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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-11
TEN IN RACE TO
SUCCEED DAWES
Iowa War Veteran Gains
as Hoover Mate.

By United Press
KANSAS CITY, June 1.-THE
Sam Brown belt may figure in the
selection of the Republican vice
presidential candidate quite as
heavily as the corn belt.
The latest individual mentioned
for second place is Col. Hanford
McNider of Iowa, former assistant
Secretary of War. With a dis
tinguished war record, residence in
the district represented by Rep
resentative Haugen, author of the
McNary- Haugen bill and a man
able to sass AL Smith back" if the
later should head the Democratic
slate, McNider has been advanced
as an ideal man to round out the
ticket.
Though McNider is not openly
pressing his claims, it is said he is
not averse to the nomination. His
friends are understood to feel he
should best serve the party on a
ticket headed by Herbert Hoover.
McNider'S entry brings the list
of vice presidential hopes to ten.
The others are Senators McNary of
oregon, Moses of New Hampshire,
Edge of New Jersey, Governors
Fisher of Pennsylvania and Fuller
of Massachusetts,, Representative
Tilson of Connecticut, Colonel Will
liam j. Donovan, Theodore Roosevelt
and Representative Hamilton Fishall
of New York. Everyone except the
two Governors are regarded as
active candidates.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-11
HOOSIERS AT FARLEY
Special Train Takes Indiana
Delegation to G. 0. P.

Helps and hindrances to Senator
James E. Watscn's "favorite son"
presidential candidacy were aboard
the Hoosier special which drew
away from Union Station Sunday
8 p. m. for Kansas City.
A group of prominent Indiana
farmers and farm leaders was in
cluded among passengers counted
upon for help in pointing Watson
for the nomination, while the pres
ence of Governor Ed Jackson, as a
delegate, deplored by Watson forces,
was not expected to aid the Sena-
tors cause.
Most of Indiana's thirty-three
national convention delegates were
aboard the train, which reached
the convention city at a. m. to-
day.
William H. Settle, Indiana Farm
Bureau Federation president, took
with him a pledge, said to have
been signed by $4,000 Indiana farm
ers, not to vote for any candidate
for President or for Congressman
who does not subscribe to the tenets
of the 'McNary- Haugen farm relief
bill.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-11
SOUTH TO VOTE
FOR HOOVER
Secretary Can Count on
III Ballots.
Rye. LILLEY

KANSAS CITY, June 11.-Herbert
Hoover will go into the convention
assured of I'll votes from the solid
South and border States because
most of the Republican leaders in
those States selected him for their
candidate as soon as President
Coolidge issued his second Il do not
choose" statement.
Representative j. Will Taylor, Re
publican national committeeman
from Tennessee, explained why the
Southern leaders favored Hoover.
HE stood out head and shoulders
above the rest" Taylor said.
"He is part oi the Coolidge Adj
ministration. He has carried on the
Coolidge policies and he is accept
able to those who voted for Coolidge.
'Lowden didn't fit into this
picture at ALL"
Taylor said in his Southern States
where the regular Republican lead
ers tried to oppose Hoover, they
found their delegations refused
recognition.
Il predict Hoover will be NOM
mated on an early ballot, if not the
very first" Taylor said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-11
Demands Plank Condemn
ing Shocking Use of
Money in Campaigns.

By United Press
KANSAS CITY. Mo, June H.
Senator William E. Borah, Idahos
presidential candidate, set himself
up in an inauspicious two-room
hotel suite here today, announcing
he intended to see the Republican
convention answer the shocking use
of money in political and govern
ment affairs"
The outstanding orator and
former Rooseveltian progressive
made clear that he intended to have
the Republican party take stand
on prohibition, formulate a definite
farm program and determine some
foreign policies, even if he had to
take the rostrum.
But after all, the gravest ques-
ton in this country is shall honors
and positions in public life remain
open to anyone except those who
have enough money to demand them
or who have enough wealth to
manipulate the politics of the
country?'" Borah said.
81 declare upon the eve of the
that the extent to which
money is used to dominate politics
and fashion legislation has not been
half told"
Borah brought along planks en-
bodying his idea of what the party
should say on the questions he in
tends to raise as member of the reso-
lutions committee. He has COM
promise fran plank which suggests
that the tariff should be raised on
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-11
K INTo KANsAs cITY AS VANGUARD o. FARMERS CARAVAN

