The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1920-01-07
JACKSON BANQUET
HELD TOMORROW
WILL OUTLINE POLICY OF
DEMOCRATIC PARITY
CANDIDATES FOR NOM
NATIONS TO SPEAK.
BRYAN is ON HAND
Wilson viii Send Message-Im-
pOrtant Gathering For All
DemOCrats-COnventi0n
City To BE Named.

Washington, January 1.-THE ma
tional capital is to be the rallying
ground during the coming week for
national leaders Of the Democratic
party, who will choose the time and
place for the 1920 national conven-
tion, talk over candidates and poll
cies, and renew acquaintanccs at a
Jackson Day love ieats which many
Of them believe will make party his
tory of one kind or another.
Although only one day Thursday
lis set aside for the formal business
of the week, leaders Of various mag
nitudes already were arriving to-
night prepared for a week Of con-
ferences and gossiping over the out
look for the presidentian campaign
Choice Of the convention city and
time is to be the only business di-
rectly taken up by the national COM
mittee at its meeting Thursday, but
an effort probably will be made to
have it recommend that the conyen-
tion nominate a president and vice
president by majority vote in place Of
the two-thirds required in past years.
Bryan and Parker.
AT the banquet that night several
aspirants for the presidential nomna-
tion are to outline their policies. Two
former nominees, William Jennings
Bryan and Alton b. Parker, also are
to be present and President Wilson
is expected to send a message in
which many leaders believe he may
state his position towards third
term.
Five cities arc in the race for the
convention, and talk among those
members Of the committee who had
arrived tonight indicated that there
would be no walk-away, The five
are Chicago, already selected as the
convention city Of the Republicans;
Kansas City, San Francisco, Indian
apolis, Cincinnati and Cleveland Dis
cussion general centers on late June
or early July as the. time Of the
meeting
Talk of changing the timc-honored
Democratic custom Of requiring a
two-thirds vote to nominate started
some weeks ago at q meeting Of the
national committee in Atlantic City
and the movement mas been actively
promoted in many quarters. Should
the committe make such a recon-
mendation, it generally is conceded
that the convention would adopt it.
Only a majority is required to nomi-
nate by Republican conventions, and
those advocating the change believe
that much unnecessary convention
work and worry could be eliminated
if the Democrats made Il like pro-
vision
The names Of speakers for the
Thursday night banquet had not been
made public tonight, but it was un-
derstood that several Of those men
toned for the presidencs would de-
liver addresses Mr.. Bryan, return
ing to the party councils for the first
time in many months, is expected to
be on the speakers list which will
include about dozen names.
In Two Sections.
SO great has been the demand fof
seats at the dinner that officials of
the committee announced today that
it would be held in two sections, with
all Of the speakers appearing at both
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places. In this way about 400 are
TO be seated.
Two subjects earnestly discussed
among the gathering leaders tonight
were the part Mr. Bryan would play
in the campaign and the attitude Of
President Wilson toward the presi-
Dental nomination.
After his long period Of quiet Mr.,
Bryan apparently has made exten-
sive plans to get into the political
swim again, but whether he will be
candidate for the nomination or
will attempt to become the control
ling factor in the convention has not
been clearly demonstrated His ac-
tivities during the week therefore are
awaited in many quarters with con
siderable curiosity.
Speculation about the course OF
President Wilson has raised the
questions whether he intends TO seek
re- nomination and whether If he