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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-29
DRYSL0SEF FIRST
ROUND OF BOUT
Forced to Present Case on Wet
Plank First,
Even Amendment for Rebuttal
Is Defeated.
BRYAN IN FIGHTING TOGS
Comes to Feet in Clash With
Chairman Glass.
Senator Had SCALED" Common
er In Position Jockeying.

San Francisco, June 29.-Wets won
the first skirmish today before the
resolutions committee of the Demo-
cratic national convention. BY vote
which forced the drys to present their
side of the question first.
The motion and vote followed a
lively scrap during the course of
which w. J. Bryan charged Senator
Glass. chairman of the resolutions
committee, with joking and quibbling
on a serious question.
Jockey for Position.
Both vets and drys jockeying for
position, tried to make their op-
ponents present their arguments first.
Bryan said the vets ought to talk first
because they were demanding a
change in the law.
Congressman SABBATH. Illinois. and
Bourke Cochran, New York. said the
propose and argued that Bryan and
his supporters should open the hear
ings.
With both sides declaring they were
not seeking to reopen the question of
prohibition, Senator Glass finally tried
to bring. the pickering to close by
announcing that 'as nobody seems to
care to be heard on this matter we
will proceed to something else"
Bryan in Fighting Toys.
Bryan, his eyes flashing, was on
his feet Immediately.
This is no time for joking" he
cried. This is a serious question and
we are not here to be ruled out on a
bubble"
II resent that charge that 1 an
quibbling." said Glass, hotly. You
have stated and the other side ha,
stated that you have nothing to pre-
sent. Therefore, the chair said tina
the committee had better proceed t
hear others who want to be heard"
Is Refused Rebuttal.
Amid great confusion a motion wa!
I made that the drys talk first fol
thirty minutes and the vets then hav'
an equal time. Bryan tried to presen
an amendment SC that the drys woult
have twenty minutes. the vets thirty
and the drys ten more in which t.
reply. but he was ruled out Of order
He demanded a roll call on the mo
ton which resulted in a wet victor.
! by a margin of two votes.
| Mrs. Yost of the w. c. T. U. SPOKE
on the question, demanding honest en-
forcement of the eighteenth amend
meht and said that the party which
Incorporates this in its platform will
win
Frank NJ. Silsby representing tn
| Presbyterian church, read a protes
| signed by 900 ministers against weak
ening the eighteenth amendment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-29
SHOWER IN TOPEKA TODAY
Nearly Quarter Inch of Rain Cooled
Atmosphere This Morning.
TEMPERATURES.

Altho Monday was the second hot
test day this season with the mercury
soaring around 92 in Topeka, the dry
spell seems to be broken and "a of an
inch of rain fell this morning.
Few showers were reported over
the state in the last few hours, ac-
cording to s. D. Flora, state meteor
ologist. Dodge City, IL of an inch,
and Hays City. .42, head the list The
rain this morning was only a local
shower but it will hold the tempera-
ture down for the balance of the day.
Last night was the' warmest night
so far this year, the lowest tempera-
ture being "A at s o'clock this morning.
The night seemed cool because of the
steady breeze. but in reality the mer-
curry was high. Tomorrow viii be a
warmer day than today. according to
the prophets, the temperature going to
fContinued on Page Two.J
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CONVENTIONALITIES

From the time Cox forces began opera
tions here, the concealed hand of a skilled
organizer asserted itself. Speculation was
varied 10 his identity. Now Whisper
ing BilI'' Schaffer of Paulding Center.
Ohio. one time state senator. admits he had
something to do with it.
Schaffer just came along to offer a few
suggestions. He stands around the COM
mittee rooms. eating peanuts and thinking
up suggestions. But "Rill" the delegates
say has done all of the organizing and Is
responsible for the big showing the Cox
boosters have been making.
Bill's long experience with the small
town news system stands him in good here.
He has lookouts posted all over the place.
As soon as anything worth while happens.
Bills men are in touch with him.
'-Whisneriug Bill" united his apron in
the Schaffer general store in Paulding Gen.
ter. hopped over the counter and came out
to San Francisco just to see that they got
a fair deal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-29
Has His Fill
of Running
From Home

