The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-06-23
SENATOR REED WILL BE
KEPT FROM CONVENTION
Opponent of President Wilson's
League of Nations Not Wanted BY
the Administration.

San Francisco, June 21.-The pri-
vate wire that runs from the bedroom
Iof President Wilson in Washington
to the bedroom Of National Chairman
Homer s. Cummings in the Palace
Hotel here flashed the order this morn
ing that Senator James A. Reed OF
Missouri must be barred from the con-
yention and publicly humiliated;
The stored up spite against Reed
will be poured out on June 25 when
| the Missourian, regularly chosen as
la delegate from the Kansas City dis
trict and subsequently rejected by
State convention of Federal office
holders, applies for the right to sit as
one of his States thirty-six and for
the privilege of speech
There's the point Privilege to
speak his mind about the League of
Nations and Mr.. Wilson's domination
of the Democratic party won't be toll
Grated.
Senator Reed will be outlawed by the
National Committee and the committee
on credentials stand against interna-
tionalism and wisconsin.
In order that the punishment may be
extra conspicuous, Delegate Bradshaw,
Reed man and also opposed to the
treaty and the league, will be seated.
Reed alone Is singled out to be gagged
and steamrollered The administration
crowd, including five members of the
Cabinet, Colby. Burleson, Daniels,
Palmer and Meredith, all of whom will
be right here with an ear to the pri-
vate wire; the chairman, Cummings;
Raymond T. Baker, Director of the
Mint, and an assortment of national
committeeman, purpose to run the con-
vention from bell to bell.
They can't gag Bryan or slam the
door in his face They have the power,
however, to silence Reed and to re.
fuse his ticket at the door, The big
idea is that they don't intend to have
harsh word said about the President
in this convention, if they can find a
way, brutal or gentle, of stopping
mouths.
Yesterday the whole crowd was up
In the air about the Reed problem, and
were mined in theid indecison to admit
Reed to the convention. Then came
the word over the very private wire
that the devil himself were preferable
to Jim Reed, and that there must be
no compunction shown.
Immediately Cummings informed the
newspaper men that the duty of the
National Committee in the Missouri
case would be to take the highly vir-
tuous attitude of following the GUS
tom of the party in Missuori, that the
dictum of the State convention shall
override the wishes of any district
Cummings admitted that there was no
statutory law applying to the case
and that there was no written rule OF
procedure.
The prophecy was offered that when
Senator Reed presented his credentials
as a delegate from the Fifth Missouri
district it would be the moral duty OF
the National Committee to inform him
that he has no standing; that the Gus
tom of the party must be followed in
all fairness and decency.
"Jim Reed will never get a chance
to shoot off his mouth about the Pres,
ident in this convention
That bit of curbstone frankness
popped out after the suave Cummings
had applied the law and the prophets
to Reeds case in the interest of NOR
ality, and is said to be the key to the
entire situation regarding Senator
Reed