Evening Star Newspaper, June 27, 1924, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1924. bd 3 Jockeying for Positions Continues Feverishly Among Democratic Chieftains PARTY CHEFS I HOPES N RECES Given Initial Ballots as Index, Leaders Wil Bargain Over Week End. RESULT ANYBODY’S GUESS One Inside Platform View Holds S Klan Mention Would Be Futile Gesture. BY FRERERICK WILLIAM W NEW days YORK. June four of planning, After plotting and per- SPiring the Democratic national con- vention has reached exactly—no- where. Its cardinal issues, platform and presidential candidate, uare enshrouded in doubt as the: @ week ago. The so-called preliminary trials of strength, consisting of fluor demonstrations for the leading can- didates and a seratch vote on an ad- journment, have nd gone Wwithout singling anybody out as the coming victor. The committee on resolutions has been tied in a knot for the past three days and nights, especially nights. On the Ku Klux Klan, the league of nations and prohibition many and bitter counsels prevail. No matter What emerges from the committee on these contentious issues, the plat- form is altogether likely to be fash- ioned in final form by the convention were come itself. Whenever the time arrives it Wwill be the signal, unl a miracle intervenes, for as fierce a battle as ever was waged upon a convention floor. Only Ballots Will Tell. With McAdoo, Smith, Underwood and a field of dark horses now formally placed in nomination, the Jockeving *for position has set in. Opening ballots will be necessary to form even an early judgment as to probable results. In every camp there is a burning anxiety for at least half a dozen ballots before Saturday night These are desired because the Sunday week end recess will give time for conferences, deals and trades. In those _behind-the-scenes negotiations, undoubtedly, the riddle will be solved. It will be the bosses’ hour. It is the week end deadlock ‘upon . Which the Brennans, the Taggarts, the Smiths, the Hagu. the Moores, the Rockwells, the Ropers and the political stars’ of lesser magnitude long have had their gaze fixed and their minds riveted. Few conven- tion insiders ever expected that this Democratic Armageddon would at this stage be farther advanced than it is. The fear now haunting the leaders’ souls is that they may have succceded in tying the comvention into such a knot that many days may be required to unravel it. Pre- dictions are freely offered today that the Democrats will be lucky if they bury their differences and reach con- glusions by July 5—a full week from now. Test Vote Opinion Divided. The convention buckled down to its fourth session this noon, under the influence of Thursday's stirring events. These were the demonstra. tion for Gov. Smith and the so-called defeat of McAdoo on the night session proposition. Anti-McAdoo captains like Brennan loudly proclalm that McAdoo. is mow definitely checked. From McAdoo's citadel comes the defiant retort that his forces have not even begun to fight. They de- clare that the McAdoo vote of 513, by which the night session propos: was voted down, is not a conclusive evidence of the' Californian’s ballot strength. This alibi is scornfully scouted by the anti-McAdoo contingent. *“McAdoo has been claiming that he controls the convention,” said one of the Californtan’s arch foes. “We've now seen that he can't even control the minor matter of an adjournment. McAdoo mew reads ‘MeAdoom.' The Smik demonstration, calmly diagnosed a day after it ran its tumultuous and manufactured course, is seen as leaving the New York governor's fortunes precisely where they were. The noisiest was a Tam- many riot, not a manifestation of the convention's sentiment. Banners —_— e anners SPECIAT NOTICES. MOTORING TO CUMBERLAND, 8. noon; return Sunduy three. 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Nevertheless, the Smith argument persists that he must be nominated he can win. The governor rs contend that “the indus east.” the solid south and mana trial a brace of western states ready to vote for candidate will be more than ent to give Smith a ma- jority in the electoral college. Smith's “availability,” from an electoral standpoint. i5 thus empha- sized outstanding merit. No andidate, his enthusiasts a sort, comes up to his waistline in that respect. Walsh ax Smith's Hel If Smith, as a Roman Catholic, turns out to be unacceptable to the convention, Senator Walsh of Mon- tana is being advertised as a plaus ible inheritor of the Smith strength. The suggestion that Walsh's Ca tholicism would be forgotten in pres- ence of his prestige and reputation us the “greatest investigator in the world"—Keynoter Pat Harrison's in- troduction of him on Wednesday. Walsh, it is argued, would drama- tize the issue on which the Demo- crats count upon defeating Calvin Coolidge. That issue is “Republican misgovernment and Republican cor- ruption.” As the man who dragged