The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-06-25
LEAGUE TO BE CLEAN-CUT IS
SUE, SAYS HOMER S. CUMMINGS

San Francisco, Calf, June 49,
Homer S. Cummings, chairman of the
Democratic National Committee, said
today that while there might be con-
test over the League of Nations plank
of the platform of principles to be
adopted by the Democratic National
Convention, there was no doubt that
the league issue between the two ma
jor parties would be clean cut. Cum
mings showed that he had no mental
reservations when he declared that
the acceptance by the Republican Ma
tional Convention Of President Will
sons challenge to have great and
ssolemn referendum" on the league ex-
actly suited the Democratic party,
and that the San Francisco league
plank would be Numerically opposed
to the league plank adopted by the
Republicans at Chicago.
From all appearances it is to be
Woodrow Wilson convention as far as
| platform declarations are concerned.
That seems to be accepted even by
! those who make no bones of showing
their dislike of the President. Men
who have been sounding out sentiment
in behalf of William G. McAdoo and
A. Mitchell Palmer have encountered
that dislike everywhere. They realize
that there is a strong undercurrent Of
opposition among delegates who are
already on the ground against the
nomination of an administration man
for President. But in spite of his feel
ing against the President and those
aspirants for the presidential nominal
ton who are considered as hide-bound
administration supporters, the feel
ing prevails very generally that the
Presidents enemies within the party
will not seek to deny him the kind of
party platform he wants.
The administration supporters here
are very confident that the convention
will indorse President Wilson and his
policies in a way that will leave no
room for dissatisfaction in the Presi-
dents mind.
Administration Personnel.
The personnel of the temporary or
ganization of the convention, an
nounced today, is an administration
personnel.
Homer S. Cummings, chairman of
the Democratic National Committee.
is slated for temporary chairman, and
cambridge Colby, Secretary of State,
for permanent chairman. The admin
istrations friends in the National
Committee have also decided upon
Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, who
was Secretary of the Treasury in the
Wilson cabinet, for chairman of the
Committee on Resolutions, which will
draft the platform. The tentative Sc
lection of all three of these men was
made with the approval of the White
House. The election of Cummings
and Colby by the convention and
Glass by the Committee on Resolu- !
tons, will be tentative to an indorse- !
ment of the President, it is declared. /
The main contest over the platform
declarations will involve the prohibi- |
ton question. William ]. Bryan will |
lead the fight for a fiat Endorsement
OF the eighteenth amendment. BRYAN
made it clear while he was in Chica- !
go attending the Republican National
Convention as a writer for a news |
paper syndicate that his chief inter-
est at San Francisco would be in the |
prohibition plank. He also intends to
make strong plea for an outright
declaration for woman suffrage and !
an emphatic condemnation of profit
eering. Bryan will cross swords
with the administration supporters
when the League of Nations question
comes before the Platform Commit
tee and the convention. He has not
abandoned the position he took in his
jackson Day dinner speech in Wash
ington on January 8, in favor of rat
flying the league covenant with res
ervations. Some of those who claim
to understand Bryan's attitude in this
respect say that he will be outspok-
en- in his criticism of the Presidents
course with reference to the learue