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OVER APPEARS TO LEAD FIELD ‘'t FOR VICE VOTE &Sentiment Is on Increase to Name Commerce Secretary. WOBJECTIONS MADE TO OTHER NAMES Curtis Out of Grace for Bonus Vote—Kenyon for Radicalism. : BY DAVID LAWRENCE, CONVENTION HALL. Cleveland, June 11.—Nobody has the vice presi- ~lency assured today, but there are scertain definite trends. Herbert Hoover's chances seem- at ‘the moment better than any one se's, but when M. L. Burton of the University Michigan dclivers his oration” nominating President Cool- idge tomorrow, things may be differ- ent. Nothing would make Calvin Cnolidge happier than to have his lifelong friend and admirer, Dr. Bur- ton, named the ticket with him. The politicians are not “sold” on the idea of maming an unknown quantity, but if objections to the various men named become too vehement they may. come to the choice of Dr. Burton as the least objectionable Speaking of objections. it is inter- esting to hear the objections raised by delegates to virtually all the can- didates for Vice Presidént. Here are some of them: Curtis Guilty of Heresy. Senator Curtis of Kansas—Voted to override President Coolidge’s veto of the soldier bon which is hercsy in this -convention. Judge Willlam $. Kenyon of lowa— Too much of a radical and it might 1ook as if the regulars were yielding to the western insurgents. Representative Dickinson of Iowa— Not well enough known tepresentative Sanders of Indiana | —same thing, | Former Gov. Lowden of Ilinois— | he has said he did not want it and would not take it, o the Tlinols dele- | gates have grown cold about trying | to draft him. Strength of Harbord. Maj. Gen. Harbord—Not particu- | larly active in politics and not mm-l ciently identificd with the Republican | party in the past to be regarded as a vote-getter, though his strength wit the ex-service men is counted as his | main card of admission. | Herbert Hoover—He is still looked npon by some farmers as having been Tesponsible for the fixing of the price of wheat during the war, when they felt they would have gotten more for | their crop if the government had not intervened. Also Secretary Hoover's wavering _1n 1920, when he did not | know whether to join the Republicah or Democratic parties, is still held | against him by the regulars i M. L. Burton of Michigan—Un- known, but acceptable if Coolidge 88YS SO. Hoover Sentiment Grows. Thus does the vice presidential race proceed here, and after talking with many of the leaders and some mem- bers of the Coolidge cabinet the writer is convinced that if there had been a definite movement organized here for Herbert Hoover he would have had an easy victory. As it is, sentiment for him is growing. Some of the Hoover men realize that | the Secretary of Commerce prefers 'Oi run his own department and would feel buried in the vice presidency, but there's another angle to that. Mr. Hoover is young. Some admirers think he may be a presidential candidate in 1925 The main handicap under which he suffers in politics is his identification with the Wilson ad- ininistration in its appeal for a Demo cratic Congress in 1918, and his lack of regularity. To be given a vice | presidential nomination by a regular Itepublican convention would for all times sweep away that objection, and i by chance he were clected it is a serious question.whether his execu- tive ability would be forgotten in so saort a period as four years. Refused to Interfere. The story is told here that Herbert Hoover felt so deeply that he ought 10 be kept out of the vice presidential contest that he personally appealed to I'resident Coolidge recently to squelch the plan, but Mr. Coolidge smilingly refused to ask his friends at Cleveland to eliminate Hoover. The ! ticket “Coolidge .and Hoover” has fascinated some of the Coolidge man- agers. With one man from Massa- Chusetts and the other from Califor- nia, the idea of geographical breadth is conveyed and that is something im- portant in politics—it may even be more so this year with a candidate from New England at the top of the ticket and the west clamoring for recognition The making of the platform is un- dramatic. There are no serious divi- ~ions of opinfon. The committee on resolutions stayed up most of the night trying to merge the various proposals into a compact platform. The meetings of the committee have heen characterized by the same spirit f defiance of the La Follette group | s has been manifesied on the con- Vention floor itself. i Incidentally, ~when Representative Burton was keynoting about third parties and the need for solidarity and everybody was looking at the Wisconsin delegation and urging its members to stand up and cheer, Gov. Blaine of Wisconsin called across the aisle to ths. Pennsyl¥ania delegation, where Secretary of the Treasury Mellon was sitting: “What you fellows wan solidarity, but solid-dollarity Some delegates thought they hesrd the Wisconsin Governor say “solid- Daugherty,” but the chanoces are he meant the former, anyhow. To all_of which &hould be added the significant fact that wheat went up 4% cents a bushgl yesterday. That may scem like markét news. but it is really a piece of political informa- tion, for as the price of wheat ascends and the Canadiaiv.crop appears to be lower than last year, the chances of a more centented agricultural elec- torate grow. And if that should be the case, the regulars here feel they would be justified in worrying less and less about La Follette and the ravolt of the west (Copyright, 1924.) Skipper, 84, Dies; Sailed Seven Seas SAG HARBOR, N. Y.. June 11.—Capt. Thomas Brewer, the last of Sag Har- bor's whalers, died yesterday in his nighty-fourth vear, He was skipper of many ehips.that saijed the seven seas.. . 1. = ] > Yo — rage healthy an should be abhe to fitk tmo.and 4 Balf. times Mis on a is not PRESIDENCY, BUT FARM WORRIES PARTY LEADERS V. P. Leaders Bagsrs,Ew HERBERT HOOVER. GEN. JAMES G. HARBORD SECOND-PLACE CHOICE FAR FROM SETTLED Lengthy (;;:ferences Eliminate Some, But Place Others in Limelight. B the Associated Press CLEVELAND, Ohio. June 11.