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9 His Friends in Full Control Apr parently of the National Con vention GLASS HEADS RES OLUTION (XXMMTFTEE ^?Bjyan Will Not Have Dominat ;?| mg Influence in Councils of ;he Party. . San Francisco, June 26.?So far as surface indications were concerned, at ie&st, the friends ^f President Wilson . /and hir administration appeared in complete control of the poiitical ma chinery of the Democratic party today, as the actual prehminaries of the j^aU l^iional convention began. The dommation was not without its compliment of grumbling and com plaints among scattering insurgent ele ments but. there \ 3 every evidence tha: on a show down the anti-admin istration forces not only were far in the minority but wer$ lacking in or ganization and leadership. The ascendency of-the Wilson sup porters showed itself in striking fash ion in the program for the national committee meeting to decide. betwe< contesting delegates. Many committee members expres ed the opinion when a recess was! taken until tomorrow without the Georgia-contest of the Missouri cases having been reached that the ruling to fc ^ made in these cases would be shaped; tp keep out of the convention Senator Reed of Missouri, critic of the Wilson policies. Another development pointing in - the same direction was the apparent , ? collapse of a fight against Senator Glass of Virginia in his candidacy , for chairman of the resolutions commj^f teer a post for which he is "commonly reported to have ben selected by the president himself. ?\JjX Edition there was accumulating evidence that William J. Bryan would find the- cards against him in his at tempt to put into the platform a league of nations plank in disagree meni with the president's views andjaj prohibJtiQc enforcement plank frame&T wiCiv?Ut-the acqdiesence of the admin istration. ^P&th-regard to prohibition, bow i situation remained in a state of jc^r^Serahle uncertainty with the tretid-ap^arently^ toward exclusion ??.Wnfi '.ItSfe-platform entirely. . Those ; jpiO want a liberalization plank con tinue an active campaign and some members of the New Tork delegation ;$eciared they would carry their fight tb> the floor of the convention itself, -j hut a feeliny gained headway that in the ?nd both Mr. Bryan's bone dry v -declaration and that of the anti-bone drys would be voted down. Just where President Wilson stands - QjiV that subject has, not been made clear, but increasing significance was attached in the day's conferences to tB? absence of any reference to pro hibition' in the Virginia Democratic p^ttfcrm, unqualifiedly indorsed by tto White House. Neither has the administration tip Pfd ^its hand in regard to presidential candidates and tonight \ the relative ^ s^khding of aspirants remained ap parently unchanged. Attorney Gen eral Palmer arrived today to take personal charge of his campaign, and by tomorrow the- .running of candi date ttnd their, managers among the uninstructed delegates is expected to De at its height. State Bankers Meeting Officers Elected and Resolutions Adopted Greenville,.June 24.?With an infor mal but throughly enjoyable banquet at the Greenville Woman's college to night, the 20th annual convention of the South Carolina Bankers' associa tion came to a close. Election of ficers, the passage of a resolution op posing the par clearance of checks, the adoption of another resolution indors ing the work of the American Cotton association, and other important res olutions, were interesting features of the business session of the convention today. Several addresses of interest were heard. Officers for the coming year were elected, as folow>: H. W. Fraser of Georgetown, president E. P. Grice of Charleston, vice president; Lee G. Hol leman of Anderson, secretary and treasurer, and B. Hart Moss of Orange burg, attorney. PomereneTo Fight Bryan Will Oppose Him on the Differ ent Plank Proposals to the Convention Los Angeles. June 26?Senator Pomerene of Ohio, enroute to the con vention, said that he expected to de vote much of his energy in trying to prevent Bryan from putting into ef fect his reported plans, including the designs to insert a public ownership plank in the platform and to obtain the conventions endorsement of the plumb plan. shed April, 1850. "Be Just 4 HATBANDS BEAR BHLLDOO _ Elusive McAdoo Boom Takes Concrete Shape at Convention DANIELS ARRIVES TODAY Glass arid Walsh Main Contends ' ers for Chairmanship of Res olutions Committee. j v * San Francisco, June 26.?The com pletion of the temporary roll of the Convention was in sight today when