The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-06-28
MUDDLES OF McADO0
MYSTERY CONTINUES
Latest Turn in Boom for Presi-
dents SOn-in-Law Creates
Commoti0n in Palmer and Cox
Camps and Managers Are
Seeking to Discount Its Sign
ificance.- Keen Interest in
Prohibition Fight.

San Francisco. June 2S-1eaders
among the delegates appear prepared
for long fight over both tie platform
and he candidates as the national
democra ic convention assembled for
its opening session today.
The acual convention work Of The
day has been only perfunctory but
the arrival Of convention served TO
bring further into the open the ques.
lions that have been perpleXing the
elder politicians and dividing he dele
gates.
a subject that is the keenest inter
est 10 delegates is the maniiestly i'm
pending fight over prohibition, but
talk of the rival candidate is gaining
more ground as rival Inanager5 got
down TO cases wi the big body Of
unpiedged and unin truc.ed delegates.
To-day for the first time he entire
convention pers mel is on the ground
aud the opposing elaments are taklng
definite BEARINGS The latest turn TO
the McAdoo boom has furnished a
now angle TO he convention prelimt
naries. The precise effect {. viii have
on the relative 81 ua,iun Of candidates
Is not vet clear
The Palmer and Cox managers are
seeking TO discount the apparon s gni
Ecance of the McAdlo announcement
made last ght by National Commit
toeman Love Of Texas
The principal fcaure Of the day
was he keynote speech Of Homer S.
Cummings, temporary chairman.
Chairman Cummins champ.oned the
league OF ma ions covenant as the
."MCnroe Doctrine OF the World"
OF the peace treatys defeat in the
Senate, he said: mo backer crime
against civilization has ever soiled the
pages of our history
He characterized the Republican
platform as reactionary and provin-
cial,' Filled with premeditated slam
.dtrs and vague promises, it will be
searched in vain for one constructive
suggestion for the reformation of the
conditions which it criticizes an de.
.Ilores' he continued
THE oppressed peoples of the earth
will look to it in vain 1t contains no
message Of hope for Ireland; no word
of mercy for Armenia; and it con
ceals a sword for Mexico II is the
work of men concerned more with ma
terial things than with human rights.
1t contains no thought no purpose
which can give impulse or thrill to
those who love liberty and hope to
make the world a safer and happier
place for the average man.
He declared that the peace time rec
ord of the democratic party from Mar
1913 to the outbreak of the world war
has to its credit more effective, con,
lsuuctiye and remedial legislation than
the Republican party had placed upon
the statute books in generation
Praising the administration course
in the war he said: I'VE fought a
great war, for a great cause and we
! had leadership that carried America
to greater heights of honor and power
! and glory than she has ever known be-
fore in her entire history"
Let no one misunderstood us These
great affairs were carried forward un
der the stimulus of American patrio
tism, supported by the courage and
spirit of our people All this is free
ly and gladly acknowledged, but surely
! the time has come when, because OF
the calculated criticism and premedi
tated calumnies of the opposition, We
Iare entitled to call attention to the
fact that all of these things we're ac
Icomplished under the leadership Of q
Igreat Democrat and of a great Demo
Icratic Administration. If the Repub
lican leaders are not able to rejoice
with us IN this American triumph they
should have the grace to remain silent
for it does not lie in the mouths o.
those who conducted the Spanish
American war to indulge in 'the lux
ury of criticism
Referring to congressional investiga
tons by smelling committees HI
said that over so investigations have
been made, over two million dollars
wasted and the result has been t
prove that it was the cleanest wa
ever fought in the history of civili2a
tiou"
The Republican party became S,
fixed in its incorrigible habit of con
ducting Investigations that It FINAL,
turned to the fruitful task Of investi
eating itself They discovered traut