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d Mail MEDFOR The Weather Maximum yesterday 71 Minimum today 41 Fiftieth Year. Daily Fifteenth Year. MEDFOHD, OR IX! OX, WEDNESDAY, .TUXK 9, 1920. NO. G8 J0HNS0NN0T NOMINEE.BUT NOMINATOR Hiram Looms as Picturesque Figure, Able to Get What He Wants Except Toya Chicago a Babble With No . Direct Line on Choice "Keep the Party Toiicther," Chief Aim. (liv H. W. Until) CHICAGO, Juno !). (Special to Tim Mai Trilmne ) Johnson will not hi' nominated lint he will nominate. Tlml is the apparent situation us the side-shows end ami the hour for the opcuiu-.! of the "big show" approaches. It is the result of n three-ilay's im mersion in the most eonl'usinir. con flicting lialiel of noises that has over disfigured a spot on this terrestiu! planet. The old-timers all say, and Ihe old-timers ought to know, that n political convention never opened with the dnpesters more coiuplct'.'ly nl sea. adrift in a torrent of claims, conjectures, surmises, without sail, rudder or anchor. v Hat one thinir is certain. After his triumphal entrv into Chicago on Thursday "Hell lioaring" lliia'n stands out as the one picturesiiue and comuiuudinir figure, the one candi date who is not going to drizzle out as a dud, or he laughed out as a false alarm, win. may he beaten us fai ns the nomination is concerned, but who is certain to have a hand in de ciding who (he nominee is to be. The convention to date is like n billion dollar poker name with Hiram Johnson "wild." Now n "wild" card in a poker mime is worth nothing in itself, hut it is nlmiirhtv powerful in a combination. So with Hiram, lie promises to be nothing in himself, but tiie candidate lie combines with is going' to' bo Iho victor, wherefore Hiram in a sense, is hound to ho n victor also. Tin., prediction is bascfd upon the one most conspicuous feature of (lie pol'licnl merry-go-round thus far. This feature is the deep-seated mis sion for Jiannonv. However turbulent and irregular the political atmos phere may be outside of the Coliseum, inside the shibboleth will be "Don't :ock the Republican boat." One -(in find as manv opinions of the final outcome as there arc delegates, but th denomination of all is "Keep the party together!" The ghost of Theo. dore Woosevelt and tile niyniorv of V.il'2 hang heavilv today over the Chi cn'jo Coliseum. Even the insurgent Hiram nvses his right paw and pro claims "never attain." So, whatever else mav happen. Iiis lurv repeating itself to the lane of .."Onward Christian Soldiers" seems the least likelv anil with Hiram stick, ing to lu ship and his delegation . slicking to Hiram, as thev will to the last flicker. it is niorallv er lain Unit the senator from California, failing to become captain, will come powerful close to being .second in . command. Of course, the control ai no time is I'kelv to lie with Hiram. The nomi nee can be selected easily enough without the aid and over the protests' ol Mr. Johnson. Hut the point is the old guard don't want to do it. They are in a mood to conciliate, cajole i.nd cnrifs the Sacramento llear-Cat to the last and ultimate limit. In short, thev are eager and anxious to do everything for Hiram hut non.it nate him. Wherefore, one returns to the starting point, llirnin Johnson will not be nominated, but he will nominate. . Hut who will it be And upon what terms will it be done? Ave, there's the rub, in fact, h whoV Swedish massage of them. And hce "ie man's guess is probablv as good V'; another's. I'ndeninblv General Wood lead- the tield on paper, end the orirairzed work now being don? among the delegate" for the genera!. is fur and awav ahead in its zeal. lliorouvhness ami aggressiveness of that of nnv other candidate. Tint somehow no one outside of hi im meiliate circle seeing able to see the I'cnerel go bevoad the .100 mark, when !!':! is the Inekv number. That is -in ore except Teddv Hoosevelt. Jr.. who :sn't on the "enernl's political staff. Imt is confident of victory on the .".111 or lith ballot. As M Hoover. He in't here and the papers don't mention him. Above the Johnson headciuarters vign that eTtends nearlv the entire length of the I'onare-s hotel. and in Bolshevik rd letters 1 0 feet hiirh. is a modest FRANK O. LOWDEN . rJ ymsmsxii DEMPSEY SCORES POINT, BAR LETTERS OF WIFE, I SAX FItAXCISCO, Juno 0. Tho testimony of Mrs. Maxine Dumpsoy, former wife of "Jack" Dempsey, world's heavyweight champion, In his trial for alleg ed evasion of the draft, in re gard to