1 Political Parties
Their Skirts For
COOUDGE-DAWES CHOICE
OF REPUCLICANS
Democrats Will
Choose Their
Candidates
Next Week
DANIELS A DARK HORSE?
H« U Regarded u m PwiifcU
Candidate far Either First or
New York, June 15.—The North
Carolina Hrlrgstion to the Democra
tic national convention toon to aa
n-mbl* at the garden will coma under
the favored nation clause, the gentle
men comprising the delegations from
about 2# other state* that are in posi
tion to hoaat of a presidential possi
bility then a vice presidential possi
bility. Reference la made, of coarse,
to Editor Daniels. The North Caro
a
lina man is still riven classification
by the press and the politiciana as a
dark horse and it ia understood here
that a number of friends will be on
hand to see that his name is properly
presented to the convention in the
event an opening is discovered for
such a move
Therefore North Carolina will be
frond among the dark hone state*
and thorn- in charge of the convention
detail* plan to give to such state*
the beat position on the floor. The
captain*, manager* and tub-manageri
arrived in considerable number* yes
terday and today with those support
ing McAdoo making most of the pre
ronvention noise.
Their argument ran* in this chan
nel. The Cleveland convention waa
conservative in all its marks and ram
rficatjons. This is the homo of Tam
many, of Wall street, the money pow
er what Bryan once called the enemy
rounti?. but the New York conven
tion must bring forth a progressive
as the party torch bearer. McAdoo
is the only man who has made a ser
io«i fight for the nomination and
wfco can he regarded as a progressive
therefore it must be McAdoo and a
progressive platform—a platform,
fWst. as unliks the nondescript repub
lican platform aa the farmers thereof
raa make it, but McAdoo haa less thai;
3#0 delegates actually under Instruc
tions and many of the best minds in
the party are still convinced that it
would be unwise to give him the nom
ination.
There is likewise a cross sectirn
of what may be termed business opin
ion which holds with this democratic
r.niniAH • K/>ro bm m on nf Ibmm mf.
fairs who believe the stock market
will be strengthened in the event
McAdoo is nominated, not becanae
of a belief that be would be elected
bat because of a belief that he would
be an easy man for Coolidge to defeat
Sueh men have received report* from
the west which leads them V> the con
clusion that Vfhereas there is disap
pointment over the platform adopt
ed at Cleveland the western farmer
is not ready to turn to the Democratic
party for relief nor does the farmer
have much hope in the third party
The voter in the granger states—
the disaffected west—is expected to
eoatinae the block movement inside
the republican party the while look
img to Coolidge and Dawes to reduce
the number of rascals at the seat of
government to a minimum. During
the laat session of ooagrses the wes
tan bloc found in could do a lot of
Iwliiiu by boring from within the
KepabKcan organisation. Even La
Palette has been very slow about
giving up the Republican party label
aad enany believe the waat will hesi
tate Just as long before turning to
Mr. McAdoo aad his party. In partial
hssa with this view Is the opia
tes of a number of Democratic sena
ters who Mtva felt right along that it
Mttld he a mistake to attach so much
taapevtanc* to the support which Mr.
tmm ^ndkaTS*' * T""*"
Coolidge Was
Not Opposed
Cleveland, 0., June 13.—The Re
publican national convention has ad
Iivt «i
Cooildga and Dawu U the Republi
can ticket for 1OT4.
Preauirnt Coolidge'* nomination waa
accomplished with only a ripple of
diaeent from Wisconsin and North
Dakota bat the nomination cf his run
ning mat* came only after 'he conven
tion had choaan Frank 0. Lowden, of
Illinois, and hmn forced by hi* decli
nation to choaee another—Char la* G.
Dawes the Hell and Maria general. ,
After a short race with Herbert Hoo
ver, who came Into the balloting after
the declination of Lowdan, Da we* gal
loped off with the nomination.
Motion* to make it unar.imoua and
by acclamation were disturbed only by
the diaaenta from Wiaconain and
North Dakota.
