Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-07-03
l, BRYAN BEATEN
 IN ATTEMPT TO ALTER PLANkS
Platform as Framed by the Resolutions Committee
 Is Adopted
NOTHING IS SAID
 ABOUT PROHIBITION
Platform Declares for the Peace Treaty and Dismisses Irish Prob
 lem With an Expression of Sympathy

{ San Francisco, July 2.-The demo- x cratic platform as framed in the res C Solutions committee declaring for the peace treaty, expressing sympathy for Ireland and saying nothing at all #abcut prohibition, came unscathed q Through a furious floor fight today S@and was adopted without amendment Fin great avalanche of applause. w. J. Bryan led the fight for adop- sticn of his bone dry plank but it ssswas buried after dramatic day of &debate by majority so overwhelm- Hing that he did not even ask for roll @calls on the four other minority re- Rports which he had prepared. M A cider, wine and beer plank cham &pioned in an emotional speech by w. &Bourke Cochran of New York, also #was thrown out by the convention 1along with a plank for recognition &bf the Irish republic backed by sew Eeral organizations of Irish sympa- &hizers.
 In the battle for the platform as
 Framed the administration forces by Secretary Colby and Senator Elass of Virginia, during a debate In which both sides stirred delegates ; Ind spectators to repeated bursts of ]emotional enthusiasm. MT. Bryan sNfot bowling demonstration of twen- Nty minutes after he concluded his $peech for the bone dry plank, but Then the balloting began it became t 113pparent that much of the enthusiasm &sas a personal tribute to his past #9ervice to the party, and not an ex- NBression of sympathy with his pres *ent views.
 The Bryan Plank With the platform adopted, the SSonvention was up with it's schedule
 nd the voting on presidential can
 idates began.
 R The Bryan prohibition plank re- . kcted by the convention was as fol-
 vs:
 Eaayheartily congratulate the dem
 cratic party on its splendid leader
 hip in the submission and ratifica-
 Ion of the prohibition amendment D the federal constitution and we
 Hedge the party to the strict enforce kent of the present enforcement law,
 pnestly and in good faith without
 hy increase in the alcoholic con-
 ent of permitted beverages and
 fthout any weakening of any other
 its provisions"
 The official result was a hundred nd fifty five and half ayes, nine
 hundred and twenty nine and a half
 pes that finished Bryan's bone dry
 lank and the convention turned tol De next amendment to the platform (hich was the plank offered by Rep esentative Hobson of Alabama.
 The next suggested plank to come
 for action was the dry proposals N Richmond Pearson Hobson. He sked for roll call but the request
 las not sufficiently seconded and the
 Qank was voted down in great bar of disapproval.
 For the wine and beer plank pro- osed by MT. Cochran, there seem
 to be an almost unanimous de band for the ayes and noes and i cll call on it began.
 As state after state announced hajority against the dry plank there Eas repeated cheering and announce hent of the result of the ballot was he signal for renewed jollification y all of those who had hoped to see he Nebraskan turned down by the Prevention.
 The total on the vote rejecting the nbstitute on the Irish plank was 75k votes against it with 4021s votes pr it.