Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-05-28
[. Q. ?. CONVENTION WON'T MENTION
 LIQUOR QUESTION
Directors of Party's Policies Say It Isn't An
 Issue
WOOD WILL HAVE MOST
 DELEGATES AT START
Plenty of Room for 10000 Visitors Who Are EXpected--Women Plan to Ask for Fifty
 Fifty Control

EiilN tDHLEol Chicago, May 2I Beer, light wirirs and prohibition will not be mem toned in the republican national con- vcntion, if present plans of party leaders are carried out, it was learn ed today
 Directors of the party's policies have decided that the question has been settled, and neither q wet" nor Il "dry" plank, nor endorsement or any modification of the present bone '"drv" plank" nor endorsement of any modification of the present bone dry rule will be incorporated in the plat form, according to Samuel A. Perkins, national committeeman from Wash ington.
 The prohibition question and it's possible effect on the forthcoming presidential campaign has been un- der consideration by party leaders sev- eral months, it is known.
 One member of the national com mittee who is here said today that the committeeman believed the vets" to be in the minority, and that the country as whole wanted prohibi-- tion.
 National committeeman here for the opening of the hearing on contests Monday received with interest today the reports of Senator Hiram w. John sons speech at Concorn, N. H., in which he denied he would "bolt" the Iconvention if not nominated. The probable attitude of the senator in the event of defeat in the conven- tlou has been the source of specula- ton for weeks along presidential row" and his pronouncement on tho subject was received with visible re- lief
 Wood is First
 Senator Johnson will enter the cor- vention with 109 instructed delegates, running second to Major General Leonard Wood, who has 153 votes pledged to him. Governor Frank o. | Lowden is third in the list with 74 votes.
 With approval today by the city building inspector of the temporary galleries, installed to add 1000 extra seats to the normal capacity of the Coliseum, Charles R. Hall, superin- tendent of the building, notified the convention committee that he would have the hall ready to turn over to the republicans late next week. Special correspondents of many met ropolitan newspapers were thrown in- to consternation today when it was announced by the Western Union Tel- egraph company that it would have no wires running into the convention hall.
 | Superintendent Hall notified the company that the building trades council had threatened to call out III workmen employed at the coliseum if non-union telegraph companies at-s tempted to place wires in the build- said it had not heard of the trOu- ble and expected to install an of-l 1 fee.
 | l.. w. Henley, secretary of the con-. vention committee, placed an order for new gavel today and the his-s toric mallet, used in 1912 and 1916 will be discarded. 1t has gone thru two defeats," Mir. Henley commeSlt- ed, land because of the associations connected with it think we would better lay it aside and buy less dangerous weapon"
 10000 Visitors.
 There will be plenty of rooms in Chicago at reasonable prices. to caxo for the 10000 convention visitors, ae~ cording to the information bureau 01 the association of commerce.. Firnt class hotels in the loop have 13,l60 rooms available, and outlying hotsls 21 900. Scores of apartments wh0SS owners have listed them at fancy figures are going begging. One own@ CT of nine-room house asked 912.- 900 for six days. There were no talk- CTS. The average price of 250 apart ments listed was $450 for the week. ]. but not more than a dozen have been rented.
 Women leaders here are conferrin8 with committeeman in m effort to draft plan for participation of tho newly enfranchiscd voters in the di- rection of the republican party. Tke plan will be presented to the con- vention it is understood with the rSy commedation of Chairman Hays ana the national committee that 1t IF adopted.
 Some women are asking for ~fiftx- fifty voice in party affairs. aytd. some of the said to be content witk the present arrangemnt whereby sn advisory committee of one repeserk- ative from each state. with no vot- ing power, sits with the nationSl committee.
 l Captain Victor Heintz, regional director here has been selected by Chairman Hays to sound the se1l- timent of the women and ask them the suffragists. Request for plank endorsing indepcndenee' for the Pht1- ippines in the republican platforII vii lbe made to the platform and po1@ icies committee by special comHnlk4 tee of Filipinos, Jose P. Meleneio sSs lnounced today. M