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DEMONSTRATIDNSAT
FRM MENTION
McAdoo's Name to Be Put
in Nomination by His
Supporters—Dark Horses
Frequently Mentioned
Convention’s Program
For Wednesday Session
SAN . FRANCISCO, June 30.
Today’s Democratic convention
program:
Meet at 11 a. m.
Prayer by Rabbi Martin A.
Meyer, of San Francisco.
Presentation of candidates for
presidential nomination.
Nomination speeches limited to
twenty minutes each; second
speeches to five minutes and not
more than three for each candi
date.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 30
Stripped for action, the Democratic
national convention swung today into
the business of selecting a presi
dential nominee.
Meeting an hour earlier than usual
and working under an order of busi
ness which permitted the presenta
tion of candidates before the party
platform has been adopted, the con
vention entered upon a day of demon
stration and oratory which marks
the placing of candidates in formal
nomination
With all nominating addresses re
stricted to twenty minutes, and sec
onding speeches to five and limited to
not more than three in number to
a candidate, each of the possibili
ties had not more than thirty-five
minutes for full description of his
merits and capacity for the nation’s
highest gift. Working under that
high-geared program it was within
the range of possibility that the nomi
natihg speeches would all be deliver
edtoday, thus clearing the way for
the - presentation of the platform the
first thing Thursday morning If the |
resolutions committee can complete ’
it by that time.
Speeches were on the program nom
inating:
William G. McAdoo.
Attorney General Palmer.
Governor Cox, of Ohio.
Chairman Homer S. Cummings.
Governor Edwards, of New Jersey.
Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska.
James W. Gerard, former ambas
sador to Germany.
Senator Owen, of Oklahoma.
John W. Davis, ambassador to
Great Britain.
McAdoo to Be on. Ballot
At the eleventh-hour friends of
William G. McAdoo abandoned ef
forts to prevent his being placed in
formal nomination. Dr. Burrip Jen
kins, of Kansas City, will deliver
the nominating speech. The forces
here which hope for McAdoo’s nomi
nation had been clinging to the* be
lief that his prospects for success
would be promoted by not putting
him forward at the outset in a test
of strength with Cox and Palmer.
Mrs. Antoinette Funk, of Chicago,
and Mrs. Peter Olesen, of Cloquet,
Minn., will bake seconding speeches.
Decision to have Dr. Jenkins speak
was not reached definitely until to
day because certain of. McAdoo’s
friends thought his ■ last telegram
urging that a speech not be made
should be adhered to. It was thought
by some, however, that a nominating
speech should be delivered in fairness
to the delegates, who, if no mention
were made of Mr. McAdoo during
the nominating speeches might be
in the dark as to his position in the
convention. No effort was made
to get in touch with Mr. McAdoo, but
it was not thought he would make
further protest against the plans
of his friends. They were generally
agreed that no further statement of
any kind would be forthcoming from
him until after the convention nomi
nates a candidate.
The total McAdoo strength on the
first ballot, according to the latest
estimate of McAdoo supporters, will
approximate 800 votes. Some say it
will not be more than 250 while oth
ers insist it will run over 300.
Thus far, the McAdoo men said
they have suffered only one defec
tion. The Maryland delegation, which
had been counted in their column,
will cast its first votes for John W.
Davis, according to information given
out early today. The McAdoo sup
porters said they expected Mary
land’s votes to return to them after
a few ballots.,
Both the Cox and Palmer forces
viewed >jvith evident satisfaction the
scrimmage within the McAdoo
forces which was threatening to
bring McAdoo to the front at once
and make the nomination a three
cornered contest from the begin
ning. They have insisted all along
that they would not permit the Mc-
Adoo movement to enjoy the ad
vantage of a reserved seat in the
rear to wait for a psychological mo
ment when the convention, unable to
throw a two-thirds vote to either
of them, would turn to someone else.
