The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-25

enforcement plank in the party's 1920 platform will approach completion to- morrow when William J. Bryan arrives.
 The Nebraskan is generally regarded as field marshal of the bone-dry ele- ment He may also function as supreme commander of allied and associated in- terests opposed to President Wilson's platform views.
 While the prohibition plank remained the outstanding issue with the factions as far apart as the poles, interest in other platform questions was stimulated by the presence of Senator Glass of Vir- ginia, who is known to be fully advised as to the Presidents views on what the party should do on the League of Ma tions issue and similar questions Sup porters of proposals to modify the Vol stead enforcement act are claiming presidential favor for their proposition but up to date Senator Glass has not indicated what views MT. Wilson may have expressed in this regard
 MT. Bryan has already disclosed that he has plank of his own to present on the enforcement question. He is un- derstood to favor putting the party on record for rigid enforcement of prohibi- tlon to the fuu limit of the Volstead measure Between this suggestion, which gained the support of Senator owen of Oklahoma, first of the presidential as- pirants to reach the scene, and that of the enforcement notifications advocates the gulf is so wide that no possibility of compromise is visible unless it should
 be based on an agreement to follow the platform of the Virginia democrats and ignore prohibition.
 DRYS HAVE MAJORITY
 The bone drys have a working ma Jority on the committee. That is admit ted by their opponents. They also are credited with slight majority in the con vention itself but the would-be rafT- makers who view with alarm the present drought are very hopeful that this can be upset
 There is pressure to expedite proceed ings as much as possible. For that req son it was said that if an enforcement plank was framed by the committed probably it would be allowed to go to the convention with virtually no time de- voted to committee debate by it's oppo- nents, but accompanied by a flatly con- tradctory minority report that would bring the whole subject into the open forum of the convention.
 Leaders have not modified their opin- ion as expressed by Chairman Cummings of the national committee that no other platform issued would fail to be ad- justed in the committee. MT. Cum mings had knowledge, it is believed or
 the course both of administration forces and the Bryan faction to the league issue. In some quarters his statemeri i was taken hint that a compromise programme on which harmony could be based had already been worked out for submission to the committee There was no anticipation that differing views cn the labor plank, profiteering, radicalsm or any other subject could not be brought l into accord.
 SHOULD CLEAR AIR MT. Bryan's arrival should clear the l air as to the league itself. Leaders | here now apparently are prepared to | accept President Wilson's views in 1 this regard with little question. some | of them because they are in fact ir l accord with him and others for reasons | of politicah expediency, but if MT. | Bryan, as has been suggested, plans tt