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THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY. JUNE 29, 1920. WILSON MACHINE BEHIND M'ADOO AT CONVENTION Favorite for Nomination Main tains Sphinx-Like Attitude Bryan Big Factor in Situ ' ation at San Francisco. (Continued From Pace On.) . I .iU.a ternauonai revenue auu umci ncas ury patronage and it is from the depth of their souls that George Brennan and the other political heirs of Mr. Sullivan are vowing venge ance upon the Wilson dynasty. . Officeholders Busy. Never within the memory of this generation has there been a situa tion in a national convention fraught with so many possibilities of dra matic and paradoxical developments. Here we have McAdoo within striking distance of the nomination by virtue of the power of the great est aggregation of officeholders ever seen in a political convention and its purlieus, including three mem bers of the cabinet, numerous chair men of boards, assistant secretaries of departments, chiefs of divisions, heads of bureaus, private secretaries, collectors, inspectors, clerks, post masters and their henchmen. It is as if official Washington had been transported bodily across the conti nent to the scene of the convention together with the federal machin ery from all other, parts of the country. They are all whooping it up for McAdoo as the possessor of the most powerful intellect in the party next to the president's and the only democrat who can be relied upon to beat Harding. Fighting McAdoo are chiefly the anti-administf ation forces uttering impressive warnings against sad dling the party in this campaign with the "crown prince of the Wilson dynasty" and the idol of radical la bor. Governor Cox of Ohio vies with Attorney General Palmer for second position in the race. Cox has behind him most of the anti-administration strength and those wets who have not been frightened off by flirta tions of the Cox managers with the drys. Cox is too wet for the drys and too dry for the wets and be tween them the gas has been pretty nearly squeezed out of hi5 balloon. National Committeeman Ed Moore of Ohio is putting forth pro digious efforts to revive the prestige of Cox but there is a good deal of down heartedncss in the Cox camp. Overcome by their emotions the Cox managers have turned wrathfully upon Palmer accusing the attorney general of detailing an inwtigator to unearth the story of the Cox divorce suit and bring the records to San Francisco. Palmer indignantly denies the accusation, but plans for a combine of Cox and Palmer forces to stop McAdoo are not prospering. Bryan Stand Unknown. Palmer still entertains visions of landing the prize through the oper ation of the same fateful forces as produced the nomination of Har ding at Chicago. His strength is chiefly the patronage machine of the Department of Justice and the alien's property custodian's office, but a large proportion of the dele gates thus lined up for him are not disposed to accompany the at torney general much beyond the stage of complimentary balloting. It it regarded as significant that on this occasion Bryan so far has not undertaken to rea Tammanv anrl Wall Street the convention. He is figliting Tammany arfcong other wets, but he is not reviling lammany at tms stage. Tammany may prove useful to Mr. Bryan and his friends in eliminating any candidate of whom e Commoner disapproves Bryan has viewed with equanimity the reverses of Governor Cox at the hands of McAdoo and Palmer, but he is not saying anything to favor the nomination of either of the latter. He has been on the friend lie tfrm with Palmer in the Oast. but in his Commoner editorial he classed Palmer among the unavail ables, from his point of view. May be Candidate. McAdoo is the only candidate before the convention who has been endorsed by the An,ti-Saloon league but that does not commend him entirely to Bryan. The Commoner thinks the relationship of McAdoo to President Wilson makes the for mer secretary of the treasury un available as a candidate who would be relied upon to win. Bryan has eliminated all the major candidates and confined, his favor to two of the .very minor possibilities Secretary of Agricul ture Meredith and Senator Owen who are scarcely 100 to 1 shots, a proceeding that has convinced many the Commoner had himself in mind as the candidate the convention might bev impelled to take. It is known he regards