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Oossolidated Aug. 2,1 COLBY ARGUES FOR BEER *? ? ?" " ?? Secretary of State Advocates Flask in Platform For Less Ptfitic Prohibition Law BBUBVBD TO REPRE? SENT PRESIDENT Me Tells Platform Committee That Light Wine and Beer Plank ia a Political Expedient and Not Necessarily a Per? sonal View Jten Francisco. .Cal.. June 30?? SuriUrt Colby during the night waged a tight in the platform sub? committee for a !;?h'. wine and i>* i plank. He argued In favor of It hs a politics^ expedient and not neces aeruy aa % personal view. The fact th*t Secretary odhy conferred with Prasi 4*eu Wilson before leaving Washing? ton gave en added stgnlMr nie? to hlo etand. gome Coinmitteemen a?*# of the opUton th it the Volstead act should be eneYkled to maka enforcement lew* stringent. The discussion embraced h wMe fange of subjects, including the league of nation*, but prohil 'ion had the Moor moet of the time. Tne com* tnlttea udjc urned after uibj-iight with ?ut completing tta work. it moet* again at nine thirty today. No an? nouncement WU? niud? ny i'miim.m Glass, Ben Francisco. June a 0.?Accord Sng to an administration delegate the auk-com ml tee on Jrtatform haa prac? tically agreed rn the prohibition ttenk. which he described aa "allgbt molet". The league of Nation* uik baa been agreed upon" Juet aa rood row Wilson wants it." me.nbera On Port-au-Prince Jtyatits Attack Capital of Island ^f Haiti?Driven Off by Ma? rines fMiwgstOn. Jamaica. June 30 ? Han ittahavs raided Fort au Prince, the ftisn capital, according to pas? sengers arriving here this morning. Have re I building* were fired by the at? tacking party, but United States ma rtn?e raetored order after killing (In lead era State Ginnere' Association Meeting to Be Held in Columbia1 July 12 to Perfect Organi? sation rnlumhkt. S. P., June 28.?At a meting of about 2* cotton ginner* of f the ntatc Held here Monday it was de elded to hold another mooting In thin |||g on July 131 to perfect a Stutc or? ganisation. Several mattere of (Interest were dtacuaead In connection with the cot tan ginning bueinasa and a lunch keg was served at the Jefferson Ho? xel. Sunday Schools News Mm. S. N. Sorts Re-elected Pri? mary Superintendent Mrs a N. Hurts, flttperlntendcnt of the primary department of the First Presbyterian Sunday School, H part an burg, haa been re-elected as state chairman of the children's di? vision eotnmUue of the South Caro? lina Sunday School Association, ac? cording to general aupcrintendent boon C. Palmer, and will, with her nammtue* and employed aupcrintend? ent direct the childrVn's dlvlsinnwork throughoiMt the State thie year. Associated wth Mrs. Burls and her uomfuitten will be Mmh Cora Hol? land, children's divtitlou superlntcnd ent of the State Association, and one of the beaA'known Sunday School workers in the State. Plans for this work ars under con? sideration and will be announced later. It la understood, however, thut ihey will Include th?* presentation of cradle roll, beginnt rs. primary a.ol junior rnc'h'M? at every county Sun? day eehool convention this aummer. tn addition, district conventions will be held with an employed field secre? tary of the Association on the pro? gram. Special chlldren'H division stations will be arranged for in con? nection whh all city training school* '?eld onder the^ aspires of the Anno ? latton tbta year, and also at the. next State Convention. International Conven? tion Baptists Convene in Toronto Young Peoples Societies of America Gather for Meeting Toronto, July 1.?The International convention of the Baptist Young '?op Uta Union of America begun ber?? ' y Eighteen bandied petogutss are wodlag. bed April. 