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! \ r 3= THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO N, D. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1924 " Ralston Forges to Front Among Dark Horses Under Tag, art’s Maneuvering GLASS STANDS HIGH AMONG CANDIDATES Boosted for Appeal to Mod- erate Liberals and Abil- ity as Campaigner. REMAINS IN BACKGROUND Davis Boom Started Too Soon, Leaving Candidate Open to Early Attacks. BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE, NEW YORK, June 24.—The life his- “tory of all Democratic national con- ventions follows a rather definite course. Typically in a Demoecratic national convention there is a lead- ing candidate, who has nearly a ma- jority of the delegates and who rare- Iy wins. Frequently the two lead- ing eandidates in the earlier ballots of a Democratic national convention destroy themselves, and a modest leader of a rather inconspicuous mi- nority rises into second place and | finally after several day balloting takes the nomination with the neces- sary two-thirds. Cox at San Francisco, Wilson at Baltimore, and Cleveland, in his first nomination, had such a story. The nomination of Bryan in 1896 at Chi- cago differed from this course only in the fact that Bryan in Chicago in 1896 was less conspicuous than were Cleveland and Wilson and Cox. Alton Parker in 1904 at St. Louis represented the organized conserva- tsm of the Atlantic seaboard states and the south, and that year he Dem- ocrats failed to function” according to the ancient Democratic tradition. Glass Has Big Chanoe. This vear the stage is set in the £ood old-fashioned Democratic way, and if the Democratic convention fol- Jows its regular course McAdoo will be eliminated after the fifth ballot end Smith a few ballots later. Then will begin the rise of some rather modest candidate, who will start with possibly less than 200 votes and gradually increase his strength while McAdoo ‘and Smith are tearing each other's hearts out in the death strug- gle. Over this death strugglie will hover the spirits of the great Demo- cratio dead who have entered the first Zates of oblivion through such a struggle—Palmer and Champ Clark and Harmon, David Bennett Hill, Thomas F. Bayard and Horatio Sey mour. Must Smell Blood. If cither Smith or MoAdoo is nomi- nated it will be a striking violation of all Democratic precedent. A Dem- ocratic convention has to smell the blood of a death struggle before it can decide who it will honor. All of which is a figure of speech, meaning that in Democratic conven- tions generally the second<hoice man wins. And when two Strong antag- onists meet, neither is the second cholce of ({wo-thirds. The second- choice man is the inoffensive and in- conspicuous Democrat who remains benevolently neutral while the leading arntagonists are staging their death | struggle. Glass in Good Place. | Today, while Smith and McAdoo are playing Brier Fox and the tar-baby, it looks as though Carter Glass of Vir-g ginia, like Br'er Rabbit, is lying low _and saying nothing. He is in a per- fectly safe position to be the second- choice nominee for the convention, but he has no great point of advantage. Ralston of Indiana, John W. Davis of West Virginia or possibly Under- wood is in a splendid position to com- mand the second-choice nomination of the convention. Glass has better points as a candi- | date than the others. In the heat of campaign he would become tremen- dously interesting, as he does become when his temper {is aroused He would say biting, important and con- vincing things as the Democratic na- tional candidate. Middle Independent Group. Ralston would bea typical plug-hat- Prince - Albert - coat - white - vested Democrat, who would stand for noth- ing in particular and make no ene- mies and few converts. Underwood would, of course, as a candidate, place the Democratic party in a reactionary agtitude not unlike that of the Re- _#ublicans. \"Ahe Davis boom has been exposed oo soon. It is gathering enemies be- cause of its prominence. The first day of a convention is no place for an aspiring second-choice candidate to show strength. All those back of him snap at him. Mr. Bryan has dashed out to bite at Davis by calling attention to the fact that Davis is a Morgan attorney. The facts are that even as a Morgan at- torney probably Mr. Davis would be the most eftective liberal candidate that the party could nominate. Would Be Liberal. The very fact that he had been an attorney for the Morgans would make him lean away from Wall street if /he were sent to the White House, and it is probable if he were nominated he would develop in his speeches and n his public attitude arather obyious ihberallem which would attract the middle-ground independent _liberals who are not quite radical enough for Ta Follette and who are rather deep- 1y disgusted with the Republican icket and platform. ket o this mroup located to the right of La Follette and far to the Teft of Coolidge, to this group which he residuary legatee of the Roose- B0 Moose tradition, that the Democrats must appeal if they win this election. Carter Glass or John W. Davis could talk to this middie- independent