misgovernment and “corruption” to the light, Walsh's friends are con- fident H¥ would make an irresistible appeal to the people. The senator is presiding »ver this turbulent conven- tion with force and skill. He can be and has been. irascible on occasion, On Thursday he threatened to take the convention to some other city if New York's Smith-crazed mob did not niend its manners and give other can- didates a square deal. Other Dark Horses Restive. But the original dark horses are not taking kindly to the eleventh- hour suggestion of Walsh as the savior of the situation. Ralston, Davis and Ritchie still rank in the estimation of most delegates ag the trio from which the deadlock-breaker is_destined to emerge. Carter Glass, with an eye on McAdoo's estate, is lying low and hoping for the best. Senator Underwood is still deriving prestige from the anti-Klan demon- stration on Wednesduy and his back- ers insist he will grow upon the convention from the moment ballot- ing begins. The hopes. and prospects of all these men depend to a large extent on the outcome of the platform fight. Several of them, for reasons already adduced in these dispatches, would automatically fade from the picture if a belligerent and specific anti- Klan plank is adopted by the con- vention. Still others would not be ideal candidates on any platform that put the league of nations out in front as the Democrats’ 1924 para- mouni issue. Still others would be out of place as the nominee if the platform calls for anything savoring of liberalization of the prohibition laws. It Is a pretty mix-pp and one from which the wisest heads here as- sembled do not see easy extrication. See Kian Plank Futile. To this writer comes from inside of the platform committee an expla- nation of why the opponents of a strong anti-Klan plank are fighting it. They say that a declaration of warfare on the Ku Klux Klan is per- fectly futile, because there is no ac- tion the federal government could ever take to carry out such a declas ration. The Constitution, according to this authority, permits the exist- ence of secret societies. It would be Jjust as impossible, it is argued, to proceed against the Klan as it would be to proceed against the Knights of Columbus or_the Independent Order of the B'nai Byith. “Why, in other words,” explains the informant in question, “commit a Democratic administration to a policy which it never could execute, and which everybody in this convention knows perfectly well it cannot ex- ecute?” The anti-Klan leaders, apart from their sentimental objections to the hooded empire, say a strong opposi- tion plank is good politics. What they have especially in mind is that many northern states now have large negro voting populations. Illinois and Indiana, for instance, are named as states in which the colored vote is big enough, due to migration from the south, to turn the tide in Nevem- ber in Democracy’s favor. Southern Railway Traln No. 41, be- ginning Sunday, June 29, will leave Washington 9:50 p.m. instead of 10 p.m. for Reanoke, Chattanooga, New Orleans and Shreveport. City ticket office, 1510 H st. n.w.—Advertisement, FAIL TO FIND PLANE. Two Expeditions From Port Moller Seek Wreck in Vain. SEATTLE, Wash, June 27.—Two expeditions out of Port Moller, on the Aleutian Peninsula, have failed to find any trace of the wrecked plane of Maj. Frederick L. Martin, former commander of the American Army round-the-world air squadron, according to Lieut. Clayton Bissell, wh;;hlrrived here yesterday from the north. Col. Guy Goff’s Sister-in-Law Dies. CLARKSBURG, W. Va., June 27.— Col. Guy D. Goft of this city was advised late last night of the death in New York City of Mrs. Waldo Percy Goft, sister-in-law of John W. Davis, former ambassador to Great Britain and a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. Mrs. Goft, sister-in-law of Col. Goff, had been' ill for some time. Death was caused by paralysia CONFERENCES KEEP ~ WADOO ENGAGED | | !Declines to Make Speeches. Pleased at Quicome of Vote on Adjournment. By the Associatsd Press NEW YORK, June William bbs McAdoo entered upon another busy day of conferences at his hotel headquarters. Mr. McAdoo to date has tended a session of and his friends not at- the convention said he probably would not. He has been kept busy with a constant string of callers, wanting to talk anything from the nomination down to admission tickets to the convention. There was little prospect today that Mr. McAdoo would issue any further statements or deliver any fur- ther addresses until after the ballot- ing begins. The Californian was re- ported saying that any further state- ments from him would be made by his adherents on the convention tloor. Refuxes to Talk. Proposals by his adherents that he deliver a public speech some place in New York last night, further outlin- ing his policies and answering ques- tions raised by his opponents, was vetoed by MeAdoo. The