I'm goin' home an I'm goin to
stay there I'm cured of running
away" Vern Hart. aged IL years, told
T. D. VILLA ms. boys probation officer
of the juvenile court. this morning
Williams started Vern on his return
to his home in Sioux City. Ia, this
morning.
Several DAYS ago Vern was picked
up by the Topeka police and was
placed in the detention home. His
story was that he had left home with
man named Slim who persuaded
him to ride to Omaha. and then urged
him to come on the Kansas where
both would get work in the harvest
fields. The Slim friend disembarked
from the train at Lawrence. Kan. and
the boy never saw him again.
Williams had wired the boys par
ents for Transportation. They re-
Isponded promptly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-29
EIGHT NOW FACE CHARGES
Special Grand jury Returns Indict-
ments in BergdolI Case.

Philadelphia, June 29-The special
federal grand jury which investigated
the escape of Grover c. Bergdoll from
military guards here May 81, today
returned eight indictments.
Those named were: Grover Cleve-
land Bergdoll, Erwin Bergdoll, his
brother; Charles A. Braun, also a
brother, but who changed his name;
Mrs. Emma c. Bergdoll, the mother:
James E. Romig, former magistrate
and friend of the Bergdoll family;
Eugene Stecher. driver of the car in
which Bergdoll escaped; Alfred S.
Mitchell and Harry Shuh.
They were accured of aiding Gro
yer to dodge the draft and with aid
ing him to escape from his two army
guards after he was reported to have
come here to hunt for buried treasure.
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WILSON FORCES
ARE IN CONTROL
AT CONVENTION
Permanent Chairman Takes
Seat This Afternoon.
Is Administration Henchman
and Completes Organization.
IT'S DELEGATES LAST PLAY DAY
Program of Real Work Starts at
Next Session.
Committees Have Completed
Their Big Grind.
BIG FIGHTS ARE DUE TODAY
Three Main Questions Face
Delegates at Frisco.
Committees Approve But Con-
VentiOn Must Endorse.
TODAY'S PROGRAM

p. m.-Convention called to or
der by Temporary Chairman Ho-
mer S Cummings.
Prayer by Bishop william F.
Nichols. Episcopal diocese of Cali
fornia.
Reports of committees on creden-
tials determining official delegates
and alternates.
Report of committee on perma-
nent orga anizatiOn.
Speech of acceptance by Senator
Joseph T. Robinson. chairman of
convention.
Report of committee on rules and
order Of business.
Next in order. report of resolu-
tions committee which is holding
hearings and is not ready to re-
port the platform.
Remainder of the days program
depends on convention develop
ments. Delivery of nominating
peeches next in order while plat
form report is awaited.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-29
IT'S COOL IN FRISCO

San Francisco, June 29-Fog-
curtained skies indicated a calm.
cool day for Democratic national
convention hosts today. Fair
weather was predicted for this
afternoon with a return of the
foggy or cloudy conditions tonight.
A moderate southwesterly wind
brought the temperature to a point
u coolress where the delegates and
Fans and other hot weather com
foi Is were less in evidence today
than yesterday, altho many straw
hats and an occasional palm beach
suit could be seen.
convention visitors could sit in the
auditorium in absolute comfort.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-29
SAD RITES OVER RABBIT
Tootsie Salvason Sang I'm For
ever Blowing Bubbles" as Coffin
Was Lowered.

Greater soIemnity at a funeral sery-
ice was never more marked than at
the last sad rites of Bobbie Bairds
rabbit on Monday. The grief stricken
Bobbie, who lives at 1916 Western
avenue, and his sympathetic playmates
arranged the deceased rabbit in
pasteboard coffin and stood about the
open grave while one of the children
spoke few words in a choking voice
of the rabbits virtues.
Then Tootsie Salvason was asked
to sing. 1ootsie chose as the funeral
song: I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" E"
The coffin was lowered and covered
over with due ceremony and the
epitaph reads: Remains of Bobbie
Baird's Rabbit, June 20, 1920"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-29
K. C. BANKERS GOLFERS HERE
As Usual, Country Club Visitors Bring
Rain With Them Today.

