Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-03
BRYAN TO CARRY
PROHI APPEAL TO
THE CONVENTION
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from his place as an employe in the
| convention organization. Commit
| tee officials explained the mix-up a!
"a misunderstanding"
Stories of whole blocks of ticket:
at last nights session. although the
convention hall was packed, more
than five thousand persons witt
properly issued tickets could not ge
in. How their places came to be
filled by others was not explained
After a futile night session given
over principally to wait for the wet
and dry fight to come off the Dem
ocratic national convention finally
found the platform committee I'M
able to report and without pros
poets of making report before Fri
day morning, it adjourned at 1925
o'clock until 10 o'clock Friday morn
ing.
While the convention marked time
down in the big hall, tucked away in
platform committee continued it's eff
fort to harmonic its report. After
practically closing up the question
once, the committee decided to give
William Jennings Bryan another OPP
portunity to present a prohibition
plank.
Bryan-Co1by Debate
Apparently Mr. Bryan made such
Roadway with his arguments that
the committee, which, it was once
thought, would soon make its re-
port with a majority determined to
leave the prohibition issue out of
the document, found itself unable to
make report at all.
Permanent Chairman Robinson had
a conference with Senator Glass,
of the resolutions committee, and 1t
was finally announced that there
were little prospects of the committee
being ready to make it's report be-
fore Friday morning.
Amid yells of disappointment
from as,,e Gec9 for S 9rSwa
Bryan" and 1--WE want to hear
Bryan" the convention adjourned
until tomorrow morning. The pros
poets were said to be that the reso-
| iutions committee would work all
night
to: settle the prohibition issue, had
| finally agreed on a program, winch
provided for one speaker on each
Side William j. Bryan, of course
was to speak for a prohibition plank
and cambridge Colby, secretary of
state and an administration leader
was to take the other side OF the
argument.
With the hope of hearing the COM
mittee report at O'Clock, the con-
vention assembled at that hour ano
the big auditorium was packed from
floor to roof with a record crowd to
hear Mr. Bryan championing his ia
yorite cause and expecting to- see
the fireworks of the wet and dry
fight. Postponement followed post
ponement, however, and while the
throng was entertained. with 'band
music, singing and selections on the
great pipe organ, various estimates
the resolutions com
mittee of the time when it might re-
port Ten-thirty o'clock, San Fran
cisco time, was the latest and seem
ingly best bet. Some Of the leaders
wanted to suspend the rules and go
ahead balloting for a nominee, bu1
two-thirds vote was required and
hard to get.
The nose count made by the con-
vention managers to determine
whether the two-thirds vote to sus-
pend the rules and go ahead with
balloting could be secured developed
that all of the candidates managers
were opposed to it because they fell
it would get them "out of position
Guards for Bryan
At $50 O'clock, San francisco
time, the word came down from the
; be ready in an hour. This agreed
with the previous word that they
hoped to be ready by 1890. The
| task of the convention managers
was to keep the convention amused
! At o'clock, the hour set for the
reassembling of the Democratic ma
! tional convention, the platform com
mittee was not ready to report.
| In anticipation of the prohibition
| fight the convention hall was pack
ed at the appointed hour. The dele
gates were ready and the last tiers
| of the galleries up under the edges
! of the room were as full as they
| could be. The band, the organ ant
| the singers entertained the crowd.
Friends Of William Jennings Bry'
an, recalling threats of bodily harm
made upon him at Baltimore ir
| 1912, had arranged to be prepared
to defend their champion in case he
! should be imperiled in the heat OF
| the battle of the vets and GSys
speakers stand and on the fSpl
waiting for the possible development II
/ they hoped would not come.
Although the big auditorium wa:
| packed to the doors and roof fully
! 5000 persons with tickets of admis
| to get in. At $3.50 Chairman Rob
inson wanted to make an announce
| ment, but the band and organ pre-
vented it by breaking into THE
/ Sidewalks OF New Ork.
At $40 the chairman finally, go
| order and directed that the aisle!
AS usual the proceedings startee
with prayer and the singing of "Th'
Star Spangled Banner"
At $3.50 the platform committe,
reported it was still not ready.
On motion of Delegate Line
baugh the convention went into ;
temporary recess while the stat
| delegations caucused to name the1
| national committeeman and nation
al committee women. Most of then
already have been selected and thei
encouragement in that fashion wa
] principally a time-killing PROPOSE
continued to work.
While this was going on, the eff
forts of the combination attempt
| ing to form against the nomination
of McAdoo was at work and reports
which came to the convention hal
Cox for the present. The Meade
people, on the other hand, were pre-
| dieting that their candidate "woult
go over the top before the fiftietl
ballot. They claimed backing o
| many prominent administr9 tiol
Convention Sings
To further fiji in the wait dele
Back to Old Virginia" unaccom
panied by any music.
When he came to the chorus, tn
audience Joined in and the orga
Chimed along with it's resoundin.
notes. He encored with mid tn
Green Fields of Virginia"
entertained Vice Chairman Kreme
was comforting with the manager