The Washington herald., 1920-01-08

mittee, scheduled for 10 o'clock, the
time and place of the next Demo-
cratic National Convention will be
determined upon. Six cities have
so far been mentioned for the honor
Chicago, Kansas City, San Fran
cisco. Indianapolis. Cleveland and
Cincinnati. Large delegations rep
resenting Kansas City. Chicago and
San Francisco had reached Wash
ington last night. 1t is not certain
whether all of the cities mentioned
for the honor will press their
claims. Kansas City is regarded as
a favorable choice, because of its
central location and reputation for
providing the best in the way of
entertainment for visitors. while
those urging the selection of San
Francisco contend that a national
convention has never been held on
the Pacific Coast and that the choice
of the latter city would be a stroke
of political diplomacy.
The choice of u convention site
will be taken up In open session
immediately after the call to order.
After respective claims of the rival
delegations are heard the commit
tee will go into executive session
and select the convention city by
ballot, the result of which will be
Immediately announced.
Most of the committeeman had
arrived last night. All members of
the committee are expected to at
tend today's meeting except those
from Alaska. Hawaii, the Philip
pines and Porto Rico. These will
be represented by proxy.
Cummings to Preside.
Late arrivals yesterday included ] e.
T. G. Crawford, Florida: Clark How
ell, Georgia; H. II. Elder. Idaho;
A. ?. Pujo. Louisiana: DR.. John
w. Coughlin. Massachusetts,; w. r.
Connolly. Michigan; ]. NJ. McBeath.
Mississippi; James l.. Mccarthy, Ne
vada; +. II. Moore. Ohio; Patrick
H. Quinn, Rhode Island; John Gary
Evans, South Carolina; James Nee,
South Dakota; John E. Osbourne.
Wyoming.
Chairman Cummings will preside
at today's meeting at the Shoreham.
The first business will be the seat
ing OF new members. who are: A. q.
Patterson, succeeding Ed d. Smith.
of Alabama; A. r. Pujo. succeeding
Robert Ewing, of Louisiana: DR.. ].
w. Morrow, succeeding w. II. Horn
ibrook, of Oregon: Thomas Love. sue
ceeding o. S. Carlton. of Texas; and
A. r. Titlow. succeeding Hugh c.
Wallace. OF Seattle.
Apart from the selection of the
site for the coming convention. the
outstanding feature of the Shoreham
meeting is expected to be the adop-
ton of resolutions commencing and
indorsing President Wilson's efforts
in behalf of the league OF nations.
A. F. Mullen. committeeman from
Nebraska, will introduce a resolution
recommending that the national con-
vention abrogate the two-thirds rule
and adopt the majority rule in maxi
ing nominations for President and
Vice President.
Amused at G. o. p. Plan.
During his interview with news
paper correspondents yesterday,
Chairman Cummings was asked If
the national committee would take
any action looking to preliminary
work on the platform to be adopted
at the National Convention, as was
done by the Republican National
Committee at its December meeting.
at which time it appointed COM
mittee on policies and platform for
work. To this Chair
man Cummings replied:
One of the most amusing episodes
of the campaign is the effort of the
Republican National Committee TO
gather material for its platform.
I was ESPECIALLY interested in the
offer OF the committee of a prize
of $4,000 to some young man or
young woman, preferably under 25
years of age. who will write a
winning platform for the Republi-
cans. 1t is an insuperable task.
Only extreme youth would under
take It"
Chairman Cummings expressed the
belief that no change would either
be recommended by the committee
or adopted by the convention re-
garding the substitution of the
majority for the two-thirds rule
until there is a departure from the
present practice in the party by
which many delegations cast their
vote for candidates as a State unit.
according to the will of the majority
of the delegation. As long as the
unit rule is generally in vogue, me
stated, 1t will be necessary to re-
tain, the two-thfrds rule.
INIT Rule Impaired.
II change were made, Cummings
argues. 1t might make 1t possible
for nominations to be made by q
minority vote. He further pointed
out that while the unit rule is inn
paired In some States through the
selection of delegates by primary.
1t Is still retained by most. of the
larger States having big delegations
In the convention.