group. Underwood could not, McAdaa would lose it, Smith would divide it and Ralston would make it weary beyond words. Fear of Borah. Young Bob La Follette is around the convention scouting for his father. ) B There is a disquieting rumor i the corridors of the political hotels here that Borah is considering, rather seriously, taking the independent momination at Cleveland. It lacke tion, tlis rumor, but it is S ne pamocratic leaders con Slderable anxiety. Borah would ap- peal to the crowd which is now with- Sut leadership in the country, the erowd mot quite so radical as La Follette and vastly more liberal than Coolidge. He would make the inde- pendent movement |formmAb!s in state in the union. ¥ These Democratic conventions have in the rank and file of the delega- tlons.much more political acumen ah@ ‘discretion than the rank and file in Republican conventions display. A Republican_convention is led by its bosses. The _delegates, - generally, take orders.. Plans are made more in secret: little is left for decision on the floor of the convention. “If it were known, or even reasona- Sly presumed, that Borah would be I Placed on Committee MRS. MARY WRIGHT JOHNSON, Named as natio from the District of Columbia, during the convention. BIG TICKET GRAB BY M’ADOO DENIED Rockwell, Answering Report of Corner on 2,800 Seats, Says He Has Only 490. STRATEGY LEADERS MEET Candidate to Conduct Floor Drive From Hotel. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 24— As the Democratic national convention was getting under way today, William G. McAdoo continued conferences with his advisers looking to the strengthening of his lines in the battle of ballots that is to come. William Jennings Bryan was the first caller of the day at his head- quarters. Scores of delegates from various states also were among vis- itors and the entire Georgia delega- tion visited the presidential candi- date, singing a song under the title of the campaign slogan “McAdoo’ll do.” Published charges that the McAdoo forces had ‘“cormered” 2,900 tickets to the convention brought a vigorous denial from David Ladd Rockwell, the campaign manager. It was as- serted that in place of the one thousand tickets promised, the Me- Adoo headquarters received only two hundred. These were augmented by two hundred others donated by state delegations favorable to the McAdoo candidacy. To Remain at Hotel. While the convention's sessions are in progress, McAdoo will remain at his hotel, but will be in constant communication with his campaign | manager over a direct telephone wire into Madison Square Garden. He per- sonally will direct the strategy on the basis of reports which will be re- layed to him from the extensive floor organization which has been created. At a caucus of the Kansas delega- tion today Gov. Jonathan M. Davis, Kansas choice for the presidential nomination, declared in favor of Wil- liam G. McAdoo. He told the dele- gates from his state that whenever fit to leave him he wished that they would throw their strength to McAdoo. The caucus de- cided that the Kansas vote would be given to Gov. Davis until & majority of the Kansas delegates on the floor of the convention decided to make a switch. strategy to be used against Borah. After many weary hours of wran- Eling the sense of the meeting would be the sense of the delegates on the floor. In' a Republican convention the sense of the meeting would be the sense of the leaders assembled in the various rooms—perhaps a higher sense, probably a better course of acting, everything considered, but not a Democratic impulse. Many Irish There. The face of this convention that is assembling is the urban face. In its composite are a good many lines from the map of Ireland. The south fs conspicuous by its clothes, by a cer- tain hauteur of manner, by a certain aristocratic cut of its jib. But the Irish, the city Irish, from every town of over one hundred thou- sand in the United States, are here, filling up the delegations of even prairie states like Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri and perhaps making the preponderance of the mountain min- ing states like Montana and Colorado. They make Smith possible as a nom- inee. These Irish, for the most part, are city bosses and sub-bosses in city Democratic organizations. They are second and third genera- tion Irish, and sometimes one of them develops talent as an orator. Doubt- less when it comes to putting the fa- vorite sons from the high srass be- fore the convention as presidential and vice presidential candidates, these young Irish orators will turn their impassioned blah-blah on to the convention with an awful lot of crackling statistics. It used to be the old south that furnished the fervid oratory of Democratic conventions, but now we shall probably have to listen for hours to Erin go brah, as well as to the arduous oratorical fire that pours from the southern heart. ery Near Soll. These people for all their good clothes and their urban sophistication, are very near the soil from which the Erass-roots grow. There is probably a larger per cap- ita of red flannel underwear in this convention than in any other that has met or will meet in the