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TEMPLE DAILY TELEGRAM
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VOL. XHL NO. 230.
TEMPLE, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 6,1920.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
COX IS NOMINATED ON THE 44TH BALLOT
erehtcrowds flqgkto belton
10 JOIN SOLDIER CELEBRATION
big homecoming j
proves isuccess
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*KLL8 BIG CROWD THAT AMERI-
CAN LEGION IS MORE THAN
A SOCIAL ORGANIZATION.
PEOPLE SURGE THROUGHOUT
THE CITY AND PARK BOTH
DAY AND NIGHT.
SELTON'S HONORED SUES! WAR HEROES IRE HONORED
Advocates "-Strong Army, Nwjr and
Citizen Soldiery—Says We Need
Increased Production, IOO Per Cent
Americanism, Square Deal for Sol-
diers, Better Conditions on Farms.
Belton, July 5.—"If the American
Legion Is simply a social Organization
in which the men who wore the olive
drab can get together then we had
better abolish It," said Mayor Frank
W. Wozencraft of Dallas In his ad-
dress to the great home-coming and
war veteran crowd that gathered to
hear him speak this afternoon at this
place.
"The American Legion Is the great
est potential factor in American life,'
said the speuker in telling what he
considered ita mission after the war.
"The boys learned patriotism over
there," he said and now they are
spreading It at home.
"No man has the right to run on
his uniform," he said in discussing
the entry of the ex-service man into
politics. He explained, however that
the service in the army had been
worth as much as a college education
and that the best thing for the world
war veterans to do was to put their
experience into practical application.
A Constructive Program.
A strong army and navy, greater
production, better living conditions on
' the farm, good highways, perpetua
tlon of 100 per cent Americanism, a
square deal for the maimed men of
the world war, home ownership for
soldiers and sailors and for all good
cltlsens were among the things ad-
vocated by Mayor Wozencraft In pre
seating a constructive program for
the consideration of the men in the
American Legion.
"It's largely our own fault that
we have not assimilated the alien pop
ulation that has come to our shores,'
he said. "Have we extended them a
welcome to the things we enjoy?
Have we Invited them to come with
us to learn the lessons of citizenship?
We have got to take the world to our
bosom when It comes to our shores—
or exclude it
For Hoiue Ownership.
"If we are ungrateful to the men
who shed their blood and lost their
limbs over there we will deserve
whatever may happen to us. I am
for a square deal for those men.
Wozencraft explained that every ex-
service man ought to own his own
home and launched into a discussion
of the value to the nation of home
ownership by its citizens.
"Money is plentiful today. The
man who can deliver the goods and
who has knowledge, energy, health
and ideals will get along all right.
Tens of thousands lie over there.
They gave their lives for us—gave
their all, shame on us if we gave any
less. We must give our lives for the
good of our country."
Makes Favorable Impression.
Wozencraft made a distinctly fa-
vorable impression on his audience.
At one point he said, "I feel pretty
much at home in this crowd, mind if
I take off my coat?" The day was
warm and the mayor was perspiring
•lightly. So was everybody else. The
remark caught a responsive chord
and there were cries of "Go ahead,"
"Take It off," and similar remarks.
The coat was removed and the speech
was continued.
After the address there was an in-
formal reception and hundreds of
former school mates of the Dallas
mayor came-to shake hands with him.
Others who had been In service with
him also took occasion to say a word
about old times. Wozencraft has an
engaging smile .and made everybody
feel at home with his numerous negro
dialect jokes and funny stories. He
wore a brown palm beach suit, almost
the color of the olive drab uniform
he so recently wore in the service.
"That's a smart man," said one old
Confederate veteran after hearing his
talk. Those who were there hastened
to agree with the gray haired soldier.
America's Mission.
The first portion of Wozencraft's
speech was devoted to a historical
outline of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence and its later Influence on the
world. "The expression, 'Free and
Equal', was laughed at around the
world in 1776," he said. "Recently
Clemenceau said In a public speech
that America arrived just In time to
save the world when her armies went
into the trenches. The mission of
America is to spread liberty and free-
dom around this world."
America Saves France.
