The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-06-26
RALSTON OUT IN OPEN
Indiana Delegates Declare His
Name Will Go to Convention;
Wild Demonstrations.
BULLETIN.

ing suddenly that the NaClonal
committee had been able to pay
it's debts and would enter the cam
paign with clean slate.
The strenuous hours devoted to
pre-convention arrangements and
the uuadriennial ticket scramble
began to tell on the chairman yes
terday.
AS a grim coincident Mr.. Hull
topnIed out of the chair at his
desk last evening in a faint just
as the finance committee reporter
that all bills were paid. Mrs. Hull
put her husband to bed and was
guarding him today against all
visitors, sympathizers and ticket
seekers.
The physician said he expect
ed MIR. Hull to be able to take the
gaveI when the convention goes
into session tomorrow.
New York-The great quadrennial
jubilee of the Democracy is passing
through its final fevered stage of pre-
convention rivalry and enthusiasm.
Fifth avenue and the hotel district
of Manhattan resounded today to the
tramp of cheering delegations and the
blare of marching bands while out
runners from the forces of the prln-
cipal candidates scurried everywhere
to bring new arrivals into camp and
consolidate the legions already assem-
bled behind their favorites.
From the balcony of his hotel Viii
liam G. McAdoo exhorted a group OF
bowling western delegates to stand by
him to the last ditch, and they shouted
back an assurance that they would. Z
New York noisily acclaimed its al
legiance to it's favorite, AL Smith, IN
the greatest civic parade in the his
tory of the city. He was cheered by
thousands wherever he went.
Both Claim Victory.
Both the McAdoo and Smith men
continued to claim victory as the last
of the state delegations perfected then
convention organizations, but the par
tisans of a dozen other candidates
only rednubled their activities and re-
peated their predictions that neither
of the two leaders could be nominated
The Indiana friends of Senator Raj
ston announced after one look at the
situation that they had determined tc
disregard his request and place his
name formally before the convention
Meantime convention officials put
the finishing touches on their Madi-
son Square Garden arrangements and
set the great hall in readiness for the
fall of the gavel at noon tomorrow.
A tentative platform was almost
ready today for consideration of the
resolutions committee, but the group
of leaders which has drafted it recog-
nized that number of it's planks-
especially those dealing with foreign
relations, the Ku Klux Klan and law
enforcement are likely to form the
basis of vigorous and even bitter con-
.troversy before they are finally adopt
ed.
The traditional party requirement
of a two-thirds vote to select nomi-
nee remains the center of gossip over
the possibility of a rules fight. Pro-
posals to replace it with a rule per-
hitting nomination by a simple major
ity are advanced openly by few, but
they keep bobbing about on the churn-
ing surface of pre-convention talk.
Convention To Be Long.
The general expectation of a lengthy
convention was emphasized by the ten
tative state of the program worked out
by the managers. Conferences yester-
day failed to bring definite decision
whether the keynote address of SEN
ator Harrison Of Mississippi, as tenn
porary chairman should be made at
the opening session or put off until
night so it could be heard by large
radio audience.
The complexity involving the dozen
or SO dandidacies today remained, out
wardly at least, as cloudy as ever.
Each of the various headquarters con-
tinue to reiterate its expressions of
forces drove forward with new energy
to strengthen their lines, and the I'm
derwood camp found encouragement In
the arrival of their chieftain.
The West Virginia supporters of
John w. Davis, meanwhile, pressed on
with their campaign for delegates, and
friends of Senator Glass of Virginia,
professed to see an advantage for
him in the situation, exemplifed by
predictions that neither McAdoo, Smith
nor Underwood would be nominated.
In the platform discussion, differen-
ces of opinion center principally on
questions of phraseology but in the
case of the foreign relations plank
somewhat wider divergence is indi-
Gated. Thomas Taggart, national COM
mitteen1an from Indiana, having de-
clared against inclusion of declara-
ton for American entrance into the
League of Nations. On the Khan, the
chief dispute, outwardly at least, has
to do with the question of naming the
organization or making more general
declaration.
The list of possible presidential nom
inees who are on the ground was aug
mented today by the arrival of iona
than M. Davis of Kansas. In true dark
horse form the Kansas governor had
nothing to say.
AND ROAD CONDITIONS.
Milwaukee: Cloudy; roads good.
Appleton: Cloudy; roads fair.
Chippewa Falls: Cloudy; roads fair
Green Bay: Clear, warm; roads good.