1U0. "He Just 881. G. 0. P. CAMPAIGN , i PLANS FIXED Fight To Be Centered on Wilson Admnistration "RETURN TO PARTY GOVERNMENT' Attempt to Be Made to Con? vince the People that Wilson I Haa Ruled Unconstitutionally Washington, June 30?The Repub? lican Presidential Campaign will be based on "an appeal the the people to restore party government, as a con? stitutional substitute for personal government." Candidate Harding an? nounced today, after a conference with Governor Coolidtfs and National Chairman Hays. At . the samo time Oov. Coolidge in a formal statement of public opinion toward self-control declared that there must be "return by the j eople and toward n great and overmastering desire to observe the law". Four Farmers Meeting Clemson College and Agricultu? ral Department Representa? tives to Speak Miss Caro Truluek, home demon? stration agent, and Mr. .). Frank Wil? liams, our farm demonstration agent, working in cooperation with the Suin? ter County Chamber of Commerce, will hold \our important meetings as scheduled below, next week, which meetings ought to put a eonsider u' It erimp in the devastating work of (he cotton boll weevil. The public is cordially Invited to at? tend these metings which will be held at Bethel School. Concord School, Rembert School, and at the Olanta Veteran's Grounds for Shiloh town? ship an?t eastern Sumter county farm? ers and their families. The following notices has been sent out broadcast over Sumter county by the Sumter ?'hamber of Commerce. To the Farmers and Housekeepers of Sumter <'ounty: Sumter. H. C, June ??, k?|C. You are cordially Invited to attend a Boll Weevil Conference and feast of speeches delivered by men like Dr. W. W. Long, Clemson College; Prof. A- F. Conradi, Clemson College; Pro?'. J. A. Kvans. Chief of Demon? stration Work South; Prof. H. B. Sav ? riy of Washington; Horticulture and Dive Stock Specialists of Clemson Col? lege There will also be some ladies from the Home Demonstration De? partment who will give some demon? strations in preserving of fruits apd vegetables which will be helpful to the women. These speakers are in possession of information that we shall need next year und for several more to meet the (hanged conditions of farming ?\iai Will bo made necessary by the advent of his majesty, tho HOLL WER VI L The meetings v. ill be informal and re? cesses will 1?.' given from time to time so that you may have consultations with the specialists. These meii are at your service r.nd will most gladly tell you 'how to grow cotton under boll weevil conditions and how no: to spend your money for fake machines and remedies. I believe that we are going to reduce boll weevil damaged by the use of poison, but this has to be applied at the right time and in the proper way. Prof. Conradi will tell us how. Attending these meetings in your community may be the means of suv ing you thousands of dollars, ho be there and bring out all your neigh? bors. A sandwich lunch will be in order but that should be | minor part of the day. All meetings will begin promptly at eleven o'clock and continue until we have drunk all the information that we can usHimilate. Pillowing is the order of the.st? meetings: ' Bethel School House, Wednesday, July 7th. Coneord School House, Thursday. July 8th. Kembert School House, Friday, July 9th. Dlanta Veteran?' Ground, Saturday, J?Mf 10th. MM wishes for a good da v. Sincerely, J. Frank Williams. county rann Dem. Atent, Caro Truluck, Qounfty Home Dom', Agent, Sumter County Chamber oi Com? none, My K. i. Jteartlon. Mgr.-Sec. Rome Denies Avlona Reports Home, July 1.?Tho dispatches re noitlng that the Albanian insurgents had captured Avlona from the Ital? ians w.i- officially denied toda\. Fortune feller Arrested Is Alleged to Have Predicted Smith's Nomination New York, July t.?Alleged to lmve predicted that Ciovernor Smith would be nominated by the democrallc con? vention, Mr*. Annie CreHWell was m rested here toduy on a charge of for tun? telling. ami Four Nut?Let all the ends Thou A SUMTER, S. C SATUJ WAITING ON THE PLATFORM All the Avowed Candidates For President Placed in Formal Nomination PLATFORM BUILDERS STILL AT WORK Fight in Open Convention Con? fidently Expected on Prohibi? tion and League of Nations Plank San Francisco, June SO.?With all the candidates formally in nomination the convention will await the report of the platform committee before picking the nominee. Balloting may not begin until late Thursday or Friday. The platform drafters have plan? ned to work continuously until the document is completed. They labored until nearly 2 o'clock this morning, and the subcommittee resumed its task before 10 o'clock, and slopped only long enough to report pi/ogress to the full committee. How much longer the subcommittee toil! take to finish its part of the work and how much time) the full committee will consume in considering the report is unsnown. The planks defining the