The mayor outlined the course of
history in the United States and her
stand for liberty in each war she had
fought He said that when the Amer-
ican army went to France that there
w -ft** hraj
Old Confederates There With Polished
Badges to Greet Sons and Grand-
sons Who Fouglit in World War.
Splendid Musie by Band—Big Din-
ner and Other Features of the Day.
Belton, July (.—Acres and acres of
people thronged the city park for six-
teen hours today In the Fourth of July
homecoming and soldiers' reunion cel-
ebration. The park presented the ap-
pearance of a veritable sea of hu-
manity with too little space in which
to rest- and constantly overflowing.
The city was full of people. Special
traffic cops were on the job at the
prlnctoal street corners and stationed
throughout the park driveways to help
unravel the Inevitable Jams and keep
the hundreds of automobiles moving.
Some one remarked that when you
were up town It seemed that the whole
crowd was up there, but when you
were In the park you were sure that
they were all there. Thus It was all
through the Jay that the city emp-
tied into the park and the park into
the city and if there had been very
many more people In Belton, they
would have to have been parked in
the suburbs.
Visitors Come Early.
The stream of visitors began to pour
Into the city by t o'clock this morning
From every direction and by every
means of conveyance they came, vet-
erans old and gray, troung men in full
dress uniform, boys with beating
hearts, palpitant with expectation of
a plunge in the swimming pool or a
ride down the chute the chute. They
were all here clad in their patriotic
best, out for a picnic day.
Estimates of Crowd.
There were from twelve to fifteen
thousand people In the park and busi-
ness section of Belton at any one time
and the number that visited the city
during the entire day and night is
variously estimated at from twenty
to twenty-five thousand. It was ad-
mittedly the largest crowd that ever
vlstted Belton on one day and those
in charge of the big program are won
dering how they could have taken
care of the throng had It not rained
last night. But apparently the rain
did not hinder so many from coming.
Real Gala Day.
It was a gala day. The fire de-
partment's new Wren was turned
loose at Intervals to add to the ex-
citement. Flags waved from every
building and streamers floated from
tree to tree In the park. It was al
most too big to see It all, too great
to comprehend. It was a celebration
such as is rarely se»n In the south,
The excellent band music furnished
by the Belton Chamber of Commerce
band with a few accretions from the
Temple band, filled the happy throng
with the spirit of the glorious Fourth.
(There Is no intended implication
here of the alleged glow said to have
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NO WORD ABOUT SAX FRANCISCO
IN FOURTH OF JULY ADDRKSS
AT HUNTINGTON.
(AnoclaUd Press Dispatch.)
Huntington, N. Y„ July 5.—Yielding
to the noisy demand of 500 Hunting-
ton villagers assembled for Indepen-
dence day exercises, William Gibbs
McAdoo today delivered his first pub-
lic utterances since the democratic
national convention began.
Speaking extemporaneously, ha
took as his theme patriotism and de-
votion to the vision of liberty held
by the revolutionary fathers.
'We are here today because a small
group of patriots met together and
had the vision to conceive a great
idea and the courage to carry it out,"
he said.
"No progress has ever been achieved
without vision, courage and perform-
ance. What we achieved for liberty
haa always been a.flaming torch for
the whole world."
He turned toward a group of civil
war veterans seated on the platform
and continued:
"These men responded to the call
to vindicate liberty and a* a result
organised a great union strong
enough to vindicate democracy and
destroy autocracy whea the call
came."
heed m league
is one of treason
DECLARES IT A "COVENANT OF
NATIONAL DEATH"—DEFIES
' "ONE MAN RULE."
(Anoclatod Pre* DUpatch.)
Kansas City, Mo., July 5.—United
States Senator James A Ueed, return-
ing here today from San Francisco,
where he was refused a seat in the
democratic national convention as a
delegate from this congressional dis-
trict, declared in an address that thf
League of Nations was "a league of
treason and a covenant of national
death." ,
Senator Reed, whose address was
delivered at a mass meeting, said ho
was privately assured by "grape vine
messages" while his case was being
heard, that the credentials committee
of the convention would seat him if
he would agree to keep silent in re-
gard to the League of Nations on the
convention floor. His refusal to make
such an agreement was responsible
for his being denied a seat, he said.
