Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-06-22
DEMOCRATIC
PLATFORM To
Be CAUSE Of
BITTER ROW
Proposals to Modify VoIstead
Act and League of Ma.
tions Issue Are Expected
to Cause Fierce War.
BRYAN CONTINUES TO
BE FLY IN OINTMENT
Leaders Predict That the
Dry Plank May Be Fought
Out on the Convention
Floor; Chieftains Arrive.

tsy nos,hso JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED ~i1El
San Francisco, Calf. June al
With the opening of the democratic
national convention a week away,
stir of activity was nouceaDle about
hotel headquarters today in addi-
ton to the preliminary work at the
auditorium where the delegates
will gather.
1t took the form of informal dis
cussion between national commit
tee members and state leaders al
ready on the ground devoted
chiefly to anticipated struggles with
platform building, There was vir-
tually no talk as to presidential
candidates. A plain intimation ran
through this undercurrent of plat
form talk that proposals to modify
the federal prohibition enforcement
act were expected by some OF the
democratic war horses to share
honors with, if not to eclipse, the
league of nations issue. Nobody
had any direct statement to make
or was talking for publication.
Some of the men who will have a
hand in shaping the partv'a deelar-
a ,on of principles, however. taineu
much privately of popular de-
mand that the doctrine of states
rights should apply to beer restric-
tions.
Merry War Is Predicted.
Taken in connection with the an
nounced purpose Of w. J. Bryan to
resist any weakening of prohibit
tion enforcement measures, the talk
brought to the surface the feeling
of prominent democrats already
here that a fierce battle on the
point in the resolutions committee
was not to be avoided. They be-
iieved also that ultimately the 1ues-
ton would be fought out on the
convention floor.
Discussion of the league plank
apparently awaited the arrival OF
Senator Glass, of Virginia, slated
10 head the resolutions committe"
and who is coming direct from a
conference with President Wilson.
The contest over the league issue
already has been sharply defined In
the conflicting views Of the presi-
dent and Mr.. Bryan and talk about
the hotel lobbies today did not dis
close great immediate interest n
the question involved.
Who Will Be Chairman?
The name of Senator Walsh, of
Montana, was injected into the dis
cussion today Of the probable per-
manent chairman of the conven-
tion.. The Montana senator was
mentioned by number of leaders
In tentative way, although others
said that they believed Secretary
Colby, Of the state department
would be the man urged by ad-
ministration forces, despite his
statement that he was not can
didate for the post
No delegations have put in an APP
pearance yet except for a state
leader here and there coming
ahead to arrange accommodations
for his associates and to look over
the ground AMI pick up ideas from
men from other sections of the
country. Thert is little about the
city as yet to indicate that it is
to play host to Its first national
political convention next week.
The wires were busy during the day,
however, with reports of delega-
tions getting under way from the
eastern seaboard and every arriving
train added to the group of we'll
known figures In democratic cir
cles, slowly assembling about head
ruarters of the national committee