Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-05-25

s' Nearly every city and township
in Nebraska will be represented a,
the state convention of the Nebras.
ka branch, League to Enforce
Peace, at the Omaha auditorium
next Saturday afternoon and even
ing.
The announced purpose of the
convention is to express popular SEN
timent in favor of ratifying the
League of Nations covenant. Speak
ers will analyze the covenant and
answer objections. Members of the
league are confident that popular
sentiment is Overwhelmingly in ia
vor Of ratification. and that the SEN
ate will accept the wishes of the
people if this sentiment can be un-
mistakbly demonstrated.
Big delegations, headed by citi-
zens determined to that the league
covenant shall be included in the
4 peace treaty, will attend. More than
5000 are expected.
Big Delegation Coming.
Saturday afternoon Mrs. S. R.
McKelvie, wife of the governor,
wired Lysle l. Abbott, secretary,
that more than $50 delegates, both
men and women, will be here from
Lincoln. Mrs. Mckelvie has devot-
ed all OF her time to developing in
terest in the convention.
Mrs. Butler and Miss May Per-
shing, sisters of General Pershing,
will be among the delegates.
Judge G. J. Hunt, Bridgeport,
Neb,, will head big Box Butte
county delegation. Judge Harry S.
DUNCAN, Hastings, will be here with
crowd from Hastings. A delega-
ton from David City will be headed
by Matt Miller; one from Waterloo
Wy ]. c. Robinson; one from Ogal-
lala by E. M. Searle; one from St.
Paul by ]. ]. Thomas; one from
Grand Island by Charles G. Ryan;
one from Fremont by Dan Stephens,
former congressman.
Delegates to Register.
&c Delegates will be registered at
booths in the downtown department
stores, the Chamber of Commerce,
Athletic club and University club.
Registration will be in charge of a
committee of women.
The afternoon session will open
at 2 o'clock. The first move will
be to present a plan for a per-
iEanent organization in Nebraska.
The speakers for the convention
will be-:
William Howard Taft, DR.. Anna
Howard Shaw, honorary president
Of the national woman's suffrage
association; Capt. Thomas G..
Chamberlain, professor of political
science in the University of Cali
fornia, and captain in the anti air
craft service; Hamilton Holt. editor
Of The Independent; Dr.. William
Oxley Thompson, president of Ohio
State university and chairman of tho
United States commission on the
status Of agriculture in the war de-
yastated areas; John H. Walker, ex-
president of the Illinois state
Federation of labor, and Senator
Hitchcock.
Senator Hitchcock, Saturday,
agreed to speak at Kansas City and
Des Moines as we'll as in Omaha.
Luncheon for Speakers.
The speakers will reach Omaha
at 7:l5 Saturday morning. A lun-
cheon for the men of the party will
be given at, the Chamber of Com
merce, while the women will enter
tain DR.. Shaw at the Hotel Fon-
tenelle. A 6 o'clock dinner will be
given atsthe Fontenelle, at which
John L. Webster will preside.
Mr.. Abbott, in issuing invitations,
aims to make the party as represent
tative as possible.
IF there's anyone I've missed, l
wish he'd telephone me-" says Mr..
Abbott. "I'll try to see that he is
a guest" .'<.
Guest of Dietz.
Mr.. Taft wired Saturday that he
will be the personal guest of {. N.
Dietz while in Omaha. j.
Many ministers have asked for
speakers to occupy pulpits Sunday
morning, June /. No appointments
will be made until Mr.. Abbott has
been officially notified by league
headquarters New York, as to Just
what members of the party will be
available. -4
The Auditorium will be decorated
for the convention. A decoration
committee is in charge of City Com
missioners Falconer and Zimman. =,
Hugh Robertson, returned SOL
der, will direct ushers, all of whom
will be soldiers in uniform.