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DEMOCRATS DIVIDED ON POINT AT ISSUE
• JACKSON DAY BANQUET ENDS
IN SERIOUS DISAGREEMENT OVER
, LEAGUE OF NATIONS AS ISSUE
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (by Associ
ated Press).—The split between Presi
f dent Wilson and William J. Bryan over
the question as to whether the League
of Nations should be the issue of the
coming elections came to a climax at
the Jackson day banquet In this city
last night. In his message to the as
sembled Democrats President Wilson
Usaid that the only clear and single
\yay out was to submit the question to
the voters as a great and solemn ref
erendum.
Mr. Bryan, showing all his old-time
vigor, declared that the party could
not go before the country on the issue,
because that would involve a delay of
fourteen months, and meant success
only if the Democrats captured a two
thirds majority in the senate. He said
the party must secure such compro
“tnises as were possible.
In his message the President said
nothing as to his candidacy for a
third term, neither did he make for
mal announcement of his retirement
to private life, as some had forecast.
Bryan, also, said nothing as to presi
>• dential ambitions.
Sentiment Divided
^Democratic sentiment appears to be
divided between Wilson and Bryan,
and there is much speculation as to
whether the fight will be carried to
the convention.
Observers say that the situation
must settle somewhat before the width
the party break becomes apparent.
McAdoo Sympathizes with Masses
Former Secretary of the Treasury
W. G. McAdoo sent a telegram from
Wichita Falls, Texas, which was read;
at the Jackson day banquet last night,
in which he declared that the work
of the Republican congress was a sorry
record of dismal failure. He predicted
success for the Democratic party at
the presidential election if the leader
ship were wise and sympathy with
the masses was preserved.
Lodge’s Fourteen Reservations
Senator Lodge said today that he
feared President Wilson’s Jackson
day message had made impossible the
hope that in the senate “we might
have come together and ratified the
peace treaty, protected by the princi
ples set forth by the fourteen reserva
tions” submitted by the committee on
foreign affairs.
Signs of Defection
Senator Walsh of Montana pub
lished today a letter from President
Lowell of Harvard University, stating
that the Democratic senators should
not stand too firmly against the reser
vations to Article 10 of the League of
Nations covenant.
Wilson’s Message in Record
In the senate today Senator Hitch
cock, the administration leader, asked
for and obtained unanimous consent
to print the Jackson day message of
President Wilson in the Congressional
Record.
An effort in the house to have the
speech of William J. Bryan at the
banquet printed into the Record
failed when Representative Garden of
Ohio, Democrat, objected to the re
quest for unanimous consent.
^ENGLISH CHAMPION
WINS FROM AMERICAN
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 9 (by Associated
Wgess).—Jemmy Wide, the English fly
\&fght champion, won every round
from Johnny Asher, bantamweight
champion of the American expedition
ary forces, in a bout staged in this
city last night.
SEATTLE WOMAN IS
CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR
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SEATTLE, Jan. 9 (by Associated
Press).—Mrs. Sanford Ricaby today
filed for mayor. Hugh M. Caldwell is
another candidate who filed today. He
says he will give the city a business
administration, and that he has no
political debts.
FORT LEAVENWORTH
* INSPECTED BY PERSHING
LEAVENW'ORTH, Kan., Jan. 9 (by
Associated Press).—General Pershing
arrived here today to inspect the
army post. He will leave for Kansas
City tonight.
AID FOR DEPENDENTS
OF DEPORTED RADICALS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (by Associ
ated Pressk—The government has de
cided to extend aid to the dependents
of deported radicals as a humanitarian
measure, and not because of any recog
nized obligation to do so.
NOTED OPERA SINGER
BUYS CALIFORNIA RANCH
SACRAMENTO, Cal., Jan. .9 (by As
sociated Press).—Mme. Schumann
Heink and her two sons have boughl
a thousand acres of Sacramento val
ley farm land for $400,000.
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HIP POCKETS WILL
SOON BECOME 0BS0LETI
NEW YORK, Jan. 9 (by Associated
Press).—The International Associatior
of lothing Designers has issued at
edict ordering hip pockets to be made
smaller. It is explained that the hii
pocket gAdually will shrink away, as
liquor or guns will no longer be car
ried in them.
REVOLUTION AND PROHIBITION
GO HAND IN HAND, SAYS DIVINE
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^ SYRACUSE, N. Y., Jan. 9 (by Associated Press).—Rev. Dr. G.
