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Democratic Factions More Bi LEADERSOF PARTY * ATPONT OF BLOWS Tumulty Seen Shaking Fist in Face of Daniel C. Roper After Test Vote. BRIGHT HOPES VANISH Both Sides Want Revenge—Many Delegates Soured on Both Chief Candidetes. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. NEW YORK, July 5-—While the Al Smith fireworks were going off in Madison.Square Garden on the Fourth of July, two democrats of national renown were walking down from the speakers' platform. One was Joseph . Tumulty, Woodrow Wilson's fidus achates. The other was Daniel C. Toper. former commissioner of inter- nal revenue and one of the McAdoo field marshals. Tumulty was shak- ing his fist in Roper's face. Tumulty is a Smith man. The convention had just rejected Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposition to invite the Governor of New York to address it. The rebuff was administered with the aid of McAdoo votes. Tumulty, who usually is the most soft-spoken of men, raised his voice to a fighting pitch ‘when he addressed Roper. There were references to the unwillingness ©of McAdoo's supporters to let him face the convention in competition with Gov. Smith. Tumulty’s clenched fist was in action, in the kind of ges. ture men make when they are ready 1o do battle for an argument, and his words were uttered almost in a whout. Fears for Party. Only those in the immediate prox- Ymity of the near Tumulty-Roper clash, among whom was this writer, probably are aware of the episode. But it is characteristic of the whole temper of the Democratic national convention in conseqyence of Friday's amazing and abortive events. Today Democrats are thinking far less of the identity of their 1924 standard bearers than of the conditions in which these candidates will take the field. What is _concerning ghem to the point of nervous anxiety and al- mo: to the exclusion of everything else is where they are left, as an or- ganization about to enter a campaign, after tearing at one another's throats for nearly two weeks. It is the veri- est commonplace on all hands in New York to hear that the party’s chances of victory, once so promising, have now gone up in smoke. E talwart leaders, not ordi- parily victims of panic, are harbor- ing morose thoughts of this kind. Their one ray of hope today is that the convention, despite the stubborn- ness of both McAddo and Smith, will renounce these candidacies in the name of party harmony and choose some one who is detached from their bitter rivalrics and frustrated ambi- tions. MoAdoo and Smith still hold great batches of delegates in a vice- Tike grip. But if the hearts and souls of these “tied” representatives could be X-rayed they would display emo- tions in many cases far removed from affection or devotion. It would be difficult to say which of the two ballot leaders is now the more un- popular with the convention as a whole, McAdoo's intrepid fight for victory compels a certain admiration among those who love tenacity for tenacity’s sake. 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SATUEDAY, JULY 5, 1924 Delegates Muffed Real Chance To End Deadlock, White Avers Smith Move to Address Convention, Balked by Prejudices, Gave Hope of Nomination, Says Observer. BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE, NEW YORK, July 5.—The national convention celebrated the Fourth of July yesterday patriotically for five ballots. The machinery of the con- vention began slowly to adjust itself to a new phase of its procedure. Ral- ston withdrew. Cox withdrew. Mec- Adoo held his show window full of dressy delegates, somewhere near 500. 1t was evident, however, that these delegates were as much anti- Smith as they were pro-McAdoo. Smith came to his high tide some- what under 340 votes. A rumor pass- ed through the press gallery that Smith had some sort of a compro- mise offer to make. The Massachu- setts delegation suddenly appeared with a resolution that confused the delegates, and the galleries. It was innocent ¢nough. and upon the whole It provided for clearing the alleries at the night session, allow- ing the reporters to remain and print the news, but inviting all the candi- dates for President to speak before the convention personally or by their accredited representative. Believes Delegates Misguided! vas a fair get-together proposal, T there was one. Coming from Massachusetts, it confused the dele- gates from the east and south. They thought it meant an attempt on the ];lla’;"l‘ of Smith to stampede the conven- The Texas war-horses rared bac 8craping their traces on the wheer, With a raucous snarl. They couldn’t see that the move to clear the gal- leries was an endeavor on the part of the eastern Democrats to remove from the deliberations of the con- vention the hicks from the high canyons of steel and cement, the hill- billies of the lower East Side, and the razor-backs of Tammany, that have been injecting an ignorant and provincial element of discord into the proceedings of the convention. The _ delegations from Georgia, Missouri, Kansas