The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-10-30
TICKET :
HAS SLIM CROWD
RESULT Of FROST
Rally at BiCkford Park Aban-
doned When Everybody
Goes to Democratic Meet
ina Few Blocks Away.

Some idea of the relative interest
of the voters in Memphis in the can
didacies of the two legislative tickets
may be had from the degree Of sue
cess Of two rallies held in North
Memphis Friday night. While the
Democratic speakers were being APP
plauded by some 200 men and wo-
men throughout an hour and half
of oratory at Fifth street and Green
law avenue the speakers for the
Peoples Democratic ticket were
abandoning their scheduled rally at
Bickford park, some 6hree or four
blocks away.
1t was stated by an observer at
Bickford park that seven small boys
greeted the advance man of the peo-
pies speakers. helped him shoot Off
the fireworks and then deserted for
the Democratic camp. The speakers
came, saw and-vamoosed.
The Peoples speakers did carry out
their threat of q rally at CASTOR
park, but Saturday morning support
ers Of the ticket were claiming that
the slim crowd was due to the frosty
condition of the atmospheres. Every
body else was agreed that there was
a frost mixed in the affair some
where. There were exactly 26 peo-
pie there, and Frank Rice unblush-
ingly claims that Is of them will vote
the Democratic ticket.
Miss Frances Wolf, the only wo-
man candidate on either ticket, was
the principal speaker at the CASTOR
rally. Arch Schwalb, Sam Johnson
and John r. Coates, candidates, also
spoke.
Fully 200 voters attended the DEM
ocratic meeting. If they were not
Democrats, they had an exaggerated
| idea of the courtesy due speaker in
the home ward, for they gave the
| Speakers generous applause. They
stayed, too, until Mrs. John Blount,
| who acted as chairman, announced
that the meeting was over.
Most notable of the speeches of the
evening was that of Congressman HUI
bert Fisher, who made forcible plea
| for the league of nations as it was
written and paid q glowing tribute
| to President Wilson. whom he char
acterized as a casualty of the war as
q result of the campaign of hate con-
| Quoted against him by his Repubh-
| can opponents.
Cites Sacrifices.
Mr.. Fisher stressed the disinter-
| ested attitude of the United States
when she entered the war and said
| that he recently talked to officers
who were among the first to go to
| Europe after the United States en-
| tered the war. These officers told
| him that everywhere, in England and
| in France, they were told that they
had come too late that the war was
| already lost. He said that in this
| extreme hour the civilized world
looked to the United States for help
and leadership and the world made
| President Wilson its spokesman.
AS this spokesman, he said, the
president promulgated his famous IA
points. Later, the president went
| to Europe and made every human
effort to maintain the IA points. he
did succeed in having the covenant
Of the league of nations drafted. one
| of the provisions of the fourteen
points, and now 81 nations are actual
| members of the league, he said.
IF we don't go into that league,
we will build Chinese wal around
| our nation and will have to make a
separate peace with Germany, and
| the boys we lost in France will have
| uleu al Ndlilg IS odlus
Mr.. Fisher related incidents illus
trating the extreme sacrifices made
by American boys in the war. when
| | think of the homes wrecked and
| the sacrifices made by the people
of this country / shudder at the
| thought that we should go to Ger
many and say that we will give them
another chance. I'm for the treaty
as it was written, because it was
written with the sound of the big
guns still in our ears and because
| the men who wrote it were thinking
all the time of the boys we had lost
in the war;
He spoke Of the attacks on the
president for writing notes just be
! fore the armistice and said that the
| president had said that IL he could
! shorten the war by one single day
by writing a note, II was his duty
| to do il: that II he did not he would
feel that the lives lost on that day
were Chargeable 20 him. as his was
the responsibility and his only.
! Mr.. Fisher appealed for the sup
| port of the entire ticket and said
that when a vote was east FOR The
Democrats it constituted vote foT
the greatest document ever drawn.
Other speakers were COT w. j
| Bacon, L. ?. Sunderland, John II
Shea, F.. d. Fuller, and Lois Bejach
| each of whom made strong appeal
for the support of the voters.
| The Democrats will stage a big
rally tonight at BinghamtOn, and will
unlimber some of their biggest ora
| torical guns for the benefit Of the
voters. Mrs. J. NJ Mccormack
| chairman of the wOmens division