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The Washington times., 1920-06-29
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Glass Names Steering Commit
tee to Draft Document for
Democrats.
by J. BART CAMPBELL.
International News Service.

SAN FRANCISCO, June ga
Steering" committee of nine mem
bers of the resolutions committee was
picked last night to draft the Demo
cratic platform by Senator Carter
Glass, of Virginia, director-eeneral or
the Administration forces in the
Democratic convention, after he him
self had been chosen chairman OF the
fun committee by acclamation.
Glass, spokesman for President
woodrow Wilson in the making OF
the platform, designated himself frst
as a member of the steering COM
mittee." He will preside over Its de-
liberations when it gets down to busi-
ness after the full committee con-
cludes the public hearings 1t started
last night and will continue today to
give the champions of certain planks
and policies a chance to air their
views.
1t was the prediction of Administra-
ton leaders besides Glass that the
steering committee" which Admin
istration opponents charged was
packed" could be depended upon to
carve out a platform that would be
In complete accordance with Presh
dent Wilson's oft-expressed policies.
COLBY GETS PLACE.
Glass selected Secretary OF State
Colby, former progressive Republican
leader, who is to be Administration
floor leader in the pending League of
Nations battle and former Democratic
Chairman Vance Mccormick as his
chief aide on the steering commit
tee" All the rest OF it's members are
also ardent Wilson men. although one
OF them Senator Thomas ]. walsh,
OF Montana-while a confessed Ad-
ministration supporter, entertained
views sufficiently independent in the
Senate Treaty fight to finally vote for
the Lodge reservations.
William J. Bryan and Senator David
l. walsh of Massachusetts, leaders Of
the anti-Administration forces in the
convention, were ignored by Glass in
the makeup of the steering commit
tee," while much comment was ere
ated by the omission from Il of other
prominent members of the full COM
mittee, like Vice President Marshall.
w. Bourke Cochran, of New York, and
Senator Atlee Pomerene of Ohio, who
supported the President in the Senate
league bottle as a member of the SEN
ate Foreign Relations Committee.
Both Bryan and Walsh, of Massa-
chusetts. intimated that they, in an
ticipation OF Wilsonian platform
being reported by the steering COM
mittee would carry on their fght
against the administration league
plank in the full committee later on
and subsequently to the convention
floor.
Senator Walsh OF Massachusetts,
was chosen secretary OF the commit
tee without opposition, and Patrick
p. Quinn, Democratic national com
mitteeman from Rhode Island, and
Senators John @. Nugent OF Idaho,
and Pat Harrison OF Mississippi, were
named a subcommittee of threo to ar
range the public hearings, which
were begun soon afterwards.
The Washington times., 1920-06-29
DELEGATES OF DC.
SPLIT ON SUFFRAGE
Divided Factions Will Present
Washington's Claims Before
Resolutions Committee.
ny STAFF CORRESPONDENT

SAN FRANCISCO. June 29.-when
the committee on resolutions takes
up the District of Columbia's plea for
suffrage today 1t will be voiced by
factions in the delegation
unable to reach q common agreement
on what the Democratic platform
should include for the National Cap
ital.
Colonel Robert N. Harper will ask
for a constitutional amendment pro-
viding representation in Congress, q
vote in the electoral college and other
citizenship privileges tantamount to
Statehood.
Another faction headed by Sam
Small jr. will plead for suffrage rights
providing for local self government,
a concession which can be granted by
Congress without recourse to State
referendums and legislatures.
Those on the outside Of the con-
troversy predict that as a result Of
the internal strife, Washington Will
get the same answer 1t received at
Chicago-nothing at all.
III you can't agree among yoJr-
selves IT Is best not to take your
case before the committee on resolu-
tions for they will never take the
time to thresh out your differences.
They have enough to do in framing
the great debateable planks without
bothering with petty sduabbling,"
the District delegates were bluntly
informed by more than one member
of the resolutions committee.
Bainbridge Colby. Mrs. Frank HI
ram Snail Alvin @. Belt, John j.
Colpoys, John +. Laskey, and John
f. Costello again occupied the six
seats provided for delegates today
Colonel Harper was again on tho
speakers platform as the special
guest OF the national committee in
recognition of the manner in which
ho handled the arrangements for TIE
second Wilson inaugural The other
Ave District delegates occupied alter
mates seats.
IL was announced today that AL
though the District was to have been
bound under the unit rule to vote for
Palmer. Colonel Harper and TimothJ
T. Ansberry will be permitted to cast
complimentary vote for Senator
Carter Glass for President Glass and
Harper are close friends.
The Washington times., 1920-06-29
BACK WILSON,
SAYSROB|NSON
Permanent Convention Chair
man Pleads for Bold Stand
on League of Nations.
By DAVID NJ. CHURCH.
InteFnstienal News Service.


OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
SAN FRANCISCO, June xa.-The
Democratic party must make 'the
issue boldly. in favor of President
Wilson's stand Tor the League Of
Nations that future generations may
not be "born to a heritage of waste
fulness and bloodshed," Senator
Joseph T. Robinson, permanent
chairman of the Democratic Ma
tional convention, declared today in
an address accepting the office to
which he had been elected.
IF the Republicans win the small
nations which obtain their inde-
pendence through association in the
war with the allies will be overcome
by the recent enemies, and Europe
will quickly collapse into its pre-
war condition of oppression and
threatened anarchy" Senator Robin
son said. III the delegates in this
convention do their duty as sour SOL
diers have done theirs the voters Of
the nation will not fail them. II we
make this issue boldly we will win"
Senator Robinson soundly nayed the
Republican platform. adopted at Chi
cago as IAN amazing tumble of am
biguities, Inconsistencies, evasions.
INTERPRETATIONS. 'straddles' and
ISLANDERS" Unfairness by the Re-
publicans in charging the Democrats
with unpreparedness was complained
Of by Senator Robinson, who also de-
clared Republican boasts of economy
are an absurbdity, and that the Re-
publican platform frankly admitted
that an early reduction of taxes is not
to be expected"
The Washington times., 1920-06-29
"Mac's Sincere, " Says
"UncLe John" Wilson

John A. Wilson, OF Franklin. Pa,
cousin of the President, and affection
ately known as Uncle John" called
There ts not a word of truth in this
typicalty blunt and brusque way ur-
burdened himself Of some ideas about
politics.
MAC was absolutely sincere when
he announced that he did not want
the Democratic nomination for Prcai-
dent" declared "Uncle John" refcrr-
ing to the statement of William G..
McAdoo. He told me he was broke
when he resigned as Secretary of the
a'reasury, and you know IL he had
any notion OF going after or wanting
the nomination I would know some
thing about IL.
II have been for Mitch Palmer
nrst, last and all the time. as he Is
one of the best fellows / ever knew.
nt the White House today and in his
talk of some OF his hackers that Mac
double crossed the feld. Mac Is alb
.oiuteIy honest In his position, but a
Presidential nomination Is something
that cannot be turned down.
woodrow has never mentioned a
,Sword about candidates and I am sure
he has no choice. He is for the
Greatly Of peace and beyond that he
The Washington times., 1920-06-29
|TODAY'S PROGRAM
ATCONVENTION |

SAN FRANCISCO, juno go.
The program for today at the
Democratic national convention
foHo1Us:
$50 .. n-Excursion on the
bay for the delegates anA alter
nates Sn keard the steamer As
bury Park.
II. n-Ssco1A session Of GEN.
vent1On opens.
Isveestion ~ BtsAopf WlHiam
r. Nichols 0f the Protestant
Episcopal Church. ~.a
Report sf the osnmittee On
permanent organization.
Address Of permanent chair
man, Senator james T. Robin
son, OF APkaAsas.
Report OF committee On rules
and order Of business.
Sheuid the committee On rules
report that nominations should
precede adoption OF q platform
and the convention sustain the
comnlttee, nomination speeches
will be in order. Such . course,
however, is regarded as un-
likely.
The Washington times., 1920-06-29
Soldiers Attack and Wreck VII
Iages Of lismore and
s. Cl0nduIane.
TWO ARMED CAMPS IN CORK
Sim Feiners Occupy 0ne-half
City, While English Troops
| Hold Other.
By DANIEL O'CONNELL.
IaternstisAal News Service.

CORK, June 2S.-Soldiers have at
tackled and wrecked the villages OF
Lismore and Clondulane, according
70 . report reaching Sim Fein head
quarters today. Bombs were explod-
Cd and one civilian was rounded by
rifle fire. Many homes we're wreck
I'd and stores looted.
!. This city was patroled by two diff
Qetsnt factions OF armed men during
tho night. The Sim Feiners occupied
ons-haif Of the city while British SOL
diers held the other.
A Sinn Fein courier has arrived at
Fsrmoy with q dispatch stating that
Brig. Gen. c. H. T. Lucas, of the Brit
ish army. who was captured by Sim
FAiRers last Saturday, Is In good
health and Is being well treated. The
dispatch was dated Cork Brigade
Headquarters"
The Washington times., 1920-06-29

LODGING RUINS
Fourteen Others Believed Trap
ped by CoIIapse Of But-
A falo House.