Bark Horse Talk
Palmer headquarters, in a formal
statement that the attorney-general’s
position was “stronger than it ever
has been before,’’ announced that hU
forces were intact and claimed votes
in the convention which would not
be shown on the first ballot be
cause they would be cast for fa
vorite sons and come to the Palmer
column later.
Palmer forces professedly undis
turbed by the wet and dry arguments/
which have ranged around its candi
date and the outside issues which
have been injected into his cam
paign, were tightening up their lines
and were ready to start the ballot
ing.
Despite the promise that the con
vention would have a big three at the
outset, dark horse talk was never
more persistent than ,it is at the
moment the candidates are about to
be placed In nomination. The names
of Vice President Marshall, John
W. Davis and Homer S. Cummings,
chairman of the national commit
tee, were always heard when dark
hcrses were discussed and del
egates were taking into considera
tion that each of the big three could
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SOME OF THE MRS. CANDIDATES. Below are shown the latest photos of the wives of some
of the prominent contenders for tjie Democratic presidential nomination. They are, top row, from
left to Wife of United States Senator Robert Owen, of Oklahoma; wife of the Commoner;
wife of the Attorney General. Bottom row: Wife of the American ambassador to Great Britain;
wife of the governor of Ohio, and wife of the former Democratic; speaker of the house.
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Georgia Regulars, Denied
Seats by the Credentials
Committee, Did, Not Appeal
BY ROGERS WINTER
(Staff Correspondent of The Journal)
SAN FRANCISCO, June 29.—8 y a
vote of forty-three to four the cre
dentials committee of the Democratic
national convention last night reject- .
ed the credentials of the regularly
elected Georgia delegates and seat-'
ed on the permanent roll of the con
vention the delegation representing
Attorney General Palmer.
The vote was taken at 11 o’clock
Monday night in a committee room
of the city auditorium where the
contest was .heard. . It-was taken-am.
a roll call in open session. One or
two members of the committee sug
gested - going into executive session
to discuss and decide the Georgia
contest, but the overwhelming ma
jority of the committee were ready
to vote without a discussion, and
saw no necessity for an executive
session.
So small was the vote in favor of
the regular delegation that they did
not request their four lone friends
on the credentials committee to take
a minority report to the floor of
the convention as they realized that
a further fight was useless. The
losers took their medicine with a
smile and promised their friends of
the Palmer delegation to see them
back home.
Georgians Good Losers
It was not a surprise to the regu
lar delegates when the credentials
committee turned them down, al
though the majority of the vote
against them exceeded their expecta
tions. They fought an uphill fight
and a losing fight from the moment
they landed in San Francisco, but
they fought it gamely, and kept
their temper in the face at times of
extreme provocation and when the
vote was taken in the crowded room
of the credentials committee, with
the Palmer delegates applauding in
triumph, they toolY their medicine
with the smile of good losers.
From the' beginning it has been
apparent to every member of the
regular delegation that the cards
were stacked against them. The
scant consideration accorded them,
and accorded their credentials, and
accorded the convention which elect
ed them and accorded the hundred
thousand Democrats whom they rep
resented, was due to a propaganda
conducted against them from Geor
gia sources since the adjournment
of the Atlanta convention. /
The campaign charges of disloyal
ty heaEpfcd upon those who did not
the contrary, they were kept up with
what appears to have been increas
ing bitterness. The regular delega
tion had hardly got started on their
journey to Pan Francisco before they
realized that their opponents in Geor
gia had given them the name of bol
sheviks and reds. They got a dose
of this propaganda hurled in their
teeth from the first delegation with
which they came in contact en royte
to San Francisco.
Regulars Victims of Slander
The more delgations they met,
the more they became aware of the
sort of fight which had been going on
against them under cover. But they
did not lose heart or give up cour
age. They came on here to the end
of their journey and presented their
credentials on their merits and ac
cepted philosophically, but not with
out protest, a verdict which they
knew would be against them.
