Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS TL terrible explosion in n financial district of new york laid to anarchists MAY BE PART OF HUGE PLOT republicans say maine result pre sages their victory in november attitude of women voters cant cox approves roots plan for world court by EDWARD W PICKARD now yorks financial center was shattered and the entire country shocked on thursday by a terrible explosion that took the libei of about 80 30 persons and injured some others tant it was the tie result of A ia de Ilber nto plot by anarchists Is the firm belief of federal and local and there Is reason to fear that it was but tile start of n campaign of terror ism sm against the financiers of america the explosion cagne exactly nt at the noon hour directly in front of tho the new burldine bull dine nt at broad nil and wall streets adjoining the and across the street from tile bountiful J P morgan building A one borso truck wag standing there and the ho nu all thorit lep believe it contained a giann tie tic boulb bomb that was exploded by a time clock the deeths and injuries and tile domngo damingo dono done to buildings mostly caused by short heavy slugs nindo made from broken enst tron iron window weights unlike any in the alio wall street district this tah fact together with many other developments furnished n basis tor for the theory of abo ho after tho the disaster it ans learned alint a wall street employee nil and the french high commission had both received ived warning that eliat thero there would io be tin an explosion in tho the district on september 15 the letters both camo came front from 10 fischer formerly nn nil employee of the french commission and were mulled front from toronto fischer Fl is 13 said to lie der deranged tinged ns a result of a nervous breakdown I 1 the victims of tile the explosion were mostly clerks and messengers no financier was killed though ninny many of thorn had narrow esen escapes pos and jundis 1 13 spencer pencer morgan I 1 son foil of J 11 morgan was cut by flying glass it if it if Is still truo true that as goes maine so goes tile nation the republicans will score a trenten tremendous dous victory in ili november they copt tho the pine tree state electing parkhurst for governor and ill all tho the re rort 41 of their heir ticket by a majority of about every county lit in tho the strife went republican national lenders of 0 the party oVe of course ourse greeted this result with shouts of joy nearly women went vent to the polls and some MOW of them voted tile tho republican Republic nit ticket tills this to la regarded ns as especially for it lias has been contended that tile tho women of the country would support tho the league of Nat nations lons tho the campaign lit in malno was conducted largely on national issues tho the longue league issue being foremost and both sent national figures into the strite as tampa campaign ign orators the democratic forces being led by il frank rank alln ili D roosevelt candidate for alc president and secretary of tho the navy Dant daniels els calvin coolidge republican candidate for vice president senator lodge and other heavy run guns were there for tile tho republican ticket and devoted mile much of their energies to attacking the draft of tile ho longue I 1 governor Gour nor cox mr roosevelt chair inn ann n white and othir lending democrats nil all refuse to consider balne it i relIn reliable ble political barometer secretary pre aker after conferring ith president wilson said only that tho the malno result cannot bo be considered na as of tile tho general result lit in november the impartial observer wilt will accord tile tho greatest importance to tho the attitude of tile th maine coukell ell though it may bp bo true tint that the women ot of the central and western states state to do not feel tile lie parne way about the league na as vu president s ident vilson wants it it 0 of f tile ho primaries of tile the week tile OA O A oil nal important yere of IN new deiv york and illinois lit in the doriner the regulars of both parties won the republicans Republic ang reo ull bated senator wadsworth and the dlinn ints named allied gov kirry 0 walker as his opponent the illinois primaries were interesting especially because of the alerce civil war within the republican party there tho the faction led by mayor thompson of chicago ans as bitterly attacked by th the press but it t swept c 1 cago and cook county in tile ali r ret e t of the state tho the anti and thomp thompson on forces plied piled up largo majorities that nt this writing tho the result Is lit in doubt the power of the press Is very poorly exemplified by tile tho chicago newspapers for they nearly always loso lose lit in lights fights of till tills kind the alio congressional investigating committee dropped the inquiry into coxs charges concerning the Rep republican ubil can ful fund tile lie republican members holding that they had not lot been proved aud and tho the democratic members having little to say mr fr cox however lion ever Is unwilling to let tile the matter rest and in ili a recent speech he doubted doubled the amount lie said his opponents were collecting stating that tile lie fund was to 0 o be 10 or ei cx pert political opinion Is that the g governor ov lins has done dona his causo cause more harm arm than good food by lila expose ot of contributions both presidential candidates are perforce perfo ico devoting a great brent deat deal of attention to tile league of nations senator harding lit in a message to it a ii club said 1 we lire are desirous of preventing war let us not break tile tho heart of tile lie world by tiny more delusions let us ua unite america behind behind it new proposal to the other nations for the prevention 04 of w war r nna and for amIca amicable blei relationship in world ad let ua its lit in doing this preserve our own national conscience at home and not check it nt at geneva out west where lie ho tins lias been delivering peppy speeches speech w governor Govern br cox promised that it if lie were elected the longue would bo be rati ratified fled tit oney money would no longer bo bb spent on oil battleships and the government funds would be used for such purposes its n reclaiming arid lands I 1 sir nr co cox also gave 1119 full fall approval to tile tho plan for n world court ns as put forth by root and the ho rest lest of the advisory commission of jurists this