Evening Star
- WORLD FINANCIERS URGE REMOVAL OF BARRIERS TO TRADE
- QUEEN MARIE LAYS FLORAL TRIBUTE AT TOMB OF UNKNOWN; VISITS MT. VERNON
- SENATOR REED'S FUTURE AT STAKE AT MISSOURI POLLS
The Evening Star's front page of October 19, 1926, led with an Associated Press report from New York on a manifesto signed by J. P. Morgan and leading European bankers and industrialists, among them Montagu Norman and Hjalmar Schacht. They blamed post-war tariffs, licenses and newly guarded frontiers for Europe's slow recovery and told politicians that trade is not war but exchange. The page also followed Queen Marie of Rumania as she laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington, received a 21-gun Presidential salute and reached Mount Vernon 15 minutes early. From Kansas City, G. Gould Lincoln argued that Harry Hawes's Senate race in Missouri would decide whether the Democrats' new harmony held, and with it Senator James A. Reed's hopes for the 1928 presidential nomination.
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WORLD FINANCIERS URGE REMOVAL OF BARRIERS TO TRADE
(U.S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy, slightly colder tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudiness, probably followed by showers in afternoon. Temperature—Highest, 62, at 3 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 48, at 1:45 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N.Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 3. No. 30,121. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D.C.
WORLD FINANCIERS URGE REMOVAL OF BARRIERS TO TRADE
Post-War Tariffs and Other Restrictions Seen Hindering Europe's Recovery.
MORGAN AMONG GROUP SIGNING STRONG APPEAL
New Border Rules and Extreme Nationalism Scored—Imposing Names on Manifesto.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 19.—A remarkable plea for removal of the tariff barriers and other restrictions upon European trade was issued here today over the signatures of scores of the leading financiers of Europe and a half-dozen Americans headed by J. P. Morgan.
“There can be no recovery in Europe, the manifesto declares, until the politicians realize that “in time of peace our neighbors are our customers and that their prosperity is a condition of our own well being.”
The full text of the manifesto follows:
Speaks as Business Men.
“We desire, as business men, to draw attention to certain grave and disquieting conditions which, in our judgment, are retarding the return to prosperity.
“It is difficult to view without dismay the extent to which tariff barriers, special licenses and prohibitions since the war have been allowed to interfere with international trade and to prevent it from flowing in its natural channels. At no period in recent history has freedom from such restrictions been more needed to enable traders to adapt themselves to new and difficult conditions. And at no period have impediments to trading been more perilously multiplied without a true appreciation of the economic consequences involved.
“The break-up of great political units in Europe dealt a heavy blow to international trade. Across large areas, in which the inhabitants had been allowed to exchange their products freely, a number of new frontiers were erected and jealously guarded by customs barriers. New markets disappeared. Racial animosities were permitted to divide communities whose interests were inseparably connected.
Chaotic Situation Shown.
“The situation is not unlike that which would be created if a confederation of states were to dissolve the ties which bind them, and to proceed to penalize and hamper, instead of encouraging, each other's trade. Few will doubt that under such conditions the prosperity of such a country would rapidly decline.
“To mark and defend these new frontiers in Europe, licenses, tariffs and prohibitions were imposed, with results which experience shows already to have been unfortunate for all concerned. One state lost its supplies of cheap food, another its supplies of cheap manufactures. Industries suffered for want of coal, factories for want of raw materials. Behind the customs barriers new local industries were started, with no real economic foundation, which could only be kept alive in the face of competition by raising the barriers higher still.
“Railway rates, dictated by political considerations, have made transit and freights difficult and costly. Prices have risen, artificial dearness has been created. Production as a whole has been diminished. Credit has contracted and currencies have depreciated. Too many states, in pursuit of false ideals of national interest, have imperiled their own welfare and lost sight of the common interests of the world, by basing their commercial relations on the economic folly which treats all trading as a form of war.
Politicians Are Scored.
“There can be no recovery in Europe till politicians in all territories, old and new, realize that trade is not war, but a process of exchange, that in time of peace our neighbors are our customers, and that their prosperity is a condition of our own well-being. If we check their dealings, their power to pay their debts diminishes and their power to purchase our goods is reduced.