As stated above, it was extremely
difficult at times for members of the
delegation to hold their temper when
the unmitigated charge of party dis
loyalty and national disloyalty was
uttered about them in their hearing
The first thing that greeted them
on their arrival was an interview
given out by the headquarters
spokesman of Attorney General
Palmer, describing them as bolshe
vik! and reds and charging all those
who voted against the attorney gen
eral in the Georgia primary with be
ing opponents of law and order. This
interview was quite in harmony
with the whole propaganda which
had been issued from Georgia sources
to prejudice their case. Their fel
low-Democrats from every state in
the union had been made to believe
that they were not loyal to their
party, that they were not loyal to
their country, and that the voters
whose commission they brought to
San Francisco were enemies of the
party and enemies of the nation.
They found that everybody in the
state of Georgia who voted against
Attorney General Palmer in the Geor
gia primary had been lumped togeth
er in the same category and branded
to the bone with a propaganda issued
against them by their late opponents
in what might have been, but un
fortunately was not, a sportsmanlike
contest.
A Typical incident
Here is an instance of the atti-
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THREATEN STRIKE
ON PENNSYLVANIA
ROAD ON JULY STH
PHILADELPHIA, June 30.—Penn
sylvania road officials here today
again considered demands of Harry
S. Jeffery, chairman of the advisory
board, Philadelphia and Camden fed
eration No. 90, represented with a
that 100,0.00 men
would go on strike at 11 a. m., July
5, unless the demands are met.
A conference of union representa
tives from New York, St. Louis, Chi
cago, Buffalo, Baltimore, Trenton,
Wilmington and Philadelphia Will be
held in Pittsburg July 1, to decide
on strike action, it was learned to
day.
The strike of 58,000 shopmen, tow
ermen and freight handlers sched
uled for 11 o’clock yesterday, was
called off by Mr. Jeffery, after a
special meeting of the advisory
board, when by a vote of 26 to 4, it
was decided to defer cessation of
work until a general meeting could
be held. In connection with the “out
law” strike here, road officials claim
a continued return to work of the
men. All roads reported continued
freight improvement.
TRAIN ROBBED OF
$59,725 MARINE
CORPS PAYROLL
AUGUSTA, Ga„ June 30.—The pay
roll amounting to $59,725, destined
for the marine corps training sta
tion at Paris Island, was stolen from
the express car of the Charleston
and Western Carolina railway, a few
miles out of Augusta, between 5 and
5:30 o’clock this morning, after hold
up men had gagged and bound an
express messenger and an armed
guard.
The money had been expressed un
der guard from Atlanta and was
transferred to the C. & W. C. at Au
gusta to be conveyed to Paris Island.
The C. & W. C. train left Augusta
at 5:15 o’clock. When a few miles
out of the city in the Savannah river
bottom, it was said, the hold-up men
entered the express car, overpowered
the messenger, E. R. Derrick, and
the armed guard, W. M. Roberts,
and then threw the safe containing
the money out of the door.
It is said the robbery was not
discovered until about thirty minutes
later after the train had crossed to
the South Carolina side of the river,
when a member of thQ train crew
passed through the car and found
the messenger and guard bound and
gagged.
Poland Appeals to
League of Nations to
Stop Bolshevik War
LONDON, June 30. —Polish repre
sentatives here have approached Sir
Eric Drummond, secretary general of
the League of Nations, in an effort
to obtain the league’s offices toward
termination of the war between Po
land and soviet Russia, it was learn
ed today.
Mr. Drummond was reported to
have been told that unless action
was taken immediately Poland faced
both internal and external dangers
over which her leaders felt great
apprehension.
On Friday, the league will official
ly take up the question of the Aland
Islands in an attempt to make
tentative settlement. Both Sweden,
a league member, and Finland, a non
member, have agreed to accept the
league council’s decision. Finland
will assume the obligations of a
member temporarily.
