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Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-09
PenrOse Leaders Laugh at Talk
About Embossed Convention

phone receiver, but with a headpiece at
tached for long conversations. On the
hook was hung a heavy lead weight.
Between the bed of John King in Chi
cago and the bed Of Boes Penrose-S00
miles away-these two men talk, day
and night, about the latest convention
news.
All Of the Pennsylvania leaders who
come to this room will tell you, If you
are lucky enough to encounter them, be-
cause most of them don't believe in re-
porters and publicity, that Penrose an
boss over the wire just as well as in
Chicago. Indeed. King tells me that he
thinks Penrose Is more powerful absent
than present.
And so, at last, I have at least seen
some Of the machinery of the party's
masters at work.
Do you doubt that a reporter looking
for news would rather spend a week in
this room than In the crowds at the con-
vention?
What we will hear at the Coliseum Will
be only faint echoes of what passes
through modest little chamber Ell.
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BY BRUCE BARTON.

CHICAGO June 9.--Chauncey NJ. Depew
and / have attended republican conven-
tons ever since our graduation from
college. He began in 1860 and l in 1908.
Chauncey thinks that this is the last
one which he may ever see; and l have
an idea that unless the show is changed
considerably some one else may have my
seat at the next performance too.
For the good old program that's drawn
the crowds so long seems to me to be
losing it's punch.
The acts are shop worn the scenery
is frayed and the folks don't respond as
they did.
The session yesterday was the tamest
I have ever seen. There was hardly any
cheering as the leaders came In one by
one.
In the hope of pumping some oxygen
into the listless crowd, a specialist ia
leading cheers had been imported from
the east He LED three cheers for Sena-
tor Lodge and then hurried to pass a
handful of his cards downg~into the
press section, 80 that we might tell -
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By WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD.

CHICAGO. June I'D rather spend
my time these days in a certain little
room In the Congress hotel than in the
big Coliseum, because in this room the
real news is being made.
It's number is Ell.
Reporters aren't welcome there, but
today l got in and spent half an hour
within it's walls, then I had to go be-
cause other visitOrs-politician who are
helping TO make political history
wanted to talk with John T. King, who
occupies the room.
Here in this room are the ends of the
telephone and telegraph wires that lead
to the bedside Of Boies PenrOse in Phila-
delphia.
Ask the man in this room whether
VIII Hays was right when he told the
convention that 1t was Embossed.
I did, and they laughed loudly and
told me that Hays must have been only
joking.
On a little table beside Kings bed is
a telephone. not with an ordinary t5le-
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ton of the American Federation of
Labor here today.
The convention seems certain to de-
clare for return of the railroads to the
government control, or for government
ownership.
Daniel c. Roper, of New York, big cor
poration head, recently said business men
are being forced to the conviction the
roads must be turned back.
Repea lof the Esch- Cummins railroad
act is the basis on which organized labor
is beginning the fight.
Repeal is one of the planks which
President Samuel Gompers is demanding
Of the republican national, convention at
Chicago.
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Indorsing the action of the republican
controlled senate In refusing 10 accept
the league covenant as sponsored by
President Wilson.
Providing for an international court of
arbitration as proposed by Senator Knox.
COndemning President Wilson for hav-
ing kept the American people In tech
meal state OF war with Germany because
Of the senate's refusal to ratify the treaty
In accordance with his wishes.
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continued from Page One.)
would first take up those pianks about
which there was the least controversy.
Waterways are the solution. of trans
portation now and for the next genera
zion to come, according to Harry II.
Merrick, president of the Mississippi
Valley Improvement association, and
Charles A Snyder of the Atlantic water
ways. both of whom appeared before the
committee asking that plank be in
serted in the platform covering these
problems.
Merrick asked for the completion of i'm
provements already started on the Mis-
sissippi, Ohio. Illinois and Missouri
rivers and the development of a larger
waterway through the st. Lawrence.
He cited the coal shortage of today as
the result of a transportation system that
can not take care OF more than three
day production of the mines, and de-
clared the waterways offer the only soIu-
ton.
Gov. Peter Norbeck Of South Dakota
followed Merrick on the same subject and
said the great northwest can not be
fully developed until the ST. Lawrence
has been improved.
Gov. Livingstone Beeckman Of Rhode
Island, a member of the steering COM
mittee. expressed the belief the league
of nations and other disputed planks
would be worked out satisfactorily" and
would meet the approval of the conven-
tion.
MAY SUSPEND
RULES TO NOMINATE.
General rules OF the convention provide
that nominations are not in order until
the four major committees have report
ed, but it is probable these viii be
suspended by unanimous consent. or on
recognition Of the rules committee
All the committees except the one
framing the platform have completed
their work and made their reports.
Changes in the old rules promulgated
by the rules committee included enlarge-
ment of the executive committee from
ten to fifteen members.
This change was made to permit rep
resentation OF women on the committee.
new rule was announced providing
that no delegate may talk longer than
five minutes, or more than once, on any
one subject.
One other change was made In the
rules
This was to make unfinished business
the first order SO as to clean up any
details that may be pending after the
nominations.
1t opens the way for action on the
platform after the nomination; in case
the resolutions committee gets into a
protracted deadlock.
The report of the committee on rules
was adopted by reclamation.
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LEAGUE FIGHT OPENS
BEFORE COMMITTEE
(By staff Correspondent.)

