TOE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, JUNE 2D, 1920 H m s I i: ii - i 5 H U n it i : ! f r It t; ! it P i if H n i : : i ? i Abiiitv Aaain to Create League Emotion Seen. SPEECH INDICATES. MAN Ovation TTpon TJnTCiling Picture of President at Convention Not Quite Spontaneous. . BT MARK SULLIVAN. (Copyright by the New York Evening Post Ino. Published Dy Arriniinoi-J SAN FRANCISCO, June 28. (Spe-1 cial.) The event of the opening day was Chairman Cummings' speech. That speech was in all respects adequate- to the occasion. It later on a Jam should develop here; if it should coma about that President Wilson i called upon to take a hand in naming the presidential candidate, and if he wants primarily a candi date who whole-heartedly believes in him and in his works and the league of nations; if, regardless of other qualifications, he seeks a man who has both the will and the capacity again to create in the country the emotion that It once hal about the lmtriin of nations, he could not do better. Judged by what happened to day, than choose Mr. Cummings. Session Keyed to Wilson. The whole of the opening session was quite reasonably successful. From the beginning it was very much keyed to President Wileson and the league of nations. As soon as the meeting was called to order the bank struck uti the "Star-Spangled Banner." Right t the oneninsr bars an American flag, probably the largest ever used indoors, was slowly dropped across the entire width of the hall, back of the chairman and in ths eyes ot the rlMfe-ates and the audience. A spotlight played on the center of the flag, and then, as the huge bunt ing was drawn back toward the ceil ing, the spot was found resting on a aintlnir of Wilson that had been Bln.-prt behind the flag. This, of course, was the signal for a demon ..-. i a i . .. rhfltjiu k lu 1110 AiueriLAU ii uuya " Thierry and then led up to an emo- uonai arrirmation inai mis wa under "the inspired and incomparable leadership of Woodrow Wilson." This time, as at all times when Mr. Cum mings mentioned Wilson, no snoweu the strong feeling that he has for Wilson, and he successfully infected tho crowd with his own emotion. Humorous Thrusts Made. Mr. Cummings then paid his re spects to the republicans' partisan ef forts to discredit the management of the war through invesigatlng com mittees, so-called "smelling commit tees." He said, "It does not lie in the mouths of those who conducted the "Spanish-American war to indulge In tha luxury of criticism." Some one in the audience yelled "embalmed beef. Mr. Cummings grinned in apprecia tion and then got a grateful burst of spontaneous laughter and applause by saying: "Despite all their invest! gations, not one single democratic official has been indicted or accused, and the only outstanding political dignitary in America who is moving in the direction of the penitentiary is Truman Newberry of Michigan. Then he made another successfully humorous thrust at the republicans by saying: "The republican party be came so fixed in its incorrigible habit HUICE REMAINS WHOLLY UNCERTAIN tvery ueterence Shown to President's Wishes. LEADERS DISLIKE McADOO Sentiment In Xew York Delegation for Ohio Governor Appears to Grow Weaker. of 4 SI n St (ration. The strict fact Is that the semonstration did not get under way very spontaneously. It was stlmulat rd by the band playing "Over There. "The Long. Long Trail" and other euphonic accelerations of emotion. Audience Is Led On. Also, many members of the national committee, seated on the platform, did what they could by leading the audience, notably a woman member from Oklahoma, who made use of white handkerchief to call the audi ence to its feet. But It seemed that, however the audience may have cheered, the bulk of the delegates re mained unresponsive. It was a long time before there began that march of the delegates led by their state standards which is a feature of all national conventions. In the New York delegation there was a dispute among the delegates as to whether the standard should be raised or whether the New York del egates should join the procession a all. Franklin RooBevelt led the ef fort thus to honor Wilson, against the physical restraint of some of his fellow delegates. A young man, with a musically resonant voice, Bruce Kremer of Mon tana, becomingly cutaway-coated and otherwise good looking in a dark eyed movie sort of way, pounded th gavel until he got order. Then he aid that "the delegates, the alter nates and the audience will refral from smoking," with a gesture deference to the women which is part of a most obvious intention of the democratic management, expressed not merely In small acts of courtesy, but more conspicuously In matters of principle. Ornate Youth Makes Speech. The women have received many times as much by this convention as , ,the republicans at Chicago grudingly conceded to feminine demands. And the democrats who have taken the lead in giving it, have done it hand somely and generously.