candidate spent most of the day in “his hotel rooms receiving friends and delegations. David L. Rockwell of Ohio, his campaign ‘manager, announced last night that yesterday had been a very decided “McAdoo day” and that quite a_ number of delegates heretofore counted as belonging In opposition camps had called to declare their allegiance to his candidate. Although they opposed the motion for the convention to recess until morning, McAdoo adherents last night contended that the first roll call of the convention was very pleasing to them. They added that while it did not show their full strength, it gave the convention some idea of the num- ber of votes behind the McAdoo boom. DEMOCRATS TO LET DELEGATES SETTLE FIGHT OVER K. K. K. Continued from First Page.) a its being changed beforc he wouid accept the nomination Mr. Bry is said, is the man who could well stand before the dele- gates and plead for harmony in the Democratic ranks, and to urge that the discussion of Klan issue is outside the realm of party politic submitted by the committee on reso- lutions hangs the question as to whether that document will be adopt- ed harmoniously and with little de- bate, or whether it will lead to long controversy on the floor and perhaps devastating strife, Several things seemed clear—for the momen First. Thut if the foreign relations plank indorses the Wilson policies and promises entrance into the league of nations there will be no contest over that subject on the floor. Kian Fight May Be Avoided. Second. That if the plank relating to the Ku Klux Klan names the Klan in opposition to secret organizations of that kind, the chances for a floor fight will be considerably lessened, if not entirely wiped out. Few, if any, are inclined to come to an open de- fense of the hooded order, Its | strength is shown in secret. Third." The platform is not likely |to be one that will lead to the in- dorsement by the convention either of William Gibbs McAdoo or Gov. Al Smith. Will a direct attack on the Klan by the Democratic party platform be more harmful to the Klan, or will it be more harmful to the Democratic party. That is a question that is be- ing asked by many of the delegates who are considering the possibilities of the election in November. Rumors persist that Mr. McAdoo will not oppose the plank if it names the Klan, notwithstanding the fact that he is alleged to have had Klan indorsement. It is said that he has released the delegates supporting him if it comes to a vote on the Klan is- sue in the convention itself. May Clarify Issue. A bold statement by McAdoo that he is not opposed to such a plank and is not connected with the Klan in any way might go far toward cutting the ground from under the feet of those who have used the Klan issue to belabor him. Furthermore, if the platform is to con- tain an anti-Klan plank naming that organization, it is a platform on which Mr. McAdoo will have to etand if he should be nominated. The indications are that if the fight is brought into the open that plank would be adopted, it is said. That being the case, what good will it do Mr. McAdoo to withhold a declaration against the Klan at_this time? On the other hand, such a declara- tion might alienate a considerable num- ber of the delegates now supporting him. Desperate efforts have been made in the committee on resolutions to prevent the naming of the Klan in the platform. The subcommittee appointed to draft the platform voted § to 3 against naming it. But the threat has been made to carry the fight to the floor, to take it from behind closed doors into the open through a minority report, with all that implies. Regret Issue Brough Up. Many of the delegates are bemoan- ing the fact that the Klan issue is to be dragged into the campaign—and also the league of nations. They wanted a straight out fight on the real business of whether the gov- ernment is to be run on conservative or liberal principles, These are the progressives from the west, in large Pl.rl. It seems always, they say, as f some issue outside of the liberal and conservative fight must be in- jected into every campaign—the Klan issue, or the prohibition question, or the Irish guestion, or the league of nations. They say it is like drlg- ging a herring across the trail, and the people are not given a chance to ex- Press their real sentiments. For approximately sixty-four hours the subcommittee and the full com- mittee on resolutions have been sit- ting in a obscure, old, one_ elevator hotel near the convention hall try- ing to decide what to say in the Democratic platform. No modern up-town hostelry would admit it is & hotel. The halis and stairways are wide, the rooms are big, all sorts of short flights of stairs must be climbed to find the one elevator. It was chosen because it was more quiet and near the convention hall. Bryan Presides. At the head of the table during the final hectic hours of the discussion of the league, the Klan and other important questions sat the, old war hoss, William Jennings Bryan, ridi- culed, defeated, abused, but the man who made Woodrow Wilson's nomi- nation possible in 1912. Today he was still sitting in the driver's seat, On the final draft of the platform as | “Canned Joy” at - Bryaw’s Influence BY W AM ALLEN WHITE. NEW YORK, June 27.