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Show 1 DEMOCRATS INSIST M'ADOO MUST RUN I" PUBLISHER SAYS HE'LL NOMINATE! I ML GIF Increasing Rumble of Wet and Dry Movements Heard at San Francisco PROHIBITIONISTS WILL CONTROL, IS BELIEF Hotel Lobbies Begin to Hum With Pre-convention Political Po-litical Conversation NEW YORK, .IiuiL Wllllnm ("Slbbs MeAdoo today wired Uur-rlg Uur-rlg A. Jenkins. Knnsns City clcrgy-iiiiiii clcrgy-iiiiiii and ncw.sptiper publisher, requesting re-questing thnt Ills name not bo mir-gested mir-gested for the Democratic pi-osl-dcntinl nomination. The inrhJict wns H?nt on receipt of news that fMr. Jenkins hud announced Mr. ? n .mu.yijuo B name wiiuiu m- un-vu I In nomination nt San' EmncUco I with or without IiLs consent, fl "I urgently requested Mr. .Jen- I kins not to present my mime nt I tho convention," Mr. McAdoo snhl. I KANSAS CITY. Mo.. June 22. Burrls A. Jenkins, clergyman nnd publisher of the Kansas City Post, ls-bucd ls-bucd u- positive. statement today that tho name of William Gibbs McAdoo will bo placod In nomination boforc tho Democratic nationnl convention In I San, Francisco whether Mr. McAdoo I consents or not, I Dr. Jenkins had been selected to I make the speech placing McAdoo'sl I namo before the convention ,up to the lf-- - tlmo Mr. McAdoo Issued a statement In which ho said that he must decline! f to allow his name to be placed before the convention. ' "Whether I njomlna-tc-Ir. McAdoo i or whether some onk'elae doe." Dr. Jenkins 'said today In li Is statement, 'this much la certain his name will bo placed In nomination at San Francisco." Dr. Jouklnfi wild that ho had been Inform od by Thomas 11. Love, Democratic Demo-cratic national committeeman from Texas, that elghoen out of tho 2 1 , members of the delegation insisted i that the name of the former director general of railroads ought to be laid 1 before tho convention, lintel Lobbies Hum SAX FRANCISCO, June 22. While hotol lobbies began to take on the appearance ap-pearance of a national political condition, con-dition, only a fou or the Democratic chieftains had reached tho convention city. Direct development? of the day were conflnod to physical Preparation of tho municipal auditorium for the convention con-vention and tho vork was well ad-Ih ad-Ih vanced but thoro wag much discussion in progress as to o'emcnts that would be Involved in shaping the party plut-form plut-form and there was strikingly little talk about candidates. "Wot and J)ry Moves Qpt of the talk of the day camu JjH in increasing rumble of "wet" and "dry" maneuvers. o definite state-1 state-1 monts were obtainable from leaders who have roAched hc scene of battle but It was clearly indicated that they looked forward to a fight on tho floor of tho convention over efforts to mako the Democratic ulatform advocate j modification of tho prohibition en- 1 forcomcnt law through a "beer plank. ' Some observers who had counted j nosee on the resolutions committee which will frame the tentative draft of the platform said tho "drys'' would 1 control by a sufficient margin to In- suro defeat of any wet plank In the committee draft. It was added, how- ever, that If the question of the pr-inkling- manufacture of mild bever-ages bever-ages was brought before the conven-t conven-t Ion . itself, the result would be more In doubt. Pending arrival of Senator (;io of Virginia. oUUd to be chJr-man chJr-man of tho committee no direct step toward sounding sentiment in the convention on the issue appeared Tlic league of nutlons issue did not fill a prominent p'neo in talk among the leaders today, but possibility of a aVfl struggle over Japanese exclusion was H suggested after Governor Kinnhpna' m" letter to Secretary Colby declaring the -' situation serious In California- had been road, coupled as It was. with the rtatoment of Senator Phelan of this state, that tho Democrats should deal with the oriental problem in framing the platform. Comment on this as-Hj as-Hj pect of the situation did not Indicate however, that it was now occupying H an important place in the minds of U leaders on the ground. H Tho was no marked actlvltv among J supporters of the men seeking the H presidential nomination. Posters urg- H iug the claims of Attorney General H Palmer began to appear after head- J quarters for his boom had been ostab- J llshcd and workers In behalf of Gov- ernor Cox of Ohio, and other asplr-ants asplr-ants were beginning to arrive. They are not expected to get their cam-Hi cam-Hi palgns Into active motion, however, until later In the week. |