Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1924, Page 11

PLATFORM LEAVES MANY DISPLEASED Vaunted Liberality of Demo- crats, Not Apparent in Ac- tion, White Declares, LABOR PLEAS IGNORED Farmer, Women and Other Groups Angry Over Planks, Edi- | tor Asserts. BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE: NEW YORK, July 1.—At the end of tts sixth-day session, after four days of static oratory, one night of dy- namic debate, and one day of cautious balloting, a few definite things are evident about the Democratic national convention. The first of these is that the convention is not so liberal as it| seems; its platform sounds better than it is Labor having taken forty-eight hours to think the platform over, is as disratisfied with the Democratic platform as it is with the Republican platform. Practically nothing that the American Federation of Labor asked of the Democratic platform has been granted by the Democrats. They have declarcd that labor is not & commodity and let it go at that. And the Gompers crowd here in the tels is as angry at s as the saine crowd was eveland at the Repube for the Leasue of Women h was more or less snub- bed in Cleveland by a refusal of the platform committee to indorse the child labor constitutional amendment pending. was treated with the seant courtesy by the Demo- Therc is this difference, how- over. between the attitude of the women here and their attitude in ¢ land. In Cleveland, after they Leen snubbed, they felt that the would be ‘glad to avaid | es which the Republieans ! and would stand for the| ndment. When they the ehivalrou from state now same crats, women's corng, lift- litely, and explaining votes helped to subs bor amendment to the s the sasing has come written, “Hell hath no oman's scorn.” tivery One Diasatisfied. Persons ring to observe a fine | display and staple language | should into- the New York | headquartcrs of the various women' argznizations farmers arc | ¥ left Cleveland wnd got little more ers out of the Demo- on_ The wets and the | that they have heen &4t wa incorporated in | 1d biad_the ight wines and beer. They nicd cven a stone when they for bread. And the drys get much out of this couvention as ey got out of the Republican convention. The two conventions have passed platforms with absolutely no encour- agement for a retubmission of the prohibitory zmendment or a modifi- f the Volstead act. In the} aking there has been lit- tle difference Letween the two parties | upen mest fundamental issues. The league of iations. curiously enough, | has been taken out of palitics by the | fusal of the Democrats tn stand by « Baker amendment. The Repub- jicans in their platform vehemently cry out against the league and then pledged ‘the party to suppert further | co-operation with the league and to $oin a world court set up and fos- tercd by the league. Democrats Contradictery. The Demoerats in their platform sre equally contradictery. They declare for the league in stentorian tones, but refuse to pledge their party te sup- Dort it until it has been indersed by a national referendum, which is consti- tutionally fmpessible. Tpon the world court the twe party pledges are exactly alike As the sixth drew to ona cert afraid of each other. The convention has been pretty thoroughly polled, Each crowd knows pretty definitely its own strength and rather mere definitely each crowd knows the other crowd's strength. So it is pretty well ¥mown in the convention that Mc- Adoo. in and of his own right has #bout 530 delegates, and Smith has #hout 100, What will happen when these two leading candidates poll their full strength is sheer propheey and one man's guess is as geod a¥ another's, but after the Klan fight in the convention, wherein the issues that are dividing the Smith and Me- Adoo forces were clearly defined, it would be odd if Smith's . alic forces in the large cities weuld consent to nominate McAdoo, who is <0 obviously supported by the rural states. . by the same token, would McAdoo's friends consent to the nomination of Smith. Cooling OfFf Effort Seem. nination of ecither Smith or uld arouse the bitter an- which leaders of the De- from all are trying No one bettew than hese leaders that the beans™ Saturday night and Sunday morn- ing must some way be poured back in the bag. There is a conspicuous, Derhaps aimost too conspicuous, ef- fort in the convention to cool off, to calm down, to get together Sim do og to bury the But it is also obvious that in - Ing " the hatchet each side