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Daniels Says Only Empty Purses Will End Deadlock
‘WETS’ WOULD
ONLY CHOOSE
PARTISAN
Commoner Says Attempt
to Bring Smith Into
Convention Unfair.
By WM. JENNINGS BRYAN
Copyright 1V24.
NEW YORK July s—This cou-
vcntiou has too many climaxes in it
to be marked high on a rhetorical
basis. Climaxes are all right if they
are few in number and properly dis-
tributed but we have had a succes-
sion of climaxes and the end is not
yet in sight.
This convention is >n this respect
like an amateur tragedy that has
22 of the actors killed in the first act
but there is one advantage viz.:
everything bad in the party is going
to have a chance to boil out. And
then too it relieves men to tell what
they think of each other. Consider-
ing how the delegates act now. what
would be the condition if they still had
in them all of the personal hostility
that has already come out?
EXECUTIVE SESSIONS.
The high poiut—the word high is
used only to indicate the most sensa-
tional feature—was the attempt to
bring Governor Smith before the con-
vention. Tbe first motion was fair
on its face; it provided for an execu-
tive session confined to delegates al-
ternates and representatives of the
press to which all of the candidates
would have been invited to speak—-
speeches to be limited to half an hour
—after which the galleries would have
been admitted. The sessions were to
be executive not for the purpose of
transacting the business of the con-
vention but to hear the candidates.
As there were eleven on the last bal-
lot it would require five hours and
n half to hear them not to speak of
the time that would be taken up by
interruptions.
CRITICIZED NO ONE.
By why should any candidate op-
posed to the wet element of tbe con-
vention be invited to submit himself
to the insults that are offered to any
one who is opposed to New York's
candidate?
1 made a speech on Wednesday that
consisted in part of a comment upon
eight candidates only two of whom
are now before the convention and 1
only spoke of these two briefly. 1
criticized no one.
A part of the time I devoted to
an argument in favor of the right of
the South to Jie considered in the nom-
ination of candidates for tbe presi-
dency. Another part of the speech
was devoted to the issues of the cam-
paign contributions to the Republican
campaign fund special privileges the
power of monopoly and tbe menace of
growing disorder in Europe. Three-
fourths of the speech at least was
devoted to subjects which could not
possibly arouse any feeling and yet
because a small part of my time was
employed in calling attention to Mr.
McAdoo's part in making this con
vention progressive and dry I was
halted by the vociferous protests of
angry delegates — not unidentified
hecklers in the gallery but delegates
upon the floor.
GROSS UNFAIRNESS.
If one wno has been turee times
the eanuidate of ms party tor rresi-
uent and atued iu prcveuuiig the uts-
rupuou of tile party over a religious
issue is not g.ieu a respeenul near-
ing why suou.u tuose responsible lor
Uie uisoruer ot last w eunesuay expect
the canuiuute wuom Uiey so violent-
ly oppose to appear beiore tueiu.
M aeu this resolution was lost re-
ceiving some oue hunureu auu fitly
votes less than necessary lor passage
they introuuced unouier resolution iu
vitiug uoveruor Smitu alone to come
before the convention with the gal
lerics filled. By what logic can cue
men who represents uie city that is
playing host to an invited convention
justify such gross unfairness towaru
me convention and otner caiulioates:
This resolution also lucked a consiu-
erable amount of votes —about 125 —
of passage.
PARTISANS INDIGNANT.
Some of Governor Smith s partisans
express indignation tuat the governor
ot a great state is not invited to
speak. They seem to forget that it
is not the governor of a state who
is denied a nearing but a candidate
lor President. It uuy oiieuse is given
it is not given to the cmef executive
of New lork but to au aspirant for
the presidency. It hiust be remem-
bered also tnat this convention is a
national convention and represents the
entire Democratic party ot Uie nation
—a party that has polled as high as
nine minion votes und expects to
poll twelve or fifteen million tnis fall.
The wet delegates for the North-
eastern states have not resented Uie
outrageous conduct ot the galleries —
conduct outrageous to those who have
to stay here day after day in a vain
effort to discharge the duty imposed
upon them by the party.
WHY SO SENSITIVE?
Why are they so sensitive about a
New York candidate and so indiffer-
ent about the rights of the democ-
racy of the nation?
The friends of Governor Smith
ought to bear in mind that the nomi-
nation of candidates is just tbe be-
ginning of the campaign and that th<'
delegates here only 109 b in number
are only one one-hundred-thousandth
of tbe population of the United States.
Counting the Democrats as constitut-
ing one-balf the nation our party
must secure the support of fifty thou-
sand times as many voters as there
are delegates here. The disorder that
has attended this convention will not
contribute to the success of Governor
Smith if he secures the nomination.
His supporters can hardly be blind to
the fact; how can he be blind to it?
