Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-06-21
DEMOCRATS EXPECT
TO GET TOGETHER
AND END ALL FEUDS
DisagreementsL Likely to be Smooth
ed Over Before the San Francisco
Convention Opens Its Sessions.
REED LIKELY TO MEET
WITH STERN REBUFF
Special 60 The New York World.

. Special TO The New York World.
San Francisco, June 2l-The coming
week is going To see the real lighting
of the Democratic Convention. The
tiisagreements sand differences are likely
To be all ironed out before the convention
is called To order-cxcepting IN the matter
of nomination. which apparently will
have to be fought ont on the convention
floor.
Tho convention floor" is a euphemism
for the room in which the convention
leaders get together and figure out how to
escape a deadlock.
All the big delegations are on the way,
or are about to start. New York will
be here early in the week, Pennsylvania
and Ohio are just starting. With the
Pennsylvania delegation comes the first
of the admitted Presidential candidates.
A Mitchell Palmer is going TO conduct his
fight in person. The advance guard of
his forces came on Thursday IN the person
of Robert Scott, secretary and general
manager Of the Palmer campaign.
Scott. like Moore, Governor Cox's
representative, thinks the declination of
McAdoo must be taken as sincere and de-
cisive, and thinks all the McAdoo dele
gates are bound to gravitate to the At
orney-General. Actually the delegates
will divide between Cox and Palmer on
very definite lines, if McAdoo remains
out of 1t.
PALMER VERSUS COX.
The conservatives will go to Palmer;
the others will trail into the Cox camp.
In fact, it is probably around the ques
tion of liberal and conservative rather
than wet and dry that the convention
struggle will centre, with Cox and Palmer
leading the two wings.
The quarrel over the organization of the
convention Is becoming more acute,
though there is disposition TO lay it
aside until enough of the delegates are
here TO enable the leaders TO smooth of
the rough spots.
Again, the situation in Chicago is
duplicated in San Francisco; there the
flag of revolt was raised against the taking
of all the convention offices by the Senate,
snd after some soothing suggestions of
possible compromises the original slate
was promulgated. Lodge got both chair
manships and Senator Watson got the
Chairmanship of the resolution committee,
and the bitterness of Senator Johnson and
Borah did not count.
Ii may be that the parallel will run
through this convention. just now the
middle westerners are organizing 10 de-
feat Senator Carter Glass for the resolu-
tions craftsmanship in favor Of Vice Presi-
dent Marshall.
II they accomplish this they viii make
no objection 10 the selection OF Homer ;.
Cummings as temporary chairman and
Bainbridge Colby as permanent chair
man.
INCLINED TO A DEAL.
There is a question OF whether the
administration deems it of more inn
- SIS
preside over the convention. than 10 have
Carter Glass at the wheel when the plat
form is being launched. Some Of the
leaders are arguing that, after all, it makes
little difference WHO Is permanent char
man unless something Unforeseen develops.
while il is of paramount Importance that
the proper pilot steers the platform
through the shoals, where the mistake Of
a word might be the cause Of unforeseen
trouble.
so they are handing out the counter
suggestion that the Vice President get the
Job Colby Is scheduled for and that Glass
who knows the Presidents : platform
mind better than anybody else, he placed
n charge OF the platform.
This Is merely TO sound out sentiment
so that they may know where they stand.
BITTER GEORGIA CONTEST.
Next Friday viii see the one or two
contests settled. The small number
OF the contests is made up by their bitter
ness. The Georgia affair In which Palmer
and the anti-admlnistration crowd both
claim to have the only legal delegation, is
8 bitter struggle that cannot be settled
without all sorts OF charges OF steam
rolling.
The other scrap is that Missouri affair
In which the State chairman repudiated
the election of Senator Reed as delegate
and directed the district TO name q sub
stItute for him, which the district body
responded to by unanimously choosin
Reed again. Reed wants to come TO con-
tinue his fight on the Leagueof Nations
and on President Wilson. II was pre-
cisely this attitude thst caused the
State organization to discard him.
THINK REED WILL LOSE.
Now the question is whether the State
organization can overturn the action of
the district which, is charged with selection
of the delegates. The leaders here say
Reed has no standing. thet the whole
thing was settled by the action of the State
organization and that the conveption
cannot go behind that. Needless TO say
nothing of this sort Is agreed to by the
Reed crowd.
Feed has an uncertain number of friends
In the convention and even on the creden-
tials committee who will make the fight
for him. Nobody here so far thinks he
has chance to win before the tribunal
but they admit that he can make lot of
noise trying to get in.
If the credentials committee decides
against him, the leaders say, it viii be
impossible for him to geton the convention
floor. The bitter speech he is known to
be charged with will have to remain un-
delivered unless he hires an outside hall.
Precedent forbids the recognition of
q proxy and the only alternative is unan-
imous consent to permit Senator Reed
to address the conventional consent as
likely to be given as unanimous consent
in San Francisco to invite another
earthquake.