The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-06-09
C. 0. P. ADJOURNS
FOR DAY AFTER
BRIEF SESSION
Organization Perfected and
Amended Credentials Re-
port Adopted Without Dis
sent.

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COLISEUM. CHICAGO, June 9.-The
hepuDllcan national convention was in
session only an hour today and de-
naries. ~ ''''''''
The temporary organization was made
permanent, the report of the credentials
coihinlttee was approved with the
changes made last night, some of which
reversed previous decisions of the ma
uonal committee
For its second day sensation the con =
NNfgntloii heard woman speaker, Mrs.
margaret Hill McCarter. OF Kansas. the
Ilrst woman to address a national con
vention
The platform committee was not
ready to report, sending word only that
IL was making progress.
Chauncey NJ. Depew entertained the
convention with brief address and ap-
parently the convention management
had decided to do away with the string
" speakers who in previous years have
regaled the convention while the COM
IN rllttees 1.n were working for there were
hand
The next session will be at II o'clock
tomorrow morning.
The rank and file of convention visi =
tors always likes a lot of music and
oratory and this year they are certain
to get it.
saturday noon, at the earliest" is
the estimate of leaders when asked
Wnen adJournment may come
The delay Is more attributable to plat =
FORM difficulties than to uncertainty over
nomination The word has gone out
to give. the radicals every chance to
present their views and stop any pos
sibility Of a charge of steam-roling or
as some call II, an excuse for bolt !"
And until the platform is built there
VIII be no one named to stand on it.
The fact that more than half of the
delegates are uninstructed has added
TO the list of nominating speeches.
There are three or more for some and
IN Few instances six or more speeches
in sight for each candidate. Between
these speeches and platform contests
it would not be surprising if the actual
nominations of the ticket wsuld be car
ried over till Saturday.
The reply to queries as to what is
in the air" on vice-p president are met
with the unanimous response: Moth
ing; 1t depends on who is put over to
head the ticket"
But there are lot of budding can
didates for second with leaders for
first place lodging. To those who flatly
say they will not take 1t, the reply is. .
we heard that from Theodore Roose-
welt, Charles Warren Fairbanks and
others, and well see
opening the convention hall was given
over to the usual entertainment pre-
liminartes which are counted on to
amuse and hold delegates while the con-
,vention is getting ready to get down to
business The big band up in the bal
cony blared popular airs, male quar-
tet took turn at a little jazz and a
talking machine was attached to the
electric aihplitiers which have been in
stalled to carry the voices of the speak
eTs to the farthest galleries.
Delegates and alternates were slow
in arriving, and there was marked
absence of notables in the preliminary
moments.
Drift Talk Absent.
THE drift to Lowden" and the grow
ing strength of Wood and the turn
OF the delegates to Johnson" which one
heard so much talked about downtown
were little in evidence in the convention
hall.
The delegates who arrived early
seemed to be talking anything but pol
itics and even the visitors galleries
were slow in filling up.
Most of the women delegates were on
hand early and as they scattered about
the floor photographers sought them.
There was no fashion display. 1t was
too warm One woman with furs wrap
ped close about her neck finally had to
shake them.
At II o'clock, the opening time, the
convention hall was not half full. The
principal candidate managers, knowing
that today'S proceedings were largely
perfunctory, were in no hurry in COM
ing, and remained down town rounding
up forces and strengthening their lines.
Many of the important figures of the
convention, too, were engaged in the
work of the resolutions committee franz
ing the platform.
At 11:15 Chairman Lodge arrived on
the platform with National Chairman
Hays. A song leader tried to get the
audience to sing the Long, Long
TRAIL but had hard time getting out
the voices.
The song leader stripped off his coat,
and rolling up his sleeves, called for
more pep. He got a little better re-
sponse and then took a hand at three
cheers for the Republican party. He
had better luck with that than he did
with the song.
Chairman Lodge stepped out to the
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