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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1920
Page
2
Theodore Roosevelt delivered a warning in Billings Montana in September 1918 warning that leaders of the Nonpartisan League were seeking power by pandering to greed envy and ignorance and likening them to Lenin and Trotsky.
President Wilson signals he will submit the League of Nations question to the people and urges Democrats to back his challenge to Republican reservations. He attacks Lodge and Johnson and predicts a clear, honest platform. Hoover endorses a forward-looking reading of the compromise plank as party divisions loom.
The readable parts show a jumble of names and terms including war, draft, and political references. Core facts and clear entities are not extractable, yielding a fragmented item with no coherent events or outcomes to summarize accurately.
The piece weighs how Uncle Sam imported sugar from Czecho Slovakia and Argentina to ease profiteering pressures, speculates on a world sugar trust, and notes Argentina's potential to grow more sugar. It reflects on past diets and modern consumption as sugar becomes central to economic debates.
Fragmentary report recalls a candidate named Carding opposing liquor use while a convention looms. The text references Hales Penrose on the phone and a clash over campaign messaging, with veiled criticisms about prior allowances for appetite and drinking in old days.
The piece argues Hoover warned Congress to extend the sugar board’s life to avoid a Cuban sugar shortage and higher prices. It asserts Hoover, head of the sugar hoard until July, could have purchased the crop but did not without congressional action, blaming Congress for inaction and predicting higher costs for households.
The Chicago Journal editorial mocks a closed Republican convention in Chicago that crowds the senate into a single pick for the White House. It notes Senator Lodge, Watson, Johnson, and Borah among movers and calls the process a partisan rally. Carding’s handicap claim is debated as Roosevelt ties loom. Harding is named as the nominee in the end.
George Matthews presents a reflective piece about a barrel anchored near Cane Horn holding data and writings for sailors. He asks readers if we are messengers of hope by placing uplifting items for others to find while recalling stories from broken journeys and hungry crews.
Hoover states he will support Senator Harding and urges all GOP factions to unite behind the Chicago platform. He criticizes factionalism, defends constructive planks on labor and the league, and warns against dominance by any single group while advocating broad representation in the administration. He says independence and progressivism must be represented to avoid logrolling coalitions.
Paris on June 18 reports that about thirty thousand of the 400000 French war orphans aided by America will parade on July 4 before Ambassador Wallace and French officials in the Place de la Concorde. The event expresses gratitude for American wartime aid and ongoing relief work.
Washington June 18 Associated Press Haibridge Colby secretary of state seen by many Democrats as likely permanent chair of the San Francisco Democratic National Convention. Colby elected a DC delegate last week heading an Administration ticket against Bryan club. Robinson and others named for permanent chair. Cyne’s friends say he does not want the post. Bryan in Fargo declares no wet governor from New Jersey will be Democratic candidate. mentions Cox Hitchcock as alternatives. He urges strong prohibition and anti profiteering planks to SF. Republican response to Wilson on foreign policy seeks referendum. Harding with Daugherty Clark and others plan campaign strategy.
Washington reports Detroit Michigan at 993,739 with an increase of 327,973. Cleveland records 796,? million with 286,173 more, or 42.1 percent. Lynchburg Washington shows 29,950 up 462 residents or 16 percent.
Detroit jumps to fourth largest American city in 1920 census, surpassing St Louis and Boston while ranking behind New York and Chicago. Cleveland rises to fifth, displacing St Louis and Boston. Los Angeles moves up to tenth with rapid growth. New ranking places Washington fourth, Newark declines.
In a lengthy analysis, the Chicago Journal argues Hearst’s backing of Hiram Johnson shifted momentum against him. It describes Johnson as the strongest liberal campaigner with Roosevelt ties, whose rise stalled when Hearst’s influence became a perceived liability. The piece notes party divisions and the crowd’s reaction at the nomination speech, predicting the lasting damage of Hearst’s support to Johnson’s prospects.
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