Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-06-10

which will come the partys platform
The Vermont member of the commit
tee is President John NJ. Thomas of
Middlebury College.
Senator Johnson reiterated confidence
tonight of winning the presidential nomi-
nation and again expressed complete op-
position to this league of nations with
or without reservations. Meeting news
paper men Senator johnson declared that
any other stand on the league than that
sponsored by him would make the Repub-
lican party the tail to Mr.. Wilson's
kite
party outside the Coliseum to-day was as
quiet as lawn social Under oroorS -,
Mayor Thompson the police made things
as comfortable for the pickets as posi-
BILE. For four hours they stood barehead-
, ed and silent in the sun holding banners.
They will be on the job again tomorrow
and until the convention adjourns
resolutions subcommittee of eleven
| headed by Senator Watson of Indiana
was appointed tonight to frame the Re.
| publican platform The other mebcrs arc
william Allen White, Kansas; William
| Hepburn, Kentucky: Senator Reed Smoot
! Utah; d. Lawrence Groner. Virginia
Louis A. Coolidge, Massachusetts,; Ogder
l.. Mills, New York; Senator William Il
| Borah. Idaho; Wallace McCamant
! Oregon; Governor r. L. BeeCkman. Rhode
Island. and Harris Gilpn. Michigan.
The committee on rules by unanimous
vote to-day recommended to the conven
! ton that the executive committee of the
national Republican committee be in
creased from ten to fifteen so as to give
women representation. The vote wa:
fol.
Mary Garrett Hay of New York. asked
that women be allowed to sit in thu
executive body Will II. Hays. said If th
convention adopted the recommendation
| he thought that the membership woul'
! be eight men and seven women.
Senator Lodge, temporary Chairman
of the convention was selected to-da.
| by the committe on permanent orga
| nization as permanent chairman, ant
| his name will he presented tomorrow
| to the convention for approval. Their
, were three nominations for the plac
and Senator Lodge was named on tn
first ballot over former Senator Bev
eride of Indiana and Senator McCor
mick of Illinois. The vote was: Lodg
| 20: BeverdEe Q; Mccormick I. On mo
ton of the Illinois member the rec
omme ndation was made unanimous.
w lllldm JtHHlNGS bryan SlioiSi
urged that the Republican conventio
introduce a plank in it's platform en-
dorsing the eighteenth amendment a
interpreted by teh Volstead act in a
address before mass meeting o
"drys" to-day. "All I can say to thes
Republicans in convention here
that / will be at San Francisco in
more important capa city than | al
here" said Mr. Bryan. II would rattle
hold the Republican convention up a
an example to the San Francisc
meeting than to be forced to have
deprecate its stand should it dods
this question"
Immediately after the resolutions CON
mittee assembled, a deuGe of applica
tions and petitions descended on the CON
mttee table and Chairman Watson d.
clared almost continuous sessions woul
be necessary night and day to give heal
ings to all of those desiring it and
p in time for submission to the Conventio
, Thursday. Those clamoring for an aud
ence included vets and drys. suffragis
/ and anti-suffragists, economists, Iris
sympathizers, labor leaders. and mar
r others who thought they could give II
committee winning ideas for the platforr
Y Some were heard to-day and tonight b'
Y the majority, including the labor re-
g resentatives and a delegation viii;
/ wants freedom for Ireland had to be =,
( over until tomorrow.