The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1920-05-27
PRESIDENT ENDORSED
SOUTH CAROLINA CONVENTION
PRAISES WORK OF
ADMINISTRATOR
Ex-Senators Pollock and Benet
Have Heated Argument On The
Women's Suffrage Question
Delegates To National
Convention

lowing were elected delegates at
large to the National Democratic Con-
vention to be held in San Francisco
! next month:
Governor Robert A. Cooper, Uni
: ted States Senator F. d. Smith, Rep
resentative James F. Byrnes and ex-
Governor Richard l. Manning. L. d.
Jennings, the only other candidate,
was elected first alternate.
District delegates were elected as
follows: First, Charlton DuRant, J.
q. Padgett, B. G. Bradgham and
Richard S. Whaley. Second, J. A. Har-
lee and N. G. Evans; the alternates,
| c. F. Riser and j. II. Johnson. Third
f. II. Dominck, F. G. Robinson, o. r.
Doyle and II. L. Watson. Fourth, w.
d. Workman and w. w. johnson; al
ternates, c. M. Douglass and S. T.. d.
Lancaster. Fifth, A. F. CASTOR and
Leroy Springs; altarnates, T. B.
Butler and R. E. Willie Sixth, J. w.
johnson, l.. M. Lawson, J. H. David
and j. G. Holiday. Seventh, X. H.
Jennings and William A. Coleman; :;
alternates, S. H. Booth and B. Frank
Kelly.
The districts of four delegates will
have one-half vote each and no al
tcrnateS provided. Those with two
| delegates will have full vote. This
procedure was adopted by the con
vcTtion.
|"hn ]. Evans, OF Spartanburg, WAS
reelected national executive commit
t>oarsn "i;auut opposition.
inomaS B. Cothr&n was elected
chairman OF the State Democratic
Executive Committee without oppo-
siti"", and Harry y. Edwards Wa.
CHOSEN @ectctary.
Tie convention was called to or
icr a. noon by Ex-Governor John Ca
ry Evans, Of Sparsnburg, chairman
of the State Democratic executive
COMMITTEES, and Immediately the
names Of NJ. T.. Bofmam of Anderson,
former Adiutant General of the
State, AID George X. Laney, Senator
from Chesterfield County, were p!a-
ccd in nomination for this position as
temporary chairmen.
In an impassion2d speech, Senator
Laney took umbrage at the custom
of = few Leaders coming to Columbia
on the night prior to the convention
and adopting Il "slate," as he called
it, and land rammng it down the
throats" of the delegates. He said,
however, because of his high regard
for Gen. Bcnham he must withdraw
mis- name. The Anderson nominee re-
lutcd the imputation that he knew
anything about a 'siate," and Scna-
tor Laney replied that his friends
dominating him did not refer to Gen
Bonham. Gen. Bonham was then
unanimously elected
Approval of the treaty of Yer
saillcs and the covenant of the league
Of nations unamendcd as brought
back from Paris by President Wilson,
who was praised for his unexampled
craftsmanship, national and interna-
tional, was voiced by the platform of
the South Carolina Democracy.
"We believe" said the platform, in
condemning the partisan rancor of
the Republican and few Democratic
reactionaries in the Senate, "that
this treaty, with the league of ma
tions, is the only means by which
lasting peace, and the weak and OPP
pressed nations of the world can be
preserved"
In further discussing the question
Of the Versailles pact and the league
of nations, the platform says:
"Thn refusal to'allow this country
to enter into the league Of nations
c!caEs the preservation of militarism,
which we regard not only as ungodly
but a. absolutely destructive Of the
commercial, economic and spiritual
welfare of mankind, and we demand
that our representatives in Congress
use every means in their power to de-
feat such measures rs universal and
"c,IpIirory military training of our
young men. We rejoice that in this
time cf world crisis the democracy of
America has been able to give to the
United States and to the world a
leader through whose wisdom and
courage there was developed plaE
| which found universal commendatior
from men of all parties, including
! many of the foremost leaders of the
Republican party in the United
| States, until vicious partisanship
lead them tn rpnudiatp the hiph nrin-
cipes which they themselves before
! hand had expressed and endorsed.
GAS citizens of America, country
| which in the great war played a part
that will be always viewed by her
citizens with just pride, we view with
the deepest humiliation the change Of
front on the part of these men who
sought to destroy Woodrow Wilson
! and detract from the achievements