Alter lRe nomination or (jeneral
Pawn had been announced and Sena
tor James E. Watson had moved it be
made by exclamation. Senator Pep
per of Pennsylvania, took the plat
form and offered a resolution to ap
point Mr. Mondell, chairman of the
committee, to notify President Oool
idire of hia nomination and to appoint
Theodore E. Barton, chairman of the
committee, to notify General Dawes,
of Ma nomination to the vice presi
dency.
Adoption of miscellaneous resolu
tions and motions concluded the busi
ness of the convention and the con
vention adjourned. The great show
was over.
Calvin Coolidge was swept into nom
ination for the presidency by one ef
the largest majorities ever given by a
Republican convention.
Before the first and only roll all
was half completed, the story of his
victory had been told as state by state
the votes of solid delegations from
east, west, north and south, were
thrown to hia support.
No other name was presented for
mally to the convention, but the 28
of the 29 Wisconsin votes and six
from North Dakota were cast for
Robert M. La Pollette and 10 of the
South Dakota delegates followed out
tieir primary instructions and voted
for Hiram Johnson.
The totals were as follows. Cool
idge 1,045; LaFollette 84; Johnson 10.
Necessary to be a choice, SM.
When the result was announced the
convention recessed in a tornado of
cheering.
N. C. Mountain Land* Bought
By Government
Raleigh. June IS.—Within the last
ten years the United States govern
ment has bought 360,000 acre* of
forest lands in the mountains of
North Carolina at about six dollars
per acre or a total price of approx
imately $2,000,000 according to H. M.
Curran, forester with the extension
division of the 8tate College of Agri
culture. One hundred such purchases
he says, would be equal to the total
area of the state. These lands are
"stimated to be worth at least 19 per
acre.
The federal government spends
about 8 cents each year for the pro
tection and administration of these
woods and the business connected wKh
them, while growth on each acre is
nrth 60 cents per year. Mr. Cor
ran says. These forests, he asserts,
will Met the United States treasury
$1500,000 to $1.000,DM every 10 years,
msnaged in the preeint crude man
ner, while if properly treating with at
least SO cents per year spent on each
acre, double this revenue can be ex
pected and all risk from fire eliminat
ed.
The forests of Saxony (400,000
scree) since ISM have produced a net
revenue of $4 per acre per ysr or
$1,MO,0OO groes annually, he said and
pointed out that North Carolina tim
ber grows faster than that of Saxony
and that it is worth as much in the
forest and ona ho aarhgsd m <11 j
BRICKLAYERS STRIKE IN
NCW YORK
Nw York, June IS.—On the m«nd
iron wriiw awdnagara the lH>«e and
11 in ha of their ■whir., local uniona
of bricklayara will thia monlnf be
ftn railing their man off wana twowty
haildlnp now beinf erected in Man
hattan with tha aaaietance of non
union man. About 1,000 bricklayer*
and an equal numbar of hoiating an
gineera and laborara will bo affected.
Iron workara Have boon on atriha ainca
May 1.
Tha final deciaion to rail thoir man
off all non-union job* in tha metro
politan araa wna reached at a con
ference in tha Hotal Aberdeen yeater
day kftcrnonn. Announcing It John
Donnelly, buainaaa a cant of Loon! M,
axptainad that no »ym pathetic atrika
waa being <-all«*d and that thia ia the
firat inatanca when* brieklayara have
taken any part in a atrika by other
uniona in New York.
"Tha men are being pulled off the
job for their own prntection." he e*
plained. "One of our mem hen waa
killed cn a Seventh Avenue job
through the incompetence of iron
worker* employed on It. Only yenter
day an apprentice waa maimed for
life. There ia ronatant and unnore«
aary danger from failing beaoia. der
rirka and other material.
"The deciaion to take the men off
ia the unanimoua deciaion of the Exe
cutive Council and the uffkrera of all
the locale. . i -a
mite tf» HuhM," Hm Wrata.
Han frtwiwu, Jum 10.—Ntor
Clark* Ktcrtrlwi, inlri sa«h<ir and
foimsr actor and pr sail sr. wha killed
himaalf mi the steps a# HM Sm Fran
riaaa Mor(a* last night, M fought
a Iminy httthi for hctltii,
Twm m(«, mm *44rm«l to mi in*
Umata frM and the other "To
vhom tt mar etMOT," racoon tad the
story of hi* Ion* battle with dlabataa,
his physical eshaustion and mental
turmoil and hi* eventual aurrender
to daath.
