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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-07-10
, CLARKSBURC CELEBRATES

'SLANhoDONU NELEDNAl ES
Clarksburg,. w. Va, July 1O.--1he
rfool friends" of John w. Davis
were rejoicinI today. They saw him
started on the way to the White
House, a path they had been blazing
for four years.
That Mr.. Davis declined to take
an active interest in their campaign
to make him president disheartened
the "home town club" not a bit. It's
members kept plugging away, booming
Davis week after week and today
his neighbors surveyed the result Of
their persistence with entire salts
faction.
AS the nominee of the Democratic
party they have invited him back
home for celebration and at a re-
hearsal last night staged demon
stration in his honor, comparable to.
political rallies of decade ago. ..
When the news was flashed that
Davis had been nominated, the town
called it day and celebrated.
Whistles blew and church bells rang.
Bandsmen left their work hurried
ly, obtained their instruments and
started a parade. Hundreds fell in
line, some walking, others in auto
mobiles, up and down the streets
they went. yelling, singing and
shouting. their numbers always in
creasing.
Meantime active preparations we're
under way for more formal demon
stration at "Davis rally" on the
courthouse plaza. at dusk. The demon
stration had its prelude in an old
fashioned political parade with the
marchers carrying banners and red
fire torches. In it were civic organi-
zations. patriotic societies, men, wo-
men and children, all Davis boosters.
The demonstration continued far in
to the night. Bonfires were lighted
on neghboring hill sides and the
fireworks display rivaled that Of the
recent Fourth of July celebration.
The town was in gala attire to-
day. All buildings in the downtown
section were decorated with flags
and bunting as we'll as many houses
in the residential sections. Among
them was the Davis homestead where
the Stars and Stripes appeared short
ly after news of Mr.. Davis nomina-
ton was received.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-07-10
General Weather Conditions

Precipitation occurred in the Great
Lakes region and some unsettled
weather appears over the Canadian
Northwest. but elsewhere the wealth
.er is generally fair. The low press
ure area over the northeastern Roc
ky Mountain region is accompanied
by. rising temperatures over that
section while the high pressure area
centered over Kansas is causing
cooler weather over the southern
Plains States and Mississippi Val
ley. s@+
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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-07-10
LEADERS GIVEN
BIG RECEPTION
BY COMMITTEE
Organization Of Campaign
Committee to Follow For
NAL Notification
HOME TOWN CELEBRATES
Clarksburg, w. Va, Stages
Old-Time Demonstration
After Hearing News

New York, July 1O.-Approving the
suggestion of John w. Davis and
Governor Charles w. Bryan, nom
inees of the Democratic national
convention, the national COMMITTEES
agreed today to postpone the reor-
ganization session of the COMMITTEES
until after the formal notification
of the candidates, which dates have
not yet been agreed upon.
Mr.. Davis and Governor Bryan at
tended the committee meeting and
were given an enthusiastic recep-
tion. The present organization of
the committee will be continued un-
til the chairman is selected, it was
agreed.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-07-10

WOMEN MEET
New York, July 1O.-A two-hour
session of women members of the
Democratic national committee ad-'
journed today after unanimously
adopting a resolution expressing ap-
probation of the work of Mrs. Emily
Newell Blair of Missouri, as vice.
chairman of the committee, but
without recommending successor
or suggesting reelection of Mrs.
Blair.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-07-10

TOT bIsmarcK and Vicinity: Fall
tonight and Thursday warmer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-11
Borah's Lamentations