—Canned joy— mechanically produced noise, sirens, fire alarms, automatic bazoos, all manned by machinist operators at $3 an hour— was the New York substitute for what a dozen or twenty years ago was the human voice in the moments of mid- summer madness under the delirium of politi So by steel and brass and bronze bel- lowing, while levers were furned, the qld home town yesterday paid tribute to its hero. For over an hour Al Smith's demonstration blared its futile noise upon the program of the Democratic national convention. At first, during per- haps half an hour, the human element led the various horns and trumpets ele trically operated. No one can doubt that the human voices spoke a sincere love and fine respect for the town's hero. The galleries were filled with New York- ers who had come to pay tribute to their governor. Cynics said the hall was packed ; that the gates were opened with the password “Smith.” But cynics al- ways talk that way when a great out- pouring of the people’s approval breaks on a convention. Packed or not, the hall was for Smith. And for thirty minutes or eo the crowd was happy, noisy and proud of itself. Fine Stage Management. The thing was beautifully stage man- aged; Belasco at hisbest could have done no better. The human voice drowned the mechanical tinkle and blare of the metal. Marching clubs, bearing banners, waited in halfadozen aisles, and on schedule swept through the hail. It was | preity good. Flags fluttered. From a nearby tall building hundreds of pounds of confetti were showered upon the ven- tilators of the roof of the hall. Hats went into the air and banners were trailed about, as the cheering delegates and occupants of the galleries threw themselves into the business of a huge clacque with unmistakable enthusi- asm! But after the half hour the show was over, and the metallic uproar began. From under the din of the voices appeared the brass and steel devices of the devil, to make silly, nerve-racking noise. ivery fire alarm in the building was turned on. Police sirens sereamed into the radio | trumpets. Brass lips took up the clatter that human lips could no 'onger continue. So for another hour we had the newest thing In conven- tion clamor—canned joy! Opens With Bang. The convention in its third opened with a bang right after the Lord’'s prayer. The cayenne pepper began to fly. Gov. Sweet of Colorado started to speak, seconding the name of McAdoo, when the crowd began erving, “Oil, oil, 0il”" and hisses, cat- calls and boos greeted these “oil” out- bursts; fon five minutes the crowd threatened to get away from the chairman. The gavel hammered and the chair called vainly for order. The band brayed and kazoos snorted. but finally the raps of the gavel quieted the crowd. Then during three minutes of calm Sweet proceeded, but at his climax there was a wild explosion for McAdoo, but it was not important The crowd knew that the big show was coming and was impatient of in- terruptions. ~ Conn&ticut was called, ylelded (o New York and off went the roof. session Franklin Roosevelt's nominating speech for Gov. Smith was a model of its kind: temperate, well written, twenty-eight years after he first led the party to defeat. In his black alpaca coat, his bald head shining, the commoner presided at the request of Chairman Cummings of Connecti- cut of the resolutions committee. The subcommittee was made up entirely of men. Another four years may see the women represented. But the men still_cling tenaciously to the places of power, and if the women are given recognition, it is a mere mat- ter of form, when it comes to ap- pointment to important places. The convention has adopted the famous old two-thirds rule for the nomination of candidates for Presi- dent and Vice President. The ques- tion has been raised in some quar- ters as to whether this means two- thirds of those present and voting or two-thirds of the numerical strength of the convention, 1,098 Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana. the chairman of the convention, declared today that it was his understanding that the rule meant two-thirds of the delegates present and voting, and that he would so rule if the question arises. This is in accordance with the rules of the House of Represent- atives, which guides the convention. The question is largely academic, however. There are delegates and alternates for each one of the 1,098 votes in the convention, and when it comes to selecting a candidate it is expected that every vote will be rep- resented, so intense is the interest. Many Votes Divided. The