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18. TIIE SUNDAY OREGONIAX. " PORTLAND, JUNE 27. 1920 FIVE BIG ISSUES TO START TROUBLE Fights Expected on Floor of Democratic Convention. BRYAN CAUSE OF STORM Prohibition. Profiteering, Irish Question, Industrial Relations and Treaty Issues. SAN FRANCISCO. June 26. Bone Jry prohibition, profiteering, indus trial relations, the league of nations and the Irish question promise to be the headliners in the fight over planks in the democratic platform. In this category the prohibition question was easily foremost in the minds of leaders and delegates as the bonc-diys and the antis began the actual counting of noses. A conven tion floor ficht seemed almost certain both sides insisting that they -wanted a verdict by separate vote of the" del egatcs. Coming rapidly into the limelight and also threatening a fight in the open convention was the Irish ques tion, on which a whole scale of recom mendations, running from Irish rec ognition to- an expression of sym pathy, will be laid before the resolu tions committee. A ntt-Wilson Forces Uattins;. The league of nations row was more cr less in the background, but oppo nents of President Wilson of various shades of irreconcilability were mak ing an effort to get together- to block bis ratification plank. On the labor problem and profiteer ing only the beginning of a disagree ment was in evidence. On the pro fiteering issue, however, both William Jennings Bryan and Attorney-General Palmer will have ideas of their own which may bring out a stiff align ment more or less along administra tion and anti-administration lines. Mr. Bryan, as usual, . seemed likely tonight to be the stormy petrel of the platform fight. He took charge to day of the prohibition forces, lined up support for his league of nations fight and made himself quite gener ally the chief subject of speculation among the friends of President Wil son and the Virginia platform in dorsed by him.' Three Courses Open. On prohibition three courses are open. Mr. Bryan and his supporters want an affrt-mative declaration for the enforcement and preservation un changed of the existing half of one per cent Volstead act. A group in whicli the New York and New Jersey delegations for the present are taking the lead are in favor of a liberaliza tion of the law, for which they say a way has been opened by the su preme court's opinions. Still a third large class of delegates and leaders are for no prohibition plank at all. Heartened by the action of the Penn sylvania caucus in refusing to in struct its representative on the res olutions committee to urge a modi fication in the Volstead act, the drys late today were claiming that not only would they be able to prevent a wet plank from being built into the party platform, but would be able to include a plank commending the law. Mr. Bryan announced he would fight the wets from the committee to the floor of the convention. That the committee has a majority for the drys is conceded, but the wets are planning a minority report and Norman Mack, national committeeman from New York, said his state would make a de termined fight for the modification of the Volstead act even if New York state stood alone. Although overshadowed by the pro hibition fight, the contest over the league of nations plank got increas ing attention. The general prediction was that the administration plank in dorsing the league without destruc tive reservations would get a safe majority in the committee though there might be a contest against it on the convention floor. Senator Reed Irreconcilable. There was much speculation about the form such a fight might take and the president s opponents, ranging from irreconcilables to very mild res ervationists, apparently were at sixes and sevens on a programme. Senator Reed, an irreconcilable from the start, said he did not know whether he would present his views to the com mittee or if finally seated as a dele gate, whether he would ask for a vote on flat rejection of the treaty in the convention itself. The exact position to be taken by Mr. Bryan on the treaty also remained more or less indefinite. The disposition in still other quar ters was for a plank advocating rati fication with whatever reservations were deemed necessary "to protect American interests. The group ur lng that course argued that the re publican platform at least, had pre sented an issue by condemning the president and upholding the senate and that the wise course would be for the democrats to take that issue into their own hands. The declaration out lined, it was asserted, would ac complish such a purpose. Some of the senators who left Presi dent Wilson last March to vote for ratification with the. republican res ervations joined in the advocacy of such a protective resolutions plank but others among them were opposed to it. Another issue which received in creasing attention was the profiteer ing plank. Attorney-General Pal mer's plank, which, it was indicated. he might make public soon, is said to advocate federal control of securi ties issued by all concerns doing in terstate business in necessities; fed eral licensing of all interstate corpo rations, and a system of marketing