party's At? titude on the league of nations and prohibition questions have not been finally decided upon, although it is said an agreement is not far off on the league of nations declaration. Regardless of the action taken" by the subcommittee members it is de? clared that a fight is sure to be nibb? ln the full committee on both ques? tions and the losers will carry an;ap peal to the convention for final de? cision. ( A great crowd came to the conven? tion hall this morning* prepared for a day of excitement. Campaign irian arcs and delegations actively hup porting the several candidates Were equipped with all kinds of noisemsk ing devices for demonstration. Germans Dodge l Just Debts [Do Not Want to Pay Cost of AK lied .Occupation Paris, .luly I.-*?The German chan? cellor will insist at the Spa conference n?-xt week upon the maintenance of tiie German army at a peace strength of 200,000, the restitution of territo? ries now occupied by allied troops and the deduction of the coat of al? lied occupation from the amount of reparations due, according to Berlin advice*. Germany's Debt Announced Many Billion Marks To Be Paid Off Berlin, July 1?Germany's , total debt amounts to ?G5 billion mark.s, the minister of finance told the bud? get committee, of the Rechstag to? day. Killed in Lodging House Building Collapses in Buffalo, N. Y. Buffalo, June 2??Four undentifh'd nun were killed, and many Injured today whey^ a lodging house collap? sed. Highly men occupied the rooms I last night, but- it is not known how many were in the building when the fell. Higher Railroad Fares Wanted Washington. I). <\, June US.?In? crease ol passenger lares us well as ' freight rates to permit railroads anil electric lines to operate both branches bf their service at a profit was urged today before the interstate commerce commission by Clifford Thorne of Chicago, representing shippers, and ?Charles L. Henry of Indianapolis, chairman of the American Fdectric I Railway Association. Their pleas for higher passenger rates brought that phase of the revenue question to the fore for the tirst time since lh* rate h a rings began, Air. Thorne advised a ."? per cent. increase In pasenger fares for the rail roads, while Mr. Henry contended that traetjun lines, with freight making up only a small portion of their bu*l ness. could not absorb passenger loss? es if an increae is allowed in freight ' rates only. ' "if electric lines are to live." said Air. Henry, "they must have a profit? able passenger business." Sixty per cent of the electric lined In the country, he asserted derive '? from 60 pet cent to sr. per cent of their'revenues from passenger busi? ness, The commission should construe the tranportatton act so thai one class I of transportation i*? not benelitted to 'the mjuo of another, Hemoj aid In commenting on the carriers? re? quest that the rale advnncr asked to provide the standard return permitted by th| act be confined to freight. ims't at be thy C ountry's, Thy God's RDAY, JULY 3, 1920. WILD SCENES IN CONVENTION Nominating Speeches Were Sig? nals For Turning Loose Frenzy of Demonstrations McADOO RECEIVED GREAT OVATION Delegaten of All Factions Join? ed in Riot of Cheering and Singing When His Name Was Mentioned San Francisco, June 30.?Lifted out of itself by hours of oratory^ old" songs that tugged at the heart strings and '.he throbbing appeal E>f a mighty pipe organ, the Demoera:ie national convention brought nomination day to a tremendous emotional crisis that had nothing to do with candidates or platform i;*sues. Factional differences v ere forgot? ten; political jealousies ware swept aside and from the I ething tumult on the floor to the singing, cheering thousands In the packed galleries, th?? vast assembly gave itself up at inter? vals withbut Ktim to a great brotherly union as unexpected as it was over? whelming. The scene Was unparalleled in tho memory of the oldest convention ob? server. There was no feature lacking to draw the thousands from their sober business into a riot of feeling and the convention surrendered, uncondition? ally. Flooding silver light fro n the elec? tric arcs high in the galleiles bathed tloor and platform in u ?? I range ap? pealing glow; the crash Jtmt t lamor of the military bands, the greal impress? ive sweep of the arched roof of the