CHICAGO, June preliminary to the
opening of the convention all interest
turned to the meeting of the subcommit-
tee of the resolutions committee.
Both friends and foe of the league, bit
ter enders and reservationists, claimed
that the subcommittee, headed by Sena-
tor Wa nson Of Indiana, who was elected
chairman of the full committee, was
friendly to their view of what the treaty
plank should say.
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PARTY WATTS ON
LEAGUE FIGHT
Continued From Page one.)

versing the order of pioneer days. The
starched affairs are whiting
The women are here again-beauti-
fully dressed. 1t is not true that po-
litical ladies wear mannish clothes.
Broadway styles are common enough and
some of these women even color their lips
and cheeks so thick men can notice the
artifce and some even pencil their eye
brows.
But a political convention is no place
TO comment on trivial scandals.
The band, way up in a skylight bal
cony at the rear of the Coliseum, Ike
harped and bugled saints in glory, is
playing happy go-lucky American rags
and the folks are having nice party.
Every One is talking "Penrose."
A local newspaper contains a displayed
article to the effect that the sick boss
said to a bedside reporter last night
that most important of all things here
was the nomination of a man who can
present powerful appeal to the whole
people"
But PENROSE MUST
HAVE A WINNER
"Penrose wants a winner" they say.
There's magic in the word Of the boss,
even II he comes from a-far This
causes discussion about the final result of
the great American quadriennial conven-
ton which is having its opening scene
here. Maybe, after all, the c. o. i.
had better select a man to meet demo-
cratic adversary. The name of McAdoo
is mentioned in this regard. You hear
all sorts of things. But the real meaning
of the Penrose alleged bedside interview
is taken by Johnsons shouters as an in
dorsement of the scrappy California hero.
Now, do you hear your masters
voice?' is the implied line of talk from
the sunset folks
SOME SAY WOOD
is A BROKEN MAN.
It's passing strange how little one
hears of Wood or Hoover or Coolidge
here today. Some say Woods a broken
man-all in but his shoestrings" And
then they give him TO the final demni-
ton and bow-wows by saying, Maybe
they'll fix the general up with the vice
4 presidency"
Hoover's press agents have put up
/ polite little sign In the hotel lobby say
| ing, "Hoover--the next president of the
United States" But unless there's an I'M
dertow OF sentiment under this sea Of
conclusion that Is soon to toss the food
conservator upon the political beach,
/ that sign is not to be taken seriously as
far as this convention is concerned.
Hoover is merely receptive, still Coolidge
/ is scarcely mentioned Butler of New
/ York may be IN some minds, but not on
/ the lips of these delegates.
/ Poindexter, did you say? Yes. l did
/ hear of him q few weeks ago, but that
I was In Washington.
Johnson may have EN- buffaloed here.
His friends are gleeful. Old guardsmen
+ who do not like him for shucks. ana
say so without batting an eye. draw
down the corners or their mouths and
+ wink their knowing eyes. But you never
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of Penrose, Healing and Hert, can dom
mate the convention. The latter group hns
been openly for the candidacy OF Gov
Lcwden, but its members have so far
failed to convince a sufficient number Of
delegates to go along with them.
Senator Lodge slated for permanent
chairman Of the convention, is a more
