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...called keynoter for the Democratic Convention. Each aspirant for the nomination naturally wanted a key-note speaker favorable to him. As compromises between the several factions, Representative Finis J. Garrett of Tennessee and Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi were the chief possibilities. The McAdoo group amicably agreed with the Underwood-Smith group in the choice of Mr. Harrison...
...find the Republican insurgents against the President. But where were the regulars-Brandegee, Elkins, Fess, Jones of Washington, McKinley, McNary, Moses, Shortridge, Spencer, Watson, Willis, et al.? All voting against the veto. Where were Lodge and Lenroot? Paired against the veto. Whereas among the Democrats, Glass, Bruce, King, Underwood and others were on the President's side. Following the President's veto only five Republicans-Cameron, Edge, Har-reld, Sterling, Wadsworth-and two Democrats-Fletcher and Trammell- had been converted to the President's view. Moreover, it remained for Fletcher, a Democrat, to say that the President...
...Robert Underwood Johnson. He redeemed the national honor...
Democrats. It was Wm. GE. McAdoo's week. He captured California against a group who proposed to go to the Democratic Convention uninstructed. He got 40 delegates from Texas. He will probably start at the Convention with 450 or 500 votes, as many as Smith and Underwood combined. Bat the opening of the Democratic Convention will be only the beginning of the struggle...
...fourth and fifth ballots found Smith and Underwood alternately in the lead but their margin over the others was more negligible than before. It was on the sixth ballot that Senator Glass first showed his strength...