that Governor, Sorlie of North
Dakota will lead a farm caravan
of an uncertain number of auto
mobiles here sometime today, and
that hundreds of automobile
loads of farmers, travelling in
small parties, will arrive before
the convention opening Tuesday.
Arrangements have been made
for the farmers to hear the con-
vention proceedings by radio at
large open air hall near their
camp site.
AS the farmers arrive they are
given two badges, one reading
Equality for Agriculture" and
the other I'VE Want Real
American for President"
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guard for a much larger number.
They described themselves as
business farmers" who say that
if the Republican party fails to do
its duty they will turn to the
Democrats.
Were going to ask pledge for
real farm relief here" one of them
said, land if we don't get it, we're
going to Houston and see what the
Democrats will do for us"
One of the cars, a handsome
sedan, bore large sign saying
"Watonwan County, Minnesota,
for farm relief at Kansas City or
Houston" All Of the cars we're re-
cent model sedans of fairly ex-
pensiye makes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-11

XNTHEN asked how, if they are
W in such bad straits, they can
afford such high grade tranpor-
tation, the Minnesota farmers
were advised by representative
of the Equality for Agriculture"
headquarters not to get drawn
into debate on that subject.
The agricultural council of
eleven Minnesota counties, they
said, had agreed to pay the ex-
penses of as many automobile
loads of farmers to make the trip
to Kansas City.
At the Equality for Agriculture"
headquarters it was announced
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Cottonwood and Watonwan Coun-
ties, Minnesota. Their leader is
G. A. Torkelson of st. James,
Mimi, who refused to give an in
terview, but made one pronounce
ment:
"Hooverize and Pauperize."
The caravan is being directed by
a publicity man from large Chi
cago advertising firm, Elmer E.
Bulls.
Bulls said he has accommoda-
tons for $4,000 in hotels, boarding
houses. and as campers in the
electric amusement park, now un-
used.
The members of the Minnesota
group said they are the advance
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-11
Leaders of Both Factions
Support Proposed
Combination.
FARMERS WOULD RALLY
Argue Western States Will
Swing to Secretary on
Such a Slate.
BY PAUL r. MALLON


KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June IL
A Republican ticket of "Ffoover and
Dawes" hitherto never contem-
plated in the public discussions OF
political leaders, is being sought by
groups of Hoover leaders and Dawes
supporters on the eve Of the ma
tional convention.
The United Press learned today
that delegate friends of Vice Presi-
dent Dawes from the midwestern
farm delegation here, submitted
Dawes name to the highest leader
in the Hoover campaign.
The answer came back that the
Hoover people are not picking
vice presidential candidates, but
that Dawes would be acceptable.
Would Carry West
A campaign thereupon was start
ed among the delegates to swing
them in line for this unexpected
combination. Many friends of Hoo
yer argued he would gain perhaps
fifty western votes scattered through
maiy States. if Dawes, the advocate
of the equalization fee system of
farm relief, was chosen on the
ticket.
Friends Of Dawes in these west
ern delegations who at the same
time are not unfriendly to Hoover,
argued that with Dawes on the
ticket Hoover could carry western
farm States which might otherwise
be lost.
All of Hoover'sfriends, however,
have not fallen in line with the
suggestion. Former Senator Ernst
(Rep), Kentucky, told the United
Press he had not made up his mind
that such a combination would be
beneficial to the party, although he
is supporting ardently Hoover'S
nomination.
Dawes In Favor
mot so good, but if such move
ment started in the convention you
couldn't stop it with a hurricane"
said one Hoover leader who knew
of the plan.
A North Dakota leader pledged
to Lowden said that at least four
and perhaps more delegates from
his state would support SUCH a
ticket, and that he knew of others
similarly minded in the Nebraska,
South Dakota, Idaho, Minnesota
and Oregon delegations.
The suggestion for the ticket was
made first in Washington, but was
not accepted generally because it
was thought neither Dawes nor
Hoover would like to enter such an
alliance. FEends of Dawes here
and in Washington have said. how
ever, Dawes would join, and the
news is semi-off1cial that Hoover
would, too.
Curtis Out
Dawes likes the vice presidential
job and would prefer another in
teresting four-year rule over the
Senate than a return to his private
financial interests, his friends say
Senator Curtis, Kansas native
son, had been considered by Hoover
leaders as an available McNary-
Haugenite for second place on the
ticket until he issued his statement
here Sunday assailing the Hoover
candidacy for the first time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-11

