The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-28
||QUOR FIGHT IS
 CERTAIN ID REACH ITSELF
let and Dry Factions Spend }abbath Hard at Work,
 While Third Group ! Would Bar Question
By Associated Pres.

San Francisco, June 27.- |th vets and drys today |lnched their blanks on the
 mocratic seas of alcoholic |ferences, with a storm pas Ee promised to the fin... har- + of the convention floor. pr the drys. William Jennings Bryan Be public his proposed plank. sweep l declaration for enforcement of the btead law without increase in bever- alcoholic content.
 Tom the wet camp came alternative | ks drafted by Postmaster General eson. One declares for individual |Ity'' and modification of the Volstead Ito remove it's drastic and unreason- features,2 and the alternate for hdment permitting beverages in Flot intoxicating.
 ! blanks are to be presented to the htions committee upon it's organi- isE, and regardless of the outcome it was generally expected that the E8- fight would reach the convention Nh both wet and dry factions work hard through the Sabbath there was la strong movement to prevent any Hon of the liquor question in the hrm, a movement backed by many tfui leaders.
 Euess there is no doubt about what Smeans. said MT. Bryan comment
 bn his dry blanks. We will give
 ' delegate a chance to go on record |f3r asAAnst it. I expect to have it kIted by the resolutions committee. R Burleson. after reading the Bryan k gave out his proposal, declaring, yer, he had drafted them himself
 |spoke only for himself and was not
 regarded as the leader of the forces King modification of present laws. N ALTERNATIVE PLANK he alternative plank of MT. Burle. which he said could be given full tort by the many delegates oppos- any mention of the prohibition Ntion on the platform, declares:
 Ekae open saloon has been generally a1mned by the American people as
 lace to society and the well-being people and it's restoration should
 De tolerated The validity of the
 Ieenth amendment to the constitu-
 having been sustained by the su-
 e court, any law enacted under its .ssIrity must be strictly enforced, SEe demand of the Congress that
 Heating liquors shall be so defined
 | honestly accord with ascertained
 U and that no law shall be passed
 Twill permit the manufacture, sale
 lit of any beverage that is in fact
 Heating, or prohibit the manufac-
 sale or gift of any beverage that
 fact not intoxicating.
 lie favor an amendment to the
 Eal constitution requiring all
 Edments hereafter proposed there
 Al be ratified or rejected by refer \ In of the qualified voters of the A Ial states of the union."
 sA. Bryan's is a bone-dry plank" l MT. Purleson. Tt upholds law bed by a democratic President, My blk neither lodges nor straddles and |elieve expresses the sentiment of
 great majority of the people of
 Enited States"
 is alternative plank. for ban on hal intoxicating beverages only. MT. beson said. could be supported by i e who urge a silent platform on Tissue.
 SUPPORTED BY COLBY Hat he was not speaking either for f'modificationists" of the President H 3emphasized by MT. Burleson. The Illustration forces of the convention 1ared divided on the whole ques. 4 Mir. Burldson being supported by Ifetary Colby, while Secretary Dan- Hand Senator Glass of Virginia re. led as equally close to the admin 1|tion, are in the dry lineup.
 Mditional fuel to the flames over / Hbition were added by MT. Bryan address today under the auspices le San Francisco Y. NJ c. A., in
 n the Nebraskan reiterate his IS on what he regards as the para
 ht issue.
 Vigorous attack on Mr. Bryan was led by James R. Nugent. New Jer- tative on the resolutions commit
 Mir. Bryan was characterized by
 Nugent as a paid agent of the .i- Saloon League" The Nebraskan,
 Nugent declared. was not a tr1e bocrat. but should head the pro- |tion party"
 esides his prohibition plank, Mir. hn also announced that tomorrow would make public his proposed 5ks to deal with profiteering and treaty of Versailles, including the Ixue of Nations and his industrial | labor relations plank on Tuesday. ktention of prohi hibition was the bur of MT. Bryan's Y. NJ. C. A. lecture. fpraised the Woman's Christian 4perance Union and the Anti-Saloon
 sue, declaring that without either tfbition would not have been se- Ia.
 l THE IMPUDENT TRIO
 hree democrats. Mir. Bryan declared, 1 out specifications, are "impudent gh to believe the Am erican people
 put into the White House" Pres
 pledged to modify the prohibition
 He also criticized the republican 0idate and platform. declaring the
 nr was silent on prohibition while candidate had said in the Senate f 10 was not prohibitionist did not ieve the question political one and ored compensation for liquor in- ests destroyed Mfr. Bryan declared t demooratic candidates should be dee to uphold prohibition and added t he was distressed over present
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