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WOOD, LOWDEN AND JOHNSON GET DEMONSTRATIONS
AS THEY ARE PLACED IN NOMINATION AT CHICAGO
TEXT OF PLATFORM
ADOPTED BY 0. 0. P. :
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COLISEUM, CHICAGO.. June 11.
The text of the platform as adopted
by the Republican national conven
tion follows:
The Republican party, assembled
in representative national convention,
reaffirms its unyielding devotion to
the constitution of the United
States and to the guarantees of
civil, political and religious liberty
therein contained. It will resist all
attempts to overthrow the founda
tions of the government or to weak
en the force of its controlling prin
ciples and ideals whether the ar
tempts made in the form of in
ternational policy or domestic agi
tation.
For seven years the national gov
ernment has been controlled by the
Democratic party. During that pe
riod a war of unparalleled magni
ture has shaken the foundations of
civilization, decimated .the popula
tion of Europe, and left in its trail
economic misery and suffering sec
ond only to war itself.
The outstanding features of the
Democratic administration have
been complete unpreparedness for
war and complete unpreparedness
for peace.
Unpreparedness for War
Inexcusable failure to make time
ly preparation is the chief indict
ment against the Democratic admin
istration in the conduct of the war.
Had not opr associates protected us,
both on land and sea, during the
first twelve months of our .partici
pation and furnished us to the very
day of the admistice with munitions,
planes and artillery, this failure
would have been punished with dis
aster. It directly resulted in un
necessary losses to our gallant
troops, in the imperilment of vic
tory itself, and in an enormous
waste of public funds literally
poured'into ’he breach created by
gross neglect. Today it is reflected
in our huge tax burden and in the
high cost of living.
Unpreparedness for Peace
Peace found the administration
as unprepared for peace as war
found it unprepared for war. The
vital needs of the country demand
ed the early and systematic return
to a peace-time basis. This called
for vision, leadership and Intelli
gent planning. All three have been
lacking. While the country has been
left to shift for itself, the govern
ment has continued on a war-time
basis. The administration has not
demobilized the army of place hold
ers. It continued a method of
financing which was indefensible
during the period of reconstruction.
It has used legislation passed to
meet the emergency of war to con
tinue its arbitrary and inquisito
rial control over the life of the peo
ple in time of peace, and to carry
confusion into industrial life. Un
de rthe despot’s plea of necessity
or superior wisdom, executive usur
pation of legislative and judicial
functions still undetermines our in- '
stitutions.
Eighteen months after the armi
stice, with its war-time powers un
abridged, its war-time departments
undischarged, its war-time army of
place holders still mobilized, the ad
ministration continues to flounder
helplessly.
The demonstrated incapacity of
the Democratic party has destroyed
public confidence, weakened the au
thority of government and produced
a feeling of distrust and hesitation
so universal as to increase enor
mously the difficulties of readjust
ment and to delay the return to nor
mal conditions.
Never has our nation been con-
graver problems. The
people are entitled to know in defi
nite terms how the parties purpose
solving these problems. To that end
the Republican party declares its
policies and. program to be as fol
lows :
We undertake to end executive au
tocracy and to restore to the people
their constitutional government.
The policies herein declared will
be carried out by the federal and
state governments, each acting with
in its constitutional powers.
Congress and Reconstruction
Despite the unconstitutional and
dictatorial course of the president
and the partisan obstruction ox tne
Democratic congressional minority,
the Republican majority has enacted
a program of constructive legislation
which, in great part, however, has
been nullified by the vindictive ve
toes of the president.
The Republican congress has met
the problems presented by the ad
ministration’s unpreparedness f>or
peace. It has repealed the greater
part of the vexatious war legisla
tion. It has enacted a transporta
tion act making possible the rehabil
itation of the railroad system of the
country, the operation of which, un
der the present Democratic admin
istration, has been wasteful, extrav
agant and inefficient in the highest
degree. The transportation act made
provision for the peaceful settlement
of wage disputes, partially nullified,
however, by the president’s delay in
appointing the wage board created by
the act. This ’delay precipitated the
outlaw railroad strike.
We stopped the flood of public
treasure, recklessly poured into the
lap of an inept shipping board, and
laid the foundations for the creation
of a great merchant marine; we took
from the incompetent Democratic ad
ministration the administration of
the telegraph and telephone lines of
the country and returned them to
private ownership; we reduced the
cost of postage and increased the pay
of the postal employes—the poorest
paid of all public servants; we pro
vided pensions for superannuated
and retired civil servants and for an
increase in pay of soldiers and sail
ors. We reorganized the army on a
peace footing and provided for the
maintenance of a powerful and effi
cient navy.