the Democratic National committee resumed its consideration of credenti als. The Georgia contest is before it and. Senator Reed's effort to gain a seat with the Missouri delegation will also be -passed; on. The committee men expressed confidence of the Dele gation favoring/Palmer. The influx of delegations continued hourly today. } Out of the conversational din, some] observers professed to recognize si spurt of nomination sentiment toward Governor Cox. The elusive McAdoo boom was also put into promienence by hat bands bearing the name "Mc Adoo." Secretary Daniels is expected to arrive today with the Pacific Fleet making'the fourth member of the President's Cabinet to crrive. The chairmanship of the resolutions com mittee continued to occupy the atten tion of many with senator Glass gene rally accepted as slated' for the post, although there is strong talk that Senator "Walsh of Montana might be name. Walsh has* the backing of Bryan who arrived yesterday. San Francisco, June 26.?Bryan is credited with ideas of his own on the League of Nations plank that are not in accord with the Virginia platform approved by President Wilson. Owing to these considerations a fight over the resolutions committee chairman ship is generally expected to, take place, as a struggle between the ad ministration'and Bryan forces for Con trol. Postmaster General Burleson's j arrival revived the, interest in his! recent. v castination. of . certain provi- I sions- of the Volstead enforcement j act as absurb. A statement that the Democrats should have a wet plank in their platform added to the discus sion a zest not previously evinced. German Merchants Reduce Prices! Were Run Off of Reservation by Army Authorities Coblenz, June 26?German mer chants in the American occupation area have met and decided to reduce their prices twenty per cent after the army officials had placed 2S stores off the limits for the soldiers because of profiteering which reached 700 per cent in some places. . j WORKING FOR MARKETS South Carolina Development Board j Brings Experts to Columbia .- . . ? ' - ? j Columbia June 26.?Walter G. j Braden of Pontiac, Mich., arrived in I Columbia last evening to address the meeting today of the managers and j officers of the development board's of j the South Atlantic and Gulf coast states who are holding their quarterly convention at the Colonia hotel. Mr. Braden is president of the National Community Market associaiton, most of whose members are in the North ern states. This afternoon in the Rivoli thea ter will be shown a series of moving pictures telling of the development of the agricultural, industriahand natural resources of Georgia. These pictures were made under the direction of F. j H. Abbott, secretary of the Georgia ; association and he will be present at the exhibition to explain them. A j collection of stereoptican slides made j by H. H. Richardson, manager of the ! Mississippi Development board, of j scenes in his state will also be shown, j The session of the afternoon, com- j mencing at 4 o'clock in the sun parlor j of the Colonia, will be devoted to mar- ; kets and marketing. The South Caro- j j lina Development board purposes to j J put its marketing program into opera- i tion at once and Mr. Braden has been asked to come here to teli about the community markets of Minnesota and Michigan which have been so success- ! ful that new ones are being opened i as rapidly as men can be found to j manage them. In addition to the development 1 board men ;those asked to attend this j j markets session are Dr. W. W. Long, ! i director of the Clemson college exten- j j sion service, and all members of his i staff, the presidents, and directors of the chambers of commerce of South ' j Carolina and the officers and directors j j of the Carolina Development board, i j GIXXERS WILL MEET j South Carolina 3feu to Confer in Col- j umhin Monday. <i~r I ????? j Columbia, June 25.:?South Carolina ! {ginners are scheduled to meet in Col- ! jumbia next Monday, beginning at 11 ; o'clock at the Jefferson hotel, accord ing to a statewide call issued by F. ;S. Evans of Greenwood, president of the state ginners' association. Mr. Evans says some important matters are to come before the associa tion. md Fear Not?Let all the ends Thon A JTJMTEE, S. C, W#>NI KEYNOTE Cunrmings Champions Lerguej Covenant as "the Mdnroe Doc trine of the World\ REPUBLICAN PATFORM RIDICULED baud's Administration's Action During the War. San Francico, June 2?