—The vice presidential nomination was still an unsolved problem early today for dele to the Republican national convention. Conference after conference and talk upon talk had served to eliminate some names and to raise others to positions of prominence, but actual agreement seemed almost as far off as it did Sunday evening after Frank 0. Lowden, former Governor of Illi- nois, and choice of many of the dele- gates, made his initial announcement | that he would not accept the nomi- nation even if it were tendered him. A solution was sought through re- sumption of the serics of conferences today almost as soon as party lead- ers were up, but it was conceded in advance that the leaders might have to ask President Coolidge to abandon his hands-off policy and indicate his choice, or that “a little group -of bleary-eyed men" might have to gather tonight or early tomorrow in a hotel room and thresh oat the prob- lem as they did fn 1920 in selecting Warren G. Harding for (he presi- ential nomination. Choice Expected Soon. feeling is widespread that President Coolidge’s running mate must be chosen tomorrow, but not even William M. Butler, manager of the Coolidge forces and national chairman designate, was able to re- move the uncertainty early today, when a lengthy conference broke up in_his hotel quarters. Farnest and determined efforts were made at this conference to bring_about some unanimity of opin- fon. Those present included some of the more powerful figures in the convention — Mr. Butler, Frank W. Stearns, personal representative of President Coolidge; _ Secretaries Weeks, Mellon and Wilbur, Post- master General New, C. Bascom Siemp, secretary to Mr. Coolidg: Senator Reed of Pennsylvania and Representative Longworth of Ohio. Boom for Harbord. The conferees surveyed the newest movement in the vice presidential field, a movement started by the for- mer service men holding seats in the convention as delegates and alter- nates, and having for its object the nomination of James G. Harbord of Kansas, who rose from the ramks to major general in the military service, commanded the marine brigade at Belleau Wood, organized and oper- ated the service of supply behind the American_lines in France, served us deputy chief of staff of the Army and retired from the Army some months ago to become head of the Radio Corporation of America. The merits and demerits of va- rious other possibilities. were di; The, | cussed.” Foremost among these oth- ers were Secretary Hoover and Sena- tor Curtis of Kansas and included also in the list were Judge William S. Kenyon, Charles G. Dawes, Presi- dent Burton of the University of Michigan, Representative Sands ‘of Indiana, Secretary Work of the In- terior Department and Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana. Many Objections Lodged. Some of those who attended this conference and an earlier pow-wow of somewhat similar nature in the quarters of Secretary Weeks said that, with the exception of the movement for Gen. Harbord, the disgussions amounted to bringing up “various names only to have objections lodged against the men. Objections also Wwere raised against Gen. Harbord, some declaring the idea of a military man on‘the ticket would not appeal to the voters. particularly the women, that Harbord is not sufiiciently well knowa to the average voter, and that ke is withoui political experience Fears Expressed W heat Price Charges Might Injure Chances. VETERANS WANT EX-SERVICE MAN Booms for Harbord and Hines Show Gains Among Delegates. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WHLE CONVENTION HALL. Cleveland, June 11.—Calvin Coolidge remains in silent command of the eituation at Cleveland. Externally everything is in a state of flux. The committee on reso- lutions has been in more or less con- tinuous session on platform plans. All night conferences of leaders on the vice presidency apparently leave that puzzle still unsolved. Yet, despite these surface indications, it is beyond question that final decisions rest, as they have rested from the beginning, with the President. When the White House unsheathes its mighty sword every Gordian knot at Cleveland will be cut with magical swiftness |, The platform will be submitted to |the convention before the day is over 1ts adoption, following spirited and perhaps violent opposition from the Fa Follette contingent, will ensue in due course. It will be a Coolidge plat- form from cellar to garret. It there is a pro-this or anti-that plank in it, it will be because the President willed it, It is Calvin Coolidge that is to stand and run on the structure here this day set up. He insists that it shall be such a foundation as will bear him securely, logically and defensibly. The ‘plal{nrm. i the candidate, will, \ therefore. be wholly Coolidgesque. Doubt on Second Place. The vice presidential nomination— an utterly unprecedented situation in a national convention—continues to be the only real bone of contention In the hotel rooms of John Wecks, Secretary of War, there sat during the night a conference of ad- ministration leaders and friends that bore a certain resemblance to the celebrated Blackstone Hotel war coun- cil at Chicago in 1920. The name of Herbert Hoover figured most con- | spicuously in their deliberations. The |question of drafting him was the | main_topic of discussion. A certain |influential member of the cabinet, every member of which except Hugh and Hoover is now in Cleve- |1and, stated categorically that “Hoo- |ver "will take it” For the most part, that assurance, evidence of authority, ended the de- Ei'"v That Hoover is acceptable to Coolidge is taken for granted. That he would strengthen the ticket is acknowledged on practically all hands. But the friends of other as- pirants are not ready to let the nom- ination go to Hoover by default, or merely at administration