PLATFORM BEST.
In former conventions it has been
possible for the supporters of differ-
ent candidates to proceed in au order-
ly way to the nomination of President
and Vice President; it is not too late
for delegates from the Northeast to
find themselves and join in laying the
foundations of a victorious campaign
Bo matter who is nominated.
Our platform is the best that we
have had. and the country needs our
party as it has seldom needed it be-
fore. It will be a tragedy if the pas-
SATURDAY.
! NEW YORK WORLD
; ASKS LEADERS
• TO WITHDRAW
I By the Aeeoclnted Press
j NEW YORK July 5 — The
I New York World which ch»m-
I pioned the candidacy of Gove^-
। nor Alfred E. Smith at the be-
• ginning of the Democratic na-
i tional convention calls in an
! editorial today for a compromise
I to end the deadlock.
I “If the party is to be saved”
| says the World "the first duty
lof all men who consider its in-
terest above their own is to com
prl the withdrawal of Mr. Mc-
Adoo. When this is done and
only when this is done does a
second duty arise: That is to
heal the wound in the party by
accepting the withdrawal of
Governor Smith. Their third
duty is to choose a vigorous can-
didate who surmounts the bitter-
ness of this struggle.”
MARAWPERSISTS
(Continued From Pr.ge One.)
McAdoo the deadlock only was
tightened.
The totals on the seventy-seventh
ballot:
McAdoo 513; Smith 367 ; Davis of
West Virginia 76 1«2; Underwood
47 1-2; Cox 1; Glass 27; Ralston
6 1-2; Robinson 24; Ritchie 16 1-2 ;
Walsh 2; Saulsbury 6 Owen 4;
Baker 1; Roosevelt 1. Total -007.
Absent 1.
LITTLE CHANGE.
The candidates stood bn the seven-
ty-sixth ballot:
McAdoo 513; Smith 36S ; John W.
Davis 75 1-2; Underwood 47 1-2;
Cox 1; Glass. 20; Ralston 4 1-2;
Robinson 25; Ritchie 16 1-2; Walsh
2; Saulsbury 6; Owen 4 Buker 1;
Bryau 4.
The entries stood this way on the
seventy-fifth ballot:
McAdoo 513; Smith. 366; John
W. Davis 78 1-2; Underwood 46 1-2 ;
Cox 1; Glass 28; Ralston. 4 1-2:
Robinson 25; Ritchie 16 1-2 ; Walsh
2 Saulsbury 6; Owen 4; Bryau 4;
Baker 2.
Results o fthc seventy-fouith ballot
were: McAdoo 510; Smith 364;
John W. Davis 78 1-2; UnJerwood
47; Cox 1; Glass. 28; Robinson 23;
Ritchie 18 1-2; Walsh 4 1-2; Sauls-
bury 7; Owen 2 ; Baker 5 ; Bryau
4; Ralston 3 1-2; Kevin 1. To-
tal 1007.
On each successive proposal tbe
anti-MeAdoo forces operated with sur-
prising solidarity. In some cases
the McAdoo people were able to mus-
ter only a small pnrt of their power
for the proposals submitted by their
leaders.
TRANSFER SOUGHT.
One of the resolutions voted down
by an overwhelming majority would
have provided for-adjournment of the
convention to meet again in Kansas
City July 21. The McAdoo ranks
broke right and left when an attempt
was made to muster then in support
of the plan and the opposition was
so predominant that when New York
was reached ou the roll call it asked
that it be relieved of the necessity ot
casting its 90 votes for rejection. The
request was denied under the rules.
Previously the convention dividing
more evenly and with the McAdoo
delegates voting in the affirmative
had refused to adopt the Hitchcock
resolution 589 1-2 to 496 under which
the low candidates ou successive bal-
lots would be dropped from the list
until the fieiu was narrowed to the
leaders.
SEVENTY-THIRD.
The result of the seventy-third bal-
lot showed:
McAdoo 525; Smith 335; Davis
66; Underwood 38 1-2; Glass 25;
Robinson 21. Ritchie 16 1-2; Walsh
2; Saulsburg 6; Owen 2; Bryau 3;
Baker. 54.
SEVENTY-SECOND VOTE
The result of the seventy-second bal-
lot was:
MeAdoo. 527 1-2; Smith. 334; Da-
vis 65; Underwood 37 1-2; Glass
25; Robinson 21; Ritchie 16 1-2;
Walsh 2; Saulsbury 6; Owen 2;
Bryau 2; Baker 57 1-2.
On the seventy-first ballot the can-
didates stood:
McAdoo. 528 1-2; Smith. 333 1-2;
Davis. West Virginia 68; Underwood
37 1-2; Glass. 25; Robertson 21 ;
Ritchie 16 1-2; Saulsbury. 6; Owen
2; Baker 56; Bryan 2; Walsh 1;
absent 1. Total 1097.