commodities handled in interstate commerce with the production price. The backbone of Mr. Bryan's pro posal is understood to be jail sen tences for profiteers and strict en forcement of all anti-profiteering laws now on the statute books. Advocates of a planlc on the ques tion of Irish independence swarmed about the convention city, armed with proposals of many varieties, and it appeared certain that the subject would be one of the most bitterly fought when the resolutions commit tee began its deliberations. The party leaders hoped to keep that row off the floor o the convention. The trend ot opinion among the various Irish-American organizations eeemcd to favor 'a plank flatly de claring for recognition of the Irish republic, but some Irish sympathizers declared there was no hope of secur ing such action and that the main fight would be made for a milder plank. Some want to put the party on rec ord as merely expressing sympathy with the aspirations of the Irish peo ple for self-government and some will propose that the declaration favor in structing future American delegates to the league of nations to bring the Irish question before the league council. trr" .-Irish President on Way. Irish republican government, is on his way here to lead the fight for a plank for recognition of the republic. and in a telegram to his San Fran cisco friends he declared that noth ing less would be satisfactory to him. The text of his proposed plank fol lows: "Mindful of the circumstances of the birth of our nation, we reassert the principle that all governments de rive their Just powers from the con sent of the governed; We advocate the continuance or our long-established and lawful prac tice of according recognition without intervention and in all cases where the people of a nation, as in Ireland, have by free vote of the people set up a republic and chosen a govern ment to which they yield willing obe dience, we will support the recogni tion of that government. Therefore, we favor- our govern ment extending to the elected gov ernment of the ..republic of Ireland, full, formal and official recognition, thus vindicating the principles for which our soldiers offered up their lives." President Gompers of the American Federation- of Labor will lead tbe fight to put organized labor's pro gramme ' into the platform and Mr. Bryan also will submit a suggested plank opposing compulsory arbitra tion tribunals. The only apparent clue tonight to tbe desire of the ad ministration on the subject was the general declaration of the Virginia platform characterizing strikes and lockouts as "deplorable" and advo cating that methods be contrived for peaceable settlement' of industrial conflicts. MINORITY IS ABLE TO DEFEAT M100 300 Odd Delegates May Block Nomination. GEORGIA DELEGATES FREE PALMER ALLOWS DISCRETION ; WHEN TREXD IS SHOWS. trouble he is looking for and now the probability is revived that Bryan will make vehement war on the proposed Wilson plank on the league. The Glass proposal is for ratification with out nullifying reservations and that suits Wilson, but it does not suit Bryan, nor sundry others like Senator Walsh of Massachusetts and Senator Jim Reed. At this writing Reed is trying to break into the convention as a dele gate from Missouri, with dubious pros pects of success. His Missouri cre dentials may be all right, but his White House credentials are not, and that probably settles it. In a broad way, the only fight on here except for the presidential nomination, is be tween Wilson and Bryan. It takes s TIAfl TUIDne Dill C CTAVC majority, not two-thirds, to control I IU-HliilUO HULL OIMIOI the orgs little doubt that Wilson will win over Bryan. Yet there is no way to stop the ready Bryan tongue. Bryan for Any Lcacn He wants any kind of a league that the senate will ratify. Senator Walsh and his pro-Irish delegation from Massachusetts want no league at all and they will stand by. Bryan. So will others. It will be a great sur prise if they succeed. It is possible that some concessions for harmony's tealrA mav Ha mniiA hv th nre.fltrient which appeal With peculiar iorce VO through his managers. But it is not nr.oT.1c- . . probable. Certainly It will not be QUI IllftllJ 0 111111U. i , 11 10 1111 .ww wys. .outright defeat or subsequent disaster. Order to Nominate Expected on Third Ballot. GRATITUDE, REASON. WHY System by Which. 'Wilson; Was Se lected 3Iay Result In Defeat of Son-in-Law. (Continued From First Paee. Re-election or Clark Howell as Member of National Com mittee Is Ratified. . SAN FRANCISCO, -June 26. The Palmer delegation from Georgia, after its victory in the contest before the national committee, caucused and rat ified the re-election of Clark Howell as a member of the national commit tee. Pleasant A. Stovall was elected chairman of the delegation and W. T Anderson a member of the resolutions committee. A. Mitchell Palmer told the Georgia delegates he would not ask them to stand for him to the last if they, with the.. Pennsylvania delegates pledged to him. were the only ones voting for him. He predicted he would have 320 votes on the first ballot and addi tional votes on succeeding ballots. Washington elected R. S. Jones chairman of its delegation