The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-07-07
THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION

The democratic national convention
at San Francisco finally adjourned on
Tuesday after siege of a week in
adopting it's platform and nominating
its candidates for president and vice
president.
Most of the time was spent on the
platform. The difficulty was to bring
4 n majority of the committee on resolu-
lions to an agreement on two or three
questions that We're at issue.
The league OF nations and the prohi-
bitiOn questions were the ones that oc.
cupied most of the attention. There
was a determined effort on the part of
a minority of delegates to promulgate
a wet platform, but with the influence
of Bryan favoring prohibition the re-
suit was practically a standotf, with q
platform that is neither wet nor dry.
On the league of nations the presi-
dent had his way about it and his pro
gram was carried out in all its details
except there was added to the plank in
the platform which the president advo-
Gated one or two phrases which appar-
emily upset his purposes. The effect,
however, of the platform is to adopt
the presidents views, that the league
of nations is n sacred document be-
cause the president approved it and
helped to write some of the most OBJ
jectionable features of the same.
Woodrow Wilson is willing to die in
the ditch in the support of his efforts
on the league of nations and is willing
to drag the democratic party to defeat
If necessary in order to vindicate his
actions.
There are thousands of democrats in
the country who are thoroughly dis
gusted with Wilson'S persistence in
compelling platform that does not
meet the approval of perhaps a ma
jority of the democrats throughout the
country.
Governor Cox of Ohio by shrewd
management and persistence secured
the nomination for president The re-
ports of the convention are that Nc
sAdOo's campaign was mismanaged,
that it was under the control of Il cheap
class of politicians who did not repre-
sent sufficient political sagacity to man
age his campaign and drove from his
support the trained and capable lead
ers like Burleson, postmaster general,
and others who could have successfully
managed his campaign if they had been
entrusted with the management APP
parently there is very much soreness
on the part of many of the leaders on
account of the way that McAdooS' cam
paign was handled
Governor COX is SllQ 10 sDc WiElt
might be termed a wet candidate, but
running on platform which does not
favor his views. He may be able to
gain some votes on one hand and will
probably lose as many on the other. He
is a man who has been elected governor
of Ohio three times and perhaps is
about as capable a candidate as the
party could have selected.
The selection of Franklin Roose-
welt for vice president was evi-
IDENTIFY made TO satisfy certain east
ern democrats. The probabilities are
that Tammany, however, was not en-
thusiastic over the selection. Mr.
Roosevelt is not of the Theodore Roose
welt family although we understand is
distantly related
The contest this year will not be won
on account of the personal popularity
of the candidates and if this element
should enter in the campaign the re-
publican candidate win not suffer in the
comparison. The contest will be
fought between the two great parties
on the record of the parties in the past
and on the issues which divides them
at this time. The Iowa delegation left
the convention in row of large dimen-
sions The trouble. it is said, will split
the democratic party in Iowa this year.