knows where to reach the handle. If Mo- Adoo or Smith is nominated the losing arowd is going after the handle, and this is the third certainty of the sixth day’s session of the Democratic con- vention. lemhe fourth certainty ls that the league of nations is stronger by rea- son of the- Democratic foozle that it would have been if the Baker amend- ment had carried. The league of na- tions imsue today is_ out of party politics. It has takn a position now like that occupied ten years ago by prohibition and woman suffrage. Neither party is committed to it and neither party, as a party, can serious- ly declaim against it. Those free and Dpioneering spirits who desire to ovu- sade for a cause may now meet iR non-partisan conclave, influence pyb- lic sentiment outside of parties, cap- ture senators and representatives aa they can. appeal to the churches as the prohibitionists and suffragists ap- pealed, rally the moral semtiment of the nation and win their cause upen its merits without being beholden to any party. Nothing better could have happened to the league of nations, as an issue before the American people, than the defeat '}: the Baker amend- ic as it defeat was to the asked day of the convention s close it developed its sec- McAdoo tago, | | fl | ry of Woodrow Wilsen, in the perty which be led and honored. One hears asentiments like this from sup- perters of the league in the gonven- 'r.iur;‘ Who are satisfied with their de- eat. i Kilan Migmovies Bifter. The Klan -fight. however, has an .xactly reverse situation, narrow victory leaves both sides with & sense of defeat, Hach side i» going to gather strength and pear g'llztr:ler n the cl.apll:; o at ‘some re oonvention, an ryan, who led the fight ‘for the Klan, is the only Tson who has acquired stremgth by aturday night's contest. It is not impossible that when, or if, the lead- rs in the hotel rooms fai] ‘to make & nbmination by cambinations and may- rise- up in the conyention and name the man him- self. He is an instructed delegate for McAdoo and conseientiously refuses to consider the second choige. Re- porters have been giving him the third degree for three days to make him give a hint about his second choice. He has none. He has just one qualification for his candidate if MeoAdoo disintegrates as a candidate, and that qualification is that the can- didate must be absolutely dry. e would not take Smith nor Ritehie nor Silzer, but _he might take Glass or Ralston. Twelve years ago Bryan nominated Wilson; twenty years ago, ignoring Bryan, the Democrats nom-' inated Parker and lost. Bryan came before the convention today for a moment with a resolution of sym- pathy, on behalf of the convention, for (he death of Harding. Jt was a characteristically human thing for Bryan to do—a simple, sincere and rather odd thing, but essentially de. cent. Love for Bryan was evident all over the convention. What he lost Saturday night he regained, and he stood there with his shining bald head glistening under the morning sun, haloed by the affection of 15,000 of his Democratic partisans, a dear, amiable, unsophisticated ~old glant, refreshed, but none the less a giant. (Copyright, 1924, by the Bell Syndicate, Ine.) ————t—g— DENIES FRENCH DEFICIT. Senator Says Did Not Fall Behind in Accounts, PARIS, July 1.—France collected 39.000.000 francs more than she spent last year and did not have the deficit of 1,25,000,000 francs reported by the chamber _appropriation commission, Senator O. Berenger yesterday told the Senate. He said the surplus was shewn by the corrected books of the finance minister, which had several errors, including the failure to can- cel an item of 750.000.000 francs which had not been expended and the failure to credit 500,000,000 francs in receipts for the sale of railroad ma- terial. The senator gave the 1933 expenditures as 24,163,000,000 francs. e Chicago is building a $100,000,000 railway terminal. which will be the Jargest in the world. - Il ole——t[o]c—>]o|c—S[o]le=—" =X CHANCES FOR DAV APPEAR BRIGHTEST McAdoo and Smith Jockeyihg for Advantage — Some Gains in Prospect. FORMER SEEKS MAJORITY Hopes Then to-Sway Other Dale- gates to Follow With Neces- sary Votes. