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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-10-24

Austin and will not go into new or
/ strange surroundings.
Knows How 10 Hold Tongue
1T will be going home again. she
said simply "Why, l was driving
down from the capitol grounds the
other day and caught myself almost
turning toward the mansion that was
SO long my home"
Try to get one word or whisper out
Of her about what will be the policy
of the next administration or what
will be done with certain situations.
Try that and see what quick
witted, clever diplomat you are talk
inc to. You will get the impression
you are trying to pry something loose
from the set jaws of British diplo-
mat. 1t simply can't be done
Doesn't Hesitate to Express Opinions
On ordinary hubjects Mrs. Fergu
son is exceptionally well informed and
she unhesitatingly expresses herself
in we'll chosen language and agreeable
persifage There is no hesitancy and
she is not slow in taking sides and
supporting issues when it is ques-
tion not involved in the coming ad-
ministration of the office of governor.
The invitation to call at the capital
and the executive mansion after the
Inauguration was cordial and sincere
On can hardly entertain an idea of
missing that pleasure Until that time
there is little likelihood of getting a
great deal of expression about public
affairs from the next governor
Mrs Miriam Ferguson will make
the best governor Texas has ever
had
That is common expression and
can be heard in home, in business es-
tabhshments, on the streets of the
cities and hamlets Of the state The
rural districts are solidly of this opin-
ion And everybody believes it.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-10-24
Thirty Thousand Unionists Plan for Whirl-
wind Finish to Campaign in Every State
Gompers, LaFollette and Wheeler UrgeWork-
ers to Strike for Liberty at the Ballot Box

throughout America in response to {
call issued by the executive committee
of the American Federation of Labo,
national partisan political cam
paign committee.
No such political organization pro
gram as this has ever before beer
carried into effect. Everywhere ware
and precinct organizations were per.
fected, arrangements were made t1
register full vote and to watch the
polls and the count
President Gompers and Senators
La Toilette and Wheeler sent specia
messages which were read at al
meetings.
Meetings Score Big Success
Non-partisan political campaign
headquarters was flooded with tele
grams today reporting on the genera
success of these meetings.
President Gompers, in his message
to these special campaign meetings
termed this effort the most tremen.
dous and determined in American
political history. He said:
members of 10000 trade unions
of the United States today and to-
night are holding mass meetings il
their respective localities to register
a vigorous protest against the elec
ton of either Calvin Coolidge OF
John W. Davis to the presidency ano
also to oppose the election of re
dictionary congress.
ut is the first time in the history
of the American people that such {
tremendous and determined opposi
ton has arisen against the sinister
influences that have controlled oul
government. For many years public
officials have been gradually drifting
farther and farther away from the
people Through a remarkable cam
paign in 1922 the non-partisan politi
cal campaign policy of the American
Federation of Labor was helpful il
the election of ITO members of the
present congress, which has beer
more responsive to the wishes of the
people than any other in many years
But the supreme court and the chief
executives for the past four years
did and have maintained a steady
journey toward greater and greater
reaction, which is so much desired by
the privileged few. The republican
party is owned and controlled by the
reactionaries, by those who in order
to give special privileges to the we'll
to-do, would place heavy burdens or
those least able to bear them. The
democratic party is controlled by the
same sinister influences. The fact is
that Coolidge mad Davis were nomi
mated by the same ulterior influences
La FolIete Gives Voice to Peoples
Will
"There was no protest possible un
til forward-looking statesman from
out of the Central West entered the
political contest for the purpose O.
bringing the government back to tn,
people. The great unrest that per
meated every nook and corner of oul
nation demanded that some on,
should arise and give voice to th'
peoples will. Millions of people dis
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-10-24
By Staff Correspondent International
Labor News Service


