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VOLUME XXIV
WUS PEOPLE
MUST DECIDE WIT
POLICE!THEY WMT
It Is Up to Voters to Deter
mine Whether iThey Want
to Keep in Office Crowd
That Has Done Little.
DEMOCRATS FREE
FROM CORRUPTION
Senator Says, as Records Will
Show.—lnvestigations by
Senate Defended by Man
Who Led Qil Inquiry.
(Hr the Associated Press.)
New York, June 25.—Tlie American
people will be on trial before the world
in the coming Presidential campaign,
Senator Thomas J. Walsh, of Montana,
declared today in an address upon as
suming the permanent' chairmanship .of
• the Democratic national convention.
The issue, he asserted, will De whether
the American people will continue in
power the party new in control of the
government notwithstanding the scandals
Which have been disclosed in Senate in
vestigations.
“I can not admit the accusations.”
Senator Walsh said, “that the American
peopre are indifferent to the corroding
influence of eorrnp'ion in office, high or
low. Blit we shall see. They are on
trial.
“If, notwithstanding what has tran
spired, the party now in power in the
nation is continued in control by tlic
choice of the people of the United States,
apparent or real, what judgment must be
passed upon them by the world? They
enjoy the distinction of having erected
and maintained a government whose offi
cers are as free from suspicion of ven
ality 'as those of any nation on earth,
nnd they will not, I venture to predict,
forfeit it.”
Charging spokesmen of the Republican
party with attempts at palliation of the
offenses of the “unfaithful public serv
ants." Senator Walsh declared that it
is in “this easy tolerance of turpitude i
in public office that the real peril of
free government lies rather than in its
causal occurrence.” v
“The President*.the United. States
hiMAf.V he o.mYnygd,
tated to endeavor to shield the delin
quents from the public idiom to which
their derelictions have subjected them
by joining in the hue and cry against
the investigations that have been con
ducted under the authority of the Senate
and agninst that body for authorizing
them. His message on the subject has
for its plain purpose the suppression of
an inquiry into the official conduct of
a member of his cabinet.”
Senator Walsh said President Coolidge
had historic warrant for his attitude,
recalling that when the British Rouse
of Commons sought to investigate the
Duke of Buckingham, Charles would
not.
“Charles lest his head,” the senator
added, and “Calvin Coolidge may profit
politically by his example.”
Declaring the Republican party to be 1
impotent in the face of “an impending
national calamity,” Senator Walsh said
tjjat because of antagonism within its
Tialms it had. ceased to he an organisa
tion through which the business of the
«nintry can be carried on.
/J “It has no remedy, it offers no relief
! from the paralysis that afflicts agricul
/ jure, threatening every form of indus
/ fry.” the chairman said, “moreover it
/ finds itself plagued with representatives
/ Jin both houses of congress holding views
so radically antagonistic to those of the
dominant faction in the party as to pre
clude the possibility of uniting on any
program of legislation.”
“Efforts of the dominant faction to'
shake off the insurgent members is as
ludicrous as is will prove futile,” the
speaker continued, adding that they
could not be shaken off because they
| have the endorsement of their people.
I Senator Walsh said he knew how eager
y the managers of the campaign for the
We-election of President Coolidge were
“to switch the issues from honest gov
ernment, the repeal of the new tariff
abominations, relief for agriculture and
related reforms, to the league of na
tions,” He added that it was not so
necessary that America immediately join
the league ns that it abandon foolish
antagonism to any world movement,
merely because it was in some way as
sociated with the league.
“The honor of our country,” he dl
cifred, “the prosperity of our people,
demand that we return to the ideals of
Woodfow Wilson, that we resume the
place he won for us—the moral leader
ship of the world.”
With Our Advertisers.
The chief interest of the Citizens Bank
and Trust Company is the interest of
its patrons, says new ad. today.
The Birthday Sale at the Parks-Be'.k
Co. continues. Many bargains are still
alvalable.
The Lenoard Refrigerator haa many
conveniences, says new ad. of the Bell
4 Harris Furniture Co. Tkiis company
has received new Victor records.
The sale of Manhattan shirts is still
going on at Hoover’s. One-third efthe
original price has been taken off.
