Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-10
SENATOR LODGE IS
CHOSEN PERMANENT
CONVENTION HEAD
Platform Committee Not
Re dy With Report,
Chauncey Depew Makes
Short Speech to Delegates

COLISEUM, CHICAGO, June o.
The Republican national convention
was in session only an hour today
and devoted itself entirely to routine
preliminaries. The temporary organ
ization was made permanent, the re-
port of the credentials committee
was approved with the changes made
last night, some of which reversed
previous decisions of the national
committee.
For it's second day sensation the
convention heard a woman speaker,
Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter, of Kan
sas, the first woman to address a
national convention.
The platform committee was not
ready to report and only sent word
that it was making progress.
Chauncey NJ. Depew entertained the
convention with a brief address and
apparently the convention manage
ment had decided to do away with
the string of speakers who in pre-
vious years have entertained the con-
Vention while the committees were
working, for there were no other ZEN
tertainment" speakers on hand.
The next session will be at II
o'clock tomorrow morning.
Platform Delay
The rank and file Of convention
visitors always likes lot of music
end oratory and this year they are
certain to get it.
Saturday noon, at the earliest"
is the estimate of leaders when
adjournment may come.
The delay is more attributable to
platform differences than to uncer-
tainty over a nomination. The word
has gone out to give the radicals ev-
cry chance to present their. views
and stop any possibility of charge
of steam rolling, or as some call it,
an excuse for bolt
And until the platform is built
there will 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
for some and in a few instances six
candidate. Between these speech
es and the platform contest it
carried over till Saturday.
The reply to inquiries as to what
is in the air" on vice president, are
met with unanimous RESPONSE:
Nothing; it depends on who is put
over to head the ticket" But there
are lot of budding candidates for
second place with all of the lead
4 ing figures for first place lodging.
. To those who fatty say they will
not take it, the reply is that 1--WE
heard that from Theodore Roose-
Welt, Charles Warren Fairbanks and
other and Well see.'
Ideal convention weather contin-
ued today. A cool. crisp breeze blew
off Lake Michigan and the sun was
shining. It was the remark of ev-
eryone that the convention hall was
unusually comfortable.
Penrose Takes Hand
The Republican national conven-
] ton assembled today for it's second
session today with little more than
4 routine in prospect. A brief session
a to perfect the permanent organiza-
8 ton was forecast.
During the first hour before the
opening the convention hall was Civ
en- over to the usual entertainment
preliminaries which are counted or
to amuse and hold delegates while
= the convention is getting ready tc
get down to business. The big ban6
up in the balcony blared popular airs
a male quartet took a turn at {
little jazz and a talking machine wa:
attached to the electric amplifier:
which have been installed to carry
the voices rof the speakers to the
farthest galleries.
Delegates and alternates were SLOW
in arriving and there was a marked
absence of notables in the prelimi
nary moments.
The drift to LoWden" and thu
growing strength Of Woodland thu
turn of the delegates to Johnson,
which one heard so much talk abou
downtown, were little in evidence il
the convention hall. The delegate!
who arrived early seemed to be talk
ing anything but politics and ever
the visitors galleries were slow il
filling up.
Most of the women delegates wer
on hand early and as they scattered
about the floor photographers sough
them. There was no fashion dis
play. 1t was too warm. One WON
an, with furs wrapped close abou
her neck, finally had to shake them
Governor Sproul was up early to
day and resumed conferences wit
party leaders after series Of meet
ings with delegates from differen
parts of the country last night.
The special telegraph wire frol
Pennsylvania headquarters to Sena
tor Penrose's home in Philadelphia
continues to carry the doings of tn
party leaders here to the Pennsyl
vania senator.
Lodge Takes Chair
At IL o'clock, the opening time
the convention hall was not half full
1T looked as if the convention WoUl
get away at least half hour late
as it did yesterday. The principa
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