One Boy Drowns, One Saved
BRUNSWICK, Ga„ June 30. —An
unknown negro boy, apparently about
fourteen years old, was drowned
Sunday afternoon at the foot of Monk
street dock here, and Harold Gun
ter, A white boy of about the same
age, would have drowned but for the
quick work of young J. B. Anderson,
thirteen, son of Captain A. M. An
derson, of the St. Simons Transit
company, who secured a pole and
saved the Gunter boy as he was go
ing down for the last time.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1920
HARDING MEETS
GOV. COOLIDGE
FOR CONFERENCE
WASHINGTON, June 30. —Senator
Harding and Governor Coolidge, Re
publican nominees for president and
vice president, met today for the
first time since the Chicago con
vention selected them as the party
standard bearers for 1920.
Arriving here late last night, Gov
ernor Coolidge was the guest of Sen
ator Harding at breakfast and later
accompanied he presidential nominee
to his office at the capitol for the
first of the conferences between the
two candidates. Chairman Hays, of
the Republican national committee,
also arrived here early today and
will take part in some of the cpn.r
Terences. *
Subjects discussed by the two can
diates are understood to include the
addresses to be given at the coming
notification ceremonies and plans for
the campaign.
Plans for removing Senator Hard
ing’s headquarters to Marion, Ohio,
were virtually complete today. Some
records have already gone.
Tentative 'plans have been for Sen
ator Harding to arrive in Marion
Sunday, but he may quietly slip
away for another week-end and 'ap
pear in his home town on Monday,
when a scheduled home-coming cele
, bration is planned.
Harding made his first campaign
speech yesterday into a phonograph.
The record will be distributed
throughout the country for July 4
celebrations. He said America needs
no council of foreign powers to point
out its path o's duty, and he renewed
allegiance to the Monroe doctrine.
“Let us hesitate before we sur
render the nationality which is the
very soul of highest Americanism,”
Senator Harding said. “We do not
mean to hold aloof, we choose no iso
lation, we shun no duty. 1 like to
think of Columbia’s helping hand to
new republics which are seeking the
blessings portrayed in our example.
But I have confidence in Our America
that requires no council of foreign
powers to point the way of American
duty.”
Governor Coolidge made a record
on “law and order” before coming to
Washington, declaring “duty is col
lective, as well' as personal.”
Ireland in Present
Mood /Impossible,’
Says Lloyd George
LONDON, June 30.—Premier Lloyd
George told the' house of commons
during the home rule debate that
Ireland in its present mood was “im
possible.” He said when the Irish
people realized that the Sinn Fein
demands could not be realized, “when,
above all, they realize that America
is not prepared to support Irish de
mands for an independent republic,”
common sense will again prevail. He
declared this realization would come
to Ireland very soon.
It was understood that at a con
ference between the premier and Sir
Edward Carson, Unionist leader,
Lloyd George promised to send three
battalions of soldiers to BelfasJ: to
main tain order.
Allies Not Agreed
On German Indemnity
PARIS, June 30.—The international
financial conference to be held at
Brussels was postponed because the
allies have not reached definite agree
ment as to the exact amount of in
demnity to be exacted from Germany,
Leon Bourgois declared in a letter
to Premier Millerand, made public
today.
Bourgois declared fixation of the
indemnity was necessary for Eu
rope’s economic stability, as well as
for success of the economic discus
sions of the League of Nations coun
cil.
Congregationalists
Convene at Boston
BOSTON, June 30.—Congregation
alists from many lands were here to
day for the fourth decennial Inter
national Congregational council.
Nearly 3,000 delegates, representing
13,000 Congregational churches in all
parts of the world, have registered.
The council, which will continue
through Tuesday of next week, will
celebrate the pilgrim tercentenary.
HOMER GUMMINGS
GROOMED IS OJSK
nsE_n frisco
Chances Good in
Case of Deadlock —Me
A
Adoo Still Considered i.:
Lead
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Copyright, 1920, for The Atlanta Journal.)
