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agony to- which prisoners are
subjected by the Chicago detec-
tive bureau and states attorney
Groves men.
Grove Torture "confessions."
Wilson was arrested with his en-
ployer, Mott Kirk Mitchell of the
Harvard School in the early stages
of the case before Richard Loeb and
Leonard Leopold were picked up.
Robert E. Grove hailed them as con-
venient scape-goats and the days Of
torturing of innocent men began,
which were eventually followed by
Groves announcement that he had OK
tracted confessions" of deeds of sex
perversion in the school.
These confessions" which were
knocked in the head by later evil
dence, were obtained for the purpose
OF building up a theory that the
school men had murdered the Frank
boy to hide sexual crimes they were
alleged to have committed.
Five Days Of "coId-FlshIno."
The story which Alderman Guern-
sey tells OF the torturing under the
direction of Groves men and the de-
tective bureau was gotten from An
drew Anderson. editor Of the Kiwanis
Magazine and friend Of Walter VIII
son the tortured victim. Anderson
is now attending the international
Kiwanis convention in Denver.
Five days the "gold.hshing" lasted.
Five days Of sleeplessness. threats Of
murder and vicious beating with a
rubber hose. All in a private hotel
room in Chioago--in hotel which the
aldermanic investigators refuse to dis
close for the sake OF protecting the
good name" Of the management.
Hung Him over Window.
On one occasion Wilson was
dragged to the window ledge over
looking the hard pavement many
stories below.
Detectives vowed they would pitch
him down. headforemost II he did not
CONFESS. They told him the world
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Hypnotlsm For Ansesthetle.
(Rosta News.)