and Mau rice Langhorn a member of the res olutions committee. A. R. Titlow is the member of the national commit tee from Washington. The New Hampshire delegation went on record as favoring the league of nations covenant. Florida delegates, caucusing today, discussed candidates at some length and received a call from Attorney General Palmer, but adjourned to await the convention rollcall without definite decision as to their first bal lot. Representative Frank Clark, the delegation chairman, said that there were votes for McAdoo, Palmer, Cox and Edwards, and that it would be split for several ballots. Governor Ritchie of Maryland was elected member of the resolutions committee by Maryland delegates, and he declared that he would work to gain adoption of a platform plank pledging the party to modify the na tional enforcement act. RIVAL STRENGTH IS HAZY (Continued From First Page.) Eamonn de Valera, president of tbe at Baltimore, which culminated in the nomination of .Woodrow Wilson. Mondars session will be a mere preliminary in which Chairman Cum mings will deliver his keynote speech, the caucus designations for various committees, including resolutions and credentials, will be ratified -and the convention will then adjourn so that the committees may work. Bryan and Wilson Quiet. If a fight within the committees delays the completion of their work beyond Tuesday noon, the session that day may be another routine at fair. It is undecided whether the nominating speeches for the nine or ten men who will be presented to the convention will be delivered before the platform is brought in. At the Baltimore convention of 1912 the nominations were made before the platform was adopted but the usual custom is just the reverse. Nobody professes to know what candidate Mr. Bryan favors. No one professes to know with any greater degree of certainty what candidate President Wilson and the adminis tration forces may favor. But at every turn of the road, as seeker after information searches through the delegations in an attempt to assess their preferences and lean ings, the elusive McAdoo movement bobs up. The play of politics is expected to show many shifting alignments as the convention proceeds in its discussions or party issues. There are many wets' who, opposing Mr. Bryan on the prohibition questions, will be found to be with him in battling the administration's desires on the league of nations. Per contra there are drys wno win leave tne uryan camp as soon as that issue is closed and join with the administration in what it seeks to do in the making of a party platform. The Palmer' people are working hard to get for the attorney-general the heaviest "Possible showing on the first ballot. They have an eye to the tradition of the party unbroken until 1912 that the man who gets a majority gets the necessary two thirds as the logical consequence. The Cox people profess to be satisfied with their prospects on the prelimi nary balloting and claim accessions from the eliminations which are sure to come after certain pledged and complimentary votes have been de livered. There are out and out Mc Adoo delegates who disregard wholly the former secretary's' declaration that he does not wish his name to be presented and claim that the con vention will only need to take a few ballots to topple its majority into their column. The claims of adherents or other candidates are full of confi dence and hope. There is the same talk of deadlock and compromise candidate that was heard at- the republican convention. McAdoo Talk Is Heard. In the compromise talk among gathering delegates McAdoo gener ally is sought out in the end. His supporters seeing a majority for neither Palmer nor Cox feel that in such an emergency the former secre tary would be "drafted" and could not decline to make the race. The 24 hours preceding the as sembling of the convention, however, will produce something more definite. Delegations will be caucusing and making their first and second choices, and there will be indications of which way sentiment is turning. At the moment, .however, attention is centering largely on Mr. Bryan and the delegates are wondering how much of an old-time rumpus he may kick up. Mr. Bryan himself ie not oblivious to this speculation and Is saying nothing. had scant consideration from the isolated father-inrlaw of a son-in-law handy with political favors and it bears a deep grudge against McAdoo for what it regards as wanton Inter ference with its natural prerogatives. Tammany wants pie, not wind-pud ding, it never forgets unless inaeea it pays to forget. There is no prospect that McAdoo as president will be more liberal to Tammany than McAdoo the joD-ais-penser. In this dark situation. Murphy sees his duty and will do it. He will use all the artifices and resources of a vast political machine to beat McAdoo. Before he can be brought into camp, something mighty practical will have to be done. Now who is to intercede with Murphy for the Crewn Prince? Not McAdoo, him self, for he says he is not a candidate. Not any of the very busy band of button-holing men and women who infest the hotel lobbies in their labors for McAdoo, for the very essence of their campaign is that they