II ANSAS CITY, June Flour
N teen farmers from Minnesota
crawled out Of their hunks on the
outskirts of this city today, rubbed
the sleep from their eyes, and
watched the horizon for signs of
recruits in the farmers caravan
which was scheduled to descend
upon the Republican convention
100000 strong.
The fourteen we're the only sign
of the caravan here. They ar
rived Sunday.
biles, carrying farmers from Ne
braska, Iowa and North Dakota,
should arrive here today to pre-
sent demands for the McNary-
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Haugen farm relief bill, according
to headquarters of the caravan.
Plans we're made for a band to
meet the incoming cars and lead
the farmers into the city. Kan
sas City will give them welcome,
as it has welcomed all other units
of the giant show going on here.
The estimates of the caravan
have been dwindling daily, until
now even those who are directing
it admit there likely will be only
a few thousands, but they intend
to usher those into the city with
a hurTah
n 4
rFHE handful who arrived Sum
i day drove $50 miles from
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-11
MELLON IN ST LOUIS
Says Caucus Will Name
Quaker State Choice.

ST. LOUIS, June 11.-Secretary
Of the Treasury Andrew w. Mellon
arrived here today en- route to Kan
sas City. He declined to indicate
who might expect Pennsylvania
Seventy-nine votes.
I'VE expect to hold a delegation
caucus before the national conven-
ton opens Tuesday, at which the
matter of how we shall vote will be
determined" the secretary said. His
train, one Of three specials carrying
Pennsylvania delegates to Kansas
City, stopped off here few minutes
before proceeding westward.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-11
FORMER CLRK HERE is
BEST KNOWN OF G. O. P.
Lee Nixon, Convention Sergeant, Is
Veteran Party Worker.
By United Press

By United Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo, June IL
Lee Nixon, sergeant-at-arms of the
Republican national convention,
probably knows more Republic ms
than any other man, according to
members of the national committee
who selected him for the post.
He has been assistant to. the
chairman of the national committe
for ten years. At the committee
Offices in Washington, Nixon has
been thrown into contact with most
of the Republicans who visit the
national capital.
Nixon began his political career
In 1899 when he was named post
master in San Juan, Porto Rico. He
held that post until 1914 when he
returned to his home in Indian
apolis, Ind, and became city clerk
Four years later he became as
ISOLATED with the national commit
tee in Washington.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-11
BORAH TURNS GUNS
ON OFFICE BUYERS