~- -The League of Nations covenant was championed as the "Monroe Doct rine of the world" by* Homer Cumr rBIngs, temporary chairman of the Democratic national convention, in his keynote address here today. \ ; Of th? peace treaty's defeat in the senate, he said: "No blacker crime against-civilization has ever soiled the pages of our history." ? . He;; characterized ?the - Republican platform as "reactionary and provin cial." -'Filled with premeditated slan ders and vague promises, it will be searched in vain for one constructive suggestion for the reformation of the conditions which it criticizes and de plores," he continued. ; , ' "The oppressed peoples of the earth will look to it in vain. It contains no message of hope for Ireland; no. word of mercy for Armenia; and it conceals a sword for Mexico. It is the work of men concerned more with material things than with human rights. It contains no thought, no purpose which can give impulse.or thrill to those who love liberty and hope -to make the world a safer and happier place for the average man." He declared that the peace time record of the Democratic party, from March. 1913 to the outbreak of . the world war has to its credit "more ef fective, constructive and" remedial legislation than the Republican party ?had placed upon the statute books in a generation." Praising the administration's course in the. war he:said: "We fought a great war, for a great cause and we had .a leadership that carried Ameri ca to greater heights of honor and power and glory than she' has ever known* before in her entire history." "Let no^ one misunderstand us. Thehe great affairs were carried forward under the stimulus of Ameri can patriotism, supoprted:by the cour age and spirit of our people. All this is freely and gladly acknowledged, but surely the time has come when, be cause of the calculated criticism und premeditated calumnies of the oppo sition, we are entitled ^to call atten tion to the fact that all of these things were accomplished under the leader ship of a. great Democrat and of a great Democratic administration. If the Republican leaders are not able to rejoice with us in this American tri umph they should have the grace to remain silent, for. it does not lie in ,the mouths of those who conducted the , Spanish-American war to indulge in j the luxury of criticism." Referring t? congressional investi gations by "smelling committees," he said that over 80 investigations hav? been made, over two million dollars wasted and the result has beert to j prove that it was the cleanest war j ever fought in the history of civiliza- i tion." "The Republican party became so fixed in its incorrigible habit of con ducting investigations that it finally turned to the fruitful task of investi gating itself. They discovered fraud and graft and gross and inexcusable expenditures. The revelations dis close the fact that the meeting at Chi cago was^not a convention, ,but an auction. The highest bidder, how ever, did not get the prize. The pub licity which' overtook the proceedings frustrated the initial purpose. The Chicago convention left the Demo cratic party as the sole custodian of the honor of the country." ? Peace achievements- of the Demo cratic party, he asserted, "freed the farmer from the deadening effects'of usurious financial control. Labor was given its Magna Charta of liberty. Business and' finance were released ] from the thralldom of uncertainty i and hazard." "The income tax law," he said, "re lieved our law of the reproach of be ing unjustly burdensome to the poor. The extravagances and inequities of the tariff system were removed and a non-partisan tariff commission cre ated.. Pan-Americanism was_eocour aged and the bread thus cast upon the waters came back to us many fold. Alaska wa^ opened to commerce and development. Dollar diplomacy was destroyed. A corrupt lobby was driv en from the national capitol. An ef- i fective Seaman's act was adopted. The j federal trade commission was created, j Child labor legislation was enacted, j The parcel post and- the rural free delivery .were developed. A good roads bill and a rural credits act were pass ed. A secretary of labor was given a seat in the cabinet of the president. Eight hour laws were adopted. The Clayton Amendment to the Sherman j anti-trust act was passed, freeing | American labor and taking it from the list of commodities. The Smith- j Lever bill for the improvement of ag- j ricultural conditions was passed. A ; corrupt practices act was adopted. A well considered warehouse act was! passed. Federal employment bureaus j were: created. Farm loan banks, pos- i tal savings banks and the federal re- j serve system were established. 