Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-06-28
.Bugle Supplants Gavel at
O, ming of San Fran
1ScO Convention.
5 ZINES ADD TO
MILITANT COLORING
Convention Meets, Listens to Prelim-
mary Addresses, and Awaits Out
come Of Hot Battles Before Plat
form committee-Way Cleared For
Real Work of Selecting Candidates
For President and Vice President.
By Associated Press.

San Francisco. June %. - AS
sembling at noon today for their
first session, delegates to the demo-
cratic national convention heard a
keynote speech by National Chair
Man Cummings and perfected pre-
liminaries for clearing the way for
the real work OF finding a presi-
Dental candidate.
Twelve o'clock noon was fixed for
the opening. but hours before ticket
holders gathered in the spacious
building, which, for the occasion,
seats more than 10000 persons.
Those who did not hold tickets were
barred from approaching the main
entrance by fences hidden by a
screen Of California evergreens.
Decorations of the convention hall
were simple and tasteful, with the
Stars and Stripes as the dominant
feature of the beautiful display.
The seats Of the 1902 delegates
were compactly assembled close to
the platform and stretched almost
across the width of the hall. Here
|and there stood the state ana terri
[torial standards, made OF California
red wood, showing the locations of
the delegations. Directly behind
were the seats of the aiternates. and
all about them in an almost perfect
circle We're places for more than TO-
900 other persons. With the excep-
ton of a patriotic touch given at the
start by the presenting of the colors
by a detachment of marines, the
opening preliminaries were not un-
like those Of prior conventions.
Busle ,SuppIants Gavel.
An innovation at the opening of
the convention today was the
silencing of the gathering by bugle
call instead of by the gavel. AS the
bugler's notes came to an end and
the conversation on the floor ceased,
a detachment of marines standing in
front of the platform raised the ma
tional colors and presented arms
while the band, high up behind the
chairman, played the "Star Spangled
Banner" The formal call to order
by Vice Chairman J. Bruce Kremer
followed
With the preliminaries over. the
four big convention committees will
promptly get down to work. The
greatest interest, as usual, centers in
the committee on resolutions, where
the party issues will be fought out
with good prospects that some of
them will reach the convention floor
for final decision. In the meantime,
managers of presidential booms were
keeping in touch with the delegates
and working for position in the early
balIotfng.
Wilson Wants McAdoo Nominated.
With three members of the cabinet
exerting all the influence of the ad-
ministration to achieve the nomina-
ton of former Secretary of the Treas
ury William G. McAdoo and reports
going the round that the president
now wants his son-in-law selected,
tomorrow.
The work of the cabinet members
in behalf Of McAdoo has been con-
spicuously effective in convention,
the majority of whose delegates are
either federal office holders or dele
gates controlled by office holders.
Postmaster General Burleson is al
legged to have passed the word around
quietly that President Wilson regards
Mr.. McAdoo the strongest candidate
the party could nominate.
Meredith Out For McAdoo.
Hard upon this development came
the announcement that Secretary of
Agriculture Meredith had come out
for McAdoo; that he would swing the
Iowa delegation to the presidents
son-in-law and that he was directing
the alignment of delegates in western
agrarian states for the former secre-
tary Of the treasury.
Mr.. Meredith said he believed the
selection of McAdoo represented the
most feasible solution of the problem
confronting the convention and that
McAdoo is the strongest candidate
the party can pit against Senator
Harding, the republican nominee.
Secretary Of State Colby also got
in line for McAdoo during the dav
altho his activities were less appar-
ent than those Of BurIeson and Mere
dith.
Rumor stfrs McAdoo Rivalry.
Postmaster General Burleson de-
MED that he had issuped any message
from the White House In behalf OF
McAdoo. The Palmer and Cox
camps, however, were informed by
delegates that the postmaster gen
eral was protesting to have the
presidents authorization for his ac-
tivities, but they refused to attach
any significance to the fact that
Secretary Meredith and Secretary
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