democratic success this year as absolutely certain and he could hardly be criticised for harboring- a determination to permit no rival to rob him of the honor Jrom which he had been deprived three times. ,Tnc Tourist is perfectly Safe On Stormy Isl-r.d London, June 28. "The ordinary visitor or tourist would be quite as safe in Ireland as he would be in the Strand in London, if not safer," Ed ward Yeates writes to the Daily Sketch, after spending a month in the stormy isle. "At all hours of the day and eve ning I wandered about the streets of Dublin in rich and poor districts, and nowhere and at no time did I see anything but orderly civilians going about their business." Campaign Against Lowly Dandelion Has Failed Stockton, Kan., June 28. A cam paign against the dandelions by the Gvic Federation of Women's clubs here has failed. In an effort to eradi cate the pest the women offered 2 1-2 cents a pound for all dandelions brought in. Small boys r.-aped a rich harvest until the club s treas ury was bankrupt. A call has been made upon the city, council to make made upon the city council to make tha deficiency '." '" I i Proposed New State Capitol Building wkm ' tea p ill !iwM c r. c b o r r c, fti'H vJMjMjn t t t g e g r. fiyjj ! linn " "' rrnrfii ,llffMa,ija8' This is a sketch of the new $5,000,000 Nebraska state capitol building. Plans for this building were sub mitted by Bertran Goodhue of New York. 1 These plans, however, may not be followed to the letter as changes proposed by the capitol commission probably will be incorporated into the construction of the building. Democratic Women Playing Politics Both Ways at Big San Francisco Convention Feeling Is Strongly in Favor of McAdoo, Who Was First to Recognize Women in War Work, and Members of Fair Sex Are Busy With Their Influ ence for His Candidacy. By DOROTHY DIX. San Francisco, Cal., June 28. The democratic women are playing politics both ways from the middle at the convention, which is to say that they are using their newly-acquired political power for all it is worth, and likewise they are also exerting what used to be called "woman's sacred influence" to the limit. And while women feel awe and re spect for the new weapon which the vote has put into their hands, they really pin their faith to the old one with which they have gone gunning and brought home the bacon for so many centuries. ' Therefore we have the woman s executive committee, and the women delegates, and the women delegates-at-large meeting the men politicians on equal terms and demanding their rights in -mellifluous and diplomatic language, the while they are clothed in their smartest gowns and wear their sweetest smiles. "Unofficial Type.'1' And we have besides them a sort &rCrno3or d- Murpby, le convention, but who nave come reet out tffalong to it with hubby and pa who represents the nome uisiriLi, .." these women are handing out the old-fashioned woman stuff. They come and go by the hun dreds through the pretty old rose and mahogany rooms of the wom an's headquarters, bright, alert, in telligent women, keenly interested m every phase of politics. They listen to the arguments for and against nHJHatps and measures advanced by the women spellbinders of the party, and then in the privacy of their 12-dollar-a-day room they pour these into the ears of hubby rNo'mere man can estimate the val ue and importance of this uncon scious feminine lobby, for no man knows, least of all hubby or pa, how manv men have their minds made up for them by their women folks, but it's a solemn truth, that unless a man is a red-hot partisan of some particular candidate, he is pretty sure to swing over to the man ma and the girls arc crazy over. Many Favor McAdoo. He likes to please 'em, especially when it doesn't cost him anything. All of which, at this writing, is to the good for Mr. William Gibbs McAdoo. . , He is indisputably the women s candidate here as Hoover was at the Chicago convention, and while Hoover didn't get a run in so far as votes are concerned, he did get the only spontaneous, straight-from-the-heart demonstration that any candi date received. Down at the women s headquar ters everv other woman is a McAdoo woman. "The leader among them is Mrs. Antoinette Funk, whom rumor says is going to nominate him. Mrs. Funk is a brilliant and successful Chicago lawyer, famed as an orator, and she knows just about a million good reasons