behest. There, for the moment, the situation hangs. w. Consider Soldier Vete. It is the so-called soldier vote that demands that the White House con- tingent stop, look and listen before giving second place to the Secretary of Commerce. Coolidge's sole weak- ness, from the legion standpoint, is the danger that his bonus attitude will cost him hundreds of thousands of service men's votes. That is the reason that two soldiers, Maj. Gen. James G. Harbord, Pershing's chief of staff in_France, and Brig. Gen Frank T. Hines, director of the Ve erans’ Burcau, are being ardently supported for the vice presidency. They both qualify as westerners. Harbord is now president of the Radio Corporation of America_and lives in New York, but he was a Kan- sas farm boy. and has a typically American seif-made record. He described as the idol of the dough- bbys. Hines is a Utah man. also with a record like Harbord’s of rising from the ranks of both private and Army life. Hines enjoys the support of Sen- ator Reed Smoot, which, even amid the total senatorial eclipse which is the outstanding astronomijcal fact at Cleveland, is not without potency. Such senatorial influence as shows flickers of life at the conven- tion—"Jim" Watson of Indiana, for example—is making a valiant effort to secure the vice presidential nomi- nation for Senator Curtis of Kansas. Second place for the Republican whip of the Senate would be a sign to the ‘whole political universe that that re- calcitrant branch of the government is yet a power to be reckoned with in G.'0. P. councils. That consideration is the mainspring of the Curtis boom. It is bolstered by the contention that the Kansan, who is now chairman of the committee on rules, would be an ideal presiding officer of the Senate, and both less inexperienced and color- less in that post than either Hoover, Harbord or Hines. Still Talk of Lowden. There is ceaseless chatter about drafting Borah or Kenyon, and of “compelling” Lowden to renounce his renunciation. Nor has the talk of Marion Leroy Burton, who tomorrow will place Coolidge in nomination for | the presidency altogether subsided. But when one has run the whole gamut of these ruminations and possibili- ties. one gets back to the starting point, namely, that the vice presi- dential nominee will turn out to be the man most wanted by Calvin Cool- idge. That is as safe a premise on which to calculate as the nomination of the President itself. There is not, in reality, anvthing but a differense of words between a Coolidge-dictated vice presidential candidacy and one that ntirely acceptable” to him. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, June 11.— Although President Coolidge will not be nom- inated until tomorrow, the convention managers already have picked out the committee to formally notify him of its action. The committee, subject to approval of the convention, will be composed of: Alabama, J. M. Atkins; Arizona, Mrs. J. L. B. Alexander; Arkansas, H. L. Remmel; California, Mrs. Helen Mathewson Laughlin; Colorado, Mrs. Verner Z. Reed; Connecticut, Rollin 8. Woodruff; Delaware, Mrs. Julla H. Ashbrook: Florida, George W. Bean; Georgia, Charles Adamson; Idaho, Ralph Nelson; Illinois, Frank M. lay; Indiana, Emmett F. Branch; lowa, ‘Homer Harris; Kansas, Dr. Charles S. Huffman; Kentucky, Charles Dawson; Loulsiana, \W. W. Tuttle: Maine, John P. Deeri: Marylan Alaurice nfiaw E. Homphreys; i The bearing every | Hoover's availability s not unani- mously acknowledged. When it is argued that no man in any party is stronger with the women the as- sertion is challenged. It is imme- diately contended that he is strong neither with the farmers nor with the farm wives of the land because he kept down the price of wheat dur- ing the war. Malinly Hoover is al- leged to be politically weak because of the fear that his nomination would spur a revengeful Hiram Johnson into action in California. There is the horfible example of what hap- pened to Hughes In that state in 1916 to be remembered. Hoover is John- SON’S pet aversion. California’s ex- favorite son blames the Secretary of Commerce for most of the John- sonian trials and tribulations during recent times. California is acknowl- edged to be vital to Republican suc- cess in November. Should it be un- necessarily jeopardized? That is one of the soul-searching questions that had the floor in John Weeks' noc- turnal star chamber session in the Hotel Cleveland last night. Strength With Women. Hoover's “strength with the women" in the final decision will weigh hea lly with the policians who will advise, even if they do not sway, President Coolidge in connection with the vice presidency. It would be impossible to exaggerate the extent to which the woman vote is tipping the scales at Cleveland. The politicians affect to treat it with indifference. The exact ontrary is the fact. They measure it at its full and undoubtedly immense importance. There ar as many badged women on the scene as me The convention floor sprinkled with them. ting in at decisive Hoover's name is presented to the convention, the demonstration of ap- proval from the women, as similar demonstrations at Chicago in 1920 were, will be conspicuous for their enthusiasm. The voice of the women, as exemplified before the resolutions committee in connection with the world court and prohibition enforce- ment, was all powerful in determin- ing the Coolidge high command to stand fast on these issue: It is likely to be the voice of the women that finally will prevail on the convention's paramount issue of who shall be Calvin Coolidge's run- ning mate. If Coolidge and the wom- en between them want Herbert Hoo- ver, that settles it. Women at Convention Special Dispateh to The Star. CONVENTION HALL, CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 10.