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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Bryan a Headliner as Usual at the Democratic National Convention. HIS INFLUENCE IS EVIDENT Canned Speeches to Supplant Special Trains in Campaign Steel Industry Badly Hampered Railway Labor Situation Quieter Suffragist Hopes in Southern States Greek Successes in Turk War. By E. F. CLIPSON. Notwithstanding the fact that he did not get everything for which ha fought and was not the completely dominant figure which he so frequently has been in the past, William J. Bryan came hood chiefs have also gone to St. Louis, where approximately 10,000 railroaders railroad-ers have threatened to walk out unless un-less a temporary award is made by the railroad board. These chiefs think they will be able to prevent serious trouble, at least until the promised actlou of the board, scheduled for July 'JO. nopes of suffragists for a ratification ratifica-tion of the federal amendment In time to permit women to vote In the coming com-ing presidential election are now plmied on the action of the legislature of Tennessee, and, that failing, upon the North Carolina legislature. Governor Gov-ernor Roberts of the former state, in response to a request from President Wilson, has announced that he will call a special session of the legislature in plenty of time to act on the amendment. amend-ment. Governor Bickett of North Carolina, who received a similar request re-quest from the president, has reiterated reiterat-ed his purpose of advising a speehV' session in his slate to ratify thj amendment. Gov. P. W. Clements of Vermont, although strongly urged by suffrage leaders to call a special session ses-sion has hot definitely stated that he is contemplating action. of cross-country campaigning, but President Wilson, vigorous though lie was, fell a victim to it. Ills experience has been a warning. The feeling has grown that if the president is to have any vitality for the affairs of his office of-fice he should not waste It before the election. Nominee Harding will revive the old-fashioned, political lawn party. His front yard at Marion will draw the feet of the faithful quite as famously as Mahomet's shrine at Mecca attracts another kind of faithful. Senator Harding and his running mate, Governor Gover-nor Coolidge, have recently been making mak-ing speeches into the phonograph. Many thousands of the wax reproductions reproduc-tions will be distributed by the national nation-al committee. Democratic managers undoubtedly will adopt the plan. Add to your grand opera, jazz, Harry Lauder Lau-der and Bert Williams records one of your favorite candidate. Nothing is so likely to promote good feeling on these warm, mosquito-infested summer evenings eve-nings as the injection, through your open casement into your neighbor's ear, of a phonographic speech. It will assist his slumbers, especially if be belongs to the opposing party. Senator Harding's first speech, which has been given to the press and will be hoard by millions after July 4 nearer being the headliner of the Democratic Dem-ocratic show at San Francisco than anyone else. He did not succeed In getting the resolutions committee to frame a platform plank indorsing the Eighteenth amendment and its accompanying accom-panying enforcement act, the Volstead law, but he did prevent anything like an expression favoring mitigation of thuse acts. With all the forces of the administration arrayed against him in the matter of the Versailles treaty and League of Nations covenant, it was to be expected that the Bryan program of opposition would fail, nevertheless thij administration did. not come off entirely victorious. The plank as finally final-ly framed provided for reservations to the league more clearly defining America's Amer-ica's obligations to foreign countries, and that could not have been entirely satisfactory to the administration. Bryan did not dominate the convention, conven-tion, write the platform nor name the nominees, but he prevented the president presi-dent and also any other single force from doing so. His position represented represent-ed one of those singular anomalies o politics wherein he was forced to oppose op-pose the man whom eight years before he had compelled his party to accept. Roosevelt, throwing emery onto the bearings and hurling monkey wrenches Into the machine which he had helped to build, was iu a similar position with respect to the indorsement and second sec-ond nomination of William Howard Taft. Under such circumstances Bryan's Influence was weakened just as was Roosevelt's. Considering the powerful force of a federal administration, administra-tion, with its grent army of office holders hold-ers and other potent adjuncts, the wonder is that any man could affect it in the least. Logically, Bryan should have occupied a seat away back in the rear, but he did not. The marvel is that under the circumstances he could make a dint in party formations, yet he did and he wrung from his opponents op-ponents the reluctant admission, "the old boy is a wonder." Bryan, who frequently fails to carry his own state or district, who at home Is outgeneralled by men not in -his class, who wishes to go to the United States senate from Nebraska but cannot can-not command sufficient votes to place him there., has a peculiar power over his pnny at large. It is no reflection on that party, but rather a hint of things not understandable to the finit-e mind in bulk, that he has a strange ability to fathom and deal with mob J psychology. J As a medium for campaigning the boothing (?) phonograph will largely supplant the special train between now and November. No longer will the candidates race madly across the country to add:s mass meetings lasting last-ing until law hours, be jerked from their repose to grasp horny hands and make speeches at way-stations to Ireak-of-dny citizens, hastily bolt br. akt'ast and other meals to permit of us many rear platform addresses as possible, and in general follow tile ST-t;t life of the presidential special. spe-cial. I M-:nocras and Republicans may !;..; in li t. taster's voice without the ;;.-:.! 'in w .