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baby talk and swear words.
Yet, having spoken their minds,
the men felt better.
All Right. All Right.
And, thereupon, they agreed that
everything Is all right.
Thomas Jefferson is, all right.
Woodrow Wilson il all right.
America Is all right.
The Democratic party Is all right.
The platform Of the resolutions
committee IL all right.
Ana, alas, were we women might
iiy disappointed. For that, which
had promised to be q Fourth OF
July celebration. with battle and
fireworks had turned out to be
but a strawberry festival.
And, we who had brought our
field glasses hoping to witness q
good fight were cast down. For
most OF us have never seen a real
fight outside home.
Lo, when the first speaker arose
and poured words Of fire and scorn
upon the X. X. X. and denounced
them as naughty boys who persist
In going out evenings "in their
nightcaps and 1ightiea' to brighten
the neighbors, we climbed upon our
chairs and turned all our glasses
upon the delegates from Texas.
But, all which we beheld was a
few men, couchant. surrounded by
two hundred policemen, whose eyes
dared them to become rampant.
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pennsylvania
LEANS MORE
To SMITH
National Committeeman Cuff
fey Sees at Least 20 Votes
In Row Over Khan

NEW YORK, June S0.-The BIT
ter battle over the proposed anti
khan plank in the Democratic plat
form. which ragged into the wee
small hours of Sunday morning,
found both factions in the Penn
sylvania delegation extremely tired
yesterday end apparently satisfied
to regard the issue as settled. In
fact, both sides claim a partial
victory.
A small group Of 'rbitter-enders'
were discovered who announced
their intention Of renewing the
struggle when the convention re.
convcnes this morning by proposing
a reconsideration of the vote. Their
intention 10 expected to fade, how.
ever, In face of the opposition Of
the leader Of the anti-faction, Ma.
tiOnal Committeeman Guffey. Tho
matter, he declares. has been set
tied for good.
The vote indicated. according to
Guffey, that his favorite candidate,
Governor AL Smith. has decidedly
more strength than anyone SUP.
posed and win undoubtedly be the
nominee Of the party. He pre-.
dictad he VIII get at least forty
eight votes from the Pennsylvania
delegation, a slightly higher total
than has been claimed heretofore.
The vote also eliminated. he de-.
clared, two dark horses" that were
expected to Be favorablx eonsidsEed
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her grass skirt chewed up by a
stray cow and she had to be sent
home in a closed cab.
One Ticket Sold.
The theater ticket agencies that
loaded; up on seats, thinking the
convention would reap them a gol-
den harvest, are the sorriest bunch
in town. So far, only one theater
ticket has been sold to a delegate.
Later he asked for his money back
because he said he thought he
was buying the theater.
An open-air dance was held for
the delegates and their wives in
Washington Square. The chorus
ladies from the various shows
around town were also invited
guests. =, BY some strange coinci-
dence, 247 wives lost their husbands
as soon as the dancing began. The
few husbands that were found
blamed their disappearance on
aphasia, developed from the heat of
the speeches they have had to listen
to during the past week.
None Of the chorus girls seemed
to be idle.
TAXI Drivers hlck.
Taxi drivers are also complaining
because the convention has not
helped their business. The only
time a taxi driver sees q delegate
Is when he runs over him.
The delegates from the Columbia
River were lonesome and visited
the aquarium to see II they could
find any salmon they knew. The
only friendly fish they found were
some other delegates.
The remainder of the Democratic
session will be spent balIoting for
a Presidential nominee, and when
IT Is all over, about q gross Of
favorite sons will spend the rest
of the year tearing up their cleo
ton cards. don't know whether
1t IL better to have your name
placed before a national convention
or to- be Harry Thaw. He. at least,
will be heard of again.
Copyright, 1894, By McNaught
Syndicate)
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TRADE BODY TO DINE
N. {. A. DELEGATES HERE

A luncheon will be given the
business education department II
the National Education Association
under auspices OF the waahiyvt,,,
Chamber Of Commerce tomorroyo
at the City Club. President YaS"'.
Cans OF the chamber of commerce
will preside. ssoo
Speakers will include Frederick
~ ~ Nicnols, OF Harvard; Doctor f.
Dana Durand. Department of Com.
merce; Alvin e. Dodd, u. 8. chSn,.
Der OF Commerce; ana Major General
Anton Stephan.
The following committee has been
named to have direct charge 81
this luncheon for the Chamber OF
commerce.: Martin A. Leese, chair.
man; Doctor Bernard a. Baar
Charles w. Darr. Joseph u. Drew.
fuss. Melvin Sharpe, Ivan Q, we'd.
and Sidney West
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new YORK COST
HITS ROLLS Of
DEMOCRATS
City Opened It's Box ofTricks'
But Didn't Profiteer, One
Who Knows Writes
By HENDRIX VAN LOON.

