Arizona republican., 1920-06-27
BRYAN TO WAGE BATTLE AGAINST
 ADMINISTRATION
The Commoner Takes Issue With Wilson Followers on Important Campaign Is- sues-Strength Unknown But Will Be Manifest Early in Proceedings
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 26.-As the rival forces at the Democratic national convention move into position for the opening Monday, there is apparent no more definite alignment of strength for various candidates than there has been since the delegates began to assemble. William J. Bryan epitomiZed the situ- atlon today in language with which most observers seemed to agree.
 There will be a lot of tickets put up and down before this convention nominates one" he said.
 The closing hours of the pre- conven- tion period are much the same as char acterized the last minute proceedings of the Republican convention at Chi cago. There is a marked similarity in many respects.
 Predict Many Ballots Necessary
 Seven hundred and fifty-six of the ten hundred and ninety-two delegates are uninstructed. Their personal pref erenceS cannot be assembled in com posite review There are ten Candi- dates, avowed, unwilling or receptive. It seems certain that some balloting on the convention floor will be necessary to disclose the lines of strength and weakness, clear the ground of f2Vorite sons and complimentary votes, and narrow the situation down to tho real contenders out in the open.
 No Democratic candidate comes to San Francisco with any such showing of pledged strength as was brought to Chicago by Wood, Lowden or Johnson. But as at Chicago, the sitUation at the opening revolvas about T rivalry on is sues for the moment rather than can didates.
 To Know Bryan Strength Early
 How much influence William J. Bryan will have on the making of the partys platform and it's choice of a candidate will be shown soon after the nnnninD CacCinn of 10 Monday
 The first evidence of how much of a force MT. Bryan will be will come in the makeup of the resolutions com mittee, which will draft the platform, and in the choice of the permanent CT ganization of the convention.
 These issues bring about a direct contest between the administration forces and MT. Bryan's forces If Mr. Bryan finds upon the resolutions com mittee a majority of men sympathetic with his views on prohibition, the league of nations and other questions the chances of fight at the outset will be minimized If the administration men control and insist on a declara- ton in support of the league covenant as brought from Versailles by President Wilson, MT. Bryan may oppose bring ing the issue into the platform at all. Of course, if the "wets" attempt to put in plank which runs counter to Mr. Bryan's declared views on prohibition, MT. Bryan certainly will carry the fight to the floor of the convention. In such an event, MT. Bryan will not be unanswered and there are prospects of fireworks which might even eclipse the display which accompanied Mir. Bryan's fight at Baltimore, which eliminated in the nomination of Woodrow Wilson.
 Opening Merely Routine
 Mondays session will be a mere preliminary in which Chairman Cum mings will deliver his keynote speech, the caucus designation for various committees, including resolutions and credentials, will be ratified and the convention will then adjourn so that the committees may work.
 If fights within the committees de- lay the completion of their work be- yond Tuesday noon, the session that day may be another routine affair. It is undecided whether the nominating speeches for the nine or ten men who will be presented to the convention will be delivered before the platform is brought in. At the Baltimore conven- tion of 1912, the nominations were made before the platform was adopted but the usual custom is just the re- verse.
 Nobody professes to know what can didate MT. Bryan favors. No one pro- fesses to know with any greater degree of certainty what candidate President
 
 may favor
 McAdoo Has Big Following
 But at every turn of the road as a seeker after information searches through the delegations in an attempt to assess their preferences and lean- ings, the elusive McAdoo movement bobs up.
 The play of politics is expected to show many shifting alignments as the convention proceeds in it's discussions of party issues. There are many ''wets' who, opposing Mir Bryan on the prohibition question, will be found to be with him in battling the ad- ministration's desires on the league of nations. Per contra, there are drys who will leave the Bryan camp as soon that issue is closed and join with the administration in what it seeks to do in the making of a party platform.
 The Palmer people are working hard to get for the attorney general the heaviest possible showing on the first ballot. They have an eye to the tradi- tion of the party-unbrOken until 1912 that the man who gets a majority gets the necessary two thirds as tho logical consequence. The Cox people profess to be satisfied with their pros