Evening star., 1920-01-18
DEMOCRATS TO RUN
COMING CAMPAIGN
AS AMERICANS"
Questions About Irish and
Treaty Inspire Cum
mings' Statement.
Ry the AsSociated Press

| Is! the Associated Press.
| NEW YORK, January 1.-THE
! democratic party will conduct it's
presidential campaign without re-
gard to group interests, Homer S.
| Cummings. chairman of the demo-
! cratic national committee, declared
today. Mr.. Cummings, who was here
to attend a meeting of the committee
| on arrangements for the San Fran
! cisco convention, made this state
/ ment when asked whether the party
! intended to undertake any propa-
! ganda to overcome the reported de-
| fection of certain Irish and other ele-
| ments opposed to ratification of the
| peace treaty in it's present form.
I've are going to consider the
! treaty and other issues as Amer-
cans asserted Mr.. Cummings. Il am
| unalterably opposed to considering
this question in any other way. Per-
I sonally, / believe the racial objec
| tions to the peace treaty are more
noise than anything else. Those who
are shouting the loudest haven't been
strong for us anyway"
Cites Committees Endorsement.
Mr.. Cummings called attention to
the fact that the national committee
had indorsed the peace treaty as
submitted by the President and was
who believed that the treaty was
inimical to the political aspirations
of the Irish people were in the wrong,
he said. The treaty and the league
of nations. he declared, would be a
real benefit to all the small nations
of the world.
Chairman Cummings announced tina :
so many misstatements had been made
concerning the democratic campaign
for funds that he would issue for
NAL statement within few days re-
, plying to them.
Il feel that the chairmen of the re-
spective national committees should
not enter into personal contro-
versy," he said, but the criticism
against US has become almost libelous
and l feel compelled to issue a for
NAL reply and make our position
clear"
The only business transacted by the
committee on arrangements was the
appointment of six subcommittee to
handle various phases of the con-
of the full committee is expected un-
til about June 1. when both the ma
tional committee and the arrange
ments committee will assemble in
San Francisco to make the final con-
vention plans. The temporary chair
man probably will be named at that
time.
Women Represented.
Women were represented on the
committee of arrangements today for
the first time in the partys history,
according to party leaders, in the per-
sonss of Mrs. George Bass of Chicago.
chairman of the women's bureau of
Mary E. Foy of Los Angeles.
The committee agreed to provide
hotel rooms free of charge to mem
bers of the national committee and
associate members while at the con-
vention. but they will be required to
pay for their meals and railroad
transportation as in the past. 1t is
expected that round-trip excursion
rates to the convention from New
York and Washington will be about
s125, including Pullman fares.
subcommittee Appointed.
Following is the list of subcom-
mittees, the first named being chair
man in each case:
Hotels and entertainment-Isid
B. Dockweiler, California; John T.
Barnett. Colorado; DR.. John w.
Coughlin, Massachusetts: Robert H.
Elder. Idaho, and Mrs. George Bass,
Illinois.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Boeschen-
stein. Illinois; Patrick H. Quinn,
Rhode Island; Wilbur w. Marsh,
Iowa: Frederick B. Lynch, Minnesota,
and Isidore B. Dockweiler. California.
Hall and seating-Norman E. Mack,
New York; Wilbur w. Marsh, Iowa;
Edmund H. Moore, Ohio; Arthur r.
Mullen. Nebraska, and Miss Mary E.
Foy, California.
Tickets and badges-Homer S.
Cummings, Connecticut; Edward G.
Hoffman, Indiana; DR.. John w.
Coughlin, Massachusetts; j. Bruce
Kremer, Montana, ana Cnarles
Boeschenstein, Illinois.
Press-Clark Howell, Georgia.; Nor
man E. Mack. New York, and Ed
mund H. Moore, Ohio.
Personnel--Homer S. Cummings
Connecticut Frederick B. Lynch
tana: Norman +. Mack, New York,
md John T Barnett. Colorado.