The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-26
SON-IN-LAW OF
WILSON CHOKED
BY NIGHTSHIRT
But Wall Street May
Step in to Save Him
lspeoIaI to The paIIy worker

NEW YORK, June 25.-The
white khan nightie has slipped
into loop around McAdoo's
neck and is choking his candi-
dacy. AS this is written Che odds
against him are getting bigger
and bigger and the New York
Chicago Catholic bosses who
still dominate the machinery of
the democratic party are chuck
ling.
With the Brennan-Foley gang
the Khan is a conveaient polit-
ical issue to use against their
rivals fair-haired boy. That they
are not concerned with the
question of liberty per Sc is evil
dent by observing the govern
ment of the communities they
control-Chicago with its gold
fish" infamy and New York with
its record of arrests of radicals
under Hylan.
What they want is to stop McAdoo,
because McAdoo deals directly with
the Wall Street masters and not thru
the intermediary of Tammany Hall or
Boss Brennan.
Antl-Labor, Anti-Negro.
None of these INSCRIPTIONS politi-
clans are attacking the khan as an
enemy of labor or a murderous foe
of the Negro, whose rights are sup
posed to be guaranteed by constitu-
tional amendments.
The anti-klan gang is as anti-Ne-
gro and anti-labor as the kluxers.
Oscar Underwood, who has been
prancing for the jackass nomination
since 1912, is leading the anti-klan
ranks south of the Dixie line. Yet
Underwood is the outstanding reac-
tionary of the south.
Fights for Lynchers.
Underwood has consistently fought
the Dyer anti-lynching bill. Under
wood is a friend of the child slavers
and foe of the United Mine Work
ers and other unions in Alabama. In
other words, he is for the things the
khan stands for, but against the
nightie organization because there is
a big anti-klan vote in Georgia-and
outside Of it.
Fourteenth Amendment Forgotten.
The Catholic bosses of the north
will not lift finger at this conven-
ton for plank demanding enforce
ment of the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments in behalf of the Black
Man, whom their party used to slave.
They will talk about religious liberty
and they will family murmur some
thing about the rights of the foreign
born-tho they let the Johnson immi-
grafton bill go thru without a protest.
They will put in tissue plank for la
Dor, but the Negro won't get whis-
per, tho the khan sprang out of its
|half-century grave for the basic pur-
pose of maintaining white supremacy.
Wall Street Uses Both.
Wall Street uses the Catholic ma
chine and the Ku Kluxers, which are
now in windy civil war. 1t will not let
this war go too far. Before the con-
vention is over Big Business will have
put over a candidate who will do it's
bidding, II it's first choice, Cal Cool
idge, doesn't make the grade in No
vember
The Farmer-Labor Cloud.
There is just one big cloud on the
horizon: the class Farmer-Labor par
ty, which is marshalling the workers
and farmers for workers and farm
ers' government. That menace is
looming larger on the horizon. It may
even force the nomination of a candi-
date that the labor lieutenants of cap
italism in the railway brotherhood
can indorse. a.
McAdoo's hope for the nomination
lies in his strength with the heads of
the big anti-radical, anti-strike unions.
That strength gives him "availabil-
ity."