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NOMINEE WILL HOLD
INITIAL CONFERENCE
BICKETT SAYS LANDIS
STRIKE UNJUSTIFIED;
W&L ENFORCE PEACE
ON CAMPAIGN TODAY
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Judge T T. Ansberry, of Wash
ington. To Bring Governor
. Cox First-Hand Informal
, ; . ; tion From Frisco
ROOSEVELT WILL ARRIVE
F0? MEETJNQT0M0RR0W
Judg AnsDerry, tne of Chief
.V Cox Lieutenants, Expected
To Play Important Bole In I
Oomxng Presidential ;; Can-
; pain : Komlnee Eat . Hade
Ho Statement On league f
Nations So Par, But Is Be.
liered To Be In Perfect Ac
cord With. The Party Plat
form Declaration
Dayton. Ohio, July 10, Ths first I
' round of political onfrness between I
party leadsra and Governor Cox look-1
inf forward to perfection of campaign
plant will begin tomorrow with th
arrival from Baa Francisco of Judge
T. T. Ansberry of Washington- Judgs
Aniberry wfll bring to the presidential
nominee 1m hand information or th
convention . and probably will discuss
with him matte ri relating to campaign
management.
It ia generally expected - here that
Judge Ansberry will play an important
ha ' a eloao personal f trend of Govern r i t time-acrimoniously. Alien M
CoX, being a former resident of thai Curdy, of New Tork, the temporary
Btate and one of the chief lieutenant chairman, and J. A. H. Hopkins, head
ef E. H. Moore, the Governor'! pre-
convention manager at the convention.
Maeta BaoMT.lt Mondsv
' Monday the Governor will have hia
first meeting with Franklin D. Boosevelt,
vice-presidential nominee, at use execu
tive office' in Columbus. While tha meet
ing primarily will be for exchange of
felicitations, an exchange 01 viewa on
' eamtaicn Diana i expected to be made.
'Governor Cox baa issued no ctatement
of hia noeition on the Lean of. Na
tion ainea hia nomination and it waa
auid tcday he probably would make acne
prior to hia apeech of acceptance. It
vraa ttlted by those ia elnea tonch
with ha. however, that he ii in perfect
aeeord ,iih. th Demoeratie plauorm
diirlaiatioa oa the anbjeet a repre
aented by the following ctatement :
"We advocate tha immediate
tion of tho treaty without reiervatlont
which -would Impair, it eaiential integ-
rny, oui no not oppoee too sccryiauc.
ef any leservationi snaking clearer or
more apeoin in ooiigauon mn toe
United State tq the League of Kationa.
; Platform Pramlasoty Mot.
'The governor stated today that he
considered the Demoeratie platform a
promiasory sot to tha people and that
it waa up to aim to redeem, u.
At the propoeed conferenc between
the President and the presidential can
didate, it is expected the League of
Nations will be one tf the mftjectt dls-
' used.
The aovernor plared rolf thia after
noon at the Dayton eountry elub
Frank- Hill v Smith and 1 Lee Warren
-fame, of Dayton, and Ellsworth H. Au
rustui, of Clsveland, going 18 holes.
PaJred with Augustus, a strappi" Isd
asith a mighty stroke, the residential
'aemineTs raeord waa saved. He often
went. into, thai rough and it generally
took a fir or six for him to mak a
hole.
Apparently. a little bit chagrined at
hi" showing he commented to at
friend that "between national eonven
tion and tournament, this foursom
seems snoi to piece. - .
The Ohio Stat Golf Association tour
aamsnt had been on all week. The
goveraor thi evening presented the
chief trophy, the governor' cup, to the
wrlvtiM af thm tnnrnftmant. MArnld Wb.
ber, Inverness eountry club, Toledo,
Other than conferring with Judge
Ansbcrry, the governor ha no confer
mm, BMhtAnljid fnv tnmnvrfiv. anil az.
HMea ta mmJ the dr at hi homa at
Trail End.