BUFFALO, June 29.-Four men are
known to have gone to their death as
they slept on cots. and at least four
teen others are believed to have been
trapped when Alex Sutherland's lodg-
ing house, 66 Main street. collapsed
at 9 o'clock this morning.
Estimates of the ultimate death toll
range anywhere from four to twelve
At noon, flremen who had succeeded
in removing the woode nroof that COW
cred the ruins of the wrecked four
story brick building said they could
see three more bodies wedged in
among the brick and mortar.
The police are inclined to believe
a gas explosion caused the catastro-
phe. although no fire followed the
collapse Of the building.
The Washington times., 1920-06-29
B. & 0. repair men
JOIN RAIL WALK0UT
Strikers Deaf to Baltimore
Mayors PIea-Demand
Labor Board Rulings ...

BALTIMORE, June 2s.--With nea--
~ 400 men at the Riverside repair
shops OF the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad Joining the striking rail-
road yard workers in their walk
out, the situation relative to freight
movements, in the Baltimore district,
affecting the Pennsylvania- Baltimore
and Ohio, and Western Maryland rail-
roads, assumed a most serious aspect
to-day.
Mayor Broening, in an. effort to re-
lieve the situation. which Is now. be-
ing felt by the Industrial interests,
appeal to the striking railroad men
to return to their work pending the
decision of the railroad labor board.
A committee from the ranks Of the
strikers informed the mayor that the
men would stay out until the de-
eision was reached, and IL the de-
Acision was not satisfactory the men
would be forced to quit railroa9ing
and seek other employment, deciar-
tng their pay was insufficient to sup
port families and educate children.
The Washington times., 1920-06-29
BRYAN F0RCEST0
BACK CHAMP CLARK

There were strong indications here
yesterday that the Champ Clark
forces at San Francisco have come
to an understanding with william
Jennings Bryan. The plan now de-
termined upon, according to reports
reaching here through reliable chan
nels, is that Bryan, reversing his
action at Baltimore in 1912, will
throw the full weight OF his influence
to Clark as soon as the time appears
ripe for this move.
Eight years ago Bryan turned the
tide from Clark to Wilson after the
Missourian had gained q majority
This time. II Is said. his effort will
be to bring about n break" to Clark
II neither Wilson nor McAdoo STAN
pedes the convention, IL is believed
certain that a deadlock will develop.
Those on the inside of the Clark
Bryan movement are confident that
Palmer and Cox will begin to drop
back after the first few ballots and
that none OF the other aspirants will
display strength.
The drift to Clark, II is predicted
will begin late tomorrow or Thu-s.
day.
Senator Reed. Of Missouri, IL he is
permitted to use his proxy after
being denied a seat on his own ac-
count is. counted on as a strong sup
porter of Clark and Senator Walsh,
Of Massachusetts, also II expected to
throw his influence to the former
speaker. Wilbur w, Marsh, OF Iowa,
treasurer of the Democratic National
Committee. is a strong advocate OF
Clark.
Tom Taggsrt and Charles +. Muir
phy will support Clark, IL In believed
to head OF the nomination OF q Con-
didate bearing the Administration
The Washington times., 1920-06-29
Nomination Speeches 10 /
Precede Platform Adoption,
BALLOTINC LIKELY
TO START ON
THURSDAY

SAN FRANCISCO, June 20.
Nomination speeches will be-
gin at l o'clock, San Francisco
time, tomorrow afternoon.
These speeches will consume at
least several hours.
Before actual balloting starts,
however, the convention must
adopt the party platform, ac-
cording to decision by the rules
committee.
This program means that bal
loting probably will start
Thursday afternoon, although
there is a decided possibility il
may be delayed until Friday.
There is a very slight chance Of
the balloting starting late to-
morrow afternoon or evening.
The Washington times., 1920-06-29
LIQUOR CHECK
ELWELL CLUE.
Turfman Gave II In BootIegging
Deal Two Days Before
Staying.
HAD NOT FUNDS TO COVER IT
Sold Race Horse and Yacht In
An Effort to Make
Good.