“Restricted imports involve restricted exports, and no nation can afford to lose its export trade. Dependent as we all are upon imports and exports and upon the processes of international exchange, we cannot view without grave concern a policy which means the impoverishment of Europe.”
The document was signed in addition to Mr. Morgan by the following Americans: Gates W. McGarrah, New York banker; J. J. Mitchell, president of the Illinois Merchants' Trust Co., Chicago; Thomas N. Perkins of Boston; Melvin A. Traylor, president of the First National Bank of Chicago, and Albert H. Wiggin, president of the Chase National Bank of New York.
Other Nations' Signers.
The chief signatories for the other countries were:
Great Britain—Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England; Reginald McKenna, former chancellor of the exchequer; Lord Inchcape, steamship owner; Lionel de Rothchild, banker; Douglas Vickers, chairman of Vickers, Ltd.; Sir Josiah Stamp, noted economist, and Sir Arthur Balfour, cutlery manufacturer.
Germany—Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, president of the Reichs Bank; Dr. Karl Bosch, chairman of the Dye Trust; Dr. Albert Voegler, head of the Steel Trust; Karl Friedrich von Siemens, electrical magnate; Dr. Carl Melchior of M. M. Warburg & Co., bankers, and Franz von Mendelssohn, Berlin banker.
France—R. P. Duchemin, head of the Chemical Industry Union; M. Lewandowski, banker; M. Sergent, former undersecretary of state for finance; R. Laederich, head of the Cotton Industry Syndicate, and R. Masson, director general of the Credit Lyonnais.
Italy—Antonio Stefano Benni, head of the General Fascist Confederation of Industries; G. Agnelli, head of the F.I.A.T. Co.; Senator Ettore Conti, (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.)
QUEEN MARIE LAYS FLORAL TRIBUTE AT TOMB OF UNKNOWN; VISITS MT. VERNON
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QUEEN MARIE LAYS FLORAL TRIBUTE AT TOMB OF UNKNOWN; VISITS MT. VERNON
Distinguished Company Goes to Shrines With Royal Visitors—Prince Nicholas in Uniform—Trip in Auto.
CAVALRY MEETS PARTY AT FT. MYER HEIGHTS
Ladies' Reception Committee at Washington's Home Greets Her Majesty—Whole Grounds Inspected and Luncheon Served.
Arrival Was Ahead of Schedule.
Queen Marie of Rumania, with Prince Nicholas and Princess Ileana, today paid reverent tribute to the memory of America's Unknown Soldier and of George Washington, representatives of two epochs of American history, in a joint pilgrimage to the tombs at Arlington and Mount Vernon.
The radiant Queen, wrapped in gray fur, laid tenderly a gigantic wreath of palms, rosebuds and daffodils on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier to the booming of artillery and in the presence of a distinguished company of spectators. Then she went to the home of Washington, and, following a tour of inspection of the buildings and grounds, laid at the tomb of the father of this country a large floral tribute of dahlias.
An elaborate reception was accorded the royal party today during its trip to the Virginia hills. Leaving the legation at Sheridan Circle promptly at 9:30 o'clock this morning in an open automobile, in company with Assistant Secretary of State Wright, the Prince and Princess, and accompanied by a long train of official automobiles carrying military aides, other members of the royal party and newspaper men, Queen Marie was driven over the Q Street Bridge and through Georgetown. A crowd of curious spectators lined the route through the city.
Met by Cavalry Troop.
Proceeding over the Key Bridge to the military reservation at Fort Myer, the royal party was met on the military heights by a troop of cavalry, resplendent in the morning sunshine, which came to attention with a sweep of sabers as her majesty's car came in view. The Cavalrymen then formed a phalanx to lead the procession of machines to the north entrance of Arlington Cemetery. The short drive through the winding roads ended at the foot of the marble amphitheater overlooking the tombs and here her majesty and their royal highnesses left their cars and walked through the amphitheater under the guidance of Brig. Gen. Samuel D. Rockenbach, commanding the district of Washington.
