MELLON AND VARE DICTATE HOOVER NOMINATION
MELLON AND VARE DICTATE HOOVER NOMINATION Notorious Pa. Machine Rules GOP, Listless Convention Acn As Rubber Stamp For Candidate of Business: and Bankers—Farmer. Jeered Uy A New Lander Cumin...
...Bach awaits she contract to run the government for four years to the satisfaction of the mat hanks sad corporations...
...While I disagree ttj> hi propaganda, it treats of a great warty of subjects of social and economic ksjitisr' and treats of them seriously «st b s dignifled manner that is inOnctm...
...And Larson did not even have a campaign headquarters in Hudson County, and hejd onry one meeting in the county in the course of a campaign extending over several months...
...A large literature sale, collection and sale of subscriptions to The New -Leader showed that things are beginning to hum la ! Chicago Socialist circle...
...William A. Cunnea, Socialist candidate for Governor of Illinois...
...Issues in this alignment there were none...
...one An Appeal to God You would begin In the convention hall perhaps, with the delegates milling about on the first day beneath miles of bunting...
...Former Judge Robert Carey of Jersey City was so Indiscreet as to reflect on the character of his neighbor...
...Mayor Hague Picked on Now, Mayor Frank Hague to not accustomed to hear himself spoken of illy...
...Or as skptone view of- Teapot Dome...
...Herbs* Hoover's, of course...
...ZH N. Market, Wichita...
...He was perfectly willing that his campaign manager spend all of the $50,000, but Boss John McCutcheon of Passaic, thrifty soul, managed to keep the "money men" on rations...
...The writer earned his invitation to join Mr...
...Too bad you couldn't do a close-up of Heaven rocked with sardonic laughter at this point, but you'd never get past Elder Will Hays with that a a a Then out of the crowd on the platform waddles a bespectacled, ug-beUted, slow-moving, slower thinking textile- manufacturer...
...The picnic has put great hopes Into the hearts of the Chicago Socialists, and they feel now that nothing is impossible...
...I Tbt Bt* York World's Radio Editor, kcs Ossgjas Gordon, said in his paper |st Sunday: ."WEVD's transmission is Me sxd, much, very much better than Swrsf otter stations that have not been Mated...
...It to called, "rewarding labor's friends and punishing labor's enemies...
...Suppose, for example, you used the modern method of going hack and forth from the main theme to its significant back-grounds, its symbolic portents...
...A pudgy face above a high colay...
...Banana...
...Go to Houston of course and show their plabks to the Democrats...
...Beck to the machine, in and out, in gat oat...
...And with Carey assured of his borne county, Hudson, he would be the Republican nominee and' would wage-'a real fight against Hague, and incidentally, Hague's ally...
...Kellogg on which, as Usual, there is no proper publicity...
...An analysis of the votes pledged to him and claimed for map shows that he is the favored candidate of the capitalism of the East Of 21S delegates from the Southern states...
...Kean's running mate, for the Gubernatorial position in New Jersey, to Senator Morgan P. Larson of Middlesex County...
...The remaining- candidates are Curtis, Watson, Norris, Goff, Borah and, possibly, Coolidge...
...Wattor SalathW, 401 8. Cth street, Indrpmidenoo: H. X. Asntssssa St...
...The management of WEVD, however, insist that the feelling of masses of people is a vary definite element and not to permit it to empress itself hi to leave out of consideration a vital factor in the entire situation...
...Ma S. Washington street, Yates Center...
...Hun&of locals, branches and other subos of anions and fraternal bodies gf jjMwke taxing similar action...
...V Keen Feeling Good f ¦ Mr...
...Thomas, "gets contracts, some from the city and still more from the public service corporations which Mr...
...In the May primary fight, he won the Senatorial nomination of the Republican party against a field of four other candidates...
...We knew it would happen...
...Labriola for many years ¦a the chair of economics in the Unlwrdty of Naples and was Minister of btnr In the Glolitti Government...
...Kean's party to Kansas City by reporting the primary campaign for a pro-Kean newspaper...
...For State Treasurer, F. B. Oaefl...
...And oh, camera-man come oyer here for a moment for a bit of comedy...
...George R. Klrkpatrick, candidate for U. S. Senator, and National Secretary William H. Henry, also spoke, receiving great ovations from the crowd...
...That is, it will survive only so long as the politician against whom it is aimed is rHmlnatcd...
...as has ever been seen at any Republican or Democratic conventiot played the usual role of rabbet stamps at the Republican convention here this week, while Secretary of Treasury Andrew W. Mellon nominated Herbert Hoover for the presidency...
...And so it seemed, for a time, that the Republican primaries would be fought by the Kean-Larson combination as insurgents and tho Edge-Organisation ticket composed of former Governor Edward 8. Stokes for the U. S. Senate and Senator Harrison of Essex County for Governor...