- Then the ornate young man, after introducing the priest who offered prayer, made a speech himself. There was not much to it. There was a lot about "peace, prosperity and world leadership." The republican party la "a vicious, rabid old scold." It is "a party of destruction." The demo cratic party, on the other hand. "Is almost as old as the country Itself." But it isn't much use to quote more from that speech. It had hardly enough thought to engage the intel lect; and the speaker was a little too perfectly dressed and perfectly combed, and altogether too shiny on the surface, to give the improssion of an Ingratiating policy, or otherwise to stimulate the audience to real emotion. Gam Fired at Start. One thing he did do. He fired the gun at the start and fired it strongly ana empnaticauy. in nis closing sen tences. he said the democratic partv would "unfalteringly meet the world s demand for "peace," and otherwise gave the idea that the convention would take the field aggressively in behalf of the league of nations. The ringing character of the declaration brought an amount of applause that friends of the league must have taken as a good omen. At the end of young Mr. Kremcr's speech, the band for no apparent rea son played a few bars of "Dixie Then there was the reading of the call and of the roll of temporary officers recommended. It all went through smoothly. Fred Lynch of Minnesota moved the adoption of the recom mendations, and Chairman Cummings came to the platform, escorted by Senator Phelan of California, Gover nor Smith of New York and Miss Helen Grenfell of Colorado. Now we shall have the keynote speech. If there is either thought or oratory or conviction of deflnlteness of pro gramme in the democratic party, we ougnt 10 le&rn n now. j Mr. Cummings was rather long getting warmed up, and. by the same token, the applause was rather long in getting lmaer way. I'ne chair man s first, gesture came at the firs point, where he touched the thin his heart is In, the league of nations. He became very earnest when he said of the republican platform: "The od pressed peoples of the earth will look to it in vain: It contains no messaza of hope for Ireland, no word of mercy for Armenia and It conceals a sword for Mexico. It contains no thought. no purpose which can give Impulse or thrill to those who love liberty an hope to make the world a safer and happier .place." At this premonition of what was to be the burden of th speech, the league of nations, there was mo-ving applause. The next ana a much more con rpicuous burst of applause, helped in this case by the band falling back on dependable "Dixie, came when th speaker catalogued the achievemen of the war. He praisea ail the ma tcrial things done under difficulty, the transporting of the troops to Ku rope, the selective draft, the appoint meat ot eJPrshing .and. tne-Iike He pic of conducting investigations that it finally turned to the fruitful task of nvestlgating itself. The revelation isclose the fact, long understood by the initiated, that the recent meeting at Chicago was not a convention ut an auction." Wilson Held "Sick at Heart. Mr. Cummings plainly grew upon the audience. For himself he stead ly ascended In strength and fervor. By this time he had reached tne place where his heart was Wilson and the eague of nations. He described the president's sickness, sickneBS of the body and "sickness of the heart which comes from the knowledge that polit ical adversaries, lost to the larger sense of things, are savagely destroy ng not merely the work of men nds, but the world s hope of set tied peace. This was the affliction, this the crucifixion." This part of the speech was a sol emn and moving effort. It ought to have brought more response than it got. A few persons In the audience did shout "Shame on them!' but it was unhappily clear here as it is throughout the country as a whole. that the sympathy which a generous people would like to show a stricken man was rebuffed and aborted in the beginning by the inexplicable policy of concealment and evasion practiced by those who stood between the pres ident and his people. Nevertheless, Mr. Cummings did get unmistakable approval and affection both for himself and his subject when he said: Wilson Called Immortal. 'Generations yet unborn will look back to this era and pay their tribute of honor to the man who led a people through troublous waters of the val ley of selfishness up to the mountain tops of achievement and honor, and there showed them the promised land of freedom and safety and fraternity. Whether history records that they en tered in or turned their .backs upon the vision, It is all one with him he is immortal." From this point on, the speech be came a real oration. Then came ex alted words and high emotion. All the rest of the speech dealt with two themes, President Wilson and the league of nations. And in every word or allusion to these two subjects there was the burning feeling that only a real orator can furnish; that only man can produce who has no mere superficial duty of indorsement, but has genuine and heartfelt conviction in what he says. He dealt first with the president's health. Deep Sympathy Is Shown. rie treated it with the deep sym pathy of a true friend and the hurt in dignation of a true sympathizer against not merely those who have been unfriendly to the president but even against those who have failed