The Alaska daily empire., 1920-07-02
WEE, DRYPLANKS OMITTED:
 FINISH FIGHT IS EXPECTED
 ON FLOOR OF CONVENTION
Battle Royal Expected

DAN FRANClSCO, July Z.-Ine platform committee of the Demo- cratic National Convention complet- ed its labors shortly after midnight last night and today at 10:45 a. m., a few minutes after the con vention assembled, Sen. Carter Glass, Chairman, began reading the long waited for report with every prospect of a battle royal on the floor of the convention the minute he had finished. At 1 D. m., how ever, he was still reading The first skirmish was expected to be on the prohibition issue.
 The committee had decisively de- feated both Wet and Dry blanks, the first offered by James R. Nu- gent of New Jersey and the second by William J. Bryan of Nebraska. The draft made no mention of the issue, repeate defforts to insert de- opposing blanks each time being de- feated by the same vote, 30 to 12.
 President Is Eulogized
 The platform was a long docu ment treating wide range of sub jects with the preamble confined to eulogy. of President Wilson.
 Foremost among the blanks wasa the League of Nations endorsement, coupled with condemnation of the Republicans for interposing partisan envy and personal hatred in the way of world peace.
 President Wilson's stand against reservations designed to cut toI uieces the vital provisions of the Versailles treaty. was applauded in the plank but coupled with this dec laration was statement, written after prolonged struggle in com mittee, that the Democratic party | did not oppose reservations making clearer or more specific the obliga- tions of the United States to its as- sociates in the League"
 Wilson Stand Reaffirmed
 Accompanying the foregoing was an assertion that the President had repeatedly declared and that the convention reaffirmed that Amer | ica's obligations as a League mem Der must be fulfilled in strict con formity to the Constitution of the United States in which it embodied the fundamental requirement of de- laboratory action by Congress be- fore this nation may become par ticipant in any war"
 The plank on the Irish question was brief, reading. 'The great ns, a;,.Io af coll f 1ofn T ot inn has received constant reiteration as one of the chief objectives for which | this country entered the world war and victory has established this principle Within the limitations of international comity and usage this convention repeats several previous expressions of sympathy of the Democratic party for the aspirations of Ireland for self-government.'
 Silent On Armenia Mandate
 The Armenian plank was silent on the question of the United States accepting a mandate over Armenia | expressing sympathy for the Armenian people and promising as- sistance so far as might be consid- cred possible and proper. The sub committees plank on Armenia had been rejected by the full committee. It was understood to have declared that the United States should con sider it's duty to see order and com plete independence guaranteed in the new republic.
 Other important blanks were ones collective bargaining for farmers; declaring for recognition of the new government of Mexico as soon as it establishes order; call ing on the State Legislatures Of Tennesse, Florida and North Caro- lima to ratify the Woman Suffrage declaring against com pulsory arbitration of industrial dis putes but deploring strikes and lockouts and advocating that some peaceable method of settling differ ences be found; and advocating Ter ritorial self-government for Alaska.
 McAdoo Knockers Busy
 Various of the Presidential can didates attempting to form com bination to prevent nomination Of William G. McAdoo, former Secre- tary of Treasury, continued their efforts last night and today without apparent definite results.
 Lack of harmony to the movement