Evening Star Newspaper, June 25, 1928, Page 4

" THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C. MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1998 AGITATORS DIVDED DRYISSUE ABSORBS | VICTORY, MRS. SHAVER ASSERTS INTO THREE GROUPS Sponsors of Rigid Enforce- ment Plank Seem to Hold Edge. Br the Associated Press HOUSTON. June 25. - etood forth today as the chief problam with which Democracy must contend and conquer to insure party harmony Submerging all other issues at a time when indications point to the sclection of Gov. Smith as the party standard bearer, the protracted controversy be- tween the wets and the drys apparently was injected into nearly every angle of pre-convention proceedings. The ques- tion of how it should be handled found opinion divided into three groups—one favoring a bone dry plank in the party platform; anohter advocating repeal of the.eighteenth amendment, and. a third. proposing & declaration in favor of law enforcement with special reference to the prohibition laws. Enfercement Plank Seen. While accurate check of th divided opinion was out of the q it appeared as if the latter group could muster the greater strength. and gave rise to many predictions that the Democrats would approve a plank call ing for rigid law enforcement The belief that this latter group held #» whip hand brought forth a number of expressions that the question would be smoothed over behind the closed doors of the resolutions committee and a fight averted on the convention floor Another factor strengthening this be- Jief was an apparcnt desire on the part of party leaders for harmony in all proceedings. : Dangling, however, before the eyes of those who hoped for such a peaceful outcome was the specter that the pro- hibition fight might reach the floor. In £ome quarters it was felt that the ultra- drys would battle to the last ditch and those holding this view referred to the many meetings being held by law en- forcement organizations in Houston as substantiating their position Under auspices of the national wom- en’s committee for law enforcement, two mee were held vesterday, at which Mrs. Nelle G. Burger, executive secre- tary of the Women's Christian Tem- perance Union. and Mrs. Jesse W, Nich- olson of the National Woman's Demo- cratic Law Enforcement League vig- orously the selection of a wet | candidate and urged the Democratic | hosts to rally around a dry plank and | L) leader. | ér similar meeunln were n: the rogram for today. inclue & break- },‘ rally, at which Gov. Moody of around whom the bone-dry forces have gathered. held a foremost | place on the program. i Maryland May Act. | On the other hand, a number of dele-1 gates were speculating on the fight to | be made by the Maryland delegation in the resolutions committee for a plank Prohibition mhade last night upon the arrival here | Sonaly repreces o Btate's celegation represent it 'S legation on_the platform-drafting committee. ‘Those the outright repeal that his original objection to | amendment was based | President Wil- £ BRIAND'S SHOE SELLS | FOR ONLY 20 FRANCS Bouvenir Hunters Do Not Appear to Be Seeking Statesman's { Wearing Apparel. Locarno has not gruttnir hunters Although 2 sale at the Drouot auc- tion rooms brought 65,000 francs for a badly battered hat worn by poleon, a shoe guaranteed to have been worn by the French statesman of today was so0ld by a dealer for only 20 francs- and that only after considerable hag- e was only one shoe, but it re- vealed that M. Briand, like lesser lights 1n history, has been afflicted with corns ‘When & struggling journalist, it was his custom to play cards after dinner each evening in the cafe in the rue du Crois- sént, .where Jean Jaures met his death on the eve of *he World War. When- ever his “pet corn” would begin to ache, M. Briand would remove his shoe, piacing it beside him upon the plush- covered bench. 1f arguments arose Briand would use the shoe to empha- st his points. One night. the story runs, a fire t in & neighboring cafe, and s abandoned their game ment. M. Briand also =bandoned his shoe, and when he hob- bied back o the table half an hour later the shoe had disappeared. It was found weeks later behind the kitchen stove Bomebody kept it and years after fened it out 1o sell as a souvenir FURNITURE SHOW OPENS. Modern Motif Is Dominant at Chi cago Exr CHICAGO, June 25 #).