Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-29
ISSUES AND PLANKS
WORRY LEADERS At
FRISCO Convention
[ Leadership of President Will
son Hangs in Balance,
Bryan Now in a Strong
Position
BY DAVID LAWRENCE

! Copyright, 1920 for The Atlanta Journal,O
| SAN FRANCISCO, June 2S.-Issues
and platform planks rather than can
didates are worrying the leaders of
| the Democratic national convention
as they approach their tasks of the
week, for the leadership of President
Wilson hangs in the balance.
With characteristic Skill William
| Jennings Bryan has Unanswered
himself into position of strength in
the allimportant resolutions commit
! tee which drafts the platform. The
, old fight between the Democratic sem
ators who supported Senator Lodges
| reservations and those who support
ed Senator Hitchcock and President
Wilson in their stand for interpreted
tive reservations to the peace treaty
has broken out anew.
Mr.. Bryan has cleverly gotten be-
hind Senator Walsh of Montana, who
voted for the Lodge reservations and
who, is popular with the western
senators and is their candidate for
chairman of the platform committee.
Everybody thought the Wilson peo-
pie were in such splendid control of
things here that when it was an
nounced that Senator Glass, of Vir-
ginia, had conferred with President
Wilson and had secured his ideas on
platform planks, no difficulty was
anticipated in selecting Mr. Glass to
be chairman of the reolution COM
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and has given the Wilson leaders
much to worry about, they are conf
dent of electing Chess, but it will be
a close shave.
League Causing Trouble
The people behind Senator Walsh,
of Montana, have expressed fears
that Senator Glass might put some
thing in the platform condemning
the Republican senators who voted
for the Lodge reservations and thus
place in an embarrassing position
the twenty Democratic senators who
lined up with Mr.. Lodge.
For dead issue this League of
Nations business manages to create
more live trouble in the two political
parties than anything else this year
But the surprising thing is, that in
Democratic convention there should
be difficulty, for President Wilson
has declared the league the princi-
pal issue Of the campaign. Mr..
Bryan, however, has been insisting
that the reservations adopted by the
Republican majority of the senate
should have been accepted by the
president. Senator Walsh, of Mon
tana, took the position when he
voted for the Lodge reservations,
that it was the only way to get the
treaty ratified.
No matter what is the outcome
Of the fight for the craftsmanship of
the resolutions committee. the strug-
gle will not be ended till the plat
form plank is written. The Bryan
Walsh elements favor adoption of
the peace treaty with whatever res
prompt ratification. They want moth
ing said about the Lodge reserva-
tions Senator Glass wants the treaty
ratified without reservations which
impair it's essential integrity
Combine Against Bryan
In the Virginia platform which he
wrote. he had plenty Of condemna-
ton for those who voted for the
Lodge reservations, but if he wants
harmony here, he will have to elimi-
nate the denunciation and limit him
self to an affirmative statement of
what the Democrats propose to do
with the peace treaty.
The aspirants for the presidential
nomination are wisely keeping out
of the fight, though if any danger
looms, it is quite certain that a Goa
lition of McAdoo and Palmer forces
will be made for purposes of organi-
cation and platform, if for nothing
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