MOSCOW, June 12.--At tho Psyche
Neuro-P Pathological Section in Mos
COW, Professor Platonoff read a pa
per on the successful application by
himself and a number of prominent
doctors OF hypnotism during accouche.
monts and other operations. Much in.
terest is being evinced among scien.
tiflc circles in Russia for this kind OF
treatment. and the recent All.Russian
psycho-neuro-pathological conference
sdopted a resolution in favor OF insti.
.uting courses Of hypnology at the
universities.
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The presidency of the United
States is most expensive com
modify. The chance to be president
Of the greatest democracy on Gods
green earth is sold on the market and
commands a price running into mil
lions of dollars.
Few workingmen have any notion
whatsoever regarding the expenses
entailed in winning the presidential
nomination on either the Democratic
or Republican party. The business
of becoming president of the United
States begins long before the conyen-
ton of the party. Most presidential
aspirants begin their campaigns a
year or eighteen months prior to the
national conclaves.
Costly Prellmlnaries.
The preliminary preparations are
very costly. Publicity is the first
item on the budget. Special articles
must be written about the life, char
acter and Christian habit, and mod
esty of the white hope that is being
groomed for the White House. Pub
licity bureaus and special agents, po-
litical drummsrs and humbuggers,
travelling all over the country must
be financed and financed rather lavish
ly. Then the machine must be very
well oiled. Golden grease must be
applied profusely in order to win the
primaries.
Soon the convention preparations
actually begin The delegates must be
treated royalty. Their bosses must
be handled with even more care. Sue
cess at the convention is not the end
of this costly game. 1t is only the
beginning of another phase of the
affair-and mighty expensive one
at that, too. Between nomination
day at the convention hall and cleo
ton day in the fall, huge sums pass
over the political counters in the
cities and in the rural communities.
Enter-The Rich Friends.
Where is all this to come from?
Sometime the presidential aspirant is
himself member of a mnltimillion-
aire family. In that case he has ire
mendous advantage over his com
petitors who are less fortunate. While
the latter have to chase around the
country rounding up angels" and
birds of rich plumage perching on the
financial posts, the millionaire oandi-
date is on the job building his fences
for the stormy days ahead.
Rich friends play decisive part
in the presidential market. Mr.. Frank
R. Kent. one of the leading Wash
ington correspondents, now serving
with the Baltimore Sun, views the
situation in the following light:
There is scarcely any man of
presidential calibre who has served in
any sort Of public ONCE. who has not
made "a friend or two among the men
of millions, who can be counted upon
for financial support, of the kind, for
instance, given General Leonard Wood
by Colonel Proctor in the Wood cam
paign for the Republican presidential
nomination of 1920.
mot few Of our presidents have
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clearing house for several contribu.
tions totalling 100000. Up. Morgan
& Co. gave $4,000 outright; the
Standard Oil Company, S125, 900;
Chauncey M. Depew, representing the
Vanderbilts, George ]. Gould and
Henry G. Prick presented 100000 a
piece; e. T, Stotesbury, Philadelphia
agent of J. p. Morgan & Co., gave
$4,000; George ". l.. Meyer, $1z5 900
in the capacity OF Boston clearing
house; B. T. Wainwright acting as the
Pittsburgh clearing house, S120 900;
and James Stillman, Jacob II. Schiff,
Charles s. Mellen, Andrew Carnegie.
Henry II. Rogers, M. Guggenheim &
Son, the Clark Manufacturing Co.. the
International Harvester Co., and the
American Can Co., were among other
contributors whose gifts ranged from
ten to seventy thousand dollars a
piece.
The cordial relations between the
White House and the Stock Exchange
were best evidenced by the fact that
after being sent for by Roosevelt,
Hartman contributed an additional
quarter Of million dollars besides his
first $4,000, to save New York State
to the Republicans" Frieks cam
paign contribution was sound invest
ment frem the business point of view
because the president permitted his
Steel Corporation to violate the anti
trust law by absorbing the Tennessee
Coal and Iron 90.
During this election the Democrats
were financed very heavily, tho not as
lavishly as the Republicans. Thomas
F. Ryan, one Of the leading stoekhold-
ers in the rubber and tobacco trusts
and director in numerous industrial,
traction and public utility corpora
tons, was the leading Democratic
angel" at this time.
In the campaign OF 1908, resulting
In the election of Taft, the cantribu-
tors were practically the same ones as
in 1904
When Dollar Meets Dollar.
In the sharp struggle between
Taft and Roosevelt in 1919 there was
a terrific expenditure Of money. The
Roosevelt prs-convention expenses
alone attained the sum of Ses5,0
Taft spent more than $500, 900 for sim
liar work. This year George w.
Perkins admitted having donated
$4,000 to Roosevelt's campaign.
Dan Hanna, son of the notorious Mark
Hanna, who made Mckinley, con
fessed having given $4,000 to this
fund. William Finn and Frank A.
Munsey spent $4,000 and $4,000,
respectively, on the Progressive par
ty standard bearer.
Among the leading contributors to
the campaign of Taft were to be
found John D. Rockefeller, ]. p. Nor
gan, Pierre Du Pont, Henry c. Frick,
3. T. Stotesbury, Payne Whitney,
Daniel g. Reid and George F. Baker.
The successful candidate, Wood
row Wilson, according to the avail
able records, was supported by Cleve-
land R. Dodge. Cyrus H. Mccormick,
Thomas and David B. Jones of the
Harvester and Zinc trusts, Charles R.
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really been made year and a half
ahead Of the convention, by means Of
a confidential contribution of $4,000
or $4,000 to some state boss with a
fight on his hands"
Cellar Stuff.
Most of this campaigning is done
very quietly. There is more truth
than poetry in saying that it is almost
all "sub-cellar" stuff. Under these
circumstances it is extremely difficult
to find out the exact sums expended
in the average presidential campaign.
All estimates recorded are incom-
plete and afford knowledge of only a
fraction OF what was spent in the
venture. 1t is very seldom that the
country is treated even to a partial
acquaintance with the money-how in
these political contests. It is only
when someone is caught spending
huge funds promiscuously that the
searchlight is turned on the campaign
costs, even then we are not told all.
Yet, an examination of the incomplete
and admitted records reveals the ex-
penditure of vast sums of money in
the presidential races.
Mckinley No sIouoh.
The last vestige of the eficacy Of
the baMot, of popular suffrage as a
decisive force in the making Of
Americas presidents was buried when
fha TTuttad Cf.to- o..to.oa A. .-....
of capitalism as full-hedged imper-
ialist power
''Hell-and-MRria" Dawes, working
under the boss, Mark Hanna. sold
William Mckinley to the American
masses at the paltry sum of little
over a6,OO0,O 900. This was the day Of
rising monopolies. Industry was de-
veloping at a very rapid pace. At
least the same amount of money was
invested by the millionaire capitalists
in 1900 in the re-elsetion ot Mckinley.
Roosevelt Expensive.
The "trust-busting Theodore Roose-
welt won the presidency at the cost Of
more than S11,o0O,O0 in 1904. This
is rather surprisingly large sum
when one considers the special CIR
cumstances at hand. Roosevelt was
president for three and a half years
after McKinley's death During this
time Teddy succeeded in boosting his
own stock with the masses to diEzying
heights. Yet so huge a sum was
sunk into his campaign to succeed
himself 1t is especially instructive
to observe that, according to the testi-
mony uncovered before the Clapp in
vestigating committee in the Congress
of 1911, the greatest contributors to
the Roosevelt campaign funds were
the most powerful monoPohsts, the
biggest capitalists whose interests
were protected so effectively during
the first Roosevelt term Apparently
the gigantic trusts could see no harm
in rewarding their friend Teddy the
Trustbuster.
Teddy's Angels.
George w. Perkins, then a member
of the firm of J. p Morgan & Co, and
director of the Harvester and Steel
Trusts, invested s4SO.OOO in this cam
paign E. H. Hartman acted as the
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South Bend Forms
English Branch to
Help Workers Fight

