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STAND OF LIBERALS REMAINS IN DOUBT Platform, Very Advanced to Most Democrats, Fails to Meet All Demands. INSIST ON RIGHT MAN Progressive Group Want McAdoo. Smith Subject to Doubt—Most Dark Horses Opposed. Br a Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, June 28—The Demo- cratic national platform is regarded as “fairly progressive” by members of the so-called Progressive group mow in New York attending the Democratic convention. It is hailed by the Democrats themselves as ex- traordinarily progressive. But whether it is sufficiently pro- gressive cateh the of the Eroup or groups who are demanding the nomination of Senator Robert M La Pollette of Wisconsin on a third- party ticket, remains 1o be seen The demand from the west at this convention has been for a progres- sive platform—as compared with the Republican platform—and for the nomination of a progressive candi- date. The progressive platform has been accomplished—though there are a number of matters upon which the progressives would have pr ferred to go farther. For example, the proposed child labor amendment to the Constitution. The naming of a who will be considered pre by the west and middle remains to be accomplished La Follette Put Forward. to vote McAdoo has been the one man put forward particularly as acceptable to the Progressives. Some of the labor leaders, particularly some of those connected with the railroad brother- hoods, went so far as to declare that if McAdoo was nominated here {he convention of the conference of Pro- gressives political action, which Ix to be held in Cleveland July 4, would {ndorse McAdoo and would not name s Follette as an independent can- didate for the presidency. But this suggestion scouted by men who are close with La Follette. lLa Follette is reported by those who have scen him recently as being “‘upon his toes and ready to 8o i The opinion was expressed today by one of the group connected with the coming convention in Cleveland and Who has favored the nomination of McAdoo, that none of the other fif- teen candidates so far placed in nom- tnation by the Democrats for the pres- ldency would be acceptable to the gonference for progressive political ction. today was Labor Opposex Ralston. Senator Ralston of Indiana would mot fill the bill, it was said. It is re- called that Senator Ralston, not long ag0, went to the White House to urge the promotion of Federal Judge An- derson of Indiana, hated by the labor unions of the country on the bench. While this may not ap- pear a great matter, still it is now urged that such action on the part of Senator Ralston showed a failure to understand the situation so far as_the Progressives goneerned. Smith, by some, is regafded as Pro- gressive, but there are other bars to his support by members of the Pro- gressive group, it was said. Davis of West Virginia, Underwood and all the rest of the so-called dark horses would be utterly unacceptable Senator Copeland of New York might be regarded with considerable favor by many of the Progressive Eroup. it was said, should the light- ning happen to strike him, but so far there has been no move to nom- inate him. to higher place May Issue Statement. At the present writing it appears, therefore, that La Follette is sure to make race for the presidency. In fact, a statement regarding his posi- tion probably will be issued as soon as the Democrats have finally acted on their candidate. It may come earlier, should the Democrats con- tinue in sesston after the Cleveland convention has begun and is seeking to name a candidate for the presi- dency. o The Democratic platform is full of promiges regarding the farmers of the country and Jabor. It deals with the taxes, the tariff# the railroads, agri- oulture, with water power, with the naval oil reserves and conservation generally along progressive lines, It promises to root out corruption in government. It promises to revise the corrupt practices laws so that there shall be no buying of elections. It proposes to limit campaign ex- penditures of the candidates for offices. Private monopolies, fraudu- lent stock sales, etc. are condemned and the promise is made to prevent them. The party is pledged by the plat- form to popular elections and to eliminate so-called lame-duck ses- #ions of Congress. Favors Collective Bargaining. ‘The party is put on record as favor- ing collective bargaining and laws regulating the hours of labor. It pro- poses that in times of unemployment the construction and repair of public SPECIAL NOTICES. THE FEUERSTEIN FISH AND OVSTER Company, operating at market. has discontinged business. 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Main 7228, _ FLOORS - NEW FLOOR LTS FLOORS MADE NEW. mIBLX.F';. 9"‘.'