why Mc Adoo is the only one who can save the country, and put the league of nations across, and pacify labor and so on. I asked other women why they were for McAdoo; most of them re plied that they favored him because he had always been fair to women and they believed that he would give women a fifty-fifty deal. Reorganized the Women. Many of them harped upon the fact that he was the first man to show women any recognition during the war, and that he selected 12 women from the various sections of the country to help them carry on the Liberty bonds sale. "A man who has got enough gumption to put women on a finan cial committee has got enough sense to be president of the United States," said a woman from Georgia, "for after all it is we women, wives and mothers who handle the mdney of I the world and save it, if t is saved. I Shc me a famik ith a thriftv.i woman at the head of it and 1 11 show i you a prosperous one. Talk about political gratitude women's gratitude for srall politi cal favors is the most pathetic thing on record, a fact that politicians will do well to remember, for if McAdoo gets the nomination the crumbs that he drops from ln's official table to the ladies, God bless 'em and keep 'em out of the way, will be no small factor in his pulling down the plum. Other women were for McAdoo because he was "such a gentleman and had such charming manners." Others because they liked his wife, and still others were for him just because they were for him, but the McAdoo sentiment was strong everywhere. ' And it's McAdoo hymn of praise that ma and the girls chant to hubby and pa as they put up their curls in the privacy of their boudoir and in that respective hour when a man has got off his coat and his shoes and listens to his women folks. What the results will be, heaven and Mr. Murphy and Mr. Bryan only knows. But if McAdoo is nominated it will be ma and the girls who did it. Letter Mailed in Russia Traveled for Six Years Denver, June 28. It took nearly six years for a letter mailed in Brest Litovsk to reach Morris Ginsberg, manager of a local furniture house. The letter was written by Ginsberg's father and bears the Russian post mark of July 13, 1914. It reached Denver late in May, 1920. While there was no evidence that it had been tampered with, Ginsberg is at a loss to account for the long delay in its transmission. Jacob Ginsberg, writer of the let ter, has been dead about three years, having been a victim of one of the anti-Jewish pogroms near the scene of the famous Brest-Litovsk peace parleys. One Yellow Fever Germ Is Responsible for Disease New York, June 28. One yellow fever germ is responsible for the disease whenever it is found, accord ing to Doctors Hideyo, Noguchi and Israel Kliger, who returned here from Peru, where they were carry ing on research work for the inter national health board of the Rocke feller institute. They visited Mexico and South America for the purpose of discovering if the germ responsi ble for yellow fever was the same in every country. Labor Plank for Democrats Same as for Republicans San Francisco, June 28. Samuel Gompers, of the American Federa tion of Labor, announced today that his plans are all laid for labors' fight before the resolutions commit tee. "All we want is the adoption cf the same labor plank by this con vention that we presented to the re publicans," he said. "I expect an invitation to appear before the com mittee tomorrow morning." Burleson Picks McAdoo To Win by Fifth Ballot San Francisco, June 28. "It's Mc Adoo on the third, fourth or fifth ballot," said Postmaster General Eurlcson today. "I predicted yes terday that McAdoo would be nomi nated. Looks just the same to me today, when the delegates are all set to go. McAdoo is as good as nominated." Louis W. Home Appointed Secretary to Gov. McKelvie Lincoln, June 28. (Special) Louis W. Home, until recently a resident of Omaha, has been ap pointed by Governor McKelvie as private secretary to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of O. H. Zumwinkel, who has accepted a position as assistant secretary of the Jjncphi chatpbet of commerce OPPORTUNITY T DOOR ATS ) If Real Stateman Is Brought Forth Convention Will Ivlake History In United States Politics. By DR. DAVID STARR JORDAN. (Copyright, 190, by Vnlversl Service.) w Service.) (CBpyrlRht, 1920, by TnlvcrHal Service.) San Francisco, Cal., June 28. The San Francisco convention is a gathering fraught with great possi bilities which may or may not be come actual. If its deliberations bring to the front a staesman it will take its place as a maker of history. Otherwise it will prove one more futile assemblage of small politic cians built on 'local or temporary gains; such a result would be to fol low the line of least resistance, a course for which there are ample precedents. Therefore, if the democratic con vention is to mark an epoch in American history it must leave the beaten track. It must stand for something positive, with a real man a!