-a r ;snl tea r on 'be rsimli-'!.. rsimli-'!.. Thei -iloi'ij Roosevelt and William t p;v: - of"'!' agair.s' -lie ri-'ors The war of France, England and Greece against the Turkish nationalists national-ists commanded by Mustapha Kemal Pasha, officially began with the Greek advance from Smyrna in Asia Minor to a line eastward and northward beyond be-yond Soma, Aklnssar, Ala-Shehr and Kelas. The most important operation was at Ala-Shehr (ancient Philadelphia), Philadel-phia), where the Greek official statement state-ment claims the taking of 8,000 prisoners prison-ers with many guns and other booty. The position of the allied and opposing oppos-ing forces is roughly outlined as a thin rectangle extending from the vicinity of Aleppo iu Cilicia through Anatoliu to Ismid, near Constantinople. The forces of the Turkish leader are spread along the northern side of this rectangle and those of the Greeks are concentrated in the Smyrna area on the southern side, their west wing on the British and their east wing on the French. The plan of attack Is said to be an advance of the Greeks against Mustapha Kernel's front, an advance by the French from the east and the British from the west, hoping by this converging movement to pen Kemal In Anatolia and force his surrender. The Greeks are also reported to have a force at Pandemia, on the south coast of the Sea of Marmora, Intending to operate toward Smyrna. French cruisers shelling positions and villages are reported to have repulsed Turk attacks at-tacks at Adana, Tarsus and Mersina. Evacuation of Americans from Adanu to Cypress has begun. The Russian bolshevic blow agaln.t Poland, although delivered 60 divisions divi-sions strong, has not been decisive. Inr-tense Inr-tense fighting has been in progress along the entire Polish front, with the reds making slight gains in some sectors sec-tors and suffering defeat in others. Taking into consideration the sue cesses of General Wrangel In Crimea the balance has been strongly against the soviet armies. Wrangel Is reported report-ed to have recovered 22,000 square miles and to have liberated 2,000,000 people in his drive. His losses are given as 2.800 dead and wounded, while more than 10,000 red prisoner? alone have been taken. Polish repre sentalives in the United States art. sanguine of an early peace with the Russians and the commencement of a period of reconstruction. Conditions in Londonderry and other parts of Ireland have quieted down considerably. With the exception excep-tion of an outbreak of soldiers occupying occu-pying Fermoy, which led to an attack on shops and much damage to property, proper-ty, there has been nothing like the disturbances dis-turbances of last week. The demonstration demon-stration is said to have been in retaliation retali-ation for the capture by Sinn Feiners of Brigadier General Lucas. Ireland's railway situation, however, has grown worse, more men being dismissed and fewer trains being run. The railway men refuse to carry armed soldiers, munitions or police, while the govern ment insists they shall. Many towns have been isolated and the railway system is disorganized, with a condition condi-tion of creeping paralysis in evidence. No general or sympathetic strike ha been called ami the go enin.eiM i manning trains with troops as a lest through the phonograph, keynotes on AmeNcanism. He does not mention specifically the treaty of Versailles, but assails all international contrivances contriv-ances which imperil American sovereignty. sov-ereignty. He asserts that we should rejoice in an American conscience and in a big conception of our obligations to liberty, justice and civilization, but that we should hesitate before any course likely to cause a surrender of nationality; also, that it Is very practical prac-tical to make sure our own home is l,n perfect order before we attempt that which he regards as a miracle of world stabilization. Governor Coolidge advocates ad-vocates a return to the faith of Abraham Abra-ham Lincoln in the people r.nd a confidence con-fidence that the government is founded found-ed on righteousness. He advocates law and order and the cultivation of Industry, thrift and character, and says that we are advancing toward a day when, In our industrial life, equal honor shall fall to equal endeavor. He also asserts that duty is collective as veil as personal and that government cannot relieve from toil. Senator Harding, in an interview, announces that the Republican campaign will be based upon an appeal for the restoration restora-tion of party government and the overthrow over-throw of personal rule. These pronouncements pro-nouncements may be characterized as the opening guns of the campaign. Conditions more unfavorable than at any time for several years face the steel industry, due to the railway situation, situ-ation, the lack of cars, raw material and fuel, and shortage of labor. In Pittsburgh there are said to be 1.500,-000 1.500,-000 tons of fabricated steel needed in building operations throughout the country which cannot be moved for lack of cars. A survey of the Calumet region, in which are located the big plants of Gary, East Chicago, Indiana Harbor, Hammond and Whiting, show operations conducted on a day-to-day basis so far as cars, coal and raw materials ma-terials are concerned. With every mill stocked with orders calling for full production, the big plants are reported re-ported operating at two-thirds capacity and the smaller ones at 30 to 75 per cent. In the Calumet area It is said that a shutdown to permit stocking up is likely, with SS.000 men facing a period of unemployment. But a greater crisis threatens than an immediate imme-diate shutdown, because the plants are not building up their customary autumn and winter supplies of coal and other materials and may be tillable till-able to avoid enforced idleness next winter. The situation lias been gathering gath-ering since the railroads started to deteriorate de-teriorate after the blizzard of January, Janu-ary, 1013. Then came the steel strike, the coal strike and the switchmen's strike last spring. The latter was more of a blow to industry than previously pre-viously realized. According to railroad and brotherhood brother-hood officials the railway labor situation situa-tion has assumed a quieter phase than at any time in the last three months. Many of the older organization lenders, lend-ers, satisfied the Chicago zone will see no important disturbances, have left for Eastern points, where Ihe symptom! symp-tom! are not so good. Several brother-i brother-i 3 |