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? ??*????* ^ ^ ???*??,,, * THE WEATHER * jK * ? * Generally jair tonight. * ' ?/\\* CIRCVLATIOS * * Partly cloudy tt edne?- * (|\. ll llll^lff^ ^jfi^K^fffljIfTlW 1 CIfll DfCIflTC^T^l * Monday day. Probably thunder- * fl)2.320 Copies * sh oicers. * v^~S^ ? * .#????*???? ? **?****? VOL. XIV. FINAL EDITION*. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY EVENING, Jl'NE 21, 1924. EIGHT PACES. NO; 150. Senator Harrison Makes KeynoteConvention Speech America Needs hj^aul Revere and Not a Sphinx in the White House to Call It Back to lli^li Kesolvc, Declares Eloquent Mississippi Senator ' (BeThi AuhIiM Pf*m> . New Yo?r- June 24.?America J needs a I'aul Revere "not a sphinx," ? in the White House, to cull it back to duty and high resolve. Senator Hat1 Harrison, of Mississippi, declared to day in sounding the keynote at the Democratic National Convention. lu an address condemning the Re publican Administration?its poli cies. both domestic and foreign?tl>a temporary chairman called on Dem ocrats everywhere, "with victory I ? within their grasp," to unite against a common enemy. "Oh for rfhe In the White House." he bald, "whose heart might be melt ed and courage aroused to sympa thise and fight. Would that we once more might see in the exalted post tlon one with the courage of a Jack son, the militant honesty of a Cleve land, the matchless statesmanship of a Woodrow Wilson. Senator Harrison ran the gamut of the Harding-Coolldge administra tion in a series of biting criticisms. A large part of his speech was taken up with a resume of the disclosures of Senate Investigating committees. The oil policies, in particular, came In for vigorous denunciation. "Show this administration an oil "Well," he said, "and it will show you a foreign poll iy" "America has taken the measure' of this administration.' he continued. "It might have been able to free It-1 ?elf from the sectional Idolatry and to have looked beyond the skies of New England. It might have heard the groans of the distressed farmers1 ?of the West and sympathetically re-1 sponded. It might have sought sur plus markets and removed the tariff Jams In the channels through whl-.h our surplus products move. It might have visualised world conditions and courageously assumed the part be fitting a great nation. It might have | reduced living costs, redeemed! pledges to the soldier, followed a def inite domestic program, and adopted a broad and statesmanlike foreign policy, but. even then. It would have availed it nothing with Its carnival of corruption. "The least that the American peo ple expect of their public servants Id common honesty. They will forgive their passivity, overlook their Indis cretions. and. too often, forget their Inipotency, but to them corruption is Inexcusable, graft Is Indefensible." Referring to Senate inquiries. Sen ator Harrison wag unsparing In his criticism of former Secretaries Den by and Falls, former Attorney Gen eral Dangherty. Charles R. Forbes, former head of the Veterans' Bureau and former Senator Newberry, of Michigan. He paid high tribute to Senator Thomas J. Walsh, of Mon tana, and others connected with the varloua Investigations. "Decry them as they will, the American people know that It was these Investigations?conducted by Democrats but through Republican committees?that sent Albert R. Fall to Three Rivers ft disgraced man. It was these Investigations that com pelled Edwin. Denby's retirement from the Cabinet. It was these In vestigations that drove Daugherty back to Washington Court House. It waa these Investigations that caused conspirators ^>tnst their govern ment to take tnelr own Uvea rather than tell the truth. It was these In vestigations that pointed to the lir. motal orgy of Forbes and the sicken ing scandals In the Veterans' llureaii It was these Investigations that put a Republican Congressman behind bars and lashed Newberry from the Senate. It was these Investigations that Informed the American public that the first official act of Calvin Coolldge was the appointment or a private secretary who had traded and trafficked In public patronage. It was these Investigations that led a v Republican Senate to convict Its own Republican National Committee for 'framing' a Democratic Senator be cause he dared to do the right." Comparing the investigations In Democratic.and Republican adminis trations Senator Harrison said It was "not graft alone that offers In the two administrations such happy com parisons." "During