Labor News Service
Indianapolis, Ind.-A. F. Bentley,
La Toilette state chairman, has sent
a letter to Clyde Walb, republican
state chairman, stating that the (Ben,
tley) will use the Walb-Settle con-
troversy as publicity matter for the
La Toilette Wheeler campaign.
Walb addressed an open letter to
William H. Settle, president of the
Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, in
which he accused Settle of using the
federation for political purposes in
furthering the interests of La Fol-
lette and Wheeler. He demanded
that Settle declare himself"
Settle came back and declared that
any one who said he was using the
federation for political purposes was
liar; that as far as his own politi-
cal affiliations were concerned, it was
none of Walb's business.
Bentley Thanks Walb
Chairman Bentley, of the La Fol-
lette committee, wrote to Walb, say
ing:
II wish to thank you for having
brought SO clearly to public knowl-
edge the personal political attitude
of President William H. Settle and
other officials of the Indiana Farm
Bureau Federation and also of the
vast majority of Indiana farmers in
the present campaign.
while Mr.. Settle has long known
for whom he would vote for presi-
dent, he has been so scrupulous in
maintaining the proprieties of his Of
fetal position that / had been unable
to secure any information whatsoever
concerning his political intentions
until you SO kindly came to my aid.
To Print Correspondence
II am glad to let you know that
am arranging to print 100000 copies
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-10-24
ANTI-UNION SHEET
RACES AT PUBLICITY

Los Angeles, The anti-union
Los Angeles Times RACES because the
California labor press tells the truth
about the number Of unemployed in
this city The story has been copied
by the labor press in other sections
Of the country, and the Times is furi-
Gus because workers are advised to
stay away from Los Angeles This
sheet denounced the labor press in a
long editorial article, but the unem-
ployed claims We're not denied
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-10-24
OLD-TIME UNIONIST
DEAD

ngton.-Edward w. Oyster,
old-time trade unionist and member
of the Typographical Union, died
suddenly in this city, aged 78 years.
His life was active in the cause of
labor. A decade ago he took a promi-
nent part in securing the passage Of
the national eight-hour law and other
legislation.
Just prior to his death he arranged
to make several speeches in favor of
the election Of La Toilette and
Wheeler.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-10-24
Labor In Great Nation Wide Drive
To Get Out Full Progressive Vote

satisfied with the trend in govern
mental affairs sought leaders who
could be trusted to make the strenu-
Gus battle necessary to regain CON
troll of the government by the people.
They chose Senators Robert M. La
Toilette, Of Wisconsin, and Burton X.
Wheeler, of Montana.
For thirty years Senator La Fol
lette has led the struggle for better
government. AS the governor of Wis
consin he revolutionized conditions
for the better in that state, and then
began a successful fight to eliminate
reactionary senators from that state.
In the United States senate he has
been persistent defender of the
peoples rights and a bitter foe of
the reactionaries, who, like the Bour-
bons, resent all changes that would
rebound to the benefit of the great
masses of the people If there had
been no Senator La Toilette in the
senate there would have been no
Teapot Dome investigation If there
had been no Senator Wheeler in the
senate the great mass of corruption
in the government would not have
been exposed, and Messrs. Daugherty,
Denby, Fall and Forbes undoubtedly
would still be government officials.
Labor Fighting For All the People
Millions of voters in the United
States who are opposed to the pres
ent regime and who did demand as
did the martyr Lincoln proclaim that
this be made a government of the
people, by the people, and for the
people, now have an opportunity to
register protest which cannot be
made in either the republican or
democratic parties. They can vote
for Senators La Toilette and Wheeler
for president and vice president with
a consciousness that their election
would bring hope for better govern
ment for all the people except the
few who financially exist on special
privileges. There is much in this cleo
tion campaign that compels that part
of the people who seek honest gov
ernment to give heed.
Labor is most vitally interested,
but labor is not fighting for itself
alone; it is fighting for all the people,
as it asks for nothing that will not
benefit every citizen in our beloved
republic.
People Will Vote For Own interests
Il am we'll aware that the publicity
agents are actively at work. They
are deceiving the great electorate by
painting halo here and there around
the heads of those who should be rele-
gated to private life and denouncing
tried and true public officials who
should be elected. But | believe that
the great mass of our people have
awakened to the dangers ahead of
them. They are suffering now and
have been suffering several years
from maladministration. 1t cannot
be possible that they will permit such
deception to blind them to their own
interest,
II wish it were humanity possible
for me personally to address every
meeting that is being held today and
tonight in order that might bring
home to our fellow-workers and their
sympathizers the great necessity of
voting right in the coming election.
A vote for Coolidge and Dawes or
Davis and Bryan is vote to retain
the present unsatisfactory admins
tration, as both tickets represent the
same interests. A vote for La Fol-
CONTINUED on last page)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-10-24
TEXTILE STRik ERS WIN

