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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1924
Page
5
In a quiet preconvention scene delegates weigh several vice presidential options as Hoovers and Lowdens names circulate. Talk centers on Borah Curtis Dawes and Burton with Lowden pressuring for reconsideration while Oregon caucus signals support for Lowden. preparations proceed with Kennedy era decorum and limited opening session plans.
Hortense Saunders reports NEA art staffer Chas TM Landow chose three women as the prettiest at the Cleveland G O P E convention. The selections include Mrs. John T. Pratt of New York, Mrs. Everett Colby of New Jersey, and Mrs. E G Giltner of Oregon. Landow praises each for distinct qualities combining intellect, femininity, and poise.
The text presents a garbled roster of states and individuals with numerous misspellings and parenthetical notes. It includes names such as Rankas, Mulrane, Best, Kuntar, Butler, Brooks, Soward, McCrond, Wingfield, Willian, Peper, Parker, Crager, Owens, Groding, Maddin, Watson, Stokes, and many others, interspersed with placeholder punctuation and nonstandard spellings. It references a "COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS" with a long, error-ridden list of state delegations and names, suggesting a historical convention roster or roll call.
AP dispatch from New York June 9 reports campaign headquarters for William G. McAdoo moving from Chicago to New York. David Ladd Rockwell assumes leadership at the Vanderbilt to marshal forces for McAdoo’s June 17 arrival and personal command. Rockwell vows Cavernor Smith’s dry stance hurts Gov. Smith and pledges McAdoo’s nomination by a united Democratic convention amid scattered state mentions and weather notes in Cleveland.
New York June 9 the pamphlet of Northern Pacific railroad company for 1924 issued today clarifies revenue statistics for the mass public on April last showing a decrease of 4,075,602 in income despite freight business growing 12.60 percent. Howard Witt, chairman, said revenue from freight did not rise with the volume moved.
Regulars endure severe hardships as they march 22 miles to Fort Harrison from multiple towns. The battalion, 12 officers and 200 enlisted, includes three elite companies, a machine gun unit, wagon train and sanitary detachment. They plan to break camp June 29 and return via the Clearwater valley, with Montana National Guard instructors to arrive at Fort Harrison soon.
La Follette states he will not seek the Republican presidential nomination in 1930, urging delegates to back progressive principles instead. He notes Wisconsin delegates favored his name in recent primaries but asks that those delegates and other progressives focus on platform adoption at the June convention. He emphasizes loyalty to fundamental progressive principles and directs that neither his name nor a pledged nomination be pursued.
The San Francisco Bay area writer Peter MacFarlane, age 53, committed death by own action amid kidney disease undermining his work. He left a note urging “deal gently” with him and sent a final message to Coblenitz, expressing spiritual agony and thanks. Born in Appleton City Missouri in 1871, he spent his youth in Missouri and Florida before moving to California.
A Berkeley pastor turned writer reflects on a life of sacrifice and lost time. He speaks of devotion to his wife Florence and his wish to heal past errors, while detailing literary success earned after wartime assignments in a Philadelphia publishing house. He died at 53. A separate item reports a Jacksonville crime where Owen C. Wingate was robbed by a masked group and accused of assaulting a white woman.
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