Democrats have adopted the plan in many of the states, as well as in the District of Columbia, of split- ting each vote—sending double the number of delegates, each with one- half a vote. This has enlarged the number of delegates enormously, but it has also given an opportunity to bring to the convention many more persons keenly interested and who desire the compliment. The convention has been the breed- ing place of slogans for various can- didates. One of the latest is “Keep the world moving with Glass.” A huge glass globe is suspended in the Glass headquarters at the Waldort Hotel, kept in constant motion by electricity, the glass plates as it moves refleeting the many-colored lights, making a curious and striking effect. “Davis and decency” and “Get rich with Ritchie” are other slogans | smiling | buxine: $3 “Per Can” Drowns Voice of Delegates W hite Finds Paid W orkers Active in Smith Demonstration—Praise for Roosevelt. Felt in Platform. eloquent in the proper place and never demagogic—a clear, strong, happy speech. Its impassioned climax set off the big Smith demonstration. After the demonstration, secondary speeches and then speeches naming the little fellows filled the dull after- noon. iverybody Is Nominated. The delegates began to vanish. Empty benches began to shine out. At 4 o'clock the orators were talking to the radio receivers and to such ox-eyed delegates as sat gaping at the speaker's stand, not realizing that nothing would happen. An intermi- nable procession of nobodies followed, nominating anybody they could think of. Glass a_couples of Dawises, Barney Google, ~Dr. Copeland, Meredith, nta Claus, Ritchie. the Smith and RBrooks Brothers, Walsh, Ibid and Anon were passed before the gaping, upturned faces of the delegates as presidential possibilities. before the cataract of oratory was dammed The free and unbossed convention was shouting its battle cry of free- dom, which put into simple language mean Tsn't it grand to be bug- house While this cataclysmic rain of flap- doodle was falling upon the emptying benches of the convention four dozen rnest, sweating ladies and gentle- men were endeavoring to write the Democratic national platform. They have been at their “loved employ™ since last Saturday. The chairman of the committee on resolutions was ~hosen weeks ago. He thought he mad a draft of the platform. Then Mr. Bryan came to town and the draft disappeared. Bryan Influence Felt. is odd about Bryan. For three years and fifty-one weeks of every quadrennium Bryan holds a comm sion as the national old dear; every- body loves him, pokes fun at him, ignores him. pretends that he is dead and laments the neglect of the under- taker. Then during the week of the national Democratic convention Bryan suddenly appears in_shining armor, a plumed knight of the pre righteousness, and becomes a force in American ‘politics. Then he goes out on the Chautauqua circuit, kicks It off the crystal slipper and puts on the pumpkin for headpiece. But this is his week to shine. He is domi- nating the platform committee; he is beginning to make himself felt in | this convention and in the history of his country for the next four years He drifts with parent aimlessness bout the political hotels of New York, shaking hands with everybody. amiably, perhaps a little He certainly doesn’t knight. Within the has gaunted down and almost thin. @nce his wife’ ness a worried, eary look haunts hig once placid countenance. He ap- peared in the convention the other day wearing a whacking_big red badge unon his abdomen. The busy. like young men of the new generation in the Democratic par nattily dressed, urbanites, form fatuous! the plu curious contrast to this gracious gen- tleman of the ald school like a specter from the the convention throngs Longest Platform Known. It is probably the influence of Bryan and the impr. of Bryan upon the Democratic party that make this year's platform threaten to cover everything in the known world. As it stands, it is the longest platform ever presented to a convention, and it seems likely now that three or four planks will be debated on the floor of the convention. It will be impos- sible to work out a compromise upon the Ku Klux Klan. The best the Klansmen can hope for now is a plank that shall insult them with- out naming them. The league of natio Iso ix a bone of contention. The eastern Democrats seem to fear the league and wish to avoid its in- dorsement. Possibly this is due to the leftover animosity of the Irish and the Germans to the league four who moves past through years ago. The strength of-the league in the west. Prohibition may come into the convention for final settlement, but there can be no hope for the wets of any satisfactory expression, even from “the floor of the convention. As it seems more and more likely that a rather non- descript candidate may be selected by the convention, the importance of the platform looms