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal., June 30. -
Cummings, of Connecticut, stands
out thus far as the dark horse of the
Democratic national convention. If
McAdoo doesn’t win and the dele
gates are in prolonged deadlock, the
remarkable impression made by
Cummings in his keynote speech,
which was full of praise for Presi
dent Wilson, would commend him to
the large number of delegates who
are supporting Palmer and McAdoo,
but who are at h4art for the Wilson
policies no matter who the candidate
may be. Cummings is a Wilson
man through and through.
.gionventlon strategy has made the
domination of a dark horse just as
much possible here as it v«ifis in Chi
cago. The same sort of psychologi
cal influences, are at work as made the
Republican convention Impatient w’ith
deadlocks and anxious to go home.
And the tactics of each of the big
three leaders —Palmer, Cox and Mc-
Adoo. are such as to make entirely
possible the wearing down of the
strength of each.
The McAdoo sympathizers have
more enthusiasm than shrewdness.
They are minus any read leadership,
and while this is a tribute to the
disinterestedness of McAdoo himself,
it makes for clumsiness and ama
teurishness and confusion. For in
stance it was firmly insisted by Dan
iel'C. Roper, McAdoo’s chief adviser
whb is in New York, that no nomi
nating speech be made. This was en
tirely agreeable to all but a few of
the McAdoo supporters here and was
the plan until today. Then the few
persuaded the many that it would be
better to have McAdoo’s virtues ex
tolled. *
Coalition Against McAdoo
It was contended that no better
opportunity would present itself than
to tell all the delegates at one time
just why McAdoo should be nomi
nated. And so the decision now is
to permit the nominating speech. Me.
Adoo and Roper are powerless to
Srevent it. But that isn’t the only
thing which shows division in the
ranks.
Nobody apparently, is able to han
dle second and choice votes so
- irt¥«tgttr-nfay be
cumulative. It sounds like an easy
thing to do—to hold strength in re
serve—but the delegates are uncon
trollable, they want to go for him
on the first ballots. They can’t wait.
Also the talk of McAdoo has grown
so loud that the opponents of the
former secretary of the treasury
have virtually been forced into a
coalition against him.
Efforts to form a Palmer and Cox
combination with temporary assist
ance from favorite son groups are
proceeding in alarming fashion. The
presence here of several cabinet of
ficers, all working for, McAdoo, has
not helped his cause. Down among
the delegations, the spontaneous de
sire for McAdoo is unmistakable and
they are prepared to make a hard
fight, but the big question is how
much stamina will these delegates
have for a prolonged fight, such as
gave Wilson his triumph at Balti
more in 1912.
Cummings’ shows strength
Each of the managers is trying to
make the other show most strength
on the first ballots. Even the Pal
fner forces are trying to hold back
at first and bring their greatest
strength to bear on successive bal
lots. These also are the Cox 'tactics
and it looks now as if both had suc
ceeded in forcing McAdoo to take
the lead earlier than was expected.
Once McAdoo begins to lose and is
passed by Cox or Palmer the en
thusiasm of the McAdoo men may
be somewhat dampened and then it is
not impossible that they would turn
to a dark horse. z
Homer Cummings showed on the
second day of the convention that
he was just as high in the esteem
of the delegates as when he delivered
his keynote speech. His appearance
on the floor was greeted with loud
applause. When he nominated the
sending of a telegram of congratu
lation to the governor of Tennessee
because the latter called a special
session of the legislature to ratify
the woman suffrage act, there was
instantaneous approval, but the ef
fectiveness of Cummings was appar-
second time when the conven
tion had tabled a resolution calling
on the Democratic national commit
tee to include one woman from each
state.
Evidently some of the old-line pol
iticians didn’t want it done, but Cum
mings with a brief and convincing
statement told the convention that
its sincerity on the woman suffrage
Issue would be questioned if it re
fused to permit women to have a
voice in the councils of the party.
The motion was passed with a gen
uine demonstration of approval. And
then the Democrats have given the
woman something which the Repub
licans denied them at Chicago.