MOVE WINS CENTRAL STATES.
Most of the support for the ad-
journment proposal seemed to be in
the states in the immediate vicinity
of Kansas City anil it was appar-
ent early in the roll call that the
MeAdoo delegates who often have
complained that their candinte could
not get n square deal in New York
had refused to stand solidly for a re-
moval of the scene of hositilitics to the
Missouri city. The votes of most of
the favorite son states also were
thrown to the opposition.
BALL MAKES PROPOSAL
After the adjournment proposal had
been voted down 1007 to 82.5 Thom-
as H. Ball a delegate at large from
Texas presented the plan for elimina-
tion of favorite sons in a slightly
different form.
His resolution provided that the low
man should be dropped on each bal-
lot until only two remained: that five
ballots then be taken; and that if no
nomination resulted the unit rule
binding state delegations be dissolved
and the delegates vote their personal
convictions. The candidate having
tbe majority then would be declared
the nominee.
A point of order against the Ball
sions aroused by personal differences
as to candidates are permitted to im
pair our party's chances and defeat
the people's hepes.
We have a splendid plank u;»n the
outlawing of war between nations;
why not apply the doctrine in this
convention?
Nobody seems to know what is com-
ing. “Lead kindly light: one step is
enough for me.” has become by unan-
imous consent the convention's battle
hymn.
EMPTY POCKETBOOKS
- WILL END IMPASSE
By JOSEPHUS DANIELS.
Copyright 1921.
NEW YORK July s—Do not trust
to a "hunch.”
In my young life I have found if I
followed my "hunch - ’ it was the best
course. All tbe week when it looked
as if the deadlock could not be broken.
I kept up heart by the hunch that we
would celebrate the Fourth of July
by nominating the next President of
thy United States.
So all day as the tide of battle
rose and fell and as there eamc an
occasional spurt of enthusiasm after
Indiana and Ohio withdrew their
candidates it seemed that the predic-
tion would be fulfilled. But as the day
wore away and the monotonous round
of voting was resumed with no pros-
pect of result my faith in a "hunch”
waned never again will the "hunch"
faith or superstition be my guide.
How then and when may we expect
a nomination?
This time I am prepared to give
the answer without suspicion of be-
ing superstitious.
WEATHER GOOD.
The deadlock will be broken when
tbe delegates are broke. Fortunately
in the prosperous days of Woodrow-
Wilson the Democratic delegates
saved up enough money to take a sum-
mer trip. Many of them planned after
the convention to go to New England
or the Jersey coast for their summer
vacations. Those who brought along
some money for this purpose are now
reconciled to take their vacation in
New York. In the main the weather
has been good.
The hotels ought to reduce the rates
to the delegates and we will take our
summer trips in this city. The mayor
and the people have done all in their
power to make our stay pleasant. (I
except those in the gallery who have
shown bad manners but compared
with the many who have been so
courteous they are not very numer-
ous and New Yorkers share with
others regret that the number was as
large as it was.)
GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP.
The letter of William G. McAdoo
last night requesting the convention
to reverse its action in the afternoon
was well received. It is to be re-
gretted there was any objection to
unanimous consent. It is without
precedent for a candidate to address
a convention during the balloting.
resolution was overruled by Chairman
Walsh.
OPPOSITION IS FOUND.
The effect of the resolution would
be to abolish nt the same time the
unit rule und the rule requiring two-
thirds to nominate. From many
parts of tbe floor there were objec-
tions and questions nnd William Jen-
nings Bryan and others sought to
have the proposition put into a form
where separate parts of it could be
voted on separately.
Another objection was that the na-
tional convention had no authority to
dissolve a unit rule imposed on any
state delegation by its state conven-
tion but Senator Walsh with a loud
bang of the gavel overruled that con-
tention.
After considerable discussion and
confusion the chairman also held that
the proposal to vote on separate parts
of the resolution indiidually was out
of order.
M'ADOO PEAK 530.
MeAdoo reached his highest point
of the week of 530 votes on the 69th
ballot and held 528 1-2 on the 70th.
20 1-2 less than a majority and
202 1-2 less than two-thirds of those
necessary for a nomination.
Smith's vote fluctuated throughout
the day within n narrow range just as
it had done throughout. Starting at
338 1-2. his highest figure on the
62nd ballot it ended at 334 1-2 on
the 70th.
The field of favorite sons despite
the withdrawn! of Senator Ralston of
Indiana and James M. Cox of Ohio
with the elimination of Chairman
Walsh from tbe complimentary cate-
gory still held nine names nnd repre-
sented 262 votes on the last ballot
of the night session despite the fren-
zied drive launched toward the end
by the McAdoo forces.