Sad and desolate sits the Republican Party
The national committee, championing Daugh-
erty, is merely on working terms with Cool
dge. More cabinet members are asking
who's next?" Senator Pepper is working
overtime distilling distractions to hide the
ottenness of his party. And Senator Borah,
nat fighting" republican liberal who always
ills to get his feet wet in storm is now
eaching sermons in wall of lamentations
u in all, desperate state of affairs for
'verning party, it must be granted
Borah's latest lament is characteristic of
at blindfolded leadership that liberalism in
merica is only capable of. The mental giant
ON Idaho sees the source of all the present
lis in Washington in the fact that both par
republican and democratic-are recev-
hs vast campaign contributions from the big
business interests. $50 long as the present
system and standards prevail in American
politics, regardless of party, you will have
conditions no less deplorable than those which
now confront us" is the belief of Mr. Borah
Right you are, Senator-but only partly. To
get at the basic source of the prevailing rotten
ness in American politics, one must answer two
fundamental questions which your analysis
compels inquiring. First of all, how does it
come about that there can be such big private
interests spending huge sums of money as in
vestments in the two political parties? Second
ly, why do these captains of finance and in
dustry spend their money so recklessly, as it
were, on the republican and democratic parties
and why do these level-headed business men
consider 1t good investment to blow in their
beloved dollars on the Falls, Denbys, Daugh-
ertys, McAdoos, and Coolidges?
To answer these questions one must go to
the root of all Teapot politics, whether it be
played on the piers of Los Angeles, in the
White House at Washington, or in General
Woods palace in the Philippines 1t is only
thru the private ownership of the means Of
production and exchange socially used and
necessary that certain individual capitalists
or groups of capitalists, can dominate industry
and develop such big private interests as those
that today finance the republican and demo-
cratic parties. Secondly it is solely because
the capitalist ownership of government is es
sential to a continuation and perpetuation of
the present system of exploitation Of the work
ing and poor farming masses by the owning
capitalist class that the huge campaign funds
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-11
The Red Farmer-InternatiOnal

the correlation of farmers interests
and workers interests was made
clearly apparent.
Decline in Production.
1t was further established that an
ever greater decline in production
may be observed in the capitalist
countries and that the capitalist gov
eminent does not in the least con-
Germ itself with the farmers lot,
which is going ever downward, under
excessive burdens; and the only way
out is the destruction of the present
unjust regime.
The last circumstance speaks espe-
cially for the necessity Of unity
against the common enemy, capital
ism. The more that life itself con-
vinces the farmers Of the impossible
ity of an independent, victorious
struggle, the more does this idea
make Roadway with elemental force
among the unconscious masses.
The example of Bulgaria is OBJ
vious. Then we have the opposite ex-
ample of Soviet Russia. where the
farmers, thanks to their alliance with
the working class obtained victory.
This example shows which road the
movement, for liberation of the farm
ers, must follow.
The conference created the nucleus
Of the Red Farmers International in
the form of the International Farm
crs' Council. But it consciously drew
the line of demarcation between it.
self and the utopian phantasies which
would have it that the farmer class
plays an independent political role.
The conference showed the millions
and tens of millions of working
farmers the goal, namely, the road OF
hard struggle against capitalism and
the alliance Of workers and farmers
on an international scale.
The principal watchword was
adopted: Farmers and workers of
all countries unitep This alone goes
to show sufficiently we'll that this Red
Farmers International menaces in
the highest degree the existence OF
capitalism.
Work For Farmers international.
The conference did not only reckon
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-11

The utter futility of the tactics adopted by
the trade union officialdom of Chicago In the
recent primary election is shown by the fact
that States Attorney Grove, the arch-enemy
of labor in Chicago, was re-nominated while
Len Small, fought by the bigger capitalists
represented by the Tribune and Daily News
and endorsed by Labor" was also re-nomin-
ated on the republican ticket for governor.
It is evident that the official wiseacres of
the Chicago labor movement believed that the
Small machine, in return for their endorse
ment, would aid them in defeating Grove, but
the dreary truth is that many of the Small
followers must have supported Grove to en-
able him to pile up his lead in a county that
Small carried by good majority.
It is also noticeable that Newton Jenkins,
endorsed on the republican ticket for United
States senator by the Conference for Progress
sive Political Action, did very poorly in Chi
cago but fairly we'll in downstate districts
where the unions are much weaker. 1t seems
apparent that the very practical officials who
have so much to say about the visionary ideas
of the Communists not even able to organ
ize their own forces for action on the old party
tickets
Their action in endorsing candidates In the
capitalist parties has simply added to the con-
fusion in the local labor movement without
any compromising results having been at
tanned.
These same tactics have been followed for
years without any result other than an in
crease in the number and expansion of the
scope of injunctions and we wonder how much
longer these practical leaders can continue
to justify such childish displays of political
action.
There is so much reverence for respectable
ity in the Chicago labor movement that the
officialdom chooses to mix on a footing of
some equality in the party councils of the
capitalists without any guarantees of immun-
ity for the unions rather than break once and
for all with the bosses and conduct clean-cut
campaign on class lines-win or lose 1t is
condition symptomatic of the American labor
movement as a whole.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-11

