The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-12
HoW Speakers Presented Issue of the Campaign
Differences Between Views of Wilson and Bryan Looked Upon as lrreconcilable-Gerard's Speech Looked
 Upon by Friends as Somewhat Disappointing
By HIGH ". ROBERTS

ing the six years the party had charge of the houses of Congress.
 Mir. Clark says nothing about the League of Nations; Mir. Bryan declares that the league. in the campaign. can not be permitted to confuse or dim either of the greater issues; Mr. Will son says the league is the thing, the sine qua non, the ne plus ultra.
 Inasmuch as MT. Clarks platform is the platform on which all parties throughout all the years have stood, the great issue is between Mir. Wilson and Mir Bryan. Mir. Wilson contends that the league cannot be ratified with out nullifying reservations, and that with such it would not be the league; that the treaty cannot be rewritten. and that the United States, cap in hand, cannot approach defeated Germany and sue for another peace The people must directly express themselves, he adds. 1t is his opinion that if the people elect a President standing for ratification of the treaty as the treaty was written. the Senate will proceed ipso facto to ratify.
 MT. Bryan contends that the Presi- dents programme would entail delay of If months and that to win, the dem ocratic party must defeat republican senatorial candidates in great number E1c utC&diGS Indl NlliAt tlit enter the fight with a majority of two, only two of their candidates are< in danger of defeat whereas five demo- cratic candidates are endangered. lie predicts continued control of the Sen ate by republicans. and continued fail- ure of the treaty as result
 There is the situation effecting the treaty as brought into existence by the divergent views of MT. Wilson and MT. Bryan. The former a sick man, VIII continue to reside in Washington. MT Bryan seeking the presidential nomi- nation. many believe, has already en- tered upon a speaking campaign which will endure until the date of the demo- cratic convention, June 2S.
 Inasmuch as it was proclaimed that Mir. Bryan would sound the keynote or the campaign, democratic leaders in Washington, since the Jackson Day dinner, have seriously studied the speech of the melancholy Nebraskan. It is divided into sections as follows;
 () Compromise or otherwise regulate the League of Nations so that it will not confuse the bigger issues of the campaign.
 (2) Stand for woman suffrage and prohibition.
 (s) Construct peace" highway leading into and through all states of the union.
 (4) Publish bulletin giving facts with editorials on both sides of every issue to supplant newspapers biased by editors opinion, or influenced if not owned by predatory interests.
 (5) The initiative and ferefendum, no longer new must be supported.
 (6) Guarantee freedom of speech and press to those advocating governmental changes by constitutional methods.
 CD Insist on the right of the people to own and operate all necessary monopoles.
 The above is Bryan's programme. On that programme, he will try to control the convention at least to the extent of writing the platform. In his last idea, as above delineated, MT. Bryan stands with Mr. Plumb in advocating control of railroads and all other monopolies by the government, and the labor unioins.
 While it is unquestionably true that