or less compromise between the two ele
ments. EIe has Wood leanings, but he
also opposes the nomination Of Gov.
Lowden.
STEERING COMMITTEE
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.
Behind closed doors, the platform
steering committee" composed Of thir
teen members Of the resolutions com
mittee, started to gather up the loose
ends of the league Of nations and other
disputed planks.
The steering committee" is striving to
prevent q renewal on the convention floor
OF the bitter controversy that ragged for
months in the senate between the mild
reservationists" and the irreconcil-
ables."
Senator Borah of Idaho, leader Of the
"irreconcilables," who Is on the steering
committee. is willing, he said, to carry
TO the convention, If necessary his insist
ence upon an unqualified reaffirmation OF
the doctrines of Washington and Monroe
regarding entangling foreign alliances
and European interference with American
affairs.
Senator Kellogg Of Minnesota. mild
reservationist," opposed the "BoFah
idea"
Both Borah and Kellogg were said TO
be in accord that there should he no
mention Of the Lodge reservations In the
league plank, but that 1t should be con-
fined to an endorsement of the action Of
the republican majority Of the senate In
refusing to accept the league covenant
as it was sponsored by President Will
son.
The two senator's talked freely OF
carving their fight TO the convention
floor II either could not have his way.
a number Of delegates expressed them
selves as being weary Of the league as a
subject for debate.
Kellogg and Senator Lenroot OF Wis
consin declared. however, a canvass they
had made Of the situation disclosed an
unmistakable trend on the part OF many
delegates toward ratification OF the treaty
with reservations" Borah, on the other
hand, was equally insistent that the In
diana league plank. with certain modi-
fcations and amendment" would ind
favor with the convention.
WATSON HEADS
THIS COMMITTEE.
The steering committee" which must
tackle the dispute between the mild
reservationists" and the "irreconcilables"
consists Of
Senators Watson, Indiana; Smoot,
Utah: Borah, Idaho, and Mccormick. IL
linois. and william Allen White. Kan
sas; John F. Neylan, California; D. l..
I.aerence. Virginia. Louis A. Coolidge,
Massachusetts, ogden l.. Mills. New
York; Wallace McCamant. Oregon; VII
liam Hepburn. Kentucky; Gov. B. Liv-
ingston Beckman, Rhode Island, and Har-
ris Gilpin, Michigan.
1t was understood the league plank
now stands as:
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}, BRYAN WRITES A T. REPUBLICAN CONVENT
The Republican
Contention TOddy

CHICAGO, June e. Convention
called to order at II a. m. by Chair
man Lodge.
Prayer by the Rev. John Timothy
Stone, d. D.
Report of the credentials commit
tee.
Permanent organization Of the con-
vention.
Reception of report Of the COM
mittee on rules and order of busi-
ness, action upon which will deter
mine the future proceedings Of the
convention.
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FOR u. s. CONTROL
OF RAILROADS

MONTREAL, June 9-Organized labor
and organized capital may find them
selves within few months fighting side
by side in at least one common cause,
1t was indicated at the annual conven-
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YOUTH BOUND OVER.

George Higgins, II. 1888 Moore avenua,
was bound over to the grand jury this
afternoon on two charges of attempted
assault on children. Bond was fixed &C
81, 900 on each charge.
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CONTEMPORARIES