As the royal party emerged at the opposite side of the structure, Prince Nicholas, who wore the uniform of a naval officer, came to a salute and after a momentary pause the Queen led the way to the sepulcher.
Places Wreath Herself.
Motionless, she stood for a brief moment at the soldier's tomb and then, turning to her aide, motioned for the wreath. Taking it from the hands of Charge d'Affaires Djuvara, she smoothed the ribbons which tied it together and placed it on the tomb. Then she stepped back and allowed a battery of news photographers to snap her placing the wreath on the sepulcher.
The royal party then walked down the steps to the right of the tomb and halted in the plaza beneath in order to afford Her Majesty a good view of the amphitheater. She remarked to her companions upon the glistening whiteness of the shrine and turned to get a good glimpse of the Potomac, which stretched away at her feet.
As the Rumanian guests left the cemetery by the south gate, another battery of guns sounded the 21 booms of the Presidential salute, the highest military honor the nation accords a guest.
The party then proceeded by way of the Mount Vernon boulevard to Alexandria where Christ Church was pointed out to Her Majesty by Assistant Secretary Wright. No stops were made in Alexandria, and half an hour later the machines drew into the grounds at Mount Vernon.
Welcomed to Shrine.
Harrison H. Dodge, superintendent of the Shrine, welcomed the Queen and her children in the main hallway. He apologized to her because of the fact that the ladies' reception committee of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association was not yet ready to show her about the building, explaining that the Queen came 15 minutes ahead of schedule. Queen Marie smiled sympathetically—even quizzically—and said: “Yes, I am 15 minutes ahead of time.”
Supt. Dodge then asked if she desired, after completing a round of the room, to walk or ride to the tomb. She said: “Why, if it's not too far I should like to walk, of course.”
At this juncture the women's reception committee emerged from another room and was presented to the Queen. They were: Mrs. Thomas S. Maxey of Texas, Mrs. Henry W. Rogers of Maryland; Mrs. John Carter Brown of Rhode Island, Miss Jane A. Riggs of the District of Columbia, Mrs. William R. [?] of Pennsylvania and Mrs. Thomas P. Denham of Florida.
Following the tour of the rooms, her majesty and their royal highnesses were taken to the tomb, where her majesty placed a floral tribute, composed of flowers of the colors of Rumania. The party then proceeded to inspect the grounds, paying particular attention to the beautiful flower gardens nearby. A buffet luncheon was served the (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.)
SENATOR REED'S FUTURE AT STAKE AT MISSOURI POLLS
SENATOR REED'S FUTURE AT STAKE AT MISSOURI POLLS
“Harmony” Hawes Carries Brunt of Campaign, But Result Will Affect 1928.
DEMOCRATS REUNITED, BUT G.O.P. IS STRONG
Williams Secured More Votes in Primaries Than Did His Opponent for Seat.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
Staff Correspondent of The Star.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., October 19.—“Harmony Harry” Hawes is carrying the burden for the Democratic party in Missouri in this year's campaign and election. But the result of the race he is making for the Senate will have its bearing on the prospects of Senator James A. Reed for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1928.
For this reason the present campaign takes on a double significance. On the one hand there is Democratic control and solidarity in the State; on the other the fate of the incipient boom of Reed for President.
Two years ago, or even a year ago, talk of Senator Reed as the possible Democratic standard bearer in 1928 would have been hailed in many quarters as an excursion into the Never-Never land. But today it is being discussed with all seriousness here in Missouri, and, indeed, throughout the country. It may never happen, but there are plenty of people who believe that the Missouri delegation to the next Democratic national convention will go instructed for the fighting Senator and that he will have the indorsement of other State delegations.
Come-back a Marvel.
The come-back which Senator Reed has staged in this State among the Democrats is little short of a political marvel. He still has bitter enemies among the politicians and rank and file of his own party, but they have ceased to shout aloud against him—at least for the time being. This is due partly to the healing quality of time and partly to the great prominence which Senator Reed has attained nationally through his service in the Senate as chief inquisitor in the Senate wet and dry hearings, and more particularly as chairman of the Senate campaign investigating committee.
