The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-07-02
Bryan Win BE Steam Ra
lered BuuYbons Cona7ol
Convention, 49, Democrats
Are Coming.
GOMPER ALSO
ON HAND
Labor Asks for Crumbs from
Democrats Who May Ss.nle
Upon Labor.
WOMEN PICKET
FOR RUSSIA

FOR RUSSIA
BY Paul Hanna,
Staff Correspondent,
THE FEDERATED PRESS
San Francisco, June 29.-There is
no need to argue about who controls
the convention. Postmaster General
Burleson ought to know and he said
last night: "McAdoo will be nomin-
ated. This convention is dominated
by friends ami members (office hold
ers) of the administration who can
name any man they want to, and Nc
.Adoo is that man."
Burleson said he supposed Bryan
would try to block McAdoo, but the
attempt would fail, the Postmaster
vas not talking to a bosom friend, hut
to one he knew was an irreconcilablc
political foe, and his plain speech re-
vealetl a sense Of power which does
not fear to confess that the conven-
ton is handpicked.
(, McAdoo, Burleson and Tumulty
have been an all-powerful trinity in
the Wilson administration for sew
eral years past, and one who watched
their performance from the inside adj
vised the writer before he left Wash
ington that the three same would
make this convention jump through,
roll over, sit up or play dead just as
it suited them.
Incidentally, the same man predict
ed that the ticket would be McAdoo
for President and either Secretary
Meredith or Victor Murdoch for vice
president.
The office-winning political brains
Of this country used to reside almost
exclusively within the Republican
{ Party. But the storms of economic
readjustment and the winds Of the
world war seem to have shifted the
cargo of cunning completely.
| The big battle of 1920 will be be-
tween Republicans who stand for
nothing that the people want ard
democrats who stand fol sor,ething
the people don't want. They don't
leave much choice, but in fight he
tween nothing and something the
matter stands Il good chance tn win,
| How the >leril,tv of the Reput,l-
cans may be seized upon to arvant,
age by the democrats was indicated
keynote speech said of the Chicago
/
II ':c for roland, ..c v,r,. ef mercy
Cor ,@,nen :. and - .~..:> a sword
for Mexico"
That is very vague and may be fol-
lowed by nothing more definite, but it
shows how little the democrats have
t. do to excel the Republicans in ap-
pealing to the liberal, progressive i'll
strcts of the l",cl.c.
resident Samuel Gcmpcrs and mis-
a sociates of the Amen ,cGn Fedora
:,nn of Labor will 81 bef. lie the le@o-
lutlons committee tomorrow or mex
day to press their fifteen points Of
organized labor's desire. These de-
mands We're fatty rejected by the Re-
publcans; so if the Democrats care to
voice an ambiguous lip friendship for
a few Of the most ordinary aspira-
lions of labor, then Gompers will be
free to pledge his following to the
Democratic party.
Whether the Gompers party expect
the Democrats to smile upon them is
not easy to Judge from The remarks
of Matthew Vol, presiden, OF the
Federation, who said today:
"lf both the Democrats and he
publicans take a stand against labor
it is hard to say what will result, hut
labor may find it necessary to seek
some other party. At first the Labor
vote would be split between the Re
publicans and Democrats. And some
of us may vote for that man in jail
Eugene V. Dehs. There must be
somewhere in the United States ::
party that represents the ideas ;a'e
needs Of the people anu will res2onc
to their necessities
believe that is The fist time that
!; a members Of the Gon,}ers cabine,
has ever stated for publication thai
labor as whole might have to seel
Il refuge from injustice Within TIT
folds of the Socialist party.
OF similar interest arc the RENAL X
of Rabbi Jacob Nieto, chairman u. tht
. local Committee of Fatty Eight, WHIT
last night urged upon his followers
the need for union by the Labor
=. party and Forty-eighters with thu
Socialists. He said the reactionarie:
would triumph whichever of the OLE
parties won, and could only be heater
by union of the three elements frs
On which We differ and uniting OF
|. these in which we agree" he said
: I'VE may be able to prevent the reac
=
d, country"
: Local Socialists regard the triumph
of reaction in the old parties rs al
excellent reason why they SHOULD
stand pat until the homeless liberals
come to them without talk of com
promise.
Prosecuted Russia was championet
at the doors of the auditorium toda,
when the convention began business
Imrtv-fiVe women pickets Of thu
| American Women'S Relief Commute,
, stood along the curling with pla
, cards with recited the stubborn re
: fusal of the Wilson administrut iu,
? tn alo" milk and medicines to go for
! ward to sick and starving women ant
= children in Russian Republic Othe1
: placartls reminded the business me,
tina! millions in Russian gold had beer
deposited in London banks for the te
sumption ot trade while American ex
. poiters are barred by the hlaekati.
against Il country with which We ar.
not at war.
; An effective demonstration WA