are not speaking for him but for the great American proletariat which fairly yearns for McAdoo and will not be happy till it gets him. What, then, is a, poor boss like Murphy to do but to fight and hope for the best? Murphy would like to have in the White House an approach able statesman of about the dimen sions of Governor Cox, who knows what the boys want and is inclined to give it to them in exchange for political value received. Besides, Cox is wet, or at least damp, and moist- nesa is no offense to the Tammany eye or appetite. But if Murphy has the power to veto McAdoo and once exercises it, Bryan has doubtless the same ability to turn thumbs down for Cox. All by himself, of course, Bryan might not be able to beat Cox, but Bryan plus other things can make the Cox outlook 'somewhat less rosy than it once was. Those other things in clude the fact that the Ohio governor is a divorced man. It might well not be mentioned here except for the fact that it is being widely spread through the lobbies and that it has also found its way into print and that an ex planation has already been forth coming. - Divorce Is Arranged. It- is that the divorce was an ar ranged affair and that Cox was ut terly innocent or any wrong-doing. But it will be obvious that a defense based on the ground that the man was right and the woman wrong, though the man consented to the award of the decree to the woman. cannot well be made. But whether made or not, it is evident that the fact that there was a divorce and that it is already under discussion here has greatly disconcerted the Cox management. The Cox partisans say that such matters have no proper place in a presidential campaign. Quite true, but what are they to do about it when they are intruded into the campaign, whether maliciously or not? This is by no means the whole story about Cox, who is being sub jected to the fierce light which beats about a candidate. He is wet, as is well known and wetness even, to the degree of 2 per cent, is a rather hazardous recommendation for any national nominee or any party. Here again. Ohio feels that it must say and do something. It must define the at titude of its candidate or rather clear away the gathering cobwebs of popu lar misunderstanding. A declaration of high moment was forthcoming today in a rush. It came from ex-Governor Campbell and It was that Governor Cox did not think the platform should say any thing on the wet and dry issue. Be- ides, the ex-governor added with deft aptitude, the governor has a rec ord) of law enforcement. Wets Licked and Know It. The chief significance is that the wet forces are running for cover. meanwhile holding up before, the flashing eyes of the arid Bryan the white flag or compromise. In other words, they are licked and they know it. But they hope to reserve Cox from an impossible position by put ting him before the convention as the consistent advocate and valiant arm of law enforcement, which will in clude the ISth amendment. Possibly Bryan will be satisfied. If so, he will be easier to satisfy than has been supposed! But having won half a victory without striking a blow in the convention, a good pre diction will be that he will not be content either with silence on pro hibition or with the nomination of one who never until now, under pres sure, yields anything to the prohibi tionists. They do not fear a bolt by Bryan. He is not built that way. They will shove the league down Bryan's throat just as it is, or with innocuous reser vations; but It will be a little more difficult later to shove it down the country's throat. The democracy will go before the nation on the Wilson record, but without Wilson. All talk of a third term has died out. The convention would not nominate Wil son if he asked it. Conventions are queer bodies. Mr. -McAdoo has asked the convention not to nominate him and it may do just that, or something else. Mr. McAdoo thinks a democratic nomination this year is not worth hav ing. He may be able to prove It. If it is not Wilson nor McAdoo nor Cox it. may be Marshall. Today, indeed, the rising sun is Marshall. But who wilr It be next week? DANIELS 1 BATTLESHIP SECRETARY KEEPS QUARTERS DURING COSVEXriOX. Hope Expressed for Platform That Will ot Be Capable of Two Interpretations. .MITCHELL PALMER OF W SI A turn about is fair play that's tSie stair way principle Has SAN FRANCISCO, June 26. Secre tary Daniels arrived today aboard th battleship New Mexico, flagship of th Pacific fleet, where he will, retain quarters during the convention. He called on Chairman Cummings of the national committee and at head quarters of the North Carolina dele eation and his only public statemen was a Plea for affirmative declara tions in the party platform and bi men to head the ticket. Mr. Daniels was accompanied by George Creel, head of the committee on public information during the wa "I can prophesy accurately," th secretary said, "the result of the elec tion if you can tell me whether the people this year will vote against something and against somebody or for something or somebody." A majority of the people had voted affirmatively "for Wilson" in 1916, Mr. Daniels said, and against a demo cratic congress in 1918, induced by