Six years ago when Senator Reed's split with President Woodrow Wilson over the League of Nations was fresh in the minds of the voters he was anathema to thousands of Democrats in this State. When he was sent as a district delegate from Kansas City to the Democratic national convention in San Francisco the convention threw him out. It was virtual expulsion from the party.
But a few months later the late President Harding, running on an anti-League platform, swept the country against former Gov. Cox of Ohio, an advocate of the League, by the greatest popular majority ever given a presidential candidate up to that time. It was clear, even in Missouri, which went by 142,000 for Harding, that Reed had espoused the popular side of the League of Nations issue.
Two years later Senator Reed himself came up for re-election. What happened then is a matter of history. The Democratic Senator was re-elected over his Republican opponent, Brewster, by a great turnover of Republican votes in St. Louis, although he suffered many losses in the Democratic field.
Reed Supports Hawes.
Today Reed is campaigning almost side by side with his old opponent for Hawes. The leaders among the Democrats of Missouri have buried the hatchet, temporarily, at least. If Hawes is elected, as there seems good prospect, this harmony may continue and result in the support of the Democracy of this State for Reed for President two years hence.
If Hawes is defeated, on the other hand, there is strong probability that the old division, so far as Senator Reed is concerned, will revert. The chances are, under such condition, that the anti-Reed pro-Wilson Democrats will say: “We followed Reed and Hawes, upon whom he imposed his will regarding opposition to the World Court, and see what happened to us.” The Reed forces may at the same time assert that the defeat of Hawes resulted from the failure of anti-Reed forces to give real support to the ticket. In that event, the alleged Democratic harmony is likely to flee.
Plea for Party.
The great plea which Hawes is making to the Democrats in the present campaign is for harmony for the sake of the party. A victory this year is regarded as essential if Missouri is not to go almost hopelessly into the Republican column of States.
This plea is undeniably having its effect on the Democrats, even causing many of them to forget the Reed and anti-Reed squabbles, the wet and dry issue, and their League of Nations and anti-League of Nations defenses. Republican governors have been elected in Missouri with irritating frequency during recent years. The Democrats have been shoved away from the pie counter and they do not like it. This is the leaven that is working in the present campaign for Democratic victory. The politicians and party leaders have thrown aside their quarrels for this end. It remains to be seen whether the rank and file of the Democrats will follow them.
One factor in the recrudescence of Reed strength, and an important factor, is the personal strength of Senator Reed himself. In the midst of fighting factions and leaders, he has stood out as the dominating force. His enemies tried their best to down him four years ago at the polls and failed. It is true that Republican support saved him. But it showed that he was not to be beaten in Missouri.
Position Always Known.
Nothing succeeds like success. Some of the Democrats have perhaps decided that if they cannot defeat Senator Reed, they would like to win with him. During his long political career in this State, there has never been a doubt as to where he stood (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.)
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The bankers' manifesto and the 1927 World Economic Conference
The appeal printed here appeared while the League of Nations was already moving toward a large economic conference. France's Louis Loucheur had suggested such a meeting in 1925, and it became the first international economic conference formally sponsored by the League. It met in Geneva in May 1927 with representatives of 46 League member countries and also the United States, which was not a member, and the State Department's published diplomatic papers for 1927 devote a chapter to American representation there. The 194 national delegates and 157 expert advisers did not formally represent their governments, a format that suited bankers, economists and industrialists of the kind who signed the manifesto, such as Josiah Stamp and the heads of central banks. Because the conference idea dates from 1925, the October 1926 manifesto cannot be called its cause; the two belong to the same effort to tackle Europe's post-war trade barriers. The records cited here do not show how individual governments answered the manifesto itself.
