The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-12

The Hearst papers suddenly smell
rat around the campaign headquar-
ters of McAdoo. But only after Nc
Adoo has left. Arthur Brisbane, d.
vided his coluumnist efforts between
praising McAdoo and John d. Rookie
Teller while the convention was in SEES
sion. But Governor Smith of New
York, or Smooch as Hearst calls him,
and the Ku Klux favorite have pri-
vate conference and Hearst is off Nc
Adoo from that moment. Now Hearst
learns that McAdoo and Smith were
in the plot to put Davis over A good
guess is that Smith never expected to
secure the nomination, that his hat
was in the ring to beat McAdoo, that
the latter despite strong financial
backing, was not the desired of Wall
Street, that Wall Street, working thru
certain leaders along them George
Brennan of Illinois, jockeyed the con-
vention until the ground was prepared
for springing Davis. With this plan
Smith fell in and perhaps was with
them from the start, but it is not safe
to assume that McAdoo was sham
ming. He wanted the spoils and glory
of Office, but he was spoiled for the
honor owing to his well-known fond
ness for the spoils. Wall Street got
Davis and took on Bryan as a pro-
gressive fig leaf. But that only en-
phasized the nakedness of Wall
Street.
The PHILIPPINE scouts, an organiza-
ton of young PHILIPPINES trained in the
art of war for the protection of Amer
lean imperialist rule in their native
land, went on strike. The navy yard
workers also walked out. The situa-
ton is developing militant anti-capi-
talist spirit. About one thousand Of
the scouts are said to be affected, and
the military authorities discharged
some of them fearing to use the firing
squad owing to the exceedingly strong
growth of national feeling against
American rule since the refusal of the
United States government to grant the
country independence. An attempt to
raise the cry of "Bolshevist plot" was
made but this fell fiat. The PHILIPPINES
have more native common sense than
the Rabbits of America who rule them
and they replied, "This is not the re-
suit of any plots from Moscow. 1t is
the result of the indignation of the ex-
plotted Filipinos over the tyrannical
rule of American imperialism" Wood
row Wilson made lot of noise about
self-determination when he got the
democracy" of this country to go to
the trenches for Belgium to free
Abyssinia from the Jehah of Voodoo
but the poor Filipinos were safe in
the arms of his master Morgan.
It is a good candidate who satisfies
two opposition parties. Such candi-
date is John w. Davis. In fact he is
more popular with the republicans
than with the democrats. Morgan said
! if he is elected he will give him a
four years leave of absence. But he
will work harder for Morgan in Wash
ington than he ever worked on Broad
street. One paper said Davis is in.
tellectually and morally of the Wilson
type. Well, that is not very encour-
aging. The New York Times has words
of praise for him and so has the New
York World. McLean's Washington
Post thinks lot of him, but not SO
much of the platform on which he is
running. But we venture to say that
the platform is strong enough to sup
port broken down jackass. If Coo
lidge lands the bacon, Davis may be
SECRETARY of State and Bryan, curator
of the Yellowstone Park Zoo, where
the democratic donkey will be kept on
exhibition as the last of his species.
William Hard has hard name and
hard look but soft head. Either that
or ha bou Ianaoa~otol 49, -