The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-23
WATKINS IS NAMED BY PROHIB|TION|STS AS BRYAN DECLINES
Convention Nonplused at Flat Declaration by Com mcner He Would Not
 Be Standard Bearer
By Associated Press

By Associated Press Lincoln, Neb., July 22.- Ohio got it's third presidential
 candidate fo rthe 1920 cam- paign when the prohibition
 national convention nominated Aaron s. Watkins of German
 town, o. ,after learning from William J. Bryan that he would
 not accept the nomination voted him yesterday.
 Mir. Watkins won on the second bal
 lot, after he and R. II. Patton had each
 received S5 votes on the first
 The vote was: Aaron $. Watkins, 10s,
 R. H. Patton. "A; D. A. Polling. 24HC. A. Randall 2.
 It took 105 votes to nominate IS COLLEGE PROFESSOR MT. watkins is professor of litera- ture in Germantown military acade- my He was d professor in Ada Col lege, Ohio, for several years and was vice presidential candidate on the pro- hibition ticket in 1908 and 1912. He was born on a farm near Rushsly-
 vania, Ohio, and is 53 years old He l preached seventeen years In the Meth odlst Church before starting teaching and was nominated for governor of 1 Ohio on the prohibition ticket in 1905 and 1908.
 | In accepting. MT Watkins said his | campaign plans were up to the national committee, but he kneW 1t would be an active campaign"
 nE,I EC ATEC CITpDPISEn l Delegates to the convention were completely nonplused when informed | by the Associated Press tonight that Bryan had flatly refused to accept the nomination tendered him yesterday by 1 the party.
 l It had been believed generally that ! he would accept. and the convention
 throughout the day had made it's plans with that in view.
 | The convention wsts in recess when l the first dispatch From Bozomar. Mont. ffAs r ,eiyed, but th yi news 4ttiekIt 1 spread and funeral could nos have given moro ,lisconsolate angea ~spes
 aroenc ae prcfibitio fte | COMPLETELY HIDBES 1 The dispatches from Bozeman ended
 a search by hundreds of persons for l Mir. Bryan during the past 2f hours, during which time Mr. Bryan, although
 a national figure and public speak Ing tour. had been unintentionally I completely hidden from friends, rela- l tives and the public.
 During the day hundreds of te1e- grams came to his office here urging | him to accept the nomination and tele- | graph companies reported several l hundred more despatched to the var ! ious places where he was reported to | be.
 | Meantime, the platform committee. l which early this morning was ready | to present it's tentative draft to the convention, went back into executive l session to sredraft certain blanks So | Bryan could be had.
 Late today the convention gave off, | ficial approval to draft which it's sponsors declared MT. Bryan would be proud to run on,'
 l new national committee with Vir- gil Henshaw retained as chairman was elected, and resolution opposing mili tary training was adopted. Several states were not represented in the con- 1 vention and no committeeman chosen | for them.
 PLATFORM ADOPTED l The prohibition party today adopted | a platform favoring the League of Nations, but expressing no opposition to reservations. advocating grebter l participation by women in federal | agencies for bettering the condition ! of workers; promising farmers aid in | equalizing prices, securing farm labor and cooperative marketing and de- | manding industrial courts to end iu- | dustrial strife.
 The platform set forth the party's views as follows:
 CD Prohibitions: Give thanks for national prohibition, commends Con- gress for enforcement laws passed ana supreme court for upholding eigh- | teenth amendment and enforcement | laws.
 | (2) Notification: Denounces efforts l of "organi liquor traffic to nulll-
 fly the amendment by modifying tEe 1 enforcement act and condemns repubh-
 can and democratic parties for plat l form silence on this point
 LEAGUE OF NATIONS
 (3) League of Nations: Favors en-
 trance of the United States into the l league by immediate ratification of
 the peace treaty not objecting to req | sonable reservations interpreting 1 American understanding of the cove nant" Favors d constitutional amend
 ment providing treaties of peace bs | ratified by majority of both houses
 o Education: Favors compulsory 1 education in the English language 1 both in public and parochial schools. l ,. Agriculture: Pledges aid to tarn- ! CTS fin working out plan to equalize prices, secure labor and organize
 system of cooperative marketing in-
 cluding public terminals. mills and
 storage facilities. Fayors extension of
 parcel post to encourage direct traffic | between producer and consumer, 1 WOMAN AND HOME G. Woman and home: Adopts the
 programme of the national league of
 women voters providing prohibition of i child labor. appropriations for federal ! children's bureau. protection to infant ] life through a federal programme of ! maternity and infancy care, federal 1 department of education, federal aid | for removal of illiteracy and increase ] of teachers salaries, instruction for | youth of the land and newly arrived | aliens in duties of citizenship, federal 1 supervision of the marketing of food I to prevent excess profits; establish- | ment of a woman's bureau in the de. partment of labor and appointment of