- standardbearer. Welfare of Nation. Victory next November would thus be sought for the welfare of the nation, and through the nation, of the whole world, not as a mere preliminary for f the distribution of offices. ' The work of the convention .falls naturally into two parts, the writ ing of a platform and the selection C' a candidate. The platform, to be effective, should be short, direct, courageous and forward-looking. The real issues may be covered in 300 words, not in 6,000. Needs in Platform. To score the shortcomings of the rival party is easy and tempting, but it serves little purpose unless dona m discriminating and convincing fashion. The chief republican de linquencyperhaps the only one worth noticing is the control of public affairs by a senatorial cabal, a proceeding which has given a tem porary black eye to democracy the world over. Furthermore, no en ergy, it seems to me, should be spent on side issues, nor on facts accomplished, nor in meddling with the internal affairs of foreign coun tries, for when wide-open divergen cies open within a party they cannot be closed with any juggling with words. Silence is a better form of evasion than verbosity. I hee little gain and much chance of loss in platform declarations con cerning alcohol, Ireland, Mexico or Japan. As for the second, merelv to ex press sympathy with Ireland, at" the same time commending her to the league of nations ,the arbiter of self aetcrmination, seems rather worse than nothing, while on the other hand a flat approval of Trish inde pendence, Sinn Fein type, the vir tual dismemberment of the British empire, would damn anv party at the polls in November. As, to Mex ico, while we should use every hon orable effort toward bringing about orderly and livable conditions there, the democrats should avoid playing into the hands of capitalists who clamor for military intervention merely as a means of stabilizing property. Japs Internal Problem. Concerning the Japanese menace, it is to be remembered that nearly all the agricultural Japanese entered California as a result of the annexa tion of Hawaii, and, so f:.r as known, none at all through anv official vio lation of the so-called gentleman's agreement of 1907. The problem, however vexatious, is essentially an internal one of our own making. International relations are delicate at the best and should be handled by experts. Gage County Pioneer Dies. Beatrice, Neb., June 29. (Spe cial.) Jake Jurgens, a pioneer of Gage county, living near this city, died Saturday, aged 65 years. N Lighting Fixtures BurgCjSS-Gran- -de5 Co. H .1 KNOCKS A OF DEHOR COMMITTEE OF NINE ATTACKS SKINNER MEET Protest Is Presented to Gov ernor McKelvie Against Conference Held in Omaha Saturday. Lincoln, June 28. (Special.) A committee, headed by C. H. Gustaf son of Omaha, representing the com mittee selected to represent the stockholders of the Skinner Pack- companv, chosen at the so-called Howe meeting held in Omaha May 25, called on Governor McKelvie and the state securities board this morn ing to present the protest of their committee against the meeting called by the Skinner brothers, held in Omaha Saturday. The delegation consisted of W. V. Bennett of Cambridge. T. H. Dorc mer of Lawtou, Mr. Gustafson and Attorney W. C. Frazier of the com mittee. They had a statement signed bv the members of the committee " iiiv.il v.iiuif,vu v a v itii. invv un, Saturday did not represent the stockholders. Mr. Gustafson complained that members of the committee were I coof'linl inI ill trri 11 nntc i l.f i away from them, touching on the matter under controversy, before they would be allowed to enter the building in which the meeting was held. He also had in his possession a letter alleged to have been writ ten by II. W. Churchill of Fairfield, who presided at the Howe meeting, in which he had