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Show Selected to Act as Temporary Officer at National Convention Conven-tion at San Francisco. LEADER SOUNDS KEYNOTE KEY-NOTE FOR DEMOCRATS j Women Are Represented oni National Executive Commit- tee For First Time. CHICAGO, April 20. Homer S. j C'ummings, chairman of the Demo-j cratlc national committpo, today was ploctod to preside as temporary chairman chair-man of tho national convention at San j Francisco Juno 28th and deliver the keynote address which will announce tho party policies in the forthcoming campaign. The convention slate was framed at i a luncheon at the Iroquois club and the Democratic chieftains there as-.serablcd as-.serablcd then listened with interest to a speech in which their leader sound' cd what they said, probably would he the min PQiol of Ul? "keynote ad dress." Tho RopiihllOfin party has lost its moral character, he deqlgrert, In launching a vigorous attack on the ac-j lion of lhe majority in congress in de. 'foaling the pooco treaty and league of nationa and pnrtipulnrb' the methods by which, control of iho foreign rein-j tions cammUiop was hold by the J(e-publlqanp. J(e-publlqanp. Republican Supremacy Rests on Ocrryption, "The whole fight on the longuo of nations dates hack to a oorrupt ejection ejec-tion in Miohigitn," he saUl,."and n conviptod criminal is tho thine unon which flepuhljcan aupremaoy rests." He wnu eonvinoed that ihe people of the United Stales wanted lha league, of nations. Tho Republican congress had debaied the peace treaty 4or eight months and had failed "lo pa3s one cnnstrUdllve pioue of legislation." legisla-tion." Turning tQ the War, he tjeolared thai "not chaiice, hut brains" won U. ami tor this leadership, ho maintained, the ; emocratlo party was outHled to credit, cred-it, "it matters not what they may say, . President Wilson," ho added. "His fame Is immortal and future gonera-ii gonera-ii Jons will rpnu"e' Iributgs of praise and obligation to this great Democrat." Demo-crat." Relation of Democratic women to in i party and their part in the direction direc-tion of its affairs would be decided oy the Sap Francisco convention," the national executive committee decided today, Meeting with members of the women's wom-en's advisory board, the committee appointed ap-pointed Mr- Cummlngs chairman of a pub-committee lo draft the program I under which tho enfranchised women will work. Their findings will be pre-senld pre-senld to the convention for adoption Votnen On National Committee. Today's session was said to be the lirst in which women have had repre-ontntiQii repre-ontntiQii on tho national executive committee. Flans for the convention were virtually vir-tually conrpjelod today with the Hojec. lion vf Hie temporary officers. Derides De-rides ilr. Cummlngs, those officers are: E. G. Hoffman, uatipnal committeo-'man committeo-'man irom Indiana, secretary. I V. 11. HplUstei', Missouri, assistant j secretary. ' Col'. John J. Martin. St. I.oui". ser-ge-ijU at arms of the national rommit-tfit rommit-tfit to be convention sergeant a' arms. j, .1 Hugh.es, Oklahomu, assistant sergeant at arms. Col Martin, who bar, been sergeant at apnt of the national couimitt. for the pnsl 25 years, has of"jated. at tour previous conventions. Obieotion to lha San Francisco con-veiUH'P. con-veiUH'P. qqmmiltec's ni rangemcnts, and particularly to the slr.e of be "nail, were rentoved following the appearance appear-ance before the committer on arrangements arrange-ments of Postmaster Charles Fay, chairman of the San Francisco committee, com-mittee, audvlsadore B, Dockweilei, na-jtional na-jtional committeeman from Callfoini'i. I who explained tho Plans being ma-ie I to handle the guests and the convention. conven-tion. Suggestions that ihe convention (might be ptoved across ihe bay to Oakland, Oak-land, or to another city, were dropped, i Committee to Draft Rceolutlonc A committee of five, with Charles nooschemlein of Illinol3, as chairman was named by Mr. Cummipgs to draft resolutions of sympathy and respect tp tho family of Uogor C- Sullivan, former for-mer committeeman, from Illinois, who died last week. The resolutions will be presented to the convention for adoption. , i Croneral William B. Hadelman of T oulsvllle, announced his resignation i as national committeeman from Ken-lucky, Ken-lucky, because of 111 health, j The executive commjtteo and committee com-mittee on convention arrangements will meet at San Francisco early in June, it was doclded. Those present at today's meeting were; John T. Burnett, Colorado; Charles i Iloeschcnstcln, Illinois; lsadore B. rockwc!ler, California; B, O Hoffman, Indiana; Thomas Taggart, Indiana; : Wilbur W. Marsh, Iowa; Arthur F. i'Jullon, Nebraska, Norman E. Mack, Now York; William B. Haldeman, Kentucky; Ken-tucky; Homer S. Cummlngs; Mrs. John B. Castleman, Kentucky; Mrs. George Bass and Mrs. Kellogg Fair-bnnk. Fair-bnnk. of Illinois; Mrs. Stiles Burr, i Minnesota; Miss Elizabeth Marbury, of Now York; and Mrs. Pattie Ruffner lacob3 of Alaoama. Miss Marbury is a delegate at largo to the national convention, and Mrs. Burr an alternate at large. |