...Samuel Lipp, of Nebraska, and Murray E. King of New Mexico...
...In the single year 1937 be voted with the majority of the commission which granted increased railroad fares In fourteen New York cities...
...Larson, too, spent less than $50,000 for his campaign, but so thrifty was the campaign conducted that in one having less.than three per cent, of the State's voting strength, Larson workers on Primary -Day seapagod to receive mere than $2,500.¦'¦ The' thrifty campaign managers were proportionately as generous in all other communities of the State...
...There was...
...Van Namee has continuously favored public utility interests in his official conduct...
...Kansas Names Ticket Headed By Peterson Convention Also Names Slate of Thomas and Maurer Electors KANSAS orrr...
...It is, of' course, taken for granted that, if it has not been done already, Hague and Edge will get together sometime before Election Day and settle the problem...
...With the ill-odored "Boss" Va|»i, of Philadelphia, as his field marshal, the reputedly richest man in the country ran the convention from start to finish...
...Ha referred to astounding frauds unearthed in the investigation into the Hague -controlled State Banking Department...
...Far the tea FrneHinllal Electors:— J. S. Harden, 1M...
...august Oerber, managing gjtsar of WBVD, said in reply that go sunao had been established as a ssserisl to the late Eugene V. Debs s » aouthpiece for the dissemination of ¦fcwtty eghuans, and as such the fact gat hashed* of thousands of people are guested In Its maintenance is a vital kdar sa the argument for its existence...
...Once more let us remind ourselves: Whether man's increasing mastery of the air will continue to be his blessing or doom depend on our ability to do away with war...
...Bilart H. BeSisgji, Bonte 3, BaMwtai CKy: T. W. Danema...
...jBek protest cannot be exj ar mere fiat ot the Commie2^ sesde pbdn by the variety of *!_eos*f protest...
...Americans interested in the "new" Tammany may like to know that Mayor Walker's dttaens' Ctosnmsttee has at long last made same sensible suggestions about city reforms...
...The "money men" of the state, thereupon, asked no further questions and went to work for Mr...
...A. A. Hook...
...W. Lk Garver, of Springfield, Missouri...
...t~mgv> • • ? ¦¦ '* " ."fester now...
...1. Mr...
...Hundreds of working men and women, through powerful organizations, have made their voices heard...
...Xh the econd stage there may even be Mother secret enhance of two or more Misftdatos to prevent the nerswietlon of' me of the termer aulas...
...It just somehow doesn't seem to be in the picture that a party run by open-shop, labor baiting, injunction-issuing bosses is going to do a hell of a lot for labor...
...Steve Daman, Arena...
...But for all that a maker at Presidents...
...On Te Niearagaal •on tow ef hew oar brave srartnrs est to teknragea for the sate warpoae m gmaeaag the lives and seaports of tor ssarhsaa etttaens...
...Thomas, is in charge of the work preparatory to the Socialist conference in Kansas city Saturday...
...Kean is in a Jolly mood...
...The foOowinf was the reaait: Smith—« Thomas—It Ceoudge—• Reading Asks WEVD Gets Its License ANNOUNCEMENT of the Federal Radio Commission that Station WEVD, the Debs Memorial Radip Station, Is slated for elimination after August 1 has evoked a roar of protest...
...tetw taking ea silent, while the drankte Baau-tewp Okie gang ran rtet ever Wsattogton...
...Bo have Tammany tax commissioners who fix appraisal values and Tammany judges who pass on condemnation matters...
...But Judge Carey, living right in Hague's home town, thought he saw to the Democratic boss a tew traits that were not so praiseworthy...
...We can't agree to give up war but not count the little ones of which our Nicaraguan is an ignoble example...
...Bar Next President...
...Whether they do or don't makes no difference...
...Kean'a apodal enroute to Kansas City, the absorbing topic of oenr veraation, when Mr...
...They promise the hottest Socialist campaign Illinois has ever seen...
...Per Governor, Bail t L. Petersen, North Star Boots, Dodge City...
...Bite Kenny sad Van Namee "The manager of the Governor's pre¦xmvenuon campaign to George R. Van Namee...
...Organizations, inJEggJfc publications, aad in one T_~ta« administraUon of a trreat aUy, .have filed protests...
...the Smith pre-convention campaign...
...Larson...
...PahHe IashneUoa, Ida A. Betoof...
...And that depends on what we can do about imperialism...
...Maybe they win, maybe they won't...
...When he toomea back to' Chicago in the Fall the hug* audience of Sunday will be doubled several times...
...The one substantial change hi taxation the Committee recommends is that a large part of the cost of the subways should be paid out of asssssmsnta on property benefitted...
...While Carey did sweep some of the Southern Jersey counties which, at the outset of the campaign were concededly Larson strongholds, he lost his home county of Hudson by more than 20,000 votes...
...He has —tough rubber stamps in his pocket to put Hoover across shortly after the voting begins...