promises that a republican congress would reduce taxes and living costs and bring quick readjustment when the war ended. "The congress failed to keep every promise made in 1918," he added, and "the Chicago platform presents not even a single clean-cut explicit plan for any constructive policy." "The democratic convention," Daniels said, "needs to bear in mind that while in 1918 the majority voted against something they can be won this year only by a constructive and definite programme for something, and that something must appeal to the national conscience, the national sense of justice and the national resolve that the fruits of the war against war shall not be lost. Our declarations must be affirmative and must appeal to the aspirations of men and women who believe in American Idealism and in America living up to Its responsibilities and obligations. "I would like to see a short plat form, so clear and ringing that no casuist would place two interpreta tions upon any deliverance, and I be lieve the convention will give us such a platform and name candidates whose records will be guarantees of performance." President's Attorney-General Been Buffer for Present Administration. BT HAL, LATTON. SAN FRANCISCO, June 26. (Spe cial.) "A. Mitchell Palmer is Presi dent Wilson's choice and will have his indorsement on the floor of the San Francisco convention not later than the third ballot." This statement was made to me todav' bv one close to the president and his cabinet which had Colonel House as its high priest and one of the chief "listening posts of the ad ministration, here. Some bombshell. if true. Third term clouds, McAdoo rog, even "Silver BiU ' isryan s ny in me amber are cleared away and all Is harmony and peace. ("If.") Stuttering "why," after being some what convinced with notes and copies of decoded telegrams from Washing ton, my informant advanced this argument in the form of an analysis: Whv is the Dresident for Palmer: Gratitude, my boy. init wora is something more than a figure of speech found only In the later Mr. Webster s dictionary, and woodrow Wilsoa is grateful." Wilson Is Grateful. ' Tes. ves: but why?'i 'Well, we will go back to the 1912 convention: Palmer, an original v u son man. controlled the Pennsylvania delegation. F"r eight days he stood pat for his candidate In the most tur bulent convention In democracy's his tcry. it was anything to beat Wil son. and the Champ Clark-Under wood-Harmon combination finally offered to support Palmer for presi dent if he would bolt . the Wilson forces. "Palmer turned them down, and was one of the primary factors in the nomination of Wilson. Then at the request of the president, who wanted the administration banner carried by a strong figure in the Pennsylvania senatorial fight against Boies Pen rose, Palmer accepted the nomination, and though 'loomed to defeat, sacri ficed himself, to comply with this wish. "As a reward ie was offered a seat in the court of claims and refused, later to accept at another sacrifice the pest of alien property custodian, and later the portfolio of attorney-general. Palmer Good Buffer. My stairway saves me so much in rentals, upkeep and other overheads that it enables me to save you a lot on your clothes. UP BIT STAIRWAY. SEE MY Suit Specials 4rO Also $30 to $60 Alterations free A fit assured V1MW MNM jvduvuU i5iyjLilu Upstairs, Broadway at Alder Cat-ty Corner From Pantages s WOMEN GO AS DELEGATES REGULAR DEMOCRATIC SEATS ARE GIVEN SEX. "In the latter position he stood the gaff for the administration during the coal strike, by carrying out the presi dent's orders to the letter, though It made him a most unpopular figure in national labor circles. "Ho went into the Georgia fight for control of that state's delegation, and emerged with a plurality victory. Wil son's letter of thanks for this achieve ment is practically an indorsement of Palmer That is why. Maybe, but this gratitude thing in politrcs is par alleled by white black birds and the great auk. I have heard of both, but that is all. Maybe, but probably, maybe not." Several Who Represent Washington Convention Are Exper ienced In Politics. at ORGANIZATION HELD OP ALL OREGON" DELEGATES XOT VET AT SAX FRANCISCO. congress several times against "Uncle Joe" Cannon. Mrs. Lister is considered a real poli tician, understanding all the tactics of the game. She is an excellent speaker. Mrs. Christian's husband is a deputy Internal revenue collector in Spokane under D. W. Williams. Ta coma. internal revenue collector for Washington and leader of the "fed erals," one of the factions in western Washington democratic ranks. Read The Oreeronian classified ads. LEADERS FED' BY WOMEN Democratic Leading Lights Are En tertained at Club. OAKLAND, Cal., June 26. Leading lights of the democratic national con vention were guests of Oakland today at a luncheon given at the Oakland hotel by the Alameda County. Demo cratic Women's club. The speakers included Mrs. George Bass, Governor Hobby of Texas, ex-Governor Camp bell of Ohio and Senator R. L. Owens. Mrs. George Bass, chairman of the women's bureau, said: "There was a political convention held in Chicago a few days ago which did not provide a constructive and definite