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M'Adoo Ubiquitous, While
Cox Boomers Lay Down
Mystic Barrage.
BULLETIN.

San Franclsce, Cal, June 3.
Postmaster. General Burlesen
who arrived here during ~
night, declared that he and The
entire Texas delegation would 4
vote for the nomination Of
william G. McAdoo. Tho -
tlon Of the Republican cenven.
tion In adopting . platforn
which. he said, concealed 1fs at.
titude on the leading question:
confronting the country would
mot bo repeated In San FraA.
cisco. He refused to forecast
the Democratic attitude r..
garding prohibition, labor -
the Irish question.
San Francisco. Cal, June 36.-
Completion of the temporary rou
of the Democratic national conven1
ton was in sight today when tha
national committee resumed coas
sideration Of credentials with u
Georgia contest before II and 6ea-
ator Reeds efforts to gain . ssad
on the floor with the Missouri dels
egation also to be passed upon.
Other business occupied the hrpe
session OF the committee yesterday
preventing prompt disposition o6
these troublesome questions.
Committeeman expressed cond1
dence that the Georgia case would
be put through. probably withoud
a vote against seating the delega-
ton lined up for Attorney General
Palmer for president. They wer~
not quite 30 sure Of the result on
Senator Reed. Previously It looked
certain that he would be denied -
seat, having refused election -
delegats-at-large BY. the -stats con-
vention. There were intimationa
overnight, however. OF dispostucut
among some committee memberss
not to oppose the senator's PLAN
for getting on the convention noorl
Good Spurt for Cox.
The influx Of delegations which,
began yesterday continued and
added hourly to the physical and
conversational congestion In hotel
Hobbies. Out Of the din arose what
some observers professed to rec-f
ognize as a spurt of nomination.
sentiment toward Governor Cox Cd
Ohio.
1t sent the army Of newswriterM
on the ground scurrying about int
search of its source. The best theyt
could make Of 1t was that the COM
ing Of several delegations already
in the Cox column had added just
that many to the Cox takers within
nothing definite to indicate added
votes for him later.
The elusive McAdoo boom also
put in new and this time, publicl
appearance. Bobbing serenely into
sight despite Mr.. McAdoo's person,
al efforts to chloroform it, some
days ago, the movement for nom-I
ination Of the former treasury sec-l
retary took the shape of cards ap-l
pearing in hat bands of deleSatesI
here and there with the legends|
"Macll do" As there Is no No
Adoo headquarters nor agency au-|
thorized to stimulate sentiment for
him 80 far known, the source Of the
new manifestation of political Inn
mortality on the part Of his boom
was not clear.
Women Elated by Rule.
Actin Of the national COMMITTEES
yesterday in adopting a resoluti0n
urging the convention to gfant
equal committee suffrage and
membership to women OF the party
gave the delegates another subject
to discuss. Women delegates, a
whom there are an unusual lareo
number present we're elAtot
Wives and other feminine rgaas
tives of the men delegates also
participated in impromptu tubtla-
tons that were held. The conven-
ton has almost the look and man-
ner CT q tourist excursion in soma
respects. SO many delegates having
grabbed ut the chance to bring the
family west ON Q sightseeing trip
while they were at It
II the national committees plan
u ratified BY the convention. the
committee will hereafter be double
its present size and composed Of Z
man and . woman member from
each state with equal voting power.
Delegates from non-suffrage states
groaned somewhat at the prospect;
but they recognised that there wa
no escape from making tho ap-
p0intments for women unless the
state in such cases was ready 20
forego half it, voting power n
committees.
Fleet Adds 70 CsloE.
Arrival Of part Of the Psctne
f1eet from the south added . touch
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