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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1920
Page
1
Republican candidate delivers first major address away from home drawing large, vocal crowds. The speech outlines farm policy themes and calls for reforms in agriculture support programs.
Senator Warren G. Harding spoke to a large Minnesota audience in Hamline and received strong applause as he toured Minneapolis and St. Paul. He linked farm policy to his national program and ended with an appeal for preserved nationality and equal opportunity as parades and cheers followed him through downtown routes.
Cleveland quota of 400000 dollars and Atlanta quota of 25000 dollars are verified by D S Blossom and C W McClure as part of party fundraising.
Mrs MacSwiney reported that doctors warned her not to speak to her husband the lord mayor of Cork as he lived on his vitality. She said he suffered giddiness this afternoon. Lloyd George's presence in England gave hope to friends for intervention. Asquith called the decision to let him die in prison a political blunder and offered to help if possible.
Chicago Sept 8 News reports republican witnesses testifying in the senate campaign funds probe supported Cox’s charge that 400000 was set as Cleveland’s fund quota and 25000 for Atlanta. Harry M Blair admitted approving form 101 a plan calling for 5000 and 10000 subscriptions. bulletin never officially issued and copies kept in a safe. Blair said a substitute measure later circulated and form 101 was to have not existed.
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered an inquiry into the New York Public Service Commission decision denying permission for railroads in New York to raise intrastate rates to match the recent interstate rate increase. The move was announced in Washington in September.
Helena Sept 8 Park Smith Republican nominee for county attorney and World War I veteran with lieutenant rank was killed in an automobile accident near Wolf Creek.
The 1919 copper production in Butte is the smallest in six years, with Montana slipping from second to third in state output. Arizona leads with over half a billion pounds, while Michigan tops 200 million. Anaconda Co remains the largest producer worldwide with 131,421,977 pounds. North Butte and East Butte smelter contribute sizable amounts, with other major producers listed. (Continued on Page 14)
Burton K K Wheeler of Butte won the Democratic nomination at the recent primary by a 13012 majority over W W McDowell and Thomas Carey. Wheeler led McDowell 17430 in votes. totals: Wheeler 35228, McDowell 17798, Carey 4418. Combined Democratic governor vote 57444.
Kenneth Schaeffer took the sweepstake for boys while Margaret Uren won for girls. Mrs William Weist earned the adult sweepstake prize and Mrs Clara Des Jardines was named best potato grower.
Rome reports a new quake striking Italy, with hundreds dead and thousands injured. Dozens of small towns and villages are wrecked as relief crews race to the scene. Continued on Page 19, Column 1.
Robert R. W. Wilson, 19, overseas veteran, was killed instantly near a Great Northern passenger train in Chelan county after he woke near a bonfire and, hearing the whistle, allegedly mistook it for a signal to advance. His companions say he remained shell shocked from wartime service.
Gov. James M. Cox, Democratic candidate for president, will arrive by special train from Helena at 4 45 PM and head to Butte for a first speech at 5 PM. He will be escorted by a business band and local Democrats before departing to Anaconda for another address.
Governor Cox travels by special train from Helena to Butte arriving 4 45 and greeted by local reception committees. He then moves to Anaconda arriving 6 00 for an address at Mercaret theater, departs 6 30. Evening return to Butte at 7 35 with plan to attend a public meeting at the courthouse or People's theater if rain. Then departs for Spokane on the Milwaukee at 10 10 p m.
Governor Cox will return to Butte at 7 35 to deliver a welcome and a second address from a court house platform If weather is stormy the meeting will move to the People's theater At Great Falls last night Cox spoke at Gibson park before a large crowd and telephoned a glowing recap to Ger Kremer who called it one of the greatest meetings yet He noted stops at Poplar Wolf Point Glasgow Bowdoin Oswego Malta Harlem Chinook Big Sandy Fort Benton Havre and Great Falls.
Montana and Northern Wyoming coal miners secured a flat wage increase after three days of talks with mine operators. The gain is 3.50 dollars per day for men and 82 cents for boys, effective August 16, following a conference in Billings.
Governor Cox of Ohio assails Senator Harding in Great Falls Montana denouncing eight Harding positions on international policy. He urges a clear statement and proposes a League of Nations debate between Johnson and Taft, recounting Harding's changes from Lodge reservations to Knox peace, and a plan to revive the Hague tribunal. Continued on page 7.
In Joplin Missouri Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt narrowly avoided death as an airplane preparing to take him to Vineta Oklahoma and Tulsa for speaking dates tore down the field. Bert Chandler candidate for Congress was riding with Roosevelt and was bruised but unharmed. The plane upended nose first into the ground before they continued by air to Vineta.
Lieut. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt survived an airplane crash near Vineta Oklahoma while en route from Joplin Missouri to speak. The craft struck a fence and a tree at the fair grounds but all four passengers escaped unharmed. Roosevelt remarked that accidents will happen as he left the scene and prepared for another engagement.
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