 to $350 for Republican convention tickets lsst night but prospective buyers were holding out for lower prices. At one hotel $1,000 was asked for & sergeant- at-arms’ badge, which would give the wearer free range of the hall. Women delegates from Pennsylvania on the floor of the comvention have been increased to three ~Two wers elected as regular delegates, e third, Mrs. Estelle Livingood of Robe- sonia_will be on the floor, it became known today, because Robert G. Bush- ong of Reading. ther regular dele- gate, was preventdd from attending by illness in his famil. Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti-Saloon League, came to town yesterday, bringing a general law-enforcement plank which he will seek to have placed in the party plat- form. Mr. Wheeler will appear before the resolutions committee in support of his plank, and announced that he also was ready to oppose any attempt that might be made to have a wet plank incorporated. They called it “trench feet” in France: here in Cleveland it's “corridor dogs.” ' It's a disease which becomes epidemic at national political con- ventions, and i» ‘he common lot of the Earden variety of delegates and alter- nates and of all reporters. It comes from hours of standinz around'on hard stone floors trying to find owt what's going on, which usually is—nothing. Some of the agricultural delegates here suspect it is a political variety of the foot-and-mouth disease. C. 0. S. (Dad) Attemburg of Little Rock. Ark.. stepped into the increas- ingly colorful convention picture last night, determined, despite his eighty- three vears, to be on hand. “I'm not a delegate.” he said. “but 1 make delegates. I've attended con- Yentons since Grant was nominated in “This." remarked a visitor to the Republican national convention today as he stood in the lobby of the Hol- lenden Hotel, center of poljtical ac- tivity, “is the first vice presidential convention I have attended.” Former Senator Lawrence Y. Sher- VERMONT DELEGATES PLAN DEMONSTRATION Will Parade in Biown Farmboy Smocks Immediately After | Nomination. H By the Associated Proes CLEVELAND, Ohio. June Dressed in brown smocks, soch as Calvin Coolidge wore on the farm when a boy going to scheol, mem- bers of the Vermont delegation— some of the neighbors amd school friends of the Presidemt—have ar- ranged to stage a demonstration in the Republican national comvention Thursday immediately following the nomination of Coolidge. The Vermont delegates will parade the convention hall. carrying canes made of wood cut on the Coolidge farm cow pasture near Plymouth, Vt., and wearing the brown smocks, with the words “Coolidge Home Town Club” painted on the back in large letters. Bring 1200 Canes. Twelve hundred of the canes were brought to Cieveland today by the Vermont delegates. They were cut by H. T. Brown of Plymouth, who owns the Pirm adjoining the Cool- idge farm and who went to schoel with the President. “Keep Cool and Keep Coolidge. sung to a rollicking tune, will be the song of the delegates from the Presi- dent's home state. ‘They hope to make it the officlal song of the con- vention and plan to introduce it to all of the various state delegates and.| in all of the hotel lobbies tomorrow. | Thé refrain to the gong is: So “Keep Cool and Keep Coolidge” is_the slogan for today “Keep cool and keep Coolidge” for the rood A letool politicians cannot do & thing but Knoe! Bat cum"lr;aumn i & man of setion and not tai But just “Keep cool and keep Coolidge in the White House four years more. We have a_chance to do it in this year of twenty-four. He's been tried. has never been wanting; he is giving of his best ““Keep cool and keep Coolidge’ is our cous- try’s mighty test Printed on Fans. The Coolidge campaign song has been printed on thousands of fans which will be distributed to the del- egates and spectators. The fans can be folded in such a manner as to make them small megaphones. Ten stalwart delegates from Ply- mouth. the President's home town. have formed a glee club which wili introduce the song to the convention officially, before the starting of the parade of smocked delegates. ‘The Vermont delegates also brought a gavel, made of wood cut from the Coolidge farm. which will be presented to Col. John T. Adams hu man of Illinois, who served as chair- man of the Senate District committee not so loug ago, is about to retire as national committeeman for his state. Fred Upham, who is re.iring as treasurer of the Republican ma- tional committee, Semator Sherman predicted, would be elected national *committeeman from Illinois. From Superior avenue to the public hall, where the convention is to be held, 6th street is lined with white ,plllars, square at the base and sloping to a point at the top. “They suggest oil derricks” was ‘the unkind comment of a Democrat, \as he walked by, Every eftort is being made by the prohibition forces to make this a “dry” convention. Agents of the pro- hibition forces are on the lookout for suppiles of liquor that might be on the way here to regale thirsty delegates and guestm It has been the boast of the " that there would be little or no drinking at this convention. Two newspaper oorre- spondents, who had driven here from Washington in an automobile, had 'their car stopped. as they were on the way to a country club here, by an agent. and the demand made of them: “Any liquor in that car”” There was none. But this is just an instance of the vigilance of the dry forces. Cleveland dished up more cloudy skies and threats of rain for the G. O\ P. legions today. A cool breeze from the lake whistled through the sumnfery garb many delegates had donned “for the trip, driving them into the shelter of hotel lobbies for the endless round of powwowing that always marks a national con- vention. Those who recalled the sun- soaked hours at Chicago four years .ago had not complaints to file with ‘the Cleveland weather man, however. Thousands of persons who will be | nable to gain admission to the con- ‘vention hall and have no radio at home will be able to follow the pro- ceedings in the public square. A large radio set with four loud speak- ers has been installed on a wagon in the square, and a test today showed that it was in good working arder. PLYMOUTH TO HONOR | Smoot | read GRIP OF OLD GUARD LOST AT CLEVELAND Senate Leaders of Party Taking Orders From Massachu- setts Men. COOLIDGE HOLD IS COMPLETE City Reflects Character of New England Conservatism. BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE, CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jume 9.—The Coolidge forces are teaching the old crowd here to have faith in Massa- chusetts. The whole cast and at- mosphere of the place is New Eng- land. The old guard which has been running the Republican comvention for thirty years is here, badly sub- dued. It is getting its orders from Butler of Massachusetts and its news from the reporters. The old guard has surrendered command and is glad enough to save its face by running errands for the Coolidge crowd. The change has taken place in the last twenty-four hours. Last week it seemed as though the senatorial machine that nominated Harding would nominate Coolidge and write his platform. It is evident today that Coolidge will write his own platform and accomplish his own nomination. By Coolidge, one means the Coolidge forces in charge of his campaign. Manager Butler is the Mark Hanna of this convention. He = taking orders from no one, and the id guard, that is to say, those in charge of the United States Senate. Lodge, Curtis, Watson, Lenroot and have to breath on a meter ¥ Butler and take out a sun- shine license to cast their own | shadow. Not Like Old Times. Naturally a convention dominated by newcomers is a different affair from Republican conventions that have been assembling for the last twenty- five years. Here it is Sunday night, when ordinarily bamds are playing, marching clubs are shouldering through the hotel crowds and rumors of deals and combinations are mak- ing the air electric with excitement. Today closed with only one item of news, the withdrawal of Lowden as presidential candidax. It is to imagine a Republican con- vention where any news about any vice presidential candidate Sunday night would cause a flicker of ex- citement, but so completely has the Massachusetts reserve cast a chill over the ordinary Republican ardor that the marching clubs do not dare COOLIDGE BIRTHDAY ermont Delegate Pokes Fun at La Flollette Claims for Pro- gressive Convention. By the Assoeiated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, June §—Earl S Kinsley of Rutland, Vt.. the home state of President Coolidge, issued a statement from the Vermont delega- tion poking fun at a recent an- nouncement that the La Follette in- dependent movement, to be launched in Cdeveland on July 4, would “give that date a new singnificance in our natiomal life after this vear." The Vermont delegation s quarter- ed in the same hotel with the Wis- consin delegation. neaded by Robert M. La Follette, fr. Son of the Wis- consin senator. Who has been men- tioned as a third party candidate. “The Vermont delegation” read the statement, “issued a counter-chal- lenge to the Wisconsin-La Follette crowd (quartered at the same hotel) when shown the dispatch in a local newspaper which picks July 4 in this city as the date for the start of th La