Sugar at special prices now at Piggly
Wiggly. New ad. gives particulars.
Now’s the time to sow peas. White
Rice peas are sold by C. H. Barrier ft
Company.
•
The county school superintendent of
Lamar county, Miss., announces that
bet will refuse to sign contracts for any
teachers with bobbed hair. i
The Concord Daily Tribune
, DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION IN THE FIRST SESSION TUESDAY
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Close-up view of the Convention Hall just after the delegates liad been called to order by Cordell Hull, temporary chairman. On the platform can be seen Hull, Norman E. Mack. Alfred E. Smith, Car
dinal Hayes. Anna Case, noted soprano who sang the “Star-Spangled Banner.” and others wist were prominent in the opening session. All delegates and those on the speakers’ platform are turned to the
left to face the lights for the official picture of the convention. In all of its colorful history, old Madison Square Garden never before held so many notable persons at the same time.
Mare Wild Scenes
Democrats Begin Second Day
Work of Their Convention
SENATOR WALSH IS
’ GIVEN RECEPTION
Crowd Started Another Dem
onstration When It Was
Announced He Was to Be
Permanent Chairman.
PLATFORM NOT
READY SO FAR
Committee Trying to Setttle
All Differences in Confer
ence Instead of Bringing
Bitter Fight on Floor.
(By the Associated Press.)
Madison Square Garden, N. Y., June
25.—The pent-up fires of Democratic en
thusiasm, fed by the rivalries that are
moving beneath the surface, found a tu
multous outlet again today in the big
convention hail.
This time it was Senator Walsh, of
Montana, the oil committee prosecutor,
who set the convention aflame when he
appeared on the platform to preside as
permanent chairman.
From the moment his selection for the ■
place was announced, the Garden rang
with cheers of approbation, and when lie
took over the gavel the delegates snatch
ed up their state standards and began a
howling parade in tribute to Mr. Walsh’s
public services in uncovering the Teapot
Dome scandal.
It was more than ten minutes before
■the hall was quieted again, and the Mon
tana Senator then proceeded with his ad
dress as permanent chairman to the ac
companiment of a constant cannonade of
applause. )
The speech was part of*n session devot
ed to the formalities of perfecting a per
manent organization, while the Convention
was waiting for its platform committee to
settle its difficulties over party declara
tions.
Senator Walsh, in making his address
as permanent chairman, aroused a dem
onstration when, during his arraignment
of the administration in connection with
the Teapot Dome scandal, he challenged
the naming of a single Democratic office
holder involved.
While he was speaking, somebody sent
■to the speaker's platform an elaborately
prepared little black satchel. , It contain- j
ed such inscriptions as “Graft Inn,”
.“Thousand Oillands,” and “Doheny
I Falls.”
j When Sepator Walsh got to the con
cusion of his speech, the audience broke
into peroration when he said in con
clusion, “The honor of our country, the
CONCORD, N. G, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1924
Smith Remains Confident While i
McAdoo Hears Disturbing Rumors
(By the Associated I’renwi
New York. June 25.—Scouts from the
.Smith headquarters assigned to mission
ary work among the state delegations, re
ported today to their candidate, Governor
Alfred E. Smith, of New York, ami to
his campaign manager, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, that they were “winning
votes.” On the basis of these reports
and on the strength of conferences, the
Governor and Mr. Roosevelt personally
conducted with Democratic leaders, it
was announced at the headquarters that
confidence in the struggle had expanded,
and “there was no question but that Mr.
Smith was rapidly approaching the Pres
idential nomination.”
Governor Smith devoted the day to
work at his headquarters and in keeping
engagements with political leaders.
Charles E. Morris, chief of staff of the
prosperity of our people, demand that we
return to the ideals of Woodrow Wilson.”
The demonstration broke loose with the
aid of the band. It continued for a
moment, and then Senator Walsh silenc
ed it, so that lie might finish the sentence,
that “we resume the place lie won for
us, the moral leadership of the world.”
At that the demonstration broke out
anew.
Business Moving Slowly.