The Republican congress estab
lished by law a permanent woman’s
bureau in the department of labor;
we submitted to the country the con
stitutional amendment for woman
suffrage and furnished twenty-nine
of the thirty-five legislatures which
have ratified it to date.
Legislation for the relief of the
consumers of print paper, for the ex
tension of the powers of the govern
ment under the food control act, for
broadening the scope of the war risk
insurance act. better provision for
the dwindling number of ax-ad veter-
GOMPERSCDI'IDEMNS
LABOR PROVISIONS
ING.O.RPLATFORM
Directly Contrary to What
Was Asked for. He States,
Progressives Seek Power
in A, F. of L.
MONTREAL, Quebec. June 11. —
President Samual Gompers, of the
American Federation of Labor, in a
statement today condemned the labor
plank adopted by the Republican na
tion convention.
“The plank is directly contrary to
what labor asked for,” said Mr. Gom
pers.
Mr .Gompers referred especially to
that part of the plank indorsing set
tlement of strikes in public utilities
by boards similar to that of the
Esch-Cummins transportation act.
The administration of the conserv
ative wing of the American Federa
tion of Labor was threatened here to
day by the progressive element. The
Progressives, headed by James Dun
can, of Seattle, who yesterday over
threw two major reports of the or
ganization committee, were prepared
to again contest the Gomper’s forces
for power.
Union leaders declared that the
Progressives, in getting the annual
convention to lay the foundation for
a food distributing and producing
department yesterday, had shown the
most formidable power in years.
They conceded, how’ever, that with
President Gompers back in the chair
today the Conservatives would gain
control of the situation.
The progressive element was plan
ning today to fight for the radical
recommendations for the relief of
the workers. They also seek the re
lease of political prisoners, lifting of
a Russian blockade, recognition of
the Russian blockade, recognition of
declaration againstthe Leaguer of
Nations; They will, however, sup
port the Irish resolutions. <
Progressive leaders said they
would contest any mild recommenda
tions that may be presented by the
committees on the executive council
that have to do with the high cost
of living, profiteering and other eco
nomic problems. '
AUSTRIANCABINET
AND KARL RENNER
HAVE RESIGNED
VIENNA, June 11.— (By the Asso
ciated Press.) —The Austrian cabi
net, headed by Dr. Karl Renner as
chancellor, which has held office most
of the time since the armistice, has
resigned.
Dr. Renner presented the resigna
tion shortly after midnight after a
meeting of the cabinet with repre
sentatives of the social Democrats.
The break came unexpectedly over
the minister of war’s decree on army
discipline about which a question was
raised in the national assembly yes
terday by the Christian Socailists.
It is believed a new coalition cab
inet will be formed pending the elec
tions.
Trip Through South
Planned in Fight
Against 801 l Weevil
Leading farmers, bankers and oth
ter business men from the seventy
one cotton-grotving counties in Ar
kansas are planning a tour of Geor
gia, North tand South Carolina, the
first week in August, to study cot
ton production, methods of fighting
the botll weevil, breeding better cot
ton varieties, and fertilizing for a
greater yield per acre.
Tthe party will number 192, head
ed by Governor Charles H. Brough,
of Arkansas. It will travel in a
special train of Pullmans, leaving
Little Rock, July 31, and will visit
Americus, Ga., on Monday, August
2; Athens, Ga., Tuesday, August 3;
Greenville and Spartanburg, S. C.,
Wednesday, August 4; DarMngton and
Florence, S. C., Thursday, August 5;
Bennettsville, S. C., Friday, August
6. and Wilson, N. C., Saturday, Aug
ust 7. Returning, the trip will be
made through the famous “Land of
the Sky” around Asheville to Knox
ville, Tenn., and then to Little Rock.
Lightning Kills Seven
In Detroit; Four Were
School Ball Players
DETROIT, Mich., June 11.—Seven
persons were killed and thirteen In
jured in an electrical storm which
swept Detroit and vicinity late yes
terday.
The dead included four members
of the Northwestern High school
baseball team.
ans of the civil war. and for making
practical the vocational rehabilita
tion act, has been enacted by the Re
publican congress.
