Opening Round of Battle Over Prohibition and Irish Question
In San Francisco on June 29 the Democratic platform fight opened with clashes on prohibition and other issues. Leaders pressed private talks while the platform committee prepared the declaration of principles. The vote on who should speak first yielded only a token defeat forBryan supporters as Bryan led the first drys argument joined by speakers from the Saloon League and allied groups.
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San Francisco
Wets
Drys
Bryan
Mt Saloon League
W. Bourke Cochran
New York
Anli
Democratic Convention Finalizes Organization Amid Komotion
The Democratic National Convention in San Francisco completes preliminaries with Joseph T. Robinson named permanent chairman. The rules allow state challenges to unit voting and women to join the Democratic National Committee while nominating speeches begin after the platform adoption. Balloting for a nominee will wait until after the platform is approved and the session ends with a lively crowd witnessing speeches and contest tensions.
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San Francisco
Senate
Joseph T. Robinson
Arkansas
Democratic National Committee
Harding Campaign Speech Emphasizes American Duty
Senator Harding the Republican nominee urged preserving Americanism as the nation's first duty in his first campaign address in Washington. He spoke via phonographic record to be released on July Fourth, alongside Governor Coolidge's remarks on Law and Order, with both speeches distributed to supporters.
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Washington
Council of Foreign Powers
Harding
Ala
Coolidge
Massachusetts
Samerbaniam
Hacding
Democratic Convention Chairman Excites Delegates Over GOP Attacks
San Francisco reports Senator Robinson of Arkansas, permanent chairman, condemns the Republican Chicago platform and pre-convention money disclosures. He attacks GOP senators who resisted the peace treaty with the League of Nations and denounces party factions amid charged rhetoric.
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San Francisco
Robinson
Arkansas
Republican Party
Chicago
League of Nation
Woman Arrested in Cheyenne Moonshining Raid
Georgia De Tresvant became the first Cheyenne woman charged with moonshining after police raided a residence at 707 Went Eighteenth Street. Officers found several plant bottles of whiskey and two vats of pint bottles of homemade beer. no liquor was seized.
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Georgia de Tresvant
Cheyenne
Aha
Do They Write Prescriptions At Convention Hall Hospital
At the democratic national convention in San Francisco a delegate cried out about a hospital set up in the auditorium. Nurses and doctors staffed the medical corps prompting laughter as questions arose about prescriptions and care provided at the venue.
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San Francisco
Hall
Tlear
Mose Ren
Heroine poling of bank bandits in Kentucky
Miss Louella Dye, a Houstonville operator in Lincoln County, Kentucky, helped thwart a bank robbery by warning authorities and identifying suspects via telephone. The alert prevented a second robbery attempt at a local bank and involved local residents and lawmen in the nearby counties.
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Lexington
Louella Dye
Houstonville
Lincoln County
Miss Dye
Wade
Helby County
Platform committee rejects wet plank in Democratic draft
San Francisco June 29 A nine member sub committee voting in secret rejected a wet platform plank by a two to one margin in the preliminary draft of the Democratic platform.
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San Francisco
Democrats Begin Work on Platform in San Francisco
June 29 report describes first formal work on the Democratic platform as subcommittees and full body consider amendments, with debate and suggestions shaping the draft before final approval.
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William Jennings Bryan
Puniamman Platform Committee
National Convention
Carter Glass
Virginia
Resolutions Committee
Wilson
Reed
Missouri
Senat Reed
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Republic
Holdie
G.O.P. Congress
Lodge
Chads
Hoyer
Pune
Tel
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