Campbell Morgan, pastor of thie Westminster chapel, Dondon, who
is visiting here, says that revolution is likely to follow prohibition.
“When a man stops drinking,” said Mr. Morgan today, “he begins
to think.” That the abolition of vodka caused the Russian revolution
was the startling statement made by the clergyman.
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CHIEF EXECUTIVE SUGGESTS
SUBMISSION OF PEACE TREATY
TO REFERENDUM OF PEOPLE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (by Associated Press).—In his message to
the Democrats assembled at the Jackson day banquet in this city last
night President Wilson gave utterance to the following relative to
the peace treaty:
“If the senate wishes to say what undoubtedly is the meaning
of the treaty, I have no objections. But when the treaty is acted
upon I must know whether it means that America accepts or rejects
, it. We can not rewrite it; we must take it without changes which
would alter its meaning or leave it. And then, after the rest of the
world has signed it, we must face the unthinkable task of making
another small treaty with Germany.
“Personally I do not accept the action of the senate as the de
cision of the nation. I think the whole matter should be submitted
to the people.” *
SEVEN TOWNS
DESTROYED BY
EARTHQUAKES
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 9 (by Associ
ated Press).—Earth disturbances have j
overwhelmed seven towns near Tec
celo, south of Jalapa, a great lake now
covering their former sites. Thirty
four bodies have been, recovered.
The seven towns inundated were
Tlatana Lan, Quezmitlan, Costa Aleca,
Tesigue, Ixtlahuacan, Choloya and
San Jose Achilochica.
The new crater opened by the vol
cano of Orizaba is emitting smoke,
and there is intense excitement and
panic among the residents of the cities
of Cordoba and Orizabo, in the western
part of the state of Vera Cruz.
ANOTHER CITY
IS CAPTURED
BY BOLSHEVKI
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STOCKHOLM, Jan. 9 (by Associ
ated Press).—Yudenitch's army is go
ing to the southern front to help Deni
kine.
Another Bolshevik Victory
LONDON, Jan. 9 (by Associated
Press).—The Bolsheviki have captured
the city of Novocherkassk after a se
vere battle with Denikine.
Novocherkassk is twenty miles
north of Rostoc, the metropolis of the
Cossack country.
BULGARIAN PEASANTS
JOIN REVOLUTIONISTS
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' GENEVA, Jan. 9 (by Associated
Press).—The revolutionary movement
in Bulgaria is spreading among the
peasants. King Boris with his family
is reported to be secluded in the pal
, ace under heavy guard.
HERMANN RETIRES FROM
BASEBALL COMMISSION
CINCINNATI, Jan. 9 (by Associated
Press).—August Herrmann has ten
dered his resignation as chairman of
the national baseball commission.
GALEKRE-lLECTED
MAYOR OF VANCOUVER
VANCOUVER, B. C., Jan. 9 (by As
sociated Press).—R. H. Gale was last
night re-elected mayor over Alderman
Thomas Kirk.
ALASKA MAIL
FROM CHICAGO
BY AIR ROUTE
SEATTLE, Jan. 9 (by Associated
Press).—The Aero Club of the North
west has sent to Assistant Postmaster
General Praeger a petition for aerial
mail service from Chicago to Alaska,
via Seattle, enabling Atlantic coast
mail to reach Alaska in fifty or sixty
hours.
The club hopes that the service will
be inaugurated by April 1, 1920. It
proposes the use of land planes be
tween Chicago, St. Paul and Seattle,
and seaplanes between Seattle and
Alaska.
The club will ask the chambers of
commerce of all the Washington cities
to support the move.
SHIP BUILT ON
PACIFIC COAST
SEATTLE, Jan. 9 (by Associated
Press).—The five-masted wooden mo
torship Ballestrand was destroyed by
fire at Cangsund, Sweden, on Dec. 17,
according to advices just received
here. The Ballestrand was built at
Grays Harbor in 1917.
The Shipping Board vessel Ophis
is reported to have struck a reef off
the English coast. The Ophis was
.from. Tacoma.
