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Show DEMOCRATS GET BUSY. Watching Developments at Chicago While Preparing for Their Own Convention at Baltimore. Baltimore. Democrats In their tire-j tire-j convention councils bere on I'uesdaj gave pause lo follow affairs In the Republican Re-publican national convention at Chicago. Chi-cago. With the leaders of all the rival candidate for the presidential nomination nomi-nation here there were quiet confer ences to prepare plans for capturing the uninstnicted delegates. Former Judge Alton B. Parker of New York was said to be the likely choice for temporary chairman of the convention with Representative Ollle James as the next strongest candidate. W. F. Coombs, campaign leader for Governor Wilson, took charge of Wll-headquarters Wll-headquarters on Tuesday and announced an-nounced that Senator Gore of Oklahoma Okla-homa and Representative Mitchell Palmer Pal-mer o' Pennsylvania would second the nomination of Wilson. J. Hamilton Lewis of Chicago came In Tuesday afternoon with a plan tc wing the vice-presldeacy to an III! jnola man. Senator Rankhead of Ala-jbama, Ala-jbama, who is looking arter the Inter est of Oscar W. I'nderwood, talked ; things over with the national commit tcemen. Friends of Governor llurke of Nortli Dakota say that If the convention Is deadlocked the governor will be a "dark horse" candidate for president, but that If the nomination goes eic t or south Governor Burke will be a candl date fo rtho vlce-pres'dency. A resolution drawn up by the Sf;:!c Equal Franchise league, pnvlding a i equal suffrftge plank for t'ie Demo cratlc platform, has been given to Sen ator Rayner of Maryland for presto tatlon to the reholutions committee. Manual Quean, resident coinni's sioiter of the Philippines al Washington, Washing-ton, has come to Baltimore t urge the adoption of a plunk Indoi tin; the Ph. I Ippine Independence bill now befou congress. |