. LOCATES MISSING GIRL
ORATOR AT GREENVILLE
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Ifewspaper Beporter DleceVert
Her Working In Bestauf ant
, In 8. 0. City
' GreenvilU, S- C4 July 10. Juanita
Allen, 17-year-old chool girl orator, of
Chattanooga, Tenn- who duappeared on
Jun 29, waa discovered by a newspaper
reporter her working in a lunch room.
She admitted her identity.
Th young womaa had been scrubbing I
Ifoors, waahing dish and doing the I
.chores about the restaurant "I am
-proud ofmyxperienee ah-am,
Th girl told th story of her wander
ing- 8b donned a boy scout suit and
hsd her hair cut ia Chattanooga, from
which place ah went t Atlanta. From
Atlanta shsaid she res-hed Greenville
4y riding alternately "Cirfreight trains
and in motor cars, which "picked" her
up along th highway. Bh hss been
her eight days. Bh will return to her-l
horn in Chattanswga tomorrow.
As sxplanatiA nof her diaappearance,
tie girl aaid skspim of wanderlust
r-verpowered her and sh et out ta circle
th glob. Bb expressed the opinion
that ah would have accomplished her
mission if sh hada t beea- discoveredT
BIG LIQUOR HAUL IN B AIDS -i
. ui iwiiiv ufi vAfaaimg upon ns doib io compromise any
AtUnti City, N. J, July 10 Six
cabarets and safe in or near the Board
walk wer raided simultaneously today
by forty prohibition agents from Phil
adelphia. Large quantities of liquor
wer seised and carted - away.. Thous
snds of bathers flocked oa ths great
wooden way ia defiance of police refu
tation as th raid war ia prog
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ITHIRDPARTYIAYS
FOUNDATION STONE
committee o and Single
Taxers Join In First Na
tional Convention
PROSPECTS OF PEACEFUL'
SESSIONS NOT PROMISING
DiTi,ion Between Radical and
liberal Element! Brought
Out; Labor Party, . Whoie
Oonrention Starti Today, I
Wining To Join In The Third
Party Morement ,
Chicago. Julr 10s Pounflatloa stoaea
for a-new party on which to unite all
third party movements wero laid whea
tho Committee of Forty-Eight aad tha
Bingl Tax party joined in their first
national convention to draft a platform
I n A nV Mnmln.A. ka L.M wilt
wiB th ropport of Ua 0J doMm UUnl
i organisations.
Tha first day'a session, devoted to key'
not speech and orgaaixatioa work,
developed aa many, different viewe aa
there were faotiona represented. Bales,
reaolutiona and nomination for perma-
I sent officials were debated atep by step
of tha Committee of Forty-Eight, main.
I uunea osaer wnn auaeuiry.
Diviaion between tha liberal and radi
cat element will be brought ent In the
ruloa debate when Swinburna Hal of
New Tork aald State delegation war
divided 'flfty-one per cent liberal and
forty-nine per cent radical." He
pleading for a change in the rule that
would prevent the radical being out
voted by tha majority liberal, but tha
majority ruled aad hi plea waa loot.
Binai Taxer Join la.
Participation of tho Bingl Taxer la
tcday convention followed an earlier
aeaaion at which they decided to present
their platform demand aad view aa
candidates- ; They are understood to bo
willing to a soept either Charles E. Za-
gersou, watch:, manufacturer, or'Amo
ratiflca-IPinchot, on of the leader of the Com-
mlttee of rorty-Eight, for preaidential
nominee; They are opposed, their lead
ers say, to accepting Bohsrt M. laf ol
lette, the favorite presidential candidate
of the Porty-Elgfiters, md may bolt tho
convention aad select their own tieaet
iif LaFollett ia nominated.'
Determinatioa ei tha Bingl Taxers'
court wa declared to be contingent
noon three things i First, the platform,
which they said, must include a single
tax plank; second, the candidate, aad,
third, the name of tho party.
: Fromisa c a acra.