confidential communica tions between them while they were husband and wife, were ruled out today by Judge llau rico T. Dooling in the United States district court. Two wit nesses were put on the stand by the prosecution early in today's session to prove that his wife and parents were not dependent on him for support. Helen Goodman of Pasco, "Wash., told tho jury that JJempsoy's wife Maxino was a woman of the night lifG In Pasco for three or four weeks in 1917. . A. F. of L. Enters Resolution for Voluntary Arbitration to End "Wage Advancina and Price Jump ing" Garment Workers Ask Re lease of "Social Idealists" Irish Start Fuss on League. MONTH KAL. June 0 Iiecommen dution that workers and employers of the United Stairs create a voluntary a rhit ration body to settle labor's yrievancori was placed before the an nual convention of the American Fed eration of Labor todav us n means of biini:inr about a "more harmon ious relationship" and reducing trc hi'jh cost of living. The resolution declared that estab lishment of the commission would end the present cvcle of waire-advancins and price-increasing ''which it seems utter follv to continue." Should the federation accept the proposal, the executive council would be instructed to extend an invitation to ''the associated industrials and siich oilier representative bodies of business men as in their iudinnent are necessarv to meet with them for the purpose of devising wavs and means of creating the voluntary arbi tration bodv.'' Alexander Ilowat. representing ih! Kansas State Federation of Labor, introduced n resolution condemninT Governor Allen for bis "despicable efforts to enslave the working cbiss of Kansas, and finally the working class of the T'nited States in prosti tuting h office as governor of Kan sas to the work of erueifying the working clas-' The International Ladie1 darmr-nt Workers' union asked that the con vention eall on congress imrnediat dy to investigate the "deplorable condi tions of the women's garment indus- Irv and tn enable effective legi--)a- IvE'IVIaDE 70 END INDUSTRIAL UNREST11PERI0D Three Dark Horses and a Pair of "Wim r-"ir GQMPERS WAGESWAR II! STRIKE Labor to Oppose Federal Law Modeled After Kansas Measure Use of Force in Mexico Is Descried Regulation of Alien Immigration Asked Other Desired Planks Pre sented to Republicans. CHICAGO, June 9. Vigorous op position to federal legislation similar to tho Kansaa Industrial court mea sure to unrestricted immigration and to the use of Injunction proceedings in strikes was contained In a set of "demands" which Samuel Gompors and Matthew A. Wo 11 of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, submitted today to the resolutions committee of the republican national conven tion. "Legislation which proposes to make strikes unlawful or to compel the wage earners to submit their grievances or aspirations to courts or to governmental agencies, is an inva sion of the rights of the wage earners and when enforced makes for indus trial serfdom and slavery." the state ment said regarding tho Kansas law. Labor pledged itself, it added, to uphold the federal law protecting Its rights against "unwarrantable issu ance of writs of .injunction, either prohibitory or mandatory." "Jt is essential," continued the statement, "that additional legisla tion regulating immigration should be enacted based on two fundamental principles namely that the flow of immigration must not at any lime exceed tho nation's ability to assimi late and Americanize foreigners com ing to our shores, and that at. no time shall immigration be permitted when there exists an appreciable degree of unemployment." Other demands included: "Immediate relief from high cost of living burdens; extension of the farm loan act to give credit to all properly organized co-operatives and individual farmers; issuance of a monthly statement by the department of labor on the cost of manufacture of staple articles; prompt federal in vestigation of profits and the making accessible of all income and other tax returns; observance, enforcement and extensions of the federal maximum eight hour law in all civil depart ments of the government; revision of the federal compensation law to care for those who are not represented by state laws as well as sufferers from Industrial accidents and occupational diseases; exclusion from Inter-state commerce of products ot convict la bor; repeal of the labor provisions of the Ksch-Cummins law; direct elec tion of federal