The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-26

Pacific Fleet Arrives, Too, and
Officers VIII Attend.
WOMEN DEMOCRATS ELATED
Equal Rights Decision of Ma
tional Committee Starts Jubilee.
It's Tourist Gathering-DeIe.
gates Brought Families Along.

san francisco, June 26-Comple-
ton of the temporary roll of the
Democratic national convention was
in sight today when the national COM
mlttee resumed consideration of cre-
dentials with the Georgia contest be-
fore it and Senator Reeds effort to
gain seat on the floor with the Mis-
souri, delegation, also to be passed
upon. Other business occupied the
first session of the committee yester-
day preventing prompt disposition of
these troublesome questions.
Committee men expressed conf
dence that the Georgia case would be
put thru, probably without a vote
against seating the delegation lined up
for Attorney General Palmer for pres
ldent. They were not quite so sure of
the result on Senator Reed. Previous
ly it looked certain that he would be
denied a seat. having been refused
election as delegate at large by the
state convention. There were intima--
| tions overnight. however. of dispcsi-
ton among some committee members
not to oppose the senator's plan for
getting on the convention floor.
McAdoo Still Strong.
The influx of delegations which be-
gan yesterday continued and added
hourly to the physical and conversa-
tional congestion in hotel Hobbies Out
| or the din arose what some observers
professed to recognize as a squirt of
nomination sentiment toward Cow
ernor Cox of Ohio. 1t sent the army
of news writers on the ground scurry-
! ing about in search of its source The
best they could make of it was that
/ the coming of several delegations al
| ready in the Cox column had added
Just that many to the Cox takers with
nothing definite to indicate added
votes for him later.
| The elusive McAdoo also put in a
new and this time a public appear
| ance. Bobbing serenely into sight de-
spite Mr. McAdoos personal efforts
to chloroform it some days ago. the
| movement for nomination of the for
| mer treasury secretary took the shape
of cards appearing in hat bands OF
| delegates here and there with the
| legend 'Macll do" AS there is no
| McAdoo headquarters nor agency au-
, thorized to stimulate sentiment for
| him so far as known. the source of the
new manifestation of political immor-
tality on the part of his boom was not
| clear.
It's Big Tourist Convention.
Action of the national COMMITTEES
yesterday in adopting a resolution
urging the convention to grant equal
committee suffrage and membership
to women of the party gave the dele
gates another subject to discuss. Wom-
en- delegates, of whom there are an
unusual number present. were elated.
Wives and other feminine relatives Of
the men delegates also particfpa ted
in impromptu jubilations that were
held. The convention has almost the
look and manner of a tourist excur-
sion in some respects, SO many dele
gates have grabbed at the chance TO
bring the family west on a sightseeing <
trip while they were at It,
If the national committees plan is
ratified by the convention, the COM
mittee VIII hereafter be double its
present size. and composed of a man
and a 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 esca pc
from making the appointments for
women unless the state in such cases
was ready to forego half its voting
power in committee.
Arrival of part of the Pacific fleet
from the south added a touch OF color
to lobby scenes and to the streets not
known in previous conventions. Off
GERS and men piled ashore in boat
loads. In the busy corridors of the
,, hotels. the white capped folk OF the
!, quarter deck. respondent in gold braid
and flowing boat cloaks. took keen
, interest in getting first hand view OF
/, political convention proceedings. and
were themselves much observed BY
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