Evening star., 1920-05-26
BRYAN INSTRUCTED
AGAINST PERSONAL
| WISHES ON LEAGUE
Will Have Embarrassing
Time Asking Convention to
/ Accept Lodge Plan.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

William Jennings Bryan VIII have a
difficult time asking the democratic ma :
tional convention at San Francisco to
accept the Lodge reservat tons on the
peaca treaty which he himself considers
unohjeftipHaRass The. reason is, the an
,strugfton given TO Mr.. Bryan by the Ne
braska convention of democrats. Mr..
Bryan has always stood scrupulously on
platform pledges. and as an instructed
delegate to the democratic national con-
Sention from Nebraska il would be en-
barrassing for him to advocate another
kind of platform from that which his
home state fayorS.
Senator Hitchcock OF Nebraska Is
back here from the Nebraska convention
and he has given the writer his inter
probation of the affair, particularly as it
relates to Mr.. Bryan.
Wilson stand IndOrsed.
1.-THE Nebraska democratic conven-
tion, he said. was one of the most en-
thusiastic and harmonious ever held.
had the honor to be made chairman of
the committee on resolutions. The COM
mittee was in session for three hours.
The leading feature of the platform
adopted was the Endorsement of the
Presidents attitude on the league of ma
tions and the denunciation of the Lodge
reservations, as follows:
I'VE warmly indorse the American
war, publicly given more than two
years ago by the President. We
heartily commend him for his heroic
efforts to establish such a league. We
demand that the Senate consent to a
ratification of treaty of peace con-
tanning the covenant for the league
without nullifying reservations. We
uphold the action of democratic sena-
tors in refusing to accept MULTIPLYING
reservations and we denounca fepub-
lfcan senators for refusing to modify
them SO as to make ratification pos
sible.
THE only vote against that plank
cast in the committee on resolutions
was by Mr.. Bryan's brother. and even
he abandoned his opposition when he
found how overwhelming the senti-
ment was against it. Not a voice was
<raised against the resolutions. which
were adopted with whoomp-
Abandons Fight In Nebraska.
ct went to the convention anticipat-
ing that Mr.. Bryan might start fight
against the Endorsement of the league
and the condemnation of the Lodge
reservations. I was very much graft
ned. therefore. to find that as far as
abandoned the fight. For the first
time in twenty-five years. Mr. Bryan's
name was not even mentioned in the
convention and the Presidents name
was received with bursts of applause.
''Where in former years the Ne
DEaSkd conventions were Wohl " re-
fer to the democratic party as the
party of Jefferson, Jackson and Bryan
1T was referred to in the opening
paragraph of the platform this year
as the party of Jefferson. Jackson
and Wilson. There is no question as
to the attitude of Nebraska demo-
Gratis on the issue of the league of
nations" =
What Senator Hitchcock wrote into
the Nebraska platform about the
league stands good chance of be-
ing the plank adopted at San Fpan-
cisco. 1t will be noticed thar. it does
not ask for unqualified indorsen ME nj
of the treaty and league-approvai
without the crossing of 1t" or tho
dotting of an a. 1t asks for rati-
6cation without multiplying reserva :
tions." This means the Hitchcock
interpretative reservations would be
accepted and it would not be sur
prising to find San Francisco demo-
Gratis adding the H3tSheock reserva-
tions as a part of tbet platform itself.
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