judges by the people for terms not exceeding Hix years and action to prevent federal legis lation being held unconstitutional. The statement also declared against the use of force by the United States in Mexico to compel Mexicans to m't the demands of persons who purpose to "exploit" Mexico's resources. $75,000 Mill Fire. SEATTLK, June 9. Kire starting in an overheated kiln destroyed the Seattle Box Factory and Lumber yard today entailing n lo-s in excess of STILL ANOTHER CABINET IGNS POST; LONG TO ENTER POLITICS WASHINGTON', Junti !). Rrorkenridue Lctm; lltinl assist nnt socretiirv o!' stiit lias ro sinctl unci his rcsiunnliim lias heeii acreptod liv I'lTsideut Wil son. Mr. liiimr retires to malic the rai'c for thu nomination Tor I'nik'd Status senator from his homo state, Missouri, and has left for St. Louis to take per sonal ehai'nc of his eanipaiun. ' GUILT, WIFE AIDEO SAI.EM, Juno 9. Jesso Mulllnix yestqrday pleaded guilty before JadKo UinKhnm when arraigned on a charge of assaulting T. W. Slelgor, prom inent Marion county farmer, with in tent to kill. Sentence will ho pro nounced Monday. Stclgor was shot four times by Mulllnlx one night last March at tho Stciger home. Mrs. Steiger, wife of Stciger, charged with conspiring with Mulllnlx to kill her husband, will he tried In September, It was announced. CAN HAVE EVERYTHING ' '-fl) PS1 A f r 4 m A ' - A "Runners Up HERBERT HOOVER First Woman Orator Before Any Convention Cliauncev Depew, Party Patriarch, Talks G. 0. P. Devotes Second Dav to Routine and Sinciinn National Anthems Dull Session With No Outstanding Feature. COLISKnr, Chicago, Juno !).- The republican national oonvcnlinn was in session only an hour today and devoted itself entirely to routine preliminaries. The temporary orsranizalion was made permanent, iho report of the credenlials committee, was approved with the changes made last nidit, some of which reversed previous de cisions of tho national committee. For its second dav sensation Iho convention heard a woman spenlior. Mrs. Mnrirnrel Hill McCarter of Kansas, Ihe first woman to addrcs3 a national convention. Chauncey Ilepcw also spoko. "Senator Lorisc says I'm an old man, but he's mistaken," said Mr. Do pew. "A man down soulli who henrd (Continued on Page Seven) HE ASKS. BUT ONE. J' 8 ONLY THRILL SPEECH BY KANSAS LADY CALVIN COOLIDGE CONVICT SERVING LIFE FREES PALS OF BLAME L SALT I, Juno 9. James Oglo, who with Waller nannastcr and David Smith is serving a life sontenco in tho state peniten tiary horo for tho murder of J. N. Ilm gess and Ueorgo E. Porln- ger, during a holdup ot tho Claremont tavern, near Tort- land, last November, today con- feHsod tn firing tho shots which killed tho two inon, according to Warden L. II. Compton. Tho warden said that Oglo's con- sclonco apparently was rcBponsi- bio for tho confession. Uurgoss and Porlngor woro killed whllo resisting the hold ' up. Ogle had previously declar ed Smith hud done tho shooting. BUT FEAR TAXES Manufacturers Aide Appears Before G. 0. P. Committee to File Protest Drys, Pacifists, and Farmers, All Seek Pet Notion Inserted in Plat formFarm Must Receive Help, or Nation Will Suffer. CHICAGO, .lime 9. Questions of taxation must he nmonir the first to lie given consideration of the republi can parlv if it would retain the con fidence of industry, James A. Kmerv. general counsel for the National As sociation of Manufacturers told the ciiiniiiiiic-o inlavint before it that or ganization's claims for attention. The organization favors "reason able government assistance to those serviiiL' in the military forces," but objected strongly to any form of a general bonus, Kmerv said. The (iiiestion of a bonus was linked inseparably with taxation, lie argued. iieali.ing that it bad serious party history to write, the sub-committee took hp ouartcrs in a secluded hotel bedroom, left orders that it wns not to he disturbed, took off its coats literally as well ns figuratively mm) settled down to its jiib. Members pre dicted it would not be ready to quit before midnight at Iho earliest. Senator liorah was on hand from Iho start, nlthougli the league plnnk was not to be taken up for several hours. At tho outset of its mectine the sub-committee read through tho ro- ttort of Chairman Hays' committer of 171 ns it had been revised in pro- convention conferences. Most of it was writlen into the piatform with out extended discussion. Prohibition crept into tho henriu! when Wayne II. Wheeler, general counsel