Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1920 — PICK OUT SPONSORS [ARTICLE]

PICK OUT SPONSORS

PLANS MADE FOR SPEECHES AT FRISCO CONVENTION. Men to Name McAdoo, Cox, Palmer, Edwards, Meredith and Others Are Chosen. \ • San Francisco, June 11.—The names of the men chosen to make the nominating speeches of eight presidential candidates at the Democratic national convention were announced at the convention headquarters here. The candidates whose sponsors have been chosen, according to the announcement, are: William G. McAdoo, whose name is to be presented by Dr. Burris Jenkins, Kansas City. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, by John H. Bigelow of Pennsylvania. Governor Cox of Ohio, by John C. Johnson, supreme justice, Columbus. Governor Edwards of New Jersey, by Charles F. O’Brien, Jersey City. Senator Owen of Oklahoma, by D. Hayden Linebaugh, Muskogee, Okla. James W. Gerard, by U. S. G. Cherry, Sioux Falls, S. D. Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, by A. C. Shallenberger, former governor of Nebraska. E. T. Meredith, secretary of agriculture, by Claude 11. Porter of lowa. The announcement said it had not yet been decided who would place in nomination the nan*s of James W. Davis of West Virginia, ambassador to Great Britain; Senator Sirfimons of North Carolina and Senator Glass of Virginia.