Lawrence, Mass Several hundred
textile workers employed at the
North Village mills Of the Slater
Company have won their strike
against 1212 per cent wage cut.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-10-24

BY International Labor News Service.
Washington, d. C.-Members of
$4,000 American trade unions met
Monday night to lay final plans for a
whirlwind finish of the La Toilette
Wheeler campaign and the campaign
to elect faithful candidates to con-
eress. These meetings were held
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-10-24

Austin and will not go into new or
strange surroundings.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-24
EOOTBALLC COACH
OPPOSES FORD
Confined From Page One)


whereas the south in the beginning
espoused the Ford offer, the south at
present was turning against the Ford
offer.
MANY have admitted they have
changed their minds" he said. Others
who have not admitted, have changed,
and would be delighted should the Sem
ate defeat the Ford bill"
EuIOgizes HoOkers
At this point, he -eulogized the
Hookers, who have made a bid for
Muscle Shoals, and who have consumed
an entire week in deriding the offer of
Mr.. Ford
In concluding his preliminary testi-
mony, McGugin endeavored to show the
committee an example of the Ford prop
aganda." He read a letter from citi-
zen of Decatur addressed to the Bir-
mingham News and the merchants of
Birmingham as eontrasted against the
enthusiastic support of Nashville news
papers and merchants.
''You can appreciate the effect of such
propaganda" said the witness, ION the
merchants of Birmingham who think
that the Ford offer is four-page docu-
ment of many exhibits, who have never
redu the roru ollet anu couluh uhuer-
stand it if they did"
There McGugin offered a fine oppor-
tunity to some committee member who
might have held contrary views. Like
wise he laid himself subject to criticism
when he disparaged and discounted ref
erendums held in Nashville and other
southern cities in which the people, by
an overwhelming vote, declared for the
Ford offer as against the offer of the
Alabama Power company.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-24
BY WEsTBROOK PEGLER
LEASED Wire to The Age-Herald)

NEW YORK, April 23.-Lets see,
hasn't there been some complaint in the
past that New York was a cold, uncor-
dial city, where ffiendless girl, lately
arrived FROM Someplace, N. H., or Else
where, Neb., could starve for all that
anyone cared to the contrary, unless it
might be the cut-rate druggist who
would knock nickel off the price of
a bottle OF poison and let her have it
for her last 20 cents?
Well, now that you speak of it, there
was some criticism about that. A young
woman spoke of it to the management
some time ago--a girl with stringy hair.
fat ankles and fuzzy wart on her chin
that looked like Pekingese. She was
not a French mannequin from Paris.
If she had been
Sacre Nom
Name of a pig! Name of pipe
Those telephone she ring. ring. ring, and
those 80 beautiful young mannequins
who came here last week to give the
last, indispensable touch to the French
exposition, can't get time for the sleep
ing or the eating or the working. All
the day long, all the night long. those
telephones she ring and ills "allo. ices
ess Marie. No, it ees not that she wish
to go to the dancing or the dining or
TO nah jong with monsieur. No. no,
no. Oh: go to what youS call those
devil. Clank!"
A few days ago the 30 beautiful
Parisiennes landed from the steamship
Paris, frieDdless in great city which
had no reputation for neighborliness.
They were taken to the Brevoort on
Fifth avenue and the Lafayette on
University place because those are
French hotels.
The stage manager of the exhibition
was beaming like spotlight because
here in, New York they knew nobod
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-24