Why Queen Marie was touring the United States
Queen Marie had landed in New York only the day before this report, on October 18, 1926, to cheering crowds and a ticker-tape parade. She came at the urging of American friends, the businessman Sam Hill and the dancer Loie Fuller; Hill wanted her to speak at the dedication of his Maryhill Museum of Art in Washington State. Americans were drawn to her partly by her record as a nurse in the First World War and her part in the Paris peace talks, which helps explain the wreath at the Unknown Soldier's tomb and the crowds the Star describes along the route. The 21-gun Presidential salute reported here was a formal honor, yet her meeting with President Coolidge was awkward, since the reserved president did not much care for his flamboyant guest. The tour ended early: on November 17 she received news that King Ferdinand was ill, and she went home.
How the Hawes–Williams Senate race ended
George Howard Williams, the Republican whom Lincoln's subheading credits with more primary votes than his rival, was an appointed senator. Selden P. Spencer, elected in 1920, died on May 16, 1925, and Williams was named to continue the term and then ran for a full one in 1926. The election came on November 2, two weeks after this dispatch. Hawes won with 51 percent of the vote and also beat Williams in the special election held the same day. In Lincoln's terms, the result was the one under which, he had argued, Democratic harmony might continue: the Hawes victory he called a good prospect did happen, removing the scenario in which anti-Reed Democrats would blame Reed for a defeat.
What became of Reed's 1928 presidential bid
Lincoln wrote that Reed's nomination "may never happen," and the 1928 contest bore out that caution. Although Hawes won in 1926, the delegate selections of 1928 were all but conclusive for New York governor Al Smith. Smith entered the convention only a few votes short of the two-thirds needed and won on the first ballot after several delegates shifted to him. The boom the Star described as newly serious in Missouri and beyond therefore did not carry Reed to the nomination, and the nomination went to Smith.
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WORLD FINANCIERS URGE REMOVAL OF BARRIERS TO TRADE
(U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy, slightly colder to-night; tomorrow increasing cloudiness, probably followed by showers in after-noon. Temperature-Highest, 62, at 3 p. m. yesterday; lowest, 48, at 1: 45 a. m. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 3 No. 30, 121. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. WORLD FINANCIERS URGE REMOVAL OF BARRIERS TO TRADE Post-War Tariffs and Other Restrictions Seen Hinder-ing Europe's Recovery. MORGAN AMONG GROUP SIGNING STRONG APPEAL New Border Rules and Extreme Nationalism Scored-Imposing Names on Manifesto. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 19. - A re-markable plea for removal of the tariff barriers and other restrictions upon European trade was issued here to-day over the signatures of scores of the leading financiers of Europe and a half-dozen Americans headed by J. P. Morgan. " There can be no recovery in Eu-rope, the manifesto declares, until the politicians realize that " in time of peace our neighbors are our custom-ers and that their prosperity is a condition of our own well being. " The full text of the manifesto fol-lows: Speaks as Business Men. " We desire, as business men, to draw attention to certain grave and disquieting conditions which, in our judgment, are retarding the return to prosperity. " It is difficult to view without dis-may the extent to which tariff bar-riers, special licenses and prohibitions since the war have been allowed to interfere with international trade and to prevent it from flowing in its natu-ral channels. At no period in recent history has freedom from such re-strictions been more needed to enable traders to adapt themselves to new and difficult conditions. And at no period have impediments to trading been more perilously multiplied with-out a true appreciation of the eco-nomic consequences involved. " The break-up of great political units in Europe dealt a heavy blow to international trade. Across large areas, in which the inhabitants had been allowed to exchange their prod-ucts freely, a number of new fron-tiers were erected and jealously guarded by customs barriers. New markets disappeared. Racial ani-mosities were