We passed an oil-leasing and wa
ter power bill to unlock for the pub
lic good the great pent-up resources
of the country; we have sought to
check the profligacy of the adminis
tration, to realize upon the assets of
the government and to husband the
revenues derived from taxation. The
I Republicans in congress have been
I responsible for cuts in the estimates
for government expenditure of near
ly three billion dollars, since the
signing of the armistice.
We enacted a national executive
budget law’; we strengthened the fed
eral reserve act to permit banks to
lend needed assistance to farmers;
we authorized financial incorpora
tions to develop Export trade; and
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REPUBLICANS TO
BE CHALLENGED
BY DEMOCRATS
CHICAGO, June 11. —Many of the
most important planks of the Re-1
publican platform are believed cer- ;
tain to bring a direct challenge from I
the Democrats in their convention
at San Francisco. The Republican
platform was adopted by the conven
tion last evening.
Democrats, judging by their talk in
congress, are certain to meet with
bitter denounciation the claims of the
Republican platform that the last ses
sion of the national legislature has a
praiseworthy record. They probably
will point to several recommenda
tion of the president that congress
failed to enact and seek to place the
blame for present conditions to fail
ure.
The hand of the old guard seems
to be apparent to some extent, in
the business and financial sections of
the Republican platfortn, and in re
ply to this the Democrats probably
will make an appeal to labor, claim
ing the Republicans are controlled
by reactionary business interests.
Another • Democratic attack prob
ably will be directed at the guaranty
section of the railroad act, which was
bitterly opposed by the minority-, but
which was highly praised several
times during the convention.
A vigorous defense of the Demo
cratic conduct of financial affairs is
said to meet Republican attacks on
the direction of the federal reserve
system. The high cost of living issue
will be kicked back and forth in true
political fashion, it now seems. <
The League of Nations issue is not
very clearly defined in the Republi
can platform, and in this fight much
will depend on the-character of the
nominee, it was explained.
American Battleship
Arrives at Vera Cruz
To Fight the Plague
VERA CRUZ, June 11. —Arrival of
the United States destroyer Harding,
with physicians, nurses and medical
supplies, was the signal today for
inauguration ot the first effective
measures to be taken by city au
thorities to combat spread of the
bubonic plague, which has been
claiming many victims here.
Newsboys and bootblacks of Vera
Cruz have been organized to kill
rats.
Strong military guards have been
placed at all roads leading the
city and railway tracks were torn
up to prevent any one leaving.
Talladega, Ala., Shows
Population of 6,546
In Census of 1920
WASHINGTON, June 11.—Census
figures announced today were: Tal
ladega, Ala., 6,546; increase 692, or
11.8 per cent. Appleton, Wis., 19,561;
increase 2,788, or 16.6 per cent.
Depew Has Narrow
Escape in Coliseum
COLISEUM. Chicago, June 11. —•
Chauncey M. Depew had a narrow es
cape from serious injury when he
slippea and fell on a flight of stairs
in the hall. He was caught by a
policeman and was not seriously in
i iured. ,
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1920.
SPA INDEMNITY
MEETING MAY
BE CALLED OFF
LONDON, June 11. —Possibility of
the abandonment of the Spa confer
ence between representatives of the
allied governments and Germany is
being discussed in European capi
tals.
The success of the indepndent So
cialists and the conservatives in the
German elections leads to the belief
in France that Germany is less than
ever inclined to carry out the treaty.
This belief, with the prospect that
Giovanni Giolitti, former Italian pre
mier, will form a new ministry in
that country is said to have moved
Premier Millerand, of France, to op
pose any further yielding on the
question of the German indemnity,
such as might be expected to result
from the Spa meeting. It js recalled
that Signor Giolitti opposed Italy’s
entrance into the war. and it is said
his foreign policy includes resump
tion of full relations with Germany.
Premier Millerand is said to feel he
might hazard his own position if the
Spa conference were held, and belief
is expressed here that Signor Giolitti
may decline to attend the meeting.
McCoy, Convicted of
Bigamy, Makes Long
Statement in Court
AMERICUS, Ga., June 11—A. H.
McCoy, who was convicted on a
charge of bigamy in Sumter superior
court here Thursday, made a long
and impassioned statement to the
court in which he asserted his in
nonence of the crime and announced
that he would appeal for a new trial
on the ground that he had not had
sufficient time to prepare his case.
He absolved the jurors who con
victed him and thanked his counsel
for their efforts in his behalf, but
maintained that he had done nothing
for which he should wear stripes.
The statement, unusual as it was.
caused a sensation at the time.
