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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1920
Page
1
W. J. Bryan spoke briefly in Butte Montana during a 1920 trip citing unfair handling of the employment question in the Chicago platform. He arrived amid rain, delivered remarks, and departed for the convention.
William Jennings Bryan spoke to a crowd in Butte praising the Democratic Party while discussing prohibition related reforms and arbitration measures. Rain halted an open air meeting as Bryan recalled his convention past, noting his long service and ongoing responsibilities within the party. Continued on Page 7.
William Jennings Bryan, en route to the San Francisco convention, asserts the Democratic platform will have no wet plank and warns wets aim to keep prohibition out of the platform. He insists the party cannot offend women voters and will spotlight dry plank and profiteering. Bryan criticizes Harding as a wet and discusses expected convention battles in Chicago and San Francisco.
New York June 23. Gimbel Brothers of New York operators of a large department store here and controlled by interests with similar establishments in other cities were indicted on 207 counts for profiteering in clothing. Frederick Gimbel vice president, Joseph J. Dowdell merchandise manager, and Charles D. Slanter clothing buyer were named in the same charges.
Longunderry scenes of terror unfold as machine gun fire covers Protestant removal from Barrack Street. Five Sinn Fein members killed, numerous casualties reported across Bishop Street and Longtower areas. Police besieged, civilians wounded, streets turn to battlefield as night-long fighting subsides.
June 23 in Livingston Frank Bender, justice of the peace, allegedly fired a shot at Under Sheriff Herb Cook after a dispute. Cook heard a shot as he walked the hall. bullet lodged in hallway ceiling. No charges yet. Cook to report to Sheriff McClarity.
Tam many delegates at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco break the trip by a day in Los Angeles and declare support for light wines and beers. They also express pleasure over the defeat of Congressman A. J. Volstead for renomination as Republican candidate from Minnesota's Seventh district.
Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, the administration’s pick for chairman of the Democratic convention resolutions committee, arrived in San Francisco from Washington and began conference talks with other delegates on the party platform.
Sacramento dispatch reports United States Senator Hiram W. Johnson, en route home to San Francisco, addressing a few hundred locals at the depot. He insists he began a shoestring campaign, fought to the end, and expresses optimism that the people will govern in time, while noting he will not discuss politics further until after enjoying California. His father G. L. Johnson greeted him on arrival.
In San Francisco on June 23 a volunteer construction corps worked on planks to express the party stance on prohibition enforcement. Leaders led by National Committee Chairman Cummings agreed the issue would dominate the convention stage until resolved.
Governor Roberts announced in Knoxville that Tennessee will comply with President Wilson and call a special session of the legislature to act on the federal suffrage amendment.
In Los Angeles on June 23 James J. Hagin and Charles W. Culkin, New York city fire commissioners and Tammany delegates, told a reporter that the Democratic platform will be concise and explicit, including a wet plank for light wine and beer manufacture, as the people tire of prohibition.
Mrs. Andrew Liddell, nearly 80, died from injuries after attempting to rescue her husband from a cow. He was gored and then attacked by the animal with little hope for his recovery.
President Wilson has urgently requested the Railroad Labor Board in Chicago to expedite its wage decision. The appeal highlights the urgency of settling wage disputes affecting railroad workers nationwide.
Chicago June 2 Bainbridge Colby secretary of state and delegate to the democratic national convention denied he was carrying a third term or vice presidential bid for President Wilson. He said the party should present a clear stand on the Versailles treaty and theLeague of Nations, supporting ratification without reservations. He noted no plans to influence convention deliberations and affirmed no personal pursuit of a second place.
Western woolgrowers after two days in Washington gain approval for a financing plan to cover the 1920 wool crop. The plan allows warehoused or shipped clips to be financed by local banks, with discounts by federal reserve banks on grower drafts secured by warehouse receipts or railroad bills of lading. Woolgrowers’ paper will be discounted, with amount set by agreement between grower and bank, and banks in western and eastern markets to be informed of the reserve board’s purpose and the act. The board says New York security for advances is acceptable and that it will coordinate with both federal and country banks to restore confidence in the wool trade. The statement notes an all-day conference with wool industry participants and banks.
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