' Madison Square Garden, N. Y., June
25.—Moving slowly but surely to its real
business, the Democratic national con
vention today passed through the second
preliminary stage of organization. Meet
ing at an hour earlier than yesterday,
the convention took up the perfecting
of its permanent organization.
The platform committee was busy at
work on the declaration of party prin
ciples, as the convention went into ses
i sion, and the rules committee had mend
. ed the order of businss to provide for
* hearing tire nominating speeches while
the platform builders are at work.
A large number of candidates to be
placed in nomination had caused the con
vention managers to shorten the time
for nominating, speeches, to limit the
number of seconding speeches, and to
lay out a plan to drive head lit full speed
as soon as the organization periiminaries
could be disposed of.
Under a broiling sun that beat down
on the Madison Square Garden roof with
an unrelenting intensity, the delegates
went to work today in a shower of palm
leaf fans. The 'situation as to candi
dates was little changed on the surface,
I and the same powerful under currents
were flowing. There were claims of
gains for this candidate and losses for
that one, .but ouly the first few ballots
can reveal the real situation.
A Korean woman is not given a name
■ until she has borne a son.
James M. Cox boom, today branded as
false published statements that the for
mer Ohio Governor would throw his’
strength to Governor Smith should it be
found impossible to nominate the Ohioan.
Disturbing Reports For McAdoo.
New York, June 25. —McAdoo head
quarters hummed today with activity,
but there was no indication of any change (
in the situation. Mr. McAdoo and his j
managers continued to express optimism ,
with respect to the strength he will poll :
when balloting begins, but it was admit- i
ted that disturbing reports hail been
brought in by some workers of increased
activity on the part of political foes to
alienate the support of delegates.
In the fate of these reports, however,
the McAdoo campaign managers were
emphatic in the declaration they were
holding their own.
DEATH THIS MORNING
OF JOHN S. HILL
Well Known Citizen Dies After Long
Illness.—Funeral Arrangements Have
Not Been Made.
John S. Hill, former deputy sheriff of
Cabarrus county nnd for years a well
known citizen of this city, died this
morning at his home on East Depot
street. He had been ill for several weeks
and liis death was not unexpected.
No funeral arrangements have been
made awaiting word from relatives from
other cities.
Mr. Hill was t!5 years of age and was
born and reared in this county. After
his marriage while a young man he mov
ed to Concord, and was associated with
several business, firms of the city. He
was county jailer during the tinv> he
served as deputy sheriff of the county.
The deceased was a member of the
First Presbyterian Church and was act
ive ia the affairs of his Church so long as
lie was physically able to take part in
them.
Surviving are his wife, three children
nnd three sisters. The children are Miss
Mary Hill and Conrad Hill, of Concord,
and Mrs. Luther K. Lee, of Gastonia.
Mrs. H. M. Wiimedoff, of Detroit, Mrs.
J. M. Woodßide, of Charlotte, and Mrs.
Jesse Johnson, of this city, are the sur
vuviug sisters.
Had an Armful.
Washington, D. C., June 24.— Chief
Justice Taft is the star oustamer of
Samuel Rod, tailor, and when Rod’s
shop caught fire this afternoon he dash
ed frantically through the smoke,
gathered up seven suits of clothes be
longing to Mr. Taft and stnggered out
Inside the elongated fish the fisherman
Taft’s suite make an armful, si Mr.
Rod’s other customers did not fare so
well. But Mr. Rod is in solid with the
Chief Justice.
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Platform Drafting Is
Proving Tedious Work
Demands For Vigorous For
eign Relations Plank Made (
by Man Who Served With
Dawes Committee.
KLAN ISSUE IS
ALSO UNDECIDED
Farm Relief and Prohibition
Getting Attention.—Long
Sessions Will Be Needed
to Complete Platform.
(By the Associated Press)
New York, .Tune 25.—A vigorous for
eign relations plank was submitted today
to Democratic platform builders by Ow
en D. Young, of New York, who was a
member of the Dawes reparation commis
sion. Appearing suddenly at a contin
uation of the public hearings, Mr. Young
was subjected to a lengthy questioning
by members of the committee, both favor
able and unfavorable to an expression re
garding the league of nations.
