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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-24
FARMERS DRAF 7
NEW BILL Of
RIGHTS
Demands for Relief Voiced In
Resolution Submitted to
Convention Committee

NEW YORK, June ga new
agricultural bill of rights was pre-
scented to the resolutions committee
of the Democratic national conven-
ton today by the Association for
National Relief for Agriculture.
Demands for more advantageous
marketing conditions were voiced in
the plank which was submitted by
the group represented by B. r.
Yoakum, of New. York.
According to the group, agricul-
ture insists upon nine separate
points of recognition:
Intelligent Interpretation of
laws dealing with cooperative mar.
keting.
2-Opposition to paternalism and
to private or corporate exploitation
Of farm products.
S-The right to conduct its bust
ness in its own way, under approx
al OF the law, is demanded.
THAT there shall be no dis
elimination against the industry
by various Government agencies,
including the Federal Reserve
Board,
5-The right to create for itself
a national marketing organization
to bring producers and consumers
in closer contact.
"a national cooperative mar.
keting system which will insure in.
dependence and return to prosper
GUS operation.
Endorsement Of principles of
the Curtis-Aswell bill, which makes
1t possible to eliminate all unneces.
sary commissions, profits and
wastes between producers and pur-
chasers.
S-Demands that only persons
VINO are known to be in sympathy
with agriculture be entrusted with
the administration OF laws affecting
farmers,
9--Unconditional protests against
bureaucratic interference by govern.
mental agencies in affairs Of co.
operative farm organizations direct.
ly or indirectly.
Members of the group who are
on the scene of action and who
signed the demands laid before the
resolutions committee are:
Finis J. Garrett OF Tennessee and
minority leader of the lower house
OF Congress 9. s. Barrett, Georgia,
president Of the National Farmers
Union; Congressman J. B. Aswell,
Louisiana, joint author of the
Curtis.Aswell farm bill; Nathan
Straus, jr., New York and Congress.
man Henry T. Rainey, Illinois.
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STAGE SET FOR
PEACEFUL END
To NY. MEET
Senator Mccormick Expects
It to Be Convention of
AssimiIations
By SENATOR MEDILL
MCCORMICK.
Copyright. 1924, by international

News 6ervice.)
NEW YORK, June 24.-This
Democratic convention promises
to begin in riotous dissention and
to end in peaceful conquest. The
first days of the Cleveland con-
vention were as dull as its last
night was dramatic. 1t will not
be so in New York-on the sur
face.
The outward manifestations of
row must not be exaggerated
at the expense of the inward
promise of peace. ! remember
that week before the Republi-
can convention assembled, George
Brennan, of Illinois, arrived in
Washington to consult the lead
ers Of the southern democracy.
Then it was announced that as
Senator Harrison would be tenn
pOrary chairman so would Sem
ator Walsh be permanent chair
man of the convention of the un-
terrified. They resemble the two
wings of the dove Of peace which
unseen hands will try to trap for
the last days Of the convention
in New York.
Here the managers, the bosses,
the leaders must make not only
the lion and lamb, but the whole
menagerie, lie down in peace. The
political menagerie must be fed
with feed palatable to all OF them.
This can be done only by offer
ing them a platform and by pre-
senting them candidates containing
no ingredients distasteful to the
congregated heterogeneous elements
Of the democracy. Hence. the by
ISLANDERS do not believe that Smith
or McAdoo will be nominated, Or
that there will be incorporated in
the platform any planks which By
specific declaration or pungent cou
domination may drive any voters
away from the Democratic Party.
This, mark you, is a convention
Of the outs and not Of the ms.
It is called upon not to defend but
to condemn the government of the
country during the era Of the re-
construction. 1T will write a bill
of particulars about the dement's
Of the Republican Government and
q couple OF columns of generalities
about merits Of the Democratic
program. That Is to be expected.
The many leaders and the few
managers at New York have taken
to heart Will Hays slogan of four
years ago and win try as he did
to conduct "a campaign not. Of
elimination but Of assimilation"
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500
| LIQUOR
! VOTES
s'FleId Marshal" Wood and
Antl-Prohibitlon Forces See
Victory in Convention
BY DAVID M. CHURCH,
international News Service.