large, and it is rather sad to contemplate the rather obvious fact that the mind of the convention surrendering to the passions. Much more time and energy is being spent upon the Kian plank than upon the economic issues. The brains of the Democratic party apparently are to have a rest, and in this convention it is thinking with its spleen and producing most of its intellectual processes through its liver. (Copyright, 1924.) Stops Falling Hair Under Absolute Guarantee Falling Hair is doe to one of four causes. It can mow be stopped. A new treatment bas just been per- fected. It works in an .entirely new way. It overcomes falling hair, dan- druff and itching scalp under guar- antee. It attacks uitaneoasly each one of the four causes to which 90% of all hair troubles are due. It stimulates scalp tissue to action— providing proper nourishment for adopted by supporters of the candi- dates, The prediction was made today by no less a person than William Jen- nings Bryan that the resolutions committee in the end would recom- mend a plank standing firmly for the principle of religious freedom and denouncing secret orders, but without naming the Klan. The plat- form, Mr. Bryan confidentially ex- pects, will be submitted to the con- vention by tonight. Strenuous efforts are being made at present to prevent the fulfillment of the threat to bring in a minority report on the Klan plank, naming that organization. Some of the older and wiser heads, it is sald, are doing thelr utmost to prevent such an oc- curence. It is understood also that some of the Smith followers have reached the conclusion that the Klan matter threatens to go too far, and that for the sake of the party the platform should not make a direct attack upon the Kian. the hair roots. It regulates the oil glands to function lubri- cating anddprm. .ngfig&bz:i;hl}: penctrates deep into i and destroys harmful bacteia. It re- alent | look | past | ill- | SMITH ENCOURAGED ASBALLOTS NEAR Roosevelt, After Conferences | With Leaders, Says “Situa- tion Looks Mighty Good.” By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 27.—Encouraged by the developments of yesterday in convention and in contacts establish- ed with other delegations, the Smith workers went forward today deter- mined to let no opportunity escape them to still further promote the New York governor's cause. Franklin D. Roosevelt, campaign manager for Mr, Smith, went to the convention hall early and before the assembly was called to order had conferred with a number of leaders, announcing later that “the situa- tion looks mighty good.” Gov. Smith also was an early ar- val at his campalgn headquarters, nd appeared benefited by the over- night rest. He said he, too, was “in working harness” prepared to carry on whiatever duties of the campaign th been left him to attend. he headquartérs and a number of Visits to points about the city of dent that it will not be an acquittal,” Gov. Smith said last night ment was co “The verd| His state- curred in by Roosevelt. » °t when returned by the convention,” Mr. Roosevelt added, will look toward four years in the White House in Washington.” The governor did not hear himself nominated yesterday, aithough there {Wwas a radio in the club he visited dur- ing the time Mr. Roosevelt spoke in convention hall. He heard the deaf- ening roars from the demonstrators in the hall, but even that was not enoush o keep him attentive throughout the hour and a alf that passed before order could be'restored ara the noise quicted "1 had read the speech and was too busy to listen to the radio, Gov Smith said later, explaining that the conference engagements he kept were of greater importance to him. IN. Y. CONVENTION REPORT RECORDED FOR ALL TIME ‘Plionogrnph Successfl;lly Linked ‘With Radio Receiving Set at Kansas City, Mo. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, June 27.—Portions of the proceedings of the Democratic national convention were recorded fQr Al time here yesterday wher. the phonosraph was successfully iinke with radio. ik . A few seconds after a radio receiv- ing set in the Warner Recording Laboratories brought in the conven- tion proceedings they were repro- duced clearly on a phonograph. Of- ficials of the laboratories said the ex- periment constituted the first suc- cessful attempt to make clear phons ph s records by the transferenc o sound vibrations on to wax reproduction transmission wa, means of an amplification device con- structed on the principle of a loud =peaker and connected to the phono- graphic recording device, J. J. War- ner, superintendent of ‘the labors tories, explained. The same hook-up has been used in experiments in mak- ing tiny disk records for the Unity School of Christianity. . Senator Simmons Chosen. NEW YORK. June 27.