The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-03

may lose some. you'll bring in number infinitely larger, and when they come, they'll come out of love for the princ- ples for which we have declared" RELIES ON BIBLE 1 As he worked into his speech, the
 Nebraskan mixed many biblical refer
 ences with his rounded rhetorical pe-
 riods. His full voice filled the hall and he got the galleries and some of the | delegates going into longer and longer bursts of applause as he went on. 1 When he prepared to turn to the othe blanks he had presented there were pro tests from the galleries and demands 1 that he go on.
 No" he replied, while the crowd cheered, but I'll come back to that after aWh -ie '
 pnsisl; oTicial news, he declared, would
 put thc party on record as 1avorlng light and not darkness
 Many of the newspapers, he argued, were controlled by predatory interests, while many others erred unntentionally through the influence of advertisers. 1 Briefly, he presented the proftoer'ng plank which he offered and said he could not get into the republican platform be cause nearly all the profiteers were there in the convention or in the galleries. The plank now was 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 military training also was argued very briefly by the speaker and then he turned to his league declaration.
 q want the constitution changed, he said, "so 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 tnat majority of senators agree on, the republicans will have to join us in that ] declaration or else we will take most or the republican party away.
 Isn't it better to take this stand which WH assure acceptance of the League of Nations, which the people want ana nut the banner of progress into the hanus of SVoodrcw Wilson to carry forward! At the close of the speech, the ap- plause swelled up again as MT. Bryan leaned smiling over the front ot the platform, and received a large pouque. of peonies sent up by Mrs. Geo. E. Hull oe Lincoln. Neb.. his home town. ROBSON STARTS RUMPUS 1. The demonstration lasted only frac-
  lion of minute however, and Rlch- mond Pearson Hobson of Alabama was presented to support the Bryan dry plank. Hobson got into the conventioa on a nroxv, although earlier Tn the dav Senator Reed of Missouri had lett
 for home because he could not get III the convention with an alternate , proxy.
 Hobson stirred up a rumpus when
 fOOt d ..conspiracy' against the constitution. In the center of the hall Representa-
 t;va X K. Sabath of Illinois Jumped 10 his feet and shouted !.
 You are saying something that IS
 not true.' and misses mingled With the applause. ate
 The chairman got order, but the ols- t,Yrbance started up again when moment later the speaker shouted tha'
 those who did not like the cohs,itu-
 ton should leave the country
 Mrs Peter Olesen of Minnesota was the next speaker to be called by MT
 Bryan in support of his programme She said she spoke in the name or the motherhood of America in supporting the dry declaration.
 q am told" she said, that some
 where in a lodge room in this pulldins there is a coffin. 1 wonder whether that coffin is prepared Tor the hauor
 intarests or for the democratic party
 For if you put in this wet planK' you might as well get the coffin ready
 It was not the liquor interests, pu, the non-partisan league. she said, Una. recently defeated Representative Voi- stead author of the Nolstead act Tor
 re election in Minnesota
 sir Oliver Lodge recently has passed over this country she continued,
 .holding communication with departee spirits. but from the smell or the hreaths of some of the men I've met here in San Francisco, l thihk they have been in communication with the ghosts who have been holding oonNeiss with John Barleycorn.
 convention again to it's feet when Mrs Oleson asked that God should help her in the fight she was making, for it was for the sake of her child that she
 was fighting.
 Let it never be said" she cried that the democratic party thinks more of it's chances than of the children of the land. God speed the right" 1 HOLDS SAME VIEW l ..Godspeed the right" MT. Cochran i said in introduction. With that the | last speaker concluded and with that I begin. We have heard a great deal here 1 that was highly interesting and pictur- esoue and extravagant. But it is a pe- cuiiar thing in history that most of what lis bad had been conceived by people who were good. by ill-digesred efforts to coerce people in their daily lives.
 q am opposed to the word prohibit
 tion. abhor it. It is the word you