Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-06-26
PLAN T0AVO|D
SPEECHMAk|NG.
Wanted Temporary Organization of
Convention to be Made
Permanent.
CONTESTS TO BE SETTLED.
Baltimore Observation-Disclosures Ac-
commodations Observation-Disclosures
rants Unable to Feed Crowds.

Baltimore, June 26.-When the
Democratic national convention re-
assembled at noon today there was
little business for it's consideration,
and it was expected by the leaders
that the session would be unintereSt-
ing. The resolutions committee was
still engaged in shaping that docu-
ment and were not expected to present
it until tomorrow. The committee on
permanent organization was inclined
to have the temporary organization
made permanent thus doing away with
speechmaking, but this was still to
be definitely determined. There was
also the possibility that the fight in
the credentials committee over the
disposition of the Illinois contests be-
tween lie Hearst Harrison and the
Sullivan forces might be carried to
the floor. The general program for
the session provided for the perfecting
of the permanent organization, and an
adjournment until tomorrow when
the platform will be adopted and the
balloting begin.
The delegates and visitors spent
considerable of their time crticizing
the National Committee for having
brought the convention to this city
Hotel accommodations are absolutely
inadequate and the restaurants are
unable to feed the hungry hordes on
time. The people of the city have
tried hard to make up by hospitality
for the limitations of the city, but
this does not affect the average dele
gate and visitor, and he is loudly
voicing his objection to the discom-
Torture.
The various committees were in SeS-
sion most of the morning. There
was a sentiment in permanent organ
ization that if another chairman had
to be selected he should be Senator
elect Ollie James of Kentucky. The
latter has many friends among the
delegates but because of his strong
Bryan leaningS some of the conser-
vative leaders were opposed to his
being chosen.
There have been numerous confer
h. ,,0 d.
ers in an effort to settle the Illinois
squabble between the Hearst-Harrison
element and the followers of Roger
Sullivan. They proved futile, as both
sides insisted that they had carried
the delegates conventions and should
be seated Even proposition to seat
each of the delegations and divide the
vote failed to receive approval, and
it seemed certain that no matter what
the outcome here, the contending
forces would go back to Illinois to
fight it out, no matter what effect 1t
had on the party success in that state
The Illinois contest was the only
one that occupied the serious attention
of the committee today. The others
were minor affairs and were easily
disposed Of.
The sessions of the resolutions COM
mittee were secret. 1t met IN bag
room in the corner of the armory and
hearings we're given to numerous DEL
egates that had platform planks to
suggest. Among them was Samuel
Gompers, president of the A. F. Of L.,
who demanded that labor be given
consideration. Gompers told the
committee that he had been turned
down by the republicans at Chicago,
and claimed that if the Democrats en-
dorsed the anti-injunction and other
planks favored by the federation they
would be sure to receive the united
support of organized labor at the
polls.