Tht party nam promUa to develop a
fight. . Members of the fiingle Tsx group
want soma reference to their nam in
corparted fa tha party nam. The labor
Party of the Uaited Btate, Who con
vention get under way tomorrow, 1
illing to join the third party rnova-
msnt, and probably will accept LaTol-
lett a a candidate, but demand that
the word labor" be included In th
party deeianation." "
A organised today, th eommitte ef
Forty-Eight convention numbered 639
eeredited delegate with a majority or.
270 required to aotninst. Th 530 in
cluded, ia addition to the FortyEighter
and Single Taxera, fraternal delegate
from th Non-Partiaan Jjeaga. Triple
Alliance of th Northwest, Farmers' Na
tional Council. People's Money League,
th Produeers'.Lsacn and Consumers'
Lesgu and evral other organisation.
Th. Committee of Forty-Eight moraee
a number of well known liberal leader,
aome of whom wer prominent In th
Bull Moo movement of four and eight
years ago Tha committee was tonnea
last year at Bt Louie with a member
for each State.' ; -
Parley With Labor Party,
While delegates debated , rale aad
resolutions todsy their committee con'
tinned negotiations with thslnbor party,
ITher. was small hop that tha rnaioa
MBff
aeasaion of th labor convention, when
John Fitxpatrick, president af th Chi
cago Federation of Labor, will deliver
th keynote speech for labor. Both con
vention expect to be ready Monday to
take np and eomplete in on day' .
sioa their platforms, which it ia expect
ed, will be almost identical.
Only, two names, so far as known, will
be presented to th Labor Party for
consideration as presidential nominee,
Senator LaFollett and Frank P. Walsh
of Kansaa City, fonntr chairman af
the United BUtoa lndnttrlal Belatlons
Commission and leader of th Friend ef
Irish Freedom- " . '."s
Permaaeat Oficer Installed,' :
Permanent offieor of th. convention
Were installed without oratory when
th convention assembled for it see-
nd sessloa late today, C. J. Frsnes,
of Seattls, introduced -a formal res
olution of appeal to the Labor Party
convention, which opens Sunday, ask
ing delegate to unit a a body with
th committea gathering. It wa . read
smidst eheer, snd adopted by a rising
vote." ' .' . '; : "i .
"W realize that ther to aa material
differeac cither ia purpoe r ideal
betweet ns" it said fa part.
"W feel deeply th ohligatioa rest-
slight oiiTerences wniea migni seep
as from unifying Jnto on grant snct-
fnl political movement.
"Shall w giv onr common enemy
th unutterable joy ; which- would fol
low ear fsilur . to unit ha a solid
phalanx '.. .
Messsga T Labor rorty.
With thes thoughts which w knew
CntlaM a. Paaa TvaJ
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West Virginia aad North Carolina delegate to Deaaoeratie national eoavantion,
way ta Eaa Fraaeisao. Tha photographs
Margnarita Bellamy aad Emma B. Williamsoa, of Wilmington s France H. Williamion, of Fayettoville, and Btate Sena
tor W. M. Person, of Louisbarg, N. C, and Mrs. Joha 8, Cunningham, former pruident of the North Carolina Equal
Bunrago aaaociaiion, aaa zona or uovtraer .w. a. ataecrkie, at .west Virginia.
Both Party Candidates In
Governor Cox's Attitude Favor-1
able Since Suffrage Move
ment Was Launched
SUFFRAGE HISTORY OF
TWO NOMINEES SHOWN
Harding's Stand - Evasive and
7 Non-Committal Until Vote
7 On Amendment
-Tha New and Observer Bureau,
otO District National Bank Bldgv,
:. y ' ' By E. E. tOWUX . v
(By Special Leased Wira.)
Washington, D. C, July llLCompari-
soa ef the two presidential candidate
rltiv ta their suffrage history hss
been mad by th suffragist her mac
their aominatioa. Both Beaator Hard'
ing, Be publican presidential candidate,
and Goveraor Cox, Demoeratia nomi
nee, have takem a stand favoriag snf-
frage. . .4....1 " :.