When Mr, Young handed Copies of the
proposed plank to newspaper corre
spondents, Chairman Homer 8. Cummings
interposed an objection on the ground
that premature publication of the plank
might embarrass the convention in its de
liberal ions. Other committeemen took a
different view, and finally it was decided
on motion of Senator King, of I't ill, to
permit the plank to be published at this
time /
Discussion of this proposal, labor
planks and other questions in public
sessions delayed the committee in getting
down to actual work of platform draft
ing. This will be stnrted later in the
day with the prospects of long sessions.
The Ku Klux King and prohibition en
tered mto the discosMou again.
Declaration on foreign relations, farm
relief, prohibition and the Ku Klux Klau
were the most difficult problems confront
ing the Aub-committee when it began its
labors.
Members of the drafting committee
were optimistic, but not inclined before
they went into sessiou to make definite
predictions as to when they would finish
their task. *
A large number of other subjects was
discussed by spokesmen for various or
ganizations and groups, and the commit
tee was warned by Representative Harry
B. Hawes of Missouri, and Julius Ait
ehell, of Colorado, that the fight for a
specific denunciation of the Ku Klux
Klnn would be carried to the convention
floor if the name of the order should be
left out of the "civil and religious liberty”
plank by the platform drafters. Commit
tee men from Massachusetts, Ohio, Min
nesota and Wisconsin also went on rec
ord as urging mention of the Klnn, and
when opposing views were invited by the
chair, including a call for Imperial Wiz
ard Evans no voice was raised against
the proposal.
Voting on the nominee will not begin
until the convention lias received and
adopted its platform, which today was
taking shape in a sub-committee.
Alabama, as the first state on the roll
call, nominated Senator Underwood and
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THE COTTON MARKET i
Opened Easy at Decline of 14 to 20 Points ,
and Sold 24 to 28 Points Lower.
(By the Associated Press.) ,
New York. June 25.—The cotton mar- (
ket opened easy at a decline of 14 to 20 j
points today and sold about 24 to 28 i
points net lower in early trading, owing j
to relatively easy Liverpool cables, con- (
tinued favorable weather and crop ad- i
vices, and the circulation of July notices ■
estimated at about 15.000 bales. Notices ;
were larger than expected and July sold
off to 28.05, just about maintaining its ]
premiums over October. Opening prices
were: July 28.10; October 25.20; De- ,
(•ember 24.48; January 24.30; March ]
24.30.
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Engineering Education Conference.
Boulder, Colo., June 25. —The Univer- i
city of Colorado is entertaining during ;
the remainder of this week the thirty
second meeting of the Society for the
Promotion of Engineering Education. !
Representatives of nearly all of the lead
ing technical schools and engineering so
cieties of the country were present at the •
opening of the proceedings today.
Arkansas nominated Senator Jas. T. ;
Robinson. Governor Brough making the
nominating speech. California nominat
ed Wm. G. MeAdoo, Senator J. D. Phe
lan making the nominating speech.
Two Big Problems.
Madison Square Garden, June 25. —
Amid scenes almost without parallel in
party history, the Democratic conven
tion today began its grapple with the
two big issues before it—the nomination
of tin l Presidential candidate, and de
termination of the party’s attitude to
ward the Ku Klux Klan.
Scarcely had the nomination speeches
for President begun when .the vast hall
was thrown into chaos by a prolonged
demonstration provoked by a reference
to the positive stand against the Klan
taken by Senator Underwood, of Ala
bama.
The convention displayed little inter
est in' the first nominating speech until
Mr. Johnson got along to the point
where he began to make references to
th Ku Klux Klan issue. Then the
convention began to sit up and take no
tice. He brought the convention into
a demonstration by the direct reference
to the Klan, about half the delegates
standing up and cheering, and the other
half remaining silently in their seats.
Most all of the delegates from Georgia,
Missouri, lowa. Texas, Oklahoma and
California remained seated. In corn
eluding his speech nominating Senator
Underwood. Mr. Johnson read the anti-
Klan plank he had proposed to the plat
fon> committee, and another demonstra
tion broke out. There were some con
tests over whether certain state stand
ards were tc go in.