Cummings Boom Starts.
Every state will have a wohian
on the Democratic national commit
tee, not merely in an advisory ca
pacity as heretofore, but with equal
voting pow’er with the male mem
bers.
When the convention had adjourned
for the day and the delegates got
back to their hotels they found hand
bills reading as follows:
“How about Homer Cummings for
president of the United States. His
keynote speech already has won for
him the presidency throughout the
land. Today he personifies the vic
tory of Democracy at the polls. Put
aside prejudice and consider in terms
of party success, and you will see
that Homer Cummings’ words of
i today will ring around the world,
j the truly great utterances of the
(truly great leader of the 1920 Demo
cracy. A great moment has pro-
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STATE SENATE
WILL RESUME
SUFFRAGE FIGHT
The senate was to begin its Wed
nesday morning session with consid
eration of the second of Senator Bar
rett’s two suffrage bills. The firs£
of the measures was killed in the
senate Monday, and defeat of the
second was deferred only by the
hour of adjournment. Friends of the
bill were prepared Wednesday to
make a brave fight for its passage,
but it was expected to meet the
same fate that befell its companion
bill. /■ '
After acting on the suffrage bill,
the senate was to take up the Dor
ris bill providing additional regula
tions for the issuance of marriage
licenses. This measure has the ac
tive support of the Christian council
of Atlanta and after having been
amended in several respects at the
1919 session, is ready for final con
sideration in the upper branch.
The house will have up for con
sideration several measures dealing
with legal procedure, as •well as a
bill by Mr. Johnson, of Bartown,
amending the constitution as to the
levying of local school taxe%.
It is understood that an effort
will be made to put on the calendar
as a special order the two resolu
tions by Mr. Carswell, chairman of
the house appropriations committee,
providing for the temporary diver
sion of the motor vehicle license tax
fund to mefet the general expenses of
the state. These companion resolu
tions were considered by the appro
priations committee on Tuesday aft
ernoon and approved by a vote of 9
to 8, Chairman Carswell casting the
deciding vote, j
John Knight, of Berrien, has given
notice that he will fight the resolu
tions to a finish, declaring that the
temporary diversion of the automobile
fund will constitute a violation of
the pledge of the general assembly
to use the license taxes only for
highway purposes. The opponents of
the movement further Insist that if;
the resolutions are passed, there will
be no hope of getting the people to
authorize a state good road bond is
sue.
Mr. Carswell proposes z to use the
automobile fund only until the ad
valorem taxes are paid into the state
treasury this fall, replacing the fund
intact not later than December 20,
1920. This procedure has aeen rec
ommended by the budget and ef
ficiency commission and according
to Mr. Carswell, the state highway
commission has no objection.
Enough of the fund would be left to
meet all demands of the highway
commission for road work between
now and December 20.
The ways and means committee
of the house also made a favorable
report Wednesday morning on the
tax revision bills introduced by Mr.
Arnold, of Clay. These measures
wer# discussed before the cqmmit-
Arnold bills were drafted along
lines recommended by the state tax
commission appointed in 1919 which
held public hearings thorughout the
state. \ s .
Among other things, they provide
for the classification of all property
and authorize the legislature to fix a
separate tax rate on each class. An
income tax is pl so provided for, as
well as an occupational tax on busi
ness profits. It is proposed to sub
stitute this system for the present
ad valorem tax system now in ef
fect in Georgia. .
Comptroller General W. A. Wright
is heading the opposition to the pro
posed measures, while Tax Commis
sioner Henry J. Fullbright is heart
ily in accord with the legislation.
Both appeared Tuesday before the
committee and argued their respec
tive positions.
Port-au-Prince Is
» Raided by Bandits
KINGSTON, Jamaica, June 29. —
Bandits have raided Port-au-Prince,
the Haitian .capital, according to pas
sengers arriving here this afternoon
from that city. Several buildings
were set on fire by the attacking
party, but United States marines re
stored order after killing the leaders
of the raid.