auditorium and always the solemn elation In the voice of the great or? gan tuned to the melodies of other days, were not to be resisted. Even before the convention was called to order before noon the hall was touched with the hint of v but was to come. Kool tf| for Puinuo* and for Cow had come armed for great demonstrations. There was no mistaking that. The crowd expected it. High against the >vall of the west? ern gallery a retT1 coated band from Ohio was placed, fronted by a solid block of rooters who g*>t into action before the delegates had tilled more than half their seats. Across, in a perch above the organ loft, the con? vention band was at work with stir? ring melodies and ihe org.im.-ii threw his great instrument into lull, roaring accompaniment of any air tii .? ro? Urs raised. When the first nominating orators had been heard and the na.ues of Ben* Uor Owen, former Ainba> a idor Ger? ard and Senator Hitehe.M U had been placed on the ballot amid liberal ap? plause, Florida yield*;] to Pennsylva? nia and the name of A. Mitchell Pal? mer was present >d lo sol mo conven? tion into wild ecsiasi' of singiag and cheering. The Palmer M*?n were ready. No uoise making; device had been overlooked, no device of rooters to stimulate the clamor left untried. ITp In the front of the pUfctfQWI a 'ong, slim, red headed >:?U reader waved frantic arms from a rickety perch on ,t chair, while a California woman in White drove >he dem >:v< vat'.on for* ward with almost <'|nill vigor. The shouting of the P&lmOY adherents grew and welled until a Georgia dele? gate rooted the -tue st lmlard from I its place and sta-.td t lie rr.arch of slates, to be followed by Pennsylvania and half (C dozen other delegates. The tumult laste 1 more than Im if M hour. Xround it ml atonnd Ihe lisles the procession wm;'., the stand? ards bobbing awkwardly high over* the heads of the laa-vlnMA lusty rooter danced .along with a ellm little woman perched on his shoulder. On the platform a sere of Palmer wo? men crowded to tho speakers' stand Etnd with waving flags urged the dele? gates on, while the bund joined hear? tily in the. songs, which were caught up all over the hall. When Governor Cox was named it vas the turn of the Cox Supportarg, md they came to the task with a will. Again mote than hall an hour was riven over to the uproar and singing, to tho parading of state's standards, led by Ohio and Kentucky. Yelks glv ?Ii with the barking note of football rooters' came down from the Ohio sec? tion in the gallery. The Ohio band never paused. Again and again it Irew new cheers from the Southern lelegates with UlS strains of "Dixie" >r sought and found men with Jrih lescepj with "The Wearing of the ::reen." While the riot of movement, color ind noise was at its height rooterS tnd band trooped down frort) the gai? ety lo the Moor. They tramped t round the aisles. singing "Ohio, >hioM and the convention with Impar? tial good temper joined in. it took much effort by Governor /ox's managers to still the uproar and et the business of nomination pro eed. Senator Harrison Of Mississippi, imong those seconding Governor '??x's nomination, struck a note thai proved the convention had been Keyed lip. He hit hard at the newspapers ot San Francisco which published the dory of tie- governor's divorce of ten tears ago, and n burst of cheers ans? wered his thrust. Then Chairman Robinson recognhv id W. Bourke Cockran of N*3w York and Truth's." THETRUK? CHAMP CLARK MENTIONED ___ j Anti-Admini .tration Forces Looking For Likely Candidate FEW BALLOTS TODAY Nomination Will Probably Be Made Friday San Francisco, July 1*?The Con? vention resumed deliberations today with only one more nominating speech on the program, that of John \V. Davis, of West Virginia. Ten candi? dates were placed in nomination yes? terday before the convention adjourn? ed to meet Monday at 11 o'clock. It is frankly admitted that McAdoo j seemed to have the inside track. The inner circle of old line leaders work? ed throughout night trying to devise means to stop his nomination and find a candidate who could command-the necessary two-thirds vote. Champ Clark is being discussed. . If possible, the convention planned to get plat? form out of the way today and take two or three ballots, thenkrecess until! Friday._ to nominate Governor Smith. As he came to the platform the delegates greeted him as an old friend. They Cheered and called expectantly to him. k no wing of old his power as an orator. Again they were not disappointed. The NSW Yorker struck a note from the first that found a quieJfc answer. Cockran poured unstinted admiration on President Wilson, pointing pramat ically to tie' .