United States this year, not barring the parlor bol- shevists at St. Paul or the great plain people at the La Follette convention in_Cleveland next month. It is a sad commentary upon the wisdom of Democracy, that instead of occupying itself with the deep issues that are stirring the hearts of the world in politics, the poverty of mind of the folks is evidenced by the fact that here in the hotels and in the con- vention halls the chief {ssue is not politics, but the bigotry of religion. We are come upon sad days. + (Copyright, 1924, by The Bell Syndicate, Ine.) BERRY IS FAVORED. Missouri Defeats Move to Quit Bloc Vote. NEW YORK, June 24—What was declared by delegates to be an at- tempt to defeat the unit rule failed in the conference yesterday of the. Missouri delegates, who voted to sup- port W. G. McAdoo until such time candidate, these Democratic dele ;‘m' would in the end decide the as the delegates, by a majority vote, may decide otherwise. DELEGATES FAVOR SMITH PROPOSAL Think Well of Idea That Can- didates Show Wares Be- fore Convention. COX ONLY ABSENTEE All Other Nomination Seekers Could Meet Suggestion of New York Governor. BY ROBERT T. SMALL, NEW YORK, June 24.—Gov. Al Smith's proposal that all of the aspi- rants for the Democratic presidential nomination stand up before the con- vention and show themselves and give & demonstration of their wares has been taken seriously by more than a handful of the delegates. Not that they have any idea the proposed pres- idential parade can be made & pos- sibility this year, but they regard the suggestion as a logical outcome of the quadrennial scramble for the old party nominations. Four years ago at Chicago all of the principal contenders for the Re- publican crowd were on the scene of battle directing_ their own forces. There was Gen. Wood and Gov. Low- den and Senator Harding and Hiram Johnson—all four of ‘em. All But Cox Preseat. It is the same way this year with the Democrats. Nearly all of the con- tenders are here. It 50 happens that the convention is being held in the home town of two of the principals, Al Smith and John W. Davis. New York also used to be the home of Mr. McAdoo and he is trying familiar soil now that he is back here from Cali- fornia. In addition to these Senator Underwood is here and Senator Car- ter Glass and Gov. Bryan and Gov. Davis of Kansas, and & half a score or more of additional dark horses Former Gov. Cox of Ohio, urged to come on even since convention week began, has declined once more'to be drawn into the melee. It certainly would add dramatical- ly to the interest of a national con- vention if a rule should be adopted requiring all the aspirants to present themselves before the delegates. The nomination then would resolve itself into a sort of joint debate with some 1,098 judges sitting out in front. Whatever a man might have of per- sonality, of forensic power, of logi- cal argument, would come to the front and aid' him in his quest. It might even be provided that the as- piring sons of the Democracy or of the G. O. P., as the case might be, would have to a: ver a certain num- ber of questions which might be pro- pounded to them. Of course, the pro- ceedings might take on the nature of a Kilkenny affair before they were concluded, but the delegates and visitors surely’ would have a good time while it lasted Man No Longer Sought. Apparently there no longer is an overwhelming notion that the highest office in the gift of the people should seek the man. The presidency has become a plum to be fought for—a case of every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost. In 1920 the Democrats had their tryouts at a Jefferson day dinner in Washington. As a matter of fact, there were two dinners and each speaker had to do a double turn. Gov. Cox was one of the starters and when the convention came along he won. This year the dinner ex- periment was not repeated. That a personal appearance before the convention would be a good thing for many of the aspirants goes with- out saying. History holds more than one instance of a man rising actually from the convention floor to the nom- ination. Mr. William Jennings Bry- an's experience was not without prec- edent. Take the case of Senator Samuel Ralston of Indiana, for instance. A great many stories have been going the rounds about the senator's “in- firm” old age and his general ‘weak- ened” physical condition. If the senator could be here and speak to the convention he would show ‘em. He is one of the finest physical types in the Senate and can do as hard a day’s work as any man twenty years his_junior. Since the age of the senator has been brought into €0 much question, it might be well to let him speak for himself. His own brief autobiog- raphy in the Congressional Directory gives the date of his birth as Decem- ber 1, 1857. He is, therefore, in his sixty-seventh year. Gov. Al Smith has been ‘“smoked out” at last by the prohibitionists. He is literally and truly the “wet- test” aspitant whose claims are be- ing pressed before the convention. He goes down to the ocean every afternoon and takes a cooling dip in the briny while the delegates are milling around the city hotels