AuSnVE "a Anu CtSEJ % AHO DAutSs
NEW YORK, June 30.-Many Of
the delegates are going home. They
are broke. Both financially and
emotionally. The big town was too
muA for them and with good
reason. New York has done her
share and has done It nobly. In q
sort Of an aloof fashion.
There have not been many mani
festatlons Of personal interest. but
the town said well. since you are
here, we win show you what sort
Of tricks we have In our box"
And the lights were turned on and
the music began to play and the
show was off.
All the same they don't give
things away in this city.
Not that there has been any
attempt to get inordinate profits.
That would hardly have been pos
sible in q city which IL easily, the
most expensive in the world.
But It costs 70 live here and even
more so does It cost to live as one
would like to live. The temptation
IL there.
Everywhere and all times one
sees things 1t would be pleasant to
buy and to take home as a surprise
for the family. There has been
nothing urgent about the sales
campaign Of the local stores.
They have handled their publicity
campaign with rare good taste.
They have suggested rather than
insisted that they had certain goods
for sale and the result has been an
agreeable surprise.
Not however for the delegates.
The trip itself has been long and
costly. This first week has been
disastrous. One can Of course pawn
return tickets but then the traveller
In obliged to walk home and the
weather is too hot for such q
manifestation of sound sportsman.
ship.
And If the leaders do not soon
offer US a solution of our difficult.
ties they will be obliged to talk to
empty benches. The majority Of
the convention will have fled home
ward.
Copyright, 1894 BY The christy
walsh syndicate.)
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DANIELS WANTS
CANDIDATES |
Of FIRE
Ex.Navy Chief Says Standard
Bearers Should Have Pep
Platform Lacks
By JOSEPHUS DANIELS, /
Copyright. 1894. by Intsrnational
News service.) B