—The feminine arm of the Republican party for the first time In history wielded the big stick today—and it slew the enemy with one mighty blow. The feminine arm consisted of the woman delegates to the national convention in Cleveland, and the big stick was no less a power than the votes of the women back home. The enemy was the national committmen who opposed the 50-50 resolution, over which the women have been fretting and the men have been cuss- ing for the past week. and which gives women equal representation with men on the national committee. resolution was adopted by the rules committee of the convention late Tuesday. To Miss Gertrude Leimbach. district delegate from Baltimore, Md. goes much of the credit for the victory. For it was Miss Leimbach who arose when' the fight was growing bitter laid on the big stick. The women of the Republican party cxpect the men to make good the promise they made them in 1920. The promise of equal representation on the national committee,” Miss Leimbach told the rules committee, “and if the committee does not amend the rules to include one woman from each state on the national com- mittee, the women will not vote for the Republican party in the coming election.” And that's that have worked hard for the G. o. Mrs. Arthur Livermore, member of_the executive committee from New York, said, “and they want their just deserts” o Meanwhile Mrs. Charles Sabin of New York, one of the most promi- nent women in the Republican party: Mrs. Medill McCormick of Chicago, Mrs. Leonard Wood of Pittsburgh and Miss Jeanette M. Hyde of Utah, mem- bers of the executive committee, smiled their approval as the women. one after another, asserted that they would leave the party flat if the rules committee did not accede to their demands. The debate in the committee lasted for two _hours, but the woman marched off with the most signal vic- tory achieved by the feminine conm- tingent of the G. O. P. Due to crowds and the uncertainty of securing food, breakfast rather than luncheon parties and engagements are in vogue. Very few of the delegates or commit- teewomen have bobbed hair. Rather elaborate coiffures under wide picture hats or tncked snugly beneath cloches are worn. Miss Betsy Edwards of Evansville, Ind., a tall and handsome woman, Who has charge of the women's division of the Coolidge headquarters, and Miss Marian Parkhurst of Washington, even taller and handsomer, will be sergeants- at-arma. They will probably direct with smiles rather than clubs, but, neverthe- less, it is said that they will not be im- posed upon. WILL NOMINATE DAVIS. West Virginia Judge to Present Name to Democrats. HUNTINGTON, W. Va, June 11— The name of John W. Davis, former ambassador to Great Britain, will be placed in nomination for President At the Democratic national conven- fion by Judge John H. Holt of the West Virginia delegation, Charles W. Osenten, national committeeman, an- O ebers of the West Virginia dele- gation have accepted an invitation to Be guests of Mr. and Mrs. Davis, Sun- day, June 22, at their home &t Locust Valley, Long lsland. i il e Bobbed hair has created a demand for tight-fitting hats; and these. in turn, will cause baldness, according to some of the beauty specialists. Commiittee Organized to Advise ; Coolidge of Party Nomination William F. Whiting: Michigan, C. S. Mott; Minnesota, J. J. Rachac: Missis- sippi. S. D. Redmond; Missouri, Aaron E. Malone; Montana, W. R Allen: Ne- braska. Gould Deitz; Nevada. W. C. Pitt: New Hampshire, Mrs. William H. Scofield; New Jersey, Mra Edith H. Colby: New Mexico, John T. Evan: New York. Bertrand H. Snell; North Carolina, William G. Bramham: North Dakota, William Stern: Ohio, Mrs. William St. Clair Le Van; Oklahoma, Maj. P. J. Hurley; Oregon. S. A. Mat- thieu; Pennsylvania, George W. Maxey: Rhode Island, Richard S. Ald- rich; South Carolina, John H. Good- wrin; South Dakota (selection later); Tennessee, Maurice Chamberlain Texas, T. B. Lee; Utah, Mrs. Alice Col B Vmmon . Srady. Washinston: o8 . Brady; Wasl 2 i Ciarence . Maynard: West Vir- ginta, John Marshall; ' Wisconsin, Eben H. Hunt; Wyoming, Frank W. Mondell; Alasl Thomas Scott: Dis- trict of Columbia. Samuel J, Prescott: Hawsli, Haro . Rice: Philippines, B0 soore; Porto. Rice, K. Mont Reily. COLLADAY-PRESCOTT FACTION IS SEATED D. C. Delegate Contest Settled by Action of G. 0. P. Convention in Cleveland. BRADSHAW LOSES APPEAL Attacks Present Leaders of Party in Capital. By & Staft Corrnapondent. CLEVELAND, June 11.—The Colla- day-Prescott delegates representing the District of Columbia at the Re- publican national convention yester- day were seated by action of the con- vention itself, which adopted a report of the credentials committee recom- mending such action. The delegates thus placed on the permanent roll of the convention are William T. Galli- her and Thomas L. Jones, and alter- nates, C. C. Glover, jr., and James A. Cobb. This winds up the fight made against the Colladay-Prescott faction of the District Republicans made by the Bradshaw faction, at least for the present. The fact that two national conventions successively have recog- nized the Colladay-Prescett faction and held that organization to be rvgular Republican organization of the District of Columbia practically assures itx recognition for at least the next four years, probably for con- siderably longer. Vote Ix Unamimous. The credentials committee of the convention, meeting last night in the city hall, heard the contest brought by the Bradshaw faction at consider- able lenxth. At the conclusion of the hearing %. W. Green of Louisiana, a member of the committee, moved that the Colladay-Prescott delegates be seated His motion was carried with- out a dissenting vote and without a roll call, just as a similar motion was carried in the meoting of the Repub- lican natlonal committee last Wed- nesday, when the same delegates were placed on the temporary roll of the convention. The case of the Bradshaw faction was presented to the credentials com- mitteo by Aaron Bradshaw. one of the contesting delegates, and by E. L. Depaur, a_colored lawyer, from New Jersey. John T. Rhines was the other contesting