represented to N. W. -Farbaruch of North Platte that he should "see all the boys he could and see how they felt about the meeting to be held on the 26th and that it would be necessary to pack the meeting and see that control of plant was not turned loose." Republican Party Target of Keynoter (Continued From FtiKe One.) general appearance of the democratic national pow wow. Tickets Cause Grouch. Some were a bit grouchy, due to the trouble over tickets. But the scene was one of great animation from the outset, in contrast to the first day at the Coliseum in Chi cago it generally takes a day or two for the G. O. P. to wake up and let out steam. There was a band, ripping off popular airs with a cir cussy tempo; a great pipe organ giv ing the hall rather a solemn relig ious tone as it were; glee clubs and choirs and quartets, some with voices and some with megaphones. We're off, boys, pep, pep, was the tone. The Palmer men were especially noisy. Hundreds of maroon banners were distributed through the hall, emblazoned "Palmer." Fans bearing the visage of the attorney general, in full seraphic beauty, much like a cherub with a fresh face massage, were scattered with lavish hand. But the well known climate rather mad this a tisely campaign expenditure. At high noon, the appointed hour, a knot of higherups, black-coated, appeared on the rostrum. But not all trte delegates' seats were filled, and as usual the gavel was withheld. Everybody milled around on the floor. Toy balloons were tossed into the air; Indiana and Illinois dele gates played basket ball with them tc the delight of New Jersey, across the aisle. Portly delegates, fathers of fami lies and men of affairs, were mak ing a "rah, rah boy" time of it. They had a song to the tune of "John Brown's Body." It went: . "Palmer, Palmer, Pennsylvania "The Grand Old Keystone state." But there was so much noise it took a nice ear to get the words. Bawled through megaphones the phrase sounded to some like "The Grand Old Penrose State." Celebrities Enter Hall. Senator Walsh of Montana, who was trying to run Senator Glass of Virginia out of gas for the chair manship of the platform committee, sauntered down the aisles. Cheers, and in walks Vice Presi dent Marshall. Another cheer and Secretary of State Bainbridge Col by takes his seat -as delegate from the District of Columbia. Colby, Glass and Cummings are the three recognized spokesmen for the presi dent at this assemblage. On the platform, front row. sits Secretary Daniels. Samuel Gompers moved past and shakes Josephus by the hand. By every gate celebrities and near celebrities are arriving. At 12:25 Bruce Kremer, vice chairman of the national committee, steps forward and banging the gavel on the desk, sings out, "This con vention will be in order." At once the lid is blown off. A squad of marines moves to the front of the rostrom bearing the flag, while the band and the pipe organ burst into "The Stsr-Spangled Ban ner." A flood of sound rolls up from the floor and galleries and a large flag comes fluttering down be hind the platform. The national anthem finished, up rolls the tlagl again towards the canopy whicHf gives the hall a tented effect. It re veals hanging from the pipes of the organ, a large oil portrait of Presi dent Wilson, wearing a red necktie. The band breaks into "Hail to the Chief." The leader puts a trotty ef fect into it like the band in the main top when the big show is about to begin. The delegates go to it full lunged. Hats are waved, screams, shouts, yells fill the air. The good old bedlam of convention days is upon us again. Virginia grabs its stand ard and shimmies into the aisle, followed by Hawaii and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, Montana, Flori da. The chair asks that the hail desist from the noise making. This serves to stimulate it. Every time, too, a lull is perceptible, the band master, a clever soul, brings up the steam in to the guage again with another trotty little contribution from the brasses and drums. Four Men Dead After Drinking Wood Alcohol Hartford, Conn., June 28. Four deaths in this city from wood alco hol poisoning were, reported to the New Rule at Stock Yards Eliminates Post Mortem Exams According to an announcement made Monday by Dr. H. Bushman, chief of the inspection service of the bureau of animal husbandry at the South Side stockyards, the ante-mortem inspection service at the