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MEDFOHD, OR IX! OX, WEDNESDAY, .TUXK 9, 1920.
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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
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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.
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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
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"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
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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.
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