.1 | the | Senator T. H | works shall be initiated by the gov- lernment to relieve those who are without work Declaration is made in faver of adequ: alaries for postal employes. This is a hot one at President Cool- idge, who vetoed the bill proposed during the last session of Congress which would have increased the pay of these government employes. qual Rights Plank. Several of the proposals advanced | by women’s organizations were not included in the platform in spite of mpaign conducted here by the vomen. One of these was the so- alled equal rights plank, put for- ward by the national Woman's party: another was the proposal for the establishment of a federal depart- ment of education with a memt the President's cabinet, at its he There brolutely’ ‘no hope the “we The law enforcement plank _adopted not only denounces the Republican administration for failing to properly enforce the pro- hibition law, but promiscs to respect nd enforce these laws if placed in power. v of the ne B. Wheeler, genaral counsel Anti-Saloon Teague of Amer- ssing the platform tonight, The wets, for a_ hbeer and wine groundiessiy happy over rights declaration, which booby prize.” Every one knows n to the wet and dry is Ratified By States, “The solid Democratic south exer- cised its states rights by unanimously ratitying the ecighteenth amendment Forty of the forty-eight states in the union followed this time-honored Demoeratic doctrine by ratification “Any exercise of national power under the cighteenth amendment defeated in plank, are the s this has no re- 1a rights have vasion of states’ Both parties wets." The civil service plank in the plat- form, which is of considerable inter- est to the thousands of employes of the government, is as follows: “We denounce the action of the Re- publican administration in its viola- tions of the principles of civil¥serv- ice by its partisan removals and manipulation of the cligible lists in the Post Office Department and other governmental departments; by its packing the Civil Service Commission so that the commission became the servile instrument of the administra- tion in its wish to deny to the ex- service men their preferential rights under the law, and the evasion of the requirements of the law with refer- ence to appointments in the depart- ments. “We pledge the Democratic party faithfully to comply with the spirit as well ‘as the regulation =f civil service: to extend its provisions to internal revenue officers and to other emploves of the government not inm executive positions. and to secure to ex-service men preference in such appointments rejected the s 250 GALLONS OF LIQUOR " TAKEN IN POLICE RAIDS Hostile Crowd Steals Keys of Po- lice Car at One Place—Bulldog and Pups on Guard. Approximately 250 gallons of liquor were -Seized by Policemen Holmes and Bauer of the vice squad in five raids last night under the supervision of Lieut. Davis and Sergt. McQuade. * At the home of Margaret Washing- ton, colored, 1237 22d street. a large crowd gathered outside to watch activ- ities and when the raiders emerged with more than 100 gallons of confiscated wares and Margaret, Sergt. McQuade found that members of the crowd had stolen the keys to his car from the ignition lock. Some delay was encountered in getting the machine started. to the delight of the crowd of spectators. The woman was charged with illegal possession and sale of liquor. At the residence of Jacob Yuter, 812 4% street southwest, where sev- eral gallons of alleged wine and al- coholic beverages were found, Lieut. Davis stumbled into a bull dog with five puppies guarding the cache in the cellar. He cajoled the dog while he seized the alleged intoxicating beverages. The prisoner was charged with illegal sale and possession. Other arrests included: Isaac Mil- ler and lda Miller, at 1100 6th street southwest, each on charges of sale and illegal possession; Morris Gins- berg, 600 10th street southwest, on charges of lllegal possession, and Anna and Joseph Silverman, 829 7th street southwest, each on charges of sale and illegal possession. Approx- imately fifty gallons were, seized there. e There are many muscles in the human body, control of which has, their plea | prohibiting the liquor traffic is no in-| The xubcommittee of the committee on rexolutions, hard Left to right, beginning at lower left: Representative W. A. Ayres, Kansan; Senator Willlam H. King, Ut aries H. Mayer, Missouri: Senator Robert L. rrett, Tennesnee: Nenator Key Pittman, Nevada; William Jenuings Bryan, Florida; Newton D. or Pittman ix necretary of the committee. | ka: Alfred Lucking, Michiznn; W. H. O'Brien, araway, Arkansax: Representative Finix J | Baker, Ohio, and Homer Cummings, Connecticut | | | convention the | recognition THE iann; C chairman. Sen WOMEN AT CONVENTION BY MAXINE DAV NEW YORK, June 28 —Once more women are thrust into their ancient places as watchers on certain