delegate on the Bradshaw ticket, and the alternates were Albert E. Steinem and Mrs. Pauline Marshall. Mr. Bradshaw had expected Julius 1. Peyser to be pres-- ent to present his case, but received a telegram stating that iliness pre- vented Mr. Peyser's leaving Wash- ington T. L. Littlepage" presented the case for the Colladay-Prescott delegates as he did before the national com- mittee a week ago Seated for 1908 Contest. Mr. Bradshaw, opening for the con- testants, recited his long service to the Republican party. beginning with the nomination and election of Presi- dent Grant He told the committee that for years he had been chairman of the Republican central committee of the District, the recognized or- ganization. In 1908, he said, a con- test was made against him. but he |and his delegates were seated Again in 1912 such contest was made, but again he won out Four years iater, however, he sald, the convention had refused to seat either faction from the Distriet. Out of that action, Mr. Bradshaw said, came the appointment of Ed- ward F. Colladay as national com- mitteeman from the District through the influence of Senator Hemenway. Mr. Bradshaw insisted that his was the legal organization of Republicans in the District and should be recog- nized. He launched into an attack upon Frank J. Hogan, Washington attorney, who was a delegate to the last national convention, and charged that Mr. Hogan was the head and forefront of what Mr. Bradshaw claimed was the “lily white” move- ment among Republicans in the Dis- trict. He_quoted from a speech made by Mr. Hogan recently in Washington before the realtors’ convention, in which Mr. Hogan_attacked Congress. He himself, Mr. Bradshaw said, had great respect for the members of Congress. Igmored by Prescott. Mr. Bradshaw insisted that he had called upon Samuel J. Prescott re- peatedly for information regarding the plans for the election of dele- #ates to the national convention, but had been ignored. He charged, too, that Mr. Prescott, who is chairman of the recognized republican state committee of the District, had stated that he, Mr. Prescott, was the Re- publican boss of the District. In reply Mr. Littlepage sald that much of Mr. Bradshaw’s argument had nothing to do with the case. He insisted that Mr. Colladay’s title to the national committeemanship was clear and could not be disputed. The call for the convention in the District which resulted in the election of Galliher and Jones as delegates and the selection of Mr. Colladay again as national committeeman. he said. was entirely legal and followed all re- quirements. Mr. Littlepage was closely ques- toned by members of the committee and by Depaur, representing Mr. Bradshaw, regarding notices given of the meetings held in the various precincts of the District, #ml of the so-called state convention. Hogan Out of Organization. Mr. Littlepage pointed out that while Mr. Hogan had been a delegate to the last convention, he now had nothing to do with the organization. This organization, he said, was the same that was recognized four years ago by the national convention. This organization, he continued, had raised $50,000 for the national com- mittee during the last campaign, and had raised, in addition, $10,000 to finance it's own work for the Re- publican eause. It sent between 25,- 000 and 30,000 Republican voters domiciled in the District to their home states to vote. The same or- ganization, he said, has already rais- ed $17,000 for the Republican n tional committee to help carry on the coming campaign, and will raise much more. He flatly denied that it was a “1ily white” organization, and point- ed to T. L. Jones and James M. Cobb, delegate and alternate, respec- tively, who. he said, wers leading colored lawyers in the District. Mr. Galliher, he said, was one of the leading citisens of the District, and C. C Glover, jr. was the son of a man who had done a great deal to make the National Capital what it now is, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Never Gave Money. In rebuttal Mr. Bradshaw said that while he had never given money to the Republican coffers. he had given years of service to the Republican cause. Money, he said, doesn't buy elections; they are won by principles. .Don't "talk’ to me of money,” he sald. He then entered upon an attack on the Ku Klux Kian, recalling that in reconstruction days he had been an investigator for the federal govern- ment of outrages performed by the Klan in the south. “When I see Republicans bowing to the Ku Klux Klan today.” said Mr. Bradshaw, “I bow my head in shame.” Depaur concluded the argument with a reiteration of the charges that insufficient notice had been given by Republican central committee of the District of the convention for the election of delegates, and then .S. W. Green, a colored delegate from Lou- islana, made the motion to seat the Colladoy-Prescott delegates and f{t ‘was carried. Mr. Colladay left here last night to 0 to California, called there by. the serious illness of his father i Secreti y of Agriculture Walluce and Speaker Gillett, from a picture telephoned by the Bell System from O leveland to New York. Return of Government to People Demanded in La Follette Platform Public Ownership of Rai ls and Waterpower, Curb on Cqurls. Revision of Peace Treat, Are Urged. By the Assoclated Press. CLEVELAND, June 11.