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Show to Investigate cases of personal financial finan-cial loss on the part of soldiers In the world war and placing the party on record as favoring financial assistance assist-ance in such cases, was presented by Thomas D. Lyons, of Oklahoma, was rejected by a viva voce vote, and then the majority report was adopted without with-out n roll call. While the platform as adopted may be saiil to represent a victory for the administration forces its led by Senator Sen-ator Class, it was not adopted without with-out giving all a chance to secure such changes as a majority of the delegates favored. On the liquor question Mr. Bryan pointed out after the session that the vole for his dry plank and the Cochran wet plank combined did not represent a majority of the dele-gales, dele-gales, which was an evidence that the party was determined to ignore the subject. -Much ;is the great audiences had appreciated the oratorical displays, anil the keen competitions that hail marked the efforts to secure party endorsement for opposing ideas, the one great feature of the national show for which all had waited was the balloting bal-loting on candidates for the presidential presiden-tial nomination, and when Chairman Robinson, of Arkansas, announced the next order of business as the call of the roll of states, immediately after the adoption of the platform, he was greeted with a mighty roar. All realized that the first ballot, taken on Friday night, would merely show a general line-tip of the forces, and that no decisive result was possible pos-sible until such time ns the contest could be narrowed down to the real leaders. The IMcAdoo, Cox and Palmer Pal-mer forces were all claiming a certain cer-tain victory, wdtile the adherents of such candidates as Senator Owen, Am- By VKIi;iIT A. PATTERSON. I(-p rifflit, Western New spaper I'nionl For President: James M. Cox, of Ohio. For Vice-President: Franklin D. Roosevelt, of New York. Convention Hall, San Francisco. After seven days of the most strenuous stren-uous convent inning any political party has known for many years the Democratic Demo-cratic gathering at 1 :40 o'clock, Tuesday Tues-day morning, July (5, named James M. Cox, governor of Ohio, for president. The nomination for president was made on the 4-lth ballot. Franklin D. Roosevelt, of New York, was nominated for vice president by acclamation at the Tuesday afternoon session. It was a real convention, and more especially a real Democratic convention conven-tion that adjourned on Tuesday. It was a convention that was run by the 1094 delegates and an equal number of alternates. It was leaderless, and in fact if it may be said to have had a fault at all it was this lack of leadership lead-ership that for many weary hours made It seem impossible for the necessary neces-sary two-thirds to reach an agreement on the choice of a candidate. During these hours and days there were a number of men who were quite willing will-ing to assume leadership, but no one of them, or no irroun of them, could nomination was seconded at till, had provided fur one or more women as seconders. The event of the nominating sessions ses-sions was the presentation of the name of Mr. McAdoo. It was known that Mr. McAdoo had insisted that his name not be presented to the convention, con-vention, and had repeated this wish by telegraph on Tuesday to liev. Bur-ris Bur-ris Jenkins, of Kansas City. McAdoo delegates were insistent that the name of their favorite be presented regardless of bis instructions, but Frank 11. Wilson, a former Iowa newspaper news-paper man, and the leader of the McAdoo Mc-Adoo forces, was equally insistent that the wishes of Mr. McAdoo be complied with. In the end Wilson consented con-sented to an informal presentation, in which it should lie stated that it was without the consent of the former for-mer secretary, and without any elaboration elab-oration of his qualifications for the office. Iiev. Jenkins said that while Mr. McAdoo was not seeking the nomination he proposed that Democracy Democ-racy draft him for the good of the nation. Tlie platform committee had a long, stubborn fight on its hands in an effort ef-fort to satisfy many opposing elements. ele-ments. Senator Glass as chairman of the resolutions committee, represented represent-ed the administration viewpoint on the League of Nations especially and bassador Davis, Vice-l'resident Marshall Mar-shall and National Chairman Gurn-mings, Gurn-mings, were certain that no one of the three leaders could be successful, and that their candidate would be their choice on a compromise. On the first ballot of Friday night the