NEW YORK, June ga check
for $l2,700 given in payment for a
stock of liquor-a check which never
reached the Clearing House-loomed
large yesterday in the Elwell murder
mystery.
The check was signed by Joseph b.
Elwell on Wednesday, June 8. two
days before the gambler-turfman was
fatally shot in the small reception
room of his homo at No. 24f West
SEVENTEEN street. /
II was made out to business
associate of Elwell and was turned
over by the latter to a New York
liquor dealer with whom Elwell and
his agent had negotiated for the pur-
chase OF the liquor.
Elwelrs friend said:
"Mr. ElwelI hasn't enough money
in the bank to cover this check.
Hold 1t . couple Of days and 1t will
be o. X"
The liquor dealer held it one day,
then deposited 1t with the indorse-
ment OF Elwell's associate on the
back. On the morning of the murder
the associate called up the man to
whom he had given the check and
hiSu VI 10 o'cpSc'tsS''
cried:
"For GsA'a sake, get that check
back and hold III I'll nx 1t uD with
your
LIQUOR DEALER TALKED.
In some manner the liquor dealer
got the check back. That afternoon
he spoke of the incident guardedly
to a group Of friends in his soft"
drink bsrFoom. His chance remark
was repeated and within the last few
hours saaehed the ears of the authori-
ties-harassed by more than a fort
nights failure to fnd a real clue to
the murder Of the whist expert
Piecing together other facts in
their possession and in the possession
Of newspaper Investigators, the au-
thorities last night began work on
the theory thnt EiwelI may have been
Aurdered because he had double
crsssed1 some enc In = bootleEgfng
scheme.
The name Of practically every man
in the $12,70O deal is known, and all
who can be reached will be forced to
60 to the office OF District Attorney
Swami under subpoena.
The Importance OF the new infor-
nation is emphasized by the fact the
man to whom Elwell made out the
check (the man who Endorsed it over
CONTINUED on Page 4, Column H.
The Washington times., 1920-06-29
2,0O0TURKSK
|NF|GHT|NG GREEKS
Many Refugees Desert Lines of
Mustapha KemaI Pasha Be-
cause of Indignities.

LONDON, June 29.--Two thousand
Turks have been killed in battle with
Greek troops east Of Symrna, accord.
ing to a communique issued by Greek
army headquarters at Smyrna and
telegraphed here today.
The Turkish losses were particular
ly severe in the region OF Alas Behr.
Greek cavalry inflicted severe cas-
ualties on Turkish nationalist rear
guards.
Many refugees with the Turkish
nationalists under Mustapha Kemal
Pasha are flocking into the Greek
lines because OF the harsh treatment
they received at the hands of the
Turks, the communiquqe said.
The Washington times., 1920-06-29
ARRESTED FOR SLAYING
WOMAN II YEARS AGO
illinois Man, Accused By Friend of
Victim, Denies His
Guilt.

CHICAGO, June 29.-Daniel Wright,
aged forty-seven. was surrendered to
Sheriff Frank Cooper, OF Richland
county, La. yesterday to answer to
\ charge OF numbering, Hattie Strogie,
at Rayville, La, twenty-one years
ago.
John Timmons, a former residence
Of Rayville, caused Wrishts arrest
after he saw him in a saloon. Tim
mons told the police that he had met
wright twice since 1890, the frst
time in Little Rock, Ark, nineteen
years ago. and again in Chicago three
years ago.
Wright, who had been living here
under the name of Johnson, denied
in court that he had killed the girl,
The Washington times., 1920-06-29
U. 5. ARMY FLIER IS
HELD BY MEXICANS

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, June 20
Lieut.. Stanley NJ. Ames. of Walpole,
Mass. commander of the Ninth Aero
Squadron at Kelly Field. is being held
by Mexican authorities at Matamoros
according to advices received here.
He was forced to alight on Mexican
soil when he ran out of gas, the ad-
vices added.
The Washington times., 1920-06-29
WARRANTS ISSUED FOR
2,264 DRAFT DODGERS

NEW YORK, June 2e.--A Federal
grand jury In Brooklyn today re-
turned indictments against 2,284
slsckers who had failed to answer
the draft call in 1917.
Judge Catfeld ISSUED warrants for
the mems arrest.
The Washington times., 1920-06-29
ORGANIZATION SLATE
BEFORE CONVENTION

SAN FRANCISCO, Juno 90
The following permanent or
ganization slate, chosen by a
committee last night, was car
ried before the Democratic Ma.
tional Convention today for
ratification:
Chsirman-Senator Joseph T.
Robinson OF Arkansas.
Secretary--Edward @. Hoff-
man, OF Indiana.
Assistant secretary-Edward
c. Burton, Of North Carolina.
Executive secretsry-W. r..
Hollister, OF Missouri.
The Washington times., 1920-06-29
CALL SPECIALISTS
IN ILLNESS OF
POPE

LONDON, June 29.-Special-
lists have been called In at the
Vatican to treat Pope Benedict
v for a rheumatic attack in the
right arm, said Central News
dispatch from Rome today.
The trouble is preventing the
Pontiff from writing and cele-
brating masses, the dispatch
added.
The Washington times., 1920-06-29
THE WEATHER.