to rise above indifference to the tragedy of a man who has given his strength and practically his life to a great cause. "Congress," he said, "during all this period when the whole heart of America ought to have been flow ing out in love and sympathy, did not find time amid its bickerings to adopt one resolution of generous import or extend one kind inquiry as to the fate of the president of their own country." From that condemnation of the fail ure to give sympathy to the president he passed to the subject that was the burden of his speech and the thing that was obviously nearest his own heart. "And what," he said, "was the president's offense? Merely this: That he sought to save . future genera tlon from the agony through which this generation has passed. That he made a too generous estimate ot man ind; that he believed that the ideal- am which had made the war a great piritual victory could be relied upon to obtain the legitimate fruit of the war, the reign of universal peace." Lawyer's Argument Used. Then for a little time Mr. Cummings lowered himself from the heights of oratorio feeling and devoted himself to a lawyer's argument, with quota ions from the documents, giving day nd date, to prove that the United States and all the allied nations as well have made definite promises make a league ot nations and are ound in honor to carry those prom ises out. From this he passed on, taking up the objections to the treaty and dis roving them. Then once more he became the orator, burning with the theme that illed his heart. Concluding his ar gument against both the objections and the men who are arrayed against the league of nations, he turned to determined and exalted expression of the purpose of the party: "We support without flinching the only feasible plan for peace and justice. We will not submit to the repudia tion of the peace treaty, All in ail, the speech was Incom parably better in its composition and delivery and. more moving in its re ception, than Senator odLge s keynote speech at Chicago. Mr. Cummings did a good day s work for himself. Further than that, Woodrow Wilson and everyone else who has real faith in the league of nations has reason to be grateful for this speech and this day. Real support of the league of na tions'is a religion, and Homer Cum mings has that religion. There was one conspicuous omls sion. In a long catalogue of brief llusions to democratic achievements. there were some 20 honorable men tions. the seamen s act, good roads, rural credits, farm loan banks, and the like; but no allusion whatever to such part as the Democrats have had in the adoption of prohibition. Per haps too much emphasis ought not to be laid on this. Mr. Cummings knows as well as the rest of the United States that prohibition is a disputed point here. THE MILLER SCHOOL of Calculating and Bookkeeping Machines BY MARK SULLIVAN. Copyright by the New York Evening Post, Inc., Published by Arrangement. SAN FRANCISCO. June . 28. (Spe cial.) The leaders are all here. The delegates are all here. .Every element out of which the nomination will come is now in existence and on the ground. Every element that is to say, except one, that is political. Whether President Wilson will have a hand in the nomination, whether he cares to take a hand, whether be would refuse to take a hand if it were put up to him, whether it will be put up to him all these are an uncer tain quantity. Conceding that this element Is wholly within the world of specula tion, these things can be said about It. On the' other hand, your corres pondent cannot find any person who knows that President Wilson has ever discussed with any of the advis ers he had for the past two months the question of who the nominee should be. On the other hand, your correspondent is able to find several persons who Inform him that with respect to several of the White House callers the president's conversation conspicuously excluded any mention of individual possibilities for the nom ination. White House Interests Guarded. At the same time. It must be con ceded as a probability that if the convention gets into a jam or into any situation approaching a deadlock. President Wilson would undoubtedly be appealed to. There Is constant communication between the party management here and the White House, and there are several able leaders here who have both the wish and also the authority, to say noth ing of the ability, to look after the White House interests. So far the of ficial acts of the national committee and the convention have been deter mined by deference to President Wil son's wish and feelings. This has been accomplished in spite of much opposition, especially in the case of the elimination oE Wilson's enemy. Senator Reed. If the occasion arises when Presi dent Wilson either ventures or his own initiative to take a hand In the naming of the candidate, or is ap pealed to by the convention with a request that he take a hand in case of a jam, in either event Wilson would have much power. Omitting that un certain element, and taking all the other elements as they exist here now the man who will start off the ballot ing with the largest vote is Attorney. General Palmer. But Palmer has