—A proposed platform embodying the views of the La Follette insurgents was placed before the republican resolutions com- mittee by the delegation from W consin. It declares the paramount issue to be the rescue of government and in- dustry from the grip of private mo- nopoly; pledges a housecleaning in the government departments at Washington, and proposes reform of railroad, tax, tariff, banking, conser- vation and agricultural legisiation. Public ownership of railroads and water power is advocated, the Mellon tax plan is condemned. and congres- sional action is demanded to promote and protect farm co-operatiye organi- zations and to lower farm freight rates. Text ot Platform. The text of the platform folloy The great issue befors the Amer- ican people today is the control of government and industry by private monopoly. For a generation the people have struggled patiently in the face of re- peated betrayals "by successive ad- ministrations, to free themselves from this intolerable power which has been undermining representative govern- ment. Through control monopoly has steadily extended of government, its absolute dominion to every basic in- | dustry. In violation of law, crushed competition,’ stified private initiative and independent enterprise, and without fear of punishment now exacts extortionate profits unon every necessity of life consumed by the public. - Equality Wiped Ont. The equality of opportunity pro- claimed by the Declaration of Inde- pendence and asserted and defended by Jefferson and Lincoln as the heri- tage of every American citizen has been displaced by special privilege for the few, wrested from the gov- ernment of the many. ‘That tyrannical power which the American people denied to a king, they will no longer _endure from the monopoly system. The people know they cannot yield to any group the control of the economic life of the nation and preserve their political liberties. They know monopoly has its representatives in the halls of Congress, on the federal bench and in the executive departments: that these servile agents barter away the nation’s natural resources, nullify acts of Congress by judicial veto and administrative favor, invade the peo- ple's rights by unlawful arrests and unconstitutional searches and seiz- ures, direct our foreign policy in the interests of predatory wealth, and make wars and conscript the sons of the common people to fight them. Usarpation by Courts. ‘The usurpation in recent years by the federal courts of the power to nullity laws duly enacted by the legislative branch of the government is a plain violation of the Constitu- tion. ~Abraham Lincoln, in his first inaugural address, sald “The candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the people will have ceased to bo their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their gov- ernment into the hands of that emi- ment tribunal.” The Copstitution specifically vests all legislative power in the Congress, giving that body power and authority to override the veto of the President. The federal courts are given no authority under the Constitution to Vveto acts of Congress. Since the fed- oral courts have assumed to exercise such veto power, it i essential that the Constitution shall give to the Congress the right to override such judioial veto, otherwise the court will make itself master over the other co-ordinate branches of the gowern- ment. The people themselves must approve or disapprove the present ex- ercise of legislative power by the federal courts. Coudition of Agriculture. The present condition of American agrisulture constitutes an_emergency of the gravest character. The Depart- ment of Commerce report shows that during 1923 there was a steady and marked increase in dividends paid by the great industrial corporations. The same is true of the steam and eleotric railways and practically all other large corporations On the other hand, the Secretary of “Agriculture reports that in the fifteen principal wheat-growing states more than 108,000 farmers since 1920 have lost their farms through fore- alosure or bankruptcy: that more than 122,000 have surrendered their property without legal proceedings. and that nearly 375,000 have retained possession of their property only through the lenienoy of their cred- itors, making a total of more than 600,000, or 26 per cent of all farmers. who have virtually been bankrupted sinos 1920 in these fifteen states alone. Almost unlimited prosperity for the great corporations and ruin and bankruptey for agriculture is the direct and logical result of the poi- icies and legisiation whioh deflated the farmer while extending almost unlimited credit to the great corpor- ations; which protected with exorb- itant tariffs the industrial magnates. but depressed the prices of the farm- ors’ products by financial juggling while greatly increasing the cost of what he must buy; which guaranteed excessive freight rates to the rail- roads and put a premium on wasteful management while saddling an un- warranted burden onto the backs of the American farmer; which permit- ted gambling in the products of the farm by grain speculators to the great detriment of the farmer and to the great profit -of the grain gambler. . Awakened by the dangers which menace their freedom and prosperity, the American people still retain the right and courage to exercise their sovereign control over their govern- ment, In.order to destroy the eco- nomic and political power, of monop- oly. which has come between the people and thelr government, we pledge ourselves to the following principles and poifelen: & somplete house- monopoly has | cleaning in the Department of Jus- tice, the Department of the Interior and the other executive departments. We demand that the power of the federal governmetn be used to crush private monopoly, not to foster it 2. We pledge recovery of the Navy's oil reserves and ali other parts of the public domain which have been fraudulently or illegally passed, or otherwise wrongfully transferred, to the control of the private interest: vigorous prosecution of all public of- ficials, private citizens and corpora- ons that participated in these trans- ctions; complete revision of the water-power act, the general leasing act and all other legisiation relating to the public domain. We favor pub- lic ownership of the nation's water- power and the creation and develop- ment of a national superwater power system, and strict public control and permanent conservation of all the na- tion's resources, including coal, iron and other ores, oil and timber lands in the interest of the people 3. We favor repeal of the Esch- Cummins’ railroad law and the fixing of railroad rates upon the basis of actual, prudent investment and cost of service. We declare for public ownership of railroads with definite safeguards agains trol as the only final solution of the transportation problem. Favor Tax Reduction. 