NSORSbA81p 4VSA " 4uSOSNA8e1O8D4
News service.) b
NEW YORK: June 30.-The candi.
dates to be named today-or maybe
tomorrow-must have snap and pep
and fight in them. The nominees
must supply the dash and action
the platform lacks.
This lie not to say that the plat.
form declarations in nearly every
respect are not alright. Mr.. Bryan
says 1t Is the most progressive plat
form ever written. IT is what
Woodrow Wilson would call a for.
wardlooking document.
On every big issue of domestic
policy it rings true. but it requires
seven columns OF i newspaper to
carry it. e am not disputing that
every declaration should not have
been Incorporated. But at Is 80 long
few people win everread Its. Tba&'s
the trouble.
This is a big country. - billion
dollar countryand there are big
questions to be presented to meet
the great issues. But, men and
brethren, are we never to have a
platform short enough for voters to
read. The chief trouble fs that too
many men have a hand in writing
II and each one wishes to paramount
the question he thinks is most in.
portant, and there Is nobody present
with a big blue pencil to cut out
al the surplus words and reshApe
the document in brief and concise
statements.
Wanted-A blue pencil for future
piatlorm committees ana d new of.
Iicial Tor each convention. The
DUTY OF this new officer, who should
De able to use the English Language
with the vigor and clearness &c
Manton Marble or Frank Cobb,
should be to write the planks into
Vivld ana living NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
tnat are vascular and would bleed
II q word should be taken from
Manton Marble wrote the p,.t.
FORM OF 1876. It is incomparably
tne pest written declaration and
must eLIectlve indictment Of dis
honesty at Washington. ever nennH6
The 1924 planks on those varv I;,,s.
are vigorous and breathe the rirht
spirit. But they lack the touch ~
genius to convict on the indictment
That's what Manton Marbles bat.
form did. Hsa'
In view Of the extreme length
OF the platform, its Imperative nSs~d
Is. Tor candidates for President ana
vice PRESIDENT who can take the
rather discursive planks and com.
press them into brief and epiSrn.
m M and Illuminating sentence
Ihere IL meat enough in the nIat.
form Tor q score Of popular siorans.
There is indictment enough for
some newly coined phrases Yike
Cleveland's, Public office is a NH.
nc trust" or Wilson's, 'sPitfless mn.
icity," or Make the world safa
for democracy" Ao
The candidate must be aSya IN
supply the fire. the ilIurninafinn,
the challenge, the Inspiration a.
tnat ne can make the decIarafions
put on real flesh and blood.
Who Is the man whose racnrd
VIII best justify vigorous asssI,It
upon the veneality at Washirst
and put pep in the Campaign FINN INN
the start. AtO'li
He is the man who should i.
nominated. ~
And his name is -
VTo be continued In olr naxtN
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Lo, II oratory will win the cleo.
ton, the Republicans have already
lost. For. at Saturdays session Of
the convention, oratory flowed all
over the speakers platform and out
onto the floor. 1t billowed over
the delegates and flooded the bal.
comics. 1t rose and touched the
Stars and Stripes In the rafters. 1t
rippled around the lamps, and
hseeped out through the radios into
the streets.
( Talked, Then Talked.
You had to wade through It to
get down from the press stand.
They talked - and talked = and
talked.
And talked.
The nien-not the women. The
women merely sat and listened,
save Tor one Single woman who
arose, at their bidding, and said
Yes, dear" and hear, hear" and
how wonderful" or words which
meant the same.
And, behold, when the men had
finished all their talking, they de.
cided to do exactly that which they
had made up their minds to do, in
the beginning, even as doth a
woman.
But oh, my daughter, what
woman knoweth her husbands con.
versational abilities or the extent
Of his vocabulary, who hath never
heard him speak IN a political do-
bate. For. at home she heareth
emily grunts and monosyllables and
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in the event Of a deadlock between
the two leading candidates. They
are John w. Davis OF West Vir.
ginia and Senator Ralston of In
diana. He based his prediction ON
the fact that West Virginia gave
nine Of it's sixteef votes against
the anti-klan plank, and Indiana
twenty-five Of its thirty votes.
No candidate will be considered
for the nomination, in Guffey's
opinion. whose delegation did not
show q decided antipathy to the
khan on the platform vote.
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'Welki11. NolU Needed
BY Democrats to
Stop Yawning
By o. o. McINTYRE.

tccpynght Service
NEW YORK, June 30-What this convention Of Democrats
needs good wekn The that has been in
out and refuses to ring And convention delegates groggy
and holding the ropes They beginning wonder what
caprice caused them to leave the quiet Of Whatcheer Iowa.
and Bull Mont for all this and confusion George NJ
Cohan couldn't have inspired another cheer with flag today
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Mrs. Solomon LOOksin
on the Convention
Mrs. Solomon Says Women May Take for Short Tan
Context, But When il Comes to Marathon Of Orukoyy
No Woman Could Out-T1Ek the Men.
By HELEN ROWLAND.

,-,r-- Gcepyright 1924 ssrvoa)
NEW YORK, June 3O.-Verily, my daughter, all the
words spoken at Madison Square Garden Saturday were
placed end to end they would around the equator and
tie in a bow at the back
60 to- Women may peradventure take the medal for a
short talking contests but marathon of oratory no
could hold out against the man '' =
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Delegates Think They
Must Jump From
Brooklyn Bridge
By RUBE GOLDBERG.

NEW YORK, June 30.-The delegates wiped the foam Of
Saturday nights debate off their chns and spent Sunday
seeing New York Four delegates from Oklahoma jumped off
the Brooklyn bridge Having read Of many local celebrities
taking their big dive, they thought the and
didn't want to look like strangers. 1
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NAPLES, June S0.--Mount Etna
was in violent eruption today. A
huge stream OF lava flowed from
the crater, accompanied by bursts
Of steam aQd smoke.
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DOVE Of PEACE
IS PACED At
NETWORK
Brennan Accepts Khan Verdict.
Other Leaders Now Hope
for Peace
By DAVID M. CHURCH,
ny Ynterna&aonal Nevvs Service.