and the strong Klan states began parading figura- tively in their nighties. A resolution under which Gov. Smith and the eastern Democrats might have ap- pealed to the convention for har- mony, making a definite proposal to withdraw, if McAdoo would with draw. was lost. This resolution was followed immediately by the ap- pearance of Franklin Roosevelt of New York at the speaker's stand with a resolution asking that Smith be permitted to address the conven- o Besides feeling that he, too, is over- playing his hand in sticking to a hopeless race, the convention regrets Gov. Smith’s attempt to impose him- self upon its hospitality after it had rejected the suggestion to invite all candidates to take the platform. Had a less popular person that Franklin D. Roosevelt, Smith's manager, sought the privilege for the governor the vote not to hear him would have fallen ‘even shorter of the two-thirds vote than it did., The fact that a clear majority favored Smith's appearance was less a tribute to the popular gov- erncr than it was te his widely-be- loved political lieutenant. Specula- tions are rife as to what Smith's real purpose was in seeking to address the convention, alone among the candi- dates before it. One theory is that his friends were confident he would stampede Madison Square Garden with the power of his personality. Another explanation is that Smith's managers were anxious to prove by him, standing there in the flesh, that he is not the illiterate and uncultured man which some of his detractors de- pict him; that he does not “murder the king's English”; that he is all his idolators say he is—lovable. temper- mental, democratic, straight-spoken and in every way irresistible. Still another version is that Smith sought opportunity to inform the convention, face to face, that if he were to be- come its nominee, Roman Catholicism would not be enthroned at the White House: that he would be, if elected, President of all of the people, irre- spective of creed or condition. Saw Bolder Purpose. The McAdoo contingent's theory is that Smith planned a much more au- dacious coup than any of the plans just suggested. The McAdooites are convinced that the governor intended to issue a defiant challenge to McAdoo to withdraw from the race if he, Smith, did so. As McAdoo, with a mounting ballot strength, was at the moment less minded than ever to quit, his friends did not care to subject him to such a predicament. ' So, tak- ing no chances as to what might be in the wind from Smith's direction, they took the bit in their teeth and voted to deprive him of the floor. That the Smith crowd—and by the Smith crowd must be understood an incalculably large number of ad- mirers throughout the republic—is embittered by the rebuff administered to him is putting it mildly. They are, in fact, fighting mad. Their indignation knows no bounds. When “Joe” Tumulty shook his fist in “Dan” Roper's face on the plat- form steps, Tumulty's clenched ges- ture was the gesture of millions of Al Smith admirers. They will carry that grudge into any campaign in which Willlam Gibbs McAdoo might be the standard-bearer. The slaughter of McAdoo in Simth’s “kingdom” in New York city and state is horrible to contemplate, from the Democratic standpoint. ‘Worried by La Follette. Next to the harmony issue, Demo- crats in New York today are ponder- ing most deeply over the La Follette issue. The average Democrat thinks La Follette's independent electors throughout the country spell danger chiefly to the Republican party and the Coolidge ticket. But hosts of shrewd Democrats at New York fear the worst for their own ticket, as the result of the’La Follette third party menace. 'Tens of thousands of work- ing men, for instance, who ordinarily vote the Democratic ticket at national elections, will now, it is believed, go over en block to' the La Follette camp. That certainly applies to the gigantic railroad labor vote, the ele- ment upon which most of McAdoo's strength as a vote-getter was built. There are ordinarily tens of thou- sands of Democratic farm votes in the west, too. A special bid made for these in the Madison Squa: Garden platform, at the behest of Carl S. Vrooman, former assistant secretary of agriculture. _There is little real hope among Democra that the farm vote can be weaned away from the La Follette ticket. Altogether the Democrats will quit this embattled scene amid emotions miles removed from those of elation in which they so gally assembled a fortnight ago. A Moses and a miracle, it would appear from their lugubrious conversation, are about all that can save them from a defeat precipitated for the most part, as they mournfully point out, by the consummate blun- dering, which is the history of their New York convention. 2 (Copyright, 1924.) 