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. NEW YORK, July 1—William Gibbs McAdoo led in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination today, with every indication that the Smith forces would attempt to break his strength by throwing their votes either to Senator Underwood of Ala- bama or John W. Davis of West Vir- ginia, The chances of a victory for Davis appear brightest at the moment, as he has a strong following in both the McAdoo and Smith camps. But many things will happen be- fore the break-up of either the Me- Adoe or Smith groups. The strategy being plaved today by the rival gen- erals is intensely interesting, as it combines all the tricks of previous conventions Elus a certain amount of psvchology that attends every breai. No tactician can predict with accu- racy what will be the result of any particular move. Tho plan today was for the McAdoo bili 608 to 614 . 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The Smith peo- le have from 40 to 60 more votes, hile MecAdoo has about 33 more which he hopes to get hefore night- fall, and then, having a majority, the California cln‘l*nt. ‘would ‘stand be- fore the convention just as did Clark at Baltimore in 1913, hoping the dele- gates will, in effect, disregard the two-thirds rule by giving him the re- maining votes. Some of the things which may be expected before night appear to be as follows; . About twelve McAdoo egntes who have been voting for the former Seeretary of the Treasury are really Smith men at heart and have been kept voting the way they have in order to provide a demonstration later on when they leave him and go to Smith. Strategy By Smith. 2. Although Mississippi has com- plimented Senators Harrison, Rebin- son and Glass, her twenty votes are to go to McAdoo on later ballota. The Smith managers were trying early to- day to swing the votes to Davis and to hold them there so as to prevent McAdoo from getting a majority. 3. Tom Taggart is friendly emough to McAdoo to give him Indiana's thirty votes as a compliment when McAdoo approaches the majority mark.. 4. Virginia, hoping for a reciprocal compliment from the McAdoo forces later, may switch her twenty-four votes to McAdoo during the day. All the strength in Ohio constitutes the McAdoo reserve. So leng as Ohio_sticks te Cox, nelther MeAdoo nor Smith can benefit. as the residuary votes in Ohio would not assist the Smith strategy but would tend to elp McAdoo. e Miinols the ten votes for Cox can be counted on ultimately to go to Smith. Stays With Davis. Louisiana plans to stay with John W. Davis for several ballots. It was the first state to join West Virginia. Here and there are =cattered votes for Davis, but his biggest oppertu- nity lies in the fact that he is second choice of scores of aelegates and is looked upon as a log»cal eompromise. 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Street Floor—Men’s Wear Shop LANSB 418-430 7th St. N.W.—Thru to 8th 'l Famous for Quality Sinoe 1860 Phone Frenklin 7400 the hope of giving him a chance be- fore the convention, but the southern McAdoo sta are t ineclined to help Upderwood because of his con- nection wiin the recent Klan contro- versy, so Underwood is not yet a probability. ‘The outcome appears to be depend- ent on whether the anti-McAdoo forces oan now break the former Secretary of the Treasury with Un- derwood or Davis or both. The Mc- Adoo people are showing friendliness to Glass of Virginia as their second choice, but they are not yet in a mood to concede that their leader iz going to be out of it. (Copyright,’ 1924.) MRS. HERT TAKES CHARGE Will Lead Woman’s Activities of Republican Party. CHICAGO, July 1.—Mps."A. T. Hert of Kentucky, vies chairman of the Republican national committee, today assumed charge of the women's ac- tivities of the party. Fred W. Upham, retired veteran na- tional treasurer of the party, was the first to call upon Mrs. Hert in her new quarters in Republican national head+ quarters. Everett Sanders of Terre Haute, Ind., new chairman of the speakers' bureau, and ington, executive secretary of Republican congressional campaign committee, arrived today, They con- ferred with Rey O. West, new sccre- tary of the national committee. 'WOMAN CUT T0 DEATH. Husband of Choir Sinnger Hunted for Crime. ELMYRIA. Ontario, July 1. Mrs. Lorne Borman, twenty-three, was slain Sunday shortly after she had returned home from church, where she sang in the chofr. Her throat was cut, apparently with a hatchet. Her twenty-six-year-old husband was arrested. STUDEBAKE Just Drive It; That's All | Whils They Last \Haverford Cycle Sales Co. | | 522 10th St. N.W. | Open Sat. Evenings 1 ] 20 070 DURANT “Just a Real Good Car” = o[ e lol——] o e e [a]l—=]o[e——]al=—= o] ——]o]c——=o] o] c——=]o[—=][7] D. C.. 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