The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-07-02
BRYAN TAKES
DRY ISSUE To
FLOOR today
Convention Shows Approval
of Suffrage and League Of
Nations Clauses Demon
strations Are Staged.
HOT FIGHT IS EXPECTED
tBy Associated Prese


SAN FRANCISCO, July 2.-Senator
Robinson presented Senator Carter H.
Glass, of Virginia, to the Democratic
national convention here today. and
the reading of the platform began.
Galleries and delegates listened at
tentively, and interrupted the opening
references to President Wilson with
hand clapping.
At the point where the platform de-
clared for a League Of Nations, Sen
ator Glass put emphasis on the word
The" and the convention stood up
and cheered for a minute while the
band struck up another rollicking
tune.
When the direct declaration for rati-
fication Of the treaty was reached in
the reading. there was another demon.
stration. about half the delegates
again getting to their feet and cheer
ing the words Of the platform.
When he finished the league plank
Senator Glass departed from his man.
uscript to say, $50 much for the league
of nations, and my voice. regret to
say, is impaired from fighting for that
declaration"
The remark was answered by ap-
plause from the delegates and specta-
tors. Nearly every plank got a little
rise OF applause but the declaration
OF the platform was not new to many
OF the delegates, and for the most
part they became restless before the
reading was half completed.
Suffrage Gets Demonstration
One OF the biggest demon strations
was given the suffrage plank calling
on the legislatures of three southern
Democratic states to ratify the suf-
frage amendment
Led by the women delegates virtu-
ally every person on the floor got to
their feet and cheered while the stand.
ards Of Tennessee, Florida and North
Carolina, the three states specifically
named in the appeal were carried to
the stand and held high up before the
delegates.
There was disagreement over the
New Jersey and Louisiana standards
but after a little showing and tussling
both Of them were carried out of place
and put with nearly all the others,
! which were clustered on the speakers
stand.
Mrs. John Sherwin Crosby, of New
York, got the Louisiana standard for
| ward over the protest of some of the
Louisiana delegates, but after she had
carried 1t little way a man took it
and put 1t in place with the big as
| semblage around the platform.
Organize General Parade.
A parade in which practically all of
the standards joined was organized,
| when the demonstration had been go
ing for five minutes.
The marchers tramped around the
hall to the tune OF There Will Be a
Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
and then the organ dropped into
Smiles" and the floor took up the
words Of the song. It was a thirteen
minute demonstration when it had
concluded. but the leaders declined to
regard it as bad omen.
When order had been restored Sen
ator Glass again took up the reading.
There was some more hurrahing a
few minutes la ter when Senator Glass.
at the end of the long list of things
the party proposed to do for women,
said in another aside to those near
the platform, IF we have omitted any
thing, we mean that, too
Growing accustomed to late starts.
the delegates and crowds were slower
| than ever in arriving for the fifth
| days session. and when the monster
pipe organ began It's recital a half
hour before the hour set its harmony
surged out into an almost empty
auditorium.
! The hour Of 10 came and went
with hardly a handful of delegates on
the floor and with great empty
! patches in the galleries. Only a few
of the big leaders had come in.
Prepares For Five Planks
Mr.. Bryan came to the convention
hall prepared to offer five planks as
minority reports. His dry plank was
the same a he announced on his ar
rival in San Francisco last week In
another plank he renewed his fight
for national bulletin to be published
by the federal government.
| He also has a profiteering plank
proposing the elimination of "unnec-
essar ry middlemen" and to force dis
closure of cost and selling price and
to recommend creation within the
states of commissions similar to the
federal trade commission.
Another plank. very brief, nearly
stated opposition to universal compul
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