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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Lowden Repudiates Two Delegates Dele-gates Who Accepted Money From His Manage". COMMITTEE BARS OTHERS One Missouri District Left Without Representation Johnson Welcomed to Chicago Attorney General Palmer Receives Several Rather Painful Blows. By EDWARD W. PICKARD." When the senate committee on campaign cam-paign funds uncovered the truth about the expenditure of .$38,000 to promote Governor Lowden's campaign for delegates dele-gates from Missouri, the Lowden boosters boost-ers looked very blue and subdued and everyone else was asking whether the disclosures were enough to kill the governor's chances. Robert E. Moore and Nat Goldstein, who were elected delegates, told the committee that they had each received from Emmerson, tlie Lowden ' manager, a check for $2,500 and-had placed the money In their own accounts, but Moore said that "since there has been so much unpleasant publicity about it," they are going to return the money to Lowden. National Nation-al Committeeman Babler and E. L. Morse of Excelsior Springs made admissions ad-missions concerning the use of Lowden money in Missouri which showed that, under the most favorable construction, the governor's campaign there was conducted with unpardonable stupidity. stupid-ity. Lowden leaders at the Chicago headquarters head-quarters held a hasty conference and the governor then Issued a statement which, In the opinion of his friends, quite rehabilitated his wobbling boom and made everything all right again. Ue denounced Moore and Goldstein as iinfit to sit In the national convention and emphatically repudiated their support sup-port and votes. "This goes for pny other delegate or delegates, if any, I similarly situated," he added. He de- clared his Instructions to Emmerson vere to use money only for legitimate purposes, and that his manager assured as-sured him the payments to the two Missouriiins were made in January, on tlie representation that the money was required for the organization of their districts. Another Missouri scandal developed during the hearing of contests before tlie national committee, and resulted In one district losing its representation representa-tion In the convention. This district Is the Fifth, comprising 19 Kansas City wards and seven Jackson townships. town-ships. Although there was no charge of the Improper use of money, the committee com-mittee declared the testimony showed that the election of both sets of dele-gales dele-gales was "disgraceful and tainted with fraud." It refused to seat 1 1 1 3 representatives of either faction thus reducing the total vote In the convention conven-tion to OS t and the number required to nominate 4!H. This is tlie first time n district has been left without representation repre-sentation in a national convention for such a reason. At this writing tlie hearings on contests con-tests have resulted in a net loss of 11 votes for Wood, a net gain of 10 for Lowden and a not gain of four for Johnson. In the matter of ."0 "extra" delegates elected by various states the national committee derided that scuts should he provided for them, but the extra alternates were left to shift for themselves. The demand for seats in the Coliseum was overwhelming, more than l."i0.(HHl requests being received. Tlie hall accommodates i;?,2S0. The Republican platform was almost completed last week In Washington and the draft was carried to Chicago by Senator Watson of Indiana. Tlie last plank added In the capital related to Mexico and was written by Senator Fall. It was said to follow In general the recommendations made by his committee to the senate, declaring that unless conditions In Mexico are Improved Im-proved the United States. may find it necessary to Intervene. The plank on the League of Nations was left for the party chiefs to formulate In Chicago. Chi-cago. It is understood that there will be no mention of prohibition, although William Jennings Bryan went to Chicago Chi-cago with the avowed purpose of inducing in-ducing tlie Republicans to adopt a "dry" resolution. The spectacular event of the week in the convention city was the arrival of Senator Johnson to take personal charge of nis fight for the nomination. The supporters of the Californian gave him a great reception, with bands and banners and parades and much noise, all of which was preliminary to a mass meeting arranged for the Auditorium Audi-torium the night of June 7. The big politicians, who presumably Control to some extent the unpledged majority major-ity vote of 'he convention, watched the demonstration coolly and. with appraising ap-praising eyes, as they were watching all popular demonstrations, for they know they must take real account of the wishes of the people when it comes to throwing their influence to this candidate can-didate or that. Among the new headquarters opened were those of Hoover, Butler and Poindexter. Hoover, it was announced, would not go to Chicago. Wood said he would be at Fort Sheridan during the convention, and Governor Lowden said he would spend the week in the executive mansion at Springfield. The selection of Governor Allen of Kansas to place General Wood in nomination caused many amateur prophets to forecast a repetition of the sensation )f the' convention of 1SS0. Then Garfield made the nominating nomi-nating speech for John Sherman, and was himself nominated after a protracted pro-tracted deadlock. Though Allen has not been a candidate he has often been mentioned as an eminent possibility possi-bility If none of the leading aspirants can get the necessary votes. Tlie Kansas delegation is uninstructed but is supposedly for Wood. Roused by the failure of the Delaware Dela-ware legislature to ratify the woman suffrage amendment, the National Woman's party planned a great demonstration dem-onstration in Chicago for' the opening day of the convention to impress on tlie Republican party the importance of giving the cause full recognition in Its platform. The Delaware lawmakers law-makers Ignored an appeal from President Presi-dent Wilson and adjourned without a vote on the matter, and the suffragists will now center their efforts ou Vermont Ver-mont