and suffering from the heat Pictures of the governor “in the drink” are be- ing circulated. The campalgn being waged here by Mr. McAdoo is reminiscent of the Hiram Johnson fight at Chicago in 1920. Senator Johnson arrived on the scene dramatically to take charge of his own canvass. He addressed his delegates and admirers numerous times from hotel balcony and at in- door gatherings. He exhorted his hearers to stand fast to their colors, to pay no attention to reports in the newspapers and to strike down the sinister forces of capitalism and cor- ruption. Senator Johnson, like Mr. McAdoo, has trekked east from Cali- fornia, ~Mr. McAdoo is making the same sort of speeches, the same sort of appeal today. But the McAdoo fol- lowers are confident their delegates will remain firmer than the scores who were pledged to Hiram and then voted for Harding. Senator Johnson never recovered from the bitterness of that fight. An immense pioture of John W. Davis at the entrance to the lobby of the Waldorf is attracting the admir- ing attention of the woman delegates and visitors. The former ambassa- dor to Great Britain is one of the handsomest, if not the handsomest man in the big contest. “He certainly has a fine face” sighed one of the fair visitors, as her male escort somewhat gruffly said, “Oh, come along! Willlam Jennings Bryan, rushing about the Waldorf corrido! found himself at one time almost within the portals of the Underwood boom. Mr. Bryan and the senior senator from Alabama love each other like a couple of strange bull dogs. When the commoner realized where his un- wary feet had almost taken him, he did ‘a regular Charley Chaplin skid in reversing his course. Not a few persons observed his discomfiture ‘“Hope there are no reporters pre ent” smiled the Nebraska-Floridan. But, of course, there were. Newton D. Baker, delegate from Ohio, nominator of James Cox and commonly regarded as one of the darker horses in the race himself, faced a room full of reporters on- his arrival with the same self- possession that he used to show at (Washington, when he was Secretary of War. Mr. Baker has a ready wit nd a mind that never walts or ‘reaches” for a word. He is even better in &n intérview than Secretary Hughes. ©On the occasion of his first intep- SQUARE DEAL ASKED BY FARM CANDIDATE Gov. Jonathan M. Davis of Kansas, Aspirant for Presidency, Makes Plea. WOULD ELIMINATE TARIFFS State Head Also Favors Improve- ment of Credit Extensions. & By a Staff Correspondent. NEW YORK, June 24—“Why give the farmer a square deal? Why not make the farmer's dollar equal in purchasing value to that of other people in this country? I should think that you other people in this farmer is able to purchase the clothes and other things he needs their pros- perity will be short lived. too." Gov. Jonathan M. Davis of Kan- sas, the sunflower state's scandidate for the Democratic nomination for President. has the farmer and his problems on his mind. Why shouldn’t he? He is a farmer himself and is governor of a state of farmers and his supporters insist that it is the farmers’ vote in the west that must cratio party is to win at the poils, and that Gov. Davis would “fill the bill.” Discassed Ald to Farmers. In his headquarters at the McAlpin Hotel today, awaiting the opening of lthe national convention, Gov. Davis {talked briefly about what should be done for the farmers. His recreations from the job of governor, his friends say, are “farming and fishing.” He has the look of a good farmer., He is sturdy as a rock. barrel chésted. capable of handling a pitchfork with the best of them. He has the patience to_make a good fisherman. The governor is only fifty-two vears old. Besides being a farmer, he is a graduate of the University of Kansas. and has a degree from the University of Nebraska. He is a reader and a student. He is as conservative as any land owner and as progressive as any man who realizes that there must be some better method of distribution of farm products and of the wealt of the nation. He is a “dirt farmer. He owns 1,700 acres of land and he farms it himself, when he gets away from the gubernatorial mansion. The governor belleves that the high' protective tariff is all in the in- terests of the industrialist, and that it is bearing down on the farm. ‘Take the tariff off the goods the farmer must buy, give him a chance.” said the governor. He speaks slowly and_distinctly, weighing his words. He bas a square, broad face, watch- ful eyes. His hair is getting a little sparse on top. He is bronzed from outdoor life—though he wields a hoe in preference to a golf club. One of the things which the gov- ernor would like to do for the farmer is to improve the methods by which credit is extended to him. Ninety-Day Note Insufficient. “It doesn’t do much good to loan a farmer who wants to raise pig® money on a ninety-day note was the way he put it. The farmer, in his opinion, does not want paternalism from the gov- ernment. What he does want, said the governor, is an equalization with the rest of the country. He is not inclined now, he said, to favor such legislation as that proposed in the McNary-Haugen bill. In a measure, he said, the