The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-06-08
FIRST DAY OF
CONVENTION
Delegates Hear Keynote Address by
Senator Lodge, Appoint Com
mittees and Get Down to
Business. ....

/ United Press Leased Wire Service,l
COLISEUM, CHICAGO, June 81,
The republican national convention
work of picking the republican presl-
Dental candidate and building him a
platform was in full swing this after
noon.
The convention met shortly before
noon, heard the keynote address or
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, temper
ary chairman, appointed committees
on rules, permanent organizations,
resolutions and credentials and ao-
iourned The committees were to 60
to work Immediately after lunch me
committee on credentials went at once
to the national committee room in the
Coliseum to inspect the decisions or
! the national committee in contests
over seating of delegates and in all
probability to approve them.
The resolutions committee, most I'M
portant of all which is to frame the
platform, was to meet at the Con-
gress hotel.
After the naming Of the committees
the convention adjourned, to meet
again at II a. m. tomorrow when the
reports of some of the committees
will be received.
| AS the delegates left the hall the
band struck up America'' and they
paused to sing. y = = =
| Most of the first session was devot-
ed to hearing the keynote speech Oh
Temporary Chairman Lodge, who went
carefully and in great detail over the
record of the democratic admlnlstra-
ton, pointing out its mistakes ana
telling what should be done mere
| was nothing dramatic about MS ad-
Dress 1t was "a calm, dignl41ed expo
sition of the facts as he saw them ana
the delegates listened as to lecture.
1t was only when he had covered the
domestic situation and began taking
about the league of nations that real
enthusiasm developed. There was
cheer after cheer as Lodge attacked
the peace treaty and asked that the
/ convention and the voters IN Novem->
ber approve the action of the repupll-
can senators in beating the wilson
League without reservations. WIN H.
Hays, chairman of national commlt-
tee received one OF the greatest DEM
constructions of the day when he swung
his gavel and called the convention
to order. He was cheered for several
minutes.
The personnel of all the committees
had been decided on in advance ana
lists Of the names Of members nanoeu
TO the secretary of the convention py
the chairman Of each state Ndefega-
ton.
It was believed the Craftsmanship
of the resolutions committee was
still in doubt when the commit &c
was named today as Mrs: "Manley l..
Fosseen of Minnesota, made the
motion that the committee be ap-
pointed. 1t is customary for inc
delegate who will be chosen chalf-
man to make this motion. The chair
,manship of the platform committee
is in doubt, lying, it is understood
between Senator Watson of Indiana,
and Ogden Mills Of New York
AS the delegates gathered Tor tins
first session of, the convention they
were picketed by militant suffrag1sts
who displayed banners accusing the
republican party. of blocking suffrage
and also by women workers for Her.
bert Hoover, who carried Hoover
banners. '-'' e-
Once inside the, Coliseum, now
ever, there was little excitement ana
everything moved according 70
schedule. ..
For some time before Hays called
the session to order band perchei
in a high gallery played, and the dele