permitted to divide communities whose interests were inseparably connected. Chaotic Situation Shown. " The situation is not unlike that which would be created if a confedera-tion of states were to dissolve the ties which bind them, and to proceed to penalize and hamper, instead of encouraging, each other's trade. Few will doubt that under such conditions the prosperity of such a country would rapidly decline. " To mark and defend these new frontiers in Europe, licenses, tariffs and prohibitions were imposed, with results which experience shows al-ready to have been unfortunate for all concerned. One state lost its sup-plies of cheap food, another its sup-plies of cheap manufactures. Indus-tries suffered for want of coal, fac-tories for want of raw materials. Behind the customs barriers new local industries were started, with no real economic foundation, which could only be kept alive in the face of competition by raising the barriers higher still. " Railway rates, dictated by political considerations, have made transit and freights difficult and costly. Prices have risen, artificial dearness has been created. Production as a whole has been diminished. Credit has contracted and currencies have depreciated. Too many states, in pur-suit of false ideals of national in-terest, have imperiled their own wel-fare and lost sight of the common interests of the world, by basing their commercial relations on the economic folly which treats all trading as a form of war. Politicians Are Scored. " There can be no recovery in Eu-rope till politicians in all territories, old and new, realize that trade is not war, but a process of exchange, that in time of peace our neighbors are our customers, and that their pros-perity is a condition of our own well-being. If we check their dealings, their power to pay their debts di-minishes and their power to purchase our goods is reduced. " Restricted imports involve restrict-ed exports, and no nation can afford to lose its export trade. Dependent as we all are upon imports and ex-ports and upon the processes of in-ternational exchange, we cannot view without grave concern a policy which means the impoverishment of Europe. " The document was signed in ad-dition to Mr. Morgan by the follow-ing Americans: Gates W. McGarrah, New York banker; J. J. Mitchell, president of the Illinois Merchants ' Trust Co., Chicago; Thomas N. Per-kins of Boston; Melvin A. Traylor, president of the First National Bank of Chicago, and Albert H. Wiggin, president of the Chase National Bank of New York. Other Nations ' Signers. The chief signatories for the other countries were: Great Britain-Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England; Reginald McKenna, former chancellor of the exchequer; Lord Inchcape, steamship owner; Lionel de Roth-child, banker; Douglas Vickers, chair-man of Vickers, Ltd.; Sir Josiah Stamp, noted economist, and Sir Arthur Balfour, cutlery manufacturer. Germany-Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, president of the Reichs Bank; Dr. Karl Bosch, chairman of the Dye Trust; Dr. Albert Voegler, head of the Steel Trust; Karl Friedrich von Siemens, electrical magnate; Dr. Carl Melchior of M. M. Warburg & Co., bankers, and Franz von Mendelssohn, Berlin banker. France-R. P. Duchemin, head of the Chemical Industry Union; M. Lewandowski, banker; M. Sergent, former undersecretary of state for finance; R. Laederich, head of the Cotton Industry Syndicate, and R. Masson, director general of the Credit Lyonnais. Italy-Antonio Stefano Benni, head of the General Fascist Confederation of Industries; G. Agnelli, head of the F. I. A. T. Co.; Senator Ettore Conti, (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.)
QUEEN MARIE LAYS FLORAL TRIBUTE AT TOMB OF UNKNOWN; VISITS MT. VERNON
The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. Yesterday's Circulation, 100, 493 TWO CENTS. QUEEN MARIE LAYS FLORAL TRIBUTE AT TOMB OF UNKNOWN; VISITS MT. VERNON Distinguished Company Goes to Shrines With Royal Vis-itors-Prince Nicholas in Uniform-Trip in Auto. CAVALRY MEETS PARTY AT FT. MYER HEIGHTS Ladies ' Reception Committee at Washington's Home Greets Her Majesty-Whole Grounds In-spected and Luncheon Served. Arrival Was Ahead of Schedule. Queen Marie of Rumania, with Prince Nicholas and Princess Ileana, today paid reverent tribute to the memory of America's Unknown Sol-dier and of George Washington, rep-resentatives of two epochs of Ameri-can history, in a joint pilgrimage to the tombs