It is reported that a secret effort
to overthrow the president of the
Haitian republic is being directed
from abroad. Revolutionary sym
pathizers, however, are said to be
in fear of American vigilance on the
island.
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Rumor Has It That Bryan
Will Spring Clark in Case
of Deadlock at Frisco
Convention
(The Atlanta Journal Nows Bureau,
623 Riggs Building.)
BY THEODOBE TELLER
• WASHINGTON, June 30.—It’s
about 3,000 miles from Washington
to San Francisco, but this does not
interfere here today with the “dop
ing’’ of the situation at the Demo
cratic convention. Moost folks and
politicians at the national capitol
seem to regard McAdoo’s nomination
certainty. Their prognostica
tions, which appear sound because of
political, geographical and other rea
sons, go further and give McAdoo a
running mate. In well-informed cir
cles here, the belief prevails that
it is going to be an “M. and M.”
ticket, to-wit McAdoo and Meredith.
First, it is conceded that William
G. McAdoo has the best show of get
ting the labor vote. He’s from New
York, although born in Georgia. Ed
win T. Meredith is secretary of ag
riculture. He comes from the agri
cultural state of lowa, is a farmer
himself and the editor of a farm pa
per. The Republicans went to the
middle west and New England for
their candidates. It is figured that
the Democrats will checkmate that
move by going to the east and the
near northwest for their standard
bearers. A combination appealing
to the labor and farmer vote, backed
by the votes the south will furnish,
anyway, would give Harding and
Coolidge a hard run for the White
House and vice president’s chair in
the senate.
Anyway,, the Average Politician
An observer in Washington Is fig
firing it out this way: In the ex
ecutive departments, in office build
ings, on elevators and on the streets
one hears little of anybody except
McAdoo. If McAdoo is nominated,
they say,. he ought to have Meredith
with him, because “Mc’ll Doo and
Meree-idith” will sound good to the
country.
Bryan May Spring Clark
There came today a strange re
port—not entirely untrustworthy,
but possessing elements of plausi
bility—that William Jennings Bryan
is going to spring a coup at San
Francisco unless McAdoo runs away
with the nomination on th.® early bal
lots. The rumor is that Bryan, who"
knifed Champ Clark at Baltimore in
1912, intends to take the .stage at the
psychological moment at San Fran
cisco and put the old Missouri war
horse in nomination, thus atoning
for the political death thrust he gave
Clark eight years ago. That would
be a strangb performance, but funny
things happen in politics. A wise
looking man, who was in Washing
ton when Cleveland was first inaug
urated, and who has watched poli
tics ever since, dropped into The
Atlanta Journal bureau today with
the tip. z It had been heard before,
but this fellow claimed he had it on
good authority.
“Bryan and Clark have made up,’’
he confided. ‘‘Bryan’s going to nom
inate Champ and it’ll break the dead
lock. I get it pretty straight. Can’t
divulge my information, but he saw
Bryan just a few days ago.’’
“And who’ll be nominated for vice
president along with Clark?’’ in
quired this correspondent. “Bryan
himself. Why not? Bryan can’t be
president, why not let him try for.
the vice presidency once?”
And there you are, if the dope 3,-
000 miles away from the convention
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COLBY LEADS FIGHT
IN SUBGGMITTEE
FOBBEERMWINE
I
Little Trouble Is Anticipated
Over League of Nations
Issue Virginia Platform
to Serve as Party Model
SAN FRANCISCO, June 30. The
Democratic platform still was in em
brynoic stage, but with prospects of
presentation tomorrow to the con«
vention when the .platform
reassembled today.
Although many minor planks had
been virtually settled, some in prin
ciple only and others in phraseology
as well, most of the troubleso-.ie ma
jor problems remained unsolved when
the subcommittee of nine preparing
a tentative draft reconvened today at
9:30 after less than eight hours rest.