SPECIALSESSIONS OF
LEGISLATURES CALLED
DENVER, Jan. 9 (by Associated
Press).—The New Mexico and Idaho
legislatures will be called within a
few days to ratify the national suf
frage amendment,
TRANSPORT IS SCUTTLED
. TO EXTINGUISH BLAZE
. HOBOKEN, N. J., Jan. 9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The former transport
St. Louis was scuttled last night by
opening the sea cocks, in an effort to
check a fire which had been burning
fiercely for more than seven hours.
nSHQUOTATIONS
KETCHIKAN, Jan. 9.—Yesterday’s
priees for fish were: Halibut, firsts,
16c; seconds, ll%c; sable, 4c; red
rock, 2c.
RATIFY TREATY
TO-MORROW IS
PRESENT PLAN
PARIS, Jan, 9 (by Associated
Press).—France, Great Britain and
Italy are planning to exchange ratifi
cations of the treaty of peace tomor
row, and probably will resume diplo
matic relations with Germany on Sun
day.
Have Agreed as to Flume
BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The Rome correspon
dent of La Nacion says that Great
Britain, France and the United States
have presented a memorandum to the
Italian foreign minister in effect con
ceding the appointment of an Italian
chancellor for Fiume, and agreeing
to grant complete sovereignty to that
city under the League of Nations.
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ALAMEDA FIRE
IS CONFINED
TO 01 BLOCK
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ALAMEDA, Cal., Jan. 9 (by Associ
ated Press).—A fire which threatened
the business and residence districts of
this city last night caused a loss of
$100,000. ,
Fire tugs from San Francisco and
from the railroad yards assisted by
the Oakland fire department, succeed
ed in restricting the damage to one
block. The origin of the fire is un
known.
LAST OF DRAFTED MEN
RETURN FROM SIBERIA
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The transport Logan
arrived here yesterday, bringing from
Siberia nine hundred drafted men and
men who enlisted for the duration of
the war. These are the last of these
classes to be returned.
LEWIS WINS MATCH
IN A SINGLE FALL
KEARNEY, Neb., Jan. 9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—“Strangler” Lewis
won by a single fall from Tom Drask
in a wrestling match staged here last
night.
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO.
BUYS ANOTHER FLEET
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—It is announced that
the Wilson-Hunt interests and the Pa
cific Steamship Company have bought
the Robert Dollar Steamship Com
pany.
HEADQUARTERS
CHARGED WITH
LOSS OF LIVES
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (by Associ
ated Press).—Responsibility for the
loss of American lives through attacks
on the day the armistice went into
effect is charged to the American gen
eral headquarters by Brigadier General
John Sherburne.
Testifying before the house com
mittee on military affairs yesterday,
General Sherburne said that he did
not mean to lay the blame on Generals,
Pershing, Bullard and Liggett, but
named Genial Fox Conner, chief of
operations. He said that some officers
disobeyed orders, and that many
feared that headquarters had ordered
the men to battle through misunder
standing.
No British or French troops were
engaged in the attacks, he said,
VICTORY FOR
REPUBLICANS
IS PREDICTED
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DENVER, Jan. 9 (by Associated
Press).—Chairman Hays of the Repub
lican national committee, in an ad
dress here last night, said the party
could win tlie coming presidential
election by a wide margin. He criti
cized the administration, and said
government employes were so thick
in Washington that they “had to be
kicked out of one’s way.”
AGED MOTHER LOSES LIFE
WHEN CLOTHES TAKE FIRE
SAN FRANCISO, Jan. 9 (by Associ
ated Press).—Mrs. Honora McCarthy,
aged 75 years, and the mother of four
teen children, wras burned to death
here last night. Her clothing caught
fire -from a gas stove.
MINE MILL BURNED
LAST NIGHT IN IDAHO
KELLOGG, Idaho, Jan. 9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The North mill of the
Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine $t this
place was destroyed by fire last night,
i entailing a loss of $50,000. The mill
I was used as an experimental labora
tory.
VISCOUNT JELUCOE WILL
VISIT SOUTH AMERICA
KEY WEST, Fla., Jan. 9 (by Associ
ated Press).—Viscount Jellicoe, accom
panied by Premier Borden of Canada,
sailed today for Cuba and South
America.
GREAT STRIKE OF STEEL WORKERS
COMES TO AN IGNOMINIOUS CLOSE
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PITTSBURGH, Jan. 9 (by Associaed Press).—The great steel
strike, which was called on September 2 last, and which involved
three hundred and sixty-seven thousand workmen, was declared at an
end by the general committee in charge of the strike, consisting of
representatives from all unions involved, at a meeting held in this
city yesterday.
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