SOUTH BEND, Ind. June 12.-An
English branch of the Workers party
has been established here and will
meet regularly every second and
fourth Thursday in the month at 8
p. M, 1915 West Colfax Ave. All
workers of this vicinity who are in
terested are cordially invited to at
tend meetings to see whether they
want to join the only movement in the
United States and the world that is
working for government by the work
ers and farmers.
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By Jay LOUestone

ness, Simon Guggenheim and Thomas
Cochran of ]. P. Morgan & Go. were
in the front ranks OF the donors.
Bernard Baruch, p, L. Doheny,
Cleveland II. Dodge, Allan A. Ryan,
August Belmont and James w. Ger
ard were among the leading contrib
utors to the national Democratic fund
in 1890,
More than ss,0O0,O00 were spent on
state campaigns in 1920, On the cleo
ton Of congressman there were ex-
pended 100000, and 100000 on the
various presidential aspirants. All in
all, according to the public records,
a minimum OF SIS, 10000 was spent in
the last presidential year on political
purposes.
The big business interests began
their preparation for the presidential
campaign of 1924 in the last congress
sional elections. It has been talked
Of for some time in Washington cir
cles that the reactionaries are pre-
pared TO spend as much as $3.50, 0O0,-
600 in order to have Coolidge succeed
himself The huge gifts OF r. B. Mel
lon, John D. Rockefeller, George East
man, William Wrigley, Herbert Hoo
yer, Henry L. Doherty and others to
the Republican party campaign fund
of two years ago are a sample Of what
they are ready to invest today in ISL
lent Cal"
Business lie Business.
There is nothing mysterious or gen
erous about the big capitalists invest
ing so much in presidential timber.
The principles Of campaign contribu-
tions are based on the firnest foun-
dations, on the very bedrock Of sound
and profitable business. We need cite
but few of the outstanding and typ
zeal instances where the soundness Of
such investments was illustrated.
The Standard Oil company was or
dered dissolved and fine of SIS, 000,-
O0o imposed on it. The trust was
never dissolved. 1t never paid one
cent Of this fine.
Woodrow Wilson sent Cyrus H. Nc
Cormick to Russia as a member OF the
Root mission. Mr.. Mccormick, head
of the Harvester trust, had huge in
tersts In Russia.
Penfeld, who gave $4,000 to the
Wilson campaign in 1915 and contrib
uted heavily to the 1919 campaign,
was made an ambassador
For similar reasons Morganthau
was made American ambassador to
Turkey.
The Phelps, Dodge & Co. perpe-
trated its outrageous deportation of
workingmen and was not punished
for the crime, tho indictments were
procured. The $4,000 given by Cleve-
land H. Dodge to the Wilson cam
paign of 1916 were evidently not for
gotten.
And today American capitalists who
invested close to $4,000, 900 in the 1920
presidential primaries of General
Wood are utilizing the latter's gov
ernor generalship of the Philippines
in campaign to strip the islands
bare of all it's natural resources.
The principles OF capitalist politics
are as sordid as the principles of cap
italist industry.
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would be informed that he had COM
mitted suicide.
Remembering the fate of a young
workingman named Joy who pitched
out of a lofty chamber filled with po-
lice two months ago as a suicide"
Wilson had every reason to believe
they would carry out their murderous
threat.
The Shoemaker Punch.
Wilson told his friend that the rub
ber-hose beatings were terrible in the
extreme. Powerful men laid on the
blows with all their force up and
down his body. This was alternated
by the Shoemaker" punch, named
after the Chicago detective captain Of
that name--a short blow with the heel
of the palm at the base of the brain.
Wilson, the Instructor, got the
worse gold fishing" Mott Kirk
Mitchell, part owner Of the exclusive
Harvard school. and with More in
fiuential social connections, was treat
ed more easily.
Eventually both were freed when
the arrests OF Loeb and Leopold and
subsequent evidence, destroyed con
fessions." That there is not one shred
Of proof even connecting the teachers
with any improper sexual practices is
admitted now by the police them
selves.
Dsver's Empty Promises.
Mayor Dever expressed horror at
the revelation and declared that vio-
lence TO prisoners must cease. The
sincerity OF his promise may be
judged by his record in tho dress
makers strike. During the dress
makers strike Dever promised the
Committee OF Is" that his cops
would stop beating up girls. Instead
Of stopping. the brutalities increased
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BY HARRY N. WINIrsKY.

