Arizona republican., 1920-06-30
VOTE DOWN WET PLANK BY RATIO
 IF TWO TO ONE

SAN FRANCISCO, June 2e-The
 sub- committee of nine, making a
 preliminary draft of the Demo-
 cratic platform, rejected tonight
 proposal to include a wet plank.
 The deliberations and vote were
 secret, but it is understood that
 the vote against a wet plank was
 at a ratio of two to one.
 After the platform sub- committee had been in session for more than two hours, it was still working on the language of 8, league of nations palnk..
 Senator Walsh of Montana left the committee room just before midnight, bound for bed Other members of the subcommittee were understood to have decided to remain in session through our the night.
 It was said the committee WAS in disagreement as to procedure. Some members, led by Senator Welsh, felt that the views of each member of the full committee should be ascerteined on important issues before the work of drafting the blanks was taken up
 The opinion was expressed among some sub committee members that the draft could not be completed before tomorrow night at the earliest and possibly not before Thursday morning.
 Actual work on the Democratic plat form was begun tonight by the sub committee of nine after last minute suggestions from many sources had been heard at an all-day public hear ing.
 The committee meet behind closed doors. Just before it was called to order, Chairman Glass announced that nothing would be made public regard ing sub committee recommendations as to platform blanks until the full committee had passed upon them. Special precautions to guard the sub committee deliberations from inter- ruptions were taken and it looked like an all night session might be in pros pect.
 When the subcommittee met tbe most serious problems confronting the convention, including prohibition, the league of nations and the Irish ques- tion, still were far from solution and 1t was apparent that some of these subjects, at least, would develop fights in the full committee and probably on the convention floor regardless of what acton the sub- committee might take
 Because the subcommittee is head ed by Senator Glass of Virginia, an ad- minlStration man, and holding a clear majority for many administration pol icies, most of these holding views not in harmony with the White house de- cfded not to ask for committee consideration for their suggestions.
 One Of those who declined to take his proposals to the inner circles Of platform builders was w J Bryan who said he preferred to wait and make the fight for his league of na- tions and bone dry blanks in the full committee after the subcommittee had acted. Senator Walsh of Massa- chusetts. who also had a league plank of his own, made a similar decision.
 In their deliberations tonight the subcommittee had, as a starter the Virginia platform written by Senator Glass and approved by President Will son. It also had mass of testimony collected at the days public arguments during which feeling on the prohibition and Irish questions several times ap- preached the boiling point
 At the conclusion of the hearing to- day the full platform committee ad- Journed until 10 o'clock tomorrow, but members of the sub committee pre- dfcted that, despite the long night ses- sion, they would be unable to report by that hour. It was said that if a report was ready during the day the full committee might consider it at a night session tomorrow in the hope Of having the platform ready for the con- vention itself Thursday
 George Creel, who was chairman of President Wilson's committee on pub lie information during the war. joined the committee of ice which is draft ing the Democratic platform and it was understood he would work with the sub committee in drafting the doc ument. Mir. Creel came to San Fran cisco with Secretary Daniels His part in the drafting of the platform, it is said, would be to look after it's literary qualities in somewhat the same man ner that Col. George Harvey polished up the Republican platform at the Chi cagO convention.