The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-24
DEMOCRATS WANT
EARLY CONVENTION
McCombs Expects Action in
June-FOur Cities Bid
for Gathering.
TALK ONLY OF WILSON

So far ms Chairman william r. Nc
Combs Of the Democratic National Com
mttee has been able to sound the opin'
Ion of the leaders throughout the coun
try the meeting of the National Com
mittee In Washington on December
will be short and sweet. "A forerunner Of
the Democratic national convention II
the early summer Where that CONVEX
ton will be held is still n matter Of
speculation. but Democratic sentiment d
strong for an early gathering.
The recent dinner of the Manhattan
Club. at which President Wilson was
the chief speaker. offered Mr.. McCombs
a chance to talk with many of the
leaders. No one was found who though,
Of suge cstinR any other candidate than
President Wilson, but the feeling among
the leaders, according to the informa-
tion given to the national chairman,
t. that the platform upon which Mr..
Wilson will AGAIN go before the coun-
try IL going 10 depend largely for It's APP
peal on what Congress ~accomplishcs at
the approaching session.
II was with this in view. said Mr.. Nc
Combs vest rday. that he called the Ma
tiona Committee together for December
!, the day after Congress oIpns, when
Senators II Representatives. bulging
with political dope will he Hooking
Into Washington with all sorts OF IDEAS
and plans. hat will give the members
OF the National Committee an opportu-
nifty TO make II study OF the situation they
must meet. not only in staging the
convention but in engineering Il through
10 "A slsNpseflll .EnrplpGsnp
Chicago. 81. Louis, Dallas and San
Francisco ave all made bids for the
convention. Dallas has raised 500. 900
as an in~ducemeEt and San Francisco
talks of doing even better than that.
Mr.. McCombs said that he had not
yet heard Denver mentioned az a pos
s.biI.ty, He pointed out that the se.ec-
ton Of a convention city would not hay We
This year the political significance IL did
N 1912. when he led the party to Bal
tiirorc because IL was convenient TO
the state from which his candidate was
10 come.
Il have received many letters from
IN" committeeman" SAID Mr.. McCombs.
and lavc talked with others as they
happened to get into New York. |
believe We are all open minded as to
where the convention should be held
Sentiment clearly favors an early con
vention. however. We are the doml-
nant party now. and usually the party
in power holds It's convention first.
From what I know of the feeling Of
the committeemen II Is likely that the
convention Will ~ held during the first
two weeks Of June.
Our meeting in Washington will de-
ride upon the time and place and the
usual committed OF arrangements will
be appointed. What issues are 10 pre-
vail In the coming campaign no one can
tell now. That will depend on what
Congress does NJ the next session.
Because Of this fact I called the CON-
mittee together a month earlier than w.
usually meet. That will give us a
'cnapce tn DISCUSS matters before the
Congressman swing into their work"
During the last few weeks Chairman
NcCo,nbs. has talked with National
Corsmitteemen Robert Ewing OF Louis,-
ana, Edward WOOD OF Michigan, Fred
Lynch OF Minnesota and Senator Pheian
OF California. who will attend the meet
ing with the proxy Of National Com
mitteeinan Sanford. National Commit,
teenan Cummings OF Connecticut, Who
was In town yesterday, said he favored
Chicago as the convention city.