yards will be permanently discontinued withShe exception of that branch of the service which is now .naintained in the hog trade. This order wilt be come effective July 1. Dr. Bush said the ante-mortem in spection of hogs will be continued for some time yet but may also be withdrawn within the present year. In reference to the ante-mortem in spection of cattle, calves, sheep and lambs, he said the inspection was no longer considered essential, since there has always been a question as to the practical value of this kind of an inspection. "In view of the fact that there is a rigid post-mortem inspection of all live stock at the yards, said Dr. Bushman, "a post-mortem inspection only necessitated' a duplication of work and was but a double check on live stock sold for slaughter. Per sons purchasing meats from the packing plants are assured that these plants will still have all the safe guards against unhealthy meat pro ducts the same as usual and there is no cause for concern on the part of the consumers. "After this order goes into effect, cattle, calves and sheep, intended for slaughter, will be passed upon at the packing plants, before they are killed by the same force of inspectors that handled the post-mortem work." Eleven Fiped for Violation Of Fishing Laws of State Lincoln, June 28. (Special) Chief Game Warden George Koster reports the following convictions for violation of the fishing laws: For 9eining, Herbert Adams of Lemoyne, $18.90; Bert, Brown, Le moyne, $18.70. For fishing without license: John Beckard, Unadilla, fined $12.00; Joe Johnson, Unadilla, fined $12.00; Henry Beckard, Unadilla, fined $12.00; Fred Schriner, Syracuse, fined $7.00; Albert Adams; Scotts bluff, fined $5.10; Henry Brisendine, Scottsbluff, fined $5.10; Allen Cle mans, Scottsbluff, fined $5.10; John Warren, Scottsbluff, fined $5.80; Scott Shaner, Maxvfell, fined $12.60; Elmer Waynan, Bayard, fined $12.60. Work on Crete Railroad. Beatrice, Neb., June 29. (Spe cial.) The Burlington railroad is laying steel rails on the line be tween Crete and Wymore. .About 100 men are employed on the job between Beatrice and Wymore. THONPSON-BELDEN . S" COMPANY: TUESDAY $3.00 to $6.50 Corsets $2.29 Corsets from all the dif ferent makers where we have only one or two of a kind. A stock clearance which permits of an ex ceptional price. Tuesday, $3 to $6.50 corsets, $2.20. Second Floor Curtain Materials l0c yd. A sale of curtain mar quisettes and voiles in white and ecru, 36 to 45 inches wide. Originally priced up to 75c Tues day, 40c a yard. Second Floor The Men's Shop Contributes Four Specials $2 Night Shirts, $1.59 Muslin and nainsook, made by Faultless and Universal, in sizes 15 to 19.' This price for Tuesday only. Wash Neckwear, 35c Three for $1 Tubulars and wide end four-in-hands made of fibre and madras shirt ing. Hose for 35c Seamless cotton hose in black, gray and white, sizes 912 to 12. Tues day, 35c a pair. Fibre Hose, 75c First quality fibre hose in all colors and nearly every size. As long as they last, 75c a pair. To the Left A You Enter Grass Crops in in Fine Shape, Land Commisioner Asserts Lincoln, June 28. (Special.) "Never in my long residence in Nebraska have I seen the sandhills showing such prosperity." said Land Commissioner Dan Swanson, who returned today from a two weeks' trip into the northwestern part of the state appraising school lands. "In fact," said the land commis sioner, "everything is looking tine, not only in the sandhills but up in the Scottsbluff country where al falfa is going two tons or more to the acre ana everything also cor responds." Mr. Swanson reports wheat in good shape with prospects for a bumper crop and the people of the northwest territory feeling good over the prospects. The natural grass crop in the hills is fine ac cording to Mr. Swanson. Former Custer Residents Form Society in Lincoln Lincoln, June 28. (Special) Custer county people living in Lin coln to the number of 126 held a re union at Antelope park Saturday afternoon and forned a society. Secretary of State D. M. Ams berry was elected president of the association, Judge Dean of the su preme court, Paul Munk and Mrs. J. L. Lemon vice presidents, Mrs. A. P. Tarbox, secretary and Mrs. W. L. Gaston treasurer. W. L. Gaston, deputy secretary of state, and former insurance commissioner W. B. Eastham were made a com mittee to draft resolutions upon the death of Prof.