-real illuminated por? trait of the president overlooking the convention. Nearly BV< ?>' word and gesture brought cheers and shouts from the floor, and Cockran's tribute to Governor smith set the New York delegation going with American flags and much cheering. It did not seem that any unusual event was at hand. The demonstration stalled slowly. Cockran made his way through ad? mirers on the platform. On the floor back with his oelegation he was ac? corded a reception that threatened to cripple his right hand with the vi;:or of handshaking. New Jersey folk came over to join in. Then the band? master, far up in the gallery, had an inspiration. Previously he had been playing "Tammany" OVei and ovt r again in recognition of the New York delegation. He struck into the "Side? walks of New York." Throughout the hall gray haired men and women be? gan to sine,, lured back by strains that harked back to their days of youth. A Jerseyite seized his State standard and marched across to the New York section. I'p came the New York ctandard and again the march was on. Over and over the old tune was played and 'sung. Standards and standards joined the march. The thing was contagious. other old favorites were played and sung. The tide of humanity Jammed the aisle and was swaying in rythm to ihe music. Everyone was singing. Long forgotten words came back to mind. Palmer banners. Cox hat bands and tokens of other candidates were mingled in the throng without regard to affiliations. It seemed as though the whole convention had gone singing mad. Men and women, old and young, surged along laughing and singing the old songs until every State standard had joined in the line that bobbed and nodded like a lot of ma? rionettes above the shovtng, singing and laughing crowd on the lloor. Sheer exhaustion apparently finally brought the wholly spontaneous scene to a ?dose. Gradually the cheering subsided and the convention went back to nominating speeches. It did not know itself, however, for the delegates had hardly settled Into their seats when Dr. Hurriss Jenkins Of Kansas City in one of the shortest convention speeches on record and with the ringing denunciation for e IPvinl'ies w ohaaf.b eb those who said W. G. McAdoo would not accept a nomination, placed the 1 former secretary's name before tin convention. "I had intended to make an address presenting the name of a Candidate to this convention." said Jenkins, "but on account of the insist - ' ent and persistent requests from him lhat his name should not be presented In a speech, 1 have decided not to do ! so. but I am sure from the spirit manifested in my own delegation and i:i this convention thai we shall draft him for the service of the nation. "We know that if so drafted he will accept the nomination and any ru? mors or telegrams supposed to have been received by me or anybody else, now or in the future denying that he would ?eeept ihe nomination are falsehoods perpetrated i>> the enemies of our party. J place in nomination William G. McAdoo." For the fourth time pandemoniums broke loose. Cheers ami shouts swep; up from the hall and down from the galleries, Delegates were on iheir feel ngain, surging out for another parade ad though the day had just be? gun, it was the Western men and women who led. The Wa*shin ;!o i state standard came bobbing Ul the front with Delaware in close pursuit. Mon? iana. Oregon, rdabo gnd Texas joined in. North and South Dakota. Kansas and California and other states kept pace, Here attd there over the hall other standards rocked ami swayed as struggles look place to uei them In I motion against opposition \ raiding party of McAdoo adherents charged the speaker*' Stand and oarclt.1 it bv s'orm. The tumult grew until the hall fairly bulged With the sound. Fur DLTHIIOX, Kguiblislied lune t, Vol.L. No. 40 LEAGUE PLiuNK ADOPTE Administration Suggestioi Amended by Reservations LIQUOR AND IRISH QUESTIONS POSTPONED Committee Worked All Night But