The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-26
TEMPORARY ROLL
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ratified by the convention the com mittee will hereafter be double it's present size and composed of man
 and woman member from each state with equal voting power. Delegates from non-suffrage states groaned somewhat at the prospect, but they recognized that there was no escape from making the appointments for women unless the state m such case l was ready to forego half it's voting 1 power in committee.
 Arrival of part of the Pacific fleet l from the south added a touch of l color to lobby scenes and to the l the streets not known in previous conventions.
 Admiral Rodman, fleet comman-
 der, will arrive today with Secretary Daniels as passenger his flag 1 snip. The naval secretary is an old 1 political war horse and expected to | take an active part in party deIibera-- tlons- He will be the fourth member | Of the cabinet to reach the battle field, Attorney. General Palmer, most 1 active of Presidential nomination as-, ] pirants to judge from posters and l signs now displayed, and Secretary | Meredith and Postmaster General Burleson already having joined the l convention throng.
 l MT. Meredith's coming was sigma
 llzed by new manifestation of the
 kinship of his presidential boom with that of former Ambassador Gerard l Announcement already has been 1 made that joint headquarters had l been opened for these two, a thing l unknown to the oldest habitue of l political conventions Today a huge
 sign appeared far up on the front
 of hotel declaring that Meredith
 Gerard headquarters" would be found | within.
 Gavin McNab, in a way host to the
 mitteeman for California, was host in
 fact last night at a dinner to his l committee colleagues.
 Out of gossip started by entertain
 ment came a new report of an i'm l pending fight on the chairmanship
 of the convention resolution commit
 tee which will draw up the platform
 Senator Glass of Virginia has been
 generally accepted as slated for the l pest although there has been strong l talk within the last day or two that 1 Senator Walsh of Montana might get l the job Glass arrived two days ago
 while Senator Walsh came in yes
 terday. .. The Montana senator has the back
 ing of William J. Bryan, who also
 arrived yesterday armed and equip
 | pSu, Hes lHlIIIldleQ TOT a knOCk-OOWn- and-drag-out fight against any at tempt to slip a wet or even slightly moist plank into the platform. Sena- tor Walsh has expressed opposition to a prohibition plank.
 , MT. Bryan also is credited with ideas of his own as to the League o1 } Nations plank, not in accord with the 5 Virginia state platform declaration approved by President Wilson. Owing | to these cnnSidara oh s the resolutions committee chairman ship was generally taken to be z l struggle between administration an6 , Bryan forces for control.
 l MT. Burleson's coming revived in. terest in his recent public castigat tior of certain provisions of the VolsteaG enforcement act as absurd Thai - statement gave wet plank talk 1T ,, platform discussions a zest it had no = previously known. Even now wheI many forces appear to be combining . 1 to suppress this issue completely ant leave the platform silent on the sub
 ject there is great interest in watch ing the course, MT. BurleSon vii take and argument as to the exten y to which he should be viewed as ad q ministration spokesman on the point Tom Taggart, former National Com t mitteeman from Indiana, declared to S day that the Indiana delegation would :, be for Vice President Marshall ol f whatever road MT. Marshall elected 0 for himself.
 : 'FWe don't want to boom Marsha! r unless he wants to be nominated, e Taggart said. If he wants the nom d ination we are for him.
 a Many blanks dealing with Irish free
 dom have been called to the attention :. of the party leaders. At conferenc F in the office of the American Com
 mission on Irish Independence, how o ever, an agreement was reached b.
 representative of several 1riSh-Am CT = ican bodies to stand together for 7' plank espousing American recognition U of the Irish republic.