many handicaps. The chief one is party strategy. The republican party has named as its candidate an extreme conservative and otherwise is making. its appeal to the country on wholly conservative grounds. Political strat egy calls for the democrats to take the other side and name a candidate who will appeal to progressives, lib erals and radicals. Obviously Palmer Is not such a candidate. Cox Next to Palmer. The man who, at this moment, next to Palmer, seems to have the greatest strength here is Cox. But it is hard to persuade disinterested observers that Cox is likely to get the nomina tion. In the first place Cox is not an outstanding figure. He is not a national character. He has no such relation to the public as McAdoo, for example, has. He is merely a good governor of a pivotal state. Aside from that, his personality means lit tle or nothing to the delegates or to the public at large. In the next place Cox has become Identified with the wets in the convention. The bulk of his support has come from the wet leaders and it Is apparent to every body who has been here for a week that during that week the power of the wet leaders has been steadily declining. Then recently one of Cox's man agers tried publicly to separate Cox from his wet following. lt was said that Cox would be -entirely content to run on a dry platform. This tended to undermine the confidence and loy- lty of the wet leaders who have been for him. In addition to this the thrusting forward In the gossip of the delegates, and in the newspapers as well, of Cox's divorce and remarriage. as a factor affecting his availability has disturbed many who freely con cede Cox's complete impeccability on this point; but who think It would oe misfortune to have it bandied about in the campaign as it has been here during the past few days. All in all, it must be said that at this moment Cox's strength is much below what was at the beginning of. the gather ing here. - Leaders Unfriendly to McAdoo. Next comes McAdoo. A week ago when McAdoo made his formal wnyi- drawal, the only persons here were leaders. These leaders are for the most part unfriendly to McAdoo be cause they charge him with being un generous in the matter of rewarding party workers with patronage. They were glad to get McAdoo s withdrawn and were eager to make that event final so far as McAdoo Is concerned. But within a few days the delegates began to arrive and It was very quickly apparent that among them McAdoo is popular. Again and again the whole state delegations, as well as little groups among the delegations of the larger states, began to demand that McAdoo be nominated in spite o his withdrawal. It became perfectly apparent that these individual delegates, coming from the counties and the small dis tricts, were able to report the senti ments of Individual democratic vot ers, and the report was that he Is the only man for whom there is a wide spread call among the democratic vot ers of the country. Due to this fact. the constantly Increasing body of del egates that came in with every arriv ing train accelerated the sentimen Leer: A combined course of adding, calculating and bookkeeping machines, of special in terest to high school students and graduates. iTo meet the demand from BANKS, BUSI NESS HOUSES and RAILROADS for trained employes we have made this spe cial offer, which will not be repeated. Enter the Business World Prepared by Attending an Accredited School Free Employment Bureau for Office Positions Courses Begin July 6 and 15 Registrations Accepted to and Last 6 Weeks July 10 903-4 Yeon Building that he should be nominated In spite of his withdrawal. At this writing the McAdoo senti ment is at the crest of the wave so far, and although It may not show in the early balloting, he is increasingly i strong today and ought to remain in trinsically in the strongest position among the three leaders. Ot course, where the rules require that a candi date must get a two-thirds in order to be nominated, it is apparent that if the strength of each of the leaders tends to stay with him stubbornly, then a jam is possible. In such a Jam, McAdoo might well be the strongest and yet fail to win. New York Delegates Wavering. For the next few days probably the one single factor that, will go farthest toward determining whether he can get it or not will be the atti tude of the delegation from his home state. New York. For many weeks the New York state leaders have been saying they would not vote for Mc Adoo. During last week tne New Y'ork state leaders gave the impres- lon of being strongly for Cox. Just now It is odvious tnai tne new xom delegation as a whole is much less friendly to Cox. It is also evident that In the delegation and especially among the women aeiegates, mere is strong favor for McAdoo. Also there are many Individuals among the men delegates from New York who strong- y favor him. . Irv addition to that, among the New lorK delegation as a whole there is general belief that he would give them the best chance of winnln g. For the present, so far as It has crystallized, it is probably the inten tion of the New York state delegation to give a complimentary vote in the early ballots to their governor. Smith