-. O. H. Venner. i Vaccination Is Compulsory In Schools of Jersey Town Passaic, N. J.. June 28. The Pas saic Board of Education has ordered the enforcement of the state vaccina tion law, which means that every pupil attending school, every teacher and every employe of the board must be vaccinated within the next IS days, provided they have not been vaccinated within the last five years. The order resulted in a rush on the hospitals here, and many private physicians were pressed into service. Protest is expected, however, as the subject ' of vaccination has been warmly debated in Passaic several times. It was decided to enforce the lew after Ernest Blood, a physical director of the schools, was stricken with smallpox. Civil War Veteran Win s Cup at Golf Tournament Fremont, Neb., June 28. (Spe cial) Seventy-seven years old, John W. Goff, Civil war veteran and prominent bussiness man of Fre mont, won the vice president's cup at the first golf tournament of the year of the Fremont country club, Saturday. He beat Nels Johnson, 41 years old. MONTH END Low Apparel Prices of Particular Interest Purchases Charged Will Go on August First Statements Spring Suits and Coats, regardless of former prices, will sell in three groups, $39.50 $59.50 $98.50 Any Silk Dress in entire display of Spring and Summer fashions, $47.50 Tuesday Taffetas, Georgettes, Foulards A charge of $5 for alterations All Sales Final Women's Athletic Underwear at Reduced Prices Tuesday This is a sale of the two favorite athletid styles Futurist and Polly-Anna. Tf One quality made of fine nainsook, with round neck or bodice tops, in white and flesh color. Regu larly $2, Tuesday, $1.69 a suit. The same style in dimity or checked and striped marquisette. Regularly $3 and $3.50 Tuesday, $2.79 a suit. Underwear Second Floor Sale Tuesday of Silk Lisle Hose Black silk lisle, flare top hose, a medium weight, made with garter tops and double soles $1.50 quality, $1 a pair. Out size silk lisle, light weight, with garter tops and; double soles; black, white and cordovan $2 quality, $1.50 a pair. WILSON FORCES IN CONTROL OF PLATFORM BODY Friends of Administration Control at Least Two-Thirds of Votes Will Success fully Down Bryan. By J. BART CAMPBELL. Intrrnutlonnl Service Staff ompondrnt. San Francisco, June 28. When the resolutions committee gets down to business thisafternoon at the con vention auditorium, the administra tion forces will control at least two thirds of the membership, supporters of President Wilson predicted today. William Jennings Bryan, the Ne braskan, and Senator David I. Walsh, the Massachusetts member, and other anti-administration mem bers on the committee, will find themselves in a helpless minority, it was declared. Bryan audj Walsh say they anticipate this and will carry their league fight to the con vention floor in the shape 'of a minority report which Walsh will probably present especially if Bryan finds it necessary to make a minor ity report on the dry plank for which he is sponsor. The first session of the committer is expected to be a stormy one, Bryan and Walsh leading the fight against the administration program, which Senator Glass, the committee chairman, is supporting. The final draft of the administra tion platform probably vi ill not bo presented until tomorrow or Wed nesday. Acoustics Are Perfect. The acoustics of the auditorium were perfect, the same remarkabla device that was used at the recent Chicago convention having been em ployed. The sound of the speaker1! voice was conveyed from the stand to the basement on copper wire and there put through an accentuating device which magnified it more than a million times and returned it with in an instant to a battery of mega phone transmitters suspended from the auditorium arch. Many old familiar faces were in the convention picture. William Jennings Bryan, who sat in the presi gallery at the republican convention, was seen raising his shining dome behind the standard of Nebraska. Charles Francis Murphy, wearing a bag of silence, sat with the Tam many crew and was much talked about. Also in the New York dele gation were Morgan J. O'Brien and Bourke Cochrane. SPECIALS Children's Sleep ing Garments for Less One-piece cotton crepe sleeping garments in pink, blue, and white with pink and blue stripes, sizes 6 to 16 years. $225 quality, $1.69. $3.50 quality, $2.49. $4.50 quality), $2.69. Second Floor r - - .7 : v. I. 1