Evening star., 1932-06-23
HITCHCOCK NAMED
RESOLUTIONS HEAD !:
CONFERENCES OPEN
Roosevelt Forces Show Whip
Hand in Organization of
Convention Committees.
MCAD00 AND SMITH BUSY
WITH NEW Workers. FOES
Former Nebraska Senator Hopes to
Stress Economic Issues; Reed
and Murray in Chicago.
BY G.. GOULD LINCOLN.
S;sr CnrrpcDopdent of The Star


CHICAGO. June 23-The Roosevelt
forces went ahead today with the tem-
porary organization of the Resolutions
Committee of the Democratic National
Committee, placing Gilbert N. Hitch
cock of Nebraska, former Senator, in
command as chairman. No other
candidate for the chairmanship was
placed in nomination.
Maj. E. Brooke Lee of Silver Spring,
Md, was unanimously elected secre-
tary of the Resolutions Committee.
The domination of the situation in
the Resolutions Committee is indica-
tive that the Roosevelt people will hold
the whip hand in the formation of the
important committees on credentials,
rules and permanent organization, and
in the convention itself.
While the Roosevelt command was
scoring first blood in the convention
contest today, the leaders of the anti
Roosevelt groups engaged in series
of conferences. Alfred E. Smith and
William Gibbs McAdoo, old antagonists,
but now animated with the primary de-
sire to stop Roosevelt" that some ether
candidate may be the choice of the
national convention, were active in
these conferences. Smith is his own
first choice for the presidential nomi-
nation. If he had assumed this at
titude last February instead OF merely
announcing he would be glad to take
NJ nit1n n
if the Democratic convention should
desire him, he might have come to
Chicago with more delegates. McAdoo
is here in the roll of President-maker
He is leading a fight for the nomination
of Speaker John N. Garner of Texas.
Curry Remains Silent.
John F. Curry, Tammany boss, has
arrived here. denying that he is engaged
in stop-Rocsevelt" movement, but de
clining to say for which presidential
candidate the Tammany votes will be
cast in the national convention. He,
too. is bent on conferences.
The Tammany leader made it clear
that no decision in the matter CT CEN
tering on a candidate would be made
until after a caucus of the New York
delegation here Sunday. The decision
might be delayed until Monday or Tues
day, he added.
Chairman Hitchcock of the Resolu-
tions Committee said today that in his
opinion the Democrats should not at
tempt to make prohibition party issue.
He favored, he said, plank for submis-
sion of repeal of the eighteenth amend
ment, but net plank placing the
supporting repeal. There is no good
reason why dry Democrats, Senator
Hitchcock said. should have such a
partisan wet plank fastened on them.
He himself voted against the eighteenth
amendment when it came before the
Senate fer submission to States in 1917.
Favors Economic Issues.
The Democrats, Mr.. Hitchcock in
sisted, should make the paramount
issue of the campaign the economic
problems of the day. He favored, he
said, a strong Democratic plank deal
ing with the tariff, attacking the G..
O. P tariff laws. He favored, too,
plank declaring for reasonable meas
ure of imitation, and declared that the
Republican plan for dedation, adopted
early in the Harding administration,
had been fatal to agriculture first and
later to the manufacturing interests OF
the country.
Senator Cordell Hull of Tennessee, the
original choice of the Roosevelt Demo-
Gratis for chairman of the Resolutions
Committee, was unwilling to take the
post on account of the evident desire
of the Democrats to write an exceed
ingly wet plank into the platform. Mr..
Hull has been a dry consistently, al
though he is willing to have the ques-
ton of the eighteenth amendment re-
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however, that the economic issues should
be the real issues on which the cam
paign should be fought out by the
Democrats.
Chairman Hitchcock before the Reso-
luton Committee met, declared that
his State was strong for the nomination
of Gov. Roosevelt for president. The
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