4 We favor reduction of federal taxes upon indfvidual incomes and |legitimate business, limiting tax ex- actions strictly to the requirements of the government administered with rigid economy, particularly by cur- tailment of the $800.000,000 now an- nually expended for the Army and Navy in preparation for future wars; by the recovery of the hundreds of millions stolen from the Treasury through fraudulent war contracts and the corrupt leasing of the public resources, and by diligent action to collect the accumulated interest upon the $11,000,000,000 owing us by for- eign governments. We denounce the Mellon tax plan as a device to relieve multi-mil- lianaires at the expense of other tax- payers. and favor a taxation policy providing for immediate reductions upon moderate incomes, large in- creases in the inheritance tax rates upon large estates to prevent the indefinite accumulation by inheritance |0of great fortunes in a few hands: taxes upon excess profits to penalize profiteering _and complete publicity, under proper safeguards, of all federal tax returns 5. We favor submitting to the people for their considerate judgment a constitutional amendment provid- ing that Congress may by re-enacting a statute make it effective over a Judicial veto. © favor such amendment to the Constitution as may be necessary to provide for the election of all federal judges, without party designation, for fixed terms not exceeding ten vears, by direct vote of the people. 6. We favor drastic reduction of the exorbitant duties on manufactures provided in the Fordney-McCumber tariff legislation, the prohibiting of | gambling by speculators and prof- |iteers in agricultural products; the reconstruction of the federal reserve and federal farm loan systems, so as to eliminate control by usurers, speculators and international finan- clers, and to make the credit of the nation available upon fair terms to all and without discrimination to business men, farmers and home builders. We' favor such further legislation as may be needful or heipful in promoting and protecting co-operative enterprises, and demand that the Interstate Commerce Com- mission proceed forthwith to reduee by an approximation to pre-war levels the present freight rates on agricultural ~ products, including live stock, and upon the materials re- quired upon ~American farms for agricultural purposes. 7. We favor abolition of the use of injunctions in labor disputes and de- clare for complete protection of the right of farmers and industrial worke- ers to organize, bargain collectively, and conduct without hindrance co- operative enterprises. We favor prompt _ratification of the pending child labor amendment to the Consti- tution. 8. We favor adjusted compensation for the veterans of the late war, not as charity, but as a matter of right, and we demand that the money neo- essary to meet this obligation of the government be raised by taxes laid upon wealth in_proportion to the ability to pay, and declare our 0pposi- tion to the sales tax or any other device to shift this obligation onto the backs of the poor in higher prices and increased cost of living. 9. We favor a deep waterway from the great lakes to the sea. The gov- ernment should, in conjunction with Canada, take immediate action to Zive the northwestern states an out- let to the ocean for cargoes, without change in bulk, thus making the pri- mary markets on the great lakes equal to those of New York. 10. Over and above constitutions and _statutes and greater than all is the supreme sovereignty of the people, and with them should rest the final decision of all great ques- tions of national policy. ' We favor such amendments to_the federal Con- stitution as may be necessary to provide for the direct nomination and election of the President. to extend the initiative and referendum to ‘the federal government, and to insure a popular referendum for or against war, except in cases of actual in- vasion. 11. We denounce the mercenary system of degraded foreign polioy under recent administrations in the interests of financial imperialists, oil monopolists and international bank- ers, which has at times degraded our Department of State from its high service as a strong and kindly in- termediary of defenseless govern- ments to a trading outpost for those interests and conocession secekers en- gaged in the exploitation of weaker nations, as contrary to the will of the American people, destructive of domestic development and provooa- tive of war. We favor an active for- eign policy to bring about a. revision of the Versailles treaty in accordance with the terms of the armistice, and to promote firm treaty agreements with all nations to outlaw wars, abolish conscription, drastically r duce.land, air and naval armament and guarahtee public-refercndum ou peace and War. f‘ | they have understood from bureacratic con- | CONVENTION HERO Spontaneity of Applause Given Secretary Indicates Vast Follow- ing Throughout U. §. FACES DELEGATES TIMIDLY Hopes for Brief Platform Regarded Slight. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 11.—There are two heroes of this Cleveland con- vention. The first one can be guessed. The Second is Andrew W. Melion, Sec- retary of the Treasury. It was really a thrill to the convention when Tem- porary Chairman Burton announced that he would recognize Mr. Mellon to offer the resolution for the appoint- ment of a platform committes. The applause which greeted the announce- ment was a spontaneous outburst The convention may be “cut and dried” in other respects, but in this instance its tribute to Mr. Mellon wa entirely its own idea. Although he fs an eastern banker, Mr. Mellon is extremely popular in the west, and there are many de gates here who believe that the Se- retary of the Treagury is the second best asset the Republican party has There are some who would like tn see him in the vice presidency, bu: the' first that he would nat accept. There arr others who believe Mr. Mellon wou!