~~The mode motif prevaiied in the style show of uhe furniture world, which opened its annual exhibition today st the Furni- ture Mart Bimplicity in shapes predominated but the vanishing of the fancy scroll work of the past saw the introduction of brilliant colorings and designs in uphoistery. Figures were painted on Is in flashy hues. Rosewood. | tinwood found piaces Chairs Trim mos bit were more light model popular The three-wee 164 exhibitore and opened w buyers on hand Slain Amid Begonis PONT DE L'ARCHE, Prance - Vate the cook who took his life because the King's fishh was spolled, had ciple When frost kilied the begonias the Chateau de Bonpart the head gardener witnessed the wilting blooms and sies Evans W Senator Robi Upper, left to right: Lower, lefl to righ Senator Gilbert H. BLASS IVEN ROD WITHOUT A BATH Poor Luck With Hotel Accom- | modations Adds to Vir- ginian’s Wrath. By the Associated Press +HOUSTON, June 25.—Benator Ci ter Glass of Virginia reached Houston last night, registering anything but happiness. He was out of temper when he got here over the prospects of Smith's nomina tion, which he vi- olently opposes. To | cap the climax the hotel clerk gave him a room with-| out a bath. 1 “Think of this hotel giving me a | room ~without a| bath!” He com- | plained as he paced the floor. “What kind of a hotel is lhi,suanyho‘:"" .l Senat sat in e | e chair for a_few minutes as the heat waves poured down | over him, then Fabbed a telephone and | got the room clerk. That did no good, as the clerk told him he didn't have another room in the house. Hearing the commotion Senator Swanson, in the next room, offéred to share his bath, | and it was accepted promptly. [ Benator Glass, who herefore has been | a dominant figure at Democratic con- ventions, said he did not plan to exert | himself at this convention. “Opponents of Smith have laid down | on the job,” he declared. “They waited 100 Iate until Smith go@adhe delegates.” He said 6 of the zinia* delegates | were for Smith and 18 were opposed to him. “Will they vote for Smith if they are convincéd he can't be stopped?” he was asked “I don’t know what the others will do. but I will never vote for him,” he | declared. JEWELS OF QUEENS DAZZLE BANQUETERS Brilliant Displays Made by Wives of England and Lfghanistan | Rulers. | Correepondence of the Associated Press. | LONDON.—When royalty dines with | royalty. queens display their jewels. | Queen Mary of England and Queen Souriya of Afghanistan were both re- splendent of dazzling gems when their Afghan majesties entertained their British majesties at the Royal Afghan legation here during the visit of the Asiatic rulers It was a magnificlent affair. The ground salons were decorated with cerlse carnations and tulips. A string band played. The King and Queen of Af- ghanistan, wearing British orders mdi attended by the Afghan officers of state, | received King George and Queen Mary, who wore Afghan orders. The Prince of Wales was also present as well as ! the Duke and Duchess of York and | Prince Henry Queen Mary wore a magnificient dress of pale gold metal brocade, embroidered with crystal and diamonds. Her head- dress was a diamond diadem with swing- 1l drops, and her other jewe and diamonds. She also 1 coliar and star of the Afghan r presented to her by King Ama- | Queen of Afghanstan, in a dress r lame with an overdress of and a long train glittering with diamond embroidery, and wearing very pale rose stockings and silver shoes, | sat on the left of Queen Mary, 8he | wore & dlamond tiara in her hair and | the regalia and rousing music of pio- ! the Republican vice presidential nomi- | & brief speech thanked her brother's | tion Gov. Dan Moody zmd Gov. W. J. Bulew. of Arkansas, Gov. Nellie Tayloe Ress INDIANS CELEBRATE CURTIS' NOMINATION AT TRIBAL DANCE Sister of Vice Presidential Candidate Thanks Aborigines for Their Interest in “COUSil’l Charley.“ (Harris & Ewing Photo), and ex- By the Associated Press | squatted in the center. a big tomtom KAW, Okla., June 25.—Reverting to o perched on their crossed feet *The drum thumped sharply once. | Each head bowed in reverence as the blessing of the Great Father was asked. Then Chief Bacon Rind of the wealthy | Osage Nation responded in a nasal sing-song, reciting some of the honors Senator Curtis, their “Cousin Charley,’ had won. Hardly had he finished and squatted on a chair, folding his rich red and blue striped blanket about him and ad- justing his tall calfskin cap, than the tomtom burst forth with a rollicking rhythm, accompanied by’ the frenzied neer days, the Kaw Indians again have expressed faith in their blood-brother— Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas ‘To the puising throb of tomtoms and the clank of belled anklets. the elders of the tribe on whose rolls the name of née appears last night staged their fa- vorite dance in his honor. While dusky Indian flappers added a touch of the modern with their bobbed | hair and beadless clothing, the braves and lineal chiefs again