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Show I 111 ACCEPTS PRESIDENT'S CHALLENGE ! I i Tl EKE'S the nfe of the G. j JlXO. P. nominee. Mrs. Hard- i I i;ig told the reporters in Chi- i ! j eaj?o that the Republicans eer- j I j tainly picked n good man for ; ; their candidate. ' j ! ' Fin WARREhf (j HARVitSG TREATY TO GET I BEFORE NATION I ON REFERENGUifl I G. 0. P. Candidate Says Re- H publicans Welcome Oppor- tunity to Go Before People I H 11 H HOOVER DECLARES HE H WILL SUPPORT TICKET H Democrats Lining Up Force? H ; for Convention; New Party j 1 Looms on Horizon ( H I WASHINGTON. June IS Presided ; Wilson's challenge to submit the peace treaty to a referendum of the Amen J icau people was accepted today : Senator Harding, the Republican pros j idcntiul candidate. I "1 npi sure." said Senator Harding 1 "tho Republican party will gladly wel-fcomo wel-fcomo a referendum on tho question 01 'the foreign relationship of this repub- IH i He and the Republican attitude ot (preserved nationality will be over-iu over-iu holmlngly endorsed." I Senator Harding's statement .was In reply to tho interview with President 'Wilson, published today, in which th president discussed the league of 11:1 tlons issue und the Republican plat- I Hoover at Breakfast. ! Herbert Hoover, whose name waf : voted on lo the hist at tho Republican Jm convention, had breakfast today with Senator Harding at tho senator's in 1- tm tation. , , Gcorsc Clark, of Canton, O chair-I chair-I man of the Ohio state Republican 'icommluec. cnllbd on Senator Harding t today to lay before-Irtlri plans of the iOhioy.aunipaUjn. li;epubllyan..in that statt, he declared. ' wore reaay to gc jB ahead as soon ns the Republican nom- Inoc had endorsed the plans. Once Owned Beer Stock. I CHICAGO. June IS. Senator AVar-'ren AVar-'ren G- Harding. Republican nominee, 1 t'ormerlv owned stock in a brower, according to a statement issued bv jM Virgil Hlnshaw at prohibition national 1 jH headquarters hero today. if I According to Hlnshaw. Harding ad- 'mitted at a dlnnor given by Thomas B. Feldcr. at the New Wlllard hotel In ! Washington two years and a half ago, j '"that he had owned brewery stock in Ohio." The dinner. Hlnshaw said IH was given in honor of Nat Harris, the dry governor of Georgia. i The statement adds that Harding ', later voted for the federal prohibition amendment and voted for the Volstead act over tho president's veto. 1 "It was difficult to tell from Mr jH Harding's speeches just where he stood or In Avhtch direction his sympa- IH .thlea lay," Hlnshaw added. 1 H Hoover Will Aid WASHINGTON, June IS. Herbert : Hoover today announced formally that he will support the ticket nominated by the Republican national convention jH at Chicago. (.oinuimiiiou j-iauncu h CHICAGO, June IS. A combination 'of four political groups in one third party to contest the fall election with the Republicans and Democrats 1 was 'Bl predicted today by officials of the La- ' ibor party of the United States which a will hold Us national convention hero 1 jjvilv 11, 12 and 13. IH Tho committee of IS and Singlo fEfJ Tax parly, which will hold convention 'here at the same time, and the Non- 'Partisan league of tho northwest will IB ijoln the third party move, It was pre- tM 'dieted. VAVJ 1 Rooster Versus Donkey BBB CHICAGO, June IS. The rooster IH should supplant the donkey as the Democratic party's emblem, nccordlng IH to Mrs. Frederick Tan I, chairman of .the finance committco of tho HllnotH B Democratic Women's committee. Sho , ;savs that millions of little silver jH roosters will be taken to the national 'convention at Sun Francisco by Dcm- ocratlc women. She said: , I "Tho rooster Is a proud bird and I has something to crow about. 1 find ' the donkey was wished on the parti BBJ IjusL after the civil war when the : Democrats stubbornly refused the re construction program of the opposite MVM ! party. The Democrats are not ' mul- BKBJ ish,' only 'firm.' " The Illinois delegates will leave BKBJ Sunday night on a special train for San Francisco. They will make but one slop, at Colorado Springs to seo the Garden of the Gods. 1 -Id wards Is Delayed NEWARK, N. J. June 18. GoVor- 1 nor Edward 1. Edwards, a candidate for the presidential nomination on the M Domocratic ticket, did not accompany 'the New Jersey delegates on their special train today for tho Democratic jl convention at San Francisco. Dele- gates said he would probably attend , however, if his official duties would ' permit his leaving in time. Plans were made for a number of stops during tho trip, principally at the Grand Canyon and in southern California. Governor Edwards later anounced IBAVJ that ho expected to leave for San Francisco about the middle of next wo eft. AVotcrn States Conference SAN FRANCISCO, June IS. The : Democratic national convention wilt be asked to includo In Its platform two planks of interest to'tho west. Senator BVM James D. Phelan of California, an- 1 BMB nounccd here today on his arrival ! from Washington. ' 1 IH One plank would provide for the , exclusion of Asiatic laborers and re- strictiou of the rights of native horn Asiatics-, in f this country The other (Continued on Pager Three) KVM BH Ibb Treaty to Get Before Nation on Referendum (Continued from page I.) would provide protection for tho domestic do-mestic oil hinds of the United States by preventing ownership by foreigners foreign-ers and vesting the power of embargo in the pruHidont. Jjivcly Discussion Lively discussion among delegates and officials has followed the call of Gavin McNab, leader of the California Califor-nia delegation, for an "association" oi western states delegates before and during the convention. J. Bruce Kremer. Vice chairman of the national committee who will call the convention to order on June 2S, and whose state. Montana, will be included in-cluded in the association, said today that idea of organization was an 'excellent"' 'ex-cellent"' one. "It is understood that the western states will associate to present to the convention matters peculiarly of importance im-portance to the weat. such as -liberalization in the public land laws, matters associated with th maritime development develop-ment of the Pacific Coast and to the development of the lumber, oil and mining industries of the west. The association will nof be used to further the interests of any particular presidential presi-dential candidate." Homer S. Cummlngs. to le temporary tempor-ary chairman of tho convention, also omphaslzcd that "It would be unfortunate unfor-tunate if the pre-ponvention' meeting of the western states were misunderstood." |