The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-03

sake let's ratify it."
 The Senate, said MT. Colby, had had it's day in court with the treaty and thS day had lasted for nine months, so that some of them apparently had suf- fered from intellectual lockjaw."
 "The question passes" he continued "to higher tribunal The Senate has had it's say and for the present we do not care to hear from senators any more as such. We want to thresh this matter out in a new way and new field.
 The democratic party is for the League of Nations without reservations that impair it's integrity. Of course we are because when America goes into thing it goes in honestly. It goes in hundred per cent"
 At that the crowd let go again and
 when the secretary remarked that he must conclude. the cry of "Go on, go on!'' ,rang through the big hall. "The republican party, the secretary continued. is saying with its tongue in its cheek that we should take this league but should take it on their terms They are trying to take away from the democratic party the distinction of this great achievement"
 Paying a tribute to the President, the administration leader got another rising demonstration from the delegates and l galleries.
 
 1 Dixie" and a procession began to or
 ganize on the convention floor. The Dis | trct of Columbia standard led the floor demonstration. which presently had 1 swept virtually all of the state stand
 ards again to the front of the hall l The Massachusetts emblem was the l last to join in the assemblage of state standards and as it at last was carried i, forward there was another great out burst of appreciation
 1 Rollicking music by the band got the 1 bearers of the standards dancing and in | a little while the whole row was bob
 hing up and down in harmony with the l band.
 Stand by the platform yelled the
 demonstrators and there were many de-
 mands that the Secretary of State again
 come out to the front of the stage to l acknowledge the applause At last he
 did so and then Senator Robinson began l to pound for the restoration of quiet. | In all the demonstration had lasted ten minutes before the business of the con
 vention could be resumed GLASS SCORES BRYAN l Taking up the burden of the ad- ministra tionis fight for the platform Senator Glass began his speech with
 an allusion to MT Bryan's declaration ! that he would be willing to go to the 1 scaffold if he could secure the ratf | tions
 Tt is not against men who are will | ing to make such a sacrifice that ob- | ject." Senator Glass continued, but the men l do object to are those who would go to the door of a sick cham | Der and knock and knock and knock 1 there in a disturbing way. "Our quarrel is not with Mir Bryan 1 for what he proposes, but for tha l method that he proposes and because 1 he joins forces with these enemies of | Woodrow Wilson who were so relent- 1 less that they were willing to go to l his sick chamber and take witness ot | body as to the qualities of his great 1 mind.
 l Talk about amending the constitu. | ton when women and children are dy-
 ing and half the world is aflame-
 why Susan B. Anthony. and her asso- 1 cates and successors have tried for | more than thirty years to amend the l constitution"
 | Senator Glass protested against
 what he said was an attempt to take l the credit for the League of Nations away from the President and give it l to Henry Cabot Lodge. Turning to MT. Bryan's prohibition | argument the speaker referred to MT. Bryan's statement that there was an 1 attempt to leave the corpse of the | liquor traffic unburied.
 l. Not at all' he continued "But l what we do propose is that we shal not drag the corpse from one end of the country to the other. i BEAT HIM TO TT 1 "Mr. Bryan assumes to speak for the home, but I challenge his right 1 to be any more the representative of 1 the home than l am. I voted for pro- l hibition long before MT. Bryan ever did"
 Senator Glass said he saw no reason 1 to put into the platform any declara- l tion on either side of the prohibition question, though if he were to say
 anything on the subject he would de- 1 clare that the saloon was gone for ever. It was left out by the committee, l he said, because it was not desired to l becloud the issue of peace. | "The question of Ireland" continued 1 the committee chairman, lis complex and troublesome question. The demo- 1 cratic party has been long in sympathy | with the Irish people. But we are l obliged to recognize other international obligations and say what we may 1 within the comity that exists between nations. And with that in mind, what we have written in the platform was l the best that we could do.
 "As to the bonus. which we very carefully and gravely considered. as Secretary of the Treasury I became in- 1 timately enough acquainted with the I finances of the country to realize that I if ever we embarked upon this thing if would bring us into such serious 1 situation as to- jeopardize our security. | q glorify the American soldier and l it is because l glorify him that shrink l from the idea of trying to compensate | his sacrifices in dollars and cents. The I republican convention said nothing on the subject. They don't challenge our l affection for the American soldier" | Senator Glass reverted to the league 1 issue to say that he could not agree | with Bryan's declaration that he was l willing to remit the ten billions owed to the nations abroad if that would es- I tablish universal peace.
 | I've purchased peace with the blood of our soldiers the speaker continued, | and l am not willing that a single dol lar of what other nations owe us shall be given up. I He added that while he was Secre- tary of the Treasury that proposition
 came to him and he wrote letter which left no doubt as to where this country would stand as long as he was Fin charge of the treasury.
 SHOULDN'T INSULT ALL J Because some. newspaper men are Il liars he continued, Mir. Bryan wanted l to insult all newspaper men by putting | into the platform a declaration for an | official newspaper.
 | Taking up MT. Bryan's profiteering l argument Senator Glass said he could II not see why the profiteering plank was presented unless one man thinks he