Their raeord and tha various atep
that have finally ted them .to tax thi
fsvorabl staad ara oarafully kept at
th headauartera af the new voters.
Benator Hardinr suffrag record waa
'varied, avnsiv and non-committal
until tha fall af 1918, whea aa October
L ho east hi first rot for tha nine
teenth amendment.
As sarly aa Juaa Si, 1915, deputa
tion began calling oa him to aak hia
stand oa theaeetion of political free
dom for woman. Than be said:
'Believing a I do ia political par
ties, I had maeh rather that th party
te whiea I belong aaould. ia it eon
f erenee. mak a declaration than to
assuma a leadership ar taks aa Indi,
riduai positloa oa th queatioa."
Oa January ZO, 191B, whan asked
by a similar repreentsrtiv, h aaid h
did not see how -he. "could vote for
suffrage aad against prohibition.' He
thought then he would rota against th
amsadmeat.
Harding's Keynote Speech.
Ia Jana 1918, Benator Harding mad
th keyaot speech at th Republi
can national conventioa in . Chicago.
Before h apok h wa interviewed
by suffrag leaders and aiked ta men
tion suffrag ia hia speech, rccognis-
isg ii aa aa of th most Important is
sue before th conn try." He said h
had not decided upoa everything ia
hia speech,- that there would bo time to
add tha suffrage lssa to ais speeea aad
that ha would eoasider it. But the
speech .waa mad with aa mentioa of
uffrag in it.'-- ".f... . '. . ' -
Oa Novamber 11, 1910, when Inter
viewed again by suffragists, h aaid he
was Inclined to leave the solution af th
question . ta hia party. He thought K
would be presumptions for him to die-
tat to ais party. Ha wa not Interest
ed. "
On April W, 1917. ho declared him
self ' favorable 4a th amendment, bat
it did not appeal ta him aa a war meat
are. . '.. "
On Inhr 19. af tha same year, ha said
ha aid, not approve of jailing the suff
ragists, that tha President - could put
throngs. t measure if a would, aad
that ha might : vara for tha " amead
stent. ' '-". : .! ' '
Oi August t, 1917, aa said ha could
aot da anything ta support th amend
ment, bat ho sympathised with those
working for it.
February 18, 1918. h aaid as "deprs-
eated a to rapid advaae at Demo
cracy and eonsOTiUy wonld hold
back en womaa suffrage."
But aa October 1,1918, Senator Hard-
lag had emerged from tha mist at aoa-
omlttal atmosphere and voted for th
amendment. Ha also Toted - for it la
February aad ta Jane af tha next year,
whea it passed Congress. Bine his
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show ths Misses Lila Hinkel. - ef Btateavill: JSaty Norwood, of SaUaburr
FTBavr htSCTlNa OF LXACUK
OT NATIONS: NOTEstBta IS.
Wsaaingtam, July 18-Th first
aaaetlng af tha assembly f th
Lsaga of Natlen wiU h held an
Narassser If aade tha call whklr
mm ia ta aa lasaed by Preaideat
WUaem.' .. . ,. , ..- . ',:.... i " -While
tha alaea far tha nssstea hsa
not aaea asaectad, tt waa said at th
teday that , this
ltd ha aaaoaneed by tha allied
Tha Prasident la aa.
darataad ta have favored Geneva, awf,
Best af tha allien prefer Brassels., .
KILLS WIFE AND SELf
Former Greenville Man PrincI
pal Actor In Double Tragedy
In Baltimore
Baltimore, July 10 A romane which
began during th day of th World
War whea Charles Murphy, 83 years
old, of Greenville, N. C, was stationed
at Fort Howard, here, met Mias Bertie
Eppers, who later became his wife, had
tragic ending aarly this morning
whea Murphy killed hia wife and then
committed suicide.