2 e A snake would starve to death rather than eat anything but living prey. & That was too much! The miserable prejudices that had exercised all the devils of hell early last Sunday norning started again. Back snapped the convention six days. Out came the Clan-a-Gael to meet the Klux Klan, and for an hour there was plenty of hot pitch to pay the devil. There it was without leadership, without an issue save hatred, sus- picion_and bigotry—the convention of a great party, split to the core. The plate was breaking in the old crack. During the morning the women of the west and south had been meeting around the McAdoo headquarters and elsewhere, praying for light, but the women of the west and south were o further from the light than their spiritual prototypes in New York. who went about moaning and beating their breasts that Charlie Murphy was gone and could not lead them into the light. _ The whole occasion, the accursed afternoon, was a procession of stu- ity; grotesque unbelievably malev- olent, with a note of tragi comedy. Hears Murmurs of Unrest. “The second Republican conven- * one heard the delegates say as left the hall. “La Follette for ig the undertone of the slogan one hears all over the house. 1It's hard to say what it all means. It certainly is a new phase of the con- vention. Possibly it is the last phase preceding cxtreme unction for the Democratic party. Possibly the platitudes of the Re- publican _conventions and the im- potent yvearning for liberalsm, com- plicated with chattering fear of the simple statement of the liberal creed which characterized the platform of the Democratic party, indicate an absence of any fundamental reason for the existence of either party, ex- cept that our government requires the party system in order to function. Certainly the absence of great econ- omy and social iseues clearly and unequivocally stated and logically presented _indicates a moral bank- ruptey in both parties. ~Perhaps out of the bankruptcy will come reor- ganization and perhaps out of the bankruptey will come a job for the garbage man. No one knows. But the proceedings of Friday, the tenth day of the session of the Democratic pational convention, would seem to indicate a big day's work ahead for arbage man. et Thapiration or accident that made the bandmaster play as the last tune before the last vote was an- rounced Shall 1 Do? e Bell Synd| Tng (Con: . SMITH AND McADOO TO RESIST BREAK BEFORE NEXT WEEK (Continued from Fi est of some candidate who would fall an easy prey to predatory interests. ‘One of the sidelights of the con- vention that is more or less seriously discussed is a proposition that the convention adjourn to some other cit. This does not_meet with mu h favor. Chairman Walsh threw it down by saying the delegates are here and here to stay until a candi- date is nominated. The delegates say “Liook at our pocketbooks after one whirl at a.convention—we could not stand another.” Delegates are beginning to get des- perate and oppressed with a feeling of hopelessness as the proceedings drag on with no visible sign of a break. After a roll call has beep concluded, showing change of only three or four Votes, and the clerk begins another call, you can hear a sigh pervade the hall and see men and women droop their heads forlornly. The woman delegates actually suffer, lacking the physique of the men. The men on the press platform are alive and that is about all. They must “be on the job" continuously and alert to meet any sudden break. Chairman Walsh showsg the strain, although he has a reslin\ spell in the afternoon when former Renresentative Fitzgerald of New York relieves him as presiding officer. Many delegates have gone home, leaving the chairman of their delegations to announce the vote. A sudden demand for a poll of a delega- tion in some cases would show star- tling conditions and a possible reversal of form. It is unquestionably the most dra- matic_convention in the history of American olitics, and the trouble is, it is not over yet. The chances are that the selection of a vice presidential candidate will be a case of “short horse, soon curried.” VALUABLE GEMS TAKEN - IN NORFOLK: BURGLARY . Mrs. Rosalie Herndon Loses Price- less Heirlooms When House Is Looted. By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va, July 5.—Priceless jewels—some of them heirlooms that had been in the family of Mrs. Ro- salie St. John Herndon for several generations—were included in a long list of valuables stolen yesterday from the home of Claude M. Bain. Mrs. Herndon is the mother of Mrs. Bain and now makes her home with her daughter. The missing Jewels included a mag- nificent pearl and diamond necklace, a pearl tlara and a number of an- tique rings and bracelets. Mrs. Hern- don told detectives she could place no estimate on the gems, as they were to her priceless. A large assortment of jewelry and clothing belonging to Mr. and Mrs Bain also was taken by the burglars, who entered the house while the fam- ily were epending the day at Virginia each. —_— WESLEY HEIGHTS HOLDS JULY 4 CELEBRATION Flag Raising, Baby Parade, Races'| and Dance on Program—Many Prizes Awarded. The residents of Wesley/ Heights yesterday held a community celebra- tion in commemoration of the sign- ing of the Declaration of Independ- ence. The affair started at 10 o'clock with a