Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-06-06
COALITION HAVING PROPER PLANK FOR
 LEAGUE CAN WIN
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Continued from Page 1 ~-~~~~---~oo--O--~~~ ~-~~~~-~~~~~~-~-~~ note speeches, and the best orators and entertainers the party has, the resolutions committe, working night and day, will be striving to bring out the basis of an acceptable agreement and the various whips will have their scouts out recording the preferences and leanings of the uninstructed dele gatets. They will also be keeping a close eye on the instructed delegations to make sure that they do not break away. In some cases already, the Johnson, Wood and Lowden forces among themselves are claiming the same delegations.
 The adjournment that follows the second or third ballot probably will find the convention ready to go over the top, and noon of the next day will be the zero hour. That will be the time to be prepared for surprises. By then it is expected that the large delegations from the most popular states will been assessed the strength of the candidates, the stick ing qualities of their delegations and be ready to come in with an agree ment among themselves on some one of the candidates or possibly dark horse, who can be put over.
 Tonight, while the boards of strat- egy are boring over their plans and the fighting forces are undergoing a last minute inspection, the conven- tion swirl around the hotels and on the streets is gathering momentum. The delegates and visitors are pouring in on every train. Equipped with cheer leaders and almost every other contrivance human and otherwise that is likely to appeal to the emotions of an assembly of 10000 people, they all hope that at the psychological mo- ment they will be the center of a winning wave.
 Old time convention habitues wag their heads at the modern ideas that go nowadays with boosting a presi- dential boom. There used to be spell binders, flag wavers and torchlight parades. Now there are brigades of ballad singers, piano players, rhym- sters, glad handlers, social service workers, and any number of persons which might be found desirable under Webster's definition of factotum ex- traordinary.
 everything Free.
 A presidential candidate at this convention comes equipped with a ser- vice station. If MT. Delegate can't make a good job on his butterfly bow a pretty lady will deftly help him out and probably vamp him bit in the operation, finishing up by putting somebody for president" button on his coat lapel. The service department will help Mrs. Delegate find a good room, or pick out new hat-it will do anything but give the real low down on whose going to be nominated
 In these days when everybody has something to say about the high cost of living, an observer at con- vention is constrained to ruminations on the high cost of being pleasant to delegates. There are free automo- piles for everybody, free advice, free information, free help, there would probably be free drinks if congress and the 18th amendment had not intervened, and the candor and hon. esty which should characterize the efforts of a reporter forbid that this dispatch should give an impression that there are not some of these. About once an hour a shower of cam ned interviews and statements come out of the headquarters of every can didate and if there is paper short age it doeosn't exist in the convention area
 But the candidates themselves re- lieve the press agents by meeting the assembled newspaper correspondents twice a day, answering questions and making statements first hand.
 Senator Johnson announced that he had no intention of leaving Chicago during the convention.
 q will be on hand every minute of the time and I hope to make my presence felt,"he said. q am growing happier and more hopeful with the passing of the hours"
 When asked concerning his idea of the length of the convention Sem ator Johnson said:
 "I can see no obstacle that would prevent the finish by Saturday night. The only fight that can anticipate is on the platform and the only plank in the platform that there probably will be fight on, is that concerning the attitude of the convention on the league of nations. I do not antici- patae that will last long,"
 Roller Charge Sinners.
 When asked if he would accept the nomination with a platform endorsing the league of nations covenant with reservat tions, Senator Johnson said:
 "I will cross that bridge when l come to it."
 It was explained to the senator that turing his morning conference, he was to have said that he would accept the nomination on platform the endorsement of the league of nations covenant, but with the Lodge reservations attached. His answer was: "I will cross that bridge when I come to it."
 A platform plank pledging the party to a constitutional amendment lim- ting the president to one term of four pr six years, will be offered to the committee by Governor The plank prepared by the governor also proposes that cabinet officers who seek the presidency must first resign from the cabinet.
 A president, the governor said to- lay, could accomplish more good in ,ne four year term if he were not political expediency and measures to win renomination than in eight years under the present sys- tetm There would be no objection, he added, to an eX-president seeking l second term, after being out of of- flee a term or longer, as there could be no suspicion that political ma chine builtup while in office was be- ng used to perpetuate his adminis-