"If there is one lesson that this
country needs to learn," Senator Reed
said, "it is that this is not a one man
country, it is a 110,000,000 men coun-
try. If you would keep this republic
safe you must do your own thinking.
You, the people, are the source of all
power. The sooner you exercise it, the
better it will be for you and for the
country."
8enator Reed denounced the dem-
ocratic convention at San Francisco as
a convention afflicted with inter-
national blind staggers."
Without direct personal reference
to any one, the senator declared that
there was little difference between the
doctrine of the divine right of kin^s
"and the modern doctrine that a mm
elected to office becomes thereby a
leader, and that all who differ with
him are excommunicated and outcast."
Robert Lansing, ex-secretary of
state, he described as the only man
wfcom the president took to Franca
with him who knew anything about
international law, "and about the only
man who had ordinary common
sense," and he asserted that Lansing's
removal from office was the result of
'his Insistence upon warning the peo-
ple of the true meaning of this league
of treason, this co\-enant- of national
death."
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or nit clans
THREE FACTIONS IN TIGHTER
DEADLOCK THAN EVER AF.
TER #6TH BALLOT.
SOUTHERNERS WIV FIELD
AND TRACK CUP IN ARMY
(Anoclated Press Dispatch.)
St. Louis, July B.—The .department-
al field and track championship of
the United 8tates army went to the
Southern department this afternoon
when ita representatives won six of
the twelve final events at the army
meet here and ran the total points
scored to 128k.
I.anibctli Conference Opens.
(Associated Press Dispatch.)
London, England, July 5.—The sixth
Lambeth conference of the Anglican
church opened here today with 270
bishops and archbishops from ail parts
of the world in attendance, Including
several from the United States.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast.
East and west Texas: Tuesday aad
Wednesday partly cloudy.
(Associated Pre* Dispatch.)
Auditorium, San Francisco, Cal..
July 5.—The democratic national con-
vention took fourteen ballots on Its
first session today and falling to find
a nominee took a recess at 4:58 o'clock
until 8:J0 o'clock this evening.
When the afternoon balloting was
In the closing stage, the Palmer boom
was taking an upward excursion—in
fact, the first It has enjoyed since, it
took the slip in the twelfth ballot
last week. The McAdoo votes had
taken the leading place from the Cox
votes and the Cox column had finally
regained some of its strength. When
the session ended, the three princi-
pal contenders were probably closer
together than they had been for a
long time and If it meant anything,
It meant that the deadlock was a little
tighter.
The McAdoo people tried to explain
the Palmer rise by saying it was real-
ly an excursion to carry the attorney
general as far as he could go.
They declared the Cox people had
done the same thing and failed to
put It over. When the Palmer and
Cox booms had both been given a
"joy ride" to use the language of the
McAdoo managers, it was the plan of
the McAdoo people to begin a new
drive for the president's son In law.
Hopes and prospects that the con-
vention might nominate today went
glimmering after it got down to busi-
ness today. It was apparent that
the lines were going to hold. The
Cox lines did hold stoutly in the face
of two breaks to McAdoo, one from
Indiana and another from Washing
ton.
They vame back some others
soon. Palmer sentiment was rather
lagging when the sudden rush of votes
to the attorney general's column gave
it a sudden rise late today and his
supporters were taking new heart.
There was no evidence of any plans
which would assure that the conven-
tion could finish its work tonight.
The three candidates have run a
wide range In the balloting. Palmer
starting out at 256, fell as low as 144
In the second, and by the thirty-sixth
ballot, had gotten back to 241.
Cox was at his lowest with 134 In
the first ballot. His high water mark
was 468 on the nineteenth.
By the thirty-sixth he had sagged
down to S77.
McAdoo, starting out with a lead,
was 208 in the first ballot. Cox soon
took first place, however, but on the
thirty-second ballot McAdoo was not j
only back In first place, but had
struck a high water mark for him of
4211.
In the thirty-sixth: he was at 394.