these little more than three years," he aald, "we have seen the present administration float along, tossed by every current, fanned by every breese, without pur pose, program or policy, t.'pon a thousand Issues they hare hoisted the white flag of surrender." Senator Harrison declared that nothing In "burlesque or opera bou waa comparabl eto the "scene re cently enacted at Cleveland In the efforta of the Silent Sphinx of the Potomac to exile and expatriate those Republican Senators who dared to oppose his mandate." "They dared to vote an Investiga tion of a number of the President's official family and they are penalised for their decency," he aald. "By every device known to trained eamoufleurs. by every subtle proceaa of legerdemain the Republican noml "??. In true pharlaaleal fashion, ?ought to divorce himself from his former comrades la arms. The plan if obvious; the plot la faille. Neither ' the President nor his Falstaffian army headed by General Butler and Sergeant Stearns can conceal the ugly fact that the Cleveland conven tion was the most highly organized, boss-ridden and oleaginous ever held 1 In America. The American people , will not be deceived. I "The American people will know that they are dealing with a system; that even though Hanna, Quay and Penrose are dead, their spirits ko marching on In the personages of the Three Musketeers of present day Re publicans ? Duller, Stearns and Slemp. Turning to a discussion of the Mel lon Tax proposal. Senator Harrison asserted that it was conceived in the Interest of privilege. "What is this m^lon that Mellon 'nought to cut?" he asked. "It would have given 1.200 of the 3.585.0X5 In come tax payers in America 51 p? r cent of the total reduction. The Temporary Chairman declared ;under the leadership of Simmons in the Senate and Garner in the House, the Democratic tax reduction pro iposal triumphed, "not because w? were numerically strong, but because we were assuredly right." Comparing the foreign policies of the American government under President Wilson and the Harding Coolidge administration Senator HAr* rlson declared that the Wilson policy was "definite, wise and brave; the other vasclllatlng, halting and weak." "It Is the difference." he said, "be tween a keynote and a keyhole poli cy of statesmanship." I Commending President Harding for his proposal that America adheie |to the World Court Senator Harri son said that President Coolidge hsd ! pledged himself to carry out Mr. Harding's policies and that yet fr >m [the day he assumed office he had made "only a bow" In that direc tion." Senator Harrison declared that If 'returned to control of the Govern ment the Democratic party jrould | have "neither pets nor puppets to i protect or corrupt cabinet members to coddle.' * "We will rigidly enforce the law," [he aald. "whether the violator be a I bloated trust magnate, a concession al bribe taker, an embe^xler of the Coatlaved oa Page 4 PAY TRIBUTE TO WOODROW WILSON Madison Square Garden, New York, June 24.?With a roaring demonstration for Woodrow Wilson the Demo cratic National Convention this afternoon interrupted its bus iness while delegates and vis itors joined in noisy yet re spectful tribute to the late President, idol of the Demo cracy. Cheers for Cleveland, Jack son. Jefferson, and Bryan had resounded through the big garden, but when Temporary Chairman Harrison mentioned the name of Wilson, the noise and enthusiasm broke loose. State standards came up quick ly from their place and soon the floor was Jammed with a mass of marching delegates prancing about chanting the songs which became famous in the war days of Wilson. While House Listens In Upon Convention Washington, June 24.?The White House tuned in on the Democratic Convention at New York today upon the conclusion of the cabinet meet ing. The radio set was tuned on for an interested group of listeners and the President's friends considered it likely that he would take a wire lese seat at the convention during the evening. WEAR FOR WOMEN HUN8 TO COLORFUL MIXTURES Elberfield, Germany, June 24. ? Strange but interesting combinations are coming to light in various wares for women, many of the materials manufactured here being for the American trade. Art silk jumpers in nine different, color combinations. In each of which' there are eight shades. Is one of the season's novelties. Silk and wool Jumper suits are being made here by the thousands In marl mixtures in which almond, brown, tan. blue, grey or fawn predominates. Tennis coats for the summer are in fancy patterns in saxe, almond, white, champagne and tan. Multi-colored and marl mixtures appear to be predominating styles.; but there will be some mingled stripes in two colors which experts | say are very smart Indeed. It is predicted that this season 1n Ameri ca and England there will be more brilliant colors and wonderful con Irasts than ever before. THE KEYNOTE SPEECH *k.t!t0h',.h* <rf Senator. Pat Harrison m.klnt hi. Icer note speech to (he Democratic Co mention. 