Whenever Topeka wants a rain all
that is necessary is to arrange a golf
game with the Kansas City bankers
and it will rain. according to E. l..
Copeland. A group of Kansas City
bankers are in Topeka today to play
their semi-annual game with the To-
pe6a golfers al the Country club.
For seven years such games have
been arranged twice a year-played ID
once each year in Kansas City and
once in Topeka 1t has never failed
to rain when the Kansas City bankers
come to Topeka for the game.
Those who have come from Kansas
City today for thes game, under the
mana cement of E. F. Swinney. presi-
dent of the First National bank of
Kansas City. are: E. o. Bragg. w. NJ.
Fible. A c. Jobes, H. P. Wright, John
A. Prescott. F. P. Neal, H. C. Flower.
Jack Forrest, H. T. Abernathy, c. S.
Jobes. Hal Gaylord, George S. Hovey,
]. W. Perry. Charles Russell. J. F.
Downing, Mason Dean and Ford F.
Harvey.
The visitors and their Topeka op-
ponents lunched at the Country club
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-29

san Francisco, June 29-As the
Democratic legions marched into the
Auditorium this afternoon for the sec
ond day of their national convention,
they were confronted with the fol-
lowing problems;
Shall the unit rule be broken as far
as New York is concerned, and dele
gates be permitted to cast their votes
Individually?
Shall Senator James A. Reed be
seated as delegate from Missouri?
Shall the action of the credentials
committee in seating a solid delega-
uon from Georgia be ratified?
ShaU a speed up program be adopt
ed whereby nominating speeches will
start at p. m. tomorrow and be linn
tied TO twenty minutes each?
Fights Due Today.
All t-ese things have been agreed
upon by the convention committee.
but they must be approved by major
ity vote OF the convention. Therefore,
il there is to be any fighting on the
floor it may start today
As the delegates began arriving. all
the committees had completed their
reports and adjourned, with the ex
ceptiou Of the resolutions committee,
which was still in the preliminary
stages Of building the platform on
which the Democratic candidate will
make his appeal to the voters in No
vember
o. Assembling an hour later than usual
today. the Democratic national con-
vention had before it only a routine
session. necessary time killer-to
give opportunity for committee work
on the outside and the final perfection
OF its organization machinery.
A second keynote speech by Senator
Joseph T. Robinson Of Arkansas the
successful administration candidate
Tor permanent chairman. was the
principal event on the program.
Prospects for a spectacular fight on
the floor over the election of the Gre
dentials committee which sustained
the Democratic national committee in
its refusal to seat Senator Reed of
Missouri as delegate, were hedged
apout with uncertainty. There were
predictions that the contest would not
be carried further unless Reed deter
mined to attempt to force himself into
place with the Missouri delegation
by proxy The Georgia case also, in
which the credentials committee sus-
tanned the national committee and
seated Palmer delegates to the exclu-
sion Of the Smith Watson faction also
seemed TO have been settled with fin
ality, altho there was always the
chance Of : last minute outburst.
Its Last Play Day.
Today session, however, was the
last play day for the delegates for un-
der the rules as adopted the conven-
uon may go ahead hearing candidates
placed IN nomination while the plat
FORM committee is working. altho it
may not proceed to the ballotfng for a
nominee until the declaration of party
principles has been accepted.
While the full membership of the
RlaIorm committee continued to grind
(Coutlnued on Page SKI
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Nebraskan Refused Place on
Drafting Committee.
Will Carry His Fight on to Con-
ventiOn Floor.
WILSON FORCES IN CONTROL
League, Irish and Prohibition
Planks a la White House.
George Hodges of Kansas Gets
Coveted Position.
BY L. c. MARTIN.