all agricultural products to promote
Investigations.
He has prohibition plank which
is stronger than any yet adopted.
He would condemn the Shocking
use of money" in political cam
paigns and would urge a treaty to
outlaw war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-11
PROGRAM FOR
CONVENTION IS
DECIDED UPON
G. 0. P. Farley to Be Called
to Order by Butler at
10 Tuesday.
TESS TO BE KEYEOTER
Committee to Face TangIe
Over Contested Seats
on Wednesday.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo, June 1.-THE
order Of business for the Republic
an national convention tentatively
was agreed upon today.
Tuesday at 10 a. m. will come the
call to order by William M. Butler,
chairman Of the Republican national
committee.
Singing Of patriotic airs, led by
Nine. Schumann-Heink will follow.
Reading of the Official call of the
convention by Roy O. West, secre-
tary of the Republican national
committee will be next. Then will
come introduction of the temporary
chairman, Senator Simeon D. Tess.
Ohio, by Butler. The keynote
speech will be given by FesS.
Following the keynote address.
Butler again will take the gavel and
will present for the conventions APP
proval a list of temporary officers
recommended by the national COM
mittee.
AppOintees TO Be Named
In this list will be included a
Secretary, chief assistant secretary,
sergeant-at-arms, official reporter,
chief doorkeeper and several chap
lains, one of which will invoke
blessings upon the proceedings at
the opening each day.
Names of various committees
credentials, permanent organiza-
tons, rules and order of business
on through the list-will be read for
approval.
Wednesday at 10 a. m, reports
from committees will be made.
owing to contest appeals, it is
regarded as certain that the Gre
dentials committee will ask more
time until the committee deter
mines which of the contesting dele
gates are entitled to seats, the
convention will lack completeness
and organization.
Committees to Report
Meanwhile, some of the other
committees will report, among which
will be the committee on permanent
organization, with presentation Of
names Of the permanent officers Of
the convention.
Senator George H. Moses, New
Hampshire, is slated for the perma-
nent Craftsmanship, and if precedent
in other conventions is followed, the
temporary organizations, with the
exception of the chairman, will be
made permanent, on recommended ~
ton of the organization committee.
After the temporary chairman has
a committee to escort
the permanent chairman to the
platform, he retires. Then further
committee reports-platform in
be the order. What
will be done with the credentials
committee reports cannot be fore
cast.
BaIIOting Then in Order
Assuming that the process thus
far has carried the convention into
the third day, then will come Sc
lection of the new national COM
mittee, after which nomination Of
followed by balloting on
the presidential nominees, will be
on the program. After that there
will be nominating and balloting on
vice presidential candidates.
When the convention has selected
a presidential candidate and candi-
date for Vice President, committees
will be appointed to carry official
notification to them.
Adjournment will then be in order,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-11
City BUYS School Building

BIZ Times Special
ELKHART, Ind, June 11.-This
city has purchased for $2,750 a
school building erected ten years
ago by realty firm which used it
as a means of attracting residents
to a new subdivision.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-11
Candidates Kin Dies
BIZ Times Special

~ IfmeS Special
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, June IL
Mrs. Sarah Field, mother-in-law of
Frank Daley, Indianapolis, Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor, died
here Sunday night after a long ill
ness. Mr.. and Mrs. Daley were
with Mrs. Field when the end came.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-11
FRENCH-U. S. PACT NEAR
Agreement On Peace Proposals Ex-
pected Soon.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, June 11.-France
and the United States will reach an
agreement. probably some time this
week, on the points still at issue be-
tween them in rs remuneration of
war negotiations, it was learned to-
day.
The exact terms of this UNDER
standing could not be determined
although it was indicated France
would yield on most, if not all, it's
reservations. A long memorandum
from Paris touching upon this phase
OF the negotiations has been re-
ceived by the State Department and
it is believed the Department will
make an informal, oral reply to the
French embassy here within a few
days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-11
1862 SCOUTS IN MEET

Settlement House Troop Wins First
in Track Contests.
Troop So, American Settlement
House, won first place in the annual
Boy Scout track meet at Willard
Park Saturday. The winning team
scored Al points; Troop 10 finished
second with 291a, and Troop 10
third, with 81 points.
Junior and senior events were on
the program. Frank w. league.
scoutmaster Of Troop 55, and dis
trict scout commissioner, was in
charge of the meet. Twenty mine
troops from all sections of the CITY
sent 1862 scouts to the meet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-11
Ship Sinks; 60 Chinese Lost

BIZ United Press
HONG KONG, China, June /.
Sixty Chinese were missing today
after the capsizing Of the steamer
Kochow, proceeding from Hong
to Wuchow, Saturday. The steamer
struck a sand bar and sank.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-11
SENIORS TOLD WORLD
DOESN'T OWE LIVING
BaccaIaureate Address Given for
Shortridge Graduates. =.

"The world owes me a living,
often is the attitude of the new
graduate, the Rev. Thomas r.
White, pastor of the Meridian
Heights Presbyterian Church, said
in a baccalaureate address Sunday
to $50 Shortridge graduates.
IT reply, You owe it service" the
Rev. White said. 1.-THE graduate
says, The world owes me a living,
and I answer, You owe it life"
1.-The Five Smooth Stones" was
the pastors topic at Broad Ripple
High School services held the same
afternoon at the church.
"As David was armed with five
stones, so graduates should arm
themselves with five essentials" he
said. "These are truth. purity, self
control, earneStness and faith"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-11
FAIR FIGHTER
SEEKS TO BAR
HOOVER DRIVE
Mrs. Ruth Mccormick
MendS Split in Forces
of Opposition.
STRATEGIST OF ALLIES
Whips Draft Coolidge Camp
and Farm Faction Into
Coalition.
BY RAY TUCKER.