"I Kav* baan broken on tha wheel
of tha aoal'a effort to as press itaalf,"
■aid ona of tha note*. "Nothing ra
maina hot to dynamite the ruina."
Samuel Alden, a apaclal policeman,
waa tba aula witn»»a of the dramatic
act wbieh terminated the career of!
the notad author.
"Mr. MacFarlane (topped at the en-j
trance of the Coroner's office and
hung hia walking stick over his arm,"
Alden said. "I thought he was go
ing to light a cigaret or cigar in the
»belter of the low window there, bat
in the neat inetant out coma the pistol
nnd he put a shot into his left templej
and juat slid down the wall ami
crumpled to the sidewalk."
Mr. MacFarlane was fifty-three
yearn old. Hia career reached from
his first position as a railroad clerk
to that of a auccaasful author, flick
ering for a brief period before the
footlights when he was an actor, and
Including seven year* as a pastor.
In 191ft Mr. MacFarlane was sent
to Europe by the Saturday Eveninit
Post and traveled over the western j
front with the American army in the |
inntha that followed
In 1*21 and 1922 he was a Chautau '
<|ua lecturer.
Dawes Got in Limelight By
Cussing Out Congress Quiz
Washington, June 13 TV "Hall
an' Maria" outbreak before the Select
CommrttM- of the House of Beprea
entativea to Investigate Expenditures
during the World War, three years
ago, brought Brig. Gen. Charles Gatas
Dawes of Illinois, into the limelight
and public favor.
He had been chief purchasing agent
for the American Army in Fraace,
and made a hit with those in command
and in the War Department here. A
movement was on foot in Congress to
show a great waste of money in the
conduct of the war. A Republican
House named n special committee to
make an inquiry
Under cross-examination Gen.
Dawes let go a lot of cuss words that
attracted the attention of people
throughout the world. He appeared
to be criticising Congreaa far noaing
around about the coat of a victorious
army.
Talked of for Harding Cabinet
There was talk of naming Gen Dawes
for a place in the Harding Cabinet.
The day he appeared at the Houae he
made it known he was no candidate,
and did not expect to be, to photo
graphers who tried to snap him he
—I.
"You dont need my picture. I >m
•>ot • candidate for any office I
don't intend to become a public offi
cer and I am not going into polities.' j
In his testimony he repeated that
statement.
"You cannot put a blotch on the
army," aaid he to the committee.
'What the Hell did wt fo in for—
to steal money T It was an American
war, and yet a* a rule these commit-'
'eee try to briny In partisan polities.
"You oan try to give me all the hell
yon want—I like h. You kick because
' sold a lot of second hand junk to
the French Government for $400,000,
•M0 instead of keeping 40.000 soldiers
there to guard it while we triad to
it My conaeisnee hurts see!
whan I think we
'hem toe much."
Gen. Dawes torasd the House hear
ing into a real cussing match. He de
politicians" and "mad-slinging" inves
tigators, and *ot away with it. His
m and end)
lot permitted to (e
record ef the
are rather plsimi with
Dawes's nomination. They pointed j
out today that the progressive Be-:
puhlicans do not Uke him, and ha has
masted the old gaard lsadus of Gen
grass for trying to Make capital oat
of the conduct of the war by Pi sol
dont Wileon, his Cabinet and Gee.
Pershing. They hare
|
record of hta appearance today and
Mim they cm r«t more goad than
Sana out of It
President Harding appointed Gen.
Dawaa as director of the National
BndftL His record during the war
and his talk about economy made him
tnpular at the White Houae.
la Debate With Bryaa
Cm Dawes's firat political demon
stration was in a debate with William
Jennings Bryan on free silver. Dawes
became so interested in this subject
that he wrote his first book. "The
Banking System of the United
States." Friends of the Republican
nominee for Vice Pifesident report
that in thoae days he was ambitious
to serve the public but the opportunity
tid not present itself.