—A belated organization caucus of the North Carolina delegation vesterday unani- mously elected Senator F. M. Sim- ns national committeeman to suc d A. W. McLean of Lumberton, of the rad made possible b uded more talks with call- | political interest at present. Smith Ix Confldent. “My case has been committed to | the jury. 1 await the verdict, confi- RITCHIE V. Of Maryland, Democratie whoxe ecandidacy nomination was stration yesterday. COX BACKERS DECIDE | Speech by Baker. By the Associated Press tions for a made by the Ohio when_ the name of James M. Co: ocratic _convention by Newton cabinet Anything spontaneous.” that is done will declared Charles chief of staff at quarters. “If things work out, Columbus Democratic Glee Club sing “Ohio” following h. but that is all vill rks—there will be no fo | demonstration.” | — Executive Scores Official for Arresting Fugitive | Senators. By the Associated Press. PROVIDENCE, R. 1 battle of words between Gov Flynn and High Sheriff Andrews and anothe session of the state Senate were incidents here yesterday in | nection with the Senate deadlock the evening of his departure for York to the Rhode Wil June | only Island delegates to Democratic national convention Flynn assailed the high sheriff permitting twenty-one senators to leave the state land, Mass., where they now siding | the charge by Lieut. Gov. the arrest o that the warrant Felix was “illegal. i With a single Republican s tor, Harry :rson, presen raise the question transaction of bi sine day afternoon immediately until tomorrow tion of Senator Robert E deputy Democratic floor leader. and recessed on pointment made since Congress ourned. Gains as “Dark Horse” RHODE ISLAND SHERIFF AND GOVERNOR IN TILT for ma- y alded by xpontaneoux demon- TO FOREGO OUTBURST No Forced Demonstration or Fire- | works to Mark Nominating NEW YORK, June 27.—No prepara- demonstration had been delegation today x i placed in nomination before the Dem- D. Baker, Secretary of War in the Wil- be E. Cox head- the will D! re Not — A liam Jonathan half-minute the con- On ssume his duties as one of the Gov for Republican | for Rut- re re- Sheriff Andrews replied with issued A. Toupin for the Republican senators ena- t to quorum if the s should be at- tempted. the Senate convened yester- almost mo- Quinn, Harry F. Fidler Reappointed. | Harry F. 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White English cricket cloth, cut with medium or wide bottoms. ew | SAY PENNSYLVANIA LIKES UNDERWOOD Reports of Support Cheer Alabaman’s Cohorts—Look to Smith Forces. By the Associnted Pross NEW YORK., June —Reports that the big Pennsylvania dele on ad been doing a little informal nose |counting and found itself much in- |clined to shift to the camp of Sena- | tor Oscar W. Underwood during the anticipated ballot struggle on the presidential nomination. found favor today in the ears of Underwood men They professed to have no dircet in formation, however. and sent the ru- mors along as they hud received them for what they were worth. They also were watching closely the work of the platform committee on the anti-K. K. K. plank. If that fight has to be fought out on the floor, and the convention itself should declare for naming the Klan in the plank, as Senator Underwood has de- mandéd, it is predicted by the Under- wood leaders that he will ultimately inherit a large part of the Al Smith strength hecause of the anti-Klan ai- titude of the Smith delegati . Need Smith Votes. “Of course, we can do nothing with- out the Smith votes,” one Underwood captain said today. “We start the drastic anti-Klan idea in the conven- tion, but it is part of the Smith swing until it is shown that Smith cannot be nominated. If and when that con- dition is SATWn, we have every reason to expect that the anti-Klan dele- gates will_flock to the Underwood standard. That is what we are wait- ing for." There was another round of hand- shaking in progress at the hotel headquarters of the Alat night and lots of folks who in the convention were callers. Many wearing the big vellow Underwood badges pinned on during their visit by the of them went out still among enterprising ladies of the headquar- ters staff. There were a considera- ble number in evidence around the lobbies as a result, as the decorated delegates appeared to have no jection to wearing them, however they are going to vote VIRGINIA DELEGATES TO STICK WITH GLASS Solid Support Voted by Caucus. Lock for Break After Fifteen or Twenty Ballots. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 27.—Virginia delegates to the Democratic conven- tion, after a cavcus today. declared | Senator Carter Glass could ccunt on | the full and united strength of his home state delegation in the move Lo make him the Democratic nominee. | _The Old Dominion delegates said they belicved the break in the ballot- ing would not come until after ch | fifteenth or twenticth ballot, and pr dicted that after that time the Glass movement would go forward rapidly. STUDEBAKER Just Drive It; That's. 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