The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-28
DELEGATES JAM
AUDITORIUM AT
OPENING SESSION
All Fights Over Platform PlankS
Enjoy Brief ArmiStice.
Over $4,000 Delegates and Spec
tatOrs at First Meeting.
SET PROGRAM ON FOR TODAY
Keynote Speech Only Feature
Outside Regular Routine.
Committees Resume Work I'M
mediateIy After Adjournment.

San Francisco. June 2S.-Opposing
forces in the Democratic national con-
vention declared a brief truce today
when they assembled in the opening
session TO perfect preliminaries for the
weeks work.
The big fight over prohibition and
the lesser fights over the League of
Nations and the Irish questions were
laid aside but not forgotten while the
party chiefs and delegates met in the
auditorium to hear National Chairman
Cummings sound the keynote to which
they hope to hear the country respond.
Big Hall Is damned.
More than 100 delegates and more
than $4,000 alternates and spectators
tammed in the big convention hall for
the spectacle of a great national con-
vention getting under way.
Nothing but set events were on the
program but contest was in the air.
and tussle over the chairmanship OF
the resolutions committee 'hich will
mould the platform only paused to be
resumed again when the convention
adjourned until tomorrow's sessioR.
Issues other than candidates contin-
ue to be foremost but the announce
ment that william G. McAdOo would
not reject the nomination put new life
into his boomers and today they began
where they left off last night perfect
ing an active organization to push for
his candidacy openly on the floor OF
the convention. The McAdoo boomers
at a meeting early tins morning select
ed floor managers from many state
delegations and a field marshal for
their whole organization whose names
il was said would be announced later.
Nothing further from McAdoo di-
rectly is expected to supplement the
announcement from National Commit =
teeman Love of Texas. his friend and
that q noes have been
given that the nomination will not be
refused.
McAdoo Friends Anxious.
McAdoo's friends. while hoping for
something of a more personal or au-
thoritative nature from their candi-
date which would go far to command
strength from delega tes who have
gone to other camps on McAdoo's re-
peated decla rations that he did not
wish to he placed in nomination said
they would go ahead on Mr. Loves as
surances. confident that the conven-
tion would agree on neither Palmer
nor Cox and that slide to McAdoo
would follow after the early balloting.
Little change was apparent in the
lineup of strength between the Cox
and Palmer forces and the chiefs of
each We're working to make the best
possibl showing on the early bal
lots There was talk of a combina-
tl0n against MCAu0O nut II was III lIlc
realm of gossip which developed no
tangible developments whCh efforts
were made TO trace it to the founda-
tion point. The attitude of the Cox
managers toward publication here on
the eve of the convention of the gov
ernor's divorce of ten years ago was to
ignore il entirely.
Bryan Into the Game.
Edmond II. Moore. manager for
the Cox candidacy, said he had nc
statement to make and referred in
quirers TO anybody from Dayton
Governor Coxs home town. to learn
9what Ohio people most familiar with
the circumstances thought. Cox dele
gates pointed out that in a long and
active caccr against bitter opposition
the divorce case had never beer
brought into a campaign.
Ohio leaders insisted that the pub
lished story was an attempt TO play
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