Ths tragedy occurred at Railroad and
Wood berry avenues. Only a short di
tanee away, Mr. Bertia Ecceri. th
mother of Mrs. Murphy,' waa sitting at
u xron sxory window, aad although
aba heard tha ah 00 tine shs was .
a wars that her daughter was on of th
victim. At a late hour today sh had
aot bee a informed of tha killing.
Murphy had been estranged from hlaJ
wix xor about four month. A short
time ago sha obtainsd a warrant for bis
arrest oa tha ehargs of non-support. He
met nis wir ia a dark spot oa Bailroad
avenue aad a diacueeioa followed.
Thoma L. Pierce waa standing nearby,
ana Bearing loud worda spoken, looked
ia th direction or tha aouple. He wai
horrified to see th man pull Bit a Di
tot ana ara two .anota la rapid aue-
ession. i
Tha first shot entered th woman's
breast while the second shot was fired
by Murphy into his right temple A
physician said that death wa instsn
taBMU. " r ,':
On child survives th anion. The
womaa, besides her mother, ia survived
by" two "slstrsvMuTphyV mother, wha
surriTes him, reside at Oreenrille. ,
SAYS NEGRO LYNCHED AT
R0XB0R0 WAS INNOCENT
Employer of Ed Roach Declare
Kegro Wai At Work When
Assault Occurred
Durham. July 10. Ed Boaeh, the
Beam who wna taken from tha Peraoa
county Jail last Wedaesdsy morning by
an infuriated mob aad lynched in front
ef a negro church three miles aorta of
Boxboro following hi arrest oa charge
of assaulting a young wbit girl, waa in
nocent of th crime, aeeording to a
igned statement issued tonight by
Boaeh worked. ". i :
The negro, aeeording to th statement.
worked, throughout Tuesday afternoon
wheh the crime i alleged to have taken
place, leaving the construction camp
where he-waa engaged at 8:30 o'clock.
Tha assault aa the girl 1 aaid to have
cearred between I18O and 8 o'clock.
CHARLES MURPHY
Bocky MousUla News, Denver, Cat,
who made a brlsf visit in Denver on thslr
Former Army Officer Killed
Wife and - a Stranger At
1 ' : : Chicago, Recently ;
IDENTIFIES DEAD MAN .
"' AS CANADIAN SOLDIE
Wanilerer, flacetf 'Blime'ror
, Trafedy On Hit ramiliarity
With rlrearai In The Amy,
Eli XoTintr Temperament
- and Association In The Bat
cher Shop of Els Father
rt
Chicago, July 10. Carl Wanderer, for-
mer army lieutenant, self-confessed
slayer of two persona, one' ef whom wa
his wife, a pretty choir singer, and th
other a man with, whom h had plotted
to take her life, today was ordered held
without bail on a charge of murder by
a eoroaer' Jury. , ,;
At th cam tim th ragged stranger.
whose body ha bean unclaimed at the
eounty morgue cine th nisht of th
crime, nearly three weeks ago, was de
flared to be thst of Al Wataon, former
Canadian soldier, who was said to havs
told acquaintance hs was the only so
of a millionaires turfman Jiving in Nsw
xora. '
Th identification was mads by Mrs,
Catherine. Vanoa of Chicago, who said
ans met Watson ia Folkestone, England,
while he was a patient at ths Manor
uous Uoipital. liew ork diipatehe
said the police recalled that last May
aa Alexander E. Watson had been re
ported missing by his wife- Ths man
later waa reported ta hava beea found
in Paterson, N. J., but the) police were
ignorant of his wheresbouts. -
Wanderer today placed the blame for
u tragedy oa his familiarity with firs
arms in ths srmy, his roving tempera
ment and hia association with his
father' butcher ahop.
. - Planned Ia Cold Blood.
