The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-20
DELEGATES TO
HOUSTON WILL
LEAVE FRIDAY
1875 Democrats to Entrain
on WooIIen Special
for Texas.
BOOST FOR ELLINGHAM
#. Wayne Publisher May
Be States Platform
Committee Choice.

Tndiana's delegation to the Ma
tional Democratic convention at
Houston, Tex, will be preceded
Thursday by r. Earl Peters, State
Chairman, and Marshall Williams.
secretary Of the State committee,
who will direct final preparations
for the Hoosier invasion Of the con-
vention city next Monday. the day
before the gavel is sounded.
The Indiana delegates, alternates
and men and women prominent In
Democratic circles of the State,
leave indianapolis Friday, 5:45
a. M, on the Evans Woollen Spe-
cjal.
Included on the 'passengr list"
will be William H. Settle, Indiana
Farm Bureau Federation president,
and a group Of farm leaders who
will fight to have farm relief
plank incorporated in the Demo-
cratic national platform
Boost L. G. Ellingham
Lew G.. Ellinghan1, publisher OF
the Ft Wayne Journal-Gazette, Is
reported slated as Indiana's repre-
sentative on the national platform
committee. Uncertainty as to what
the Democrats will do with the veX-
ing questions of farm relief and
prohibition, focuses keen interest
on this committee.
William H. O'Brien Of Lawrence
burg, chairman of the Indiana dele
cation, is expected to make the
nominating speech for Evans Wool
len, local banker, and ''favorite son"
candidate of Indiana Democracy
for the presidential nomination.
Indiana's thirty votes will be ac-
corded Woollen as long as his name
remains before the convention. He
is advanced as a logical compro-
mise candidate" should a deadlock
prevent the nomination Of Al
Smith, New York Governor.
125 to Make Trip
At least one hundred twenty-five
persons are expected to make the
Houston journey on the Woollen
Special, sponsored by the Indiana
Democratic Club.
Hickory canes for the men and
swagger sticks for the women will
Z,
Barrett, Indiana Democratic Club
president, announced. Blue coats,
white trousers and straw hats COM
prise the uniform specified for the
men. Hatbands have been printed
beating the words, Indiana Wool
len Delegate"
In response to an inquiry from
William Patton, furniture manu-
facturer Of Martinsville, Ind, Glen
Shaver, national Democratic chair
man, wired from Houston that the
convention probably would be GLAD
to accept Patton's offer of an can
drew Jackson Old Hickory" gavel.
O'Brien probably will make the
presentation.
Treathouse Recovering
Mrs. Samuel M. Ralston, Mrs
Thomas R. Marshall and Mrs. John
w. Kern, honored by election as
delegates at large with half vote
each, will not attend the conven-
ton. Their alternates are: A. G.
Sallee, head OF the Woollen-for-
President organization; Walter
Myers, secretary of the Indiane.
delegation, and Eugene B. Grove
of Bedford, Third District chair
man.
Charles A. Greathouse, national
committeeman from Indiana, has
been i'll several days, but expects to
be able to make the Houston trip.
possibly leaving Thursday.
The attendance of Thomas Tag
CART, veteran Democratic leader
will depend on his health, his
friends say. Taggart was chosen as
z delegate-at-larpe.