John W. Davis retained third plncc
with 67 votes a gain of 6 1-2 for the
day ami Newton D. Baker who de-
spite his protests received the Cox
strength after the latter's withdrawal
was fourth with 56. Senator Under-
wood of Alabama receiv’d 37 1-2 Sen-
ator Glass of Virginia 25 Senatot
Robinson of Arkansas 21. Governor
Ritchie of Maryland 16 1-2. former
Senator Saulsbury of Delaware 6.
Governor Bryan of Nebraska 3 and
Senator Owen of Oklahoma 2.
fTAUAN~POLE FLIGHT
POSTPONED FOR YEAR
ROME. July s—The air expedi-
tion to the North Pole under the di-
rection of Lieutenant Locatelli or-
ganization of which with tbe co-op-
eration of officials of the Italian air
service wan announced yesterday has
been definitely postponed until next
year because of lack of time for prep-
arations. Lieutenant Locatelli ex-
perta to wait Spitzbergen soon to ac-
quaint himself with the preparations
which will be necessary. He will re-
turn to Italy in time fo” the flight
across the broadest part of the Atlan-
tic. which will be attempted by Ital-
ians thia year.
FIREMEN TO FIGHT
MOSQUITO MENACE
Aid of city firemen will be enlisted
in the war on mosquitoes in Son An-
tonio. This was agreed Friday at a
conference between Fire nnd Police
Commissioner Phil Wright and J. G.
Hollingsworth in charge of the cam
paign. Mr. Hollingsworth represents
the United States Public Health Ser
vice.
-Firemen last year rendered invalu
able aid in athmping out moaquitoea.”
Mr. Hollingsworth said “and their
help is needed this year.”
Commissioner Wright said that us
mgny firemen as can be spared will
be detailed on the work.
The most difficult problem Mr
Hollingsworth said is getting prop
erty owners to keep their premises
dear of stagnant water. The family
rain barrel nnd tin cans which catch
water are the greatest menaces as
they furnish breeding places for mos
quitocs.
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
Doubtless the belief that the ancient
precedent was sound and ought not
be departed from was deep seated
with many delegates. But when th;
request came from Mr. Roosevelt the
Smith manager whose course has
been praiseworthy it would have been
a gracious thing for the friends of all
candidates to have acceded to it even
if some believed the request ought not
to have been made. Most of the Me-
Adoo men voted against it.
When the news reached Mr. McAdoo
after the convention had adjourned
he promptly requested his friends
through the California delegation to
favor the invitation they had opposed
in tbe afternoon.
In politics ns in everything else
it pays to be a good sport. And Mc-
Adoos letter showed he possessed that
quality.
HARD BOILED.
The Bryan speech for McAdoo did
not stampede the eonvention. A rat-
tling good speech by Governor Smith
would n« have stampeded the conven-
tion. These delegates listeu ami shout
and sometimes act as if they didn't
know what they were doing. Don't
believe it. They have been here so
long they arc bard boiled and noth-
ing less than a Demosthenes and
Cicero and Daniel Webster rolled
into one could stampede them.
Governor Smith no doubt would
have charmed many. But he could no
more stampede the convention to his
candidacy than Mr. Bryau could stam-
pede it to McAdoo.
But most delegates wanted to hear
him. They wanted a release from the
dreary roll call and Governor Smith
whether you favor him or oppose
him is an engaging personality.
ANOTHER DAY.
It is a pity all the candidates in
the city were not invited to speak.
They might have shed light. They
might help to a solution.
When you are lost - in a forest any
light i» welcome.-
P. S. —I have been given another
day to make good my hunch. I have
just learned through Mr. W. It. Beam-
ish of Philadelphia a descendant of
Benjamin J. Franklin in all things
except blood that the Declaration of
Independence was not signed until
July 5 so I have still until Saturday
midnight to make good my prediction
about the nominee. I have still to
designate the exact hour.
COUNTRY LASSES ..
COME IN LATE BUT
FIND HOTEL OPEN
The latest in hotel circles is
now out.
The room-clerk at a large San
Antonio hotel reports that two
country lasses evidently un-
used to the vicissitudes and
experiences of traveling came
up to him. and after register-
ing asked what time the hotel
closed its doors as they would
be out rather late that night.
"We never close" he answer-
ed.
"Oh! Well I'll be out late.”
They came back at 9 o'clock.
WORKERS SEE
YEGGS BLOW
SAFE DOOR
Dnring enough to blow .the door
from a safe in the Mission Ice and
Fuel Company plant 226 Rivas street
while employes of the company forked
within twelve feet of them a gang of
yeggmen Saturday morning forced
their way into the safe and then left
without obtaining their prize.
Twenty-five dollars in the safe was
left untouched.