sentatlveS arrived at the conclusion
that only the closest cooperation
with the working class, only the strug-
gle of the working class in common
with the farmers, against the class
of exploiters of workers and farmers,
against the landowners and capital
lists, can free the farmer class from
the yoke of centuries of oppression
and subsection. True, the working
class are two different social forma-
tons which are just as different ms Is
the environment in which they live.
But apart from that, the two class
es have common interests, and thsy
find a common language in order TO
understand each other.
Unity of Worker and Farmer.
In reality the farmers are no less
exploited by capitalism than are the
workers; in many countries they are
even more oppressed, as for instance,
in the colonies and half colonial
countries. Capitalism heaps upon
them constant tortures and priva-
tions. That is why the farmer class
which is prepared to fight against the
enemy seeks for an unselfish, loyal
ally and finds such an ally in the
working class. The farmer-class real
lies we'll enough that the landowners
and the industrial and commercial
bourgeoisie have contrasting interests
and yet they act in concert against
the workers and farmers. This in
structive example Of the cooperation
of the two exploiting classes points
more and more to the necessity of an
alliance Of the workers and farmers.
The conference was virtually a
means of arriving at common poll
teal and economic. platform for tho
alliance of workers and farmers.
The conference took up the qucs-
ton of war and peace and arrived
at the conclusion that the continued
existence Of the capitalist world sys-
tenn means a new period Of calamity
for the broad farmer masses. Eco
nomic questions we're also brought
up. The conference arrived at the
conviction that in many countries the
capitalist class shifts all the burdens
which resulted from the war upon the
shoulders Of the workers and farmers
in equal measure. This is done in
various forms: in the form Of taxes,
duties, in the form Of depreciation Of
money, thru the constant imitation Of
paper money, etc. The farmer dele
gates became convinced that the
blame for the high cost of living
which drives workers rs well as the
farmers into the depths Of despair
lies upon no one but the capitalist
class which refuses TO make any
sacrifices in order to support it's gov
eminent. In this instance agar
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-11

are sound investments. Herein lies the diff
Guilty Borah and his liberal cohorts might
legslate pure campaign laws from now till
doomsday. AS long as the means of production
and exchange are in the hands of special
privileged capitalist class ways and means
will be found to make the lawmakers be the
willing tools and do the bidding of the BOSSES
Capitalist money speaks eloquently in count
less tongues and manners.
Borah's lamentations are the typical impo-
tent cries of our blind bankrupt liberalism
that is today rendering inestimable services to
the powerful reactionary capitalist interests by
its high-sounding pleas for purity in politics.
Only when the conditions under which Teapot
politics flourish are abolished; only when the
workers and poor farmers of this country take
away the government and the industries from
the employing class, will the graft, bribery
corruption, and reckless wasting of our nat
ural resources be done away with.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-11

