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f ' " ' ? ' ^ 1 5 Abbeville Press and Banner Established! 844 $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C., Friday, January 9, 1920. Single Copies, Five Cents. 76th Year. FRISCO CHOSEN BY [ THE DEMOCRATS " I Y . .? f Convention Will 3e Held June 28. jf _ j ' Resolutions Are Passed Endorsing I tke Treaty and League of Na- 1 tions?Republicans Are 1 !' Scored?Senator UnderA 0 wood Not a Candidate. ' i J' 1 Washington, an. 8.?San FranJp cisco was selected today by the Dcm^ ocratic National conimittec, in ses-|! I- $ion here as the place for the party's 1*920 national convention. TVTnndav. June 28, was fixed as the,' convention date. p After twenty-seven votes had been : I cast, Kansas City and the other cities I. withdrew and the vote for San Fran- j K cisco was unanimous. \ m. Following the vote I. B. Dock' weiler, who presented San Francisco claims, said the action of the com- i I mittee was a tribute to the women : I of the west. He save credit for the j ui?hv thp sneech committee o vitciciv.. j -? ,, made bj? Miss Mary E. Foy, of Pasa-J Idena, member of the women's Democratic national comlnittee. Dockweiler said San Francisco : plans to make the convention memorable. In addition to the $125,000;! - given the national committee for ex- '1 r | penses, Dockweiler said $50,000 will, be raised as an entertainment fund. J) He was asked what the outlook is j 'for wet Democrats and he said, "itn is very, very good." j; Changed Rules Fail J< 'An effort to change the two-thirds 1 K rule of nominating candidates for J Democratic conventions was defeated. A. F. Mullen, of Omaha, Neb., ] r introduced a motion recommending that the convention change the. rule : but by a viva voce vote it was laid IJ k on the table. % i Resolutions indorsing the treaty of ? Versailles and denouncing as un-' patriotic the attitude of senators who]' ?? jj?-ii.. ... WUUIU ueiectu /It UXI^^tlV VI UJr X1UI11-, *y . # f j fying reservations were unanimously J: adopted toda> by the Democratic na-; tional committee in session. The "arrogant" Republican leader-;] ship cf the senate was denounced at. having earned the "contempt of the' world" by throttling the treaty for1 seven months, and the senate was!" called upon to "quit playing politics j' with the question of ratification." Senator Underwood, of Alabama,j; in a statement today, announced he|' would not be a candidate for thei Democratic presidential nomination.j "My friends have complimented j me," the senator said, l"by suggest-;1 ing that I be a candidate for the 1 Democratic presidential nomination,; 1 but I am in no sense a candidate. I have announced a candidacy for thei* spnntnrshin fnr Alnhntvn anH T lir>r>n '< I ; ! and expect to represent tnat state in the senate for another six yeai*s. p Reviewing: the legislative record of the two Wilson administrations |l and the manner in which the war .1 was won, the resolutions also ex-,I pressed gratification that the presi- ! dent was regaining . health after a j breakdown "due largely to hisi forts for world peace." j] _____ !i ' A Mayoress. j1 h r t J Abbeville keeps growing. The lat- l addition to the town being a lady 1 mayoress, in the little daughter born : to Mayor and Mrs. J. Moore Mars, at Laurens, Thursday, January 8, 1920.; The little lady is receiving a warm welcome from many friends. ! I, V COTTON MARKET. 1 V v1 S V January 9. V 1 B V Spot Cotton 40.50 K. ffl V January 38.30 V' ? V March 36.78 V 3 May 35.15 V ! jgP V July 33.45 V t || V October 30.93 V: BRYAN COME-BACK HAS WISEACRES AT CAPITAL GUESSING Washington, Jan. 8.?Emerging from the foliage and palm trees of j his winter home in Miama, William! Tonninn-s Rrvnn siir1rlf>nlv is aerain' th?