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IS TTJE SUNDAY OKEGOXIAN, PORTLAND, JUNE 27, 1920 1EE BKYJUfS ARRIVAL SIGNALS TROUBLE AUDITORIUM IS READY FOR DEMOCRATIC SESSIONS Immense Structure Will Seat 12,000 People Homer S. Cummings Temporary Chairman of San Francisco Convention. ' T Isi tKe Hkce of AdvaLSiaCisig, Hice s DDYPRUXVWINS SE CONVENTION Alternate Transfers Power to Missouri Senator. ACTION IS EXPLAINED lep lcclared Taken as Being in Highest Interest of Harmony Within Party. ames T. Bradshaw, alternate to Sen tor James A. Reed as delegate from ho 5th Missouri district to the dem "cratlc national convention. an- ounced here tonight that he had vol ntarily turned over his proxy to Sen ator Reed and that the latter was em owered to act for him In all matters ertalnlng to the business of the con trition. The democratic national com nitte today had. refused to seat Sen ator Reed as a delegate. , Mr. Bradshaw said he gavs the roxy to Senator Reed Just before the enator left for Han Francisco and aid that he did so "because he nought the highest interests of party armonv demanded it." Mr. Bradshow declared business natters prevented him from attend ng the convention. Jcorgia Decision Is Sweeping Ad , ministration Victory. ' AUDITORIUM. San Francisco. Cal.. 'une 26. Administration leaders won sweeping- vi3tory In the democratic lational committee today when that ' wdy recognized the Palmer group of lelegates In the Georgia contest and 'efused to give Senator James A. Reed . . . . i . . . n tha .E Ml&soun, Diner uiiijuiicii. ...w ic&guo Ul nanwno, o. ... .. 'rntion. The. vote to keep Reed out of he convention, was 34 to 12. and came .rtv a lrtnir nuhllr hearlne and an ;,cur and a half of discussion behind . Uosed doors. '. The vote to seat the Georgia Palmer delegates was unanimous, 40 votes .elng recorded in their favor with our committee-men absent. The sc ion of the national committee in the Mnrcla rnntAst carried with it the . e-tlection of Clirk Howell as a mem- Tier cf the national committee, his lelegates having- selected him at the lime they were named in Georgia. The vote by states on the rejection f Senator Reed's claim to a ,eat in - Jie convention was as follows: j?or Reea uatiiornia, ueiawure, Slinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Ne- .-jrasaa, XNeva.ua. rtew jcrnry, agvy tfork. North Dakota, Ohio 12. . Against Alabama. Arizona, Colo- Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Mas- IBCnuuUS, JUlcnigM-n, iVHUMWiyi;!, mio- iouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New lcxico. North Carolina, Oregon, Penn sylvania, Rhode Island, South Caro- vTlah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, '.K'yomlntr, Alaska, , Hawaii, Fhilip- oines. Porto Rico 34. Frank Quinn, who held the proxy if F. B. Lynch of Minnesota, re 'Trained from voting becanse he ex oeqted to be a member of the creden Uals committee and would have to - . . r 1-1 thA artinn of tliA Tiatinnnl committee Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, .West Virginia, Wisconsin and District 'f : Columbia were not recorded as voting. Before the vote was taken Commit ,teemen Moore, Ohio; Saulsbury, Del a . . Tl . . 1 1 -rTnk.-n 1. . Tl ., 1 - ... M . '-.California, spoke in favor of seating "Reed Senator Glass, Virginia, made the principal speech against Reed and was supported uy uiiimiiit;t:iiitsii . VUlnn, xtnoae jeiana: jones. iew .'Mexico, and Titlow, Washington. I Senator Reed said he "certainly n-vould carry his fight for a seat to the credentials committee at least. Until ali'ter conferences with Missouri mem- j Hers Reed said he could not discuss further procedure should the creden tials body adopt the national commit . . . .. .i -' Although only SJ votes were in volved in the Georgia case, the Pal mer delegation is composed of 56 men, iach with one-half Vote. The opposi tion, known as the Hoke Smith-Tom Watson group, brought a delegation 'or si, or wnom :t were district dele 's ales with one vote each and eight ".delegates at large with one-half vote ' ach. r On motion of J. Bruce Kremer, Montana, each side was given 30 min utes to present its case. It was 'agreed that the committee go into ' executive session to vote on the con gests after the public hearing. H. H. Dean, Gainesville, Ga., opened a r tho Palmer clalefirates. He ex. -'"-ilained there was no state law sne- viflcally covering presidential preter it lUill ii uiim ica miu 111 dulii uuaeuua - K o. . iiln. nf thn rt n m ni'm f i r- ctnt. o v ''ccniive committee should prevail. He I said the executive committee unani Tiuubjy uxrEcu Liiai. Luc uuLiunai aeie " rates should be chosen from among .he friends of the delegates who re f ctved the largest county unit vote. Thi rr r- ft B T1 On t h A n H rl r rl nroo known to all candidates, was widely . .published, and none of the presiden -tml candidates objected to it before : the primary. At thft nrimarv A- Mitchell Palmr v. received 148 votes, Thomas Watson .