NEW YORK, June 24.-Red hot,
bizzIing heat waves fail to check
the ardor Of the vets and the
arys for battle.
Skirmishing progresses today
along q line well outside Of Madi-
son Square Garden. Totally I'M
mindful Of the thermometer, prohi-
bitionists and anti-prohibitionists
are getting hotter and hotter
under the collar-and apparently
annoying it.
Blame for HOstilities.
Orders go out for an attack from
&he, &c. III. O." OF the dry armies
at the Hotel Pennsylvania, and the
word OF the Impending attack
spreads through the mo Mans
Land" of Herald Square to the
McAlpin, where the ''wet legions"
wait in their duck-poarded trenches,
The attack opens and is answered
and the air fills with dratorical
sparks and hot words.
The war has hardly started, yet
there is heated debate as to Just
who. started the rumpus.
!. The 'wets" claim the ''drys"
opened the attack with a profusion
OF Sunday rallies in churches and
x. M. G, AS. in which things were
said about opponents Of prohibition
that weren't altogether nice.
Issuing Announcements.
The ''drys" disclaim ali blame for
Initiating hostilities, and sit back
with an air of victory assured.
Both sides are busy issuing an
mouncements of victory.
We have 900 votes at the low
est possible estimate" announces
Charles s. Wood, field marshal for
the Association Against the Pro-
hibition Amendment.
.'.'Poppycock," declares Congress-.
man Upshaw, of Georgia. They've
always got the vote until it comes
time to vote on the notion
William Jennings Bryan enters
the range Of the siege guns OF the
SWets." So.
'aThe Republican platform has a
law enforcement plank. We should
have. In our platform something
just as strong" the comnoner sug-
gests.- rs
There are fireworks In the 1'wet"
camp and Field Marshal Wood cuts
loose with a cracking denuncia-
ton Of 1.-THE defeatists" and chose
stern Republicans, Wayne B.
Wheeler and w. j. Bryan-the last
the most beatenest Of Democrats"
Upshaw in Action.
Upshaw swings his guns into ac-
zion once more and accuses Wood
or resorting to ''cheap stuff Of the
habitual defender Of LIQUOR,
Meanwhile the war correspondents
nave wearied and fallen exhausted
in the heat. For all they know
the "war" still RACES, but 1t begins
to sound like a sham battle.
This whole question of prohibition
will most likely be settled without
Dloodshed by the resolutions COM
mittee-but the boys must have a
little skirmish or two or they viii
lose interest.
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Iowa, who spent ten hours trying
to find some place to sleep, finally
went nah jong and the last seen
Of them they were frantically
chasing the east wind.
Another young man from Citrus,
Ca, who left home with his pas
ringing injunction ''look out for
the cable cars and quit biting your
nails" was found sound asleep
against a lamp post at Fifth ave-
nue. and Forty-second street.
About the only New York build.
ing with a front yard, Is the public
library, and already there is a sign
up reading "No sleeping here"
An old hardpan miner from
Arizona left the Waldorf yesterday
afternoon and after a half hours
walk returned and said: "Well, this
town looks like a permanent camp"
And a clerk at the Plaza, re-
ceiving a telegram from a banker
In Gallipolis, Ohio, reading: please
reserve large room with bath, !"
laughed 30 loud it was impossible to
hear the Filipino delegation eating
soup in the main dining room.
Pincus Leaves EN- Flat.
It was reported today that Elmer
q. Pincus, OF Plattsburg, Clinton
county, Missouri, had left the con-
vent1on flat. He hunted all over a
Ritz Mushroom for a roller towel
ana, not finding one, had to dry
his face and hands in the sun.
But notwithstanding the suffoca.
tlon all the visitors appear to be
merry and bright.
Manhattan is extending the glad
hand to say nothing of the itching
palm. One flunlkie, who Yields a
wicked whisk broom at an uptown
hotel resigned in disgust already.
He flieked a pint Of imaginary
dust Oft OF a frock coat of a gen.
tleman from West Virginia, and
was given the core Of an apple for
his trouble. Share that among
the boys" said big-hearted Otis.
Tipping has proved one whale of
a disappointment to the hat snatch.
ers and others of their ilk who ex,
pected rich harvest. Visitors are
wary of giving more than a dime
tip. New Workers. are afraid to
give less Lnan quarter. They
might get a few sneers behind their
backs,
Limb Shows" Played Big.
The theaters are getting a big
play. Especially the leg-or is 1t
limb this season?--shows Many hus.
bands who leave their wives home
knitting to go to Madison Square
Garden somehow turn northward
and stray, perhaps unconsciously,
into first row seats Of rollicking
revues. But boys will be boys.
And the few remaining cabarets
are tempting all the visitors. One
big sign for instance reads: BILLY
Arnold and his Democratic girls"
You know-democratic and easy
to meet.
All the clowns, hanswursts, merry
Andrews and red noses Of the show
world have their quips and quirks
for the delegates. Any pun will
make them laugh and the laugh
makers are in their element.
1 have talked TO a hundred or
more visitors. They declare they are
having the time Of their lives at the
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are seeing something you don't see.
It makes you think you are getting
somewhere you aren't getting. It
makes the sun shine while the rain
is pouring down. 1t makes you know
it isn't raining rain today, it's rain.
ing violets. It's q beautiful tribute