Early in 18M he was selected to
manage the McKinley forces in Illi
nois, where a fight was being made
to thwart any purpose to nominate
the Ohian for the Presidency, The
entire Illinois delegation was captured
for McKinley and Young Dawes waa
in fine favor with the new President.
He was made Comptroller of the Car
•ency, which office he held for aev.
•ral years and then became a candi
date for the Republican nomination
*or the Senate.
He was defeated by Senator Hopkins
—:*Li —itfc. .l. .—> —ji
tmontt friends that he was through
with polities for all time. He organ
ized the Central Trust Company of
Illinois, of which he became Preaident,
and is now Chairman of the Board of
Directors.
In April It 17, ha entered the army
ss a Major and later waa Lieutenant
Colonel of Enghmsia.
Herbert Hoover almost got him; ha
wanted him to become head of the
Grain Central Corporation. In July,
1917, Da wee want ueecssas. exporting
< ga to the firoat, hot waa disappoint
ed, for Oen. Perishing drafted him for
in important pssttioa kshind the line,
fa waa mads Chief of the Purchasing
Division of the A. K. P.
Teat ifying befere a House Commit
tee in 1M1, Oen. Dawae aaid he was'
'commissioned 4 Hajor of Bngin
■ara." because ho had "been chief of
engineers of a little railroad" back
triad to get into the line, hot
they weald not take ma," said ha. 1
wanted to go to war, and I finally got
eas technically, although not actually
mmpetant. I was not taken Ml ef the '
•ngineers, hot I waa detailed an thia
tdmiaistratioa work within two masks
iftar I gdt there, Aag. M, 1MT.
. »
State-Owned Skips Will Be
Big Issue in North Carolina
15—Wtth the Re
publican ronvnition out of til* way
Cleveland U looking forward to hooa- ,
inr the second national convention of
the year that of the Conference of
Progreeaiva Political Action, which
(•pens here July 4.
Senator Robert M. La Fnllrtte of
'iacoMte far President and genatot
Burton K. Wheeler of Montana for
Vice President, will he the ticket
huaen hjr the convention, it ia be.
tiered by La Follette's friends hare.
La Follette and Whaaler, if they are
nominated, would he expected to run
upon a ijlstfortn patterned closely af
ter that which was decisively turned
down by the Republican convention
last week.
In addition to thru* the confirmtv
members want plank* which would
call for the repeal of the E*ch< Cum
min* Traniportatioa Law, abolition of
what they regard aa court tryanny
nnd injunction* against labor, elimi
nation of child labor, higher taxes on
awollen income*, public ownership of
tha Nation'* water, mineral and for
est xuppliea and reconstruction of the
Federal Reserve Bank System.
Each plank ia intended to appeal to
the workinrman of both farm and city
and to the men and women of the
country who are tired of the present
order of things and want to see a new
deal in the conduct of the Nation's
affair*.
The manager* of the conference
really want to name either Senator
George W Ngrrts of Nebraska or
Senator Smith W. Brookhart of Iowa
as running mate for La Koltette, but
both Norris and Broukhart are expect
ed to refuse
Each ia running for re-electioa to
the senate and it is considered doubt
ful that either would turn down what
he believes to be a certainty for the I
uncertainty of election to head the
executive end of the governmental
organisation.
Their refusal undoubtedly would
mean the selection of Wheeler. The
Senator from Montana would be con
sidered acceptable, for he has been
identified not only with the radical
elements in his own State, but with
the so-called progressive group which
has been upsetting the Administration
apple cart during the last two years.
W.lkoa County's Blnckborry
Crop Will Amouat to SSO.OOO
Rotrinf River, June 11.—The
blackberry crop in Wilkes county will
net picker* and canner* 150,000 this
year, according to canners here. Can
ned apples, peaches, beans and cher
ries will force the total close to 1100,- j
000, ft is further estimated. The
last of this month and run for about
blackberry season will open about the
SO da's.
J. b. Church of this place yester
day unpacked 3.S00 cases- of cans
which will he distributed to farm,
ers' families over the county for
filling with the luscious berries. He
estimates that he will pay $10,000 to
some 60 families. W. W. Harris, an-1
other canner, says that he can use
10,000 cases of eui for the season
if he can get them, but doubts that he \
can get more than 4,000.