I planned th whole thing in cold
blood beeauss I decided that wa th
only way I could do it and get away
with it," hs said. "Ths thought of kill
ing a person was not so repugnant to me
aa , it might b 1 to most - persons, be
cause of my experience in jny father'
butcher shop. A man in a butteher chop
gets aa closely acquainted with blood
that ha lose his , aversion to it-
"Thea, in ths army I had practiced
good deal at target shooting and became
too well acquainted with fir arm; and
learned- to love the army life above
everything else in to world. -
In addition to thess things, my name
et m forth correctly I am a wan
derer and "a raver "by 'nature. T"hattf
to be tied down. I wss not intended for
married life. With these , influence
working in my veins, the stop from dis
content to wbst I did .was a short ons,
Of course. I am sorry for what I did:
any ssne man would be, snd J sm sane,
but that doesn t help matters now.
gars Be Loved Bis Wife.
.I loved any wife in spit of wbst I
havs done; I loved her too well to de
sert her nnd leave her with memories of
a ruined romance to keep her company
during th rest of her life.
"I decided the easiest way out wa to
kill her.. Mot men, after doing that,
would have been leepleae and haunted
by vision at night. I wasn't.' I alept
lik a top and didn't have a smgl dream
that I can remember.
Tai sorry I. had to kill. that other
chap, cut l waa afraid he would squesi.
Killing him did not do any good, for I
did 'not havs presence of mind enough
to remember that those srmy automatics
ILDHROIl
GMRGE of murder
- Tw Wltaease Heard.
Th proceedings at the Inquest war
-; "cb.uaa4 aa Fas Tw4 'I
Li
OUISIAfIA IMEII .
DOUBLE-CROSSED
The Mayor v of New Orleans
Failed To Uve Up To His
Declarations .
HAD PROMISED TO
GIVE HIS SUPPORT
At Critical Moment Sis Pledged
Aid Was Missing? Charged
That He Feared Women's In-
- fluence At The Polls Would
? Accomplish Bis' Retirement
. ' At Bext Election Jr't;'-,
-sty johit a. LrrmorroNsT.'
' , (Staff Correpondeat): ''
Nsw Otlsaaa, July 10 Louisiana wo
man hava been loubls-erossed by poli
ticians mora interssted U their awn for
tune than ia th welfare of th paopls.
Mayor Martin Bahrman, head of th
widely advertised New Orleans ring,
thraw thm down, h la charged, bacaus
h fslt their inflnene at th poll would
retir him la th aaxt election, St has
been, th polittosi boa mwi t or' seven
teen year.
With a view ta mending hi political
fence Sehrmaa same oat noma urns ago
in favor af tha federal amendment, giv
Ing th reason that wWl he personally
opposed equal suffrag .ha raaliaad itl
van aomiag aad -wanted Democrats to
est tha credit. It looked like plain sail
ing as hs is sredited with eontxolUag
tha majority of th Btate Legislator.
Governor Parkar ia, an' address at th
Lerislature's - closing seaafon boldly
charged that Behrmaa aad hia ring
throttled thai men in the Legislature
aad foreed than to vote a a nnit...
That Behrmaa aad hia followers ta
tha Legislatara playsd poUtle thick aad
fast in th auffrag ngnt waa demoa
stratsd Thursday whea th Stata amead
ment earn up. Three Benator wh had
previously voted for th Pederal amead'
ment when It failed of paissg by six
vote, voted against th Btate goffrag
amendment which lacked only tot
01 passing. -
. j An sauariai aamauag ua
Th New Orleans States, whkh op
posed th Pcdsrsl amendment, but fa
vered Btata eoastituuoaal amenameni,
editorially soan np tha oituatioa a f ol
low 1 ' ' . :
"It it should happen that tha Tederal
uffrag mndmat cannot get the
nseessary thirty-aix vote to eomplete
its ratifieatioa the blame for renyiag
tha womea of Louisiana th privileg of
th ballot for th second tim will rest
on th shoulders ef th mayor.
"Two ysara aa-o after It ubmissioa
his honor beat ths But amendment by
sending word down tha lias on th av
of th election to vote against it, '
Tssterdsy th ama amendment came
up a eeeona time in uia, session ana
though it pollled twenty-seven vote,
twenty-two from th country, it failed
for lack of aaa Vol because three Sena
tor,, Davey, Thoela aad Bobbert, wh
rot th way th mayor wanta them to,
Bemarkabla lacoasistsacy.