Little Accomplished San Francisco, July I.?The plank dealing with the Iv-ag ie of Nation? was adopted by the plaiform commit? tee early today. The long bitter fight so delayed the platform workers that committee recessed until ten o'clock The leaders hope to have the plat form ready for the convention this af? ternoon. In the treaty battle the administra? tion failed to secure the adoption of its plank without am?ndmeu$i. committee adopting an addition viding for ratification with reset tions consistent with American obli? gations. The treaty discussion took up most of the meeting, whier began at I o'clock last night and recessed at 30 this morning, when toe commit teemen were so tired that they ceas ed work without taking up the liquor. Irish, or other controverted questions The committee adopted the labor and several other minor planks, however. McAdoo Has Nothing To Say Refuses <o Make Any Comment On San Francisco Situation Huntington, N. Y., Jul> 1 ?Wil? liam <J. McAdoo, when s<-en \ bis country home here today, declined to make any comment on the situation at the convention. Newspaper men besieged his home throughout the morning, but all they could get was "Mr. McAdoo lias nothing whatever to say." Bomb Thrown in Cork * Cork. July 1.?The Kings street po? lice barracks wer*? p. rily ?hat tere t by a bomb yesterday. _ _ many minutes, there was no^ stop ? ping it. Convention o fieials fet tho demonstration take its course. "Mac?'II?<loo" Tramping along to the pounding Of the drums of band, all that could Im? heard above the*genera din, the dem? onstrators chanted "Mac?'11?deo" over and over in a droning chorue. In ihe Missouri section a desperate Strugs gle to get the state standard into the tanks resulted in its destruction. Somebody reached the place before the speaker's stand carrying a great Lone Star banner, the T?xas state flag. The blazing silver glow of tlte spot? lights caught and heid the bright folds as the standard was thrust up to waiting hands on the plaltorm. There was a rush and a swirl in the aiSleg as the standards came hurrying for foldstststar trb ljinantheseo Sacwl ward. Hands reached fur them from the platform. Half the states of the union were in the group of standard* growing up like a great, triangle be? fore the platf?urn. The hall rocked every minute with a ne v outburst of cheering. Tennessee and North Caro? lina standards came triggering tor ward in eager hands. N?-w volumes of cheering greeted them. Florida camo in, and from the surging mob of Mc Adoo supporters at the foot of the speakers' stand, shouts of ' Oo no on New York ' went tip. In cadence with the drum beat of the bat d they roared ii over and over again. The galleries took il up. Over while the New York delega? tion filled a great block of Seats the .-?ate standard rocked ind wavered with a struggling itaround shdrlu witha struggling about it. Again and again it rose In air as i houg^i about to join in the demonetriitiott, only to lie pulled back again. Meanwhile the rush of standard bearers in the meler at the platform had been ?warming the press mngsi in sekmg a road to tin stand itself. Slowly bul finally.the 1e:nonstrutUm subsided like the passing of a storm, but it WS? long before Chairman Rob? inson could recognise Kew Jersey for the nomination of Qovomor l-Mwards and the band broke out into "There'll Be a Hot Time," to the huge delight of the crowd, which bws 'ed end gur gled with mirth. , "Mow Dry I Am? in presenting the governor*! name, Charles O'Brien went Into th< pro* htbitlon issue, appealing for personal liberty policies, lie was , heeled, .<is*>. hissed from some points on the Moor, the lirsl si?a of disapproval of prin? ciples in the long das of ferment and uproar. When he concluded, Cover nor Edwarde was cheered vigorously and the hand continued its mujrtoal reminder of the other and wetter days, playing 'How Dry 1 Am." but the demons'ration did not reach the proportions of the storm thai had gdne before it. Right hours after th< convention' came to order and at i In close Of the session that fairly I rggarejQ de scriptum foi color and sound an* un? usual feature*, Beprese i attve Flood ?I Virginia moved a i ?>c; ss and with ?no last terrific roar of ' Ave,'* the fired delegates began streaming out to await the battu on p at form to? morrow.