South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-07-05
DEMOCRATSTO
GIVE PALMER
BUNS RUSH
Attorney General Cumming
Up the Works by Hold
ing Delegates.
DAVIS AGAIN LOOMS
If Former Ambassador Picks
Up Votes, He May Go
Over the Top.
BY JAMES j. MONTAGUE.
CNews-Tiules Correspondent

SAN FRANCISCO. July A.
Every clump OF redwoods. every
eucalyptus grove. every valley with
in twenty-five miles of san Fran
cisco is full OF yacatiOning delegates
today.
All they know or want TO know is
that they have got away from the
job a while and have nothing 10 do
till tomorrow Leaders are paging
taem madly in the hotel corridors
and not finding them.
Now and then an individual deie-
gate is discovered and led in chains
into camp. But the fact that this
is the day Of rest and a particularly
glorious one as 10 weather is not
helping in the least to settle the
deadlock Tonight the leaders, If
leaders they may be called, expect
10 bring the boys in and talk TO
them seriously.
Must Do Duty.
After all. this is a convention. II
was called TO nominate candidates
fer president and ce-president. IT
would be a rather exceptional con-
Vention if il did neither of these
things. Yet If affairs keep going
the way they are going now there
viii be nothing but "A platform with
less than a 2.75 punch in 1t TO show
for all this trip across the conti-
nent and all this san Francisco hos
pitality.
Today the boys that owned rooms
I'm the last few days are around in
the hotels trying TO pretend that,
they still matter. Postmaster Cen
cral Rurleson, who staked his life,
his liberty and his sacred honor on
rrnrr Ion Of To- a fH.a
NTH ballot is trying TO compromise
his bet. The Cox boosters are de-
ternLined. but il IS a fake determi-
nation: they know they are through.
A. Mitchell Palmer is still holding
10 his hundred - sixty ode votes
and cumming the game by refusing
10 get out
All stubborn.
Nobody can be nominated as Ions
as he maintains the attitude that
he does and as long as his delegates
stick to him As a consequence
Llans are now being matured 10 give
him what IS vulgarly called the
buns rush, an elimiuant very often
Dpplied 10 candidates who continue
10 stick around after their last
chance is faded.
What YOU, as a reader OF corven-
ton tidings would like 10 know is
whom these delegates are going to
nominate Well, in that respect YOU
have nothing whatever on the dele
gates. This Is genuinely dead
locked convention, there is no fake
about it. The candidates that dead
locked it did sCch a good Job i'm
stopping tho other bOoms that they
stalled their own. In getting rid
c. their chief enemies they got rid
of themselves, contamination
which they little expected and now
bitterly regret.
-FOUR Plans.
Three or four plans are suggest
ed for breaking the deadlock and
nominating a candidate tomorrow.
one is to get a strong, mastCrful
man 10 address the delegates and
tell them TO nominate candidate
who can unite the entire party.
There are two objections 10 this
One is that there is no strong mas
terrul man. the other is that there
IS no candidate who could unite the
factions. A second plan IS 10 abro-
gate all unit rules and release all
instructed delegates. That could of
course be done. But II IL was done
and these birds, already drunk with
liberty were permitted TO select
their own candidate without any
nclpr lneE Wou4A plbbdblA SNetF AltAf
the rest of the summer. Tomorrow
we Will know more about IL. The
ballotinc begins early is the day. IL
YOU read that either John Davis or
Vice Pres't Marshall is picking up
YOU will be in position 20 do a little
predicting. II you read that the
svotes are going to Colby he careful.
there may be a demonstration in
CoIby's favor, but the democratic
party Is n thirty-third degree lodge
and Colby as yet has only taken
fCur or five degrees