Beferring to th claim that thes dun
three 8enators who previously voted for
th Federal auffrag amendment follow,
d that course ia aa sffort to mend the
mayor's political fenees, th Bute sys
they may b abl to. explain their re
markable . Inconsistency in young for
on amendment and against tha other,
whea th object of both is th same, but
certainly by a process of reasoning can
they demonstrate that thsir vote were
cast oa principle
Louisiana womea -ar disappointed
that Goveraor Parker failed to champion
their eauss after they aided him ia
every way possible ia his campaign for
election. He ran for Vieafreaidant on
th Bull Mo platform which celard
for equal suffrsgs and had giysn suf
frage headers to understand that he
favored it. Suffragist led th Inaugural
parade seven weeks ago whea Psrksr
went into office hut never a word has
he spoken to the LegUlature la it favor I
lie ha played hand off entirely , even
sfter assuring ths womea that he waa
with them.
Parker is urging a constitutional con
ventioa aad promise to mak it sa le
ans In ths campaign this fall. Bs will
likely lend his influenee to secure equal I
suff rsg in th Btsts constitution if the
convention ia called. That mean two
year of delay aad doesn't interest- ths
women at all because they will be given l
tha -right- to-wot nndr- th-' Federal I
tonatitutitm- long before that time. 1
It wss Isrgely at the Instane of I
Louisiana Democrats that ths plank was I
included ia the national Democratic I
platform urging specifically that Ten-1
nessee. North Carolina ana florid rat
ify the suffrage smednmeat. Because
ef th local political situstioa they re
alized it was aalikely .that Louisiana
would ratify-
BORAH TALKS ON LEAGUE
PLANK OF THE DEMOCRATS
Boise, Idaho, July 10. Ia his first
public speech at Idaho s eapital city
slnsa his return from th East, Senator
Borah declared thst ''international eour-
testy aweit npon in in uemocraiie
platform would prevent th United
States, if a member ef th leagu of
Nations from making any decision
for itself on a question of the
rights of small nation or self-deter
mination of peoples sven if th deliber
ations of the supreme court did not
forbid such- action. It wss ; his first
public mention of th Democrats plat
form, ,-. :
I Uysflbvvh Law To Masrreet-
ing After Seven Hours In-
; v miim Inf Citinlirtn ...
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DECLARES RIGHT OF MAN
JO LABOR UNMOLESTED
Governor Bealizes' Early That
Hope oi Bringing About Set
tlement of Industrial Dispute
Is .Tain; .Breach Between
Workimt and Picketing Em'
1 ployes Widened Beyond Hope
of Eqtahlishing Accord; Tells
. Fifteen Hundred People In
; ,Use Ttmot Power of State
- To Maintain Order
By BEN DIXON MiOrtni r-
Landis. July 10 After savaw Vw.
Investigation i tk claims aid oatj
uona ai .au parties aoscerned Ifc th
trottbla rowing out at th atrik af
ttoa;-aiUl workers her, Goveraor
T. W. Bickstt wint.befor a maa mt-
ing f th eitiarns of- tha little town!
thia- afternoon aad told tha atrikarJ
that they wer utterly in th wrong, va-
Vatll I- 4C.I. 1.1a a I. I
principle of th Inalisnahle right af aJ
man to work, free from aaaoyaaea ar
mo4aaiatioa af .aay kind and
that h would as th ntmaat
power or the state if aseeasary an-
VMM' (h. .mmA - .
ef LS0O maa. woman - aad aViMa
rowa.a motor naea from'
I which th wtn ..a ii.J
sven.th braaeh of th uTTowndinr!
tr, cam nproarona Amena, and!
