Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-07-03
FIRST BALLOTS
INDICATE VERY
LITTLE BRYAN
Unable to Obtain Line on Final
Result From Two Votes
Cast.
SHOWS GOV. cox WEAK
BY WILLIAM J. BRYAN.

Copyright, 1920, by W. J. Bryan
SAN FRANCISCO, July S.-The
first and second ballots do not give
much indication of the final result.
Neither McAdoo nor Palmer deyel-
oped. the strength that their supper
tiers had expected.
They were close together on the
first ballot and their gains on the sec
ond ballot were small and almost
equal.
Cox's vote on the first ballot was
surprisingly small.
1t increased some on the second
ballot, but is still too incOnsiderable
to give him much encouragement.
The vote cast by his state for the
wine and beer amendment puts him on
record.
As his manager gazed over the Sahara
desert that extends from Pensacola TO
Puget sound he must contemplate with
| dlsmay the arid nature of the political
soil.
If that second vote had not been taken
he might have confused some of the dry
states with the wet ones, for the moist
| area seemed to be quite extensive, but
| the vote on the bear and wine amen
mnt showed that It was mirage, so
TO speak, that attracted them.
The west and south are so opposed
TO any increase in the alcoholic content
that Gov Cox's prospects are not quoted
very high on the market.
MRS. oLEsoN MAKES
HIT WITH AUDIENCE.
Mrs. Peter Oleson, who spoke for ten
I minutes in favor OF the dry amendment,
made a great hit with the audience. she
IS a wonanly little woman, feminine in
appearance and manner.
/ When she speaks there Is a ring of
sincerity and CHE wins her hearers by
q rare combination OF heart power and
lively intellect.
/ She captured the audience and not
only aided tho cause but gave TO the
vets a glimpse OF what they must ex-
/ pect when the women enter politics in
MASSACHUSETTS,.
II would be q very bold wet who
would undertake to speak from the same
platform with Mrs Oleson.
Honorable Bourke Cochran OF New
York delighted his hearers az usual.
wonderful vocabulary and be Expresses
his audience with his sincerity even
when his logic limps aud his statements
are contradictory,
became acquainted with him In con-
grcss We we're on the ways and means
committee together twenty six years ago
and led the nght on the income tax bill.
he opposip the tax and i favoring II.
He won OFT at the time, but he is now
paying ten or fifteen times the rate pro
vided for IN that bin.
All his arguments In that nght are
gone on the dump.
10 was interesting 20 hear him de-
nounee prohibition az destructive 20 TEN.
} perance aud virtue and then read the res.
olution witch he introduced declaring in
favor OF the acceptance Of the eighteenth
amendment.
FINDS 1T DIFFICULT
TO ACCEPT REASONING.
II prohibition is the evil that he claims.
why accept IT.
The seeming Inconsistency. however,
was partially cleared up when he insist
ed that the amendment is not being en-
forced.
Possibly he feels that temperance and
virtue Will sIll survive in these wet
centers. because the amendment Is not
| enforced.
But stu stranger Inconsistency APP
| peared in his euloRy OF the south
He gave the south a great deal OF
credit for having violated, as he said
the fifteenth constitutional amendment
in dealing with the blacks
10 didn't seem TO occur TO him that the
7 Intelligence Of the south might be as
worthy TO be accepted as an authority
on the prohibition question as on the
race question.
And isn't Il strange that such a brain
as Cockran's would overlook SO striking
difference as that between what the
whites did in the south and what the
! liquor interests DO In the north2
In the south the whites have given the
blacks the benefit of the white mans
civilization, while in the north those en-
gagged In the liquor traffic have tried to
drag civilization down to a beer level
BETTER HALF LOAF
THAN NONE AT ALL
Il will be interesting to note the re-
ception given to the delegates from dry
states when they return to their own
neighborhood and explain why they
voted against an expression Of pride in
the democratic party's leadership In the
fight against the saloon.
1t is the one great achievement OF the
party of which some of the leaders seem
to be ashamed.
But never mind. enough has been
said and done here to make 1t certain
that the democratic party viii not act
as a bung starter for the vets or a door
mat for the saloons.
That's something, even If we did not
succeed in putting the dry standard in
the party's hands during this campaign.
The next national convention will be
different from this; the mortality (po-
litical, of cOurse) among the democrats
to this convention Is likely to be great
during the next four years.