San Francisco. June 29.-Adminis-
tration forces were firmly in control
today when the resolutions committee
or the Democratic national convention
resumed hearings on the platform and
prepared to begin the actual drafting
of the partys declarations on current
issues.
Every indication pointed to the ut
ter routing of the administration
foes or critics in the resolution COM
mittee on the League of Nations,
liquor and Irish questions. A sub
! committee of nine, named to do the
actual writing of the platform. is com
posed almost entirely of strong Wilson
Democrats.
Wilson Man at Head.
The subcommittee is headed bv
Senator Carter Glass, chairman of the
ruIl resolutions committee, and an out
and out Wilson man. Its other mem
| bers are Secretary of State Colbv
Senator McKeIiar, Tennessee. vance vance,
Mccormick. Pennsylvania; M. M.
Crone' Texas; Horace Hawkins, Colo
rado; William D. Pattingall, Maine;
George H. Hodges. Kansas, and Sena-
tor Walsh, Montana. OF these. only
walsh can be classed as an insurgent.
walsh declined even to enter the race
against Glass, altho he was the can
didate of the anti-administratio
forces.
Instead of contesting with Glass.
Walsh seconded his nomination and
Glass was unanimously elected chair
man.
Later developments strengthened
the belief that opponents of Wilson's
wishes will be ruthlessly steam
roliered" If they persist in their op-
position.
Bryan Gets Setback.
One of these developments was the
leaving of William ]. Bryan off the
subcommittee to draft the platform
Another was the failure of the steer
ing committee. named to draw up a
program of hearings before the reso-
lutions committee to include any time
for the League of Nations issue.
Another development was the limit
ing of debate in public hearings on
platform planks. The committee
adopted a resolution limiting each sub
ject to half an hour.
Bryan said to-day that he probably
will not discuss the prohibition plank
personally before the committee He
anticipates defeat and is saving him
self for the floor fight later The
subcommittee on drafting is dry, but
1t is administration first.
Labor Plank First.
When the resolutions committee met
early today Samuel Gompers was
scheduled to present labor's demands.
Following him. the wet and dry argu-
ments were to be heard.
Claims of organized farmers were
to be presented following the liquor
Continued on Page Tvo.J
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"STAR" HIKES TO 20 CENTS
White Paper Costs Force Kansas City
NewspaPer to Move.

Kansas City, Mo, June "a
further advance in the cost of white
paper from 800 to S11S a ton-has
forced The Star to increase the sub
scription price to a part of its readers.
In Kansas City and suburbs the
price remains at Is cents a week for
the thirteen issues, but in Kansas
City's trade territory the price after
July will be 20 cents week Be
yond that the rate is 30 cents a week
The white paper advances is given
as the reason for the increase. The
Star has monthly consumption of
three thousand tons, or $4,000 a
month.
In addition to the increase in white
paper, there will be a substantial ad-
vance July l in postage rates
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Labor Plank First
WILL REPLY TO CUMMINGS
Senator Harding Will Answer Demo-
cratic Keynote Address in Speech.

Washington. June % Senator
Warren G. Harding intends to reply
to the keynote speech of Homer S.
Cummings to the Democratic conven-
ton in his acceptance speech next
month
Harding read the Democratic broad
side carefully today but declined COM
ment.
The Republican presidential nomi-
nee was back on the job today. fresh
from his vacation in New Jersey. He
leaves for Marion probably Saturday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-29
TO LIMIT ALL SPEECHES.
Committee Agrees ON Report on Rules
to Go TO Convention.

San Francisco, June 29rA rule
putting twenty minute time limit on
nominating speeches was adopted to-
day by the rules committee of the
Democratic convention. Seconding
speeches are limited to three or five
minutes each.
Speeches putting candidates for vice
president in nomination must be linn
tied to ten minutes, with two second
ing addresses of five minutes each
rms rule to be effective must be rati-
fled by the convention at its session
this afternoon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-29
BROTHERHOOD STARTS BANK.
Engineers Receive Charter for Ma
tiOnal Institution at Cleveland.

Washington. June ga charter
for the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers cooperative National bank
of Cleveland. O.. was approved today
by the comptroller of the currency.
The bank is capitalized at $1,00O.000.
Warren S. Stone. grand chief of the
Brotherhood. made the application for
the charter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-29
FOUR UNKNOwNs KILLED.
Rooming House CoIlapses-Eighty
Buried in Debris-Many Hurt.

Buffalo, June 29.-Four persons
were killed and an undetermined
number injured today by the collapse
Of the walls of the Sutherland hotel,
a lower Main street lodging house.
Eighty men occupied rooms in the
building last night and the day clerk
had no information as to the number
of persons in the building when the
crash came
The bodies OF the four men taken
from the ruins were unidentified
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-29
Dollar Gas for New Workers.