(l make a eplendid President. Tha would indeed be a novelty—a mult millionaire in the White House. Mr. = Mellon. supposedly *hard- boiled” financier, was as timid as a kitten when he was hauled mp on the speaker's platform, where all the convention could see him. The spot- lights were turned full on him and he was plainly ill at ease. He did not face the aundience or the broad- casting microphones, but turned ap- pealingly to Chairman Burton, who stood behind him and offered up the resolution {o be read by a reading clerk. Few of the delegates present Tealized that Mr. Mellon was in the convention hall until this incident occurred Some of the oldtimers in the con- vention were inconsiderate enough to remark that Mr. Mellon reminded them something of Gov. Gifford Pin- chot. There are some points of re- semblafice, particularly about the eyes, the moustache and the jaw. But there the resemblance stops. Mr Mellon and Mr. Pinchot like each other tremendously—just like two strange bull dogs Many of the delegates expected that the first session of the convention would adjourn out of respect to the memory of the late President Hard. ing. But if such was the intention of the leaders, they forgot about it a the finish, for the session lasted mach longer than was expected. There was nothing about the first session to suggest Coolidge brevity. It was different today. however, for Per- manent Chairman Mondell cut his ad- dress down to the bone. What he had to say he said briefly and pointedly. Soon after the resolutions committee et it became apparent that Mr. Cool- idge's early dream of a new sort of platform, a very brief one, had not been realized. After Mr. Burton had been speakinz the better part of an hour and showed no signs of reaching his peroration. one of the delegates was heard to re- mark that the Ohioan sounded more like a permanent chairman than a tem- orary one. ¥ ‘Another allowed that instead of be- ing the “keynote" speech, it was the | full score. A complete symphony, said some of the old-timers. The three musketeers of the conven- tion are Representative Nicholas Lonz worth, young Teddy Roosevelt and the immaculate James Francis Burke of Pittsburgh, one time member of the House of Representatives. The three are old friends and inseparables. “Nick” and_“Teddy” are brothers-in- law. Mr. Burke was known as the Beau Brummel of Congress. Even here at the convention, where the dress is mostly informal, 6 o'clock never finds James Franecis out of his dfmmer clothes. Mr. Longworth fs the Repub- lican floor leader of the House a Washington. He is not taking a major role in the convention, however. What does your voice measure? I a hot little room all filled with glow ing tubes and electrical apparatus just back of the stage in Comvention Hall there is an instrument which measures the electrical energy ex pended in putting a voice “on the air.” This applies both to putting it on the air inside the Convention Hal and shooting it through the ether from the broadcasting stations al over the eastern half of the country It may seem a simple matter, this carrving of the human voice by electrical impulse, but. as every voice differs in quality and_intensity, the change from one speaker to another means a whole series of readjust ments in the operating room. Even while one person is speaking the electrical needle which guides the operators at the switchboards does a sort of dervish dance. It gallops from 5 to 50 on the indicator scalc as the inflections of the speaker rise or fall. This fluctuation is not measured by any fixed electrical standards, not by volts or amperes o milleamperes or any of those things but just by an arbitrary scale which Bas come into existence since broad casting was invented There may or may not be signifi cance in the performances being given this week at a local theater by & troupe of trained elephants. Train- ed is truly the word. Never have slephants. been seen so well trained They lay down, roll over. play dead. do the “shimmy,” walk Spanish, fol- low my leader, obey at once the slightest command of their master's voice. They do not need any prod- ding.” The trainer has no spike or stick or other visible means of force or coercion. The elephants just be- have themselves, that's all. and do their stuff exactly as they are told Charley Dawes of Illinois has many backers for the vice presidency, but none more enthusiastic than a’ coi- ored gentleman from the south who made himself a fine blue satin ban- ner and sent it to national commit- tee headquarters, in the Federal Re- i serve Bank buliding. On the biue field there are grand gold letters, and this is what they say: “A world war_veteran for Vice President, Gen, Charles G. Dawes of Tllinofs. He done his bit over there, let's do ours now. Frank E. Hitchcock of New York and Arizona, who was for a brief time “the campalgn manager of the | brief campaign waged for the presi- dential nomination this year by Sen- ator Hiram Johnson of California, is 2 distinguished fgure at the conven- tion. “Hello, Frank,” what are you do- ing here?' asked one of his friende “Just wearing a badge, that's all, replied the one-time Postmaster Gen- eral. with & grin. On his badge were the words: “Former chairman of the Republican national committee.” Just as ex- senators and ex-representatives have the privileges of legislative floors at Washington, so the former committes chairmen have the run of the mna- tional convention halis. Reed Smoot of Utah and Jim Wat- son of Indiana are the only two real old-timers who succeeded ‘in making the platform committee this . year { Both yare -senators -of thcse United |Statea T