Secretary Colby early this morning
was waging a fight for a light wine
and beer plank. He was arguing it
as a political expedient and not nec
essarily as his personal views.
The subcommittee adjourned with
out completing its work early today
to meet again at 9:30. No announce
ment was made by Chairman Glass.
The fact that Secretary Colby con
ferred with the president before leav
ing Washington for San Francisco
added significance to his stand.
Some of the committeemen were of
the opinion that the Volstead Act
should be amended so as to make its
enforcement less stringent.
A wide variety of suggestions,
ranging from the strictest enforce
ment of the law to Colby’s sugges
tion, were offered. Senator jMcKel
lar, of. Tennessee, brought in the
Bryan proposal.
X.eague Plank Beady
With the meeting of the full reso
lutions committee scheduled for 1®
o’clock, the subcommittee arranged to
meet with the main body, report par
tial progress and then resume its
labors.. By afternoon or night, Chair
man Carter Glass said, it was hoped
Ito go finally before the full com
mitee, where long spirited discussion
was in prospect. With a later ses
sion tonight, leaders hoped to be
able to bring the completed product
before the convention tomorrow.
The convention proceedings will not
interfere with the platform commit
teemen continuing their work with
out interruption as the program calli
for the delivery of presidential nom
inating speecji which will consume
virtually all of today’s session.
The. League of Nation*, and prahi
bition remained the big barriers to
agreement. Adjustment of the league
question, however, was said to be in
a fairway of realization.
Some of the subcommittee were
optimistic over prospects of harmony
on this fundamental dispute. They
had “slept on” administration and
other proposed planks stuffed in their
pockets when their meeting broke up
shortly before 2 o’clock this morn
ing and it was asserted by influential
subcommittee members that the ten
tative recommendation of the league
and treaty plank would go to the
full committee with virtually sub
stantial agreement. Some of the more
hopeful even expressed the view that
the threatened fight in the full com
mittee might be averted.
On prohibition the subcommittee
remained largely at sea. All sug
gestions for a “wet” plank which
would declare for repeal of the
eighteenth amendment or annulment
of the Volstead enforcement law
were said to have been virtually
thrown overboard by tacit consent in
the subcommitte, but the fight for
a “beer and wine” plank on one hand\
and some sort of prohibition declara
tion on the other, was reported still ,
in progress.
Virginia Platform the Mode)
No basis for settlement of the li
quor dispute was reported in sight
when the subcommittee resumed
work today. The drys were said to
be insistent upon a prohibition ex
pression, if only to the extent of
a plank promising enforcement of
the constitution and laws generally
and not specifically. The proposal
to keep the platform entirely silent
on the subject also was prominently
discussed.
The platform’s course also was de
pendent today on the subcommittee’s
conference with the full committee. It
was thought the subcommitte’e re
port of progress at last night’s ses
sion might ‘develop important discus
sion at the ten o’clock session to
day. It was expected, however, that
the full committee would recess un
til this afternoon or tonight to await
further word from the subcommit
tee.
Although Chairman Glass said none
of the proposed planks had yet been
adopted definitely by the subcom
mittee, considerable of the uncon
troverted sections were reported
practically complete. Among these
were commendation of many acts of
the Wilson administration, the execu
tive bureaus and the records of the
Democrats in congress, together with
attacks on the Republican legisla
tive course.
So far as the main body of tne
platform was concerned, the subcom
mittee found little difficulty in agree,
ing. The Virginia platform, indorsed
by President Wilson and brought to
San Francisco by Senator Glass, was
said to have furnished the basis for
declarations readily agreed to regard
ing the general principles of the
jJkrty.
Senator Glass sat as chairman of
the subcommittee, and his advocacy
of administration policies was sec
onded by Secretary Colby. A ma
jority of the other members were re
garded as administration support
ers, and the chief objector to the
blanket indorsement of the League of
Nations desired by the administra- j
tion was said to be Senator Walsh,
who voted in the senate to take
Republican reservations.