WASHINGTON. April 23.-The reg
ular republican organization is now by
common consent engaged~in enforcing
the strictest party discipline i'll many
years for the purpose of building up a
wall of insulation against the insurgency
which has thrived at an astonishing
rate during the last three years.
This rigid discipline more than any
thing else killed the Hiram johnson
boom. Skilled party workers found it
would be to their disadvantage to help
johnson and he was compelled to make
a one-man campaign.
Two other distinguished victims now
lie mangled on the political landscape.
Governor Pinchot has just suffered a
humiliating primary defeat at the hands
of the Pennsylvania organization domi-
mated by the Pepper Reed-Mellon forces,
Pinchot appears to have been over
whelmingly defeated in an attempt to be
a delegate-at-large to the Cleveland con-
vention.
Pays For Insurgency
This is the first time, perhaps, in the
history of national conventions that a
Pennsylvania governor has been denied
place on his party's delegation. Pinchot
has paid the price for his insurgency.
He attacked Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon and the regular organization
came to Melons assistance. Pinchot
was beaten by rich youngster, Ralph
Beaver Strassburger of Norristown, be-
cause the orders went out to the boys
to knife Pinchot. it will be long time
before any other ambitious Pennsyl-
vania politician will have the courage
to fight the organization.
The same lash was applied to Senator
Moses of New Hampshire in the pri-
maries there some weeks ago. Moses,
as candidate for delegate, refused to
pledge himself to vote for Coolidge,
thought he was not hostile to the Presi-
dent. And the result vast that the or
ganization licked Moses and denied him
place on his states convention delega-
ton, thought it is the usual custom to
place the senators on the delegation. 1t
was plainly q, casssof party discipline.
Organ Cuts Lo0sei
An Illuminating insight into the state
of mind of the regular party workers
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-24
Insurgents Feeling Lash OF
Rigid G. 0. p. Discipline
Johnson, Pinchot And Moses Lie Mangled On
Political Landscape

is afforded By the announcement that
the National Republican, a weekly po-
litical journal published here, will no
longer be the official organ of the re-
publican national committee or the
mouthpiece of the national republican
organization. Some regard this as a
step taken to permit this publication
more freedom in its criticism of Cool
idge for dismissing Daugherty as At
torney General and for espousing the
world court. The National Republican
has been caustic in its criticism in both
instances.
However that may be, the Republican
itself makes a significant explanation
when it declares that the purpose of this
change Of status is to permit it COM
plete freedom Ito refuse to support that
type of leadership and candidacy which
uses the livery of republication to serve
in"
Aimed At Broolkhart Type
This is aimed at candidates like Sena-
tor Brookhart of Iowa, who is a nomi-
nal republican, but who disregards party
lines i'm exercising his prerogatives as a
senator. A number Of his progressive
colleagues in the House and Senate are
to be attacked by the Republican under
its new policy.
,'The policy of compromise with de-
structive elements, wearing the camou-
flage Of republicanism, has already gone
so far that these elements in both po-
litical parties are now planning to
launch third national party, while re-
tanning for the time being, the advan-
tage which comes to thoroughly insin-
cere and dishonest profession of alle-
glance to the existing parties" the Ma
tiOnal Republican declared.
Beyond a doubt. the question of how
to enforce party regularity is recognized
by the regulars as their biggest problem
The growing independence of mind
among voters generally is regarded as
menace by the regular party organiza-
tions because it wipes out their sole
stock in trade.
The situation was presented from a
different angle by Borah in the Senate
Tuesday when he declared that the
parties would have to worry less about
irregularity if they would advocate
those things, regardless of political ex-
pediency, which seem to conserve the
interests of the entire people"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-24
|Manneauins From Paris
Haze No 4 inc For Practice
Manager Had Hopes, But Mol The Telephone
Keeps En- Too Busy

