Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-07-02

ocratic national convention gathered for
night session. marking time still wait
Ing for the presentation of the plat
form.
The resolutions committee. unable TO
settle the prohibition issue. had finally
decided to let it come to the floor and
agreed on program which provided
for one speaker on each side. William
j. Bryan of course. was to speak for a
prohibition plank, and Rainbridge Colby.
secretary of state. and an administration
leader, was Ito take the other side of
the argument.
With the hope of hearing the COM
mittee report at S q. M, the convention
assembled at that hour and the big au-
ditorium was packed from floor to roof
with a record breaking crowd eager for
the spectacle of BRYAN in action for
his favorite cause and expecting to see
the fireworks Of the wet and dry fight
Postponemept followed postponement.
however, and while the throng was en-
tertained with band music singing and
slections on the pipe organ, various es-
Inmates came down from the resolutions
committee of the time when it might
deport. Ten thirty O'Clock San Fran
cleo time, was the latest and seemingly
best bet Some of the leaders wanted
to suspend the rules and go ahead bal
d
vote was required and hard to get
Although the big auditorium was
packed to the doors and roof, fully
5000 persons with tickets of adrnis-
sion were on the outside and unable
to get in when the doors opened
At S:45 Chairman Robinson wanted
to make an announcement. but the hand
and organ prevented it by breaking
into THE Sidewalks of New York"
irish Fight on Floor.
The convention went into the night
session with the row on the floor brew
ing over the attempt of Irish sympa-
thizers among delegates to force into
the platform declaring for recognition
of the Irish republic. In a caucus of
the pro-Irish factionists held in a room
next to the resolutions committee room,
plans to carry the drive to the floor
were made after caucus ultimatum
had been ignored by the committee
which voted not to hear Frank p. Walsh
of Kansas City in further presentation
of the case of the Irish republic
There was some question as to how
convention rules would affect the pro-
posed attempt to plunge the convention
itself into the Irish fight As a mem
Der of the resolutions committee. Sena-
tor Walsh of Massachusetts, spokes-
nl8H Tor the eAUCuS during tHe uag.
could bring in minority report. which
would let down the bars for the strug-
gle it was said Chairman Fitzgerald,
of Providence. II. l.. heading the execu-
tive committee created by the caucus.
said 1t would be possible TO move an
to the committee report.
however. should other parliamentary
means to precipitate general debate be
lacking.
The caucus demanded action on tue
recognition plank 1t voted not to cen
slider platform approach to the irish
question from any other angle.
Bryan Protected.
Friends of William Jennings Bryan re-
calling threats of bodily harm mads
upon him Mt Baltimore in 1917 mad ar
ranged to be prepared to defend their
champion in case he should be imperiled
in the heat OF the battle of the vets and
drvs. They had favorable points about
the speakers stand ard on the floor
waiting for the possible developments
they hoped would not come.
Committee Recasses.
AT TAO D. M, the platform commit
tee, which was to have its report to the
consention at o'clock. recessed for an
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