^ most talked about man in the Democratic party, and every candidate for president is figuratively trembling in his shoes over the mysterious moves of the Nebraskan. j The average Demacrat here be-J lieves?or fears?that Mr. Bryan is! a candidate. The situation may as; well be faced as it is, they say, and j there has been more Bryan talk in the cloak rooms at the capital with-! ? i in the past few days than since 1912.'; This talk is by no means all fa-; \'orable, but it i? unquestionably; true that the big interrogation today: in Democratic quarters is: lxcii/ uvmi. >tui There will be a dozen speakers at the Jackson dinner here Thursday night?most of the speakers being national figures?but the headline1 ail ractfons of that dinner will rank ?s follows: The letter from President Wilson and the speech of William J. Bryan. Ths Bryan come-back is one of the! mystifying things of Democratic! politics. Mr. Bryan dropped off the 1 front page with his resignation as;: secretary of shite. Everybody assumed he was dividing his time be- : tween Asheville and Miami, or making prohibition lectures, and l-?r it j: ?o at that. Today merely because he bobbs:! i' up in Washington two weeks ago; and held a conference with Demo-:' cratic senators, ostensibly to dis- ' cuss the peace treaty, and because: ne is a jacKson dinner speaner ana | was quoted at length in a Baltimore j paper on national issues, William i Jennings Bryan is right back on the j front page and getting more pub-! licity than the president. "The fellows seem to think he is; a candidate,'* was the remark of a; Democratic senator who had recent-; ly left the cloakroom. He spoke re- i signedly. "But he can't be nomi-; nateSC he added, a bit more hope-! fully. ^ ' DANIELS GIVES CREDIT TO BRYAN | Washington, Jan. 8.?William j Jennings Bryan was given credit by | Secretary Daniels, speaking at the j Jackson day banquet here tonight,! for laying the foundations of thei league of nations covenant through the arbitration treaties negotiated by him as secretary of state. In view of published reports that the three-times nominee of the Democrats for the presidency agaio aspires to lead the party in a campaign Mr. Daniel's statement created one of the interesting moments of the dinner. Thq naval secretary's ad :lress had proceeded without special! incident with applause for recital of I Democratic achievements and rip- j ^ pies of amusement at the vigorous j sallies at the opposition until he be-!] ?an to discuss the war and its re- j suits. x i. The declaration (of independence) ,, and the covenant (of the league or j' nations) the secretary said "are the;! two living.light foundations of liberty and peace. It is the glory of ll.c! Democratic party that through Jefferson and' Wilson we have jr'ven i these safe charts fyr all time for! :a(e negotiation upon all sen-. Preach at Frcnoyicri.in ChurcK ji The P.-:v. C. G. Parkinson, of the j< rheological Seminary, Erskine, will;, srcach Sunday niornim? av. (Ik* Pros-' i t jyterian church. He will be enter- J :ained at th"& hotel by Major W. II. i Lonp. Landscape Gardener at Mill. j ine ADDeviie Cotton Mill has cm- j: jloyed a landscape gardener to beau-p ;ify the mill grounds. He is now,1 it work planting flowers, shrubs^and rees and conforming the land there-j' ibouts to the principles of beauty, j I DR. C. E. BURTS MAKES ADDRESS AT BANQUET AT BAPTIST CHURCH The banquet given last night at the Baptist Church to commemorate to paying off of the last debt of Sin nnn on tlio r?r?spnt rVmrrVi hllild ing was a splendid success. About 65 men were present, mostly Baptists, but all the Protestant denominations of the city were represented and en- j joyed the bountiful supper that th~! ladies of the church had prepared.' The Rev. Louis J. Bristow, paster i of the church, acted as toastmasterj of the occasion and showed mar-' velcus aptitude in introducing tho I speakers and in guiding the ??von+! along pleasa.it and interesting w?vs.| hero and there rising to heights of | moving oratory. Dr. C. 3. Burt?, Columbia, gen " ?.! j secretary cf the Baptist State Con-i venticn was the speaker of th? re-! casion, but many other talk* wevo1 rnnr'n A hp"" t'dnuo lulirv urnvn Major R. B. Chen!ham, C. D. Brown,! J. S. Stark, The Rev. M. R. PlaxcoT j Otto Bristow, Sanford Howie, J. Foster Barnwell, The Rev. 0. E,' Peele and E. H. Longshore. Dr. Burls in his a'3d re"? outlined I his present work, and cr.llc' hiTirc1^! a messenger to the churches. IIr,i commendcd th? : the officers j and the members of the Abbeville1 Baptbt church for the rrdendi'1 pvo-l prcz-o the local chrrch had made and': the success that had atcmled thr* 7"i | million drive hero. He raid that unitvi and co-operation among the various! denomination.