coliseum, chicago, June D.
The bulls" were decidedly in control
of the convention ticket scalping today.
Despite efforts to prevent dealings in
convention tickets, the official cards were
being offered at prices ranging from $40
to $50, with all the bulls" predicting
that as soon as the real fight begins
the market will jump forty or fifty
points. Season tickets" are being held
for prices above $500.
Beauty and beast are on exl..
in Peacock alley at the Congress ho-
tel. Many of the beauties rush around
en- masse pinnlng badges and putting
Lowden elephants in the buttonhoIes
OF male visitors. no matter how be-
whiskered or aged they may be. Some
old boys make regular trips up and
down the alley until their pockets
bulge with discarded souvenirs.
George Home chief of police of Los
Angeles, is in town looking over the light
fingered brethren who make their living
in the crowds. He expects to head some
Of them off from journeying to the coast
for the San Francisco conclave.
Hiram johnson got barricaded out of
his own headquarters when boosters of
Senator Harding gathered in the hotel
lobby just below the Johnson citadel and
began to sing. Hiram, who had been out
for a walk, started headlong into the
Harding crowd, but got stuck halfway to
the stairs. He backed out and utilized
a side door entrance
TRAFFIC ON ELEVATORS IN ONE
CONVENTION HALL HAS BEEN so
HEAVY THAT THE CABLES HAD TO
BE CHANGED. THEY THREATENED
TO BREAK UNDER THE STRAIN.
Joseph L. Bristow, former United
States senator from Kansas, is out of pol
itics. But he can't shake Off the fever
entirely and had to look in on the Chi
cago convention. He Is taking no part,
however.
Ex-Congressman Laguardia of New
York longs for the war days sometimes
when he gets stuck in lobby jams. He
was an aviator in the war and had elbow
room at least.
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PARIS SPORTS WRITER DIES.
PARIS, June 9.-The death was an
nounced today Of Georges Prades a
sporting writer. He had promoted nu-
merous automobile and aerial contests.
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GIVES ITS REMEDY
TO LOWER COSTS.

The statement on the high cost of liv-
ing follows:
I'VE demand that effective steps be
taken Immediately to relieve the people
of the burden imposed by the excessive
cost of living and to eradicate perma
nently the underlying evils, recognize
ing fully that no other issue is Of deeper
interest to the masses of the American
people.
LAS a comprehensive program OF such
relief and remedy we set forth these de-
mands:
Cooperation should be encouraged as
an effective means of curbing of
prohteering. To stimulate rapid develop
ment Of co-operatives. the federal farm
loan act should be extended so as to give
credit to all properly organized CO.
operatives just as credit is now given to
individual farmers.
I'VE urge that the United States de-
partment OF labor compile and issue
monthly statements of the cost of man
ufacture OF those staple articles which
form the basis of calculation in fixing
the cost of living.
"As a means of aiding -prcfteering
measures the federal government should
promptly investigate profits and prices.
All income and other tax returns should
be available for inspection
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Steel MGgndtes
Invade the Field

CHICAGO, June 9.-Judge E. H.
Gary, J. L. Replogle and other lead
ers of the steel industry arrived here
| today. Judge Gary was in conference
all the morning and refused to see
newspaper men.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-09

The ''tapering finger" that the sena-
tor pointed at the convention in deliver
ing his keynote speech attracted so much
attention that he was selected as per-
nanent chairman.
Having been elevated to that position
as a compromise. there Immediately cen
tered about him talk to the effect that
be would be i fine dark horse"
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OTHER DEMANDS
PRESSED BY LABOR.

Other demands emphasized in the bill
Of rights presented included;
Right OF labor to organize and bargain
collectively through their own represen
tatives and freedom from "unwarrantablt
issuance Of writs Of injunction and the
right Of trial by Jury in contempt cases
outside the presence o fthe courts.
Removal OF all effects Of the espionage
act in the restrictions placed on freedom
of speech, the press, the assemblage
and association.
Right Of federal employees to organize
and to employ the same rights and priv
leges OF other working men; opposition
to the labor provisions of the Cummin-
Esch law: exclusion OF convict labor from
Interstate commerce; opposition TO child
labor; opposition TO Intervention IN
Mexico and curbing the supreme court
from overriding the acts of congress
were also included.
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LABOR'S LEADER
WATTS ON G.. o. p.
Gompers Demands Clear-Cut
Planks i'm Platform.