at Arlington and Mount Vernon. The radiant Queen, wrapped in gray fur, laid tenderly a gigantic wreath of palms, rosebuds and daffodils on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier to the booming of artillery and in the presence of a distinguished company of spectators. Then she went to the home of Washington, and, following a tour of inspection of the buildings and grounds, laid at the tomb of the father of this country a large floral tribute of dahlias. An elaborate reception was accord-ed the royal party today during its trip to the Virginia hills. Leaving the legation at Sheridan Circle promptly at 9: 30 o'clock this morn-ing in an open automobile, in com-pany with Assistant Secretary of State Wright, the Prince and Prin-cess, and accompanied by a long train of official automobiles carrying mili-tary aides, other members of the royal party and newspaper men, Queen Marie was driven over the Q Street Bridge and through George-town. A crowd of curious spectators lined the route through the city. Met by Cavalry Troop. Proceeding over the Key Bridge to the military reservation at Fort Myer, the royal party was met on the mili-tary heights by a troop of cavalry, resplendent in the morning sunshine, which came to attention with a sweep of sabers as her majesty's car came in view. The Cavalrymen then formed a phalanx to lead the procession of ma-chines to the north entrance of Ar-lington Cemetery. The short drive through the winding roads ended at the foot of the marble amphitheater overlooking the tombs and here her majesty and their royal highnesses left their cars and walked through the amphitheater under the guidance of Brig. Gen. Samuel D. Rockenbach, commanding the district of Wash-ington. As the royal party emerged at the opposite side of the structure, Prince Nicholas, who wore the uniform of a naval officer, came to a salute and after a momentary pause the Queen led the way to the sepulcher. Places Wreath Herself. Motionless, she stood for a brief moment at the soldier's tomb and then, turning to her aide, motioned for the wreath. Taking it from the hands of Charge d'Affaires Djuvara, she smoothed the ribbons which tied it together and placed it on the tomb. Then she stepped back and allowed a battery of news photographers to snap her placing the wreath on the sepulcher. The royal party then walked down the steps to the right of the tomb and halted in the plaza beneath in order to afford Her Majesty a good view of the amphitheater. She re-marked to her companions upon the glistening whiteness of the shrine and turned to get a good glimpse of the Potomac, which stretched away at her feet. As the Rumanian guests left the cemetery by the south gate, another battery of guns sounded the 21 booms of the Presidential salute, the highest military honor the nation accords a guest. The party then proceeded by way of the Mount Vernon boulevard to Alexandria where Christ Church was pointed out to Her Majesty by Assistant Secretary Wright. No stops were made in Alexandria, and half an hour later the machines drew into the grounds at Mount Vernon. Welcomed to Shrine. Harrison H. Dodge, superintendent of the Shrine, welcomed the Queen and her children in the main hallway. He apologized to her because of the fact that the ladies ' reception com-mittee of the Mount Vernon Ladies ' Association was not yet ready to show her about the building, explaining that the Queen came 15 minutes ahead of schedule. Queen Marie smiled sympathetically-even quizzically-and said: " Yes, I am 15 minutes ahead of time. " Supt. Dodge then asked if she de-sired, after completing a round of the room, to walk or ride to the tomb. She said: " Why, if it's not too far I should like to walk, of course. " At this juncture the women's re-ception committee emerged from another room and was presented to the Queen. They were: Mrs. Thomas S. Maxey of Texas, Mrs. Henry W. Rog-ers of Maryland; Mrs. John Carter Brown of Rhode Island, Miss Jane A. Riggs of the District of Columbia, Mrs. William R. [?] of Pennsyl-vania and Mrs. Thomas P. Denham of Florida. Following the tour of the rooms, her majesty and their royal highnesses were taken to the tomb, where her majesty placed a floral tribute, com-posed of flowers of the colors of Ru-mania. The party then proceeded to inspect the grounds, paying partic-ular attention to the beautiful flower gardens nearby. A buffet luncheon was served the (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.)