...Its other wing will a wamble at Houston later and It will rap sat the same performance...
...Back of him u a huge picture at the aae> faced, brooding Lincoln and all you would have to do here would he to show that picture and then move your eeanera to the other aids of the plsrlaiiii and take the portrait of OaMn coondge which bangs there...
...If the allies succeed In preventing the nomination of Hoover the alliance is dissolved and they turn against each other...
...Kansas Socialists have entered the 1*38 campaign with a strong state ticket...
...Murmuring a few wads to an eager group who cup...
...How those genuises who had the making of "Potemkin"',' foi example, or '*The End of St...
...Severe Phhpkmnent in Caba, due to business has driven many workers to on the truth of the chum that ftklearsgua they win find Jobs at high *Ja West Indian Workers' Federation, g*** that the emigrants wfll be forced Fokapete tor the low-paid Jobs of Nic™*o*ns, or become strikebreakers, has HP** the Pan-American Federation fcff** at Washington...
...His last effort, against Senator Edge, proved a failure, very likely because than, too, hia campaign expenses were within the law, although his supportera seemed to have prospered Immensely...
...What sort of planks...
...The Socialist Party atone sepreeenta • 'program which intelligent men and semen, farmers, laborers, skilled and rwsrtrfiwrt...
...Former U. S. Senator Prelinghuysen, too, claimed the job by virtue of experience...
...something sneer hb white ma%tsehe...
...He even expseed Hague's prosecutor tn Hudson County, John Milton, who testified that he earaea $000,000 to several months at his private law praev ttce...
...They have little to do with the platform, the rules, taw resolutions and the selection of the candidates...
...He is public service commissioner...
...Ha has cause to celebrate...
...In this case the big and most powerful brokers would step- in with an alliance of their own and make the choice for the dummies sitting in the convention...
...Van Namee'S cetormlasion regulates.,r Ridicules Smith Progrcaalvism "Progreaelvinm that Is humble enough to be content with the Smith brand," Mr...
...Step on it a bit...
...BjaStga, the powerful and influ[frtgj liberal weekly, editorially XSfta readers to file protests with TTJiaajslwrtnr while the New York CC the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and E5 tnjportsat papers, have likewise f^^'^Asaericsn Civil Liberties gaSav through Roger N. Baldwin, CBj stated that his Executive dggggRtee took action as soon aa Jl^ossb* of U»e action of the Comi«ass- "*« will not only send the Xgagosakoi at Washington a protJl shjges by as many of our comStan ss possible, but we will ask j^jpienrti individually to protest," teawa...
...This establishes an alliance Uutweefr the rotten boroughs of the South with the higher capitalism of the East fat Hoover...
...mm fa...
...their ear to bear...
...But when you consider that that good Democrat, Senator McKellar of Tennessee, tried to kill the bill by a last minute fillibuster and that Hay den and Bruce, Democrats both, were the chief irreeonciliables on the Boulder Dam bill you'll see what troubles Al will have and how vain it is to look to the Democratic Party to bring about pubhe ownership of the production and attribution of super power against th« propaganda of the lobby which Is corrupting jchools, colleges, politicians and newspapers...
...We cannot ask our followers to work for Larson when we know that Larson can't -pay them...
...which is too recently founded ¦ lawe aojulred much strength...
...Principles, convictions, Ideals and sincerity nave no place hi Kansas City, no more than they win be harbored in the convention at Houston...
...Far eras as ButZTm cuts* his sswapcrsfej stat these _v- wars from New Bedford that re¦jf mass are so lew that only the eeegsnirtr aeedf c"n tet their pitiful dole...
...Thomas declared, "whether It's the IHlnoia Smith or the New York Smith, te a progresaivism where the erurnhs go to the workers and the banquet to the owners...
...We've been saytesr it for yearn...
...Oarment Workers' Union, the gotkawn'i Circle, the United Neckwear ggsea* Daion, and many others...
...Thomas attacked Governor Smith's appointment of N. Y. Public Service Commissioner George R. Van Namee as his pre-convention manager, asserting...
...Labtab wnT make his first address in Eng...
...O. ' B. lagtaham...
...In fact, he is one of the most extensive land owners In the United State...
...Kenny, said Mr...
...Indeed, I come to warn you of the dangers of false propaganda, about the 'New* Tammany...
...He aaid the Socialist conference would be held this Saturday regardless of the fact that the Republican convention may still be In session "The conference will mark the beginning of a campaign for the Socialist party among the farmers, a campaign which will point out the community of Interests between city aad farm workers and stress the evident disparity of interest between the farmers and the financial interests of the country, so weU represented through the Republican and Democratic parties...
...An alliance of this sort lasts only as long- as the object for which it is formed is accomplished...
...Yes, but Mr...
...Great," "wonderful speech," were the comments that followed Thomas* brilliant address...