- 132 and Hoke Smith 106. Later Mr, ' Dean sa-id Watson claimed he was . rot Douna oy me executive commit Smith forces in naming anti-Palmer -f .delegates. Dean claimed that the - '' eeutive committee rules under - . ,nich the primary was held should " prevail. .Opening for the anti-Palmer group, j. H. Perry, Gainsville, spoke of - .. lark, Howell's longr service in the national committee and of the hin-h jregrard in which he is held by its - members. He spoke of Mr. Howell's j fairness and said he hoped the com' mittee would not be swayed by per- i Fonai consiaerations, dui would con I elder the case on its merits. . I Mr. Perry argued that the election ;f the Smith-Watson delegates was . '-eular. They were chosen by the - jitate convention. Which, he claimed, ..tss the parent body. The credentials f.the anti-Palmer men, he said, were accurate in stating that these dele x . tea had been elected in pursuance the result of the primary. He pointed out that the credentials of . - he Smith-Watson men were certified oy the chairman of the convention jvhlle the credentials of the opposi AN FRANCISCO, June 25. When the democratic national conven tion meets here June 28 it will have available for the first time ac commodations in the Exposition Me morial Auditorium building sufficient to house under one roof not only the convention proper but committee meetings and headquarters for candi dates as well. These are largely to be utilized, according to J. Bruce Kremer of Butte, Mont., vice-chairman ' of the national committee, thus avnldi'ir the Inconvenience and delay usually at tendant upon holding minor confer ences away from the convention hall. In addition to the main auditorium, the maximum capacity of which Mr. Kremer estimated at 12,500 persons, the building contains two auxiliary halls, one thut wilt uat inn nor-enn - and the other 750. There are 19 rooms I that may be used for smaller meet ings. A fence around the entire building, with entrance gates for ticket-holding spectators, delegates, ' officials and news writers, will be used by po lice and convention authorities to prevent crowds from rushing door keepers to obtain admittance. This has occurred several times during na tional party conventions. Scene of Activity. The auditorium for three weeks past has been a ecene of noisy activ ity. Carpenters have erected the speakers' platform, 30x40 feet and 10 reet high, on the south side of the big hall Just In front of the great organ and opposite the main entrance. Several feet lower and extending along the greater part of that side of the auditorium is the press sec tion with seats for 516 working news writers. Back of the speakers' plat form in sound-proof rooms are tele phone booths and fully equipped ac commodations for press associations and newspaper men. The central nortion of the main floor is reserved for the 1093 dele gates and a like number of alternates. Around this space a solid railing has been raised to keep back spectators inai are admitted to this floor. To id these onlookers a platform one foot high has been built over the entire space they will occupy. The balcony, sweeping around three sides of the auditorium, will seat 4416 persons. covering ine dome Is a canopy weigning lb tons that forms a false ceiling. This and draperies on the walls and in the corners are designed io improve the acoustics. The auditorium will be equipped with, all modern electrical devices, in cluding sound-carrying wires and a telephone system that will enable the chairman to transmit orders from the platform to the sergeant-at-arms'and other officials and these in turn to speak to their deputies in any part of the great hall. A complete hospital under the di rection of the Red Cross and a large restaurant and lunch room have been Installed. Typically Callformlan. - Despite the fact that the $2,000,000 four-story granite and concrete struc ture was erected only five years ago, the interior has been entirely reno vated and repainted. Flags are to be used in the decorations, which, with a secret decorative effect to be presented opening day, are described as "typically Californian." v Weather bureau records running back to 1871 indicate cool "top coat" weather for the convention period. Overcoats and hats of spectators and i participants may be checked free of charge in permanent stations scat-1 tered throughout the building. The auditorium stands in the open civic center that offers much space for parking automobiles. One corner touches Market street, the city s principal thoroughfare, which has two surface streetcar lines running In-each direction, and it is 11 blocks from the Palace hotel, where national committee headquarters are located. The San Francisco committee that pledged $125,000 to bring the conven tion here is headed by Charles W. B'ay, postmaster; George F. Mara. Bridgeport, Conn., representing Homer - S. Cummings of Stamford, Conn., chairman of the democratic national committee, who has been here for nearly six months oversee ing arrangements for the convention. Camming Temporary Chairman. Cummings Is to be temporary chair man of the convention. He will be presented by Kremer. vice-chairman of the national committee. B. G. Hoffman of Fort Wayne