to me. take it as personal com.
pliment. call 1t real. true, sweet,
tender, genuine PolIyanna plank. All
conventions you know are full of
them"
"They are" said Pollyanna, "the
anti-klan resolution to ennbarrass
Mr.. McAdoo IL an illustration. It is
pure blue sky, and then look at Mr..
McAdoo's own proposed plank about
railroads. The really principal
critical question before the conven-
ton is railroads"
Where did you learn that?" in.
terrupted a reporter.
by looking at La Toilette" said
Pollyanna. His railroad trade
union convention will meet in Cleve.
land next week. The Democratic
party, last time 1t carried the coun.
try in 1915, carried 1t because 1t had
the support Of the railroad trade
unions in consequence of the pas.
sage of the eight-hour Adamson law
by Democratic Congress, This
year the Democrats absolutely have
to have the big railroad trade union
vote; but La Toilette IL out to steal
1t from them. They have got to
get 1t back so Mr.. McAdoo has q
railroad plank. Have you read it?
It is beautiful"
Repeat it," said the reporters
submissively,
''Well." said Pollyanna, ''in this
plank Mr.. McAdoo announces the
sort Of railroad transportation law
which he would have Congress pass
If he were president. He defines It
simply and succinctly. He SAYS
simply and perfectly that the pres.
ent law Is q bad one and that IL
he is elected president he will have
a new law, the method Of which he
keeps to himself but the result Of
which will be as he reveals to elm.
mate waste, reduce transportation
costs, cut freight rates and insure
the operation of the railroads for
the benefit Of the country"
Are you satisfied with that
plank?" said the reporters.
II am said Pollyanna. "Mr.
McAdoo had me in mind when he
wrote 1t. All the painful horrid
details Of his new transportation
law he keeps a secret. They might
arouse anxiety and turmoil. What
Mr.. McAdoo wants and what Mr..
Smith wants and what they all want
is results. No friction about re.
ligion and no waste in railroading,
and international cooperation and
peace without any surrender Of the
sovereignty of the United States
and everything. / have made a
beautiful poem about it."
Copyright, Current News Featuren.)
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Senator Joe T. Robinson, DEM
erat, Of Arkansas, one of the
dark horses" Is to be given a
testimonial dinner tonight by the
Commercial Travellers Association
OF America. Fifteen hundred in.
vitations were Issued
"A formal move may be launched
ct the dinner, 1t was said, to
put Robinson definitely in the
race for the Presidential nomina-
ton.
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Il believe" said PQllyanna, in her
headquarters in the building of the
National Sunshine Society, "that
the Catholics and the Protestants
in this convention are showing a
most commendable attitude toward
each other. Each group is, in fact,
endeavoring to bow the other into
a position Of greater power relative
ly to ITSELF"
How do you make that out?"
asked dumb reporter.
ITS perfectly clear" said Polly
anna. IF Mr.. Smith Is elected
President he will be scared to death
to appoint a Catholic to any office
anywhere in Washington. Look at
Mayor Dever, in Chicago. Being a
Catholic he cannot give any OF the
really big plums in the Chicago city
hall to Catholics. He has to ap-
point young Mr.. A. A. Sprague. a
Protestant, to be his commissioner
of public works; and he has to ap-
point young Mr.. F. x. Bush.
Protestant, to be his corporation
counsel, which are the two principal
Jobs in his cabinet. Everybody
knows that It win be the same way
with Mr.. Smith II he is elected
President. Not one really topnotch
lob in Washington will in those cir
cumstances go to q Catholic.
Too Swell for Anything"
'Mr. woodrow Wilson, being a
protestant, dared to appoint q
Catholic--Joe Tumulty-to be his
private secretary. Everybody knows
that AL Smith in the White House
would dare to do no such thing.
He would have a Methodist or
Baptist or Seven.Day Adventist
private secretary. He would have
to. Our choice il between a Catholic
President who will cultivate the
Protestants and Protestant Presi-
dent who viii cultivate the Catholics.
In these circumstances call your
attention to how sweetly and con-
siderately human beings behave
toward one another. The Catholics
want a Catholic President so that
the Professionals will be we'll off and
the Protestants want a Protestant
President so that the Catholics will
be we'll off. ! call 1t just too sweet
for anything"
Pollyanna paused ana smiled.
"But what about the plank
against the klan?" she was asked.
THAT is another proof Of the
truth Of my contentious, she re-
piled.
Everybody knows that the Fed
eral Government cannot and will
not do anything about the khan. The
unlawful practices of the khan are
violations not of Federal laws but
of State laws. The Federal Govern
ment has no power to punish them
nor will 1t be given any power to
punish them. This very convention
which is here before US in New York
is going to commit itself to the prop
osition that the powers of the Fed
eral Government should not be al
lowed to encroach upon the powers
Of the State governments.
A POIlyanna Tribute.
Therefore resolution againot
the khan Is Federal national con-
vention il just simply golden dust
in the eye. 1t makes life look
brighter, 1t makes you think you
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York OUerflows
Into Newark Hotels
BY o. o. MCINTYRE.