SENATOR REED'S FUTURE AT STAKE AT MISSOURI POLLS
SENATOR REED'S FUTURE AT STAKE AT MISSOURI POLLS " Harmony " Hawes Carries Brunt of Campaign, But Result Will Affect 1928. DEMOCRATS REUNITED, BUT G. O. P. IS STRONG Williams Secured More Votes in Primaries Than Did His Opponent for Seat. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Staff Correspondent of The Star. KANSAS CITY, Mo., October 19. - " Harmony Harry " Hawes is carrying the burden for the Democratic party in Missouri in this year's campaign and election. But the result of the race he is making for the Senate will have its bearing on the prospects of Senator James A. Reed for the Demo-cratic presidential nomination in 1928. For this reason the present cam-paign takes on a double significance. On the one hand there is Democratic control and solidarity in the State; on the other the fate of the incipient boom of Reed for President. Two years ago, or even a year ago, talk of Senator Reed as the possible Democratic standard bearer in 1928 would have been hailed in many quar-ters as an excursion into the Never-Never land. But today it is being dis-cussed with all seriousness here in Missouri, and, indeed, throughout the country. It may never happen, but there are plenty of people who believe that the Missouri delegation to the next Democratic national convention will go instructed for the fighting Senator and that he will have the in-dorsement of other State delegations. Come-back a Marvel. The come-back which Senator Reed has staged in this State among the Democrats is little short of a political marvel. He still has bitter enemies among the politicians and rank and file of his own party, but they have ceased to shout aloud against him-at least for the time being. This is due partly to the healing quality of time and partly to the great prominence which Senator Reed has attained na-tionally through his service in the Sen-ate as chief inquisitor in the Senate wet and dry hearings, and more particu-larly as chairman of the Senate cam-paign investigating committee. Six years ago when Senator Reed's split with President Woodrow Wilson over the League of Nations was fresh in the minds of the voters he was anathema to thousands of Democrats in this State. When he was sent as a district delegate from Kansas City to the Democratic national con-vention in San Francisco the conven-tion threw him out. It was virtual expulsion from the party. But a few months later the late President Harding, running on an anti-League platform, swept the coun-try against former Gov. Cox of Ohio, an advocate of the League, by the greatest popular majority ever given a presidential candidate up to that time. It was clear, even in Missouri, which went by 142, 000 for Harding, that Reed had espoused the popular side of the League of Nations issue. Two years later Senator Reed him-self came up for re-election. What happened then is a matter of history. The Democratic Senator was re-elected over his Republican opponent, Brew-ster, by a great turnover of Republi-can votes in St. Louis, although he suffered many losses in the Demo-cratic field. Reed Supports Hawes. Today Reed is campaigning almost side by side with his old opponent for Hawes. The leaders among the Demo-crats of Missouri have buried the hatchet, temporarily, at least. If Hawes is elected, as there seems good prospect, this harmony may continue and result in the support of the De-mocracy of this State for Reed for President two years hence. If Hawes is defeated, on the other hand, there is strong probability that the old division, so far as Senator Reed is concerned, will revert. The chances are, under such condition, that the anti-Reed pro-Wilson Demo-crats will say: " We followed Reed and Hawes, upon whom he imposed his will regarding opposition to the World Court, and see what happened to us. " The Reed forces may at the same time assert that the defeat of Hawes resulted from the failure of anti-Reed forces to give real support to the ticket. In that event, the alleged Democratic harmony is likely to flee. Plea for Party. The great plea which Hawes is making to the Democrats in the pres-ent campaign is for harmony for the sake of the party. A victory this year is regarded as essential if Mis-souri is not to go almost hopelessly into the Republican column of States. This plea is undeniably having its effect on the Democrats, even caus-ing many of them to forget the Reed and anti-Reed squabbles, the wet and dry issue, and their League of Na-tions and anti-League of Nations de-fenses. Republican governors have been elected in Missouri with irritat-ing frequency during recent years. The Democrats have been shoved away from the pie counter and they do not like it. This is the leaven that is working in the present campaign for Democratic victory. The politi-cians and party leaders have thrown aside their quarrels for this end. It remains to be seen whether the rank and file of the Democrats will follow them. One factor in the recrudescence of Reed strength, and an important fac-tor, is the personal strength of Sen-ator Reed himself. In the midst of fighting factions and leaders, he has stood out as the dominating force. His enemies tried their best to down him four years ago at the polls and failed. It is true that Republican support saved him. But it showed that he was not to be beaten in Missouri. Position Always Known. Nothing succeeds like success. Some of the Democrats have perhaps decided that if they cannot defeat Senator Reed, they would like to win with him. During his long political career in this State, there has never been a doubt as to where he stood (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.)
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