Evening star., 1936-06-20
WORK IS BEGUN
AMID CALM At
CONVENTION HALL
Platform Draft to Be in
Readiness for Commit.
tee Monday.
ROOSEVELT TO GET
ALL VOTES, SAYS FARLEY
Majority Rule, However, Expect
ed to Be Adopted-Scenes in
Contrast to Cleveland.
Py the Associated Press.

~ the AsSoclateQ PIeSS.
PHILADELPHIA, June 20.-The
Democrats, noted for their scraps anc
noise at convention time, started THEN
pre-rally week end today with calm
and quiet befltting the traditions OF
| this Quaker city
The New Dealers appeared to be in
complete command. In his most
serene manner, James A. Farley. ma
tional chairman, said the convention
starting next Tuesday will cast all oi
its 1,100 votes for President Roosevelt'i
denomination With equal calm he
announced that the convention wouic
substitute majority rule for the long.
standing two-thirds requirement for
| denomination.
None of the handful Of party leaderi
on hand arose TO dispute him.
Only the sirens of police Tlaotoi
cycles escorting official conventions eari
and the hammers in the convenEieE
hall broke the quiet particularly strik.
ing to those just in from the Repub-
| lican meeting in Cleveland.
Three days before the Republican.
! v,
jammed with party chieftains and
delegates. The air was charged with
fight and uncertainty. Reporters wert
scurrying to conference after confer
ence.
Only National Committee officials,
few delegates, newspaper and radiC
men and scattering of visitors werI
on hand here last night. The only
fight they talked was the Louis
Schmeling scrap in New York.
Observers expected the scene Il
liven up considerably. however, b,
nightfall More delegates and visitor
were due on every incoming train
They recalled, too, that the Republican
National Committee held a three-day
meeting the week before the Cleveland
convention, while only the most in.
formal conferences were held here
this week. e......- ..-.
Party chieftains watched .closel,
every development surrounding tn,
formation of a third party. to b
headed by Representative Lemke, Re.
publican, of North Dakota, imitation
crusader. and its Endorsement by
Father Charles E. Coughlin, head
the National Union for Social Jus
tice.
Cause of Speculation.
Whether Lemke's move would infiu'
ence the writing of the Democratic
platforms money plank, or at least th
Platform Committee discussion, wa
the subject of considerable speculation
Farley's return from New York yes
terday after a two-day absence CAV
new life to the pre-convention scene
He greeted the white-clad girls whit
are to sell Forward With Roosevelt
tags for autos. He greeted the girl
clad in gray and white Quaker garf
who are to work in hotel corridor ant
railroad station information booths.
He inspected The convention hal
and found everything fine HI
talked with Marvin Mcintyre, Presi.
dent Roosevelt's secretary, here Il
look over the situation" He shool
hands with nearly every one in the
lobby Of the hotel (Bellevus-Strat.
ford) where the National COMMITTED
is quartered. He held a press con.
ference with so reporters.
"Hows the platform coming along2'
he was asked.
Senator Wagner has been holding
conferences on it for a week" he re.
piled We'll have a tentative drafl
ready to place before the commit.
tee."
Wagner said in Washington las
night that the committee would meet
here Monday. The National Com.
nittee is to meet the same day.
Farley was free with his prediction;
of Democratic success next Novem.
Der. Not only would Roosevelt carry
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