New York, June 29.-Orders permit
ting the Consolidated Gas company
and its subsidiaries to raise the price
of gas to consumers mot to exceed
81 per 1000 cubic feet" in the
boroughs of Manhattan. Bronx
Brooklyn and Queens were filed here
today in the federal court.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-29
Plague Spreads at Vera Cruz

Vera Cruz. June 29.-Sanitary au-
thorities today announced that two
deaths from bubonic plague had oc-
CURED and two new cases developed
despite medical attention and precau-
tions against infection. Heavy rains
continued.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-29
IS S1,OOO,OOO FOOD LOSS
Thousands of Pounds of Edibles De-
stroyed in Big Freight Fire.

Chicago. June 29.-Thousands of
pounds of food was a total loss today
following a million dollar fire which
destroyed the C., B. & Q. freight trans
fer yards here last night.
The huge Burlington freight trans
fer house, one of the largest in the
middle west, heavily stocked with food
and empty cars, was razed
The fire spread to tank cars and
sheets of flaming oil were thrown over
the yard by the explosion.
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AFTER c,262 sLACKERs NOW.
Indictments Are Filed in
brooklyn Federal Court.

New York, June 29.-Indictments
against 2,262 alleged slackers were
filed today in the federal court in
Brooklyn.
A roundup was Immediately insti-
tuted by the United States marshai's
office. aided by police. Less than so
per cent Of the men indicted were
actually slackers. officials believed.
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Poland Prepares Big withdrawal.

Prague, June 29.-Poland IS pre-
pairing to withdraw its forces from
eastern Galicia because of the fear OF
a Russian Bolsheviki invasion, accord-
ing to the newspaper Narodni Listy-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-29
FEAR THE BUBoNIC PLAGUE.
Beaumont, Tex, Finds One Fatal and
One Suspected Case.

Beaumont. Tex, June 29.-Federai
health authorities began a campaifn
to prevent spread of bubonic plague
here today, following one fatal and
one suspected case of the malady here
yesterday.
Rats must be exterminated in the
entire Gulf area proclamation by
the state health department said.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-29
STRIKE DID NOT COME.
threatened Walkout on PennsyIvanfa
Line Failed, Say Railroad Heads.

New York, June 29.-The threat
ened walkout Of shopmen. freight han
dlers and towermen on the Penneyl-
vania railroad, scheduled for today.
did not develop. it was stated by rail-
road officials here.
Reports received here from pofntz
in New Jersey and Pennsylvania indi-
Gated that the threatened strike had
failed, officials said.
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Uruguay to Get German ships.

Buenos Aires, June 2S.-Eight Ger
man ships which were interned dur
ing the war will. it is believed. be
turned over to Uruguay to reward
that country for her services in the
allied cause. Negotiations for the dis
position of these vessels are under way.
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1912 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION

p Balloting for president began
There were forty-siX ballots. The
final ballots are given:
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Held in Baltimore. Nd, June - July p Ba
June 2s and a nomination made July >. There
first TENTH twenty fifth, forty second and final bal
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1t is generally accepted in Topeka
To-Day that conservative labor men
VINO represent the real true spirit OF
unionismeand its benefit to society ana
industry, will not reflect in any man
ner the move of the local labor paper
against the Methodist religious society.
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WEATHER FORECAST for Kansas:
Generally fair and continued
warmer tonight and Wednesday.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-07-01
LITTLE PENNSYL VANlA
CITY CLAIMS HOLD ON
WHITE HOUSE TIMBER


WASHINGTON. Pa, Juiy If
warren G. Harding is elected presi-
rent OF the United States, fhis pretty
little university city in the hills OF
western Pennsylvania will be bound
up closers than ever with the White
rouse, for; not only did Senator
Hardings ancestors live here but the
farther Of President Wilson also was
resident OF Washington.
Senator Harding's eat-grandfath-
or, william Van Kirk, was one of the
early settlers of Franklin township.
ana he and his wife are buried in the
family graveyard on the Charles Van
Kirk farm near Point Lookout. Sena-
tor Harding is honorary president of
the Van Kirk family society and fire.
quently has attended the annual re-
union here.
President Wilson's father, Rev.
Joseph Ruggles Wilson. was born at
Steubenville, O.. not far from here
and in 1s4S became pastor of the
Hills Presbyterian Church at Canons-
burg, near Washington. Here the
family remained until their removal
to Virginia where the President was
born short time afterward.