WITHIN the ancient Krcmlin walls
w an unprecedented event took
place, and many are not fully aware
as yet of its tremendous significance.
1t must be especially emphasized that
this event--the first Internationl
Farmers acknowledgements a
turning point in history of mankind.
and can be counted among the most
important events of our epoch.
That is no exaggeration, but an
appraisal of the facts based upon the
prospect of coming events. Besides,
Comrade Zinoviev who greeted this
first international Farmers Confer
ence in the name of the Communist
International, emphasized that CO.
lossal significance of this Conference
would be recognized in "a year or two
years. 1t is most interesting that
Comrade Lenin, whose state of health
already permits him to read the pa
pers and to follow political events,
took an extraordinary interest In this
conference. Comrade Zinoviev made
the remark that our leader has sure
eve; if among such numerous impor-
tant events of our time he recognized
the paramount significance OF this
conference, he is not mistaken. for
this event is of epoch-maliing signi-
fcance.
Vanguard Of Militant Farmers.
Wherein lies its great significance?
We shall try to give u direct answer
to this question.
Namely, that q violen. change is
taking place in the minds of the
farmer masses of the West, and Of
most of the capitalist countries. This
first international Farmers Confer
ence is an outspoken expression OF
this change.
The vanguard, the best part Of the
farmer army is fastening to the aid OF
the workers army, il sbAndons tho
camp of the capitalist class and do
clares a pitiless war upon capitalism
in the name Of the u.al interests Uf
the broad farmer misses. That ~ cx'
actly the great historical. cpoch-nisk-
ing significance of tho conference.
The rest Of the farmer inASaes VIII
without any doubt follow his van
guard. The history Of SOCIAL move
nents shows us that the bearers and
the spokesmen Of the true interests
of the class, those who stop from m
dor the yoke Of oppression into The
arena Of the political struggle are
usually a small troor OF The best rei-
resentatives which is soon fonowti
by the whole class II was No. 10
the name Of an idealie.ic, ssniimenth.
brotheriness, but IN the ground OK
realty Of the vital interests OF the
farmer masses that their true repre-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-11
By T. DOMBAI

upon the possibility of period o
common revolutionary struggle of tn
workers and farmers against the capi@
talist exploiters, but also upon the
possibility of a longer, peaceful pc
riod of economic cooperation with
the working class. In this respect l.
was decided, in order to do away with
small-scale farming and gradually to
introduce higher forms Of agr.cul-
ture, to create an Agricultural .nsti-
tute similar to the Institute at Rome,
but with the difference that, in con-
trast with the Rome Institute, which
provides only for the devaloymea.
OF landowners estates, the Moscow
Institute will have in mind tLs
farmer.
The conference recognized as tasks
of the present moment the necessity
of the struggle for the GoVcrnmen.
of Workers and Farmers, the strIr;-
gle for an international alliance OF
workers and farmers republics.
AS we see, this conference, in
which 1872 farmer delegates from 40
different nationalities participated
(among them we're even leaders 81
the various oppositional farmer uarI
ties, farmer associations, leagues.
etc, and even certain sarmo- repre-
sentatives in parliaments) made de-
cisions which could be, and in fact
will surely be, Of tremendous signih-
canoe for the political developmgn,
of the laboring mass Of the people "
the whole world. the deadly enemy OF
the working class may we'll t-embls
before this Red Farmers Informs
tional. In fact, the more successfully
it develops, the sooner vii. Il lead TO
the downfall Of capitalism. every
class-conscious worker must wish fo-
the successful development ~ the
Farmers international.
Workers, Farmers, Unitei
May it grow, this first international
farmers organization; may |. dc.
vclop, may the call: workers and
farmers Of all countries unite" reach
the most remote farmers cottages y.
all countries Of the globe!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-11

