The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1920-07-09


lines brought to me front In con
gressional politics James NJ. Cox. who
espoused those principles from his
INST appearance In public life.
Governor Cox recently purcha sed
the farm near Jacksonburg upon
winch he was born and IL transform
ing IL into a modern farm where he
expects TO spend his later days. He
mas comfortable, modern suburban
nome at Dayton, which he designed
and where he resides when not in the
state capitol attending to his official
duties.
william J. Bryan was much in Ell
dence at the convention. He made a
vigorous fight for a bone-dry plank in
the platform, but lost, and took the
where he was accorded an ovation,
but was unable to secure the votes to
carry his ideas to adoption. Five
times he was voted down overwhem-
lngly, sometimes by record ballots of
each state, and at other times by noisy
'iioiuS VI noes.
Homer S. Cummings, temporary
chairman of the convention, aroused
the delegates to the highest pitch of
enthusiasm in his keynote address.
flnying the Republican senators for
the defeat of the league of nations
covenant, declaring that no blacker
crime against civilization has ever
soiled the pages of our history. 1--WE
Will not submit to the reputation of
the peace treaty" declared Chairman
Cummings, 'or TO any process by
which il is Whitfield down to the van
ishng point"
THE Republican platform contains
no message of hope for Ireland, no
word of mercy for Armenia and con
ceals a sword for Mexico" said Mr.
Cummings.
lie declared that peace achieve
mcnts of the Democratic party freed
the farmer from the deadening effects
nf usurlous financial control labor
Was given the Magma Charter of lib
erty; business and finance were re-
leased from the ihralldom Of I'M
certainty and hazard.
I'VE fought a great war for Il great
cause, and we lad leadership that
carried America TO greater heights Of
honor and power and glory than she
has ever known before in her entire
history, said Mr.. Cummings.
Senator Joseph T. Robinson of
Arkansas Was chosen permanent chair
man AT the Tuesday session. He
awoke the delegates to uproarious APP
proval when lie thoroughly lam
basted the senate under Republican
leadership for procrastination in deal
Ing with the treaty, and asserted that
he made mo apology for Article iO'
of the league covenant. 1T Is to the
shame of the senate he declared.
that Ii took a greater time TO defeat
the treaty than the army took to win
The war And they left the treaty
right where it was when The president
brought il back from Paris
Failure of the president TO take
with him TO the peace conference mem
bers of the senate had ranked in
some senatorial hearts. Senator Rob
inson continued. bur he added that If
the president had done so and the
senators had shown no more intelli-
gence at the conference in drafting
the treaty than they have shown In
its consideration, then God bless
ia, Il,
home" and again the delegates clam
ored their agreement.
The fourteen candidates placed in
nomination for the presidency were:
Senator Gilbert NJ. Hitchcock. Ne
h. ..ska Senator Carter Glass, Nir-
gina Senator f. Me. Simmons. North
Carolina; Governor james Nj. Cox.
Ohio; Governor Alfred +. Smith. New
York; Governor Edward l. Edwards,
New Jersey; William G. McAdoo, New
York A. Mitchell Palmer, Pennsyl-
vana James W. Gerard New York
Edwin T. Meredith. Iowa !; Homer $.
Cummings, Connecticut; John w.
Davis, West Virginia; Governor
Francis Burton Harrison, Philippine
Islands
On the prohibition issue the plat
form subcommittee made no recon-
mendation at all to the committee. and
many members of the committee were
for steering the same middle course in
the final platform draft A dozen or
so of proposed declarations ranging
from ultra-wet to ultra-dry were
brought into the controversy, however,
and the whole scale of wet and dry
arguments was rehearsed as the de-
bate progressed
William j. Bryan was the supreme
champion of the drys. He told the
committee bluntly that, unless there
was positive declaration for pre-
servation and enforcement of the
present prohibition laws, he would not
hesitate to appeal his case to the CON
vention itself. The vets, who sug-
gested everything from n wine and
beer plank TO a blanket personal