-, in Abbeville marked a' happy condition and added that the! church was necessary to the growth! and maintenance of the Chricti?n! religion. Dr. Burts' address was both in- j foresting and instructive and wasj greatly enjoyed by the audience. At the close of the evening the j Rev. Louis J. Bristow thanked the | ladies of the church for the splendid j supper and suggested that the men of the church give the ladies of the I church a banquet, cook it themselves, if they could, and serve it. | He also said that it was planned to j give a number of banquets, purely! social events, at the Baptist Church during the year of 1920. Among the ladies who assisted in the preparation and serving of the j supper were: Mrs. E. C. Horton, Miss Farmie StarV Mvo AT Cuen, Mrs. Cliff King, Mrs. Frank Welsh, Mrs. Herman Benton, 'Mrs. V. I). Thomas, Mrs. C. B. Tuggle, Mrs. A. B. Galoway, Mrs. Truman Stephens, Mrs. L. J. Bristow, Mrs. W. J. Duncan, Mrs. Mary Kennedy, and Mrs. D. B. Poore. DEMOCRATS TO PLACE PEACE TREATY IN THE 1920 PLATFORM! Washington, Jan. 7.?A ru cluticnj endorsing Pvesicli;.^ Wilson's sianui on the peace treaty and commencing! his efforts to establish a league of! peace is to be laid befove the 7>o:r.o cratic national coniv.i'.t: ' ; meeting here tomorrow v.i:n ! >. backing of the committee ci." ; ' , "If I hav;; anything to do with i..,": =aid Chairman Cummings today after consultation with various leaders, "the resolution will be no clear jis in have no (ioubt about our position. We are behind the President." The announcement that formal:: action by the committee would be ought was ta!:en as enhancing 1 i:<_ ! prcppect. that the treaty would l":ome an active campaign i.;s:ie. The general expectation war. that the! ?ommitlee wouli adept the re^olu!o.i, helping to open the way fori :i vuivion of the savjecl a: the! faekscrn day banqavt Thursday; Tight. ?-orrncr Kesid^nl. James A. Dusenberry, Anderson,! 'ormerly of Abbeville County, raised ! t io says, "in Lonjr Cane Cemetery."! ind where he wants to ho buried. | vas a visitor in Abbeville this week, enewinir old acquaintances and in-! ndentally, attending to business. Ho I is quite a successful yov.nir man as I Abbeville boys have a habit of being:, j ABBEVILLE BONDED WAREHOUSE IS NAME OF NEW CORPORATION ! The new Cotton Warehouse for! Abbeville to be known as Abbeville Bonded Warehouse is assured. Twen-' ty-five men have subscribed $1,000 each to t^e project and a meeting of these men will be held in the next I few days, at which time a board of directors will be chosen and officers I will be elected The company is to be capitalized at $40,000, thus leaving $15,000 in stock/to be sold after the original 25 have taken their stock. I It has not'been decided where the warehouse is to be located. This and other questions will be taken up at the first meeting. Abbeville is badly in need of another warehouse and the men who initiated the project are to be congratulated for carrying it through to its present status. The secretary of state has already granted permission to open books of subscription, publication of which notice is contained in the Press and Banner of this issue. The subscription list if the first 25 subscribers to the stock of the Abbeville Bonded Warehouse follows: State of South Caiolina, County of Abbeville. We, the undersigned hereby sub-| scribe and bind ourselves to take the amounts of stock opposite our names, hereinbelow written, in-a proposed corporation for the purpose of erect-1 ing a cotton warehouse in the City of Abbeville. The Warehouse shall be incorporated under the laws of South Carolina. The stock is to be divided into shares of the par value of $100.00 each. r> a t t? t VJ. r\. ncuaci, u, x- \juimovaito, u? S. Moi-se, R. E. Cox, D. H. Hill, W. J. Latimer, C. E. Williamson, Albert Henry, R. C. Philson, T. G. White, A. J. Ferguson, S. J. Link, W. M. Barnwell, J. M. Nickles, J. R. Nickles, L. C. Haskell, J. Allen Smith, Jr., Rosenberg Mercantile Co., Lewis Perrin, Mrs. J. F. Clinkscales, E. R. Thomson, C. H. Pennell, W. D. Barksdale, J. C. Hill. M'ADOO