a decisive tone that, coupled with the
sentiments expressed, accounts for
the equanimity with which British
capitalism has viewed the rise Of this
group to government positions. He
says:
1T you mean whether | am going
to disrupt our economic condition
by radical legislation, mol if you
mean what constructive legislation
will be put thru, can best answer
that by saying that every measure
attempted will be done with an eye
to protect the rights Of labor
against the encroachments of capt.
tai. On the other hand the rights
of capital also will be protected.
What About the Class Struggle?
If Macdonald does not know that
the protection of the rights of capital
is a betrayal of labor he is a first
class ignoramous; if he does know
this then by the above utterance and
the policy he has followed since in
office he brands himself as a charlatan
of the first water
Macdonald, speaking for the group
that has purged itself of all labor
coloring since it took office and that
looks askance at Wheatley, the left
winger from the Clyde, who alone
puts up fight against British capt.
talism, voices the doctrine of class
collaboration and would have British
labor believe that capital and labor
can lie down together without danger
that the labor lamb will rest quietly
in the stomach of the capitalist lion.
Listen to what he says of the bit
terest enemies of the British working
class:
Personally, have nothing against
the Opposition leaders, many of
them are honest in their intentions.
Lord Curzon is a very able man.
Furthermore, will say some
thing that will surprise you. | ex-
pect Lord Curzon to be a great
service to me in the administration
of the Government. There are
many surprises due to the Con-
servatives and Liberals at the man
ner in which Labor Government
will be administered.
II Is ALMOST neeuleSS 10 dQQ lot
those who have been following the
career of the Macdonald government
that the surprises, so far as the CAPT
talists are concerned, have all been
pleasant ones
1t was when asked for his opinion
of the liberal party that Macdonald
really opened his heart. 1t was a
subject that he loved and he was gen.
erously voluble:
1t has some very able men at the
head of it. Their sentiments are
exactly the same as ours, with the
exception that they have not the
moral courage to carry their con-
victions to the logical conclusion.
The time is coming quickly when
there will be only two parties. the
Conservatives who represent capt.
tai, and the combined forces who
favor a government by the people.
The public will learn that the buga-
boo of Labor party is a myth:
that we are not Communists, will
not be controlled by the small MIN
ority of our party who are Com
munistie; that we do not favor d.
rect action; that we are whole
heartedly in favor of parliamentary
government according to law, and
bitterly opposed to any Bolshevik
eontrol. we are constitutionalists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-11
By William E. DUNE.

I
HE wing of the British Labor
Party now filling the cabinet posts
by grace of the liberal party is rapidly
losing what little labor character it
mad when it took office. It mas severed
It's connection with even the mort
bund second international, most of
the cabinet ministers have resigned
their Official positions in the trade
union movement and the cabinet
group has Indignantly repudiated the
charge that they are subject to the
discipline of the party that put them
in Office.
The executive of the Trade Union
I Congress, the official expression of
the British labor movement is not
obeyed by the cabinet ministers but
is merely consulted thru the me-
dunn of 'liason committee"-a
striking contrast to the strict disci-
pine maintained over their politi-
clans by the capitalists.
The Communists are not surprised
by these developments but in the
mass Of material that is published in
America concerning the British Labor
party and its program there is danger
/ that the movement will be confused
with its officialdom. Macdonald does
not speak for British labor nor does
the cabinet clique represent British
labor-even its most conservative
section.
The Macdonald cabinet with one or
two exceptions represents the British
middle class and some lower sections
OF the capitalist class; the pronounce
amentos of Macdonald and his imme-
date followers are designed to ex-
press and do express the attitude of
those sections of British society to-
wards present day problems.
An Appropriate Medium.
We do not have to go to England
to ascertain the views held on eco
Monies, politics, ethics and religion
by Ramsay Macdonald. Golfers,
which vies with Hearst's in broadcast
ing particularly Objectionable form
of liberalism, has published recently
an interview with Ramsay MacDon-
aid in which his opinions on these
matters are set forth at length.
In this article Twill quote literally
from the above interview and, l think,
destroy any lingering doubt as to
whether Ramsay Macdonald is any
thing other than a rather mild and
muddled liberal. 1t might be we'll to
say here that his mildness vanishes,
as is the habit of liberals, whenever
the masses of Great Britain or her
colonies, show signs of doing some Of
the Saving of the working class" that
liberals of the Macdonald type seem
to regard as peculiarly their own
function.
The leaders of our party, says
Macdonald, are not Communists,
not soap-box radicals nor wild
eyed fanatics; they are composed
largely of educated men, ministers
of the Gospel, lawyers, writers, the
intelligentsia of England.
Ramsay Macdonald himself is a
presbyterian and always says grace
before meals. Truly the fate of the
British Empire is safe in such sancti-
monious hands. AS to the British
working class that is another matter
that the agile Macdonald handles
blithely. In reply to the question:
"What are you going to do for the
benefit of labor?" Macdonald speaks
out with presbyterian candor and in