The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-03
PROHIBITION NOT MENTIONED IN THE
 DRAFT AS ADOPTED
Bryan Gets Rowling Demon. i, stration, But Balloting h. dicates It Is Not Expres-
 sion of Sympathy
By Asssctated Prsss

1 democratic platform, as framed in the resolutions committee, declaring for the peace treaty, ! expressing sympathy for Ire land and saying nothing at all about prohibition, came un- scathed through a furious floor fight today and was tel { without amendment in great avalanche of applause. W. J. Bryan led the fight for adop- ! ton of his bone-dry plank. but it was buried after dramatic day of debate by majority so overwhelming that he did not even ask for roll calls on the four other minority reports which he had pre- rared.
 The convention snossed Bryan under on roll call, which followed s dramatic de- bate, the vote being 95s1s to 155lk.
 A cider, wine and beer plank, cham poned in an emotional speech by W. Bourke Cochran of New York, also was thrown out by the convention, along with plank for recognition of the Irish re- public, backed by several organizations of Irish sympathizers.
 The official total which beat the Cock ran plank was 726h against it and 5os voting for it. Eleven and a half votes were absent.
 In the battle for the platform. as framed, the administration forces were ] led by Secretary Colby and Senator Glass of Virginia during debate in wnicn both sides stirred the delegates ana spectators to repeated bursts of meotional enthusiasm. MT. Bryan got bowling demon stration of twenty minutes, after he concluded his speech for the bone-dry plank, but when the balloting began 1t became apparent that much of the en- thusiasm was personal tribute to his past service to the party. and not an expression of sympathy with his present views.
 Without a roll call the convention also voted down MT. Bryan's plank for the publication of an official newspaper by the federal government.
 The Bryan profiteering plank also was rejected by exclamation.
 In quick succession tho convention then voted down also the plank offered by Mir. Bryan declaring against compul- sory military training in peacetime.
 The Bryan League of Nations plank shared tho same fate. going out in great chorus of ''noes.''
 The plank for commission to in- vestigate the feasibility of soldier bonus also was rejected without roll call.
 The substitute Irish plank. declaring yit IS the purpose of the nation to recog- nize the independence of the Irish re- public, also was voted down by the con- vention.
 The Bryan prohibition plank rejected by the convention was as follows:
 We heartily congratulate the demo- H. IL in the submission and ratification of the prohibition amendment to the federal constitution and we pledge the party to the strict enforcement of the present en- forcement law, honestly and in good faith, without any increase in the alco- without any weakening of any other of it's provisions
 The text of the substitute plank of- fered b w. Bourke Cochran is as fol- lows:
 The validity of the eighteenth amend ment to the constitution has been sus- tained by the supreme court and any laws enacted under it's authority must be enforced. In the interest. of personal liberty to conserve the rights of the states we favor federal legislation under the eighteenth amendment allowing the manufacture and sale for home con sumption only of cider. light wines and Jeer. preserving to the various states power to fix any alcoholic content other than fixed by Congress as may be de- manded hy the opinion or wishes of each locality"
 With the platform adopted, the con yention was Up with it's schedule and the vo&tng on presidential candidates began.
 GLASS WINS POINT
 San Francisco, July 2.-Chairman Glass won his fight to strike four words from the platform plank relating to treatment of service men in the late war after the platform had been adopted by the con- vention today He declared that the resolutions committee did not think the