NEW YORK, June 12.-The work
ers of New Jersey have decided that
they must follow the example of the
other states turnout the country and
organize a state Farmar-Labor party
which is to affiliate itself with the ma
tional convention at St. Paul on June
IL. Hudson and Essex counties have
already held their conferences and
Essex county has formed a labor par
ty, is sending delegate to st. Paul,
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NEW JERSEY WORKERS EAGER TO
FORM STATE, NATIONAL FL PARTY

and will also be represented at the
New Jersey state convention, which
will be held on June IA. Hudson
county held conference on June 5
and decided to carry on the work for
the formation Of a state party and to
affiliate with the st. Paul convention.
Union county and Passaic county will
hold their county conferences on June
IL and 10, and they will no doubt send
delegates to the state convention and
also to the st, Paul convention, with
instructions to form class party.
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TEACHER TORTURED IN "GOLDFISH'
ROOM FOR FIVE DAYS TO OBTAIN
FAKE FRANK CASE CONFESSIONS"

"Only thousand cases." Alderman Guy Guernsey
told the DAILY WORKER of the five days of police prac
Walter Wilson, instructor in the exclusive Harvard Prep
School which Robert Frank attended
The alderman agreed that if Wilson had been poor and
friendless his might have to light.
police committee of the city authorized
make thoro investigation goldfish
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MISSOURI FARM
LABOR GOING TO
ST. PAUL meet
State Ticket in Field
for Farmers-W Workers
BY s. J. CLARK.
Especial to the Daily Worker)

AAHNNfNi " NUN lazy NFJEkCfsy
ST. LOUIS, June 12.-At an enthu-
siastic convention Of the Farmer-La-
Dor forces of Missouri representing
thousands of workers and farmers,
the June II convention at ST. Paul
was unanimously Endorsed and five
delegates elected to attend it. The
convention in strong resolution de-
clares the Farmer-Lsbor party Of Mis-
souri, favored the organization Of
class Farmer-Labor party at the St.
Paul convention.
The Farmer-Labor party Of Mis-
souri, is not new party 1t has ex-
listed for over four years, but latterly
1t has been inactive. During the last
few months the sentiment turnout
the state has orystalized around the
Farmer-Labor convention at st. Paul,
thus giving new life and vigor 70 the
state party.
Splendid Prospects.
Brother E. D. Wilcox of Kansas
City, the secretary Of the state party
until today's convention, made
statement at the opening OF the con-
vention that he was convinced Of the
splendid prospects for the building
Of a strong and powerful party Of the
farmers and workers in the state OF
Missouri
The convention adopted a eIear-cut
program in the interest of the eE
plotted farmers and workers. Other
resolutions adopted in addition to
that calling for a national class Farm
er-Labor party we're the abolition Of
prison factory labor, the recognition
of Sovists Russia, equality Of emporium
ity for the Negro. against the 'Fagolsti
menace.
Iron Worker Heads Ticket.
The following ticket for the state
elections was nominated: Governor,
w. r. Mccoy. an iron worker Of Kan
sas City; lieutenant governor, J. ].
Herman. Blue Springs; secretary Of
state, e. d. Wilcox, Kansas City;
state attorney, H. s. Julian, Kansas
City; state auditor, s. r. Clsaver, St
Louis; superintendent of public in
struction, Mrs. Dorothy Clark, St.
Louis: congressman at large, John
Mlhelic, Kansas City; congressman,
Fifth district, DR.. r. A. Burkhardt,
Kansas City; congressman, Tenth
district, John Braun, st. Louis; con-
gresham, Eleventh district, Harry
stoltE, st. Louis.
All the candidates are active trade
union nen IslRw..s. XII Sgsfrfvr 81
j., J. ]. Herman, who is tiller of the
soil, and H. S. Julian, the candidate
for attorney general, a Kansas City
lawyer, whose services have always
been at the disposal Of prosecuted
workers.
Vigorous State Committee.
The following brothers, elected as
the state committee. were empowered
to fill out the state ticket: W. NJ.
Adams, machinists; S. J. Clark, VIII
liam Lezner, tailors; Elmer McMillin,
E. d. Wilcox, BARRIERS; w. F. Mccoy,
iron workers; T. R. Sullivan, Office
workers; John Mihelic, machinists;
S. r. Cleaver, switchmen.
The convention adjourned with en-
thusiastic determination 10 vigorously
push the work TO put Missouri across
In big way for class Fsrmer-Labor
party.
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DENVER, June 1.-THE scale for
printers on all Denver dailies is now
y4B.4O a week, an increase Of $3.50
The typographical charter is held by
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NO 7orse IN Oid Parties.
1t is out of the question for any
sane person to entertain even a re-
mote idea OF a change for the better
coming from the acts Of either of
the old political parties. They have
had ample time to work out plans to
save the farmers and thereby save
the country depending on the farmers
for future existence and have failed
10, do anything.
The Farmer-Labor party has mis-
sion to perform. It must deliver the
farmers OF this nation from human
slavery and financial bondage In
which they have been placed by the
capitalistic system. The work cannot
be passed on TO others. There are
no others in the, field. That explains
Why the st. Paul convention is OF
sRsmveh Importance.
New Britain herald., 1924-10-10