plank to which the women of the country are definitely pledged They turn their eyes to San Fran cisco and I believe that the women will not be disappointed. "The women of the United States have found that the democratic party has given them the greatest oppor tunity they have ever had witness the 400 women who are gathered In California from all parts of the United States." Tentative Plank on Reclamation of Arid Lands of West Drafted at Conference. SAN FRANCISCO. Cal., June 26. (Special.) The Oregon delegation to the national convention will not or ganize before tomorrow afternoon. due to the failure of more than hajf of the delegates to arrive by tonight. Will R. King. of Ontario, who re tired recently as- chief counsel for tbe reclamation service at Washing ton and a delegate from the second Oregon district, conferred this after noon with Dr. Elwood Mead, of the University of California; E. W. Burr, district commissioner of reclamation in San Francisco, and D. W. Ross of Berkeley, formerly of Idaho, on the question of a reclamation plank. It was agreed that the plank should go further than the republican plat Victory I Only Partial. Mr. Bryan will not have finished his task as the one and only true guide, philosopher and friend of de mocracy with his bloodless victory over the wets. Besides, it is, after all. only half a victory. He is likely to ask an affirmative declaration for en forcement of the Volstead " act. He is not dismayed by the fact satisfying; form adopted at Chicago. The re- FLORIDA PARTY ARRIVES Former Hood River Orchardist on Tour to Ofd Home. HOOD RIVER, Or.. June 26. (Spe cial.) J. Adrian Epping, former lo cal orchardist and for many years prominent in Portland musical cir cles, arrived here yesterday with Mrs. Epping and son, Stanley, after a mo tor trip from Florida. The party left Orlando, where Mr. ' Epping is now located in business, on May 22. "We were 32 days on the road." said Mr. Epping. "but seven of them were spent in visiting different towns and in waiting for repairs. We av eraged 159 miles a day for the actual time traveling. Our longest day's run was ZZO miles in Iowa." to many gratified democratic souls that Volstead has just been beaten for renomination in Minnesota -and that the great democratic principle of individual liberty "has been-vindicated in a-republican primary. He will want to know where the democ racy stands on prohibition, not where It does not stand. But here Bryan will probably fail. If the wets are. pleased to let the pesky thing alone the drys will also doubtless conclude that it is not ud to them to force the issue. This does not include all the wets nor all the drys, but It will include enough of them to govern. .Among the drys are many whose dryness is purely hypo thetical and political. But for all practical purposes here it is dry enough. Assuming that silence gives consent to prohibition as a fact, there will be other worlds for Bryan to con quer. He has hadla lot to say lately about prohibition and the democracy. but precious little about the league His strange refusal to talk may or may not be anxious, but It looks that way. It appeared the other day as if the big efort of Bryan here would be to make the world dry for democracy, or an already not-too-arid democracy dry for the nation, as the case may be. Fight Likely, to Be Found. A statesman out of a job and spoil ing for a fight is .certain to find the publican plank relates exclusively to the reclamation of the arid lands of the west, but the plank which will be proposed for the democratic platform would divide the reclamation funds with the south for the reclaiming of swamp and cut-over lands as demand ed by the southern commercial con gress. The plank agreed upon this after noon reads: ' "We recognize the lm'portance of fostering the policy of national recla mation of arid lands and of so ex tending it as to include the reclama tion of the swamp and cut-over for est. lands, susceptible of economic de velopment In all portions of the coun try and its territories, and we advo cate combining with such a reclama tion policy adequate farm loan fea tures to the end that settlers with small capital may succeed. We ad vocate this as beneficial in counter acting the dangerous drift away from rural life, in increasing the food prod ucts of the cou: try and in lessening the cost Vf living. Such a policy has additional force as affoiding suitable opportunities to soldiers, sailors and marines who served in the worl war." Besides Dr. J. W. Morrow, national committeeman, three Oregon dele gates are here, John H Stevenson Portland; Bessie M. Richards, Linn ton, and Will R. King, Ontario. SEATTLE, Wash., June 26. (Spe cial.) Washington democratic women are coming to the front politically Seven Washington women have seats In the democratic convention at San Francisco. They will not be mere alternates either, as were three women from this state at the recent republican convention. The women are: Mrs. M. . HarKer, Seattle, presidential elector; Miss Edna Crangle. Seattle, delegate-at- large. from the first district; Mrs.. Emma A. Hausman. Seattle, deiegate- at-large; Mrs. Hugh C. Todd. 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