Follette independent movement. ‘“Vermomt beat Wisconsin and La- Follette to it, because July 4 ia the birthday of Calwin Coolidge and if Plymouth, Vt., doesn’t stage a bigger celebration on CaFs birthday than the convention of ‘political progressives,’ which La Follette's crowd proposed here, then we dow't kmew Plymouth and the home town Coolidge Club.” Kinsley said that Vermont is plan- ning the climax of its local campaign for the President's birthday and in- sisted that “the gang will all be at Plymouth” on that date. VISCOUNT PIRRIE DIES. Irish Shipbuilder Was Coming to U. 8. From South America. NEW YORK, June 9-—Viscount Pirre, ‘head of the firm of Harland & Wolff, shipbuilders of Belfast, Ireland, died suddenly Saturday night of bronchial pneumonia on board the steamship Ebro, while on his way here from Sowth America News of his death was.received today by P. A. S, Frank- lin, president the International Mercantile Marine, Viscountess Pirrie, who was accompanying her busband on his tour. Lord Pirrie was sevenmty-seven years old. During the world war his services to the allies were first given as com- mercial and financial adviser to Lord Derby, secretary of state for war. In March. 1918, Lord Pirric was appoint- with which to call the convention to order Tuesday morning. nough in the other two places Mr. Hays got left in the scramble this year and is not @mong those present or_fully accounted for. Sic transit gloria politicus! Or words effect. ”15::‘“::“ “eolory” the hurrah, the zip and the boom are missing from this convention. There were no or- ganized boosters, no marching clubs, no torchlight processhons. One band blew into town from somewhere on Sunday morning and played a couple of tunes in the rain. Then it seemed to get frightened at its own noise and hurried away to shelter and silence. Lack of Coler Reported. The lack of eolor is due to the fact that there are no candidates. Mr. Coolidge doesn't need any bands or banners. A ‘few of his pictures— small lithographs—adorn the pillars of the hotel lobbles, But that is all. There are no other pictures anywhere —no other candidates with visible means of support. Usually the hotel lobbies .at convention time are & veritable picture gallery. K Four dancing elephants, magnifi- cent specimens of the mastoden, are performing at a local vaudeville theater. Between turns they parade the strests and trumpet in front of the Coolidge headquarters, at Hotel Cleveland. Speeial Trmins Arrive. Convention special trains make strange car-fellows. Coming out from ‘Washington was Senator Jimmie ‘Wadsworth of New York, who orig- inally was slated for chairman, and former Represeatative Mondell of Wyoming, Who sucoeeded to_the job. Young “T. R” was on the same He carried his _own grip through the station at Washington and once aboard the train he “shuck- ed” his coat and went about sisit- ing all evening in his shirt sleeves. Just as all the visiting newspaper men were remarking that anyway the Democratic convention at New York wouldn’t be cool and eut and dried. Tom Love of Texas, original McAdos man, blew"into Cleveland. e e (COPPEIGHS, 1004 ed controller gencral of merchant shipping. Safe Deposit Vault—17th & H St. Branch venture out. Bands All Hushed. The bands are hushed and rumor is paralyzed. One can walk through any of the hotels in town without bumping into any one. There are no crowds in Cleveland tonight. In various rooms sit enthroned the man- agers of the convention. Butler of Massachusetts, the king maker; Am- bassador Warren, late of Mexico City and Tokio, who is writing the plal form. and Theodore Burton, who is tuning up his keynote. It is evident from those who have seen the three wise men that we are £0ing to have rather a different con- vention than any Republican conven- tion ever assembled. There can be no doubt of the conservatism of the convention. But the comservatism will be 2 different brand from that usual- 1y spread upon the pages of history by the conservatives who massed in 1312 under the leadership of Root and Smoot and the Republican national committee. There has been a revo- lution, but it has béen a revolution inside of the conservative wing of the party. The President is going to have his way with every important declaration and, curiously enough, he Seems to stand against the American Protective. Tariff League's declaration on the tariff. A number of planks have been faverably considered by Sherman Warren of the resolutions committee, all of which indorse the flexible tariff and several of which definitely promise revision downward instead of upward. Attitade on League. There are definite indications that the convention will be led into a