expressed the sing-song chanting of the drummers devotion shown by the Senator's grand- | and the crooning of the squaws rocking mother, Julie Pappin, when she turned | back and forth in time to drum. him from her tepee more than 50 years ago with the admonition to return to his white relatives e g L e 3 eaped from the iine of tribesmen an: Sister Thanks Dancers. | led his companions in the dance that Senator Curtis, kept from the dance | lasted until the chiefs decided #t was by the press of his campaign, was rep- | time for speeches. resented by his sister. Mrs. Elizabeth | Mrs. Colvin was the first to speak. Curtis Colvin of Topeka, Kans., who in | “It isn't my fault.” she said, “but I want you to know that I—that we—are people for the Honors they gave him. | all very proud of Charlfe." Eight full-blood braves of the Kaw | A chorus of grunts from the solemn Nation, garish in gaudy splashes of | elders indicated satisfaction with the white, yellow and red, brushed against | words of their “white sister.” costly motor cars, and hundreds of bells | After brief talks by various chiefs. jangled as they marched solemnly in | Mrs. Colvin joined more than a score single file to a dance floor a mile and a | of the Senator’s second and third cous- half northwest of here. A dozen squaws, | ins in 4 feast of chicken and “wau- heavily blanketed despite the heat, filed | buski” (fried bread) prepared by the after them, taking their places around | squaws. Word went out that the Sena- the outer edge of the dance floor, while | tor had promised to visit the Kaws here five of the oldest subchiefs of the tribe | next month. Dinner Follows Dance. With a shrill yell a painted brave RITCHIE PROMISES SEESPARTY SPLIT PROMTIONFGAT 1F SHITHLOSES Maryland Plank Would Make‘Mayor Walker Says Defeat Dry Law an Issue for Each | for the Nomination Would State to Settle. Wreck Democracy. By the Associated Press BT. LOUIS, June 25-—Mayor James J. Walker of New York, expressing the belief that Gov. Smith will be nom- inated at least on the third ballot, said here yesterda if Smith wa: nominated Democratic will be split two factions that may never come together again."” “If theé party re- jects him as candidate | never recover fr a division that sure to come,” Walker sald on & stop-over en route to Houston. “We don’'t expect any fight; we Mayor Walker, Smith to go over without opposi- tion.” John W. Davis, the Democratic presidential nominee in 1924, also ar- rived yesterday announcing, “I'm just half a delegate, explaining he carvied A half vote from New York. He pre- | dicted Smith’s nomination on or before the third ballot By the Associated Press HOUSTON, June 25.—Two camps that have developed among convention delegates, one wet and the other dry, today considered the announcement by Gov. Albert C. Ritchie that the Mary- land delegation should seek incorpora- tion in the Democratic platform «f a plank returning to the States the right o settle the prohibition question for themselves. There was a further probability that the Maryland executive might represent his State on the resolutions committee that will draft the party platform Should this be done, Gov. Ritehle would have an opportunily to Argue person- ally the position he hopes to see the party take The caucus of the Maryland delega- was expected some (ime today when preliminaries such as appoini- ment of members of convention com- mittees was to be completed. On his arrival here yesterday, Gov. Ritchie declared he thought the time had come 10 refer the question of prohibition to the States to be settled for themseives He said that Maryland’s member on the resolutions committee would urge o plank to this effect before the com- mitice The Maryland Governor, who with-| drew as & presidential candidate him- self and indorsed Alfred E. Smith of New York, did not regard any coalition | to block Smith probable. Such a coali- | not “the into not been mentioned as & candidate at this convention.” y that | party | expect | “I am glad,” Davis sald, “that T have | | tion, he sald, would be unable to stand | dizmond and ruby braceles up a6 Gov. Smith “has the best if not | ‘There were no speeches DELEGATES IN DANGER. inciuded Ambassador Houghton and the | the only chance to win,” the statement | s other forelgn Ambassadors, Bir Austen | of the Maryland executive was read | I1l{nofs Party Has Narrow Escape The guests Chamberlain, Lord Birkenhead, and the | with interest in the camp working for | Afghan princes of the royal party « dry plank The froni of the legation was ablaze The majority of the Mglrthi dele. with hundreds of colored electric lights | gatlon s quartered at the Warwici g -~ 8 e | Hotel although headquarters were main- | SPECIAL TRAIN EN | d at the Rice Hotel, in the center | HOUSTON, SPRINGFIELD, Last Lamplighter Quits. ! 