During the recess the Cox people
went Into a conference. There was a
proposal in the air to see if the New
York delegation would not be swung
to the Palmer column. The report
which went with the story of the con-
ference, was that if the search for a
lark horse were unavailing the Cox
itrength might be thrown to the
Palmer column. This was of course
dependent on convincing the Cox
managers that they had struck their
limiting in the balloting.
harding speaks to
old eaiiilr home
HIS RETURN TO SMALL OHIO
TOWN CELEBRATED IN
GRAND STYLE.
BOOSTS HIS HOME TOWN
Is Introduced by a Democrat Who
Wants to See Him Ride Into White
House on Democratic Mule—Makes
Heart to Heart Talk io His Old As-
sociates—Review of Speech Given.
(Associated Press Dispatch.)
Marion, Ohio, July 6.—Marion today
paid tribute to Senator Harding, the
republican candidate for the presi-
dency, upon his return accompanied
by Mrs. Harding, to his home here
from Washington for the first time
since his nomination, it was a big
day for the little Ohio city, and one
that will go down in its history.
The celebration began early and
lasted until tonight, when, in the pres-
ence of home folk, who crowded the
lawn of the Harding residence, and
overflowed to the opposite side of the
street, Senator Harding was officially
welcomed.
The senator replied in a brief speech
in which he opposed one man govern-
ment and urged the restoration of
normal conditions as a steadying force
for civilization, which, he said, has
been fevered by the supreme upheaval
of all the world.
Dear Friends and Neighbors.
It was as "dear friends and neigh-
bort" that United States Senator War-
ren G. Harding spoke to the thou-
sands of Marion and other Ohio citi-
zens who gathered about his home to
welcome his return.
In response' to a welcome address
by D. R. Crissinger, president of the
Marlon Civic association, he told them
frankly that he liked their rejoicing
"over a more than usual tribute to a
fellow townsman."
"If it is becoming to assent to the
praise you bestow, let it be under-
stood that any preference ever shown
me is wholly and invariably due to
that consideration which I have will-
ingly shown to others, and to an in-
herited conviction that it is a waste
of God's rich endowments to assail
and destroy when all the flowers of
life bloom best in the soil of sympathy
and encouragement," he said.
Talks About Home Town.
He spoke intimately with his fellow
townsmen of their Joint efforts to
make Marion a greater and better
city, their tributes paid him on other
occasions when he had been a victor
In political battles, and especially the
tribute of endorsement shown him by
the count at the April primaries. He
said if he had to choose between the
tribute paid him by his county in the
primary and that extended by the
Chicago' convention he would choose
the former "because your knowing
me made it the finest tribute to which
one may aspire.''
if the admonition of Mr. Crissinger,
himself a democrat, conies true. Sen-
ator Harding will ride the democratic
mule into the White House next No
vember. "I admonish you, my fel
low citizens," he said, "that he will
ride the democratic mule into the
White House in November as presi-
dent of the United States "
Going farther than predicting Sen-
ator Harding's election, Mr. Crissinger
said he knew "your enthusiasm and
appreciation will prompt your votes
to be cast irrespective of party ties
so as to make It possible for each of
you to extend the right hand of fel-
lowship to Florence Harding as the
first lady of the land and to Warren
(CoBllnard on Pare Sevrn.)
BRITISH EMISSARY ADVISES KB-
ERT O.N WAY TO MEET'THI-:
PRESENT CRISES.
(Associated Press Dispatch.)
Berlin, July 4.—t.ord Abernon, the
newly appointed Rritisli ambassador
to Germany, presented his credentials
to President Ebert today. He de-
clared that the "world crisis will be
overcome only-by general collabora-
tion of which the basis is maintenance
of firm, friendly alliances and strict
execution of the peace treaty."
He said that In accepting the task
of restoring relations between the two
great nations he counted on the goad
will and collaboration of the German
government.
President Ebert replied that the
German people shared the firm reso-
lution of their government to face
their obligations to the limit.
0HI0AN SLOWLY BEATS DOWN
LEAD OF M'ADOO; CANDIDATE
FOR VICE PRESIDENCY TO BE
NAMED TODAY BY DELEGATES
Associated Press Dispatch.