emergency faced by the farmers has passed, leaving many of them in desperate condition. He favors the development of co-oper- ative marketing, though. The governor has been taking an active part in the last day or two in the framing of an agricultural plank by a “farm blod” here for presentation to the platform com- mittee. The governor is no Kansas cyclone. He is not likely to sweep the coun- try off its feet should the nomina- tion come his way. But, on the other hand, shake him off his feet. - - view at the convention Mr. Baker an- swered a broadside of questions about the “last political will and tes- tament” of his friend, Woodrow Wil son. And if it was not the same efore the convention, Mr. Dol evating another inveterate pipe smoker. It is a strange thing how a pipe makes for placidity. 0o man can ever be flustered or excited, ap- parently, so long as the old pipe is there to draw on. Rodin's famous “Thinker’” should have held 2 pipe in one hand. i The_Al Smith followers were de- lighted_ when the governor found his lost collis dog. The pup had been missing_from home for & couple of days. The Smith camp had visions of some one kicking their dog around; even if he wasn't {romy Mis« (Copyright, 1924.) not | country would realize that unless the | be placated this year, if the Demo- | the nomination would not | NEW YORK, June 24.—Souvenirs for friends are being distributed by’ the principal campaign headquarters. | Razors wait at the offices of Gov.| Alfred E. Smith and by mistake one was put in his hands by an enthusi- astic booster. A friend of the candi- date said: “Does that mean a close shave for you, Governor?” “No,” retorted Mr. cates safety for us. Smith, “it indi- Twelve hundred policemen, oper- ating In two shifts, were assigned today to the Madison Square Garden | zone for the protection and guidance of convention delegates and visitors. A special detail of 320 policemen and | Afty plainclothes men also have been |added to the regular forces in the Times Square section where the bright lights blossom for those who |have time to frisk and play after | dark. | Mrs. Ines Knight Allen, one of Utah's delegates-at-large to the Dem- ocratic convention. doesn't agree with her husband, R. E. Allen, of Provo, on politics. Two.weeks ago he was in Cleveland as a delegate to the Republican convention. | Arrangements for broadcasting the ! | proceedings of the convention as ar- | ranged by the American’ Telephone and Telegraph Company and the Ra- dio Corporation of America are ex- | pected to make the big show avail- abie to 50,000,000 people. Of course, hardly that many will hear the | speeches and balloting, but half the | population of the country could listen in_if they had radio sets. The Convention Hall is hooked up with fifteen stations located as far| | west as Kansas City. | “The tragedy of the tickets,” is the latest production of the conven- tion. Delegates and their friends, here from all parts of the country, for the moment have forgotten can- ddates and planks. They want tickets to the big show in Madison Square Garden. And the tickets are not to be had. The candidates who could pass out the greatest number of tickets would have the votes of the crowds here today. The Smith people are accusing the McAdoo people, and the McAdoo people are accusing the Smith people. Fach side says that they have been defrauded out of their proper num- ber of tickets. The fact of the matter is, there aren't enough tickets to go round, and there never were enough. Some tickets have been printed ad- mitting to the “balcony,” but with- out any coupon showing the number of the seats. Fear is expressed that after galning admission the sergeants-at-arms of the convention will rush these ticket holders out, because they have no seats. The Democratic national committee has distributed the tickets accord- ing to the size of the state delega- tions, allotting two seats for cach elegate, or vote, in each delegation. he candidates thought they were entitled to a special number of tickets, and they are omitting roars of pain that can be heard around New York. How are they going to reward their faithful followers? The Pennsylvania delegation, one party of it at least, is up in arms. It appears the national committee- man, James M. Guffey, signed for all 152 ‘tickets allotted the delegation, and did not turn any over to the na- tional committeewoman of the state,. whereupon the national committee- woman, Miss Mary Archer, went up in the air, and the incident threatens {o disrupt the party in the Keystone, te. g Here {s the song the Dernocrats are singing today in convention hall, it is inscribed on the back of thou- sands of little fans: “Keep cool without Coolidge, and fan with this fan; every woman is now with us as well as her man. “Cal's kite and Cal's tail can’t fly very high. in a Democratic year, boys, Hell-Maria, good-bye." The newest campaign device made its appearance in New York streets last night. It's an electric campaign button. You press the button an an illuminated picture of McAdoo appears. You press it again, and a smiling ‘photograph of Al Smith is exposed. - And what do’you suppose the Smith people are