NEW YORK. June 3o.-Demo-
cratic leaders are anxiously striv.
ing to coax the dove Of peace into
Madison Square Garden today.
All the row raised by the xxx.
hubbub on Saturday night fright
ened the poor bird away. and
though there are many who believe
the disrupted peace Of Saturday
cannot be easily patched up, still
the majority of the leaders want
to let bygones be bygones-if they
mean what they say.
Leaders are preparing to put
down any attempts to bring up
/. the Khan plank for reconsideration.
despite the efforts Of Mayor Law
renee Quigley Of Chelsea, Mass. to
find some parliamentary means by
which the fight can be reopened.
Judge Eugene Bonniwell, q Penn.
sylvania leader, is also said to be
using his influence to renew the
battle.
Some Of the wounds opened Sat
urday night will be a long time
healing. but after q day Of rest,
most Of the field marshals are
talking peace ana preparing for the
war Of ballots.
IT think we could pass the plank
naming the Khan, on a reconsider
alton" said Ed. Moore Of Ohio,
leader Of the anti-Klan legions.
However, am against reopening
closed issue. What we want to
DO now is to get our candidate
That political sage Of Indiana.
Tom Taggart, Il sure that the war
has ended and that there will be
postwar difficulties. Victory or de-
feat on collateral issues seem Of
paramount Importance while q bat
tie is on" Taggart said. ''but once
won or lost that is the end Of
It. You VIII see the delegates
for their various candidates"
Accept the Verdict.
When Democrats are licked IN q
convention fight they are good
enough sports to accept the verdict, {"
commented George E. Brennan, iii.
nois leader, who took q bitter pill
when the anti-Klan plank was de-
feated. Reconsideration Nothing
doing"
Former Secretary Of war Baker
was equally optimistic. TIT was
merely the summer heat" he said.
TITS all over ana we viii get to
work on constructive things. The
air has been cleared and an the
better for It,"
''The Democrats win rally about
their candidate and forget the rows
they had here" said Senator Carter
Glass of Virginia.
I'VE have a decision" said Sem
ator King Of Utah. That IL all
q Democrat wants. The majority
rules"
Others Voice Hope. =
Nobody win remember this skir-
nish when we get into the real
battle Of nominating candidates"
prophecied Edward N. Hurley OF
Chicago, former chairman of the
Shipping Board, and q possible
presidential nominee.
Many other leaders voiced hope
and convictions that peace would
come today. Still. through the
hotel corridors and In the far cor
ners Of Madison Square Garden
there were whisperings Of revenge
and vendettas.
Despite these rumors and rum
blings Of further war the leaders
claimed q united front and charged
that attempts to keep strife within
the party alive were propaganda
efforts by the enemy.
The dove Of peace Is being PACED
in Madison Square Garden today.
win the dove answer?
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By Alexander Bittelman

among them the government of the
United States.
We already have heard good deal
about the Chinese Eastern Railway,
the disposition of which forms part
of the agreement We shall hear
more Of that railway as time goes
on. Our own Secretary Of State,
Hughes, had made this railway one
Of his main reasons for obstructing
the Russo Chinese peace negotiations.
Needless to say that this railway,
against which Mr.. Hughes claims five
million dollars for the cost of oper-
ating it in 1882, is not the main
reason for the imperialistic displea-
sure at the Russo-C Chinese agreement.
There are more weighty considera-
lions involved. 1t is the fate Of China
as a field for imperialist exploitation
and conquest that is at stake in this
agreement. Well, therefore, may the
imperialists of the world feel wor-
ried!
Particularly when they read the
kilograms of greetings sent to Com
rade Karachan by Deputy Koonga in
the name of 181 members Of the Chi
nese parliament. This menace Of con-
gratulations creates spirit of revolt
and defiance which augors the COM
ing of an entirely new epoch in the
life of the Chinese masses. Itefore-
tells the coming Of day when the col
onial peoples will finally come into
their own and will jointly with the
workers of the superior" races es-
tablish the International Soviet Re-
public.
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when England succeeded in opening
the doors Of China to modern civiliza-
ton" by compelling the importation
of opium, China is being ravaged con-
tinuously by the organized bands of
European Imperialism. The richest
parts Of northern China are practical
ly in the hands of Japanese, English,
German and French capital. Since
1921, the entire economic life of China
has been in the hands Of an interna-
tional combine in which American
bankers are playing the first fiddle
Morgan and Co., Kuhn, Loeb and Co.,
the National City Bank, the Guaran-
ty Trust Co., the Continental Trust
Saving Co. (Chicsgo) and the Chase
National bank-these are our own
American bankers that are helping"
the Chinese to modern civilization.
The policy of the world-imperialists
with regard to China is practically the
same as the policy of the American
imperialists with regard to Mexico
First, by creating and encouraging
violent disorder, to prevent the exist
ence of stable native government
Second, by utilizing the inability of
the nations to govern themselves" to
step into the affairs of the country
and to take hold of it for foreign, i'm
perialist ends.
Such have been the policies of the
European imperialists in China for
the last rs to so years. And since the
late war our own, the American i'm
perialists, have actually Joined the
game and are pugnaciously develop
ing into first-rate imperialist factor
in the life Of China.
What do the great powers want in
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to all privileges and concessions ex-
tracted from China by the govern
ment of the car. In plain and under
standable language, the Russian
masses made it known to their breth-
rem in China that they do not in
tend to follow in the footsteps of the
czar, but that, on the contrary, they
have made up their minds to treat
with the Chinese masses on the basis
Of perfect equality, peace and cooper
alton.
The effect upon the Chinese of this
announcement of policy was ire
mendous. Only those who are fami-
liar with the bloody doings of the
czar in China, Mongolia and Man
churia will be able to realize what the
Chinese must have felt upon learning
the contents Of the famous Soviet
note of July, 1919. 1t was nothing
short Of revelation to them. And
when, later on, they have come more
to understand the real nature of the
new order in Russia, by this very tok-
en- the basis has been created for an
alliance between the Soviet union
and the masses of the Far East which
will mark an epoch in the life Of
humanity.
Recent Negotiations and the Agree
ment.
The negotiations between the Sow
let Union and China, which resulted
now in the resumption of normal re-
lations between the two countries,
have lasted for nearly eight months.
1t shouldn't have lasted more than
eight days. AS between Russia and
China there were really no serious
differences Of opinion to prevent for
NAL agreement at an earlier date. The
cause Of the delay, as already pointed
Tout, were the great powers, chief
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2viet Diplomacy in China

