Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-07-02
a CANDIDATES
PLACED BEFORE
CONVENTION BY
THE DEMOCRATS
Nominating Speeches CON-
pIeted, the Delegates Run
Out Of Business Pending
Report on Resolutions.
WAR AGAINST McADO0
CONTINUES TO RAGE
Irish Platform Plank Is *
peCted to Cause a Hot
Fight; McAd00, Cox and
Palmer Are "Big Three, "

San Francisco. Calf, July l.
one brief session early today
brought the democratic national
convention to the end of the tedious
business of hearing nominating
speeches.
With John w. Davis, ambassador
to Great Britain; Senator Glass of
Virginia, Senator simmons of
North Carolina and Francis Bur
ton Harrison. governor general OF
the Philippines, added to the list
of those formally presented, the
convention at the end of its mid
! day session found itself run out of
| business.
The resolutions committee franz
| ing the platform was not ready TO
/ report and sent word it would not
| be ready before o'clock tonight
On motion of Wilbur w. Marsh,
| q delegate from Iowa and treas
urer of the national committee, an
attempt was made to suspend the
rules which required the platform
to be adopted prior to bailoung,
and go ahead with the voting for
nominee.
Such a suspension OF the rules
REQUIRED n two-thirds vote Of the
de egates ana 1t was quickly ap-.
parent from the shouts of disap-
Inroyal coming from all corners of
1.-The hall that the prevailing wish
was to dispose of the platform pc
fore proceeding to balloting.
Mr.. Marsh therefore Withdrew
lhis motion and the convention re-
Icessed until o'clock, when the
platform committee continued to
labor.
When It disposes of the platform,
with the inevitable contests over
prohibition, the league oA nations
land the Irish question and goes on
with the business of balloting the
convention viii have before 1t a
field of fourteen candidates, head
ed bv a big three-McAdoo, Cox
and Palmer-a scattering of lesser
flights and including a paddock OF
dark horses nearby. =,
, Unless some of the expected
platform fights petered out there
= seemed little prospect of the con-
yention getting to the business or
nominating candidate at the
night session unless 1t proposed to
lremain at work until daylight.
The movement to perfect COM
Ibination against McAdoO Stiil was
going on when the convention went
$ into the night session but consld-
. Grafton of the candidates still was
, obscured in some measure by the
, platform fight and the question
r of whether William J. Bryan was
going to win or lose on his prohi-
; bition plank.
: The convention went into the
night session with the row on the
l.. floor brewing over the attempt OF
= Irish sympathiZers among deie-
t gates to force into the platform
3 a plank declaring for recognition
of the Irish republic. In a caucus
. of the pro-Irish factionlsts held IN
: a room next to the resolutions
, lcommittee room, plans to carry
, drive to the floor were made attef
= a caucus ultimatum had Deen
ignored by the committee Whlcn
= voted to hear Frank P. Walsh oi
Kansas City in further presenta-
e ton of the cause of the Irish re-
4 public.
9 There was some question as to
a how convention rules would affec'
i the proposal to plunge the conven'
I ton itself into the Irish fight AS
1 a member of the resolutions COM
n mittee, Senator Walsh. spokesman
for the caucus during the day
could bring in a minority report
which would let down the bars foi
: the struggle, it was said
Chairman Fitzgerald OF Provi
o dence. r. l.. heading the executive
8 committee created by the caucus
said IL would be possible to move
r Ian amendment to the committed
g report, however, should other pre-
e lliminary means to precipitate gen
!. Ieral debate be lacking.
y The caucus demanded action OF
: 1.-The recognition plank. 1t votet
i mot to consider a platform ap
proach to the Irish question IRON
n Iany other angle.