and Connecticut. Only one state is lacking to ratify the amendment. Attorney General Palmer Is traveling travel-ing a rocky road toward the White House, If Indeed he Is moving in that direction. The senate committee. In its search for the mysterious McAdoo boom, called Judge E. C. Bonniwell of Philadelphia, the McAdoo leader In Pennsylvania and a fine display of fireworks fire-works resulted. Bonniwell started in to lambaste Palmer, charging that the attorney general, thwmgh his supporters, support-ers, had made a deal with the liquor interests In the state under which some localities were permitted to. become be-come "as wet as the Atlantic ocean." in return for which tlie wets supported Palmer in the primary and enabled him to capture the slate delegation to the San Francisco convention. He cited especially the city of Scranton. asserting as-serting the breweries there were producing pro-ducing beer of illegal strength and the bonded warehouses and saloons running wide open. Mr. Palmer, bearing bear-ing of tlie testimony that was being given, hurried before the committee and demanded and was given an opportunity op-portunity to reply. His answer was, in effect, a denial of the charges, which b. said were stale as well as false. The blame for failure to enforce the prohibition law in Pennsylvania be laH at the door of the bureau of Internal re venue. The same day the house received th.. ropo;1 of the judiciary committee on the sugar investigation am! Representative Repre-sentative Titilcham followed with a statement in which be demanded the resignation of the attorney general. The report said in part: "Tlie attorney grrcr.il ued Lis power pow-er as chief prosecuting ol'iier of the T'nited States for the purpose r.f fixing fix-ing maximum selling prices of sugar In the state of Louisiana, and in so doing acted wholly without authority of law and In violation of his own construction of his official duty, which precluded him from placing any interpretation inter-pretation upon United States criminal statutes under which possible violators viola-tors might escape prosecution. "The legalistic method adopted by the attorney general was wholly ineffective inef-fective as a means of price control ; it gave apparent governmental sanction sanc-tion to extremely high sugar prices, which excited the cupidity of Cuban producers and caused an advance in the Cuban market." Congressman "Billy" Mason of Illinois Illi-nois contributed his bit in the shape of charges that Mr. Palmer and Ant thony Caminettl, commissioner general of immigration, used their ofiices to obtain exemption from the draft for J. Kemp Bartlett, Jr., nephew of the attorney general. According to copies of correspondence between the principals, prin-cipals, submitted by Mason, Caminetti signed the certificate which led to the exemption, after the head of the immigration im-migration service at Hot Springs had refused to make such an affidavit. Representative Mason broke out in yet another spot last week, accusing .Barney Baruch of having "stolen $50,-000,000 $50,-000,000 from the government in copper aioue." When Baruch wrote Mason demanding that he at once submit to congress and the attorney general the evidence on which he based the charges, Mason replied that since looking over bis previous statement he would amend it to say that "you and your associates stole 5200,000,000 in copper alone." He added that the matter mat-ter on which he based bis charges already al-ready was before congress in connection connec-tion with the investigation of war expenditures. ex-penditures. "You certainly do not expect me to present this matter to your particular friend, Mr. Palmer, attorney general," Mr. Mason said, and added: "I shall, if I live, ask the attorney general of the United States after March 4, 1921, to proceed civilly and criminally against you and your associates." ' Women friends of "free Ireland" heckled the senate the other day and were ejected from the galleries. Next day they burned a British flag in front of the treasury building. The senators were quite willing a while ago to "horn in" on Great Britain's Irish problem, but they don't want anyone to urge them to do it again. Over in Ireland the "republicans" are devoting themselves mainly to the destruction of police barracks, and meanwhile parliament Is making progress prog-ress with the home rule bill. The Indications In-dications are that the whole age-long quarrel will be settled by the adoption of a dominion form of government for the Emerald Isle. .Gregory Krassin, Russian bolshevik minister of trade and commerce, was granted a hearing in London by Lloyd George and other members of the government gov-ernment and it was reported he was given permission to open a central office of-fice In the city for the resumption of trade with Russia. This tlespite the strong opposition of Earl Curzon. head of the British foreign otlice. The bol-shevikl bol-shevikl are especially eager to resume trade with America, but our government govern-ment gives no encouragement. In the field the soviet troops, which had been pushing back the Poles, were themselves driven backward on the center of the front, where they bad been menacing Minsk. But on Friday came a startling report from Copenhagen Copen-hagen to the effect that the Polish army was In wild flight, pursued by an enormous bolshevik force. According Ac-cording to dispatches from Constantinople, Constanti-nople, the Eighth bolshevik army was evacuating Odessa under pressure from the independent I'kranian army. The reds made considerable progress in Persia, capturing the important Caspian Cas-pian seaport of Resht. and some of their troops advanced into Armenia. The Turkish nationalists weie hard hit by a gieat Frem h victory at Aim tan and it was reported they had signed an armistice with tlie French in Cilicia. Allied control of the waters wa-ters about Constantinople was periled by nationalist operations along the Sea of Marmora. Having received assurance that the president would not call it back unless un-less some great emergency arose, congress con-gress adjourned sine die on Saturday. The Republicans think their record d.iring the session is good enough for campaign purposes. |