McCoy, who went from Cuthbert
to France as a member of the fa
mous 151st machine gun battalion of
the Rainbow divison, and won pro
motion by capturing 15 Germans sin
gle-handed. was convicted of mar
rying a student of Andrew college
about a year after he had. married a
nurse in France. He claims that
the marriage in France was “pre
tended,” and that he and Miss Orpha
D. Wood, said to be a trained nurse
of Atlanta, met in and agreed that
the marriage had been illegal, and
that each was free. Both alleged
wives were present durink trial and
both conversed freely with Miss
Mollie Buckley, witness for the
state, who testified that she wit
nessed the marriage ceremony in
France where she was serving with
Miss Wood in the Red Cross service.
CUREiTHERTrfS
Mrs. Paul Gram, residing at 916
Fourth street, Milwaukee, Wis., re
cently gave out the following state
ment: “1 had suffered with Fits
(Epilepsy) for over 14 years. Doctors
and medicine did me no good. It
seemed that I was beyond all hope
of relief, when at last 1 secured a
preparation that cured me sound an.;
well. Over 10 years have passed
and the attacks have not returned. I
wish every one who suffers frdm this
terrjbie disease would write R. P. N.
Lepso. 13 Island avenue, Milwaukee
Wis., and ask for a bottle of the
same kind of medicine which he gave
me. He has generously promised to
send it prepaid, free to any one who
writes him.”—(Advt.)
AMERICAN LEGION
WILL BUY $5,000
MEAL AT 5 POINTS
The most expensive meal in the
history of the world, so it is claim
ed, will be served at 2 o’clock Sat
urday afternoon on a truck at Five
Points.
It will be consumed by Miss Fran
ces Ellis, a pretty Atlanta debutante,
chaperoned by Mrs. John Marshall
Slaton.
It will be served by Mayor James
L. Key and Captain B. M. Bailey,
clad in the customary white aprons.
It will cost $5,000.
It will be paid for by the Ameri
can Legion, and the check will go
to the Salvation Army, t
It will consist of—
One doughnut, price $2,500.
One cup of coffee, price $2,500.
Every time Miss Ellis takes a bite
of the doughnut, she will chew up
about $250 worth of food. Every
time she takes a sip of coffee, she
will swallow about S2OO worth of
drink. The crumbs alone will be
worth the price of a next winter’s
suit.
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BfiPTISTSTDSPEWD
LARGE AMOUNTS FDR
HOMEMJSSIDNWDRK
Greatest Single Item in Bud
get Is $776,250, to Be
Used for Church Build
ing i
Appropriating $2,826,627 for home
mission activities during the next
twelve months, the Home Mission
Board of the Southern Baptist con
vention, at its annual meeting in this
city, has authorized the largest ex
penditures for this purpose in the
history of the denomination. The
board concluded its meeting Thurs
day night after a two-day session at
which the needs of the various de
partments were canvassed.
Last year approximately $1,600,000
was spent for home missions, so that
the appropriations for 1920 are more
than a million and a quarter dollars
in excess of those for 1919. This is
in conformity with the program of
the Southern Baptist convention in
carrying out the 75 Million campaign
for a great expansion in all de
nominational activities during the
next five-year period.
The greatest increase in depart
mental appropriations made by the
home board is for church building,
for'which $776,250 has been set aside
for use during the next twelve
months. Increased appropriations for
enlistment, evangelism, mountain
schools and co-operative missions are
also authorized.
Appropriations Approved
The board made the various ap
propriations after recommendations
had been submitted by various spe
cial subcommittees appointed to con
sider the needs of each department.
Only a few changes were made in
these recommendations. The ap
propriations for the next twelve
months, as approved and authorized
by the board, are as follows:
Church extensions 776,250
Evangelism 168,100
Mountain schools 219,100
Publicity' 38,500
Cuba 98,363
Panama 38,900
Foreigners, Indians and ne-
groes 322,398
Administration 84,400
War work 46,990
Southern Baptist sanita-
rium ....' 288,500
Co-operative missions .. ~ 230,026
Enlistment . 175,100
Loan fund 250,000
Seminaries and Baptist Bi-
ble institute 150,000
Total $2,826,627
The board appointed a special com
mission to investigate and report on
the project to erect a $1,500,000 hos
pital in New Orleans as directed by
the Southern Baptist convention at
its last meeting in Washington, D.
