The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-21
CUMMINGS ID MAKE
 KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT r RISCO MEET
Convention Slate Formed at Chicago Luncheon, and Leader Sounds Main
 Point
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Chicago, April 20-Homer S. Cummings, chairman of the democratic national com
 mittee, today was selected to preside as temporary chairman of the national con-
 vention at San Francisco June 2S and , deliver the keynote address which will enunciate the party policies in the forth coming campaign.
 The convention slate was formed at
 luncheon at the Iroquois Club. where the
 democratic chieftains later listened with particular interest to a speech in which their leader sounded what they said prob
 ably would be the main point of his
 keynote address"
 The republican party has lost its moral character. he declared, in launching vigorous attack on the action of the ma jority in congress in defeating the peace treaty and League of Nations and par ticularly the methods by which control of the foreign relations committee was held 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 upon which repun-
 lioan supremacy rests" He was convinced that tho people of the United States wanted the League Of Nations The republican congress had de- bated the peace treaty for eight months and had failed to pass one constructive piece of legislation. BRAINS WON WAR Turning to the war, he declared that not chance. but brains" won it, and for this leadership he maintained the democratic party was entitled to credit. Ut matters not what they may say of President Wilson, he added. His fame is immortal and future generations will render tributes of praise and obligation to this great democrat" Relation of democratic women to the party and their part in the direction or it's affairs would be decided by the San Francisco convention, the national execu- l tive committee decided today. Meeting with members of the womens
 advisory board, the committee appointed MT Cummings chairman of subcommlt- ] tee to draft the programme under which
 the enfranchsed women will work. Their
 findings will be presented to the conven-
 tion for adoption.
 1 Today's session was said to he the first in which women have had representation on the national executive committee. Plans for the convention were virtually completed today with the selection of the temporary officers. Besides MT. Cum
 mings. these officers are: F. c. Hoffman, national committeeman
 from Indiana, secretary; w. R. Hollister,
 Missouri assistant secretary; Col. John l. Martin St Louis, congratulations OK the national committee. 10 be convention
 sergeant-at-arms: ]. J. Hughes, Okia- homa, assistant sergeant-at-arms-
 Colonel Martin. who has been sergeant at-arms of the national committee for the last twenty-five years. has officiated at four previous conventions.
 Objections to the San Francisco con- vention committee's arrangements, and particularly to the size of the hall, were removed following the appearance before the committee on arrangements of Post master Charles Fay. chairman or the San Fra ncisco committee, and Isadore E. Dockweiler, national committeeman From California. who explained the plans be- ing made to handle the guests and ths convention.
 Suggestions that the convention mignI be moved across the bay to Oahlahi' or to another city, were dropped
 Gen William B. Haideman, of Louis- vile. announced his resienation as nation- al committeeman of Kentucky because of i'll health.
 The executive committee and committee on convention arrangements will meet at San Francisco early in June, it was decided
 Those present at today's meeting in- cluded Mrs. Pattee Rufner Jacobs, or Alabama.