cour court sald sit cox cannot in any way bo be regarded as a substitute for tile league being rather A part of tile tho covenant which Is quite true mr air root sailed tor for home with tile the 8 intention of taking part lit in the nat national lonnI campaign and to urge america to ad liero here to tile the international court plan which lie ho Is said to regard as the high point of his career tho the proposition was taken up for discussion by tile the league council when it uit met in ili paris on thursday it wasl expected that italy a and nd japan and perhaps america would make objection to the article in the constitution of the court which provides for compulsory adjudication in making public the text of tho the project tile tho council in a letter to all league In members embers salil said tile tha council would regard an irreconcilable difference of opinion on the merits of the na as an international misfortune of tile tho gravest kind it would mean that the league was vas publicly compelled to admit its incapacity to carry out ow OUR pt the most important of the tasks which it was invited to perform the failure would bo be great and ami probably irreparable for foe it if agreen tent proves impossible tinder circumstances apparently appi so favorable it I 1 t Is hard to see liow how nud aud when tho the ta task sk of Pe curing it will w bo be success successfully rully r resumed russian not mot giving up their attempt to conquer poland concentrated cent rated it a large force tor for nn an attack in the direction of lemberg Leiu berg tut tile the poles report that they have a i rushing crashing defeat to these troops ond that their own operations along the upper reaches of the hug river have been very successful ilos between tho the poles and the tha lithuanians Lithuania ns seemed to have Inlet ed down but te latter were gathered blond along tho the border bonier in great force jc ac cording to pec recent ent dit dispatches patches and a battle was fought in the see tor cl carried out n completo complete chonge of front in ili southern ern rus sift all A abandoning ls l s plan of 0 f concen colle ell on the kuban nod formation for mailon of a unison liaison with the revolting cossacks lie be collected collect cd all its ills forces in and started out 0 to o capture crip ture cherson nal with the intention or of forming tt union with the ukrainians f further t west acs and of pushing northward northan rd toward and ind It Kliar harkov kov already hei he has won several victories over the soviet troops in ia tile the baku region in lie caucasus tile the revolt Is ii reported to be ba spreading and the reds who ready already A I 1 lind had abandoned baku are continuing C their retreat notwithstanding N 0 these thee reverses in and about nebout their home country tile the rus reds tiro tire unremitting in their thelreg efforts to the resi krestof of tho the world tokyo hears bears that the they y ba have 0 perfected plans tor for hits pro propaganda ida and are sorin soon to send emissaries to allier america ca japan china and other countries in asia As ia the liand hand of the bolshevik Is appner ent too lit in northern italy radicals vals most of them foreigners are trying to 0 got get control oi of the communist movement that sprang up there here and to foil tho the efforts odthe labor confederation to bring about a compromise between tho the workers and the employers in some lust arices they drove contented employees from factories and seized tho the plants though the movement was spreading considerably con sIder ably there was wall no reason to change lie he prediction pr edle that it would ultimately fall but the probability that atlie employers would offer fil to the men equal control wid profit sharing increased premier Cli G finally took a hand in the dispute inviting representatives of the employers tin and workers lit in the metal plants to meet bleet him in turin genoa became astora n storm center when the ille communists there led by some russians Rus slana and seized merchant shipping and mounted cannon announcing they would light fight it if vessels V were sent in answer to this thel sent seni a squadron of ba battleships f 04 and destroyers the for foreign eign loaders lenders who ivere were arrested were aclid nil in possession of at largo large amount of it money ioney seizure of thit the inird land be began g an in fri italy when communist pen peasants took pos session of several largo large farms AS some 0 of these belong to hafi church officials cInIs it t was expected expect the Vatican would protest protes tto to the government and demand protection of the tho property the congressional junket party Is on itel way home front from tile alio orient and when it t il arrives ives maybe somo some of the members will be able to give tho government valuable advice on the japanese problem possibly they will not bo be able to do so the problem Is becoming acute both hers here and in japan ambassador has been authorized to conduct negotiations direct with secretary colby for n new treaty or some understanding that will safeguard japanese property holding and more clearly restrict japanese immigration tokyo doubtless prefers to haye have the trouble settled by the present administration hoping for better terms than might be agreed to by the republicans if they win in november senator g has li an declared himself lit n i g c if in favor f ar or of the exclusion of the japanese on en the ground of racial differ difference crice the wll wil son administration atall till insists on the rV restriction of immigration from japan ihrl euid also still objects to lo Jap japans nna occupation of tile Ru russian halt half or of Sag SaRh balli alln island the veterans of foreign wars a large and influential Influent ini so society clety in convention lit in washington tins ims adopted a resolution advocating the ex elusion ot of japanese and R F constitutional amad wept withholding american Americ tin cief ari philp front from amerlean born and cither races 11 president resident deschanel of armice Vrr who fins been seriously ill for pont has bits decided that flint lie ought to retire since lie cannot attend to the public S go J lie be has fins placed ill his resignation lit in the hands ot of mil berard le lerR rard rd and on oil september Sop 2 1 1 the tin na donol assembly will convel iq to so s 11 elect lect hect his successor site asor id |