...aVney from the Mellon banks, trust •sraqarrlHs aluminum plants, breweries...
...He la a capltalhet farmer, not a working farmer, with large investments In industrial enterprises...
...The 0j sgliiliiktTiMnn of Reading, Pa., gaaat by hfsyor J. Henry stump, filed I aMsg protest with the Commission...
...crowding late reUef sta> Saawf sssre eftsa than not, going Iw, ssssty bended...
...Syraeaae, Kaoaaa...
...Kean does not bappen to be embarrassing the guests with his company, is the political miracle whereby Mr...
...The Socialist candidate also made caustic reference to William F. Kenny's part in financing...
...BOUer** hb heed off for a man who Win 'do *"1 to set reaction firmly in the sad¦h to this country than ewer Ooohdge JJ*** do...
...What to this pitiful game called...
...They have come all the way to Kansas City with a whole lot of nice planks that they are asking the Republicans to put m their platform...
...How much longer will labor play it...
...It Is to be assumed, of course, that such stalwart patriots as Boss McCutcheon...
...The biggest contributor to the Governor's campaign to William P. Kenny...
...Thomas Hits Smith, Hoover At Chicago Socialist Picnic Utility Interests Need Have No Fear of Tammany Candidate, Socialist Leader Declares (Bj 4 Maw u>a«er Carrataanaeat) r"HICAGO...
...Tammany needed no commission to tall it that But Tana sac ny has a vary tender heart for real estate interests...
...Whose little eyes are those...
...G. August Gerber, campaign manager for Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President, announced that an organising...
...Do not think because I come from New Tork that I speak with a tone of moral superiority...
...Indeed, ye is being sold to labor' as a progressive on terms that make projresslvlam look very mild indeed...
...sad at times entertaining...
...Here is the Hst of candidates nominated by the convention...
...A Political Stock Exchange sembled at the Republican cotrVKBcB at Kansas City the political stock exchange of the higher capitalism la at work...
...And be bad the poor teste to mention sonar of these in public...
...Frederda, Beute S. For State Auditor, Nathan A. Hoyie, Dwighl For State Printer, Jesse W. Beers, Wichita, istS N. St...
...A Chicago Tribaae cartoon that I've just seen on the train puts the matter clearly...
...Governor, ?. 7, Malene, Altsona, Kan...
...Kean's special...
...Ail that are important, we Socialists have bean maklag tor years...
...What hapened proved the efficiency of the Hague-Edge machine...
...Hoover's...
...With Henry L. Peterson, of Dodge City, as the "J~l)rtrfe* for Governor, the ticket Includes a hst' of cried and active Socialists who will mak-i the party a Uve topic of discussion by the Un.c election day rolls around...
...a. the political wants of Maw Jersey...
...that Mr...
...Bex 1U...
...As a small but determined band paraded, their protest against the ignoring of their modest demandi for decent ecorunic treatment, they were greeted with derisive crief at "Hey, Rube...
...Who to te saybaw, this Hoover...
...Ever since Hague discovered, some ten years ago, that Senator Edge, Republican state'boss, was not such a bad fellow, the organisation Republicans of the state had come to appreciate Mayor Hague's "constructive qualities...
...It asks for **fc"»*tfan ss to the alleged shortage of ***** hi the latest American protecaiWffCE joins INTERNATIONAL ft^ms.—The recent .congress of the r*** ustionaZ bade union centre by MMg l sfauated with the International l^^tion of Trade Unions...
...In other words, the Stimwn plan is no solution and our boys are fighting not to support our plan hot to establish an American protectorate for the benefit of Wall Street which is arranging another loan approved by Mr...
...Frebnghuysen Grows Virtuous * Larson won the nomination handsomely, and pulled Kean along...
...keynote...
...Attacking Governor Smith as a presidential candidate ever whom "not the most timid pubhe utility interests need really lose •ny sleep," and Secretary Herbert Hoover for his "dependence upon Andrew Mellon and the Republican machine of darkest Pennsylvania," Norman Thomas, Socialist party candidate for President, made his first campaign address in the Middle West Sunday at a Socialist picnic in Riverlew Park, Chicago...
...The ComBp...
...jgk* Ire X. Robinson, chairman or go federal Radio Commission, was pUtt Istt week ss saying that "it is preKttm gpd useless for stations to appeal s tear sadlences beforehand to send it sasnilsrlrm supporting letters, resosod telegrams," an attitude the Tort Sun characterised as "hardriH" <J...
...Dill for Governor and Edwards for the Senate...
...jajaaj ether important organisations j2 gave officially filed protests with K-makeien are the League, for InDemoeracy, toe International as...
...But as each caadsdato knows that this te so he can easy console faunae* with the knowledge that his chances are as good as any other who la hi the buying: game...
...Van Namee has a perfect record for doing the 'right thing' by the public utility boys...
...can support...
...He will continue to be host at his hotel in Kansas City...