flag-ralsing ceremony. A baby parade, games, races and other en- tertainments constituted the day's program, which was concluded with a dance in the evening. The baby parade was won by Mrs. M. J. Trofitt. Other prizes awarded were: For the best costumes worn by children one to six years of age, won by Jean Yates, Gladys Barkalow, An- nabelle Barrctt and Virginia Walton. A special prise was:awarded to Mrs. W. E. Johnson, who participated in the parade and was dressed as a baby. Potato race, Caroline Barkalow; ob- stacle race, W. E. Johnson: nall-driv- ing contest for women, Mrs. Denise Barkalow: needle and ' thread_race, Miss Helen Russell and J. H. Yates; tug-of-war, team led by Dr. Boe. A base ball game between the Klingle Street -and - the'yForty-fourth Street teams resulted I} & tio score, 2-2, PRESENCE OF RACE LEADERS SCORED Candidates’ Active ‘Direction of Campaigns Brings Hot Wave of Resentment. . HELD DEADLOCK CAUSE Many Delegates Would Go Back to Days When Office Sought the Man. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Staff Correspondent of The Star. NEW YORK, July 5.—Less than a score of years ago avowed caldidates for the presidential nomination re- mained far away from the scenes of the party national convention. Then the candidate's fate was decided by the assembled delegates. In a mgas- ure, at least, the office was supposed to scek the man. Many of the dele- gates to the Democratic national con- vention here are insisting today that this is a practice which should be ob- served again. The presence in New York of the leading contenders for the nomination, they say, has been one of the contributing factors which have prevented the convention from reaching an agreement—possibly an amicable agreement—days ago. Yesterday afternoon two resolu- tions seeking to have the candidates appear before the convention in per- son to present their cfaims for con- sideration were turned down by the Democratic national convention. The refusal to listen to the candidates was, in a measure, & rebuke to their attempted interference in the delib- erations of the Convention. Some of the delegates were glad of the op- portunity to express themselves on the matter. The defeat of the two resolutions, of course, involved ques- tioms of tactics on the part of one or more of the factions taking part in the struggle for the nomination. Opposite Plea Preferred. But some of the delegates said frankly after the session at which the resolutions were defeated: “Instead of passing a resolution to invite the eandidates to appear be- fore the convention, it would have been far more proper to put through a resolution asking the candidates ‘| to retire from New York and allow the ~convention to work out the selection of a nominec for President and another for Vice President” Of the field of candidates placed in nomination there have been in New York during the convention W. G. McAdoo, Gov. Al Smith, Senator Underwood, Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Gov. Davis of Kansas, Gov. Bryan of Nebraska, Gov. Ritchie of Maryland, former Senator Saulsbury of Delaware, John W. Davis and Senator Glass of Virginia. Others who have been voted for but who were not formally nominated and against whom, therefore, scarcely could lie the charge of being on the spot to advance their candidacy have been Senator Walsh of Montana, permanent chairman of the conven- tion; Senator Pat Harrison of Mis- sissippi. temporary chairman of the convuntion; Senator Owen of Okla- homa and Willlam Jennings Bryan. Ralston and Cox Absent. Two of the candidates who were placed in nomination but who have not been in New York are Senator Ralston of Indiana and Former Gov. Cox of Ohio. But they have been ex- ceptions to the rule. Bitter complaints have come from some of the delegates because of the manner in which Mr. McAdoo and Gov. Smith have cstablished them- selyes—one in the Manhattan Club and the other in the Madison Hotel. both just across the street from the convention hall—and have there in- terviewed or talked over the tele- phone, etc, to delegates and leaders of deiegations, seeking to influence them to cast their votes for them. Some of the delegates thus ap- proached by the candidates have told Mr. McAdoo or Goy. Smith or some other candidate thal they do not like this method of procedure. But in most cases these strong personal ap- peals have had zheir effect The dele- gates have been influenced in a way that was scarcely contemplated when method of naming candidates for the presidency was devised. Charge Work Prevented. The charge is made that the candi- dates by such tactics have prevented the convention from getting down to business and workirg out the prob- lems of the party and selecting the nominees to go on the ticket. The late Theodore Roosevelt, in 1912 when he was seeking the nomi- nation against President Taft, believ- ing that his candidacy was to be steam-rollered out of existence, went himself to Chicago to take charge of the fight when the Republican con- vention met in that year. His pres- ence