A La Toilette rally will be held on the central green this evening.
New Britain herald., 1924-10-10

planned to have something every minute to interest and entertain the hundreds of patrons expected to- night. George Kane is chairman and William Seheyd secretary of the fair committee. Others on the com mlttee are: William Forsyth. Wil- liam Boyle. James Riley. Frank Riley James Murphy. John Pagan, Charles Williams Daniel Politis, William Sullivan. John Kelly. Will liam o'Bierne, Frank Bass, William Kelly, Peter Walsh, Michael Kehoe, James Degnan, John Callahan. John Shea and Thomas J. Devine.
 In addition to the usual features that have completed to the success and popularity of T. A. B. fairs in the past, auto robes, parlor chairs. automobile lunch kits, Riddle Ears and blankets will be displaJed. The hall decorations have been pro-
 nounced the most beautiful seen in years and the floor has been given
 a thorough polishing to afford the
 very best for dance lovers. ....
New Britain herald., 1924-10-10
BARS ID SEPARATE
 DIVORCE SEEKERS
Paris Wants No More Hair Pull.
 ing in Waiting Room

Paris, Oct, t0.--Diyorce seekers in Paris hcnceforth will have to make | short sotnnrr hf pl,i bars and l- dor lock and key. On the second floor of the Paris court house work CTS are installing Iron and steel gates--built along the lines of cell doors--at the entrances of waiting rooms where the mon and women await their turn to appear before the Judge.
 According to French law when suit is entered for divorce, the judge in final effort at conciliation sum- mons before him both husband and wife. This is known as the meeting Tin extrimis."
 Two waiting rooms. separated by a corridor have in the past shelterd respectively women and men until their particular case was reached. The corridor, however, proved woe- fully inadquate to separate the es- tranged pairs, as daily some wife Sohta sIOL iSSioL LiG VI crossing over to the mems Waiting room and telling her husband what she thought of his behavior. Some- times 1t was the husband who inyad- ed the woman's room and in bitter terms reproached the unfaithfuI spouse.
 The result was continuous disputes and often blows. Many a husband eft the court house bearing the marks of madam's fingernails and several women departed with hair dishevelled and heargear torn.
 From now on. husbands and wives desirous of severing the matrimonial tie will be ushered into the rooms, and the steel gates locked behind them, to be released one by one when their names are called.
New Britain herald., 1924-10-10
NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY OCTOBER 10. 1924

that in two days. July and { last, sis cases of liquor were ssld Then 1t was shown that It took another month to dispose Of the remaining 67s cases on board before the tfawler sailed for Halifax. August 5.
 The account and agreement of the crew disclosed the owner of the trawler as Charles Stewart of Mon treal.
 Clearance papers Of the vessel disclosed that 1t was allowed to sail from Halifax to St. Pierre, or to any port in Canada. the United States or the West Indies"
 The log of the Bernard M, also seized on the trawler. convinced prohibition authorities that the name Fred B was a maritime alias for the vessel to deceive port au- thorities. The hearing will be con- tinued.