1256 () | delegation to the Hous onve CHICAGO.-The last lamplighter in | ey g Houstn convention Chicago is about to lose his job. Ouk | festerday nea: Dwight, LIl A two hours out of Chicago, when the ley bouleverd, only gas-lighted street | 1ocomative on”the sp in the city, is being equipped with elec 1 ric light as Wreck Is Averted. 1 tain of activities near Convention Hall Wild Cat Invades City MINNEAPOLIS — A whd cat metimes a Canadian lynx into the ontskirts of Minnearp wsi shot by Suberl Barker, 17 /O7 inches long and 23 inches tall calle A wheel tire rayed | ¥ and It was engine crew the | tron, being ditened The flange wis it heen sheared off locomotive would have left the ralls ‘The Callfornian, of the Chicago & Al- ton Railroad, pulled the special prevented Largest Boathouse NEWTON. Mass - Harold Young of | - Auburndale, on the Charles River, Transmitting rooms of the broad- aims the largest livery canoe house In | casting stations at Eiffel Tower, Paris the world He has 400 canoes for rent, | and al Warsaw, have been placed under J#nd his sheds house 250 private craft |the ground. ) artly eut away trainmen said, the attached, i ABOARD ILLINOIS DEMOGRATIC 3 ROUTE TO i June | , oSl Misfortune overtook the Tilinois| o i less (han il train slioped Only the quick work of train Had nto ! Springfield, where a new engine was! WOMAN DELEGATES Enough Votes to Block Wet Candidate Claimed—Aid to Farmerc Asked. BY MARY BAINBRIDGE HAYDEN, Associated Press Stafl Writer, HOUSTON, Tex., June 25.—The dry issue is the outstanding preoccupation of women both within and without the official ranks of delegates. “We absolutely control over 400 votes nst a wet candidate, enough to block any nomination,” Mrs. Jesse Nicholson, president of the National Women's Democratic Law Enforcement League, claimed yesterday, citing Mrs. Marvin Williams, State president, and Mrs. Mary Harris Armour, a national organ izer of the W. C. T. U.. both delegate: from Georgia, as evidence that * are strong dry women among the dele: gates, who will gladly speak on the floor | of the convention if the issue is carried | there.” “We have the backing of at least 12.- 000,000 women who have gone on record through their delcgated representatives,” continued Mrs. Henry W. Peabody of Boston, president of the national wom- en's committee for law enforcement “They have no right to claim millions of women without a referendum,” stout- ly contradicted Miss M. Louise Gros, airman of the national women’s com- mittee for repeal of the eighteenth amendment who will back a repeals plank before the resolutions committee. Smith Women's Position. ‘The few Smith women who have ar-| rived in advance of the Tammany con- tingent from New York meet the pro- tests of their dry opponents with little or no comment. Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, former governor and delegate at| large from Wyoming, is on record as a wet, and is mentioned as the probable | choice to second the Smith nomination. The dry issue is injected even into the scussion of candicies for the national mittee Vi chairmanship, for which Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Florence Farley of Kansas, “baby of the national committee;” Mrs. Bernice Pyke of Cleveland, Mrs. D. A. McDou- gal of Oklahoma and Mrs. Genevieve | Clark. Thompson of Louisiana, daugh- ter of the late Speaker Champ Clark. |are considered favorites. “The choice of the woman who will | succeed Mrs. Blair will have a tremen- | dous influence on the women's vote in | the South in November said Mrs. Edgar Alexander, acting committee- | woman from Georgia. '“The Southern women will not follow a woman they | don't admire and the dry issue is very | important to them.” Farm Issue Raised. The agriculture issue is regarded by the women as second only to prohibi- tion and some woman delegates are ac | tive supporters of the farm relief plank | Among them is Mrs. Nora Lawrence, | Smith, Georgia delegate, newspape: owner and editor. “The women of the West will insist | | on some relief of the farm situation,” | | said~Miss Jessie Scott, national com- | mitteewoman from Minnesota and offi- | cial reporter for the convention. Other planks favored by women at Houston, as at Kansas City, are the | “equal hts” constitutional amend- | ment red by the National Wo- and opposed by the League of Woman Voters, and the five planks proposed by the League for Renuncia- | and Adherence to the Federal women's | tion of War World Court aboljtion of the lame duck sessions of Congress. “I think women are