'The federal reserve system, passed j over the opposition of? the leaders of j the Republican party, enabled Ameri-J '^?fj&^X&g.-'Ccranti^^&V Thy God's s 3SDAY, JUNE 30, 1920 ^Speech of Homer S. Cummings 'the Feature of the First Day FEW PRELIMINARIES TODAY Rival Managers Fegin to Line Up Forces For Nomination Fight San. Francisco, June 28.?The dele gates and leaders are prepared for a fight over both the platform and the candidates as the Democratic nati'onal convention assembled today for the opening session. The actual conven tion work itself was only preliminary and perfunctory, the. keynote speech of Homer S. Cummings as temporary chairman, was the principal feature of the day's program. Later in the day the newly selected convention committees were to furnish the first real developments as they began the tasks of writing the platform. It hearing of. the appeals from the con tests over the delegate's seats, and the .making up of the convention rules and the stating of the permanent con vention officers. A live subject of discussion was the impending prohi bition fight but the talk of the can I dictates is gaining additional atten tion as the rival managers got down to cases with a big body of uninstruct ed and unpledged delegates. ! The latest t?m of the McAdoo boom: furnished a new angle to the prelimi naries, but. the precise effects on the relative situation of the candidates is not yet clear. The Palmer managers are thought to disco?nt the apparent significance of the McAdoo announce ment made -last night by National i (>>mmitteeman Love of Texas, that' I McAdoo would accept the. nomination, j I without saying whether he: had any j ' direct authorization from McAdoo. It is apparent however, that many j I McAdoo workers accepted the Love I statement, at face value. Some dele-: I gates declared the new development j meant that McAdoo would be an act-1 ive contender from the start and in ! consequence the convention would I have three running close together on the opening roll call, like the Repub lican convention. Among the best i informed-politicians the general opin ion is that it is still to early to defi ?nitely forecast what would happen. i Confidence that Senator Glass had more tham enough votes to ele?:t him as chairman of the resolutions com mittee was asserted today by nis man | agers. The resolutions committee j meets soon after the adjournment of j the Convention today. |ca to withstand the strain of war j without shock or panic and ultimate ly made our country the: . greatest I creditor nation of the world." j j Turing to the record of the Repub I lican congress since 1918-, Mr. Cum mings said it was "barren of, achieve ment, shameless in waste of time and money and without parallel for j its incompetencies, failures and re pudiations." i President Wilson'al two appeals be- j j fore congress for legislation dealing j j with profiteering, reduction of taxa j tion, aid for soldiers and laws to im ! prove relations of capital and labor ! were ignored, he declared, and "after j j a year of sterile debate our country j I has neither peace nor reconstruc- | lion." ! He dwelt particularly on attacks made upon the president. Malice followed him to the peace table, he said, and widespread propaganda made it imperative when he returned from Paris .to "make a struggle for that which had been won at incaleu ! lable cost. This meant wreck of I health, sickness for months on a bed ; of pain; and worse, the sickness of. heart which comes from the* knowl edge that political adversaries are savagely destroying not merely the work of men's hands, but the world's; hope of settled peace. This was the affliction?this the crucifixion.^ Mr. Cummings continued that in ! one sense "it is quite immaterial what people, say about the president. { Nothing we can say can add or I de tract from the fame that will flow down the unending channels of his tory." . . He citod the Republican and Pro gressive; , itforms of. 1916 as part of the recor . placing this country in favor of the league of nations.. "The Republican platform, contains a. vague promise to> establish another or a different form of association," he said. .."There is no mental dishonesty more transparent than that which ex presses fealty to the league Of nations, while opposing the only league that! esists or is ever apt to exist. "What nations stand outside? Rev olutionary Mexico, Bolshevist Russia, . unspeakable Turkey and?the United ! States. "It is not yet too late. Let us stand i with the forces of civilization. The ! choice is plain. It is between the j