ca- lamity. At this Democratic national are observing their menfolk engaged in their usual habits of war dnd destruction. | Woman observe the Democratic gather- ing are wringing their hands help- lessly’ at the failure of the resolu- tions committee to insert some defi- nite child labor plank into the plat- form and their inability to make a fight for it from the floor. The bitter attention accorded the Klan plank has made it practically impossible for the women to obtain or gain any support on what they consider the infinitely more important child labor problem, involving as it does the weifare of one or two coming generations. Child Lobor Plank. The Republican platform contains a support for child labor legislation. Both houses of Congress have passed the resolutions for a child labor amendment to the Constitution. The Democratic platform contained a plank in its favor in 1920. Woman leaders and labor leaders who have nursed lcgislation through its brief existence as a congressional statute and smoothed the way for its passage through this Congress were dumfounded by the action of the reso- lutions committee. They gathered ir. numbers at the door of the commit- tee, while Mrs. Pattie Ruffner Jacobs of ' Birmipgham. representing the League of Women Voters, fought for an inclusion of the idea. With her were Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt, Mrs. Minnie Fisher Cunnirgham of Wash- ington. Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, Mrs. Ka'te Trenholm Abrams of Washing- ton and many other prominent women. Even Bryan Snaps. So straind was the committes that even the usually politic William Jen- nings Bryan snapped at them, saying: “If the women don’t like the plat- form they needn’t vote for it. It's a good platform.” All day Saturday the women held confererces to decide the advisability of carryving the fight to the floor of the convention. So ominous was the tona of the conclave when the dele- gates gathered, however, that they concluded nothing would be gained by bringing it up unless the situation eased. They feared that the conven- tion, weary with heat and the Klan discussion, would hurt the measure by refusing to take affirmative action. Astute woman_politicians, recogniz- ing that women's interest is more sentimental than partisan, fear that this will alienate many Democratic women in November, as well as drive much of the independent feminine vote into the ranks of the G. O. P. THREE FLYING RECORDS ARE BROKEN AT DAYTON- Speed and Endurance Marks for Stated Distances Fall in Air Derby. By the Associated Press. DAYTON, Ohio, June 28.—Three fiy- ing records were established before noon today in the air derby being held at Wilber Wright Field. Lieut. W. H. Brookley remained in the air three hours in a Curtiss bombing plane carrying 2,204 pounds weight. The former mark was 2 hours and 12 minute: Civilian Pilot Lockwood,in a plane carrying a weight of 500 kilograms, set speed marks for.distances of 100 and 200 kilometers. His time for the short distance was at an average of 111.8 miles an hour and 200 kilo- meters 112.4 miles an hour. Lieut, John A. MacReady .lost his chance for setting a record over 100, 200 and 500 kilometers' distance while carry- ing a weight of 2,204 pounds, when the bombs which formed the weight dropped from his machine and shat- tered on the ground. Visitors to Washington Telegraph flowers to friends back home via Gude, 1212 F.—Advertise- men! STUDEBAKER Just Drive It; That's All delegates who have come | SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JUNE Progressive Group Lukewarm for Platform Regulars Call Liberal work formulating the platform which, wnx presented o the o ex-Senator ¢ Owenx, Oklal Prayer Story Hits Delegates Like Tolling Cummings Furnishes Most Intense Thrill in Politics Since Countrymen to Armageddon. BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE. NEW YORK, June 28—All day the throng in the Garden was quiet. The speech of Homer Cummings, chair- man of the committee on resolutions, came like the toll of a great bell in the night “We are wondering.” he said, bout the future of the Democratic party,” and when he told the conven- tion that the resolutions committee had been praying a note of solemnity was sounded that gave American politics the greatest thrill it has had since the Republican party was split by the Roosevelt speech calling the progressives to Armageddon. During the adjournment delegates and visitors were serious and the spirit of festival that had been in the air for a week vanished. The con- vention reassembled at 4 o'clock, sober-faced a crowd as has come to- gether in this generation. The gal- leries, packed to hear the debate upon the platform, realized that great matters were in the air. The band played gay tunes, but nothing could restore that gala spirit that