;iiU.laJah- as.ha drors homa his!
aaaSTwon Will all ' thm tmm t Via.'
body and voice. A moment la tec. wheal
A had finished Meakln tUa arnwl
suzged forward ta tha track More efj
m" Bad womaa assnriag th governor,
that ha had aald a thiag that they be-l
Bsved. Bom few af th strikers held
back; bnt for th most ."part th soihosi-j
aa was unbounded. , -. ' ;
Bltaatian .Hapataa Trwm Pint
Sealixation - that ka -. aaaf rnataA at
hopeless aituation ia-'sofar as bringing
about a aatilamaat, nf tha atv4ka ana J
fronted, the governor within a few mla-l
ate after he began :hls sonfereneeal
upon ail arrival her at 9 e'elock today!
tha eeaaioim dragged along toward
nooa'lt ' txataSi WKwro arpparept thaw
nothing aoold b don to-bring peacei
to Ah littta mill Tills through eaiU
lag- off -tha strike. The-breach had
bean widened too far by a tactic of
tha pick etc rs during th past week, snd
representatives .of tha wdrkera within
tha mUla decUred they would walk out
tha miaata tha leader of tha picketer
entered th mills aa amploya again. I
Tha conference were continued until
to leave existing auiTereneea in the
hand of th governor for adjustment.
Th propoaal wss declined by th mill
owners ana in men ana women at work;
whereupon th govsrnor want out ta
tha waiting crowd and spok his mind
aimna wnac n man - a mmiim . ha
spok for nearly an hour and pat mora
. J i a! . . a
uuii w ui apoeca uuib oa enarac
M rimed a ay previoaa atteraac upoa
aad industrial difficulty. . . " i
Aa Is tha govsrnor a- custom, h be
worked them ap to a pleasant frame of
mind with aom joke, recited om of,
hi experieneee ia adjusting other labor,
troubles aad declared his nnaltsrabl
belief ia tha right ef labr? to organise
and treat collectively. He told of th
trouble in Charlotte, la High Point. -where
he "collided with aa iceberg, -aad
la Baleigh, where he fought fh
mill owner into a recognition at th,
right ef labor t organ la. 1 ,1
Strike Ordsreel Valastly. I
la every industrial dlsputa in which'!
1 havs had any part, hs ooatiausd. I'
hava fought for tho right of labor t1
ergnuiie for it awn . protection.' 1 1
recite the thing in erder that you
may knew th mental attitude with
which I approach a aituation thai in
volves Industrial strife. .,
'Rut T ml ,M .a m 4a wnn In ,1,a
most candor, that I am .forced to tho -conclusion,
after talking to repreacnt-
tive of every interest concerned ia
th disturbaaee her, that thia atrik
wa ordered unjustly, and ia without
th proper foundation opoa which a
strike may be grounded, r The ; mills ,
were right whea they discharged that
womaa aad that maa, and war abaud-
ently justified la so doing. There is
nothing ia the tituatioa that jaatifle
yon la ahuttiag down these greet plants
snd having them stand idl for four
weens.
. 'Labor ia. North Carolina;; wilt, nsvsr .
ttJa. thj nds f or whieh it is it
privileg to ergania o long a it
strike on no better grounds than per-,
aonal grievance that should be settled
In court -Tour strike here is aa out-
law, unaanctioned by any labor auth
ority." ., ,. . ' ',
Maa' Bight TrWerk
Tha Goveraor weat further iato th
facts V-tat h had (established during
th da,-Vl nt'nued.
"But if Hat bad been all there is to
th. strike, JSrould not have bee? her
today. I hava a interest ia th, isaucs
that brought about tha strike, but I am
here to lay dowa tha principle that
every maa in North Carolina has a
right to work Unmolested if he wants
to, ar to quit work if he want to, and
without th molestation of any living
Every employer ha the right to
bira whom ha wanta ta hire, "and fir
whom he want te fire, and nobody hae
tha right to molest him. Ton cannot
fore a maa to work againat hia will.
and you cannot fore a maa to idlenesa
against his will. '
"Ther ara many corporation la
(Ceatlaatd a PstVTww