...Harding had given up and was ready to go borne when he was told that the order would be sent to the leaser chieftains that he was to be their "choice...
...The farmers received worse treatment...
...Labor was ignored, President WH11am Green of the American Federation of Labor again appeal lag la the ignoble role of seeker of favosa at the bands of the leading party at capitalist Interest...
...i The World and the Brooklyn Daily heir Btewise carried powerful editorfarrtbfcHhg the proposal that the stain be shut sown...
...Thousands of persons have spontaneously written the Commission in pretest against what they consider a grave attack upon the freedom of speech...
...Lowden is a multl-mlllienaire but has large investments in agriculture...
...In this second phase one of three* things becomes possible...
...The only role played by the messes is to give their aonsent next November and then pay In liaappointment, economic distress, and ¦te*Jsstoekn*ctt...
...spent a good deal of monWM «ndmvoring by political means to g* ea*n* a the Greek trade union f°**m*at...
...inee will take the course of the first one...
...First, each delegate attempts to annex enough delegates to insure bis nomination...
...The word," according to these "in the know," went out to 40,000 Hague Democrats in Hudson County to enroll to the Revabiftcaa primaries aad vote far lemon aad Stokes...
...For Instance, it piously recommends the abolition of slums but it does not recommend a municipal housing program or proper land taxation which alone afford hope of making New York a city both decent and beautiful hi the regions where the workers must live...
...swtoe-breaker tar the ABtoa, eeomte?rtteisitoatot aad friend ef reaetten...
...Or g yoo wanted to go back a hit, as did Oct keynoter with his references to our "twin it Warren O. Harding," there afjbt be some views of the Little Green ajejw' on K Street and black bags and fjs Britton and Warren in a smashing dheh to a closet in the White House...
...Van Namee's commission regulates...
...So here to the great game of capitalist politics...
...toi»Mm heed la the earns entreaties of his friends that he snake a? vigorous fight for the nomination, assuring them' that exertion was unnecessary, the nomination being "to the bag...
...It began to apear quite likely that Carey would sweep South Jersey, hitherto considered a Larson stronghold...
...Then a tall, thin man with hie arms held up, the Right Reverend Bishop Partridge of Missouri asking God to he with this outfit...
...Take this delegation...
...Petersburg" or "Berlin" would rave over the possibilities that He on every hand in this hot Mid-West town...
...Hoover lending aid and teBtstl te these who weald take for W*nsa gram the water-power that be•tesi to the people...
...There is practically no off ends) alas fhliig on this station, its music |sawder to any of half a dosen other gttfcm that I have in mind that have urn left en the air...
...sorer, tf elected, wfl pot hte great ssmliisNmliwi gate hi the sarvice of private business and commercial imperialient...
...Keen has plenty of money...
...accordingly, it had become the custom, at important Republican grtherings and conventions, for the keynote orator to pay a tribute to the sterling character of Frank Hague...
...For there Is a mind function•to behind that chubby face: Hoover to * bewildered, do-nothing Cooildge...
...There is no respectable argument to the contrary...
...He recalls that it was difficult at first to get the "money men" of the state to work for Larson...
...The second aJUaaos to then disbanded when purchase, bargain, and promise are again .employed to annex sufficient votes to put across a candidate...
...Oh yen, we do things more smoothly In New York...
...Perhaps...
...Aboard Mr...
...What a commentary not so much on candidates at on the big parties, their manipulations and the suckers they mean to sjMtf , - . i ^gartous newspapers suggest that illegal veto of the Mtrscle Shoals bUi for which Senator Norrts fought so bravely...
...Colonel Ham...
...Of course...
...Francis...
...Former Congressman Edward Grey of Hudson County said something about getting light wines and beer, and Mrs...
...committee is already at work in Kansas City, conferring with farm leaders now there to watch the proceedings of the Republican national convention...
...Tammany shows no sign at carrying them out In some cases the Committee of big and kttia Babbitts doesn't really want them carried out...
...The snrlilni' b working in und cv.t, in and ast the long slithering belt that drives s b oiled with money, money, money...
...For Secretary «•* Sesta I* O. Bnaebley, CeeUge, Kan...
...Iheee are gatherings of brokers repreicncsBg two large bt ¦farms firms...
...aaM 1*7 yes sUatoht Into s Btesnteg ef' the Tgtej textile workers ef New BisTcrd, geteasteg sp tkesr bests, standing en the j^jfcwa...
...a pspnbiMto Skat strategy and maneuvering might continue so long that the delegates would become weary...
...This cue ef Hoover stamping me ssBBCtate revolt of the Btengarhs workers and peasants with Isto ssaa ^baSato Gtusury refusing reBef te> staSV** ttea, women and children hotianer •at atcial and «t—w—»* SSUSSSSpkteS ** set Jtoe wKfa Mr...
...Socialist Farm Parley In Kansas Calls 5,000 To Meet In G.O.P...