IHE VIA ffENt
Fair tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy,
probably local thunder showers. not
quite 20 warm. Temperature at 8 Q. m.
u degrees.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-02
The Council of Governors.

The annual conference of governors OF the
States to be held at Harrisburg Pa, this week. will
not attract the attention of the public did some
of the earliest of the recurring sessions. The high
hopes of the who conceived this project has
never been quite realized and this fact ap-
parent before the When that came it
absorbed public attention, and also had the further
effect of increasing interest in national affairs, in
distinction from those of the States. Nor has that
trend been changed during the two years of recon
struction"
Indeed it is this undoubted change of the rela-
tive importance of the States and the nation that
governors of the Commonwealths might we'll take
time discuss, instead Of any specific issues orig
mating within the States and to be settled by them.
Federal power does State power The
attack comes from Congress and from the Execu-
tive and it gets its constitutional benedicton from
the Supreme Court; and all three rest upon the
popular will in the last analysis. Arguments as
to the perils of such Capitalization do not seem
have much weight; and there seems to be diff
written Constitution, admittedly conservative and
static in its form
Incidental to this change there has come about
a modification of historic party attitudes and sec
tonal shibboeths that makes most interesting
chapter in political history. The party with Hamil-
ton as its model statesman and with most of its
following in the North is now least Federastic in
its creed and the party with Jefferson as its
prophet and with most of its strength in the South
is aggressively nationalistic. But for neither
party is the dispute fighting issue as it was once
upon time, for divisions exist within the parties
according the issue of final authority has to do
with property with personal rights and with
their governmental control.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-02
A Sensible Program.

The Forest Industries Program committee has
reached definite and very practical program of
forest preservation. This committee represents a
combination of all the various bodies interested in
or based upon timber protection; the forestry
eiafion, lumber interests paper users, paper man
ufacturers, and others.
This program will go before Congress for legis-
lation to put it in operation and will represent the
combined judgment of all these interests. What is
asked as stated by Charles Lathrop Pack, president
OF the American Forestry Association, is this
"The bill will combine protection from forest
hres provide for reforestation and requirement by
the government of forest land and will 60 far
toward providing sufficient forest products for our
future needs The Legislation proposed is sane, con-
servative, fair to every one concerned essentially
practical and, what is most important is of char
acter that Congress is most likely to approve adopt
and make into law. 1t is the FIRST time in the his
tory, of forestry in this country that all of the
interests concerned closely united in ap-
proval of proposed forestry legislation and stand so
closely together in the endeavor to secure its pas
sage by Congress"
Any person at all familiar with the forest re-
gons of this country knows that there hundreds
of thousands of of land it only for tree cul-
ture. Among these areas small tracts suited to
agriculture which be leased sold for this use.
But the great bulk of these lands must grow trees
or be waste.
1t is also common knowledge that most of our
pines seed and reforest these lands with their
own kind All this second growth needs is fire pro-
lection 1t is through such young growth that the
fires sweep with the greatest fury and do the far
largest amount of damage. 1t is such growth that
is most susceptible to fires. Such lands or the
waste land that once forest could be acquired
by the government at nominal acre cost, and only
government-owned land will it ever, at least
in long years. be permitted to reforest itself. or be
reforested adequately protected.
The Washington herald., 1920-12-02
Has 4 Large Contract.

DR.. Ladd, the newly-eected Senator for North
Dakota, has long platform with many planks He
is a man of ideas which he is not hiding under a
bushel. Those who know him speak of him most
favorably, and certainly the farmers of his own
State have evidenced their regard. The fifteenth
plank of his platform may be indicative of the rest:
Il want to law enacted that will put
quacks and charlatans of all kinds OF business
and give them an opportunity to earn an honest
living in place of fleeing innocent victims under
the sanction of law"
There multitude of people who will say
hearty to this plank of Dr. Ladd's if he will
make his definition of "quacks and charatans"
broad enough to include all who rightly belong
there. They now so thick even the wary stub
their feet them, bump into them unwit-
tingly are caught in their oily mesh.
They are not all doing health-cure stunts Many
are healing morals others have for our
social ills, others have political pansceas, others
would fill purses while emptying them, others
would soothe discomfort while sowing the seeds
of endless trouble. DR.. Ladd, if he goes the limit,
has taken a large contract. But more power to
his boot, his fist and his good, hard head