6 ' ROW OVER TICKETS BEGINS CONVENTION ?New York. June 24.?Sensational rumors of the mysterious disappear ance of tickets to the Democratic Na tional Convention and reports that various candidates had been favored In the distribution of the much sought -for cards flew thick and fast today and were emphatically re futed by J. Bruce Kremer of Mon tana. chairman of the committee on tickets, taking refuge behind locked doors from the crowds which stormed the corridors In the last belated ef fort to obtain admission to the open ing session. Kremer denounced the reports of irregularities in the distribution of tickets as "ridiculous, silly, and without foundation." JAPANESE EDUCATOR WORKING FOR ACCORD Los Angeles. June 24.?Friend-1 ship between America and Japan j would be advanced by the spreading' in Japan of the Information that the J majority of American people are not prejudiced against the Japanese, ac-j cording to an opinion expressed here by I)r. Danjo. Kbuna. president of. the Dasshisha University at Kyoto,; Japan. "If America, though her official and unofficial representatives In Ja- j pan. falls to broadcast this desirable information among the Japanese." said Dr. Kbuna, "then It Is probable that my people. In view of recent events, will imagine that America is against them and will seek to unite the entire orient in a sentiment unfavorable f<v the Occident. I re gret the new difficulty that has a^ls en because of a possible misunder standing between the American peo ple and the Japanese." Since Japan forsook the customs of the orient 70 years ago, the edu cator said. she has been following the ways of America as much as possible, politically, socially, econ omically, and even religiously. In ?pite of the fact that Japan's atti tude toward western civilisation was rewarded by the suspicion and ha tred of China. Korea, and other ori ental countries. "When Japan turned her face to ward the Occident, 111 feeling sprang up between Japan and China." Dr. Kbuna asserted. "China considered Japan an Imitator of the west, and Japan began to look ui*>n China as a hopelessly reactionary nation. I am happy to say, however, that this 111 feeling has largely disappeared and that China and Korea are adopt ing tM ways of Japan. "In their social life, as well as In other respects. I find that your Am erlcan civilisation has tended to ele vate greatly the Japanese people and your criticism, as well as your sym pathy, has contributed to their im provement." LIEUT. MAUGHAN IS SUCCESSFUL San Francisco, June 24? Lieutenant Russell Maughan wrote a n?-w and spectacular chapter in tho history of man'* conquest of the air when he spanned the North American continent in leu than a clay of hazardous a 11 d gruelling flight, arriving at San Fra.i cisco at 9:46 last night after leaving Mitchell Field, New York, at three o'clock yester day morning. Great crowds greeted the aviator who completed the flight successfully after three attempts. It took 21 hours 48 1-2 mlutes to make the flight with Ave Htops for re fuelling. The distance was 2,870 miles. K. C. Altholt Drad Raleigh Carroll Abbott, well known commission merchant of thin I city, (tied Tuesday morning at 9:401 o'clock at his home. 705 West Church street. Mr. Ahhott had been seriously ill slnc?- Saturday, thouc'i he had been In ill heaHh for several 1 years. He wns 49 years old and wa? born In Camden County near South Mills. As a boy he came to Eliza beth City to school and his flrnt Job was with N. G. (Jrandy Co. loiter he worked for W. C. Clover with whom he was ansocl.ited until ne went in business for himself 'n 1913. Mr. Abbott was an Odd Fellov, n member of the Junior Order, vice {president of the Carolina & Trust Company, and a deacon of the First Baptist Church. For Diary I years he served as treasurer of the j First Baptist Church was a trustee of the city schools and a meubcr ?