Ind., secre tary of the committee, will act in a similar capacity for the convention, being assisted by W. R. Hollister of Jefferson City, Mo., executive secre tary of the committee. Colonel John L. Martin of St. Louis is honorary sergeant-at-arms, and J. J. Hughes of Oklahoma City, Ok la., is active sergeant-at-arms. Wilber W. Marsh of Waterloo, la., is treasurer of the national commit tee, and W. D. Jamieson of Washing ton, D. C, is director of finance. The press section will be in charge of James D. Preston, superintendent of the United States senate press gal lery, assisted by William B. Donald son, superintendent of the house of representatives' press gallery. Solitary Democratic Conven tion Talk Is Liquor. DRYS RALLY TO LEADER . i-,n delegates were certified by the secretary of the executive committee, " x-enator Hardwick, also oppos !nsr the Palmer delegates, declared the vate convention was supreme and tli,-'. the state executive committee hai nu power to instruct the state oil -entions what it should or should odo. The state convention, he I held the same relative position je state committee as the national ientlon holds to the national com . - en. aator Hardwick taid he always abided by the results of primaries. "Why didn't you abide in this pri mary?" asked a Georgia delegate. "Because we beat you in that pri mary," shouted back Senator Hard wick. He claimed that Palmer re ceived less than one-third of the popu lar vote in the state, though he had the most county unit votes, and argued that it was against democratic principles for a man receiving less than a third of t:.e total vote to tie the hands of the other two-thirds. Albert Howell. Atlanta, closing for the Palmerites, said that the execu tive committee exercised the functions of the state committee between con ventions. He declared the executive committee was the creation of the convention and its functions were limited to those prescribed by the body creating it. Mr. Howell was ap plauded when he humorously illus trated the case of a poker game in which one 6et of players wanted to change the rules of the game after the chips were on the table. This closed the Georgia cast and the committee immediately proceeded to hear the Reed case. Francis M. Wilson, United States at torney for the western district of Mis souri, presented Senator Reed's case. He said it was understood there was no contest in Missouri, but that the only question for solution by the na tional committee was not the man or the measure, but rather whether the fth Missouri district was to be per7 mitted to name, not once, but twice. a delegate of its own choosing. He explained that under Missouri ules the congressional districts are permitted to select their own national elegates who are passed upon by the tate convention. The state conven tion rejected Reed's selection and re- erred it back to the 5th district with- ut any qualification or restrictions. The state convention adjourned and subsequently the 6th district dele gates re-elected Senator Reed. Mr. Wilson asserted that Senator Reed's Itle to a seat in the convention was as clear as that of any other delegate. Asked in the event Reed were seated, would the senator abide by he actions of the national conven tion. Mr. Wilson said he has Known Reed for 30 years and that his democ racy had never been brought into question. This drew applause from different parts of the committee room. Josenh B. Shannon, the other dele gate from the 5th district, supported the claim of Senator Reed. If I am entitled to my seat. Reed is entitled to his," said Shannon. "In fact, he is more entitled to his seat than I, because I sought the place and he did not." If the national committee distran-. chises the fifth district, he declared. democracy in the fifth district would be injured. Senator Reed s claim for a seat was opposed by Edward F. Goltra, na tional committeeman from Missouri Mr. Goltra a creed with the principal facts in the case. He said the fifth district delegates were entrusted with certain mission. They performed that mission, the convention rejected part of their recommendation and when the convention adjourned, Mr. Goltra said, the mission of the fifth district delegates ended and Reed's subsequent selection was irregular. Colonel John Gosgrove, a delegate from the eighth Missouri district, de clared that if Senator Reed had not ooDosed the national administration in the ratification or tne league or nations, there would not have been a vote cast against hint in the state convention. The question, Cosgrove said, is whether the committee shall stand by the president who will go down in history as a great president, or by his traducers who soon will be for Cotten. Mrs. W. W. Martin, a Missouri dele gate, also Opposed the Seating of Senator Reed. The hearing was about to be de clared closed when District Attorney Wilson asked for time to reply to at tacks made upon Senator Reed for hi attitude on the league of nations, in view of the fact that he had confined himself to the records in the case, Time was granted and Mr. Wilson re viewed Senator