Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-03
COlNzNONER MAKES PLEA
WITH TEARS IN EYES
Contention Fails to Adopt Single One of
His Proposals-Wets Also Fail
to Score Success.

| convention to cheering. Every demo,
| cratic state" he said. had ratineo
the amendment and every one re saas
never TO be resurrected" The only
| question is whether we shall recog-
! nize i; as dead" he continued. or
allow it to lie out on the ground I'M
covered. Decency requires that
! corpse be put out of sight.
! The liquor interests. said Mr.. Bryan
| were not trying to reopen the ques-
sion. but now had come down 10 ao-
voca ting wine and beer for home con-
main silent on the subject would
| leave open the possibility of change
| in the law to increase the alcoholic
| content II want to leave no opening
for misunderstanding or bubble. ne
said so I have put into my plank
! the provision that there shall be no
| relaxation of the law. What we hate
| is alcohol. and We hate it whether
| we find it in whisky. in wine or in
/ beer.
They tell you that wine is harm
| less drink. but you will find that
| through the ages it has been wine
| that has cursed mankind"
Will Come Out of Love.
IF you can't get enough alcohol to
make you drunk. why do you want
alcohol at all? Some tell you that il
you pass my plank some people will
leave the party. That's true. But
while you may lose some you'll bring
, in a number infinitely greater and
when they come they'll come out of
have declared
When he prepared to turn to the
| other planks he had presented there
were protests from the galleries and
demands that he go on.
No he replied, while the crowd
oh shn that
after a while"
The plank for national bulletin
to publish official news. he declared,
would put the party on record as IA
voring light and not darkness.
Many of the newspapers. he ar
gued, were controlled by predatory
interests, while many others erred un-
! Intentionally through the influence
| of advertisers
Drive Out Profteers.
| The plank was now offered to the
democrats. he added, in order to
drive out of the party any profiteers
who might remain in it.
| The plank against universal mill
| tary training also was argued very
briefly by the speaker and then he
| turned to his league declaration.
| II want the Constitution changed,
| he said. 80 we can get out OF war
as easily as we can get into war. We
fought the war to establish the great
principle of democracy, the principle
! of majority rule. If we declare here
| for ratification of the treaty with
reservations that a majority of the
senators agree on the republicans
will have to join us in that declara-
| ton or else we will take most of
| the republican party away
isn't it better to take this stand
which will assure acceptance Of the
/ league of nations. which the people
want. and put the banner of progress
into the hands of woodrow Wilson
| to carry forward?"
| At the close of the speech the ap-
plause swelled up again as Mr.. Bryan
leaned smiling over the front of the
platform and received a large bou-
quet of peonies sent up by Mrs
George E. Hull of Lincoln, Neb.. his
home town
Delegates Have Fights
When Bryan had concluded his re-
ply to the advocates of wet plank
the demonstration cut loose on the
floor. and. wholly unaided by the band
or the organ or any other instru-
mentalities which had been effective
! Iy used to keep other demonstrations
going. it proceeded spontaneously and
resisted all efforts to get the conven-
| ton back to order.
| Bryan. standing smiling in the lime
light at the edge of the speakers
platform, and with tears of emotion
coursing down his cheeks, reviewed a
procession of prohibition enthusiasts
y who tore up state standards and