giving to the women as souvenirs of thelr New York visit? Fans, with Al's photograph on them, and the cutesy and handsomest puff boxes with a fne picture of the gov- rnor enamelsd on-the cover. = But even. this does mnot_satisty some of the women. One fad tane nerve ‘to ask it a lipstick Aid not go' with the puff box and still another remarked that-she thought it would be a capital iden to give away curling irong. . - “Wouldn't = you- like an electric iron?" asked one of the distributors of Smith souvenirs. “Sorry we are The dry enforcement squad really is doing " effective work ' under the] direction of the ashington chiet ‘whom. Wayne. B, - ler summoned to New York. Ssveral damp places about_the big hotels have been dried up. Roy Haymes, the head of the bureau, has plante@ sieuths in sev- eral restaurants, and immediately the barkeeps Weére or@isred-to sell nothing bpt-aear beecrand pther soft drinke, Last night. Wheeler, Director Haynes | and Chief Yellowler dined together. At best, a hotel is a poor place sleep, but with this convention erow roaming the streets and the hotel corridors all night long, it is almost impossible to get more than a few hours' rest. Quite a number of dele- gates of nervous temperament have Ziven up their rooms, and have gone out of town, returning cach morning to mix in the fracas “Have you heard of the two new verbs ™ Meredith Nicholson as the two met in the Waldorf this morning to exchange notes on the progress of Senator Ralston's campaign. “No, what are they, I'll bite! said the poet poli- tician. “Well, T have this on the best of authori Within the last vix months, 1 have met the grand kieagle of the Klan on the train in my travels about the state, and one day I asked him: ‘What are you up to around here? I have seen you trequently of late’ ‘My dear sir said he, ‘T am here on official business. First, we kiux them and then later we re-Klux them.'' Nicholson, by the way, try to break into the Indiana state say this fall, and if he succeeds, he says, he is Eoing to devote himself to' smashing the direct primary which he says tative government and is contrary to all true democracy. “Well, Il be blowed,” exclaimed a New York delegate, getting up from his chair and puiting out his hand to greet a man accompanied by a woman and a boy from lowa. If hers ain't Gov. Willlam Sulzer. Hello Bill, put it there™ and the two clasped hands and chatted about old times. \When Sulzer departed his friend remarked: “He had a check- ered and stormy career. I remem- ber, as if it were yesterday. the day that the legislature stripped him of his office and Bill Sulzer went out to face a cold and heartless world. He was a vigorous and interesting figure in our political life, but he was too strong-headed. and when he departed from the narrow path of rectitude, there were plenty ready to jump on him, and they did. He tells me that he is making good in the law. the ~ governorship. his brother, who lived in the west, died and left him $250,000, so Bill. T am glad to sa is on Basy street. He wasn't a bad sort of chap, but he made too many enemies in politics to get away with ‘what he did, and he paid the penalty. CAROLINA DELEGATION IS AT ODDS ON McADOO Instructed as Unit, Some Seek to Enow How Long They Are Bound. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 24.—North Caro- lina delegates. instructed for McAdoo at their caucus yesterday raised the question of how long they were to vote for him, inasmuch as some of their number do not favor his can- didacy. Josephus Daniels, former secretary of the Navy, took the platform and urged the delegates not to take any action which “would embarrass” Mr. McAdoo in his candidacy. Some delegates announcing they “are not for McAdoo and know oth- ers who aren’t” demanded to know how long they were bound. Gov. Morrison leaped to his fest to declare that the question was ill- advised, that every declegate was bound_“by duty to the voters of the sovereign state of North Carolina and to their individual consciences” to enter the convention with no one but McAdoo in mind. A motion was put, however, under which the delegation would make plain how long it in- tended voting for McAdoo. Mr. Daniels at that point took the plat- form. ) “I realize,” he said, “that while we arb instructed to vote for Mr. McAdoo until he is nominated, this delegation is not unanimously for him. We are bound by the unit rule. 1-do not favor the unit rule, and long have advocated its abrogation. But we come to this convention as a unit with- definite tnstructions from the people Baek fome, and I belleve it would be a grave error to give any sign that we were comsidering dis- regarding those instructions. “We will have ample time in the convention, before and after balloting begins, to consider this question more fully. I believe it would be a mistake to g0 on record now, in any évent.” " . The motion was® withdrawn. The gelegation bas twenty-four votes. _GLASS TO BE OFFERED. Virginia Prepares to Push Presi- dential Candidacy. NEW YORK, June 24—The Vir- ginia delegation ip_caucus yesterday definitely: decided formally to place Senitor Carter Glass in nomination for the presidency, and