CHICAGO. June 9.-Malntenance Of the
right to strike, and to conduct all nego-
tiations with employers without inter
ference by the federal government was
demanded by labor before the republican
committee on resolutions today.
This was insisted on in spite of an
understanding that the industrial plank
prepared by Gov. Allen OF Kansas for
the elimination Of strikes and compulsory
arbitration would not he pressed.
Labor, through Samuel Gompers, pres
ident OF the American Federation Of La
Dor, also demanded the restriction of the
flow OF immigration from abroad to the
ability Of America to absorb and Amer
icanize It, and the stopping Of such i'm
migration absolutely when there is any
unemployment here.
Another demand was made for the re-
duction at once and effectively Of the
high cost of living and the curblng Of
profteering.
Gompers headed special committee
from the American Federation Of Labor
convention. row in session at Montreal.
LABOR PRESENTS
BILL OF RIGHTS.
In its protest against restricting the
action OF labor in lis right TO strike,
the committee made the following state
ment:
Legislation which proposes TO make
strikes unlawful or to compel the wage
earners to submit their grievances or as
pirations 10 courts or 10 government
agencies is an invasion OF the rights Of
the wage-earner.
when enforced It makes for Industrial
serfdom, or slavery.
We hold that the government should
supply information, assistance and coun-
sci, but Il should not attempt by the
force OF its own power to stihe or 10
destroy voluntary relations and policies
OF mutually between employers and en-
ployes"
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The deep sea" manager of the Wood
campaign was credited with having
stepped into a muddle and Strengthened 1t
out by making Senator Watson the chair
man Of the resolution committee, Just to
show the convention that Gen. Wood
packs a punch and Hitchcock can use
Il when he wants TO.
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KNOTS RETARD
WORK OF C. O. p.

Continued From Page one.)
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Ex-Congressman Laguardia of New
York longs for the war days sometimes
when he gets stuck in lobby jams. He
was an aviator in the war and had elbow
room at least.
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ladder is to be the only means by which
a candidate may reach the whitehouse.
Senator Harding's candidacy is in the
lands Of a group of enthusiastic support
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MACHINE SHOPS

LAWN MOWERS sharpened, factory ma;
chine process. Howard Machine Shops
Phone 1877.
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FOR sALE-AUroMoBrIEs.
FOR sALE-AUToMoBnEs.
DO YOU KNOW

That mechanics put every Used Car in good mechan
cal condition before being offered for sale? Isn't that
worth something to you?
1920 Model Auburn Beauty Six. 49,. 81 $4,000
1919 Model Passenger Buick Six. $1,450.O0
1918 Model Passenger Buick Six. s1,150.0O
1918 Model Passenger Buick Six. 81 10000
1917 Model Passenger Buick Six. $775.00
1919 Model Passenger Olds Eight. 81 10000
81 Model Passenger Cadillac Eight 125O.OO
1919 Model Passenger Saxon Six. $775.00
1917 Model 5 Passenger Maxwell. -. $425.0O
Ford Passenger Touring. ......... $325.00
Come to Headquarters for Quality Used Cars.
WOODS MOTORS co.
Phone 1860. 1905 Kansas Ave
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INSURANCE..

L, W. wILSON-Fire, tornado, plate glass.
insurance. Phone S36 20 Columbian Bldg
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LEGAL

TEiret Published in The Topeka State
journal, January "a. 1920
BOUNDARIES OF THE VOTING PRE-
CINCTS CITY OF TOPEKA,
KANSAS.
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AMORTHED CITY LOANS

We will loan Business good modern
ties in Topeka the amortization
6a cost to the borrower the interest payable
nua On this plan the borrower 80 annually
principal in addition to the interest
on the amount Of principal paid This
in Topeka before:
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INSTALMENT CITY LOANS

We viii loan 659o of the value property
an interest rate OF 10 the borrower
monthly payment for example $1,000 the
$500; $1250 of this principal interest
second month the payment $2494 $3.50 being principal
S44 interest and the interest reduced accordingly
succeeding monthly The principal payment $3.50
each month remains the same; payment
month is less.
Please call office for describing loans
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MONEY
MONEY
FARM LOANS
5-7-10-20 Year Terms
Lowest Rates, Best Terms, Prompt Closing
STRAIGHT CITY LOANS

We making loans upon Business Buildings and best class
Residence property Topeka at gross to the bor-
rover Prompt service interest payments semannua This
not monthly payment plan, but straight loan
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UNDERTAKING.
THE 6. Il. PENWELE undertafins CO.
sos s0e<5I0 Quincy street. Telephone 1872
Fl. ". BoMeARDNER. Phone 146.
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TYPEwRifERs.
FURRIER.

JOHN PETRZILEK, The Furrier, move,
to $40 Western Ave, temporarily located