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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1920
Page
1
Convention in session only brief period as committees begin building platform. Blade leads Committee on Resolutions in a move seen as evidence that present administration forces control the San Francisco situation.
Auditorium audience at the Democratic National Convention erupts in a half hour of cheering when a rolled up flag reveals a large picture of President Wilson. Roars and demonstrative support sweep the hall with delegates parading standards. Roosevelt is briefly challenged by a New York faction amid the uproar.
Thirty minutes before opening, delegates stream into the hall as a brass band plays and officials arrive late. California redwood gavels await use while photographers hunt for notable figures. Women delegates are guided to seats, banners and fruit decorate the neatly refitted auditorium, and Irish freedom leaflets circulate among hopeful platform supporters.
A sudden hail and rain downpour beginning at 7 30 pm devastated Butte. Streets filled with hail several inches deep, basements flooded, and trees and gardens damaged. Silver Bow Creek overflowed, power lines were disrupted, and several streetcar lines were tied up. The storm was localized to Butte with Anaconda and Thompson Park spared. Continued on Page 7 Column 3.
San Francisco June 14 Administration forces showed full control of the convention machinery as Senator Glass of Virginia was named chairman of the resolutions committee and Senator Robinson of Arkansas chosen for permanent convention chairman. Bryan’s planks must gain minority approval. Colby earns a drafting seat, signaling Wilson administration influence in the platform. Senator Walsh withdrew to back Glass, stating service to the party over his own candidacy.
Washington June 28 The Interstate Commerce Commission denied a petition by Anaconda Copper Utah Copper International Smelting American Smelting and Refining and others for general rate reductions on smelter shipments from western mining states to eastern states. It ordered carriers to set rates by October 1 that do not exceed contemporaneous Montana Utah and Arizona rates for Idaho and Washington to east of the Missouri river.
At a San Francisco convention J Bruce Kremer of Butte opening remarks urge progressives to reject republican standpatism. He accuses the Chicago gathering of evasion and old money influence and asserts the party will present a platform and name a candidate based on achievement. Continued on Page 10, Column 7.
June 28. The Democratic National Convention directed Chairman Cummings to send President Wilson a resolution of appreciation and greeting. The telegram praised his war leadership, recovery of health, and denounced partisan foes. It lauded Wilson’s character, learning, and progressive measures as he oversees the nation’s army and navy.
Leaders begin sounding sentiment among United delegates as McAdoo talk lingers in San Francisco. The night centers on four big committees in the convention building where leaders and managers confer in hopes of drafting a candidate slate while gauging uninstructed delegations.
The petition drive for initiative measure No. 17 seeks to repeal state compensation laws and replace them with a system of state life, accident and health insurance and old age pensions. Signers largely come from agricultural counties. Silver Bow and Anaconda show few signatures, while the bill favors vocational education and broad payouts, with an elected industrial commission empowered to levy premiums to cover expenses.
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