New-York tribune., 1920-06-30
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the Anti-Saloon League or any other
prohibition organization ?'
mot a Nickel" replied Bryan heat
edly.
"Not nickel?" Bell insisted
"I have been paid for delivering some
speeches during the last few months"
fore that | did not receive a nickel
for making the fight against the traf
fic you represent"
Senator Glass pounded the table and
finally restored order and the hearing
continued peaceably until representa-
tives of the Loyal Coalition argued
against adoption of the Irish plank
which Frank j. Walsh, of Kansas City,
presented.
The committee room was crowded
with sympathizers with the Irish cause
and they heckled the speakers who OPP
posed the plank throughout the pro-
ceedngs.
Hoots, catcalls and jeers greeted
nearly every statement made by Rep
resentative Connally of Texas; Dem
Arrest Lloyd, of Boston, president of the
Loyal Coalition, and Randolph Wilford
Smith, of Boston, vice e-president Of the
Coalition.
In the course of his argument against
the Irish plank Smith brought the feel
ing in the committee room to a white
heat by declaring that "the Sim Fem
ers have taken $10,00O,000 out of the
pockets of servant girls and working
women and no one knows for what it
was spent"
Take that back. Take that back"
shouted half hundred Irish sympa
thizers in the rear of the room.
"I'll make him take it bach. I won't
stand for such an insult upon the
women one woman sympathizer who
was covered with Irish badges and who
carried Irish flags, cried
She rushed up the aisle, followed
by dozen or more other Irish SYM
pathizers, apparently intending to at
tack the speaker. Policemen inter
vened and led her from the room. She
declined to give her name.
After the committee adjourned for
lunch she attacked Lloyd and Smith as
they left the room, beating them over
the head with her flags. She was
elected from the building.
Bryan and w. Bourke Cochran, mem
ber of the Resolutions Committee from
New York and leader of the fight for
the vets, clashed as soon as Senator
Glass announced that prohibition was
to be taken up. They discussed for
halt an hour which side should be
heard first. Chairman Glass finally in
terrurted to say that apparently no
one wanted to talk, so the question
would be passed over.
"This is no time for Joking" BRYAN
declared
"The chair is not joking" Senator
Glass said with heat, land resents the
suggestion"
Bishop James Cannon, of Virginia,
head of the South Baptist organization,
spoke first for the drys. He declared
prohibition is not partisan political
question, and said the vets should not
be permitted to make their fight in a
rational political convention.
Appeal to Congress Advised
"If you want to repeal the Eighteenth
Amendme ent cd it in a constitutional
way" he said. Don't try to nullify it
by political declaration. If you want
law, go into Congress and change it
in the orderly way"
Mrs. A. <. Vost of Washington, D. C.
representing the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, and Frank M.
Silsby. representing the Presbyterian
National General Assembly, next spoke
for bone dry plank. Former Repre-
sentative Richmond Pearson Hobson
then presented a dry plank which he
said the prohibition organizations
wanted the convention to include in it's
platform. The text of the plank fol-
lows:
The Democratic party is justly
proud Of the Eighteenth Amendment to
the Constitution and pledges itself by
legislation and administration Loyalty
to enforce this and all other articles Of
the Constitution, and to use every hon
orable and legitimate means to extend
the blessings of this charter of life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness to
all the peoples of the earth"
Charles j. Hall, representing tcmrer-
ance organizations, said the prohibi-
tionsts had been "handed gold brick'
at Chicago, and asked that plank be
adopted guaranteeing strict enforce
ment. H. Clay Needham, of the Ma
tional Prohibition party, told the COM
mittee that the Democrats could get
the dry votes of the country if it
adopted a dry plank.
make a fight for a dry plank in the
committee itself later and that Wayne
B. Wheeler, general counsel for the
Anti-Saloon League, would close the
arguments for the drys
"Prohibition has now resolved itself
INTO question OF law and order,
Wheeler said. "The Eighteenth Amend
ment is in the Constitution to stay
1t takes thirty-six states to take il
out. 1t is fixure, and it is going tc
be enforced. No party can hold the
confidence of the people if it takes a
stand for the notification of the legis.
lation.
Beer Amendment Multiplying
owe insist that a beer and wine
amendment to the Volstead act will
nullify the constitutional amendment
If you put beer and wine amendment
in the enforcement law. it makes en-
forcement of prohibition impossible in
the states that have prohibition laws
Of their own
Beer and wine amendments had been
defeated by overwhelming majorities
in states where an effort had been
made to, return to "most" days, said
Wheeler He declared President Will