in Chicago did not prevent the nomination of Taft, but it did cause a chaotic condition there and ended in splitting the Republican party wide open and a Democratic victory. In 1920 at the Republican national convention in Chicago, the leaders contending for the nomination, Gen. Leonard Wood, Gov. Frank O. Low- den, Senator 'Hiram Johnson and Warren G. Harding, were all in that city. Nor did their presence in Chi- cago at that time help to relieve the situation. lock in the Republican convention was broken much more quickly than in the -present Democratic conven- tion. “But the Republicans operate under a majority rule, and the Dem- ocrats under the so-called two-thirds rule, whereby a candidate must re- ceive two-thirds of the vote cast to be nominated. At the Democratic national con- vention four years ago, several of the leading candidates for the nom- ination were on the spot, including Gov. Cox and A. Mitchell Palmer. And the convention there was dead- iocked and required forty-four bal- lots before a selection could be made. Twe Cases Unusual. On some occasions in the past na- tional conventions of the two parties have selected their nominees from the delegates. This happened In- the case of President Garfild and again in the case of William Jennings Bryan in 1896. But unusual circum- stances were attendant upon these selections, and ‘the nominees’ were not avowedly seeking the nomina- tions when they went as delegates to the conventions. One of the problems which the Democrats ‘have had before them is whether to make their fight for vic- tory in the west and the south, or to make it in the south and the cast. The soath will go Democratic, of course. ‘To win the west, the Demo- crats believed they must melect & progressive, and to win the east, probably an easterner and less pro- gressive: McAdoo, Ralston or Robin- - perhaps one of the western vernors, like Bryan of Nebraska. have been the nominees favored for the conest in the west and middle western states. Gov. Al Smith, Sena- tor Underwood, John W. Davis and Gov._ Ritchie of Mdryland have been the leading contenders if the battle is to be staged in.the eastern states. Want G 0. P. Kian Stand. Democratic leaders now here are determined that the Democrats shall not suffer_alone because of the row over the Ku Klux Klan, which has threatened wmfi; the ‘'party wide open. They are laying thelr plang to It is true that the dead-| T. T. WANTS PRIVMARY - EXPENES PROBED Ansberry, Anti-McAdoo Lead- er, Suggests Borah Inves- tigate All Candidates. ANSBERRY. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 5.—Investigation of the expenditure of money in con- nection with the national Democratic convention and in the election of dele- gates to the convention is suggested in a telegram sent by T. T. Ansberry, an alternate at large from Ohio, to Senator Borah of Idaho, chairman of the committee created by the Senate to investigate campalgn expenditures. Mr. Ansberry, who is a Washing- ton, D. C., attorney, and a former Ohio resident, is one of the leaders of the anti-McAdoo group in the con- vention. His telegram said: Holds Warrant Exists. “May I not suggest that the public interest would be served by an in- vestigation of the moneys expended in connectlon with this cdnvention and the election of delegates thereto?” Mr. Ansberry in a supplemental statement said: “I do not want to mention any names, but I believe definite warrant exists for such an investigation as I have suggested to Senator Borah. In at least one instance an amount of money has been expended that has been apparently large and has con- tinued over a period of two years. “If 1 should be sent for I shall be in a position to supply the names of those who can give material testi- mony —_—— U. S. INDEPENDENCE DAY IS HONORED IN LONDON Ambassador Kellogg Entertains at Embassy and American Society Dinner Largely Attended. By the Associated Press. LONDON, July — Ambassador Kellogg yestérday afternoon enter- tained several thousand British and Americans at the embassy and last night he presided at the annual din- ner of the American Soclety. At the dinner were cabinet members, includ- ing Arthur Henderson, Philip Snow- den, Lord Olivier and J. H. Thomas. In a facetious vein Mr. Thomas said that dreamed a labor government would h#ve attained power in England in 1924 the split between the old coun- try and the colonies never would have occurred. “We cannot blame them; only sympathize,” he said. not condemn them, for they knew not what they did.” Toasting “the day we celebrate,” Ambassador Kellogg said the prin- ciples upon which the United States was_founded were those for which the British people had struggled and fought for 500 years. They were the same principles the united British and American peoples fought for during the world war and the princi- ples the forthcoming allied confer- ence would attempt to follow for the ?‘eturmenl of the world's civiliza- on. LEAGUE CHIEFS FAVOR AMERICAN ARMS PACT Draft Treaty on Disarmament and Security May Supplant Own Instrument. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, July 5—The draft treaty on disarmament and security recently prepared by a group of prominent Americans may form a subject of dis- oussion at the next assembly of the league of nations in September The disarmament section of the leagud has @ecided to print the treaty as an an- nex to the official report which it will submit to the assembly, and this action automatically throws the sub- Ject on the agenda, making debate on_the floor possible. The officials ‘of the disarmament department are greatly impressed by the American draft which, in many ways, they deem a distinct improve- ment over the league pact of mutual assistance which is now before all the governments for their opinions. They Semecially. commend the Judicial features ization of ana! the i the World Court Wasn't the Bus That Was Full, From the Edinburgh Scotsman. “Did you get home all right last night, 8ir?” said the local b'nl con- ductor. Why not?” asked the “Of course. nl'nennr. “Well, sir, when you got up to give your seat to that lady, you were the only two people in the bus:” foroe Prestent coolidge to take & definite stand on the Kian issue, The Republican platform makes no mention of the Klan, and oontains a mild reference to religious liberty, etc. - The Democrats claim that at Cleveland the Republitan party, in adopting its platform, sidestepped the issue entirely. But they do not mean that the Republicans shall sidestep it in the coming campaign. They have had their own lesson because of the raising of the Klan question, and they do not intend to be the sole sufferers bectuse of it President Coolidge and his lieuten- ants in_the campeign will be asked repeatedly €0 make their position if the Americans of 1776 had |, SECTIONAL ISSUE RAISED 3 TIMES Bitterness of Present Situa- tion Promises to Preclude Harmony. KLAN INJECTION FATAL Underwood, Davis, Baker and Rob- inson Are Likeliest Com- promises. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. NEW YORK, July 5.—East is east and west is west, and apparently never the twain shall meet in Demo- cratic politics. The age-old fight for control waged by Tammany Hall and its affiliated organizations of boss leadership in New Jersey, Massachu- setts and Illinois came to a head in the Clark-Wilson fight of 1912 and again in the San Francisco conven- tion of 1920, and today it is the un- derlying reason for the deadlock which has prevented the Democratig national convention from making a presidential nomtnation after two weeks of acrimonious sessions. Bitterness, however, is of unprece- dented intensity. Discourtesy to each other almost to the point of contempt, anger and wrath, which has at times aimost resulted in fist fights, has giv- en the convention plenty of excite- ment, but little promise of harmony even when nominations shall have been made. Klan Insue Fatal. The alibis and excuses are numerous. He who would be impartial cannot but recognize that in many respects the leaders have acted like a lot of schoolboys. The injection of the Ku Klux Klan issue has been fatal. Try as they might, the McAdoo delegates cannot erase the impression that they have been supported by the Klan. Try as they might, the Smith dele- Eates cannot conceal the fact’ that they believe most of the anti-Smith sentiment is nothing more nor less than an anti-Catholic feeling. It has gone to such a point that many lead- ers openly say the Democratic ticket will be deserted by Catholics general- Iy before any votes will be cast for McAdoo. To this William Jennings Bryan answers that he Sees no reason why a man should be nominated, meaning Smith, because of his church, and he says that is how the situation is rapidly developing. Sectional Feeling Evident. The stubbornness that has been keeping the deadlock tight and tends to make it tighter is, however, not altogether the Protestant-Catholic fecling_which has been engendered here. The McAdoo delegates from weltern and southern states insist that they have been furnishing elec- toral votes to the Democratic ticket more often than have New York, Pennsvivania, New Jersey, Conne cut, Tllinois and Massachusetts, which are the principal states asking for Smith’s nomination. Certainly Pennsylvania never goes Democratic and lllinois almost never. But to this hte Smith men make reply that_the reason the big states do not go Democratic is that they never have a candidate who appeals to"the eastern states, whereupon the Mc- Adoo leaders retort that the east would not_support even Woodrow Wiison in 1916 and that the states which contributed to the Democratic victory that year—namely, the west and south—shenld have the right to name the party leader here. As if the Kian issue and the sec- tional feeling were not enough, the attitude of the convention toward some of the prominent men in the party has been hardly one of cour- tesy. The Smith men hissed and jeer- ed and booed William Jennings Bryan, three times the nominee of his party, and then when the Smith people wanted the New York gov- ernor to address the