< AN SAS CITY, June IL
Squarely in the path of Herbert
Hoover's seemingly triumphant
march toward a presidential nomi-
nation stands the trim, tailored fig
ure Of woman who learned the
dark and devious methods of po-
litical combat at the knees of such
master as Mark Hanna, who
coined the slogan of full dinner
pail and thereby elected William
Mckinley.
Unifies Opposition
All the asserted and vociferous
males lined up against the cabinet
member may profess to depend on
President Coolidge, Secretary Mel
Ion and National Committeeman
Charles D. Hilles of New York to
perform a miracle that will cut
down Hoovers overwhelming lead,
but their spokesman and strategist
is this unaSSuming widow of SEN
atorial millionaire, Ruth Hanna
Mccormick of Chicago.
She arrived in Kansas CITY when
the allied forces where disorganized
and panicky. On the one side were
the farmers friends fighting both
Hoover and Coolidge, and on the
other were the draft Coolidge peo.
pie led by Hilles and William M.
Butler, Republican national chair
man. They had found no common
ground of opposition until Mrs. Nc
Cormick took charge.
1t is this daughter of President
maker, who, out of a womans sheer
desperation, has whipped the allies
into some semblance of unity. Only
eight years after women obtained
the vote a Republican national con-
vention finds one of the supposedly
weaker set acting as a Marshal Foch
Of the anti-Hoover coalition.
She Knows Best
She sits late at night with the
combines board of strategy. She
speaks their views in interviews with
the hundred or more political cor
respondents who have discovered
that She can give them a more III
telligent picture of the anti Hoover
maneuvers than Lowden, Watson
Curtis or Golf. She presides as
hostess at breakfast salons designed
to fortify her guests better to wage
the fight against the Secretary of
Commerce.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-11
FIRES AT CAR THIEVES
Three Men Flee From Machine
When Shooting Begins.

When K. G. Burns, $50 N. Me-
ridian ST., ran from his home with
a revolver after hearing the motor
OF his automobile start early Sun
day he saw three men flee from the
scene, He fired several shots after
them and Cecil Chamberlin, 30, of
6l5 N. Alabama ST., stopped. He is
held on vagrancy charge. He de-
MED attempting to start the car.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-11
Cream Thief Sentenced
BIZ United Press

By United Press
NEWCASTLE, Ind, June IL
Gilbert Farmer of three miles south
of Merchandising, was sentenced to
the penal farm for a period Of
ninety days and fined SIS and costs
in Henry Circuit Court here after
a jury found him guilty Of stealing
three and one-half gallons of cream
from Cecile Weesling, Harrison
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-11
Alice LOng70Orth Is for
HOOUer to the Finish
BY THOMAS L. STOKES.


KANSAS CITY 11-Ace Roosevelt Longworth has
dhe out the word she for Herbert Hoover
about here circle political
perhaps than that of other
the country.
The wife Of the sneaker Of the House himself not here was the
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C6IlJeI Ol dLJ6lJlOIl GOQdy DIS
friends pressed about her in the
lobby of the hotel where politi-
clans foregathered to welcome
her-and the curious to get a look
at the woman who mildly
shocked a past generation with
her youthful antics in the White
House.
I'm for Hoover" she said, in
answer to an inquiry.
She talks politics like a man.
She talked all phases of the
present situation with various
politicians as she moved here
and there in the crowded lobby,
where it seems a large part of the
population Of Kansas City passes
through in q long line to peek at
those who are running things
here.
NTrc TO,1Outc,.fI IN ciJft1cr with
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Hoover takes position against her close friend Ruth
Mccormack publicity agent for the forces Frank Lowden who
leading the the former Illinois Governor
Both shrewd politically the inside of many
campaigns.
Mccormick the god-moher of the Longworth baby
Paulina, old, who left behind Washington