...His silence is due to no sense of propriety, no duty to the State of New York...
...The result is" that a candidate who to) buying dstagstes can newer be ¦ens that the delegates wlfi be "honest" sod deliver what has been paid tar...
...hTtetoBheaee and bands, rattles and rubber elephants, cheer-lee Sire e aad nash-Bgbte sad back eg aB the whoopee a seared looking, teaud eld scan rabbing his thin bands tegothct and marin urine...
...He •sa tbkut up plenty of dirt to do to J* •* m who have to work for our Bv** Ask the farmers who are stsndtng *» the cold...
...Half of the I*"* of members who demanded that •a Rack Shirt be rejected were labor Baa eia>im h L. Asked To Probe Mcaragnan Labor Shortage , ftffluego De Cuba—Promising fabulous ¦H* rates to Cuban workers who win W •» Nicaragua, an employment agency ft Oanuago Is taking a fee of 07 each recruits for this migration...
...Throw the sjurse shadow of the Secretary of the ^ransry over tills picture even ss the •bdow of the hoofs of the horses of the Otto t«B screes the peasants in the St resmbsjg square...
...An $0,000^00 Mayor Growing more nasty and irritating day by day...
...This, of course, must net be permitted to baawea...
...On the ground with him are Ross MagUl, of Kansas...
...Par Usat...
...Karl C Jursek, Middle West campaign manager for Mr...
...Hooter wcaching '** estwers phScssphy af totoses-f aire— • ten j las far himself and the devil take * * ' < AH Is Nat Tears a dose-op of a ••Liberal", a Wghs professor or New Republican,, tesnding his soft hands to a frassle'at •» toenuon of Hoover's name...
...Just to prove Jthat he is no piker and was perfectly willing to shoot the whole $90,000, Mr...
...The nominations are all clear .to those aboard Mr...
...Bums's dicks shadowing go toskrsers of the Sinclair jury...
...Senator Edge, Republican boss...
...The American farmer is headed straight for peasantry...
...It's no better on the Democratic stda To win the nomination Al Smith a saying nothing...
...Kean was aawat the leant Mr...
...Chairman Butler ef the National Committee whose fin*) thrilling words are "no smoking" and who than drones through a long drool reviewing the great and glorious bJntory of the O. O. P. for the last ninety years...
...Lowden comes next with about 1X8 votes claimed for him...
...Or a figtaj ef Mr...
...Manipulation of prices in Chicago and New York, the soaring prices of farm land, accompanied by the reducing of thousands of farmers to mere tenants is inevitably creating a psychology which makes the farmers fertile ground for Socialist party propaganda...
...That the protest of friends of WKVD is making itself felt is manifest by the statement of the Chairman of the Federal Radio Commission that letters, resolutions, petitions, telegrams, etc, sent In before the date of the hearing are not welcome and have no bearing on the situation...
...Almost anybody eoold read (Asoto history of the Republican Park> those, two shots, «r • S> • •< l_A> _ Swiss*" l« New Bedford ¦ *Sjs>bsm> wwsU stake a fade^oos'ef !!L Buster stttt mouthing along...
...Keen, public utility magnate, who is reputed possessor of a $70,000,000 fortune, is hardly a piker...
...So far as the delegates are concerned at both conventions, they are for show purposes...
...WU1 the Republicans put them in their platform...
...Kean chartered his own special train to Kansas City (with the few hundred dollars returned him by the campaign manager), inviting not only the accredited Republican delegates to come along aa hie guests, but also a vast retinue at ward hsaUra, town beanlets and newspapermen...
...Where the oomwetftion is brisk prices soar...
...Nearly every phase outlined above may also happen in the Democratic convention if an alliance is formed by the other candidates against Tammany's beloved prise exhibit, "AT Smith...
...He and, Ms friends are desperately eager for hta probable nomination and to get it Al says nothing but lets everyone guess where be stands...
...Hoover has all but about 4a...
...Convention Makes Scenario of Villainy, Tragedy and Hokum By Bark stairs Spokesman j^ANSAS CITY.—What a gorgeously fat scenario tins Republican convention would make for o man who knows his motion-picture onions...
...and Enech "Knucky" Johnston of Atlantic City, received not * penny for their services, aad that the newspapers were not paid for the fullpage advertisements...
...What they want to know to whether Mayor Hague will "give the word" for the election of Kean and Larson, or whether he will really make a fight to elect his own ticket...
...Can you Imagine a better collector or can you Imagine a more improper choice from the standpoint of public interest than this appointment as pre-convention manager by the supposedly progressive AJ Smith...
...Larson ran against a field of three candidates...
...He has Ova of the agatcultural states of the Wast pledged for him and Illinois, a state which has been ruled by the banks, utility companies and railroads through the Republican Party, alternating occasionally with Democratic control in the- service of the same interests...