The first indication that the place
was being robbed came to employes
who were pulling ice in a vault next
to the office with an explosion that
rocked the building. One of the men
investigated and saw the robbers at
work nnd told the others.
No one dared disturb them how-
ever but called police. Detectives
responded but the bandits had left
leaving their tools behind them.
Investigation showed that the safe
had been drilled slightly and a charge
ot nitro glycerine set off in it that
blew tbe door almost from its hinges.
CANDIDATE’S RACE
COSTS TWO CENTS
EVANSVILLE Ind. July 5 —
William McClain defeated for the
nomination for State Senator at the
recent primary has filed an expense
account of 2 cents.
The money he said was used to
buy a stamp with which to mail the
official declaration of his candidacy
for the office to the Secretary of
State. *
PARIS BAKERS END
PAY RAISE STRIKE
By the Aweclntrd Press. .
PARIS July 5— The striking
bakery workers have resumed their
duties having reached an agreement
with the employers whereby they will
receive increased pay- The employ-
ers in turn are authorized by the pre-
fect of the Seine to to increase the
price of bread under certain condi-
tions.
noo CHOICE
CANDNLYEND
MUDDLE
Convention Will Adjourn
Without Nominee If
Californian Unnamed.
By BURTON K. WHEELER
United States Senator from Minnesota
Copyright is-t.
NEW YORK July s.—William G.
McAdoo will be the nominee of this
Democratic national convention or
there will be a deadlock until adjourn-
ment.
Thio in the situation as I see it with
the convention entering its eleventh
day and with 70 ballots taken without
a result.
With Robert M. LaFollette nomi-
nated on a third party ticket it be-
hooves the Qemocrats assembled here
to name their candidate and do it
quickly. Every day that the conven-
tion delays every hour it quibbles
over religious or racial issues is mak-
ing votes for LaFollette. One cannot
help but feel that the dilatory tactics
and wrangling are evidences that the
Democratic party is disintegrating.
LaFollette is getting a flying start
with a definite economic program
while the Democratic leaders here
fight for selfish advantages.
ARE CRUSADERS.
When the Ku Klux Klan issue was
thrown into the convention it was
done with a view to eliminating Mc-
Adoo from tbe picture. That issue
however along with the treatment ac-
corded the McAdoo forces here in
New York has had the opposite ef-
fect.
McAdoo enters this eleventh day far
stronger than he was on the opening
day. His delegates have become solid-
ified and he has inspired them with a
belief that they are crusaders in a
righteous cause against the sinister
influences of the nation.
McAdoo has developed the only real
leadership iu the convention and this
after a bad start. Duc solely to his
magnetic personality he has inspired
his followers to an almost idolatrous
worship of him. They now firmly be-
lieve he will be nominated and that
he is the only candidate qualified to
lend the Democratic hosts in Novem-
ber.
WOMEN PRAY.
Some of the meetings of his follow-
ers especially women delegates re-
semble the old time religious camp
meetings. An instance was recorded
just yesterday when a hundred Me-
Adoo women delegates knelt in prayer
together after the Californian ad-
dressed them. Some were openly
weeping nnd all prayed for a victory.
These women who can and do vote in
the convention are determined to stay
here nil summer to nominnte MeAdoo
nnd they exert n tremendous influence
on the men in their delegations.
McAdoo's enemies marvel at his
ability to hold h ; « forces in line. Ex-
cepting for the first few days of the
convention he has outgeneraled the
Smith-Brennan combination in politi-
cal strategy. His open letter urging
that Governor Smith be invited to ad-
dress the convention after the dele-
gates voted down such an invitation
was a master stroke of strategy. It
forced the Smith-Brennan leaders to
bar their own chieftain from the hall
or accept a favor at McAdoo's hands.
They rejected the favor of course.
POLITICAL STUPIDITY.
This notion on the part of Brennan
who made the objection to Smith's
appearance further weakened his wan-
ing influence iu the convention. It
was but one of a long series of stra-
tegical blunders on tbe part of the
Smith-Brennan group. The filling of
the galleries with hoodlums who in-
suited the wives nnd friends of dele-
gntes. was one instance. Their fail-
ure to concentrate on a new candi-
date. after it became generally known
among leaders and delegates alike that
Smith could not win. was another
and it materially weakened the
Smith heritage in the convention
they lost a chance to win then by
switching their support to a new can-
' didate while delegates were lukewarm
[ to McAdoo; now. it is too late.
It would seem at this writing that
only a miracle can end the existing
deadlock without the nomination of
McAdoo. And when the record of the
convention is studied the Smith-Bren-
nan leaders can blame their own po-
litical stupidity.
DISCHARGED WORKER
KILLS DAIRY WOMAN
AND WOUNDS HELPER
TORREON Mexico July s.—Mrs.