infinitely more interested in how to prevent war honor- ably than in the dry or any other ques- | tion,” said Miss Adele Clark of Ric! | mond, a former vice president of the | league and one of its official delegates to appear before the resolutions com- | mittee here. She is “confident that the | Democratic party will live up to the | tradition it established for leadership | in international co-operation during the { Wilson administration.” D. C. POLICEMAN, CAUGHT | IN RAID, IS SUSPENDED Nash to Face Trial Before Board. | Truck Driver Is | Arrested. | Caught in a raid at 1317 E street 1 southeast about 12:30 yesterday morn- | ing, Policeman James R. Nash of the | Seventh precinct was suspended to stand_trial by the police trial board, !and Ernest Burkhalter, owner of the | liquor truck which figured in the police hi-jacking case bared by Representative | Blanton, was arrested on charges of { permitting gaming. He was released on 18200 cash collateral for his appearance {in Police Court today, where it was understood he planned to demand a jury trial The rald was made by Lieut. O. T.| Davis and Detectives P. L. Arrington and R. F. Langdon of the fifth precinct | on a warrant obtained by Arrington, who contends gaming has been going on there for some time. A quantity of | | cash and gaming materials was con- | | fiscated by the police The officers say the house was “‘wide- open,” and no difficulty was encoun- tered in gaining entrance. Policeman Nash was booked as a_Government wit- | ness, as were Walter E. Megaw, August | Blerderman and Harry Feterthe, the! others taken in the raid. | . Quits Stump for Convention. HOUSTON, June 26 (#) —Tom Con- nally, one of a number of candidates for the United States Senate from Texas, | | has concluded that it's folly to try to campaign ih his State with a Demo- | eratic national convention going on, so | e has quit the stump for few days and is mixing in the hotel lobbles here with party leaders and Washington newspaper men, who know him well | | member of the House of Represent tives. | | i g | | and | children's protective legislation, Go\‘t-x'n-! 1 ment ownership of Muscle Shoals .and | | gretfully reported, is that Gov. Urges Women to Wage Fight to Finish at Con- vention. Nullifiers Prevent Harmony in Party, She Warns Church Meeting. By the Associated Press. HOUSTON, June 25.—The floor of the Democratic convention was por- trayed today by Mrs. Clem L. Shaver, wife of the chairman of the Democratic national committee, as the arena in which the ‘“great battle betwesn the ‘wets' and the ‘drys’” must be fought to a finish. ) She declared that every Democratic nd Republican voter “knows there is no such thing as harmony in the Democratic party,” and, she added, there never can be harmony “so long as certain wet clements in the party clamor for supremacy, though so greatly in the minority.” Addresses Church Women. Addressing a meeting of the national woman's committee for law enforce- ment at the First Baptist Church South, Mrs. Shaver said the battle “is to be a fight to the finish between the wet violators and nullifiers on the one | . 1 : | | | MRS. CLEM SHAVER. | vice because he is a ‘saloon’ man? “What sort of a President do we want in the White House anyway, honest men and women of Amegica? Do we want a wet or a ‘50-50," or an evader of the Constitution, a saloon man, or an msincere so-called ‘law enforcement’ bird, who knows when he promises to Seek to Smooth Path for Prohibition and Farm Relief. By the Associated Press HOUSTON, June 25—With conven- tion time approaching speedily, Demo- cratic platform builders busied them- selves today in an effort to iron out differences over the two most contro- \elrslral questions—prohibition and farm relie A variety of views on both subject were presented and it was agreed tha‘ the resolutions committee faced a diffi- cult task in writing planks which would harmonize these views. Should it fail in that task, fights on the convention floor would ensue. Overnight conferences between party leaders made it fairly clear that the committee would write a strong law enforcement plank, probably nam- ing the eighteenth amendment, as did the Republican convention at Kansas City. Such a plank is regarded as ac- ceptable to the supporters of Gov. Al- fred E. Smith, but whether this would satisfy the ultra-drys remained to be determined. Farm Planks Prepared. | Several farm planks also have been prepared by some of these who will frame the platform. Senator Key Pitt- hand and dry, patriotic upholders of enforce the eighteenth amendment he man of Nevada, who probably will b- the Constitution on the other.” Without mentioning any names, she contended that “at Houston there can be no harmony if a wet nullifier is nom- inated,” for it “means just one thing— | a bitter fight, complete lack of har- mony and a triumphant victory for the Republican ticket and millions of dry Democrats who decide to do all in their power to help the Republicans win.” Asking if this would be harmony, Mrs. Shaver declared that “none but a dry, all-American candidate can be nomi- nated in Texas. despite the clamorings of expediency-loving politicians, cam- ouflaging under the puny puerile whine of ‘harmony, we must have harmony.’ “Foolish, silly, picayune politicians. small in stature and smaller—much smaller in brain powe she continued “They are kidding themselves, but they are not fooling anybody else. * * * Assails Nullifier. “Are we woman voters in the Demo- | the parting of the ways; perhaps some | eratic party going to vote to put in the White House any man with a dripping | party, may become a reality to satisfy ' a number of subjects other than does not mean it, but is pledging him- self to a lie. “By no means! We want and are de- termined to have a man for President whose very name will be guarantee that the eighteenth amendment will | rigidly enforced. “Unfortunately, we have in the Demo- cratic party a large number of jelly- fish politiclans who are hungry for s R e« AP T wagon' hoppers. * *“ They have developed a mania for hopping on a certain wet band wagon. | Patriotism Unknown. . “Wet violators of the law never have any reverence or respect for the Con- stitution, or for any law; patriotism is an unknown quantity: their affection for their country has been completely effaced, if it ever existed. by their love of and craving for liquor. The Democratic party has indeed come to time a new party, a third All-American be ] chairman of the resolutions committee has one and others have been drafted by Senator Bayard of Delaware, Senator Caraway of Arkansas, Senator Tyson Tennessee and former Senator Hit cock of Nebraska. ‘These planks differ materially. zom~ declaring for the principle of the equa zation fee of the McNary-Haug and others pledging the party in general way to put agriculture on 2 parity with other industries of tn country. « | Most leaders frowned upon the sug- i gestion that the party declared for a specific remedy for the ills of agri ture. They thought the platform shou point to the record of the Wilson ad- ministration in dealing with this sub- | ject through the creation of farm lan< banks, and pledge the party to whatever legislative steps that might | necessary to restore prosperity to | country’s basic industry. Corruption Stressed. Vigorous declarations are planned o wet record, a saloon man. any nullifier | the demands of a truly patriotic Demo- | hibition and farm relief, among the: inevitably associated with organized " eratic citizenship. \CAUCUSES STYLED THE THING |5t s sy mes FOR SPEED AND INFORMATION (Continued from First Page.) Half an hour later. when the caucus was over, it was formally announced that the delegation had caucused and decided to support Senator Curtis for | Vice President. Demoerats Not So Speedy. ‘Whether the Democrats will be as | quick-acting as the Republic: be determined in part by the | caucus. | do not seem to be so quick-acting. | The Democratic waiters in the hotels here, for instance, are much slower than the Republican waiters Kansas City hotels, and as for the boys, they deliver telegrams to under what used to be known as the | Burleson System. not representative. though. But while the Demacrats may not be so excessively fast, they are capable of putting on a remarkably good pre- convention show. Prom a strictly non-partisan standpoint, it must be stated that they are putting on a better show here than the Republicans put on at Kansas City. In Kansas | City, for instance, there wasn't a single | | horse in & hotel lobby. Here in Hous- ton the old Gray Mare and of Ft. | Worth brings the old gray mare right |into the lobby, and the band. looking like moving pictures of Tom Mix, toots away. And in Kansas City there wasn't any rodeo going on, so there weren't any cowboys hanging around | the hotel lobbies and wearing two-gun man expressions beneath their wide | sombreros. In Kansas City there was | @ ecowboy band, but it wouldn't hold | a candle to the cowboy band here. | Hinerant Musician Non-Partisan. | | And in Kansas City they didn't have gle itinerant musician. Here i got one who plays an accordion | and a horn at the same time, He has long hair, and the face of a saint, |and he goes around to Reed head- quarters, puts on a Reed button and plays a tune, ‘Then he walks over | the, to the Smith headquarters puts on a | Smith button and cuts loose on what he fondly considers to be “The Side- walks of New York.