convention the McAdoo delegates did the tit-for-tat stunt and refused to vote for the in- vitation, so it was lost. Smith's Friends Bar Speech. Even Mr. McAdoo wrote a letter to ‘the convention urging that Smith be permitted to speak, but ernor's friends were so angry they objected to a reconsideration. The truth is, the McAdoo delegates thought the invitation to have the governor speak was unfair. ‘The convention had just voted down a proposal to have all the can- | didates speak and the Smitly men, for some reason or other, not yet explained, then put in another reso- lution, inviting Gov. Smith alone. It was freely remarked by Smith men that the object of the move was to put the McAdoo men “in a hole, since they couldn’t, it was believed. refuse to hear. the governor of the state in which the convention was being held, particularly when it wa; his own home town. But they did. And they said that if the governor's friends wanted to have him address the convention in his capacity as governor, and not as a candidate, he should have been put on the program at the outset with Mayor Hylan, and that the issue should not have been raised after a week of speechmaking and sixty or more ballots. And so the quarrel has run, and no matter who made the mistakes of strategy, the result is the same. There is no spirit of conciliation, no the gov- | desire to forgive and forget, but an irreconcilable ~determination to beat each other. e There is talk of a rump convention if the thing keeps up, but anybody with the minimum of political knowl- edge is aware that the split has come and that it will take a candidate with all the mental gymnastics and good fellowship which can be commanded, plus a certain ount of partisanship with the anti-Klan group, to restore harmony in the party—an almost im- possible task at this writing. ‘The withdrawal at the same moment of both- Smith and McAdoo would save .the faces of both sides. Edward Fernsdorf of Michigan intro- duced such a resolution a few minutes before the night session adjourned, so that the initiative in bringirg about the withdrawal of the two leaders would come from the convention, but the proposal was voted down without even a roll call. It represents, how- ever, an abiding feeling in the con- vention. The compromise conditions, there- fore, seem to have the best chance of uyltimate victory. Senator Oscar Underwood of Alabama satisfies the Smith men, and since he comes from the south, the hope of his friends is that the southern states now supporting McAdoo will not obstruct his nomjnation. John W. Davis of West Virginia wouid satisfy both sides, though he has not said a word about the Klan iksue, whereas Underwood has made the fight against it and is for that rea- son first choice of the Smith delegates for a compromise. William Jennings Bryan :alyshhlsl;ea‘! opposition to Smith is that he e "'Hie opposes Underwood for the same reason, and Davis because of his connection with Wall street corpora- tions. As between the two, he would probably prefer the West Virginian, as the latter has not been a pronounced wet, though, as an_ Anti-Saloon League leader expressed, he has been about “¥ifty-fifty” in his votes on_ the liquor issue in Congress and elsewhere. Newton D. Baker is now the hope of Ohio since James M. Cox withdrew. Senator Glass of Virginia has himself urged his delegation to go to McAdoo, but the story is that Thomas Fortune Ryan has more influence in that dele- gation than Glass and that the dele- gation is more inclined to favor either Davis or Underwood than McAdoo, if the time comes to abandon its favorite son. Tt is significant that in spite of the talk of Mr. Glass' letter about having his delegation support Mr. McAdoo, the document, if there is one, has not been disclosed and the Vir- ginia senator has not made a public statement of withdrawal, as have Sen- ator Ralston and Mr. Cox. There remains one other likely can- didate, Senator Joseph Robinson of Arkansas, minority leader of the upper house of Congress. He has some strength with the Smith group and has the indorsement of Bryan as a dry and as a progress Arkansas is holding its eighteen votes for him in the hope that when the break-up comes, this favorite son may be the compromise. His opportunity, how- ever, will come only after there has been a decision with respect to Davis, Underwood and Baker. (Copyright, 1924.) AUTO RACER KILLED. Car Skids, Breaks Through Fence and Rolls Over. SAN LUIS OBISFO, Calif., July Stanley Brown of Fresno, Calif., driv ing in a ten-mile preliminary auto- mobile race here yesterday, was kill- ed when his car skidded, crashed through the fence and turned over several times. —_———— Chilean Premier Chosen. SANTIAGO, Chile, July —Presi- dent Alessandria has commissioned Pedro Aguirre Cerda, president of the Radical party and leader of the Liberal alliance, to form a cabinet. s S SR TEE™ preparatory, day or evening: rates, $8 to $34 monthly: no advance payment. Gmall class roups and individual instruction. 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