If thereafter In the balloting New Y'ork as a whole, or In large part, should turn to McAdoo, it can be taken as fairly convincing evidence of reasonable expectation of success for him. Your correspondent feels Justified in expressing the judgment that .he part of the New York delegation which is eager to turn to McAdoo is the better and more enlightened part of It. NAME TORN FROM flOTE EVIDENCE IS SWALLOWED BV WITNESS IX COURT. Physician Called and Paper, Still Legible, Is Recovered From Man's Stomach. have . a photograph on file at the prison which closely resembles the prisoner. Davies says the photograph is that of his brother. The photograph was taken in a Canadian prison and local peniten tiary officials have written for addi tional information. Davies was quite prominent In local baseball circles for a time and is well known throughout the Willamette valley. dance at the high school gymnasium Friday night. All members of the class have been Invited to attend. The committee in charge of arrange ments consists of Mrs. Harriet How ard. Mrs. Mary White. Miss Ethel Clark, Miss Marjorie Stearns, Stanley Northrup, Linton L. Davies and Will iam Detering. TRAINS T0M0VE FASTER Running Time to Spokane Will Be Cut Half Hour. Half an hour will be cut off the running time of Oregon-Washington trains to. Spokane, with consequent new schedules, was announced yes terday to take effect July 11. Train No. 11, now leaving Spokane at 8:40 P. M., will leave at 9 r arriving at Portland at 8 A. M., in place of 8:15. while No. 12 will leave Portland at 7:30 P. M. in place of 7 p. M., arriving at Spokane at the original time. Double river service to north beach points will be Inaugurated Saturday. The Harvest Queen and Hassalo will leave Portland, alternating daily, ex cept Sunday, at 8 P. M., arriving As toria at I A. M., traveling thence to Megler. On the return trip the ves sels will leave Astoria daily, except Saturday, at 7 P. M. A special Satur day night beach special leaving 10 P. M. Is being arranged. Effective July 1, rates will be reduced from $2.43 to (1.6S, to conform with the rates quoted by competing river lines. Class Plans Reunion. T, Tnnn. 1915. nf Washington ested In Davies' case and declare they "high school will hold a reunion and SALEM, Or., June 28. (Special.) Judge G. G. Bingham's department of the circuit court was thrown Into tur moil today when Barton E. Davies, Salem umpire, who was suing his wife to recover approximately S1S00 al leged to be due on a promissory note tore the purported signature of Mrs. Davies from the document and swal lowed, it in the presence of officers nd witnesses. Mrs. Davies had testified that the note was a forgery, whereupon the plaintiff asked that he be allowed to examine the document Sheriff Need ham and County Clerk Boyer detected Davies in the act of swallowing the signature portion of the note and hastily summoned a physician. Dr. n. D. Byrd responded to the call, and with the aid of a stomach pump, the evidence was recovered. Tfie signa ture was still legible when taken from Davies' stomach and later was introduced in evidence. Davies is the defendant in a divorce action filed against him by his wife, and also under arrest on a charge of breaking into the home of Mrs. Davies' sister and dragging his wife Into the yard where he beat her. Pen itentiary officials have become Inter Idaho Wheat Drops 2 0 Cents. LEWISTOV. Idaho. June 28. (Spe cial.) With a bumper wheat crop as sured for the central Idaho region. market conditions are proving de cidedly unsettled following the re moval of federal control. Early this season some farmers contracted their crops for 12.50. but during; the past two weeks doubt as to transportation facilities and other factors have caused a setback in the prevailing quotations. The present offering is 82.30, and It Is believed by local ship pers that this price probably will pre. vail during the summer. Phone your want ads to The Orego. nlan. Main 7070. Automatic B0-95. 118 NAVY ENLISTMENT URGED Governor Asks 500 Young Men of Oregon to Join Service. SALEM, Or., June 28. (Special.) Governor Olcott in a proclamation Is sued here today urged enlistment In the United States navy of 600 young men from Oregon during tne montns of July and August. It was said that the recruits were needed to replace men who enlisted for the duration of the war with Germany and have been discharged. The campaign for recruits In Ore gon is being carried on by Howard N. Smith., chief yeoman, who was here today conferring with the gov ernor. Mr. Smith's headquarters are at San Francisco. Assisted by em ployes of the local recruiting offices Mr. Smith this afternoon showed moving pictures of navy life in the corridors of the statehouse. Only 5 More Days MILLION DOLLAR FUR. SA LE WAS Now Comes the Great H WEAR SALE The second of our series of DRASTIC PRICE REDUCTION Sales. Monday was the opening day of a week's rapid selling and we advise our thrifty patrons to be on hand early. 400 Boys' Wash Suits of Highest Quality Regatta, Paul Jones and Manhattan Every suit guaranteed fast color perfect in workmanship in short "regular goods." 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