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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
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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.
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(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
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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.
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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.
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resentatives of the anthracite oper
ators at the session of the anthracite
mine commission to the presentation
of any evidence tending towards
proving profiteering on the part of
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