softened and ohastened atmosphers about the league of nations. It must be remembered that Coolidge in Bos- ton. and governor, welcomed Presi- dent Wilson from Europe with a speech indorsing the league of na- tions. It must also be remembered that Coolidge is trying to get a world court established which recognizes the league of nations, and there can be no doubt that both in the keynote and in the platform reference to the league of nations will lack the harsh- ness which characterized orthodox Republican utterances in the last two years. Otherwise, the platform will be calm, cautious and conservative. a refletion of the Coolidge attitude to- ward political issues. Eiement of Chanee. The withdrawal of Lowden. if it really is a final withdrawal, and some statesmen feel that it is merely a diplomatic step in a genteel flirtation. has put a certain ladylike pet into the pre-convention crowd. There is now an element of chance ahead in the proceedings, but it is really di Branch NOW OPEN " YOUR BANK . =a part of your everyday life Itis a place to keep your hard-earned dollars that must have protection. It is also a place to keep your valuables—your will, those DELEGATES’ CARS STALL - TRAFFIC IN CLEVELAND Overflow Parking Space—Auto Club Asks Use of Recrea- tion Spaces. By the Assacisted Press. CLEVELAND, June 3.—Cleveland invited the d to its Republican national convemtian, but overlooked the posmibility of most every one's bringing his motor car. Swarms of ears arriving today from virtually every state in the east and middle west served notice that park- ing space for 4,000 machines along the lake front will be insuffcient, Either the city parks must be turned over to the tourists or the pedestrians | removed to a place of safety until| after the convention, representatives | of the Cleveland Automobile Club | urged. \ With traffic along some of the principal thoroughfares lined up at! times today for several miles, Cleve- landers awaited with fortitude an op- portuntiy to cross their own streets— and wondered what the morrow would bring, when the convention begins. DRAFT LOWDEN, CR HEARD IN CLEVELAND (Continued from First Page.) either of several names would be ac- ceptable to him. That would remove the curse of dictatorship and make the, convention feel that it was free to act upon its own judgment. It is felt by many Republicans here and frequently expressed that the Presi- dent is at this time vested with an especial and unique responsibility as in their opinion the country is look- inz to him to O. K. the selection of a vice presidential candidate This morning there was re of gossip about Judge Kenyon o Towa, as a possibility Tnumediately there came a back fire on the sug- gZestion Republicans who fear judge Kenyon is too radical began to Dass the word to that effect and sug- gested former Representative Good, who has been in charge of Coolidge headquarters in the west during the preconvention campaign. Watson Already Indorsed. Then, it was pointed out, there is Representative Dickinson of Iowa, Wwho has been indorsed by the state convention for the vice presidential nomination. Another man who was indorsed by his state convention is Senator James E. Watson of Tndiana, | The delegation arrived yesterday and the rumor became current that his name would not be presented, not- withstanding the instructions of the convention. T asked Senator Watson | as to the accuracy of the report and | he replied: “Well, T_have not re- leased the delegation from the state convention’s instructions.” There does not seem to be as much interest in the expected controversy | over the platform as over the vice | presidency. The untimely death of | President Harding has accentuated the importance of the office nf the vice presidency. The value to the country of having a man such as President Coolidge to take up the office and earry on is most keenly realized and the politictans would | like to surply him with a teammate | of his own caliber. | —— SENTENCED FOR THEFTS. | Three Men Who Plead Guilty Sent to Jail. Harold Gingal. Frank Harrison and William Beckwith pleaded guilty to five cases of larceny and were sentenced by Judge Mattingly in the United States branch of Police Court today to each serve 150 davs in jail on failure to each pay a fine of $100. They were charged with stealing spare tires, tubes and rims from au- tomobiles. —_— cult to get enthusiastic over a mere vice presidential convention, which is what this seems to be at its best The midwesterners. who have no in- dustrial conoerns, are lining up for Dawes, but the labor erowd has serv- ed notice on the eastern delegates that Dawes will not do. He is at the head of an organization known as the Minute Men of the Repub- lic, which has for its major plank the policy of the open shop. No candidate is going to get on the Repubiican ticket and force the open-shop issue into the ca in the industrial east. With Dawes out, and he would seem to be as far out as Lowden tonight, the race is | campaign plan of Miss Paul & ' ' : AR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1924 7 CONVENTION SIDELIGHTS WOMEN PLAN BITTER FIGHT AT CLEVELAND —_— Equal Rights Issue Splits Sex Int¢ Two Factions for Battle to End. BOTH SEEK RECOGNITION Proponents Will Try to Capture Congress Seats. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, June 5.—The womes will have it out over the equal rights amendment plank before the resolu tion committee tomorrow afternoon, Leaders advised Alice Paul and Maude Younger of the women's party, who are lobbying for the resolution, to- day that they would be given the fullest opportunity to present their arguments. Likewise representatives of the National League of Women Voters will be given a chance to oppose the amendment Speakers for the resolution will ba Mrs. Valentine Winters, Dayton, Oh Mrs. Arthur A. Kellam N M and Mre Ida of Sun Franeisco. M rop of Chicago probal the_opposition Woman party leaders are 1obby: vigorousiy among delegates for sup- port. Th announced a_ dozen acquisitions today, inciuding Herman L. Ekern. attorney general nf W consin. He said that the equal rf law is workinz out satisfs 3 Albuquerque, D'Egelbert Julia Lath- ly will lead | Wisconsin. Will Inform Voiers. Miss Paul declared empna that her organization would voters plainly which part lieves to be most favorable to the proposal and advocate support of that party. The other group. howewv. said it would content itself w presenting the facts and let voler draw their own conclusions. Advocacy of the amendment at th convention is only a small part of the She re vealed today for the first time that s “dusted off the old card index 5" showing the rceoras and pledge: of candidate, which aided so materially in winning the suffrage fight Miss Paul's trump card, howeser. will be her attempt to elect from one to five women to the House for the sole purpose of pushing the amend- ment. Opponents ' of the measure insizt |that there is no chance of its pass: because the Woman's Party is the s organization behind it. and that the organization controls only a scattered force of workers The last assertion Mies Paul frankly admits In Excellent Health. Persons who recall Miss Paul as tin pale, anemic leader of the pickels. who ever seemed on the verge of col- lapse, scarcely would recogmize her today. She is enjoving splendid heaith. apparently. and. she insists, in “splendid fighting trim.” Since the passage of the suffrage amendment she has been studying law. Inequalities of women before the law, which the Woman's Party insict should be swept aside by the amend- ment, include Prohibition of married women con- trolling their own earnings, sitting on juries, attending state universities suing for injuries on their own ac- count. holding certain positions in the business world and sharing con trol of their children with husband: STRASSBURGER TO -BACK LIBERALIZED DRY LAW Pennsylvania Delegate, Who De- feated Pinchot in Primary. Propose Plank for G. 0. P. Platform. By the Associated Press CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 9 —Ralph Beaver Strassburger, who defeated Gov. Pinchot for delegate. said a posed plank to liberalize the Vols act had been drawn up for submissi to the resolutions committee, but that its text would not be made publi until others interested in the subject had passed upon it. A meeting of delegates and others interested in the changing of the Volstead act, Mr. Strassburger said pro anybody's race. with a likelihood that a nobody will win Over it all is the shadow of La Fol- | lette and the militant liberals of the | northwest. Neither the makers of the | platform nor the keynoters in the con- vention are apparentiy paring the slight- | est heed to the La Foliette followers. | The Republican party as it stands to- | night in its pre-convention phase is | definitels, irreconcilably conservative. | Roosevelt might never have lived. the | bull moose might nmever have bellowed, and vet alwayss in the shadow when two | or three of the old guard or new con- servatives meet there is always a ques- tion. What about La Follette? And no one waits for an answer. | distinction between 1i would be held later te mo over t situation. Mr. Strassburger drew ralization ane modification, declaring that he frit the former term stronger. 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