The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-06-30
THRONGS CROWD
HUGE HALL FOR
PRESENTATIONS
Vast Assemblage Spurred By Nom.
nations and Prospects of
Wet-Dry Battlo.

Auditorium, San Francisco. June
30.-The Democratic national con-
vention assembled today to hear
candidates placed in nomination
and with another last minute
change in the plans Of the McAdoo
forces which finally precluded the
presentation Of his name. There
were NO changes respecting the
placing Of other candidates In NOM
ination and the prospects were the
convention would 30 through In .
continuous session today ana get
all the nominating speeches out OF
the way leaving tomorrow frse for
the balloting.
Although it was said by admin
istration chiefs that the subcom-
mittee Of nine drafting the plat
form had virtually agreed In al
important planks, the subcommit-
tee after . brief conference with
the entire fnembership Of the reso-
lutions committee made public an
nouncement that Il was not ready
to report and would work In secret
until 1880 tonight when another re-
port would be made to the full
committee.
Agree on Wet Plank.
Meanwhile administration chiefs
declared that q prohibition plank
slightly moist" had been agreed
upon which would preclude the
adoption Of William jennings
Bryan's boned dry plank. They fur
ther predicted with fnality that the
League of Nations plank would be
adopted "just as Woodrow Wilson
wants It without the dotting OF an
r or the crossing OF t."
Although the hour Of meeting
had been advanced today to IL
O'Clock and the plan was to get an
early start on the business Of NOM
mating which was sure to be In
terrupted with prolonged demon
strations, the delegates were not
responsive to the idea Of . prompt
early start and were as slow in ar
irving as they had been on any
other day. The prospects were
that the convention would be as
late in getting under way ~ It
had been on any other day since
1t began
At 11:14 q. m, Chairman Rob
inson began whacking the gavel
and called on the delegates to get
into their seats.
We're ready" came the shout
from several places on the floor.
Blare for Cox.
The Cox delegation. however, in
sisted ON having q demonstration
and a song first, however, and the
convention waited until they got
through. There was q Coz demon
stration of short duration at its
cQpseision.
"a Cox band gsrbed in brilliant
red uniforms. We'd with the con-
vention In blaring out airs from .
point in one Of the galleries.
Chairman Robinson wanted 10
start up but was IN . tolerant
mood and let the music go on. The
glee club which accompanied the
Cox delegation. Joined in the mu-
sic and entertained the conven-
ton.
Meanwhile the platform trainers
got word that William J. Bryan
had no intention Of abandoning his
fight for 3 dry plank and that be
was more determined than svsr 70
carry his fight against any ~slight-
~ moist" plank onto the Aoor OF
the convention.
Rands n Csntest
|, The convention hand and the
Coz band got into . contest. The
convention band played sOver
There" and the Cox band cams
back with Dixie" to the DELIGHT Of
the southern delegates. The CON-
vention band countered with Hail,
Hail. the Gangs All Hers" ana thu
organist played . neutral part
joining IN with each.
Electricity was n the air. eup-
pressed expectation Of . noisy ana
spectacular 80, pervaded the han
and found It's outlst In soogs &
times. The Coz band started pp
.0ld Kentucky Home" and The roll
ing tones Of the great ORGAN thuu-
dered into the chorus the deleentee
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