Rosalia Navarro proprietress of ii
dairy is dead and her manager. Ro-
dolfo Hernandez is at the point of
death from wounds inflicted by a pis-
tol in the hands of Juan Ccrvis who
recently was discharged as manager
for the woman and replaced by Her-
nandez.
Since hLs discharge Cervis has open-
ly threatened to kill Mrs. Navarro
and Hernandez. He went to the house
and creating a disturbance emptied
his pistol at the two. The woman was
shot twice in the had and two balls
entered into the abdomen of the man
Both were removed to the hospital
where Mrs. Navarro died. Little hope
is held for the recovery of Hernan-
dez. The slayer js at large.
BABY DIES AFTER
EATING EXPLOSIVE
By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY July s.—Law-
rence Lee Latimer. 3. son of Mr. and
Mrs. C. Harvey Latimer died here
last night from the effects of eating
a “spit devil” an explosive substance
used in Fourth of July celebration.
Rebellion Breweth in :
Hearts of Multitude:
By HELEN ROWLAND
Copyright 192 4.
NEW YORK July s.—Behold my
daughter as Mount Aetna the con-
vention spurtteth and bubbleth and
threatened! to erupt. By the time
thou readest these words peradven-
ture all will be over and tbe dead-
lock at an end.
For rebellion breweth in the
hearts nnd sitteth upon the brows
of the multitude; nnd all the dele-
gates have "convention feet.”
"klieg eyes" next morning head-
aches brain fag. heart fag shouter's
throat and writer's ernmp from fol-
lowing tlic ballots.
The convention hath become as
tiresome ns the last kiss at the
end of a summer flirtation.
Yea it is as limp as a tulle hat
after a rainstorm.
It is as flat as a marcel wave on
a foggy day.
It is duller than n husband after
dinner and deadlier than last year's
popular song.
Even the policemen who guard
the doors nnd aisles nre standing
about upon one foot with one eye
closed nn<l the other half open.
The messenger boys stagger and
amble hither ami thither nnd have
Pot the energy wherewith to shove
thee out of the way.
The telegraph operators nod over
their instruments.
The reporters nppear more bored
and more restive than the polar bear
that paces up and down at the
zoo.
WALSH IS ONLY MAN
AWAKE IN CONVENTION
By O. O. M’INTYRE
Copyright 1934.
NEW YORK July s.—On coming
out of Madison Square Garden a
hurdy gurdy man wns grinding “it
may be forever.” I shot him through
the heart and passed on. After all
a man can't stanu everything. And
I did it for the wife and kiddies.
About nil this Democrntic conven-
tion did ns the sun dips behind the
Jersey hills is to make everybody
tired and spoil a perfectly good holi-
day.
It has proved about as exciting ns
n wntercross exhibition. There is an-
other fellow I am going to shoot be-
fore he leaves town. He is the
cuckoo up iu the gallery who gave
a near-splitting “yip-eel" every time
the name of Oscar Underwood was
mentioned.
WHOLE TOWN SOUR.
Sitting next to me was John Iron-
hand the boy clauque lender. Aside
from adenoids he owns a raccoon
coat. He was a booster for Al Smith.
I'm going to let him live just to
keep up the joke on his folks.
Today nobody seemed to be able
Io see why anyone was for anyone
else. I sent out for n locksmith to
see what he could do for a deadlock.
He enme in with n set of pliers ond
left biting himself in his neck.
The whole town seems to have
soured on this exhibition. Even the
cops were about as pleasant as a
tigress with an ingrown nail. Try-
ing to wiggle through the surge of
humanity at the garden doors one
snnrled at me:
“Hey you wake up there!”
SENATOR WALSH ALIVE.
Anil before 1 could reply he had
gone to sleep b’ iself—standing up.
There are more plain and fancy
standing up sitting down nnd lean-
to sleepers to the square inch in
New York today than there nre in
Philadelphia. New York now says
it with a yawn.
Only one man seemed vibrantly
alive. He was Senator Walsh. As
permanent —anil isn’t permanent a
darb of a word for him?—Chairman
ns has stood the gaff. Not once has
he lost his sang froid and serenity.
When a yawn struggles for expression
he shakes himself like a wet dog
and in a twinkling is ull merry and
bright again.
The most fatigued person however
of all I think was a drummer with
an Oklahoma band. He is a very
serious worker and his eyes are glued
to the music differentiating between
NATURE DISCUSSED
AS POWER SOURCE
By the AssoelntM Trees.
LONDON July s—The world pow-
er conference discussed the possibili-
ties ot '.he wind waves tides solar
rays natural steam wells and alcohol
as power producers.
The most interesting suggestion em-
anated from the Italian prince Pierro
Ginori Conti who declared that Amer-
ica could obtain power cheaper than
waterpow. r by utilizing the steam
springs of California and the Y’ellow-
stone and especially the "Valley of
Ten Thousand Smokes in Alaska.”
