Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-03

SAN FRANCISCO, July "A day
behind schedule and with the hardest
and most important fits work still
ahead, the Democratic national con-
vention resumed this morning at 10
o'clock to bsa7 the report of the plat
form committee and face the inev-
liable floor fight over the prohibit
ton, as well as probaly, fights over
the League of Nations and the Irish
question.
Midnight efforts to compose the
differences over the wet and dry is
sue in the platform committee failed
| after prolonged hours of argument,
acrimony and oratory. When all the
eleventh-hour attempts at harmony
were given up, it was announced
| finally that all proposals to include
| any kind of prohibition plank
whatever had been beaten by decisive
votes and that the question would
be brought to the open floor of the
convention.
| Last nights disappointed crowds
which had packed the great civic
auditorium from floor to rafters keen
on the spectacle of William Jennings
Bryan setting off the fireworks, trail
ed to the convention again today
determined not to be cheated out of
the show by postponements or de-
lays.
Bryan Starts Trouble
Under the program agreed upon,
Mr.. Bryan will present his side OF
the question in speech limited to
thirty minutes, and Bainbridge Colby.
secretary of state, will present the
committee managers side in another
thirty minutes. hat arrangement,
however, does not by any means con-
| fine the discussion to one hour.
| Any number Of persons desiring to
speak, who may be recognized by
Chairman Robinson, also may be
heard for thirty minutes each. In
view of Mr.. Bryan's well-known
| fighting spirit and his demonstrated
staying qualities, no one is bold
enough to predict that the fight will
be short one. Bryan's repeatedly an
nounced determination to insist on
platform mo wet can run on" and
| his announcements of last night as
sured prolonged struggle, and even
though the predictions Of the admin
istration forces that they would be
| able to Choke Bryan OFF, were to be
fulfilled, there was no prospect that
they would be carried out quickly.
Exactly what took place in the
meetings of the resolutions commit
tee last night has not been fully
| disclosed, but it is known that when
at the close of the afternoon session
all prohibition planks were voted out
of the platform. Mr.. Bryan, in long
and fiery speech, told the comittee-
men that whites he realized that the
administration forces had the votes
to put over their program, they would
do so at the peril Of his oposition.
Whatever was the full import of
what Mr.. Bryan threatened, it was
sufficient to cause the. committee, aft
err being all ready to make it's report,
to consider it's decision and decided
to hear Mr.. Bryan at further ses-
sion while the convention waited.
McAdoo Men Confident
At this session, Mr.. Bryan, it Is
said, continued his attack on the adj
ministration forces who pleaded with
him not to pursue course which
would make for party 'discord and
endanger, party success in Novem-
Der. Mr.. Bryan however, reports
from inside the committee room said,
was adamant, and the majority
finally gave UP all hopes Of con-
ciliating him and decided to face the
proposition of an open fight on the
floor.
With those prospects before it, the
convention when 1t resumed today,
faced the possibility of a program
session after probably. brief re-
cess for dinner. Whether the floor
battles could be ended in time to
take up balloting for nominee be-
fore the convention would have to
quit from sheer exhaustion, was
The McAdoo boomers took ad-
vantage of the interruption in the
program to continue strengthening
their lineup. Although they had op-
DOS6Q d SUSPENSION Ol IllO IuIeS anu
a proposition to proceed to ballot
ing ahead of the report of the plat
form committee early yesterday, they
were ready to accept that program
last night, but those who had agreed
to the idea earlier would not go on
with it because the McAdoo forces
had been using the interim 70
strengthen their position.
There were limitations OF the con-
vention being packed at last nights
session with an eye to the possibilic
ties of a stampede. Cox forces. while
sure of their delegates standing firm,
acknowledged that they had not been
fortunate in making accessions.
among the Palmer delegates the Nc
Adoo people were counting on addi-
tions to their candidate as a second
choice. The McAdoo boomers were
so confident of their position as to
predict a nomination for him on the
fifth ballot, if not before.
Chairman in Fist Fight
The smouldering ticket scandal in
the convention broke out yesterday
in a fist fight in which Chairman
Robinson had an encounter with Paul
NJ. Schwartz, of indianapolis, a
stenographer to Thomas Taggart, of
Indiana. When Senator Robinson.
so the story runs, called on Schwartz
for his allotment of tickets, he was
questioned concerning his choice for
the presidential nominee, and the
senator replied with his fists, and a
demand for the discharge oe
Schwartz by the national eommittee