Reeds record as democrat, which he said was unirn hfarhfthle. After the hearing closed a motion by E. H. Moore, Ohio, to reconsider the vote by which it was decided to consider the contests 1A executive session, was lost, 14 yeas to 33 naya. SAN FRANCISCO, June 20. Senator James A. Reed Of Missouri, whose Apostle of Aridity Pages Disciples From Booms From Which Come Suspicious Sounds of Ice. BT JAMES A. MONTAGUE. SAN FRANCISCO, June 26. (Spe cial.) The trouble has started. Bryan is here. The first thing he did when he got to his hotel was to open a couple of suit cases of defiance and begin hurling the contents thereof at all the adherents, proponents, sup porters and even passing acquaint ances of the demon rum. Yesterday you might have thought the business of the Impending conven tion was to nominate a democratic presidential ticket. Today you are sure that its object is to make a pronouncement on the Volstead law for or against. Since the arrival of the peerless leader, the Bolitary topic of conver sation is liquor. Even League Sidetracked. Booms have been forgotten. The league of nations has been side tracked. Nobody seems to care whether Wilson will or will not, or what McAdoo'll do. The first thing the .postle of aridi ty did after dinner was to page all the dry men in the convention and rally them around his standard. They came from all quarters. Some of them even tore themselves away from hotel rooms where the clink of the ice in the pitcher indicated that they had begun to slip. By 10 o'clock he had seen and ad monished 100 of them and the 100 in turn were seeing and admonishing the rest of the delegates. "The platform of this convention must, shall and wsll be dry," said Bryan impressively, as he fixed his hypnotic eye on his followers. "There will be no compromise, no ctraddle. No democrat is worthy of the name if he does not strike down the ac cursed monster of intemperance wherever he rears his horrid head. Go out and tell that to Edwards a id Cox and Charles Francis Murphy, and tell them I said so." Crash Causes Jam. Naturally, Bryan's crashing into the situation in this militant style re suited in a jam. Things were bad enough before he came, but they had begun to shape. The work of picking candidates was at least under way. But that is all over now. From the headquarters on the second floor where the "peerless leader" and his satellites are sipping soft water, to the rooms above where there is mirth and wassail and inebriety, the forces are lining up for the struggle that must be fought before there can be any subsequent proceedings. This morning the New York dele gation listened to- the reading of a dry plank, warranted to please all factions. After they had heard it they shook their heads and admitted it wouldn't do. As a matter of fact, if the platform mentions booze at all it will be playing with dynamite. A kind word for the demon probably will remove William Jennings Bryan from the party which he has served so many years in the capacity or candi date. Kvaslon Declared Cowardly. Speaking roughly of rum will, in the opinion of the delegates from states with big cities in them, remove the single hope of raising an Issue which will arouse an enthusiasm. An attempt to compromise will be com bated as a cowardly evasion of i burning subject. Bryan is all over the place- this morning. Hatless and clad in an al paca suit and a beaming smile, he goes up and down in th elevators, dashes in and out of rooms, and drags forth lieutenants to help him make the big hattlfl. The old fighting light is in his eye and his voice, husky from much nneech-making. grows vibrant when from behfcid locked doors, he hears th con of enemy corks. By Monday he'll know whether he has won or lost. In the meantime all traffic toward the nomination will be Biiananiipd.' And that, from Mr. Bryan's point of view, will be just as well. Four times now he has come to democratic conventions and halted booms which up to his advent had gathered a great deal of momentum Nomination His Three Times. Three times after the halting had been accomplished he stepped in and erat-hered the nomination to his own bosom. The fourth time at Baltimore the same thing would have happened claim to a seat in the convention from the 5th Missouri district was rejected by the national committee, tonight j gave out a statement asserting that the action of the committee can be taken as nothing more nor less than an effort to "exclude from the coun cils of the party a man, whose de mocracy is unchallenged and unques tioned. Solely upon the ground that in the United States senate, acting under his oath of office, he opposed the league of nations. The Missouri senator said he will carry the case before the credentials committee, hoping and expecting that a different spirit will prevail there. Senator Reed said he did not seek the seat in the convention. "I was elected in the first instance during my absence in Washington," he said. "And I felt that I could do nothing less than respond to the request of the largest democratic district in the United States. The objections to my