Arizona republican., 1920-07-02
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 ple. on the other hand. were predicting that their candidate would go over the top before the fifth ballot, They claimed backing Of many prominent administration leaders who are on the ground here.
 To further fill in the wait delegate from Virginia sang Carry Me Back to old Virginia unaccompanied by any music. When he came to the chorus the organ chimed along with it's re- sounding notes.
 While the convention was being en- tertained Vice Chairman Bruce Kre- mer was comforting with the managers of the various candidates to see if they 1 would regard faVorably motion to suspend the rules and go ahead wit% the balloting for nominee while wait i ing for the resolutions committee. | The word came down from the plat 1 form committee, meanwhile, that If good fortune prevailed there might be | a report about 30 o'clock, and that in the prohibition fight it might be i agreed to have only two speakers-Mr. 1 Bryan on the one side and Bainbridge ! Colby on the other. The meaning of 1 this was that the platform committee could not decide the prohibition issue
 and was going to let it come to the l floor.
 The band played significantly We l Won't Go Home Until Morning. and
 the convention. ruefully getting the i point. didfnot applaud very loudly. II I chcered loudly, however, when the Land left off into How Dry I Am The delegates probably were thinking ! of the wet and dry fight going on in another part of the building. The resolutions committee. unable l to settle the prohibition issue, had ! finally decided to let it come to the nv,R rv, am h iph
 provided for one speaker on each side,
 William J. Bryan. of course. was to | speak for a prohibition plank and
 Bainbridge Colby secretary of state | and an anti prohibition leader. was tc | take the argument for the other side
 With the hope of hearing the com mittee report at S ?. m. the convention
 assembled at that hour and the big , auditorium was packed from floor tC
 roof with a recorS breaking crowd eager for the spectacle of Bryan in ac-
 ton for his favorite cause. and ex- , pecting to see the fireworks of the wet
 and dry fight.
 Many Postponements ! Postponement followed postpone nent, however, and while the throns
 was entertained with band music
 singing and selections on the grea
 pipe organ, various estimates camt
 down from the resolutions committee of the time when it might report. Ten; thirty o'clock, San Francisco time, wal
 the latest and seemingly best bet
 Some of the leaders wanted to suspend the rules and go ahead balloting foi
 a nominee, but a two- thirds vote wa
 required and hard to get. Mrs. George Bass of Illinois chief O
 tho women's bureau of the Democrats national committee. made a woman
 suffrage speech in which she said sh
 would reveal 'the duplicity of Repub . | ir1 Or suffrage question. The nose coun made by the convention managers t determine whether the two thirds vot to suspend the rules and go ahea' with balloting could be secured. de veloped that all of the candidate man agers were opposed to it because the, felt it would "get them out of posi- tion."
 At s.3o o'clock San Francisco tim the word came down from the plat form committee that it would be read in an hour This agreed with the pre- .-ious word that they hoped to be read H by 30. The task of the conventio managers was to keep the delegate \ entertained
 When Mrs. Bass had finished, Chair \ man Robinson, fresh from a confer \ ence with Chairman Glass, and expect K ing to make a report on the progres of the platform committee. steppe t onto the sepaker's runway but tn E Illinois delegation loudly demanded E speech from James Hamilton Lewis. Mir Lewis, however did not spea and Senator Robinson went on to an K nounce that the committee selection would be announced and that fmmedi ately afterward he would make an an nouncement regarding the progress the resolutions committee. When all the committee assignment \ had been reached. Chairman Robinso took the speakers place again to mak his announcement. There were cal of i've want to hear Bryan" from tn N galleries.
 RatiFy Committee Assignments M Chairman Robinson recognized Gavi N McNab of California. who moved rat N fication of the national committee as X signments.
 Disappointed at another delay, tt M convention called platform ''pla N form" and Bryan. Bryan The selections were ratified never \ theless.
 M Senator Robinson then told the cor & vention that after conferring with il