Tuesday, May 05, 2020

Today -100: May 5, 1920: Of collusion, deadlines, carriages, and bluebeards


Dirty-Sounding Headline of the Day -100:


There is a highly plausible rumor that the campaign managers for Hoover, Harding, Hiram Johnson and Lowden have a gentlemen’s agreement to refrain from opposing each other in the primaries, the better to defeat the juggernaut that is Gen. Wood. For example, Harding and Lowden didn’t enter the Maryland primary, giving Johnson room to compete with Wood for the old Progressive/Bull Moose voters. If Wood can arrive at the convention without too many delegates (and most will be uncommitted), the Old Guard can pick a candidate in one of those smoke-filled-rooms you hear so much about.

In California, no one is running for the Democratic nomination for president, so D’s are voting in the R primary. For some reason, it’s assumed they’re voting for Hoover, who nevertheless is trailing well behind Sen. Johnson in the incomplete count.

Mexican Pres. Venustiano Carranza called his remaining generals into council a few days ago. They told him to resign by the 15th or else.

Poor former kaiser Wilhelm puts an ad in the paper to sell his carriages, hunting wagon, horses, and gold-mounted harnesses.

Prolific wife-killer James Watson leads police to the body of one of the 5 wives he has admitted to murdering, 5 miles north of Coyote Wells, California. Hundreds of lookie-loos follow the expedition. Watson issues a statement, which his lawyer would like you to know he had no part in drafting, arguing that his actions prove he is insane, and he was mistreated as a child, and “My every act shows I am to be pitied more than to be blamed.”

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are arrested in Brockton, Massachusetts for a robbery/murder in Boston last month.


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