Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-06-30
CONVENTION ls
 READY TO START
 ITS WORK TODAY.
Driven By Joe, T., Preliminar- ies Rapidly Brushed Away
 At Second Session
HEAR NOMINATING
 SPEECHES AT ONCE
Then Platform Will Be Acted trnon And Bailoting Will Follow---Rob- inson's Attack on C. Q. r.
 Is Checred.


 San Francisco. June 29@The dcn- 1 ecratic national convention wound up It's prehminaries today and prepar- cd to get down to business tomor- TOW.
 With administration forces contin- ulng in apparently complete control, It perfected it's organization, accent ing Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, as it's permanent chair man; permitted states to upset the unit rule, provided for taking women or the democratic national commit tee, and prepared for the business of having candidates nominated by adopting an order of business which will permit the delivery of nominat. ing speeches before the platform is brought in.
 ] Balloting for q nominee. however, I>Wil not be permitted before the plaTorm has been adopted by the convention.
 With the stats1bus cleared of pre-. liminaIies and arrangements set for the pvhcipal business. the conven. tion, after'a three hour session, ad. journed to resume at 1 o'clock to- morrow morning.
 What the second session lacked in the dramatic fires of the opening day it made up in the smoothly working control which administration SUD- porters exercised. Anti Wilson con tests such as that of Senator Reed of Missouri, for a place on the floor were swept away with ruthless but good natured haste.
 Humorous Note. Even the "boos" and misses which greeted mention of Senator Reeds name had tone of humorous ridi- cule.
 The announcement of "unanimous vote delivered by the chairman against feeble chorus of "nos" here and there never failed to bring cheers and laughter from the masses of delegates.
 The great auditorium was filled~ with even greater crowd today than yesterday. There was no vacant seat in the impressive sweep of the gall leries rising steeply in walls of faces on three sides of the floor Long before the days business could proceed the hubbub of compensation rumbled and mumbled q steady un- dcrtone to the music of band and pipe organl Boomers for Attorney- General Palmer, of Governor Cox, took lively if impromptu part in the entertainment features.
 Senator Robinson had little diff. ficulty keeping the machine going at the pace Mir. Cummings had set. There was a little confusion on par. liamentary procedure at times, and once Mir. Cummings intervcned to straighten out resolution to perfect the conventions plans to give women full and equal representation on the national committee. The committee of women already have been elected by many delegations. l Robinson Works We'll. I/ The delegates were still of a mind I for more pounding of the republican party and the Chicago platform when Senator Robinson delivered his speech as permanent chairman. He woke them to uproarious approval when he shouted that he made "no apology for Article 1Or of the league covenant. To the accompaniment of applause he lambasted the senator under republican leadership for pro- crastination in dealing with the | F. k. ..I L.k tor may talk to such an extent on any subject that nobody but God can stop him."
 1 The chairman had gotten the con- vention up to good pitch by that stage, and with precipitation rolling down his face, from the efforts to- drive his words to the farthest corn CTS of the big building, he leaned down over the roped speakers stand.
 "It is to the shame of the sen- ate," he shouted, "that it took Il greater time to defeat the treaty than I the army and navy took to win the war"
 l The delegates leaped to their feet 1 cheering. It was a minute before he could be heard again shouting. x
 "And they left the treaty right where it was when the president 1 brought it back from Paris" I Failure of the president to take ] with him to the peace conference. members of the senate had ranked in some senatorial hearts, Senator i Robinson continued. but he added that if the president had done so and the senators Chad shown no more I intelligence at the conference in the \ drafting of the treaty than they had shown then it's consideration then l God bless Woodrow Wilson for leav- ing them at home" K