Sir Charles Bedford formerly chem-
ical adviser to the Indian government
said that the world did not need to
worry about exhaustion of its oil sup-
plies.
“Alcohol derivatives from waste veg-
etables will take their place” no de-
clared.
He added that India could produce
from waste straw enough alcohol year-
ly to equal the annual production of
petroleum. With the proper organi-
zation and under favorable conditions
he said it should be possible to pro-
duce alcohol .for about a shilling a
gallon. The streaker admitted how-
ever that alcohol would give only
about o-thirds of the mileage which
can be obtained on good gasoline.
SISTERS WATCH BOY
FALL TO HIS DEATH
NEWARK. N. J.. July s.—Many
persons including his two sisters saw
Robert Jackson of Perth Amboy
plunge to his death while standing np
in a roPcr coaster in a local amuse-
incut park.
The draperies which were so
glowing and brilliant upon tbe
opening day of this long endurance
test are beginning to look faded
and drooping and without hope;
even aas the face of a woman after
a hard day's shopping.
Only the two bands continue to
play on hopefully and imlefatigably
but the tunes they play are full of
significance.
For. no longer are they cheerful
ballads like "The Sidewalks of
New York.” and “Little Annie
Rooney." or warm Southern folk
songs like "My Maryland.”
Nay. they are “Linger Awhile”
nnd “We Won't Go Home Until
Morning" and “Oh. Dear What
Can the Matter Be 1”
And their plaintiveness toucheth
the heart and rnaketh the delegate
to feel sorry for himself.
And 'o in sheer weariness many
of the delegates who came with
hopeful optimism in their hearts
have already packed up their doll
rags and departed hence.
Yet that which striketh more
forcibly for the feminine is the ob-
stinacy and the tenacity of human
beings in a hopeless cause.
For they cannot ALL win the
nomination yet every candidate save
two elingeth to his faint chance as
a babe to a bowl of porridge.
Verily verily a political conven-
tion like unto a summer love af-
fair mar last TOO long.
SELAH!
fly specs and dotted quarter notes.
Twice he has fallen out of his chair
in a sound sleep but when they awak-
en him he hops back into place and
begins right where he left off. Some
day that fellow is liable to be leader
of his own band.
DESERTED VILLAGE.
New York awakened today to a
deserted village. The only people on
the streets were those tramping wear-
ily to the garden. Their eyes were
lustreless. They reminded me of dog-
tired iK-ons crossing the Mexican hills.
The only smile in town was the
collective smile of the hotel keepers.
Those lads should worry.
Even the ladies became grouchy.
One sitting near me yawning was ap-
proached by her husband.
"Keep away from me you draw
flies” she snapped.
I understand that beginning Mon-
day New York is to hold a “victim’s
week.” The parade will pass down
Fifth Avenue in wheel chairs and
on crutches. Volunteers for stretcher
benrers are needed. Only the strong
ueed apply.
Yesterday they were talking about
moving the convention. Some wanted
it carted to Cos Cob and others to
Pringle Ariz. I'm not even a dele-
gate but I had a suggestion. Take
it to Asia. There is a lot of itch
there and it would keep the boys
awake.
WIFE WONDERING.
One thing is certain New York is
going to have a hard struggle landing
another national convention. It is one
town where visitors don’t care if
they never go home.
Wives are besieging their delegate-
husbands with telegrams to come on
home. A few of them are getting a
little suspicious.
One delegate received this wire:
“It takes more t’ in a convention
to keep you there that long.”
Tlie only extortion at the conven-
tion has been among tbe hot dog ven-
dors. They have been gypping the
visitors 20 cents for a five rent
Coney Island dog. Still anyone who
would eat a convention “hot dog"
deserves no sympathy.
Another worn out visitor yesterday
wns the McAdoo rooster. Each time
the MeAdoo boomers begin to froth
the rooster is brought to the plat-
form. He was crowing lustily now
and then up until yesterday. But
yesterday afternoon he didn't have a
crow left. He just stares at the
mob.
HORSES KEEP VIGIL
BY DYING MASTER
PAINVIEW 111. July s—Two
horses pets of Charles G. Haycraft
and his son and daughter arc sharing
in a death vigil here together.
Informed death was near. Mr. Hay-
craft had his daughter telephone hi>
son John Hayeraft. who lives neat
Bethalto 111. 40 miles distant telling
him to drive his father's two horses
to Plainview. While son and daugh-
ter are beside their father's bed. the
two horses occasionally thrust their
heads through an open window to gaze
on their dying ma ster.
FRANK S. HASTINGS
DIES IN NEW YORK
By the Aaaoctated Pre»«.