had gone from the Garden Hush Fallx on Crowd. Chairman Cummings began to read the platform: a hush fell Upon the crowd, and then all over the house. The people In the galleries, looking down into the floor of the convention, saw hundreds of blue-coated police- men quietly moving down the aisles. Trouble was brewing. As the reading of the platform proceeded the nerves of the crowd lost their tension, for the two disputed planks in the plat- form were put in the tail end of the document. The delegates realized as the reading of the platform proceed- ed that they were hearing a liberal platform, a challenge to the Republi- can position, but a fumbling liberal platform, in which many liberal dec- larations were made vague by either a lack of intelligence or a lack of courage. Certain straddles were inevitable. Upon the railway question the dec- laration got nowhere. Upon the con- trol of coal, oil and other ore prod- ucts the recommendations were not satisfactory to even a mild liberal. Liberal at Heart. Yet the cheers of the convention proved the crowd genuinely liberal in its sympathies. It gave evidence of approval to the league of nations, to Asiatic_exclusion, but most of all it was evident from the attitude of the galleries that the Democrats are de- termined to make a major issue out of honesty in government. If the Re- publicans think that the blanketing of the news of the investigations by the press will avail in the campaign, the Republicans are due for a gsur- prise. The reactionary press of both parties /. due for a surprise. The reactionary press of both par- ties, which has been belittling the investigations, was the same press which tried and grotesquely failed to pass the Mellon bill. 'he convention today, by its platform and by the ap- plause of its gallery, made it evident that the investigations of Republi- cans in Washington were to be made the great points of attack by the Democrats from now until election day, thus respectablizing an attitude which had hitherto been held by the radicals of the country. The platform read before the multitude was finish- ed at 5 o'clock. A tense moment fol- lowed in which the debate upon the iwo guestions In dispute was arrang Superior Garages “SATISFY AND BEAUTIFY” Money-Saving Sale To July 15th SUITABLE TERMS STONEBRAKER 820 11th N.W. M.9427 29, AT THE HARDEST TASK, OF THE CONVENTION—FORMING THE PLATFORM | | nvention yesterday. Ibert M. Hitcheock, Nebras- homa: Joxeph A. Kellogg, New York: of Bell at Night Roosevelt Called ed. Then a queer thing happened The | dciegates began to desert the debate upon the league of nations. Hundreds vacant chairs were evident in the floor of the house where the dele- gates sat. As the debate upon the league ‘began, clearly the crowd and the delegates also, felt that the debate npon the Klan 10 be the big show The convention and the crowd were true to the form they had displayed for a week. They were thinking ¢motion- ally of the Klan and of nothing else. | The liberal platform, the league of | | nations, the whole business of nam- | ing the candidates of the Democratic | ¢ were matters of secondary in- t to that of the religious liberty. Time will show whether this attitude in New York is the national attitude. at sundown Saturday night it | appeared that religion was to be an | issue in American politics this year, | and that Coolidge luck stili | working. 1f Butlir ran the Republi- | can convention at Cleveland, and he | did, the New York convention was also run in the interests of Butler's candidate. 4.) (Copyright, 1 New Musician Named for King. Sir Edward Elgar, composer of as red-coated British tune as was ever played, *“Pomp and Circumstance,” has been named master of the king's music, to succeed Sir Walter Parratt, who died recently. At one time this office required that the holder com- pose odes for the king's birthday, and do such other odds and ends of mu- sicianship, but today it demands only that the holder attend his majesty on | state occasions where his presence is fitting. Elgar’s mphonies and con- certos are widely known and popular in America as well as in_Hurope. 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RAIL UNIONS DENY SUPPORT OF M’AD0O Leaders Say None Are Authorized to Speak for Brother- hoods. By the Amocisted Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 28.—I ecutives of the transportation broth- érhoods today issued formal denlals of reports from New York that rail- road brotierhoods were to support William G McAdoo. | “1 have not promised or commit- | ted support of the Brotherhood of Lo- comotive Engincers to any Demo- cratic candidate in any way, nor have I any authorization to do =0,” Warren S. Stone, president of the Engineers Brotherhood, said. The statement issued by D. B. 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