C. This commission is composed of
Dr. B. D. Gray, corresponding secre
tary of the board; Dr. John F. Pur
ser, president; Dr. C. W. Elsey, of
Kentucky; Dr. L. W. Atwood, of
Tennessee, and Dr. H. L. Martin, of
Mississippi.
It was also decided to issue during
the present year a song book for use
in ’the evangelistic department; a
book on evangelism by Dr. W. W.
Hamilton, superintendent of the de
partment, and' a mission study book
by Dr. Victor I. Masters, superin
tendent of publicity.
The board re-elected Dr. John F.
Purser, of Atlanta, as president; Dr.
W. H. Major, Atlanta, recording sec
retary; Charles A. Davis, auditor.
The corresponding secretary and ex
ecutive head of the board, Dr. B. D.
Gray, was elected by the convention.
BOARD OF STRATEGY
MAPS ORDER OF
EVENTS FDR G. 0. P.
If Three Leaders Fail to Win
After Fair Chance "Dark
Horses” Will Be Brought
Into Convention
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Copyright, 1920, for The Atlanta Journal.!
COLISEUM, Chicago, June 11.—
Even if the public could be told all
that was said, all that w r as promised,
all that was planned in the confer
ences which lasted well into the
morning, the said public would only
know the strategy—not the result.
For as the Republican national con
vention enters into its final stage
—the actual naming of candidates
for president ana vice president—
the pledges and assurances exchanged
behind closed doors by the busy man
agers of individual aspirants for the
nomination mean only a concerted ef
fort to name a conservative accept
able to the regular Republican or
ganization. The order of events
based upon some knowledge of what
the board of strategy is mapping
out on the inside of this convention
is this:
1. Let Wood show his maximum
strength on the first few ballots, and
let Johnson hold his delegates in
tact.'
2. Ipet Lowden come up and pass
Wood in the totals. Make a final
drive inside the New York, Pennsyl
vania and Massachusetts delegations
for Lowden.
3. If Lowden doesn’t get the
“break” and merely holds his lines
Intact, with no evident chance of tak
ing delegates from Leonard Wood, a
ballot or two for Johnson’s benefit
will be tried.
4. If all three leaders fail to get
41 majority, the board of strategy will
offer Knox or Sproul or Harding, with
the certainty that Harding will at
least be given the vice presidency,
if Johnson declines it.
5. If, the convention refuses Knox
or Sproul or Harding, then Senator
Penrose and the Old Guard who are
sitting on the board of managers
will be compelld to go to other com
promise candidates, like Hughes,
Hoover or Lenroot, but none of the
insiders believe the situation will
get that far.
Johnson on Inside
Now there is a shrewd gentleman
by the name of Hiram Johnson who
knows what is happening on the in
side, and who knows what the effort
of the Old Guard is going to be. He
is being, assured that he will have
his chance as soon as Wood is elim
inated and Lowden’s strength is
tested, and the hint is given him that
he had better hold his delegates until
each one of his rivals has finally got
ten out of the race.
But the California senator has
played the poker of politics in his
own state and also in the United
States senate and he is not so easily
held in line. Indeed, Mr. Johnson is
keeping the Lowden forces on edge
by continually hinting or gesturing in
the direction of Leonard Wood. If
Johnson threw his delegates to Wood,
the eminent major general would win
this nomination in a walk. So long,
however, as Johnson thinks there is
a remote chance for him to win, he
will not withdraw in anybody’s
favor.
So it is necessary for the managers
who oppose Wood to keep dangling
before Johnson the prospect of win
ning the nomination himself. It is
interesting to record in this connec
tion that Senator Johnson has had
within the last twenty-four hours
conferences with Tobias Hert, man
ager of the Lowden boom, and with
John T. King, who represents' Sena
tor Penrose. Both King and Hert;
are vehemently opposed to Wood's
candidacy and to Frank Hitchcock.
Johnson Holds Cards
Mr. Hitchcock, by the way, is rep
resented as having told Massachu
setts delegates that if he wins this
fight for Wood, Will Hays will be
displaced as national chairman and
the former postmaster general will
run the campaign.
So the messages are carried back
and forth and the bluffs and feints
are made in the great nominating
game. Johnson is really out of it
and is powerful only in that he can
name the presidential candidate by
releasing his delegates and with
drawing in favor of another con
tender.