...He Is at present editing "H BsnJo Mondo", the local Italian daily, shay friends and supporters in the Trade Onta sad Socialist Movement will be Kat the dinner which win be adby, among others, Norman Those*, Socialist candidate for President, •ho wB act as toastmaster...
...For this situation a must say plainly that Governor Smith, as Tammany's pet and darting, who gave us Walker, who appointed our blundering public service commission aad vetoed most of the laws to make, election frauds •nor* -difficult cannot escape responsibility...
...The largest crowd attending a SocuOlst gathering In many years hnried out to the picnic to greet Thotuu...
...A Miracle and a Mystery The apparent miracle of Mr...
...Judge Carey soon wss telling bto growing audiences bow Hague started out in life as a ralroad strike-breaker, started his political career as a City Han janitor and amassed an $0,000,000 fortune out of his modest salary as Mayor of Jersey City...
...Larson has no money," was their virtuous plaint...
...TIMELY TOPICS By Norman Thomas Socialist Candidate for President BEFORE this column, be grin en route for Chicago, falls under the eyes of many readers of The New Leader the Kansas City Follies will probably be over and there will be an end of speculation as to the fete of Hoover, the strength of the farmers, the curious machinations of the ID assorted anti-Hooverites and the good faith of our little President But nothing can change the type of show the Republicans will stage...
...Keen's nomination, then resolves itself merely into a mystery—the mystery of how the nomination was placed into bto "bag" and by whom...
...Here's a long, slim, •bite, slmost feminine hand writing a ebeefc Here's the owner with parch - seat skta hung over a skull-like head, ShvrmaQy timid, flutering before all buasn contact...
...Set appeal, you see...
...Feickert denied that she served strong liquors at her prohibtion conferences, i In the Gubernatorial fight, too, the contest was to be restricted to personalities...
...But 'Carey was making tremendous headway with his anti-Hague campaign...
...J)ist until the tune when they find that the only way to end this comedy to to go on their political own...
...by The Hew Leader G. O. P. Winner In Jersey Has Smith Chief to Thank Kean Special to Kansas City Buzzes with Tale of How Hague Put ft Over For Republican By PHILLIP HARMON ABOARD HAMILTON F. KEEN'S A SPECIAL, BNROUTE TO KANSAS CITY.—Hamilton F. Kean, National Republican Committeeman for New Jersey and Republican candidate for the U. S. Senate, recently testified that he gave his campaign manager in the primary $50,000 to cover all expenses, receiving (634.34 In change...
...This was his second attempt to win the nomination...
...Herbert...
...Kean managed to be nominated with an expenditure of only $MV* 000...
...Kean had incarrsd tins enaatty ef Senator Edge, BaawjaBaaa feeaa...
...Keen's nomination aeami especially miraculous in view of the following theories which are si i nsjlewl kg Jersey politieiane as truisms...
...Ubriola Dinner Will i Be Held This Friday fftoOxaor Arturo Labriola former Mayor i Xspks, Italy, and representative of On cky In the Chamber of Deputies, will st the roest of honor at a dinner and reajkton (p be given him this Friday night, hot 19th, in Beethoven Hall, 310 East ¦H street Prof...
...Prof...
...There is nothing more shallow or Insincere than these gatherings of the...
...Australians have a right to go wild about the great trans-Pacific flight of their countrymen aided by Americans in an American plane...
...Stokes claimed the nomination by virtue of his long experience as Governor and State Republican chairman...
...The delegates1 who are purch swart one hour may be sweatees* the next hour at n higher price by another candidate...
...4. Mr...
...Well, here's i litter* af him at wwrk In stolgteni mart Ms great organising abfaty really sM hat stay and where be dkt a good •*'wdt Bat there are ether and ugtter letsre...
...He win make secret bargains...
...A President Is Made And new the ssassumy to and Wat, tn and eat...
...For instance, our Smith, unlike yours, has ipt been caught taking huge sums ,'rom a traction magnate...
...M kuhal it with the protest of offlssk a* the Reading and the Pennsyl—u abor movement...
...Andrew himself . • • • ¦'satrew robbing those long, white state together up in his room tn the stosaach Hotel...
...And so...
...hard-faced, tightlipped men for the most part, with here and there the peculiarly unattractive, liberally made-up countenances of that fast emerging type— the old-line professional woman politician...
...Not an Issue to Fight To which the Larson men would reply...
...Jeered Uy A New Lander Cumin insane) j£ANSAS CITY.—As subservi ent a gathering of politician...
...But one candidate forgot his place, and caused no end of trouble to the political bosses...
...Which is the eae BV S |tSsi i ef a Niearagaan rebel lying * • seat af bleed, his head hsswa In ST taste cropped from a wisrssi sere. —. i ¦ /- • • * * sM then you train the lenses on the aastotoi howling themselves hoarse at a* Mention of Cal Cooudge and his- great lawny and you switch to a picture of adatofcmg the muscle Shoals bill In IB keck packet %* the power trust rasps Ito skip...
