Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 319, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1920 — DEMOCRATS TO MEET [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATS TO MEET

Chiefs Are Gathering for Powwow on Thursday. Meeting Will Fix Place and Timo for Convention and Reveal the Candidates. Washington, Jan. s.—The vanguard of the Democratic leaders who will gather here this week for the quadrennial meeting of the party’s national committee and the Jackson day dinner, began arriving today. Although the only business of the committee, at which the time and city for holding the natlqnal convention will be chosen, will not be held until Thursday, many of the leaders desired to arrive early In order to discuss the coming campaign. The national committee announced today that seven governors would attend the Jackson day dinner Thursday evening. Acceptances of Invitations, have been received from Governors Cox of Ohio, Cornwell of West Virginia, Ritchie of Maryland, Brough of Arkansas, Cooper of South Carolina, Robertson of Oklahoma and Davis of Virginia. Governors Cox and Cornwell will speak at the dinner. The full Hist of speakers probably will be announced during, the day. At the banquet several aspirants for the presidential nomination are to outline their policies. Two former nominees, William Jennings Bryan And Alton B. Parker, also are to be present, and President Wilson is expected to send a message in which many leaders believe he may state his position toward a third term. Five cities are in the race for the convention, and talk among those members of the confmittee who had arrived tonight indicated that there Would be no walkaway. The'five are Chicago, already selected as the convention, city of the Republicans; Kansas City, San Francisco, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Cleveland. Discussion generally centers on late June or early July as the time of meeting. Talk of changing the time-honored Democratic custom ofrequiringa twothirds vote to nominate, started some weeks ago at a meeting in Atlantic City, and the movement has been actively promoted in many quarters.