Germany and America were able
since 1911, further to entrench them
selves and to hold the country in sub
lection.
And 1t was only with the beginning
of 1918, when it became known in
China that the Russian czarist gov
eminent is no more, that the menace
from the north has disappeared, hav-
ing given way to a government Of
workers and peasants, that the first
warm day of light made its way thru
into the lives of the Chinese masses.
The oppressed masses of China, and
even the native bourgeoisie, began
turning their eyes to Soviet Russia as
the only earthly source Of hope and
encouragement.
Capitalism Senses the Danger.
The capitalists of the victorious"
countries in the late war were slow
neither in sensing the danger of nor
in reacting to a possible. friendly ap-
proach between Soviet Russia and
China. We all remember we'll the ST.
berian operations of the soldiery OF
Japan, America, etc, which were more
Of the nature of military Gordon
between Russia and China than of a
serious attempt at overthrowing the
Soviet government. The imperialists
knew only too well what effect the
Russian revolution may have on the
spirit, self-consciousness and fighting
ability of the Chinese masses.
But Gordon or no Gordon, China was
bound to learn what the Soviet gov
eminent stood for in the matter of
foreign policies. On July %, 1919, the
Russia Soviet government addressed
a note to China renouncing it's rights
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China? A free hand for continued ex-
ploitation of it's man-power and ma
tural resources. That's what they
want. And to achieve this end, they
have got to have a China which is
unable to stand on it's own legs in a
political and military sense. That is,
they have got to have divided coun-
try, whose governmental agents are
willing to do the bidding of foreign
imperialists and whose masses are in
capable Of offering effective organized
resistance.
This is practically the situation as
it prevails in China at present. With
this difference, tho, that a section of
the peasantry and the city workers,
large numbers of the petty bour-
geoisie and the student youth are in
a state of permanent revolt against
the disgraceful position of their coun-
try. This nationalist-revolutio
movement against the domination Of
foreign capital is centered mainly in
the southern parts of China.
Soviet Russia-The Saviour.
1t was the successful development
of this revolutionary movement that
resulted in 1911 in the overthrow of
the royal dynasty in China and the
formation of a republican form of
government. Which in itself was, no
doubt, a step forward in the develop
ment of China, since the old feudal-
monarchistic regime was seriously
hampering the industrial development
Of the country. But for while-for
quite long while, one might say
the foreign imperialists were able to
exploit in their own interests even the
revolution of 1911. Because the Chi
nese bourgeoisie failed to create an
effective central national government,
: the imperialists Of Japan, England,