™ ‘The way he plays it sounds like a funeral and a camp meeting song combined. Then he passes the hat And in Kansas City they didn't have any liquor issue, and say what you will, there’s nothing like & liquor liven things up. As women are con- surface, things are liveller than they ordinarily would be if left in the hands of men. The most interesting thing about the liquor issue fight is the im- pression that, despite one's self, one comes to have of Gov. Smith of New York, after hearing an address on the liquor issue. Smith has two horns and & forked tail and that mothers better look out for their | children and keep them off the streets after dark or somebody from Tammany They probably take these children and drown them in light beer and wines at Tammany Hal. More Romance Prevails, And there are some of the big Demo- crats here who seem to wear more of an alr of romance about them than the average big Republican at Kansas City, It is almost an old home week down here for Washingtonians, for all these delegates are known in Washington But there are some disappointments in | the crowd. Gov. dMnod\ for insta tion-wide reputation as “Fighting Dan" Moody. But when a bunch of reporters caught him coming back from church yesterday and tried to make him talk, he looked more like a schoolboy caught has a na- | Bt P 3 | Atealing jam, or a sophomore caught | painting “the class numerals on th water tank, than of the fighting gov. ernor of the Lone Star State. Moody Emphatically Silent. Goy. Moody, they say, is doing some very heavy thinking and does not want | to talk while he is thinking. He denled to the newspaper men yes- torday that he had ever sald anything about anyihing. He kept repeating he would not have anything to say. He wouldn't even admit that he had been Ineited to speak at the dry forces breakfast on the Rice roof this morn- [ Mg In fact, he sald he neve | heard about it," although he has been | advertised far and wide for some time as the big gun at the breakfast. And when a reporter asked him whether providing he were invited to the break- fast, he would apeak at the breakfnst he closed the interview by repeating DANIEL €. ROPER. r that he would not make a statement Gov. Moody, as & matter of fact, did As a rule, the Democrats | in_the | the rooms | Perhaps they are | dirge | issue to | Hall will come along and steal them. | | Rt show up at the dry breakfast this | morning. Tt was explained tha: “press | ing_political conferences” unavoidabl detained him. That was tis bad. Reed's Fighting Face. And there's Senator Jim Reed. He's as much a Washingtonian. of course, | as he is a Missourian, though he might | not admit that. He's wearing his | fighting face around here now. but it's | a fighting face that is ready to break inta a smile when an admirer comes up and wants to shake hands. There's {a difference of opinion about how he | looks. Some say he looks fresh and from. Baltimore, says. he himself like a proud old soldier and chews a cigar in the cormer of his mouth while he gets away from the| | crowd in his headquarters and goes j over in a corner to talk with one of | his many advisers. | Not Exactly “Back fo Wall.* ‘When he first met the newspaper men { here on his arrival he stood against | ;lt;e wall with the reporters all around m.. { “You've got your back to the wall, Senator,” one them said “Not exactly,” answered the Senator. | “But I want to be sure nobody's behind | me” | "He told the reporters that Missouri's | old motto was “To the end of the row.” Some of the reporters made it “road” | and some of them made it “rope.” Then there's Pranklin D. Roosevelt. He's a man who can wear a great name | without blowing a trumpet to call the world's attention to that fact. There's | been tragedv in his life which has left | a cryel mark, but a wonderful face re- | mains unchanged. There's a soul be- hind his eves | Daniels on Scene. | _And Josephus Daniels, who has grown | older since he ordered certain modifica- | tions in the wardrooms customs of the Navy. still wears his cane well and seems to krow pretty much what it's | ali about still At a table in the dining room one find¢ snow-haired Barney Baruch and | Admiral Carv Gravson supoing togather Bath of them probably know a lot of zood Democratic stories that are yet to be told. A Man of Experience. { ‘Then there's John W. Davis. who in about & week may be able to give some ence. Mr. Davis could speak on the | in_and outs of volitics One other old horse of other davs is getting too old to be going to con- {ventions But there's Georse Brennan {of Minols who looks and talks