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Newspaper
Plainfield Messenger
Location
Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1920
Page
2
News items from Chicago to Washington report racial seating limits in conventions, senatorial nominations, labor platform planks, medical operations, and retirements. Notable figures include Warren, La Follette, Colby, Pershing, and Stoddard. Prohibition and suffrage issues advance, while postal and rail labor matters gain funding and pay hikes.
The AFL executive council report at Montreal denounces Bolshevik influence and U S food control law use amid miners strike, cites Congress inaction on living costs, and highlights related global events from Akron fire to Baltic diplomacy. It notes deaths in factory accidents near Grand Rapids and Cincinnati, and reports on naval and international affairs including Russia Britain and Persia.
During the hearings on contests the national committee ruled the Fifth district comprising 19 Kansas City wards and seven Jackson townships had tainted elections from both factions and refused to seat the delegates. This leaves 984 votes in the convention and 493 needed to nominate. Net shifts show Wood down 11, Lowdon up 19, Johnson up 4. Seats for 50 extra delegates are to be provided. extra alternates must find spots themselves. Demand for seats at the Coliseum totals over 150 000. venue capacity is 13 289.
The Republican platform nears completion in Washington with a late addition on Mexico. Senator Watson of Indiana carried the draft to Chicago and Senator Fall wrote the final plank. It states that the United States may intervene if conditions in Mexico do not improve.
Following Delaware's failure to ratify the woman suffrage amendment the National Woman's party plans a major Chicago demonstration on the convention's opening day to press the Republican party for full support. Delaware lawmakers adjourned without a vote after Wilson appeal. suffragists shift focus to Vermont and Connecticut as only one state remains for ratification.
With assurance the president would not recall Congress except for a great emergency, lawmakers adjourned sine die on Saturday. Republicans claim the session record supports their campaign messaging.
Wright A Patterson reports on the 1916 Republican contest with delegates and candidates at their headquarters. He notes every hopeful seeks the presidency, with two men open to vice presidential acceptance, Samuel Adams and Henry W Anderson, amid women and gowns at the pre convention scene.
El Paso Texas June 9 Mayor Charles Davis ordered that every loafer in El Paso must go to work due to an acute labor shortage threatening local industries and the agricultural district surrounding El Paso.
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