PORT WASHINGTON. N. J.. July
5. —Frank Seymour Hastings banker
yachtsman and clubman died today
He was 71 years old. He was ex-
ecutor of the Grover Cleveland estate
president of the Trans-Atlantic Trust
Company and a director in several
oil refining companies. Mr. Hasting-
also was known as an organist and
composer of songs.
SECRETARY MELLON
SAILS FOR EUROPE
By the AMectated Free*.
NEW YORK. July s.—Andrew
W. Mellon secretary of treasury
his daughter. Miss Ailsa and a party
of friends left for Cherbourg today ;
on the Olympic. Mr. Mellon is go
ing for a vacation in England and
Scotland returning August 26.
JULY 5 1924.
am strong
IN SPITE on
OPPOSITION I
_ «
Record of Commoner at
Convention Disproves
Unpopularity Talk.
By EARLE C. REEVES
NEW YORK July 5.—A long'
long while ago when the Democratic'
convention was young delegates bust-
led importantly about the hotel lob-
bies and chanted the same refrain
with unanimity that was disconcert-
ing.
“We are for Smith" they said
“now and forever.”
Or: “We are for McAdoo first
last and always.”
Or. it was Underwood or Glass or
somebody. But it was always "from
now on.”
And we didn't believe them.
It was the most important bit of
advance news on this convention and
we didn't believe it.
NO RUBBER STAMP.
When the convention resumed its
monotonous battles today that was
still the dominant factor in the sit-
uation. Everybody is for somebody
—for all time.
And whether free and untrammeled
or instruction bound—the delegates
as singled minded as they used to
be made to appear to be when some-
body who hid behind the scenes told
them what to think.
"This convention is not boss ruled."
the arriving delegates told us. “We
will write our own platform and ■
not merely rubber stamp one that
has been forwarded to us from Wash-
ington. And we will select our candi-
date and not merely give perfunctory
approval to a machine made pro-
duct."
That was another sample of the
straight dope that was being handed
out way back there in the days when
the convention was young—and we
didn’t believe it.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
And thnt is what the convention
is suffering from today. It isn’t
bossed. It hasn’t been rehearsed and
there isn't anybody around the place
big enougu to tell it what to do and
see to it that it does as ordered forth-
with.
The convention is furnishing food
for thought for the politico-psycholo-
gist. For the astute gentlemen who
will sit down before desks and pre-
pare to direct publicity campaigns
and speech-making tours along the
lines calculated to do the most good.
They will have this one to ponder.
The national convention which has
broken all records for stubbornness
is also the one in tvhich women have
taken more prominent part than ever
before in history.
The delegations which are sound- .
est in standing pat seem from th<
press platform to contain the great-
est number Oi women delegates.
They are not weakening.
A lot of loose talk about the un-
popularity of Bryan runs the rounds •
—and finds superficial justification '
in the reception booes from the gal-
lery. and in attacks on him in New
York newspapers.
When the heat of battle subsides it
seems to be fairly obvious that the
Commoner has been among those
present popular or not. He wanted
a league referendum—and it is in the
platform. He wanted farm planks
nnd they are there. He wanted Ku
Klux excluded and it is not there.
He bombarded John W. Davis and
the Davis boom collapsed. He
s;>oke for McAdoo and was howled
and hissed down but McAdoo started
gaining from that moment.
It is a neat i ord —considering
that nobody else seems to get any
positive action out of the muss.
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Mathilde Wolf Shop has returned
from the market and arc now showing
smart mid-season styles.”
FRUIT PRICES LOW.
NEW ORLEANS. July s.—Ship-
ments of vegetables and fruit from
Louisiana and Mississippi brought
better returns in the last week but
prices are still unsatisfactory to
growers.
BEFORE BABIES
WERE BORN
Mrs Oswald Benefited by
Taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound
Girardville Pa.—“l took Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound oe-
fore my last two
babies came. It
keeps me in per-
fect health and I
am on my feet
getting meals and
doing all mv
housework un I
an hour before t »
baby is born
friend told m
take it and 1
used ten bo’
sincelheara a.-.-u'
it. I recommend the Vegetable t
pound whenever I can. Just yester.ia v
a friend was telling me bow miser-
able she felt and 1 said' If you
taking Lydia E. Pinkham's you wOl
feel fine/ Now she is takijm it. -
Mrs. P. J. Oswald Jr.. 40b west
Ogden St. Girardville Pa.
Mrs. Nicola Paluzzi Says
Mishawaka. Indiana. —“I took
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com-
pound for weakness before my babies
were born. 1 was weak and tirsa
out all tbe time and it helped ms.
When I had inward inflammationi ths
doctor treated me but did not he p
me so 1 tried Lydia E. Pinkham a
Sanative Wash and it tel ped me «
once.’’ - Mrs Nicola Palvzxl 41F
E. Broadway. Mishawaka Inciana.
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