credentials were purely technical. No one was here claiming the seat; in deed, the alternate refused to take the seat to which I had been elected and sent me a proxy authorizing me to act in his stead." Continuing, Senator Reed said: "The unfortunate part of it is, that if the impression goes abroad that men ought to be excluded from par ticipation in the democratic councils because they are not for the league of nations as Mr. Wilson delivered It, then a large percentage of the dem ocratic party throughout the nation may feel that they are in like manner to be excluded. If a similar policy is to be pursued of excluding those who do not agree with everything the ma chine of the party desires, it might result in the exclusion of man because he was a wet. or because he was dry, or because he was in favor of woman suffrage, or against it. The result would be a minority part-. jny ciaira mat i was rejected be cause of any technicality arising over the character of my credentials sinks nto absurdity in view of the fact that the national committee seated two delegates from the Panama canal zone merely because they came claiming to represent democrats of the zone who ad assembled on their own motion without any call or authority from the national committee. Having done this act of justice to the democrats who were in the canal one and not represented, having dis regarded all technicalities, the com mittee proceeded to deny me a seat although I came as the undisputed uu.uuu wnite inhabitants and which if Bill ucuomos naan i naa so many regularly gives a majority without which the democratic party cannot hope to carry the state of Missouri." 0 V o On Overdue 0MvofIs Now is the time and Staiger's is the place to buy your shoes for months to come, because at Staiger's you can choose from thousands of pairs of shoes quality shoes at savings that border on the sensa tional. . Save on Women's Shoes IN THIS BIG SALE EXTRA! A broken assortment of odds and ends of women's low and high shoes is offered in this big shoe sale at, pair $1 .00 Group 2 Canvas and rubber sole outing shoes, for men and women. Children's Mary Janes and canvas footwear. Also women's low shoe oddments, etc. Mostly small Bizcs. fS.OO to S5.0O values. $180 Group French heel white canvas lace shoes. and white canvas pumps with high or low white covered heels, hand turned solos. Also a small lot of pumps and oxfords. l to KU3.50 values. . $A:80 Group 4 White buck and pearl calf sports shoes with welt soles. White nubuck, tan calf and black calf sports pumps with military heels. Other pumps and ox fords in many styles. Rrcsltf S12.00 valses. Group Excellent quality mahogany calf brogues. Also brown or black calf or kid mili- C Cj Q dry OCCL IdLC oArurus at this price. - Regular 12 values. Group 6 Low broad heel brogue oxfords with perrorated wing tys. Buck or tan calf or pat ent leather. Also brown kid oxfords with mili tary heels. Regular 12.50 values. $gyo Group 7 Alsace cross straps, Biltmore tongues, fancy combinations and novelties in buck, ooze, patent-and-satin. satin, calf, kid, etc. Manv dif ferent styles. S15.0O to SI8.0O values. $QJ80 Men's and Boys' Shoes Reduced IN THIS SALE EXTRA! Tan blucher cut broa with brass eyelets, bla dium toes, black kid bl MUNSON last shoes. id toe shoes, tan elk bals j, 3TS9 ack calf bluchers with tne- ?k Jf o0 blucher oxfords, tan blucher " M SIO.OO to 913.0O values. J Group 2 Tan and mahogany calf English last shoes, also black calf shoes In Eng lish or wide toe shapes. fll.OO to $12.SO values. $0-80 Group 3 Brown kid,, black kid, mahogany calf, patent vamp dress shoes in lace and button styles. Brogue oxfords of mahogany calf, tan calf and brown Kangaroo English last oxfords. 14 to $17 .r0 values. Group 4- Boys' tan and outing shoes, cut, built ove last. Fine fo wear. $8.00 to values. ind black blucher f OA sr Munson J (jOU r vacation to $6.50 " 10 to 20 Discount on Children's Shoes The bent makes of shoes for boys and clrlH, including: Melanaon, Laird Scbobcr, C-Shaw, Kalry and Soldier Hoy, are Included In tbia sale at tacse vbarp discounts. Buy bow and ssve. 292 Washington, Between Fourth and Fifth convention to look toward Nebraska for the leadership that it now lacks. If it should happen to look in that direction whom do you suppose it would see. wearing an alpaca coat and a beaming smile? Aberaeen Plans Series. ABERDEEN. Wash., June 26. (Spe cial.) The Aberdeen baseball club will prepare for a series of three games to be played during Grays Harbor Splash week by playing the Shelton club Sunday at Shelton. The Splash games scheduled will be with a recruiting party nine, one with a navy crew from visiting destroyers and one with a team from Olympia. Moore, Bush, Dean, Parker, Uubot tom. Rondeau, Johnson, Ciibeke. Carey and Foster will make the Shelton trip. WllSOn VULCO orn ru u ir. , i w. m This time, still from Bryan's point II sesss. V of view, the important thing is to I I I stop whatever is going on. While the I i L other candidates are backing water, lh , 1 J- ITN . ... 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