: Copyright International News servcs1
NEW YORK. June 24Manhattans crags and crannies are
bullying today with their human feightage All the hotels
boarding houses Central Park benches and clubs packed
late arriving delegate forced to park his tired body
in Newark hotel tonight.
The Democratic National Convention is This tight little
island is tight in ways than one and l don't
maybe. There is not room for Adams apple
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-24
COX STANPED
IS PLANNED
BY. BAKER
Former Secretary Hopes to
Start 1t by Reading Letter
Written by Wilson

NEW YORK, June 24.-Details
OF carefully laid bit Of strategy by
which former Secretary Of War
Newton ID. Baker IL expected to try
to stampede the Democratic national
convention for Ex-Governor Cox, of
Ohio, leaked out today from the
Buckeye delegations headquarters.
Baker, according to these reports,
intends to sweep the Wilson enthu.
siasts off their feet by reading a
letter never made public from the
former President to Cox in which
Mr.. Wilson is described as saying
that Cox was the only outstanding
member of the Democratic party
with courage to stand up for the
Wilsonian doctrines, foreign and do.
nestle, without reservation.
Story Of the Letter.
The story emanating from Ohio
headquarters in the McAlpin Hotel
was that the letter resulted from
a speech made by Cox in Colum.
bus, Ohio, at Democratic celebra-
ton, just before the former Presi,
dent died. In this speech, said
some Of the Ohioans. Cox sub.
scribed to all Of the Wilson ideals
and pledges.
A copy Of 1t reached Wilson.
When the latter read 1t, according
to one delegate, he was so affected
that he broke down and wepe.
Soon after, the story goes, Mr.. VIII.
son wrote the letter to Cox.
Another Ohio delegate said Baker
counted so much upon the psyche
logical effect this letter would have
that, excepting one or two political
advisers very close to him, no one
had been appraised of the detailed
nature Of the former secretary's
plan.
Decided in Caucus.
Another part of the Ohio strategy
was decided upon In caucus. That
was to continue casting the States
torty-eight votes for Cox, ballot
after ballot. The delegation intends
to drum the name Of Cox into the
ears CT the convention so often that
1t will attract the attention there
that it has failed to attract in pre-
convention electioneering.
It was agreed among the Ohioans
that they would switch to another
presidential candidate only If it
should become obvious that the de.
feated 1920 nominee had no further
chance.
who then would get the forty
eight votes would be decided by a
hastily-called caucus.
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Everything Is Lovely
at N. Y. Contention,
PoLlyanna Finds
q
iETEkEAnOi0r.EESs-kEll
BY WILLIAM HARD.

NEW YORK. June 24-Pollyanna, the distinguished lady
world champion of cheefuness arrived in New York today
Democratic convention situation thus placing herself in
opposition to that other distinguished literary character
William Allen White of Kansas who in his pieces for the
papers dporng the absorption Of this convention in such
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The Michigan delegation eau
cused and speedily elected their
representatives on the various
committees. No contests de-
veloped.
Those elected were; William A.
Comstock, of Detroit, chairman
Of the delegation: Claude s. Car
ney, Of Kalamazoo, committee on
rules; Alfred Lucking, Detroit,
committee on resolutions; John
d. Mershon, Saginaw, committee
on permanent organization, and
Alva M. Cummins, of Lansing,
vice president Of the convention.
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Decided in Caucus.

kansas will throw it's twenty
votes to William @. McAdoo, urI.
reservedly and unqualifiedly when.
ever II leaves Governor Jonathan
M. Davis" Jouett Shouse, chair.
man Of the State delegation an.
nounced on the convention floor
this afternoon after a secret eau
Gus. The instructed delegation
voted to cast its ballots soIidly
for the Kansas governor until O
majority decided he had no fur.
Their chance Of nomination.
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tcopyriGht 1884. BY International News serycs)
NEW YORK, June M.-Consder, my daughter the mighty
problem wherewh the soul of the delegate vexed
at this the great convention
For To- it is not the question of whether to for Nc
Adoos shining collar for the merry twinkle in Smith s
neither is it the question Of whether the panks in the
Democratic platform shall be wet or dry or merely damp
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-24

Mrs. Madge O'Neil, delegate
from Columbus Junction, Iowa,
today was elected national com.
mitteewoman for iowa at eau
Gus Of the Iowa delegates to the
Democratic National convention.
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Mrs. Solomon LOOksin|
on the Convention
BY HELEN ROWLAND.