for the Anti-Saloon Icusue and four other drvs urged the com mittee to take a firm stand for en forcement of the drv laws under the Volstead act. Wheeler said that tho dem.icrntic party would bo compelled to take a similar stnnd. "It in pure patriotism and good politics to stand fearlessly for 'he FAVOR BONOS FOR SOLDIERS NO BALLOTS G.0.P.CH0ICE TILL FRIDAY Wood Men Named Chairmen Import ant Committees Taken As Good Sign If Biq Three Can Hold Co horts. Dark Horse to Be Favorite What 500 Uninstructed Delegates Will Do Vital No Line of What Johnson Will Do. . . . CHICAGO. June n. Ideal weather continued today. A cool crisp hrceso blew off Lako Michigan and the sun was shining. It wus the remark of everyone that tho convention hull was unusually comfijrtulile. There, was little prospect that tho convention would reach a ballot on the presidential nomination boforo Friday or possibly Friday night. Out of developments yesterday, which placed Senator Watson of In liana at tho head of tho platform builling machinery, tho resolutions committee mil miido Edward D. Dut field of New Jersey chairman of tlio credentials committee. Major Gene ral Wood's lieutenants drew much comfort. ' Hoth men are delegates instructed for Wood. Frank Hitchcock, invest ed yesterday with tho nuthoritv of supremo commander over tho Wood field forces, snw a "psychological n'd vantago to his candidato in tho '"vic tory." Lenders who in other davs were tho mainspring of party action did not sharo Mr. llitehcock's viows. Tliov continued to tulk much of Gov ernor Lowden's gaining strength; while from camps of Senator John son and the Illinois governor cumo assertions from the candidates them selves that they wore" " "satl'stieH" with Iho situation coupled with ex pressions of optimism ns to tho out come of tho balloting. Adnilttedl.v, any development which would havo that; effect would bo. valuable' to any candidate. Aside from guesses ns to what tho more than !)00 uninstructed delegates will do when the roll is called for their votes, the main topio u conver sation, tsserlion, Counter-assertion and conjecture has been tho number ot ballots through which th6 "hiir three" can hold the lines of their in structed cohorts. Should their forces remain firm indefinitely tho soureli for a dark horse will begin in car nest to break the thrco-wuv dead lock that would result. Tho resolution committeo wot'kod Into last night; hut it still hud manV interests to bear from wh?n it re sumed tolay. No subject pertaining to nnv phase of the nationnl life has been slighted bv those who have sought to guide the committee's. viows. Among those to be heard today wns Samuel Gompcrs, president ' of the American Federation of Labor, bear ing suggestions he did not outline jn Advance. Added importance attach ed to his nppenrunee because of the fact that federation is now committed to full political activity under. a slo gan that no enemv of lubor shall gain public office if lubor can pre vent it. ' While the full resolutions commit teo is engaged with these hearings, however, a sub-committee of thirteen, named last night bv Senntor Wntson and over which be also will preside, will proceed with the actual outline and fitting of platform planks. On its face, this move was designed to seek harmony on proposed party dccleritions of principle, views of all cundidatcs for nomination being represented in the sub-oommittoe per sonnel. The four United States sen ators, incluling Senator Watson,' who are included recall vividly diverging views ns to treaty ratification on the majority s'ido inthc long senate but tie. Deliberations of tho ersolutions sub-coinmittcc ns to the treaty plant were wiitchcd with particular interest. There bns been an undercurrent of feeling that if it did not satisfy the Johnson-Iiornh demands for repnd'a tion ot'tho League of Nations cove nant in its entirety, tho two senators might carrv the' fight to the floor of the convention itself. Hoth have hint ed at such a cojirsc in recent state men!.: or speeches nnd about those hints has grown up tulk of a Johnson bolt. . Examination of the remarks of the two "irreconcilable'' eladers in tho treaty fight, however, discloses noth ing of a positive nature as to Sena tor Johnson's plans nnd it appeared obvious that Senator Watson had as sembled his platform sub-committee. (Contipuetf on Page liigUt) (Contin'icd on rage Eight) ?7.',iKi0, A Nominee, Wlio ItrconiM Xminn(oi (Continued on I'ago Seven) (Continued on r6