Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-07-01
Declares He Will Carry Fight
To Floor if Drop of Moisture
Compromise Is Accepted by
Resolutions Committee.
ADHERE STRICTLY TO
WILSONIAN PROGRAM
Three Troublesome Questions
Destined for Possible Fight
In Convention Decided on
BY "Sacred Nine"
BY GRAFTON S. WILCOX
Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leased Wire

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Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leased Wire
San Francisco, June 30-At late
hour today the subcomittce of nine
drafting the democratic platform.
after strenuous all-day session,
was preparing its report for the com
mittee on resolutions waiting at the
convention auditorium prepared for
an all-night struggle over The dom
inant issues.
The subcommittee is understood to
be adhering strictly to the Wilson
administration program. 1t declined
to make public the official record Of
its labor, but it was learned that the
three troublesome issues destined for
prolonged discussion in the full COM
mittee and perhaps upon the conven-
ton floor tomorrow, had been set
tied as follows:
League of nations: Acceptance of
the Wilson plank endor sing the pres
ident's attitude on the treaty of
peace and league covenant, urging
ratification without res .dvations
which would nullify the purposes of
the league, calling attention to the
fact that cessation of hostilities
was agreed to with the understand
ing that there would be a league of
nations and insisting that Artirle 10
of the covenant could not precipitate
foreign wars without the consent of
congress.
Reject Bryan Plank.
Prohibition: Rejection of Willianf
Jennings Bryan's plank on enforel
ment of the eighteenth amending
and closing the door to any moi
cation of the Volstead act; rejeq
also of the Burleson wet p:anl
all other light wine and besr
submitted, but proposing q
promise with "a drop of D.
in it.
This plank was suggested by ad-
ministration leaders, Carter Glass
and cambridge Colby among them,
and is believed to follow these lines:
Condemnation of the saloon. which
no American citizen wants restored;
declaration for rigid enforcement of
the eighteenth amendment sustained
by the supreme court as the law of
the land, but in such enforcement
insisting that there should be no
"vexatious invasion on the privacy
of the citizen"
The Irish republic issue: Reiec-
ton of the plank submitted by the
Friends of Irish Freedom, urging
recognition of the De Valera Irish
republic, but reiterating the demo-
cratic party's traditional stand for
the success of peoples struggling
for independent government, men,
tioning specifically the Irish people
and suggesting the league of ma
tions as the only existing source
of aid to Ireland in her struggle
for freedom. and pledging the
American delegates to the league.
when chosen, to call Irelands woes
to the attention of the league.
Expect Hot Fight.
All three of these planks, it was
admitted, would encounter bitter op-
position from members of the reso-
lutions committee, but adrf1inistra-
ton leaders predicted that the plat
form when finally adopted by the
convention would not depart from
the formula as drawn up byl the
subcommittee.
Mr.. Bryan signalized his attitude,
early in the day when the resolu
tons subcommittee asks the mem-
bers from each state for sugges-
tions. Mr.. Bryan refused to SUBJ
NIT any of his planks for the sub.
committees consideration, declaring
that he had no confidence in the
sacred nine" and that he did NOT
propose to make his fight twice
before he reached the convention
itself.
He reiterated that he never would
accept the plank suggested on the
liquor issue, denouncing it as strad-
die of the issue, and declared he
would insist upon taking the issue
tc the convention floor, should the
resolutions committee accept the
subcommittee suggestion.