She hsrs to park husband" % the great problem that
faces the delegate
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A Ponyanna Tribute.

Therefore a resolution againot
the khan Is a Federal national con-
vention IL just simply golden dust
in the eye. 1t makes life look
brighter, 1t makes you think you
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1924-08-03

Seglin habiamos ofrecido. hoy te-
la cosa en- peligro en- el iltimo acto.
Welden Wychoff. estrella que fue
de los Atl6ticOs de Filadelfia Anne
ricano, ejecut0 el box de Allentown
V despu6s del primer inning, GUAM
do los yisitantes amenazaron ganar-
Sc ell juego anotandO dos carreraS,
Sc ajust0 pitch6 maravillosamen-
tie el resto del juego. Por todo los
cubanoS lie dierOn dieZ hits a Wy
choff pero tambiGn 6l despach6 diez
de los Gle piel oscura por La via del
strike-Out.
Los cubanos usaron tres pitchers
Y varias yeces ell umpire Jim Ready
Sc vic en- el trabajO de pronunciar
sus nombres la concurrencia. Cal,
derin empez6 sc aguant0 tres In
nings antes que los Duques 10 hicie-
ran saltar del box, Oscar relev6 a
Calderin y lego al s6ptimo inning
V Juanelo termin0 ell juego.
La tripulaci0n Allentown estuvo
dulce la majagua, pues de los diez
hits fueron de extra base y de
jonr0n, uno del Cubano Gutierrez.
Este fu6 el priinero y pas0 limpio'
por la cerca de center y ell otro 10
di6 Hunter por el mismo sitio EN- eli
mismo inning. Joe Hyde di6 ell palo
mas largo pero solo cogi0 tres ba
SeS
Clabby j,igando left field di6 SO
10 un out. pero fu6 una cogida fe-
nomenal V la concurrencia Sc puso
de pie, apIaudiendo con delirante
entusiasmo. En- el octave inning, con
un hombre en- prinera los Duques
tenfan ell score ) a su favor Y
Cardenas dio un palo hacia left.
Cfabby sali0 corriendo y no parecia
que 10 alcanzarfa, pero en- un ultimo
esfuerzo dej6 ir su poderoso brazo
izquierdo V la peg0 con una mano.
+ En- el primer inning los cubanos
anotaron dos. Jimenez abri6 con un
single limpio, Mesa di0 otrO y avan-
10 Jim6Iez; Oms Sc sacrificed.
AChac6n li6 un fly a Hunter en- right
field y anot0 Jim6nez Estrada hi
te6 anotanGo Mesa.
Fn ell tereero los cubanos anotaron
otfa. Oms dio un hit Y Sc rob6 la.
Isegunda, Mesa y Chac0n Sc ponchat
ron pero Estrada di6 uno de d6s
bases y anOto ODs.
{; Los Duques en- la mitad del yterce-
70 atacaron firme y anotaron cua-
tro. Steel fu6 safe por error de Sc
gunda. Wyeoff fue out por fly. Gu
tierrez bate0 de homeruR. Moran Sc
ponch6 pero Hunter di6 un home
run. Ell score sigui0 a a favor
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1924-08-03
(Por EDDIE COLLINS)

Punto Y aparte. I'm parentesis;
no es mia la cosa. A su regreso
de la isla donde estaba pasando
unas corras vacaciones en- union
su distinguida esposa, visitamos
a nuestro dilecto amigo, ell CO.
nocido sportman y reputado GRO
nista deportivo Gerrish Jr., Y cam
biando impresiones sobre el movi-
miento basebolero, me dejo casi
descifrar un enigma. Hablamos
aver de la Tragedia Gel PACTO
DE TRES, dimos el reparto Y al
final publicamos la sinopsis. Pues
bien, en- esta 'Tregua de Dios"
que han tratado de iniciar varios
apostoles del Base Ball, va en-
vuelta una serpiente que rronto
empezara su obra destructora-
y aquellos que hoy tratan aparen-
temente de demostrar su buena
fe y su enpeno por ell progreso del
Deporte ,Rey, seran los que ten
gamos que apuntar mafiana como
sus legitimos verdugos.
7 vamos al grano. Quizas es-