Evening star., 1920-06-27
Bryan, Reed and
Walsh Unite
Forces.
PLAN 4 BATTLE
TO LAST DITCH
Clashes Are in Sight
OUer Other rPldnks
VPatJorm1.
By the Associated Press.

| By the Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO, June 26.-Plans
for opposing the administration treaty
and league of nations plank were for
mulated at an hours conference to-
night between William ]. Bryan and
| Senators Walsh of Massachusetts, and
Reed of Missouri. Their first effort,
Senator Walsh said. is to be made in
the resolutions committee by Offering
substitutes for the administration
plank
| II defeated in the resolutions COM
mittee. Senator Walsh said, it was
planned to present a minority report
| to the convention. The major concern
OF those in the movement. the Massa-
! chusetts senator added, is to prevent
commitment Of the party to unre-
served ratification of the present
| league covenant
Bryan Stormy Petrol.
Mr.. Bryan, as usual. seemed likely
tonight to be the stormy petrol of the
platform fight. He took char1e dur
ing the day of the prohibition forces,
lined up support for his league of ma
tions fight and made himself quite
generally the chief subject Of specu-
lation among the friends of President
Wilson and the Virginia platform in
dorsed by him.
The prohibition question was easily
foremost in the minds of leaders and
delegates as the bone drys and the
ants began the actual counting of
noses, to see where they stood. A con-
| vention floor fight seemed almost GER
tain. both sides insisting that they
want a verdict on the issue by sepa-
| rate vote of the body of delegates IT.
SELF ss4.. s
Coming rapidly into the limelieht
and also Threatening a fight in the
open convention was the Irish ques-
tion. on which a whole scale of recon-
mendations. running from Irish rec
ognition to an expression of SYM
pathy, will be laid before the resolu-
tions committee.
AS to the labor problems and prof
iteering, only the beginnings of
disagreement were in evidence. On
the profiteering issue. however, both
VIM. ]. Bryan and Attorney General
Palmer will have ideas of their own
which may bring out stiff align
ment more or less along administra-
tion and anti-administration lines.
Three Courses ON Prohibition.
On prohibition three courses are
open. Mr.. Bryan and his supporters
want an affirmative declaration for
the enforcement and preservation un-
changed of the present half of one
per cent Volstead act A group, in
which the New York and New JERSEY
delegations for the present are TAX
ing the lead, are in favor of a lib
eralization of the law for which they
say a way has been opened by the
Supreme Courts opinions. Still third
larger class of delegates and leaders are
for no prohibition plank at all.
Enheartened by the action of the
Pennsylvania caucus in refusing to
instruct it's representative on the res
olutions committee to urge a modi-
fication Of the Volstead act, the drys
late today were claiming that not
only would they be able to prevent
wet plank from being built into
the party platform, but would be
able to include a plank commencing
the law.
Mr. Bryan announced he would
fight the vets from the committee to
nf 10
committee has majority for the drys
is conceded, but the vets are plan
ming a minority report and Norman
Mack. national committeeman from
New York, said his state would make
a determined fight for the modifca-
ton of the Volstead act even if New
York state stood alone.
The drys were saying tonight that
their opponents were approaching
,, the whole issue with a view of saving
the local organization in the locali-
ties known to be wet.
Treaty and League.
I'VE discussed several platform
planks, principally the treaty and the
league" said Senator Walsh, follow
I
ing the conference with Bryan and
Reed.
For the administration treaty
plank it is pretty generally agreed
that we shall offer several substi-
tutes, possibly three or four, to the
resolutions committee. They have
not been drafted. but our general
purpose is to oppose committing the
party to unreserved ratification of
| the present covenant"
If the substitute planks should be
! rejected, Senator Walsh said, the
next move would be for presenta-
ton of the issue to the convention
| itself.
Senator Reed declined to discuss
the conference.
The leaders who met in Mr.
| Bryan's rooms have been regarded
| as the principal opponents of Presi-
tdent Wilson's course in the Sonata
| and also as forecast before the con.
| vention. Senator Reed. in the Senate