<f thr. T?f ard of Al^e- ???en He Is survival *>;? his wlfj mil three children, Mb* Annab"iie Ab bott, Carroll Abbott and Di'ils Ab bott, and a sister. Mrs. J. A. Spencer, all of this city, and a number of nieces and nephews. AMERICANS WEKE ROUGHLY TREATED (II? T1?? AmtIiiH l*r?w ) Yokohama. June 24. ? American passengers on the steamship Presi dent Madison were subjected to rlg orous and rather discourteous cus toms examinations today when the vessel docked until higher officials were Informed of the change In meth ods and Intervened and apologised. (MM (K)bF HA 1.1 >4 IN I,AKF Belt Lake City, June 24. ? 81* hundred or more golf balls ware recovered by small boys when the ar tificial lake on number four hole at Nlbley Park municipal golf links here waa drained recently. Harrison Opens Campaign With Blaze Of Oratory Nulliiii^ l.ikt* ll :n ItiTrnl \ rurs anil From Democratic (Quarter* Ciiiiiv K\|ire??iuu* of Sali-I'arliitn Declaring That It It- Almost a Platform in l|*elf Ii>- nwiD l,A?'ItK\<n (CflMrlaht. 1921. By Th? Ad.t"f?l Madison Square Garden, New York. June 24.?Pat Harrison, Senator from Mississippi, disciple of Woodrow Wilson and the chief haranguer of the Democratic party in the Senate, opened the Presidential campaign of 1924 today by proclaiming the is sues upon which the candidate nominated here and the Demo cratic brethren generally will seek to turn the Republicans out of power. IN JAIL SWINDELL AWAITS HEARING Triul Juolice Spence Turns | Down Plea fur Bail and Sels I)atr for Preliminary Hear iiifl for July K. Tuesday, July 8. wan the date set In recorder'* court Tuesday morning for the preliminary hearing of th.? caae against Joe Swindell, charged with rape, under warrant issued Sun-1 day for a crime alleged to have been committed Thursday night of last ?week. On the ground that no evidence had been produced ugainst their cli ent to show him guilty of the ofTense charged, counsel for the defense ai ? gued at some length for hail, but Trial Justice Spence ruled against them, holding with counsel for the (State, who argued that until the pre liminary hearing the warrant ItsHr was the only thing before the courtj and that the crime charged in the warrant was not a bailable ofTense. The State obtained the setting for ward of the date of the preliminary hearing for three weeks on the strength of an affidavit from a phys' cian attending the prosecuting wit ness setting forth that it would hard ly be safe for her to appear In court earlier than that time. In case de velopments were such as to make possible her earlier appearance coun sel for the State promifted to promi t 'ly notify the court In order that the preliminary hearing might be set for ward. The defendant appeared In court; Tuesday morning seated between hisj father on the one hand and one of Iiiki attorneys, Thomas J. Markhain, on; the oth?*r. Joe Swindell's bearing is | ordinarily debonair, but all the lines; in his face Tuesday morning wen j serious ones, while his eyes seemed to betray sleepless nights. Resides I Thomas J. Markhnm, lie will be rep resented by Aydeltt & Simpson. Mr. Aydlett, however, was not In the city ( Tuesday. A large crowd wan In attendance j at Tuesday's session of the record er's court but there was no percept-j Ible indication that the law In the) matter would not be permitted to take its course. Predominating in the crowd, it seemed, though among. those present were men of all age*, were young men of Swindell's own i age or younger, some of whom have been his intimate associates. Joe Swindell Ih the son of 0. It. Swindell. 2H5 West Fearing street, a hard-working and respected carpen ter. The boy In early youth seemed hardly wilder than the average' youngster with a taste for Bport and fast automobiles, but since an early marriage that didn't take he had, grown wilder Instead of becoming more settled as he grew into full manhood. Recently he had been fib served to seek almost constantly the society of young girls in their early Ueens, and prior to his alleged crime his automobile had been Ob served to hover almost continually ? around the block In which was tee home of the slip of a girl who Is e\ pected to he the prosecuting witness auainst him at the preliminary hear-! ing three we?