The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-06-19

Washington, D. Crank Wander.
lips resignation from the presidency
Of the greatest bank In the greatest
banking center in the world has set
the financial experts to looking more
a~nxlously than ever before at the Eu-
ropean financial crisis. over which
Lloyd George and Clemenceau are now
desperately quarreling.
Vanderlip came home from Europe
with his warning that the whole up.
per layer Of European civilization may
collapse and fall in, due to the bank
ruptcy of France and Italy, and the
| serious condition of British finances.
He told the bankers in New York that
the credit Of America must immedi.
antly be given the business men
abroad, rather than the governments,
II Europe was to be saved from q
"conflagration." The outcome Of his
warnings. and pleadings was that he
was forced out Of the presidency of
the National City bank.
Since his dismissal from his high
post in Wall street, Vanderlip has de-
livered several speeches, and In each
he has followed up and emphasized
his first message. He says that gov
eminent loans to European govern.
ments will not saw Europe from col
lapse, but that If American credit, ma
chinery, materials and fuel are quickly
supplied to European manufacturers
and builders, there Is still a chance
that what happened to imperial Ger
many as the result of the war will
not happen to monarchist Italy and
business-ruled France as the result of
bankruptcy and industrial paralysis
and hunger.
johnson Boom hatched.
Hiram Johnson's friends announce q
conference Of state leaders at San
Francisco to organize the fight for
his nomination for the presidency next
year by the Republican national con.
vention.
This move has been made after q
careful survey of the field of non.
reacttonary candidates.. It is gener.
ally felt that while the liberal ele.
ment would have more implicit faith
In Senator La Toilette than in any
other. American as the candidate Of q
party sincerely DESTROYS of enlightened
and constructive work in the national
administration. the Wisconsin pro
gressive could not be nominated. The
kept press has poisoned the public
mind against him, and it will take
several years for the effects of the
poison to disappear.
Kenyon is proposing a series of Ia
Dor measures which are Of a liberal
sort, but he Is not enough Of a Fecog.
nized leader. Cummins is out of the
race. Norris is In the same class with
Kenyun-he IL content merely to dis.
agree with the standpatters on q few
measures: he will never declare open
wal upon them and their organization.
Soldier Straw Vote.
Recently q transport arrived from
France. bearing the 313th regiment,
which was recruited from four east
ern states. A poll of the presidential
choices Of the men and officers was
taken during the homeward voyage
and among the Republican candidates
Hiram Johnson stood out with 696, az
compared with 1856 for Lodge, 242 fol
General Leonard Wood, and 70 fol
General Pershing. Democratic votes
were divided-Wilson, 626, Clark 297
McAdoo 1874, Baker so. Among the
other candidates were Debs ITO, rep
resenting the Socialists; Gompers 68
representing a labor insurgency, and
Bryan 49,. representing the Prohibi
ZIONIST element.
Senator johnson was greatly pleased
with this showing Of his Republican
strength among returning soldiers
from the eastern states and with hit
having beaten President Wilson by
| 70 votes. The call for his "hat-throw
ing party followed Immediately.
Meat Sold to Russians.
Secretary OF War Baker has author
lied the sale Of $25, 100000 worth O
the meat supply not needed by thu
army to the Russian Cooperative So
cieties' purchasing committee. Argu
ment now WAKES warm In ofacia
Washington as to whether this dea
means that Baker IL the first ofacia
to try to get American food into sovie
Russia, or whether he Is trying to fu1
nish a big supply OF provisions to tn
reactionary armies that are dghtin'
to crush out the soviet republic.
Baker himself declared before.
house committee that the purchaser
are doing business both In antfsovie
territory and In soviet territory, an
that probably some OF the meat woul
get into soviet Russia through the CO
Operative Societies, whose member
ship before the war was nearly 80
O00, 900. There r other officials
however, who point out that Hoove
has had five shiploads OF food waitin