Democratic party's support of the i league of nations, with its program of! peace, disarmament and world fra- j ternity, and the Republican party's ) platform of repudiation, provincial-j ism, militarism and world chaos/ It is not reservations that the pres- } ident stands against, said Mr. Cum mings, but nullification. He told how President Wilson had published the tentative text of the league covenant widely in 1919, asking for criticism1 and receivng ?suggestohs from Taft; MANY PRISONERS JROWNED Bolshevik Steamer Sinks and Prisoners of Many Countries [~ Lost ] SHIP SUNK JUNE SIXTH Dispatch From Stockholm Tends To Confirm Report London, June 28.?Two' thousand British, Austrian, German and Finn ish prisoners of, war were drowned when the Bolshevik steamer sunk, re jcently in the Nava river, according tb a Heisingfords dispatch to the Cen tral News. A Reuters report from i Stockholm tends to confirm this dis j patch, saying that the ship sunk on I June 6 with two thousand repatriated j prisoners aboard. It does not men | tion the life loss, however. j Sumter Plays (Darlington Wednesday Some Good Games on this Week, 1 New Players for Local Team Sumter locks horns with Darling ton again "Wednesday and -will play the fast Georgetown team Thursday and Friday. These two games prom ise to be the best that have been play ed this season The local fans are aware of what Darlington has, and from the reports that are going around, Georgetown has an aggrega tion this year that will make any team sit up and take notice. New players continue to come in for Sum ter, and from the looks of the old men and the new additions who have been seen warming up there is going to be some big league stuff pulled out at the Fair Grounds ', this week. \ Guy Barnes, who has the reputation of being one of the best pitchers in North Carolina, reported this teem ing and will probably hurl the old pill against the Darlington boys. From the price he demanded, before the"*TO cal management could get him to come, Barnes must have the goods on him. George Lawrence, from Griffin. Georgia, who hsts been playing with the Million Dolalr League is on hand and will hold down second l?ase. i Lawrence Was sent here by Manush j so the local fans have no fear that ' he will let any go by him. Hewitt, who hung around third base last week, has departed from the city. Hewitt said he didn't lik^ the town so all parties concerned agreed to dis gree.'A new third baseman will report Tuesday so-there will be no weak spot; there. Railroad Clark will blow into j town Wednesday night and will pitch 'Thursday's game against Georgetown; 'nuff said.v The Sumter ball club now has a payroll of over $1-54)0 a month, which is pretty steep for a small town. If Sumter wants a real ball team she can have it, but it must be paid for. Turn out this week and show your interest and show your money, for Sumter cannot let a good ball team "bust up". Riots in Hamburg London, June 28.?Two are^ dead and eighty wounded as a' result of the riots in Hamburg. ' ? -*.>?-? .? ? - ?? ? ? ? ? -? -----?-?<? -v. Hughes and others that were "ac tually incorporated into the revised draft of the League.' I Senator Lodge,, he said, refused to offer constructive amendments at any i time. "So intoleraant was his attitude (that he would not even consider a j compromise proposed by Former Presides* Taft of his own party and which was assured of support of 40 Democratic senators. Senator Lodge knew that he controlled the senate, and that in his own time and way he* he would destroy the1 treaty.' "This is the sordid story of its de feat." said Cummings, after reveiw ing the senate's action in the mat ter. "Xo blacker crime against civi- j lization has ever soiled the pages 6t ? our history. The last chapter was written at Chicago." "Let the true purpose of our party be clearly understood,' he said in ^concluding his address. 'We stand squarely for the same ideals of peace as those for which the war was fought. We support without Aliening the only j feasible plan for peace and justice, j We will not submit to the repudiation j ? of the peace treaty or to any process j by which it is whittled down to van- ! ishing point We decline to compro-j. mise our principles or pawn our im- \ mortal souls for selfish purposes. We do not turn our backs, upon the his tory of the last three years We seek ! no avenue of retreat. We insist that the forward course is the only right-1 1 eous course. < "We seek to reestablish the fruits of j victory, to reinstate, the good faith of) our country and to restore . it to-its i rightful place among the nations of ^ the earth. Our cause constitutes a: summons to duty. Th? heart of Amer- i ica stirs again. The ancient faith re- h vives. The immortal -'paart of-man l speaks for us. ; The services ot the past, the sacrifices of war, the hope < of the future, constitute a spiritual force gathering about our banners. We ; shall release again the checked forces of civilization and America shall take up once more the leadership of the world." 