The chairman after concluding his
speech, recognized Senator Glass, of Vir
ginia, and there was a brief demonatra
; tion of cheering and handclapping. He
i introduced the formal resolution provid
ing for the organization of the national
! committee, after the convention adjourns.
1 The resolution was adopted.
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NO. 148
50 OIL COMPANIES
litPROCEEDINGS
Proceedings Have Been Insti
tuted by Federal Govern- r
ment and Action is Sought
in Court at Chicago.
gasolineTprices
1 BRING INQUIRIES
Nearly All of the Important
Companies in the Country
Are Included.—Pooling Is
Charged by Government.
(By the Associated Press.)
■Washington, June 25.—Fifty or more
of the principal oil companies of the
United States were attacked in anti-trust
proceedings instituted by the government
today in the Federal Court at Chicago.
Atorue.v General Stone asked an in
junction to restrain the companies from
further violations of the Sherman Act
which he charged against them.
The complaint charged “a combination
and conspiracy in restraint of trade and
commerce among the several states nnd
with foreign nntions in gasoline, kerosene
and other hydro-eorbon products,” or
generally, all petroleum redivatives.
Nearly all of the important companies,
including all of the Standard Compan
ies, were cited. The Attorney General
charged them with combining to control
the production of gasoline by a pooling
of patent rights in violation of the anti
trust act; miming ns the primary defend
ants the Standard Oil Companies of In
diana nnd New Jersey, the Standard De
velopment Company, tile Texas Company,
and the Gasoline Products Company. The
action constituted one of the most sweep
ing anti-trust moves on the part of th*
government in many years. Beside& the
principals, the Attorney General named
as parties a number of “secondard de
fendants.” whom he charged were in the
combination us a result of accepting li
censes from one or more of the primary
defendants.
PROPOSAL TO ABOLISH
, TWO THIRDS RULE DIES
Rules Committee Turns It Down Cold
ly—J/nit Rule is Ignored.
New York. June 24.—Proposals for
abolishing the tiine-honored two-thirds
rule for making nominations in Demo
cratic conventions was killed here to
night by the rules committee when it
turned down coldly a proposal submitted
by Texas that a majority rule he sub
stituted.
The proposition that the custom be '
changed drew support from only two
other states, Florida and Utah. The
member from Texas did not urge his mo
tion with any degree of vigor and an
nounced that it was submitted only be
cause his delegation was under instruc
tions to do so from the Texas state con
vention. His delegation, he said, would
not bring the question to the floor.
The committee discussed at some
length tile subject of bringing in a rule
to cover the subject of unit votes among
delegations, but finally disposed of it by
leaving it altogether out of its report.
The last order of procedure was
changed to allow for nominating speeches
ahead of the platform report, the rules
committee foreseeing a long drawn out
fight in the platform committee over a
number of the planks.
$550 JEWELRY IN KWI.
HAULED OUT BY ANGLER
Platinum Ring Set With Diamond and
Sapphires is Added Prize.
Greenwich, Conn., June 24. —An eel
caught by Albert J. Kane, of Greenwich,
at Fteld Point Park, Greenwich Harbor,
has netted the Ashman more than SSOO.
Those present were: Misses Asking Ivey,
found a platinum dinner ring containing
17 diamonds and six sapphires. A green
wieh jeweler placed the value of the
ring at $550 or more.
Senators at Top By One-Game Margin.
New York June 24.—Washington
j umlied from third place into th* lend in
the American league race today. Detroit
slipped from first to third and New
York moved from third to second. Only
two games separate the Senators from
St. Louis in fifth. The leaders are three
games ahead of Cleveland in sixth and
four and one half beyond unicago in
seventh.
The Senators gained a one-game ad
vantage on the field by beating the
Yankees, who neverthless advanced a
notch as Detroit dropped two to St.
Louis which crept ta within one point
of Boston in fourth.
The Cleveland Indians, whose win
ning streak started the wild jamming
which has scrambled the race, were
kept idle by rain.
Out of 42,000 medical practitioners
in England only 2,000 are women.
WHAT SMITTY’B WEATHER CAT
HAXS
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Local thuaderahowers tonight ami
'Thursday.