result was McAdoo 260, 1'almer 256, Cox 134, Gov. Smith 109, Owens 38, Davis 52, Cummings 25, Marshall 37, Meredith 27, Hitchcock 18, Glass 26 1-2, Edwards 42, Girard 21, Harrison Har-rison 6, and a few scattering votes. By the time the fourteenth ballot was taken on Saturday the contest had narrowed clown to the three leaders lead-ers with the exception of the Oklahoma, Okla-homa, the West Virginia, the Virginia, the Connecticut delegations still sticking to favorite sons in the hope of being in when the time of compromise compro-mise should come. The vote of the leaders on this ballot was : McAdoo 355 1-2, Cox 443 1-2, Palmer 1S2. After tlie sixteenth ballot a recess was taken iu the hopes that some compromise might be effected that would permit find a sufficient number of followers to make .their leadership, effective. The delegates insisted that they, and not any self-appointed group of leaders, lead-ers, represented tlie rank and file of the Democratic party, and each delegate dele-gate insisted on voting the way he believed his people at home wished him to vote, and regardless of any plea for a compromise. The opening of the great gathering was as featureless as all such openings open-ings are. There was an air of expectancy ex-pectancy in the vast a'u.dience foir the vast majority of whom this was their first experience In a political convention of such magnitude. The audience had looked for a fight starting start-ing with the fall of Vice-Chairman Kramer's gavel, but they were rewarded re-warded with nothing more exciting than the masterful keynote address of Homer Cummings in which he outlined out-lined the issues on which the Democratic Demo-cratic party would ask tlie people for support. This address was devoted almost al-most exclusively to the League of proposed to put through the Virginia plank. This was acceptable to practically prac-tically all delegates except Mr. Bryan and some of his followers who could not see the possibility of ratification without radical reservations. Other planks that caused hours of discussion discus-sion referred to the liquor question, to Ireland, and to labor. In the end the committee had to take several questions ques-tions to the floor of the convention, much to the gratification of the audience, audi-ence, and which resulted in another oratorical display throughout all of the long Friday session. Senator Glass presented the majority ma-jority report of the platform committee. com-mittee. Mr. Bryan presented a minority min-ority report containing a strong dry plank with a declaration for a strict enforcement of the Volstead act; a plank calling for an amendment to the constitution giving the senate majority ma-jority power to ratify a treaty, and endorsing a ratification of the League covenant with whatever reservations might be necessary to secure its approval; ap-proval; a plank on profiteering providing pro-viding that the cost and sale price be shown on all articles of merchandise, and a plank providing for the establishment estab-lishment of a national bulletin for flip dissonitnnt-ton r.f i e,.,n i " 'tttSife. S; V I, ? tf Vc , x 'V. A - Mi all important questions of the day, open to all political parties, and through which all candidates for office of-fice on a national ticket would be privileged to announce his candidacy and his qualifications. Mr. Bryan, by request, offered another minority report re-port on the liquor subject prepared by Richmond Fearsou Hobson. Burke Cochran, of New York, presented pre-sented a minority report for the wets providing for the enactment of more liberal enforcement legislation for the eighteenth amendment, and leaving it to each locality to determine the desired de-sired percentage of alcohol. It was characteristic of a Democratic Demo-cratic convention that all sides was given a hearing before the delegations, and what a hearing it was. Mr. Bryan was given an hour and a half to present his side of the story, and he went to bat with all bis old-time vigor. While he yielded a small part of his time to other speakers he made the most of every moment that he retained. re-tained. His powerful presentation of his subject reminded one of tlie days of 1800 when he carried the Democracy Democ-racy of America off its feet at Chicago Chi-cago and captured tlie nomination by bis "Cross of Gold" speech. Or again in 1912 at Baltimore when he led the Wilson hosts to victory after a terrific ter-rific political battle. Time after time he aroused the vast audience of delegates dele-gates and spectators to frenzied heights of enthusiasm, but it was enthusiasm en-thusiasm for the man, an appreciation apprecia-tion of tlie individual