The belief persists that when he is
once convinced that he can’t win,
he will go on the ticket with Phi
lander C. Knox, former secretary of
state, former attorney general, for
mer friend of Roosevelt and Taft
and unquestionably the man who
would find favor not merely with the
all-important Pennsylvania delega
tion, which is one of three holding
the balance of power, but with the
New York and Massachusetts delega
tions. Mr. Knox, who was first
brought out by Penrose, would in
herit the Lowden strength in New
York and Massachusetts and togeth
er with Pennsylvania this would be
enough to win. ,7 #
It may be necessary to make the
ticket Knox and Coolidge to catch
the fancy of Massachusetts, and if
that isn’t -possible there are some
Lowden delegates in populous Ohio
who might be brought into camp by
making the ticket Knox and Harding.
Ail these moves are under considera
tion as the convention makes an ef
fort to finish its business by Satur
day night. A deadlock in the ballot
ing would upset all calculations and
keep the convention here to the mid
dle of next week.
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REPUBLICANS MEET
EARLY TO NOMINATE
MAN FORPRESIDENT
Platform Agreement Reach
ed at Night Session Thurs
day Three Candidates
Are Deadlocked
COLISEUM, CHICAGO, June IL—
The big three—Lowden, Johnson and
Wood—were al placed in nomination
before the Republican convention to
day during the first four hours of
a swelterihg session.
Each of the nominations was ac
companied with tumultuous demon->
strations on the floor and in the
galleries in which the usual conven
tion scenes of marching, shouting,
sweating delegates prancing about
the hall, carrying flags, banners and .
likenesses of their favorite candidate
were witnessed.
Forcing the convention along at
express speed to make up for the
time lost in settlement of the treaty
Issue, efforts were made to hold the
time given to demonstration down to
a minimum, one seconding speeches
were limited to five minutes, and to
two minutes when there were more
than two seconds. The effort was
to reach the balloting before ad
journment tonight.
All the nominating speakers got
ready responses from the convention.
Charles S. Wheeler,X of California,
who nominated Johnson, got roars
and cheers from the convention when
he referred to the Wilson administra
tion as the “royal family,” and by
inference to William G, McAdoo as
“the crown prince.”
“Are you prepared for four years
more of them?” he shouted. The
crowd answered "no! no!” But when
Mr. Wheeler referred to Senator
Johnson as having had an adequate
campaign fund, the crowd let go
a round of boos, jeers and guffawe.
Former Senator Beveridge admon
ished the crowd to remain quiet and
let the speakers proceed.
* Candidates at Hotels
While the speeches were being
made at tlhe oliseum today, the lead
ing candidates for presidential nom
ination were in the seclusion of
their hotel rooms, but all war in
instant touch by telephone with the
convention hall.
Senator ohnson was closeted with
several of his advisers at his head
quarters. General Wood arrived in
the city from Fort Sheridan and
called about him the men who were
to direct the fight ors> the floor of
the convention. After they had gone
to the contention ,the general held
to his rooms. Governor Lowden
used the early hours of the day for
conferences with his chiefs and then
als adjourned to his apartments to
await a report of the convention’s
happenings.
As far as ascertained, none of the
ainounced candidates with the ex
ception of Governor Sproul of Penn
sylvania, visited the Coliseum dur
ing the day; Governor Sproul ap
peared there before the convention
but returned to his hotel.
Heat Terrific
In spite of the sweltering temper
ature inside the convention hall, the
delegates began to pile into their
places a full half hour before today’s
session was to begin. They all were
rearing to have it over with, and
the possibility that the nominations
might be made today and the con- 1
vention ended seemed to take some
of the edge off the'ir distress from
the heat. It gave promise of being
the hottest day of the convention in
all respects.
Most of those on the convention oor
and in the galleries came with fans,
and many of the delegates stripped
off their coasts before they took their
seats. For the time being ,at least,
the hot weather was the big feature
in the convention picture.
At 9:30, however, when the conven
tion should have been called to or
der, there still were great patches
of empty seats in the delegates’ sec
tion and the platform was almost
empty.
The crowd sent up an ever-growing
rumble of conversation while it wait
ed for the party leaders to get
through with their conferences in
their hotels a mile away.
During the wait the delegates, still
were asking one another who was
to be nominated, and the usiial reply
was distinctly of the “d—n-if-I-1-
know” character. The managers foe
all the candidates tried to outdo on*
another in confidence over the result.
The Wood people were claiming a
Victory by a third or fourth ballot.
The predictions of the others were
less definite.
The Wood managers who hart
planned to have a string of second
speeches for their candidate, revised
their program at the last minute so
that only Frank Knox, of New
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