The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-06-28
SET ISSUES
ABOVE / He
CANDIDATE
Combination Bryan Has
Formed Worrying Ad-
ministration Men.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
Especial to The Argus).

Especial to The Argus).
San FRANCISCO, Cal, June 2S. -
Issues and platform planks rather
than candidates are worrying the
leaders OF the Democratic national
convention as they approach their
tasks Of the week. For the leader
ship Of President Wilson hangs in
the balance. With characteristic
skill, William Jennings Bryan has
Unanswered himself into q position
Of strength in the all-important
resolutions committee which drafts
the platform. The old fight between
the Democratic senators who sup
ported Senator Lodges reservations
and those who supported Senator
Hitchcock and President Wilson In
their stand for interpretative res
ervations to the peace treaty, has
broken out anew. Mr.. Bryan has
cleverly gotten behind Senator
Walsh OF Montana, who voted for
the Lodge reservations, and who u
popular with the western senator's
and is their candidate for chairman
Of the platform committee.
Strength Is q Surprise.
Everybody thought the Wilson
people were in such splendid con-
troll Of things here that when 1t was
announced that Senator Glass Of
Virginia had conferred with Presi-
dent Wilson and had secured hts
ideas on platform planks. no diff
Guilty was anticipated in selecting
Mr.. Glass to be chairman Of the
resolutions committee. But the re-
volt came suddenly and has given
the Wilson leaders much to worry
about. They are confident OF
electing Glass but 1t will be q close
shave. The people behind Senator
Walsh of Montana have expressed
fears that Senator Glass might put
something in the platform condemn
ing the Republican senator's who
voted for the Lodge reservations
and thus place in an embarrassing
position the twenty Democratic
senators who lined up with Mr.
Lodge.
| For q dead issue, this league Of
Nations husinessamanages to ere
ate more live trouble in the two
political parties than anything else
this year. But the surprising thing
It's that In a Democratic convention
there should be difficulty. for Pres.
ident Wilson has declared the
league the principal issue Of the
campaign. Mr.. Bryan, however, has
been insisting that the reservations
adopted by the Republican major
| lty Of the senate should have been
accepted by the president. Senator
Walsh Of Montana took the position
when he voted for the Lodge reser.
vations that 1t was the only way tc
get the treaty ratified. No mat.
ter what ID the outcome Of the
dKht for the chairmanship Of the
resolutions committee, the struggle
will not be ended till the platform
plank Is written The Bryan Walsh
elements favor adoption Of ths
lpeace treaty with whatever reser.
vations are necessary to insure
iprompt ratification. They wan
nothing said about the Lodge res
ervations. Senator Glass Of vir'
ginia wants the treaty raitfiet
without reservations which impail
its essential integrity" In the Vir
ginia platform which he wrote, h
had plenty Of condemnation fol
those Who voted for the Lodge res
ervations. II he wants harmon,
here, he will have to eliminate ths
denunctation and limit himself t
Ian affirmative statement OF wha