and not an endorsement of his ideas. He received receiv-ed the cheers but not the votes, and his dry plank went down to defeat with only 155 votes in favor of it, and his other planks were beaten without with-out a roll call. The Cochran wet plank fared but little better. The gifted orator from New l'ork used all of his great ability abil-ity in presenting his side of the question, ques-tion, but without effect. When the roll was called the delegates from the large cities, and from one or two of the distinctly wet states, were with him to the extent of 35G votes, nearly 200 less than the needed majority. ma-jority. The minority report on Ireland provided pro-vided for a Democratic promise of recognition for the Irish Republic, as Ireland's supporters bad not been satisfied sat-isfied with merely an expression of ! sympathy and the referring of their demands to the League of Nations. The minority report was presented by Delegate Doheiiy. of California. It had the united support of the Irish delegates, but went down to defeat by a vote of 402 to 076. I Another minority report providing 'for the appointment of-ji commission FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. of a nomination before midnight, but it was without result. Tlie leaders were willing to pick a dark horse, and the attempt was made to put over Ambassador Davis, but the delegates refused to follow the leaders, and continued to vote almost to a man as they had before tlie adjournment, and they continued to do so until midnight forced an adjournment to Monday. It was the caucuses of Sunday and Sunday night that made the final nomination possible. The space alloted to this story is not sufficient to warrant even an effort ef-fort at painting a word picture of the Democratic convention of 1920. It was a convention that will be remcM-bered remcM-bered as one of the most fiercely fought political battles, one of the most picturesque political gatherings in the nation's history. There were hundreds of exciting incidents that appealed strongly to the great audience audi-ence of every session, and in these incidents, in-cidents, and also in the important affairs af-fairs of the convention, women played a prominent and conspicuous part. The party doubled the membership of its national committee, giving to women an equal representation in each slate, and women were named on all of the important convention committees. San Francisco did its full part as host to the Democratic throng, and every arrangement for the entertainment entertain-ment and comfort of the city's guests was perfect. The great auditorium, seating some 14,000 people, was filled to capacity at each session, but there was never any discomfort, ami never any undue crowding. Despile the distance dis-tance that many of the delegates traveled it is safe to say they will vole for San Francisco as a national political politi-cal convention city of the future. JAMES M. COX. Nations, and its point was a demand for ratification without nullifying reservations. res-ervations. Lie laid special emphasis on the point that the President was not opposed to reservations so long as they did not seriously change the Intent of the document. A roll call followed for the appointment ap-pointment of the usual convention committees, and the first session was over. For tlie next day the real activities ac-tivities of the great gathering was transferred to the meeting rooms of the committees. The committee on credentials confirmed the action of the national committee In seating the Palmer delegation from Georgia, and In unseating Senator Reed, of Mis-ourl. Mis-ourl. It had been anticipated that both of these contests would be taken to the floor of the convention, but With the exception of entering a pro-,tst pro-,tst on the action on Senator Reed. !the contests provided no entertain-nent entertain-nent for the audience. In an effort to make time the rules committee had recommended that nominating speeches be in order preceding pre-ceding the report of the committee on platform, and this became the first order of business for Wednesday. That was a day of oratory of the good, old-fashioned. old-fashioned. Democratic kind. During (he-fJl-day session of Wednesday, and th-ough the first session of Thursday Thurs-day the oratorical lights of the party-extolled party-extolled the virtues of the fourteen candidates named in either nominating nominat-ing or seconding speeches. Willi but one exception the nominating speeches were made by men. The one exception excep-tion was Miss Bessie Dwyer. an nl- termite from the Philippines-, who pro- seated tlie name of l-'rancis Burton Harrison. Every candidate, whose |