and consequently would have all their
time for rehcarsals and nothing but re-
hearsals to occupy their time. :
Har! Har! Was not that the drol-
lery, though?
New York Turns NeighborIy !
He did not know how neighborIy New
York can be to 80 Parisiennes. He did
not know how many thousand chivalrous
New York gentlemen would be willing
to divest themselves of their native
manner of reserve toward strangers and
make themselves affable, amiable, even
tistractingly cordial to the 80 manne-
quins from Paris. Neither did the 80
mannequins.
'Germaine de Banviile. who wears a
sports coat or one-piece bathing suit
precisely the way that every million
airess wants to wear EN-, but knows she
never can, has turned down enough food
to raise a famine. Lucienne Dereppe.
slim and slinky and Spanish, who could
make hod-carrier play a guitar with
out previous experience, might have
danced from Ninth street and Fifth ave-
nue.. New York, to the northeast corner
Of Sixth and Walnut, Des iMoines.
And Renee Lemerle. whose trade is to
wear earrings correctly, ranging in size
from that of a flax-seed to that of a
grapefruit, is afraid she will get what
you call those ear Of the eauliflower, like
the opponents dn boxe. if she has to
hold the telephone receiver to her head
any more.
A Delicate Situation
The situation is rather delicate one.
Emil Garden, who is in charge Of the
little strangers, dares not cut off all
telephone service to their rooms. You
know how girls are-there might be
some one person whose neighborliness
would be acceptable.
Mon Dieu. His Dieu! Their collec-
tive dieu! Is it not distractingly
city, this New York?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-24
PINE GROUP DENIES
TRUST PRACTICES

WASHINGTON, April 2S.-A denial
that the Southern Pine Association
ever had engaged in practices consti-
tuting violation of the Antitrust laws
or that it sought under former Attorney
General Daugherty's administration of
the Department of Justice to delay gov
eminent prosecution on such charges
was issued today by John H. Kirby of
Houston, Texas, president of the organi-
cation in 1923. Mr.. Kirbys statement
challenges testimony placed, before the
Senate Daugherty investigating commit
tee yesterday by Houston Thompson,
chairman of the federal trade commits
sion
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-24

that Congress has the power to raise
and maintain armies. The duty cannot
be measured in money.
II want it distinctly understood that
/ shall vote against any bonus meas
ure presented here. 1t would be re-
Election of the service given by my
son" f8s5
"Yet. the senator would reflect on it
bys letting war profiteers keep their
profits" declared Senator Brookhart,
republican. Iowa. -
THAT is not the issue here" re-
turned the Alabama senator. They
already are hidden behind tax exempt
securities
when Senator Brookhart insisted
that those securities were only small
part of the national security issues,
Senator Underwood expressed regret
that he could not keep up with that
senator's Imagination"
although opposed to any bonus" he
continued. II feel that il one is to be
paid, it should be an honest bonus, to
be in cash."
Glass Objects
Announcing that he had always been
against the bonus and always would be
against it, Senator Glass called atten-
ton that as Secretary offthe Treasury
in 1919 The had fired the opening shot"
against such legislation. He added TINT
it was uneconomic and that service men
and their children after them would pay
the cost.
: After the first hour. senator's wefe
limited to addresses of 10 minutes on
each amendment, and several availed
themselves of the opportunity to speak
frequently. Leading the fight for the
Legislation. were Senators Copeland, New
York; Mcclellan, Tennessee, and Helm,
Alabama, democrats, with their energies
directed particularly toward the sup
port of cash option.
After an amendment embodying that
option had been rejected, there was a
general assault on the insurance bill
from the democratic ranks, but Senator
Curtis, Kansas, assistant republican
leader. in charge of the measure, finally
obtained vote before nightfall.
Eleventh Hour Effort
Senator King, democrat, Utah, made
an eleventh hour attempt to have the bill
recommitted with instructions to the
committee TO report ont measure bas-
ing compensation on the difference be-
tween what the soldiers would have re-
ceiyed in their vocations il they had
stayed at home and what they did re-
ceive as service men. He said he wanted
to test the sincerity of bonus advocates.
but on a viva vOce vote his proposal
was buried. ~
Undaunted, Senator King proposed to
recommit the measure to have it rewrit-
ten with provision for increased COM
pensation for the men who actually
fought on land and sea. Again he was
voted down.
At the finish there was general warn
ing that the fight for real bonus
had not ended that no question could
be settled until it had been settled
right. ,assl
Senator Sinnlons Of North Carolina,
ranking democrat on the finance COM
mitfee, vehemently declared that the
service men would find this bill gold
brick" just as the farmers had found
the republican tariff bill to be a gold
brick
There will be another opportunity
for senators to vote on this question"
he said. sat a time when senator's are
not restrained by threats coming from
Che White House: IF the President Signs
this bill after he has declared against a
bonus, he viii do so because he does
not think it is bonus"