1 Positive Announcement That He Will Accept J tidn ^Offered WHOLE SITVATIOS. J^Adoo Boosters Cons3S|s ; Forces For Show of .:* On First Ballot ' - , ? ?- ~ .. - ; , San Frajicisccs/^o*ne nouncement i^i^h%S^try^^^' ^cj^^^oi^^pp reject the cratie presidential nomma^ioa turned the whole situations aa fb: didates before the convea8o% now is to hare.its "big-ithxee/^v National Ctonunittee^ Texas, regarded as McAdoo's) man, without giving specific publicly stated he has assui Mr. McAdoo would accept If, nated. . He declined to ampHfy5'.B^ mnet. - .Mr. Love's statement:i "The question is f requefi3?|| whether,'m view of Mr. 'ls?i^^M cere desire that his name^ seritedto the-convention, he>s cept the nomination if made. , "I say with assurance, that ^fg nated, he will accept. 'The constantly increasing for McAdoo's nomination amoi riving uninstructed -delega:bi&^ vinces me- that he will be nomis Texas will cast 40 votes for him^ the beginning until he is nomiz The McAdo movement which/ been straining at the leash, took new meaning and his boomers at asserted that *: they would be hit the list when the first ballot was; eluded. Rival forces were, not certain would be the effect of Mr. I^ye^s'i nouncement. The Cox camp as ed early in the day that '.-?g! possible would be done to i5r|o^ McAdoo movement out-into the^^ to force an early show of sj^^ Some Palmer supporters that McAdoo, as au\?ctivei from the . beginning, probah^ reduce the attorney general's yot< the first, ballot but they.said thejrj welcomed ? a clean open contest:f" the start. .. There was immediately a strength from original McAdoo fcof ers who have been straying other camps as the former sec has repeatedly declared he wpm*d:3ff: become a candidate!, Delegates^1" had originally made him their choice, '". immediately returhe<iv name to first, various State d< tions holding caucuses agreed to vo\ for him. " As the news of Mr. Love's stateme spread among" the delegates, " was immediately a turning movemei which began sweeping the deieg who prefer McAdo > into a cohesi?|i| force which began at once to ?fcSS efforts "to bring'about his nomina?pn? "Up to the time of Mr; Love's ''starJS^ ment McAdoo boomers, were ing their strength from 250'to as aa 6.00. x JM The first effect of Mr. Love's stastpl ment was to create an immediate^c^^ mand for a more, authoritative infbr^: mation. In view of Mr. McAdoo's peated declarations that he did hot? wish to become a candidate, many ex^x pressed the view that scmet&ing?l should be given to the delegates either/ from Mr. McAdoo himsei: or bearings in an unmistakable way his approval"?!" Mr. McAdoo's candidacy ' has been?; managed here by an informal commit- i tee without organization and with the?* intention of not/having his. name-for mally presented to; the convention. The plan had been to have no homi nating speech and no formal present * tation of their candidate to the coni;"% vehtion, but to nominate him by Ala- . bama casting her first ballot for-him. Then, according to their plans, the*, other delegations were to pile the?i . votes and make a showing. How many votes the McAdoo forces can muster an the first ballot is problematical according to their own estimates. "Some of his supporters have;declar ed they expect as many as 250 and? that they have information1 that/ enough delegates favor him fo?. a second choice to run his ballot up to, more than 600. The minimum they; expect him to poll early in the bal loting, they said, is "about 250." Automobile Associa- y tion Disbands Donates Funds to Camp Auce and ?ivic League Nurse Fund The following letter has heen recei ved by Miss Armida Moses, treasurer af the Civic League N^rse.Fund: Miss Armida Moses, Treasurer Civic League Nurse Fund Sumter, S. C. Dear Miss Moses: The Sumter Automobile Association recently voted to disband and to di ride its funds between Camp Alice and the Civic League Nurse Fund. I am accordingly enclosing .you the ! sheck of the Association for $67.75. With best wishes for the continued succes of your institution, I am Very truly yours, HERBERT A. M?SES, ' Secty.-Treas, The Sumter Automobile Association*