appointed a committee -of five, with H. F. Byrd as chairman,-to make the necessary ar- rangements. It -was" understood that Senator Swanson, elected delegation chair- man, may :be. felécted to make the nominating speach. : = z asked an Indiana friend of | is going to | is breaking down represen- | Since he was chucked out of | { | mer of Montana, AD TICKET RUSH JAMS CONVENTION Charges of Favoritism Distributing Cards Vehe- mently Denied. in 30,000 ASK 13,000 SEATS All Delegates and Alternates Cared For, Trouble Being With Their Friends. By the Asmeiated Pross NEW YORK rumors of the ance of tickets to the Democratic na- tional convention, and reports that various candidates dad been favored in the Aistribution sought-for thick and fast tod and were em Dhatically refuted by J. Bruce Kre hair: 24.—Sensational ous disappear- cards of admission, fiow vice ¢ an the national committee and chairman of the committee on tickets Taking refuge behind locked doors from the crowds which stormed i the corridors in a last belated effor to obtain zdmission to the opening session of the convention, Mr. Kreme denounced the reports the irre larities in the distrit on of tic s “ridiculous, sil | foundation.’ Reports from the Democratic national convemtion coming im to the mews room of The Star by telegraph, radio and telephone. CONVENTION SIDELIGHTS MAULED IN KEYNOTE Harrison Surpasses Record for Bit-| ter Invective—Fall Made | Butt of Satire. | G. 0. P. MERCILESSLY t |PLEA FOR PARTY HARMONY Memory of Wilson Invoked to Pla- | cate Embattled Candidates. ‘ BY DAVID LAWRENCE. MADISON SQUARE GARDEX, YORK, June 24.—Pat Harrison, senior senator from Mississippi, discipie of Woodrow Wilson and the chief ha- ranguer of the Democratic party in the Senate, opened the presidential campaign of 1924 today by proclaim- ing the issues upon which the candi- | aates nominated here and the Demo- | cratic brethren generally will seek |to turn the Republicans out of power. | No political speech In recent years | compares with it either in bitterness |of invective or penetrating satire; no | epeech has ever been fashioned like unless it the denunciation of |the Wilson administration made by | Senator Henry Cabot Lodge at Chi- |cago in 1920 or a few weeks later at Marion, O! | Full of Partisan Fire. What Representative Burton's kes note specch at Cleveland lacked in partisan fire is supplied in great | abundance in Senator Harrison's re- | lentless reply to the Republican plat- | form of 1924. The keynote here, however, is exactly what the! | Democrats wanted. For several days! copies of it have been in circulation, |and from every quarter have come ex- | | pressions of ‘deep satisfaction with | the document as almost a platform in_itself. | 1f thers has been doubt that the| Democratic party would £o to the| | country and point the finger of scorn | at Albert B. Fall, still free on his| ranch, that doubt has been removed. | If there has been anv doubt that the | | Democrats would point accusingly to | the quick work of the Department of | | Justice in indicting Senator Wheeler | of Montana, while no_effort was made | to indict Albert B. Fall, that doubt, too, has been removed. Gives Own Party Eulogy. | | Corruption in the government under | | the Republican regime and a chal- {lenge to any one to point to a single case of corruption by any high offi- cial or member of Congress of Demo- cratic affiliation may be said to be the basis of Senator Harrison's whole appeal. Whatever Mr. McAdoo did in his relations of lawyer to client happened after he left public office. The Mississippi senator takes credit for the Democratic party for the ex- posuro of Albert B, Fail's record as Secretary of the Interior and the driving out of office of the Sccretary of the Navy and the Attorney Gen- eral. He asks the Republican party to look up what its fifty-one invest gating_committess found in connec- tion with the Democratic administra- tion during the war. Apart from the Teapot Dome scan- dal, which_is not to be allowed to | slumber, Senator Harrison reveals the plan of the party leaders to make political capital out of the Mellon tax plan. They welcome the plea of President Coolidge for the Mellon plan and utilize again the argument that moro_taxpayers are benefited under the Demoeratic plan, fathered by Senator Simmons of North Caro- lina and Representative Garner of Texas, than would have been the case had the Mellon plan been adopted 0ld-Fashioned Oratory. Mostly it was an old-fashioned po- litical speech, with all sorts of dag- ger-throwing, in tne hope of dividing the Republickn party. Caustic refer- ences to the fact that Senator Borah refused to foin Coolidge as a running mate and to the effort at Cleveland to punish the friends of the soldier bonus were not omitted by Senator Harrison. Candidacies have been for the mo- | ment forgotten. Sensitive to the inner currents of the convention and the menace of possible friction because of the factional differences that have arisen, Senator Harrison made a plea for party harmony. His eulogy of Woodrow Wilson was in itself an ap- peal for a reunion of all elements in the party-in a common caus: “It would seem