...Boa 44, MaJberry, Kansas...
...hkety te be the htwtd'stoij of the Repabheaa FoOtac af IKS, If SJtytJUng giotslrcs of the fwOy ef tocktng te htos it to te be found fa bto sbpssstesss ap«n Aadtew Melton aad the atopasntosa machine at ssibul Pmmsjtvsnls Mr...
...With precisely the same result...
...BBS's the grill grill-work in front of to* cashier's cage...
...Some would begin to go borne...
...It was to be a battle of personalities...
...the word" went out...
...Where It is necessary to buy « hatch of delegates the purchase will be made bat he cannot be sure that they will stay bought...
...France* street, Frank Higgles, 111*4 N- Feaa, InatePer Saat...
...ltss...
...Why labor planks, of course...
...American fiscal officer in Nicaragua, is in the country declaring that our troops can't be withdrawn after the next election without revolution...
...e- • a /*gaat here would be the place for a gew-op ef the check that Sam Insull of Sjl utilities slipped to the Republicans aynht election of Prank Smith...
...Baeph W. fl—¦¦, BsMnsa OKy...
...I. S. McCrillls of Iowa...
...This is what happened at the RepnMlcan convention in 1920 when at 2 o'clock in the morning the leading brokers got together and selected Harding of sainted memory...
...a program representative of ssefui taker, of the dessoiled agatast their Smawdtom A vote tor Norman Thomas and James H. sfsurnr to of ssose vatae to waratassnsn j mndtantes selected in the naltonai duo- i ions at Kansas cat* and Houston...
...RtseSJbi Labriola is one of the outatodlng leaders of the Anti-Mussolini aoToueut...
...Bus second aid...
...The call was sent out by the Socialist National Campaign Committee, si Union Square...
...You may have more racketeers than we and use more 'Pineapples' but the list of our Tammany scandals In New York City as they have been exposed under the Walker Administration is long and terrible net only hi its cost in dollars but in human well-being...
...Tbe delegates—most of them—will nght for victory, which means office, not for principle...
...adding that ail but two weeks of this Usee he was vacationing bs Iter- - Ma...
...3ut not the most timid public utility nterests need really lose say sleep...
...In the Republican convention the outstanding figure is not Hoover but banker Melton...
...What win the labor crowd do then...
...s language which he did not speak P*» to hb arrival here about six weeks National Press Club Bars i # Mussolini As Member WASHINGTON.—By unanimous vote, is baud ef the National Press Club re•hawl, June 1, its prior endorsement of •» sppUcatlon of Benito Mussolini for nay-resident membership...
...From present indications the protest is only just' beginning...
...Andrew, the PresidentBaker...
...But they are rather mystified by the prospects in the coming election...
...A number of candidates formed an early alliance against Hoover which may make the backstairs history of this convention interesting...
...Republican prosperity for big business was shf...
...An elephant, the Keynoter at the Convention, ends up his little speech somewhat thus: "The one thing that matters is to pick the man who can beat Al Smith" No foolish talk here of lanes and principles...
...And Al Smith headquarters issued a statement denying Hague was their national campaign manager...
...I do not advise you to cure your local evils with Tammany, new style or old...
...He spoke about Jersey City having the highest proportionate municipal debt In the nation...
...Convention City Saturday A CALL for a Socialist "corn belt conference" to meet in Kansas City, this Saturday, June 16, went out to 5,000 farm organization leaders and representative working farmers of the Middle West this week...
...Thomas Tops Hoover, Smith and Coolidge In Albion Straw Vote Albion, Mich.—At a meeting of a (indent aerial science fraternity the Forum Ctofc erf AIMon College here, following abort speeches on Herbert Hoorer, Al Smith, Norman The— ¦ and President CooUdre, a straw vote was taken...
...EC aSK these courageous men and wo0tg eases to strike and suffer and erect gmvc if seed be, rather than go back g sje 'kisrr—t wwgee and ewneHUaas ^^^^^^ 3 Steak ef the close-ups r A gold-toothag, tutored delegate on Baseom flterftp's my-roD opening a huge mouth and Skftf Out one long blaaa as the bald am namb the words, "Abraham lincjkt" And a group of blear-eyed delegate from Illinois cheering Peat's brsaen eatsnent that the Republican Parts* gaw> stands for corruption of any kind esjasis that all criminals are brought to...
...Mayor Frank Hague, Democratic leader of the State, and reputed to be the brains of the Al smith movement...
...professionals to nominate the successors to the Jeffersons and the T ¦lniwlM Hoover has the lead with victory assured...
...e • • »er be hat been branded and the mofc to the stark ef Metten...
...Oopyrlsht...
...He gets contracts, seme from the city and still more from the public service corporations which Mr...
Vol. 7 • June 1928 • No. 26