1,800 ladius to Got <10^00,
000 of Laad
Aberdeen, Washington., June 14.—
Approximately 1,60© Indians of the
l^uinault Reservation will share about1
110,400,000 worth of timber land.
It was estimated rsssatly aa a result
»f the Supreme Court decision wliwi I
by the allotment policy of the Deport.
twelve year* is rsndarod invalid. '
Each Indian's share by this i —pul >- '
tion is about 14,700
The territory to h* allotted to the
Indians constitutes about three quar
lers ef the reservation area. The rt
naining fourth was allotted prior tat
■uapension at allotments aa agricul- j t
lural and gracing land.
Work of allotment will br started '
■■slstily. aa-ewlbg to adviees |
'rnm Charles H. Busk*. Indian Con- i
aiaakmer at Washington. D C. The <
and. U b* allotted include some at ,
a ttoMot*"** * 11m1"
LEGISLATORS TO
ASSCMMJt AUGUST 7
ItUfk, June 14.—Governor Mor
rison and tlM council of state aM
the fiiiilm t xfay »nd set Aunt
7 for the apecial aeeeion of the |»
eral aaaamhly which I* to b* called
to act upon the rerommendatiana af
the state ship and! latrr transporta
tion rommiaainn.
There was no formal call, hot hia
excellency said informally that thia
data had Seen «at and that hi time
he will aand out the official atate
m«mf. There waa no objection in tha
council of atate, it waa aaid about
the atata bouae, and the gnveraor's
last big project will have an auspici
ous beginning.
Aa many timea written, there will
he no final action of the general as
sembly on the rommiaeion'a findings.
The general aaaembly will be aakad
merely to frame the machinery for
an election on this measure which
Has been as rloae to the rxceotive
heart as any act of his whole official
life. He greatly desires to conclude
his administration with a substantial
rontribution to the rate boainee*. He
haa figured in the flgbta as special
attorney and has observed the pro
gression on freight tariffa until they
have reached the realm of the techni
cian purely, just where the laymaa
cannot go and where he throws op
his hands and yields the iaeoe up aa
hopeless.
The terminal scheme firm, the hoata
nest, and then lurh other machinery
aa will give North Carolina an even
hattle with the railroada, will erm
•titnte the governor's measures. He
believes in the boast far mora than
the rnmmiMiiin doe* and in th« trunk
railway line far ban than it appears
to believe, but there ta no diviaiaa
in the councils which should operate
against the boat measure when it la
taken to the people. Hia excellency
will carry it personally to the coun
try. He believes they will ratify the
measure in the election and that the
referendum will result in giving the
state all the weapons that it needs
for its commercial emancipation.
The governor's plan is in far bet
ter shape than it was at the regular
session of the general assembly whea
the senate surprised him by an un
■"■remonious down-sitting on the bill
- hieh proposed far leas for boaat and
terminals than the commission needs
for its work. The recommendation
of the governor was t2.0M.MW. The
commission asks for $7,000,000 with a
contingent appropriation of ll,£00,
000.
The amount i* biff, bat the utate
hut several times rirwdfd that siae
of a bond iuo« and it don not frigh
ten. The heavily Democratic west
think* kindly of the governor and hia
measures and in a popular rote would
iiive the governor a big compliment.
The speaking burden will be carried
by the governor, bat he will have help.
He arid seek to keep the isaue clear
at parti nan politic*. Some of the
strongest supporters that the boot
tnd terminal plana had In the very
beginning were leading state Repub
licans.
There is apparently no other major
natter to cease before thia asaembly
ind it shoe Id he able to adjourn with,
in half its constitutional M days.
State Daossiiatic Choiroian John G.
Dawson la spanker of the lower hoooe
ind he will prsoide veer H Kopraa
■ntative LtiOaay Warren, iimm
liooal noasiaes to the flfirt, will ha
he hutteet sppaasnt in the hoaaa, hat
>e will vote to sutaoH the iaaoa. He
Vnd Senator Pat H. Williams af Mm
irat dlatrfct who led to the fight
i gainst the MM to MM, wM ha hsM*
ppaotog it agate, k w4B he aa to