now.” he concluded, “we can ‘hear the soft voice of sweet reasonableness coming to us from | Monticello, the voice of Old Hickory coming across the Blue Ridge from the Hermitage, and from that historic crypt at St Alban's we hear the mighty volce of Woodrow Wilson, wistfully calling to us. ‘To you from falling “hands we throw the torch. Hold it high! Hold it high! Carry on, carry on; keep the faith; keep the faith!" (Copyright, 1924.) NEW be - TEXAS BACKS OWSLEY. NEW YORK, June 24—The candi- dacy of Alvin Owsley, former national commander of the American Legion and. native Texan, for the vice presi- dential nomination was unanimously indorsed yesierday by the Texas del- egation, ~ .._ =peech | Each Delegate Provided. At the headquarters of all th délegations there was an insa demand for tickets, and in many stances state chairmen were ex ing their inability to meet th mand by remarks which have interpreted as reflections work of the national committe charge of the distribution. Each del egate and each alternate has been provided for, but the cam. from the visitors who accon panied the delegations in 1 capacit Charges that candidates in the distribution denied by Chairman serted that the national cor fully carrled vehemen: emer, Who dopted by nittee had been out. Mr. Kre clared that he was prepared to € recelpts for the tickets to his declaration. Strongest Demand Recorded. Never before in the memory some of the oldest convention at tenders has the demand for ticke Leen greater. In defending himse against the loudly-voiced complaint from those frantically attempting t get a seat in the convention hal Chairman Kremer stated that he was confronted with thetimpossible task of getting 30,000 or 40.000 persons ir space provided for 13,00 State chairmen are meet the protests and showered upon them by members of their parties who have been unable to obtain tickets by dis- tributing their quota of extra tickets, which each delegation ha supplied upon an apport basis fixed by the national co hat each person accompanying the dslegation will have an opportun ity to attend at least one session DENIES DOHENY DONATED MONEY TO HELP McADOO Campaign Manager Says Charge of Pre-Convention Financing Is “Utter Lie.” NEW YORK, June 24—Dawvid Rockwell, manager of the Wi MeAdoo campaign, last night denied a statement published here vesterday that ¥. L. Doheny, the had man, ha plan attemnting complain ortunate Lada s contributed $10,000 or $35,000 to the McAdoo campaign for Presi “The assertion containe 4 ticle in the New York Evening Pr owned and controlled by the rich F publican Curtis interests, th pre-convention campaign of was financed by E. L. Doheny course, an utter lie” Mr. Rockwe sald. “Mr. Doheny has not contril uted one cent to the McAdoo paign. Such a flagrant and pater misrepresentation comes from bi one cause—the determination of t predatory interests at all cests block the fon of the man whom they j fear” LOS ANGE! June 24— heny, millionaire oil man and form client of William G. MeAdc day issued the following response to queries as o u was helping to finance McAd paign for the Democratic presidentia nomination. T am leaving the privilege of co tributing to Mr. McAdoo's camps to those who beileve in the effors a lawyer who deserts his client whe he is under attack, after having re ceived substantial retainers for lega services. Those who believe th such a course is ethical no doubt b: ieve Mr. McAdoo would make a good President of the United States.” o ANTI-KLAN PLANK 0. K.’D BY BAY STATE GROUP Dry Law Changes Also Favored by Massachusetts Delegates—Walsh Named Spokesman. By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, June 24.—An anti- Klan plank was approved by the Massachusetts delegation to the Dem- ocratic national convention yesterday with instructions to Senator Walsh, who will represent the state upon the resolutions committee, to vigorousls press for its incorporation in the party platform. The delegation also adopted a reso 1ation declaring for a modification of the Volstead act. An_offort to instruct the delegation for Gov. Smith failed. although his name was received enthusiastically Charles H. Cole of Boston will second Gov. Smith's nomination. Senator Walsh, in addition to being made the state's representative on the resolutions committee, also was chosen to act as delegation chairman, and Daniel J. Daley for the rule committee. Mayor Edward W. Quinn of Cam- bridge was elected by the delegation as national committeeman A _protracted fight over the seating of Frank J. Hennessy as an alternate in the sixth district was ended by re- ferring the dispute to a committee of three to determine his eligibility, the charge having been made that he is a Republican. CORDELL HULL RECOVERS Convention Chairman Revives After Heat Prostration. MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, New York, June 24.—Chairman Hull of the Democratic nat{onal committee was on his feet agafn today after an ats tack of exhaustion and heat prostra- tion. The chairman had sufficiently recoversd last night to attend Mayor Hylan's dinner to the delegates. To- day he t-as ready to bring the con- vention to order.