-ks from Tuesday of I this week. That the State would lack for no j legal skill In the effort to convict Swindell of the crime charged against! him became apparent Tuesday when i McMullan A l^eRoy and J. C. II. Eh-j rlnghaus were seen as court con vened ranged beside Solicitor ^V. L. Small to assist in the prosecution. MORTGAGE HOLDERS WILL NOT FORECLOSE iN'ew York, June 24.?The finan cial district understands that the committee for the first mortgages j bondholders of the Virginia Carolina! Chemical Company which has been' given the right to foreclose on the. bonds will not exercise this right. ' Action was taken, it was said here, today, to protect the bondholders i rather than to liquidate their hold ings. COTTON MARKICT New York. June 24.?Spot cotton, closed steady. Middling 2*.36 an ad vance of 20 points. Futures, closlac bid, July It.tO, Oct. tS 14 Dec. 24 44, Jan. S4.4t. March 14.11. May t4.lt. I No political speech in recent years compares to it either in bitterness of invective or pene trating satire. . No speech has ever b? fashioned like It tin lens It be the denunciation of the Wilson administration made by Henry Cabot I.odge at Chicago in 1!?20 or a few weeks later at Marlon, Ohio. , What Representative Ilurton a keynote speech at Cleveland lacked In partisan fire was supplied In "eat abundance In Senator Harrisoni ? ro [lentless retorts to the Republican nlntform of l!)24. The keynote speech here, however. Is exactly what the Democrats want ed Copies of It have been In clrc i latlon for several days and fron.ev ery quarter have con.-; expressions o. deep satisfaction with the docjment as almost a platfoim in itself. If there lias been doubt that tl.o Democratic party w.mld go to the country and point the finger of scorn at Albert D. Kali Mill fr-e on his ranch that doubt has been If there has been any doubt that the Democrats would point acei'sing |y to the quick work of the nepart ment of Justice In Indicting Senator Wheeler of Montana while no effort was made to Indict Albert P. Fall, that doubt, too, has been removed. Corruption In the Government un der the Republican regime and a [challenge to any one t? Pol?l ? * single case of corruption by any III.# i ofTlclal or member of Congress of Democratic affiliation may be said to be the basis of Senator Harrison s whole appeal. Whatever Mr. McAdoo did In his relations of lawyer to ell ent happened after he left public of fice. ? The Mississippi Senator takes credit for the Democratic I'arty for xposure of Albert 1). l*alls rec ords us Secretary of the interior and the driving out of office of a Secre tary of the Navy and an Attorney ' 'H'r">isks the Republican party to look up what Its Si InvestlgatlIns committee found In connection with the Democratic administration dur Ing the war. Apart from the Tea pot Dome scandal, which Is not to be nllowed to slumber, Senator Har rison reveals the plait of the party leaders to make political capital out of the Mellon tax plan. They wel come the plea of Prcsident Coolld#e for the Mellon plan and utlllw ag?W the argument that more taxpayer* are benefitted under the Democratic plan fathered by Senator Simmons of North Carolina and Representative darner of Texas than would have been the case had the Mellon plan been adopted. Mostly. It was an old-fashioned po litical speech with all sorts "J* ger throwing In the hope of dividing the Republican party. Caustic refer ences to the fact that Senator Borah refused lo join President Coolldge as a running mate Bnd to the efforts f Cleveland to punish the friendsi of the soldier bonus were not omitted by Senator Harrison who showed himself a master of Catlllnlln satire. Candidates have for the moment been forgotten. Sensitive to the In ner currents of the convention and the menace of possible friction be cause of the factional differences that have arisen. Senator Harrison made a plea for party h?rmo"y. His eulogy of Woodrow Wilson was In Itself an appeal for a re union of all the elements In the party In a common cause. "It would seem now, he conclud ed, "we can hear the soft voice of sweet reasonableness coming to us from Montlcello. the voice of Old Hickory coming across the Blue Ridge from the hermitage and from that historic crypt at St Allans we hear the mighty voice of Woodrow Wilson, wistfully calling to us. To you from falling hands we throw tho torch. Hold It high. HoldI It high. Carry on. Carry on. Keep tho faltn. Keep the faith*." COOLIDGE COMMENTS UPON CONFERENCE Washington, June 24.?The Unit ed States Is not only willing but an ilons to assist Europe in pushing the settlement of her reparations prob lems but does not Intend to partici pate In any political difficulties ov erseas. a spokesman for President Coolldge nald today In commenting on the proposed later-Allied Confer ence In 1-nndnn nest month to con sider the means of pattlag Dawes reparations plaa Into effect.
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