Evening star., 1920-03-09
C. 0. 0.P.LEADERS
DISCUSS PLANKS
At CHICAGO MEET
Convention Committee Lays
PIans-"Wet" Situation
Considered.
BY the Associated Press.

| by the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. March 9-Ohlcers Of the
republican national convention, In
ciuding the temporary chairman, who
Will sound the keynote Of the 1920
| campaign, will be selected at a meet
Ing of the convention committee here
May 10, A. T. Hert of Kentucky.
chairman of the committee, announced
after meeting at which plans for
the convention were laid, the seating
arrangement approved and the ap-
attaches settled
The Chicago Coliseum will be re-
modelled to seat 1887 delegates and
spectators. approximately 1,1OO more
than were accommodated at the con-
Ivention four years ago After pro-
viding for the 9S4 delegates. the al
ternates and convention attaches, the
| remainder of the seats will be di-
v1ded among the state committees on
| the oasis of representation on the
pointment of $500 sergeants- at arms.
400 doorkeepers. 200 ushers. 100 ply
| siclans and other convention attaches
| will be divided.
| The entire convention committee.
| save Ralph e. Williams of Oregon
and James A. Hemenway Of Indiana,
was present. Hemenway was repre-
| apolis.'
Chairman Will H. Hays reiterated
night, that it was the business OF
the committee to "elect the candidate,
| not to select him" 1t was his in
tention. he said. to stay clear of all
politics until after the convention.
| More than fifty party leaders held
l informal IN ha
campaign and possible platform
possibility that one or both Of the
major parties might take q stand for
some modification of the present dry
law was the most absorbing topic Of
corridor gossip.
! The league of nations was a dead
| issue SO far as pre-convention plat
form wrafting went. leaders declared.
for the reason that the position of the
when the convention doors open,
would determine the position Of the
party in preparing it's platform.
| The committee of representative
men and women appointed some time
ago by Chairman Hays to consider
platform planks was still at work and
| would report to the convention COM
mittee on resolutions, Hays an
nounced
Candidate for Vice President.
| SALEM. Ore, March 9.-Elwood
| Washington of Hammond. Ind, yes
terday filed his declaration with the
secretary of state to have his name
go on the ballot in Oregon as a can
didate for the republican nomination
for vice president.
| Enter Alabama Races.
MONTGOMERY. Ala. March S-Ray
| Rushton. prominent attorney of Mont
gomery, has officially announced his
candidacy for the short-term senator
ship from Alabama, created through
the death of Senator John Hollis
Sanford Mullins Of wetumpka has
qualified as candidate for Congress
from the nth Alabama district, to
lsucceed Representative ]. Thomas
Heflin, who has ammo lnced for the
iSenate. s
Il Indorsed for Congress.
OXFORD, Nebraska March e.-At a
meeting here Of members Of the Nom
Partisan League of the fifth congress
tsional district d. w. Reed of Dundy
county was indorsed as the league
candidate for Congress.
HardinE's Campaign Criticised.
| COLUMBUS, Ohio. March s.-while
speaking kindly Of United States SEN
ator Warren G. Harding personally,
Ohio supporters Of Gen. Leonard
| "OOO lOT the TcpuUllCdu pI0Slu0uIlal
| nomination in conference here yester-
day. -oundly condemned the senator's
| campaign management
| Resolutions were adopted urging the
governors Of Vermont and Connecti-
| cut to call special sessions Of the
state legislatures to ratify the federal
woman suffrage amendment appeal
| ing to the legislature of West Vir-
ginia, which is deadlocked, to ratify
and to ask the legislatures Of Delaware
and Washington to approve the
amendment.
Harding Speaks Mt Topeka.
TOPEKA, Kans., March 9.-Senator
Warren G. Harding of Ohio, a candi-
date for the republican presidential
nomination. opened the campaign in
Kansas here last night. He declared
in favor of an 'unmistakable" un-
derstanding with Mexico and urged
more regard for the American farmer.
! Il would substitute for 'watchful
waiting and humiliation and anxiety,
| an unmistAkable understanding OF
just rights and righteous relation
| ships and exact fulfllment OF that
understanding" Senator Harding said
in referring to Mexico.
| Senator Harding also advocated the
sale of war built merchant ships, put
he said, never one of them should be
sold to any but an American citizen
to be operated under the American
flag for the benefit of American COM
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