Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-04-21
CUMMINGS WILL bE:
 KEYNOTE SPEAKER FOR TIE: DEMOCRATS
Says Republican Supremacy Rests Upon Convicted
 Criminal
OPPOSITION HAS LOST
 MORAL CHARACTER
Leader Delivers What is Regarded as High Point in Camnaien Fight in Addressing Party
 Leaders at Chicago

Chicago, April 20 Homer s. Cum mings, chairman of the asmocratic national committee. today was se-I lected to preside as temporary chair man of the national convention at san Francisco June 2S, and delivered the keynote address which will enun- ciate the party policies in the forth coming campaign.
 The convention slate was framed at a luncheon and the democratic chieftians then listened with particu- lar interest to a speech in which their leader sounded what, they said probably would be the main point in his keynote address,"
 The republican party has lost it's moral character, he declared, in launching vigorous attack on the action of the majority in congress in defeating the peace treaty and league of nations, and particularly the methods by which control of the lolSlS II ltldllollS COlilIUI tlCt WIS Htlu by the republicans.
 "The whole fight on the league 'of nations dates back to a corrupt election in Michigan" he said, "and a convicted criminal is the thing up on which republican supremacy now rests"
 People for League.
 He was convinced that the people of the United States wanted the lea-s que of nations. The republican con gress had debated the peace treaty eight months, and had failed "to pass one constructive piece of egis- lation."
 Turning to the war, he declared that mot chance but brains" won it, and for this leadership, he main tained, the democratic party was en- titled to credit. "It matters not what they may say of President Will son." he added, "his fame is immor- tai, and future generations will ren' der tributes of praises and obliga- tion to this great democrat"
 Relation of democratic women to the party and their part in the di- rection of it's affairs would be de- cided by the San Francisco conven- tion, the national executive commit tee decided today.
 Meeting with members of the wo- mems advisory board, the commit tee appointed MT. Cummings chair man of a subcommittee to draft the program under which the franchise women will work Their findings will be presented to the convention for adoption. Today's session was said to be the first in which women have had representation on the na itonal executive committee.
 Plans for the convention were vir- tually completed today with the se lection of the temporary officers.
 Besides MT. Cummings, these of- ficers are:
 E. G. Hoffman, national commit teeman from Indiana, secretary. w. R. Hollister, Missouri, assistant secretary.
 Colonel John I. Martin, St. Louis, sergeant at arms of the national committee to be convention ser geant-at-arms.
 J. J. Hughes, Oklahoma, assistant sergeant-at-arms. Colonel Martin, who has been ser geant of the national committee for the past 25 years, has officiated at four previous conventions. t
 Haldeman Resigns. Objection to the San Francisco convention committees arrange ments, and particularly to the size of the hall, were removed following the appearance before the commit tee of arrangements of Postmaster Charles Fay, chairman of the San Francisco committee, and Isadore B. Dockweiler, national committeeman from California, who explained the plans being made to handle the guests and the convention. Sugges- tions that the convention might be moved across the bay to Oakland, or to another city, were dropped. 1 A committee of five, with Charles 1 Boescheinstein of Illinois as chair main, was named by MT. Cummings to draft resolutions of sympathy and respect to be sent to the family of Roger c. Sullivan, former commit teeman from Illinois, who died last week. The resolution will be pre- sented to the convention for adop- tion.
 General William Bruce Halde- man of Louisville, announced his resignation as national committee man from Kentucky, because of ill health.
 The executive committee and com mttee on convention arrangements will meet at San Francisco early in sk