liks his This impression, it is re- [name could be nothing elss but Bren- &reat man And cufetly in conference with | same serious folk one is apt to find Dan Poner, dyer in & corner somewhere of the rush. He is willing to stop Ing polities long enongh to review an- fent history and tell how he tried to “sell" the country on the income tax. when that great custom was inaugurat- |ed. ard how he told Mr. Wilson about | getting the preachers and the profes- | sional men to boost ‘the income tax as | |a patrioti¢ duty | Ritehie Out in Open. | Qov. Ritchie is almost a Washing- | tonian and one may find him, immacu- late looking and cool. in his blue coat | and white flannel trousers, possibly talking in a hotel corridor to some of | |the boys from the Baltimore Sun. He |has about sald all he can say. He |doesn’t wear a mantle of mystery, like some of the others, who sport it with such evident enjoyment And there are many here whose ab- sence Is almost as marked as would be their presence. This is Democratic convention—in how long?— | that William Jennings Bryan has been | | man voung. Henry L. Mencken, the bad bcv:j years older since he got here. He holds | the first’' fraud in elections, alles corruption | in Government and ta revision. As most Democratic leaders view the sn:uSA ing campaign and they want a planx dealing with these subjects as strong as can be written. It is suggested that the tariff planik call for an economic rather than a po- litical tariff structure with agriculture given an equal place with other indus- tries in the operation of the impost Tax reduction also will be treated, alor | with & variety of other subjects, inclu | ing foreign affairs, navy merchant m rine. veterans® relief. flood control, | roads, waterways and power. ROD;O ON PROGRAM. Cowboys and Cowgirls to Entertain | Convention Visitors. HOUSTON. June 25 (#.—Broncho busting in old Western style. with cow- boys and cowgirls doing the busting, will be e sight for hundreds of conven- isitors. A T al espe. v for the convention will be held all week at the Rice Institute Stadium. “Red” Sublett, famous cowboy clown, and his mule “Spark-Plug” are cn the !specixl exhibition program. 'BRINGS “DRY” GREETINGS. Boston G. 0. P. Woman Leader Su; gests Slogan for Sisters. | _HOUSTON, June 25 (#).—Mrs. He: | W. Peabody of Boston, president of national woman's committee on law en ! forcement, who brought the greetings and encouragement of the Republi drys to the Democratic stronghold. sug- gested a Browning paraphrase that @ry women might quote to their band “My heart is yours, my soul is God and my vote is my own.” BONE-DRY PAIR URGED. Women Suggest Jones-Hull Ti in Convention Slogan HOUSTON, June 25 (» —A Jones-Cordell Hull presidential would be favorably regarded by of the women's dry forces, it v | at dry headquarters last night. A | recommended was “Vote with caution. vote with Cast vote for the bone-dry pa: — Cowboy Mayor Expected. HOUSTON, June 25 (#).—Friends Jim" Dahlman, mayor of Omaha (o | ducting the liquor issue fights, on the | advice to the presidential candidates. | 23 yvears, are going to look for him a: | Advice mellowed with versonal experi- | the rodeo if he doesn't answer the pag: boy at his hotel. “Jim, familia; re at Democratic conventions for ye: real co himse! g with the respect the widow of a great Democrat and But the name she bear: is more than that to those one mi U, without disparagement or scension, the “simple folk” down One had only to watch them crowded into Houston Hall afternoon for & ,Iunw of he that the name of Woodrow Wil heritage long to be cherished u“ It is not necessary to have had an Ac- count ar this Bank to Borrow. THe Monk N‘V 3 Easy to Pay | Moathly away. But there is still a Bryan, for | Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owens. a daughter, | is here' from Florida. Charley is not | here. He may come as a spectator, but l:\m as a delegate. And another fine | old Democrat has left a son and &, Idlllxlll\'r 10 keep the name standing. There's young Bennett Clark, as a dele~ | gate at large from Missouri. His father | ould be proud of him, for he looks Ilike & man. And his charming sister, Mrs. James M. Thomson, about whom Washington knew as Genevieve, cannot | | walk three steps through the crowded | lobby of the Rice without being stopped S0 many knew her when she was a [little girl. Mrs. Thomas Marshall, the | i widow “of ® man who made himself loved as few Eubllr men are loved, | | simply because he liked to look at life on the bright side, is a delegate at large from Indiana. And there ia Mrs. Woodrow Wikion. ‘There ave:many of the delegates who "~ THE _MORRIS PLAN BANK - JIFT SUGGESTIONS '