ASSAILS RECORD OF G. O. P.j Wa . i.glon, Ja.i. 8.?In a tele-^ gram uci.i Wichi.:. Falls, Texas,, read tonight at the J. v*.ay ban-' quet, William G. McAdoo assailed! wnrl* n"f fhn Ronnhlipn n pnrnrvnc: oc : a "sorry record of dismal failure," t and declared the success of Demo-i cracy in the presidential election i was inevitable if leadership was wise,' vision undistorted and sympathy! with the masses 'preserved. "Republican leadership has demon-j sirated startling- capacity, to deal: with the great problems confronting I America and the .world," Mr. Mc-! Adoo's message read. "Nine months of Republican leadership disclose no constructive, kur.iananitarian or : U- ir.anlike act. Veace defeated, war prolonged and hundreds of thousands of needI .s:? in-flinf ' '-1? ; tiildren, women and men in Europe, ghastly toll to cxact for partisan olitical ends. "The railroad problem bungled id r.o promise of a real or perma':ni icl.it ion through bills now in The puolic in*ere?t is ot pivlvcU"'. while increased rates, p.l disappointment will result." Death of Mr. P. A. Butler. Air. iMullinax, a representative of he Butler Marble Works was in the ity this week from Greenville. Mr. Mullinax brings the distressing- news the death of Mr. P. A. Butler, on Co. Oth. He and Mr. Butler were out hunting: when Mr. Butler tripped in a piece of wire, fell, rupturing a blood vessel and died before aid could be summoned. Mr. Butler is well known all over Abbeville county; id our people will hear with deep regret of his untimey death. The Dutler works will be continued as before. BRYAN DISAGREES WITH WILSON ON LEAGUE OF NATIONS ISSUE An Ton Q A C??1if President Wilson and Wm. J. Bryan; over whether the league of nations! should be made an issue at the com-1 ing election topped off the Jackson. Day deliberations of the Democratic j party chiefs. It came at the Jackson dinner, asj the climax of a day in -which San Francisco had been chosen as the! meeting place of the Democratic j national convention on June 28, andi it charged the air with political electricity. ' 1 I , Submit Treaty to Voters j1 President Wilson, in his message.1 read to the diners, assembled in two/ separate halls, declared that the}1 ??-?J CMr?rr]n WO XT IV C in ^ L1CUI <4iiU ?? vv submit the question to the voters as I "a great and solemn referendum."'' Mr. Bryan, showing all the old/ time vigor with which he led the; fight for the President' nomination ' at Baltimore in 1012, declared thatj^ the Democratic party could not go ^ before the country on the issue be-! cause it involved a delay of four-'" teen months, and meant success on-| ly if the Democrats captured a two-1j thirds majority of the Senate. The party, Mr. Bryan declared, (1 must secure such compromises as|^ may be possible. L Crystallizing an Issue. j< The disagreement between the 11 President and his former Secretary |1 of State, the first public view since j 1 Mr. Bryan left the Cabinet because H he did not agree with the Presi-j< dent's course in the diplomatic1' negotiations with Germany, was ' thus di?/,!c<!?'l as ? fact, although it ' has beeii rumored and reported in 1 the underground currents of nation-; al politics. In the opinion of the! political leaders it crystallized an is- { sue. ?? HOOVER LOOMING STRONG AS CHOICE OF THE DEMOCRATS! ' Washington, Jan. 8.?People who' attend the Jackson day dinner andj the meeting of the Democratic; .national committee?or, for that matter, the P.epublican national com-j mit'cee meetings, are essentially politicians. Their conversation is about delegates and convention rjales and booms and certain success and the terrible faults of the Other party. Candidates have their boosters on the job quietly sounding out sentiment and extolling: the virtues of the aspirants for the presidency. But underneath it all, when you; get them away from the formal j stuff, the^politicians who are here! for the Democratic assemblage have| some definite ideas of what is going to happen in the coming campaign. Far from being as comfortable as I the Republicans were in their calcu-J lation that any Republican could win j this time, the Democrats seem to ho. saying that it will take "some can-l| didate," not just any candidate, to: win on the Democratic ticket. There is a sense of impending responsibility for the selection of a big man to be the standard bearer of the party, but as usual at this early stage of the game, the friends of McAdoo, Palmer, Governor Cox, Sena- James 'V. Gerard, and last, but not least, William Jennings Bryan, have < a confident feeling that their num : measures up exactly to specifica- ' tion 11' lhe Benefits cf War. I John C. Ferguson, James C. Hagen . and John R. Martin, all of Abbeville County, are among the soldiers who I have beer, adjudged disabled and are being educated by the government. . They will draw pay from $80 to S150 per month. Ferguson goes to Georgia Tech, Hagen to Bowen's ( Business College and Martin to Clem-,( son. j, :< Ihr.ry V.'ii.-op.. cf Springfield, i."!; here spending a few days with his c home people. STEEL WORKERS i STRIKE ENDED | Was Called in September and Invalved Many Men?Telegram From National Committee to American Federation of Labor and Union Heads Say Public Opposed Them. Pittsburgh, Jan. 8.?The strike in the steel mills and furnaces, called September 22, and which at its inleption involved 367,000 men, was jfficilly caled off her tonight by the national committee after an ,nU d <y meeting. Announcement that the naVonai committee had decided to proceed no further was contained in a telagr l -,ent to the headquartei*s of the rxiAiv,!iv.ciu x tuwiauvn ui '^auui ill Washington, to the heads of all international unions interested and to the organizers and field men in all strike districts. "The steel corporation," the telegram said, "with the active assistance of the press, the courts, the [ederal troops, state police and many public officials, have denied steel ivorkers their rights of free speech, Free assemblage and the right to organize, andby this arbitrary and ruthless misuse of power have wrought about a condition which has compelled the" national committee for organizing iron and steel campaign is now at an end. A rigorous campaign of education and reorganization win oe immediately begun and will not cease until industrial justice in the steel industry has been achieved. All steel workers now are at liberty to return to werk, pending preparation for the next big organization movement." The telegram was signed by John Fitzpatrick, chairman; D. J. Davis, . vice-president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers; Edward J. Evans, International Union of Electrical Work- ^ ers; William Hannon, international Union of Machinist, and William Z. Foster, secretary of the committee. ' The offices of the committee here will *be maintained for about a month while the business of /the strike is Deing wound up, and tne commissary department will continue ^ ;o look after needy former strikers and their families until the men have obtained employment. Steel company executives said they were not surprised that the strike had been called off, as the strikers have been drifting back to work for several months. Many mills, it was added, have long ago been able to operate full time with full forces. W. Z. Foster later announced his , resignation as secretary-treasurer of the strike committee and said he ivould be succeeded by J. G. Brown of Everett, former president of rimber Worker?' union. Brown is to issume office February 1. CONDEMNS ARMY GENERAL STAFF Washington, Jan. S.?Lives of \mcrican troops were needlessly acrificed on armistice morning be:ause the American high command Chaumont .'id not specifically e:oke previously issued orders to atack. Brig. Gen. John H. Sherburne, )f Boston, formerly ct ;.v.vs..nder of he artillery brigade of the Ninetyvccr.i (ncg:o) divUs.i, to?ay to! i i House subcommittee. Gen. Sh;v;unie slroiigiy condemned the viothods of whai. he referred to as he. 'Veiierai slaif gaii'i" C'haunont, criticizing parii:\y a '.:uuiir.;i;i:i.r imimviiM.t-. "Torn.;, divisions ! brigade :onin:::nders stood h .-'uch piteous 'ear"' of the Chaunumfc staff that hey did not dan-. !! most cases, to evoke on their own authority thi: >rder (o attach on November 11 even ihcugh they knew to a moral cor H'rtaii'.ty th:it an armistice ha<i been