Auditorium, San Francisco, Tuesday Morning, July 6.—•
James M. Cox, governor of Ohio, was nominated for presi*
dent of the United States in the democratic national conven-
tion at 1:40 o'clock this morning (3:40 o'clock in Temple),
The nomination came at the end of a forty-four ballot
struggle, in which he had steadily beaten down the forces of
William G. McAdoo, former secretary of the treasury and
President Wilson's son-in-law.
When the balloting on the forty-fourth vote had gotten
to a point where Cox had seven hundred and two votes and
was rapidly approaching the necessary two-thirds, or seven
hundred and twenty-nine, Sam B. Amidon, of Kansas, man-
ager of the McAdoo forces and vice chairman of the demo-
cratic national convention took the platform and moved
that the nomination of Governor Cox be made unanimous.
Immediately there was a roar from the tired and worn dele-
gates which lasted for a full fo,ur minutes before Chairman
Robinson could put the question on Amidon's motion to
suspend the rules and nominate Cox by acclamation.
At 1:43 o'clock this morning the motion was formally!
voted over with a rolling chorus of ayes and a crashing ofi
the brass bands. State standards, which had surged back1
and forth In the desperate battles of the deadlock raced to
the front of the hall and to a place before the platform.
In the confusion and excitement of a nomination after!
the strenuous and hard sessions of the convention almost
everybody forgot about a nomination for the vice presidency
except the leaders who were figuring on a list which includ-
ed Franklin D. Roosevelt, of New York, assistant secrtary;
of the navy. While the crowd was demonstrating its re*
lapse from the deadlock the leaders arranged an adjourn-
ment until noon today to canvass the question of second
place in the meantime and meet again prepared to complete'
the ticket.
The Cox band wagon movement really started Monday;
afternoon before the recess for dinner. During the interval
both sides of the fight made desperate appeals to Tammany*
Throughout the evening New York's vote stood the same,
20 for McAdoo and 70 for Cox. On the third ballot of the
evening session the slide to Cox started and before the lead*
ers of the opposition could realize it the voters were flopping
over in twos and threes and fours in a fashion which sen!
him over the majority mark and put him at a new level*
After that the going was easy.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
James Middleton Cox was three times governor of Ohio—-
an honor enjoyed by only one other Ohioan, Rutherford B<
Hayes.
Born on a farm, educated in the public schools, a printer's
devil, a school teacher, owner, manager and proprietor of two
newspapers, member of congress for three years and three
times governor of h.is state is his record to date.
Business success paralleled his poltical achievements and
through his own efforts Cox amassed a fortune. Mr. Cox be-
came the leader of the democratic party in Ohio in 1912 when
he was nominated for governor. As one who had brought
radical changes in the state constitution, he took the field in.
its behalf. His first term as governor was devoted chiefly to
forwarding the enactment of laws to put the new state consti-
tution into effect.
But Ohio evidently was not prepared to assimilate
new laws for Cox was defeated for re-election- But his party
renominated him in 1916 and he was re-elected for a thir4
term in 1918, being the only democrat to win in Ohio.
LANDMARKS IX ADMINISTRATION'.
Legislation for which Governor Cix is best known includes
a model workmen's compensation law and a child labor law
which have been extensively copied by other states. Educators
of the country say the Ohio school code, enacted under Gov-
ernor Cox's direction, will live as a monument to his achieve-
ments.
Mr. Cox was born in Butler county, Ohio, in 1870. He
attended district school and held his first pisition as a teacher
of the school in which he took his first lessons. He spent
evenings and holidays in a printing office. In a few years ha
receivefl his first assignment on the reportorial staff of the
Cincinnati Enquirer. .
After ten years with the Enquirer, he went to Washington
as a private secretary to Congressman Paul Sore of Ohio. At
the close of this service, he purchased th<e Dayton Daily News,
borrowing most of the money to pay for it. Later he pur-
chased the Springfield Daily News. He was first elected to
congress in 1908.
He recently purchased the farm near Jacksonburg upon
which he was born, and is m*king it into a modern farm home
where he expects to live on retirement from public office. H«
is married and has four children.
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