The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-06-25
Cummings Thinks 1t Is
to Be Settled in
Committee.
STAND BY PRESIDENT
Expediency Regarded Certain
to Bring Endorsement on
Treaty Stand.
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udNt huggtblcu senator tolDy OF inc
state department, or Chairman Cums
mings ot the national committee, as
permanent chairman, but II was said
today no decision had been reached
and that Senator Walsh might be
accepted as satisfactory. The gem
eral trend tonight seemed to be to
put him forward for the convention
chairmanship rather than for the
head OF the platform committee.
Chairman Cummings and other ma
tfunal committee officials discounted
talk OF an open anti-adm nistratioa
fight and protested vigorously
against lobby gossip that President
Wilson was attempting to dictate
either in regard to the candidate or
the platform.
II am aware" said Mr.. Cummings,
"of no intention by the president to
communicate to the convention IN
any way, shape or form. | anticipate
no voluntary suggestion from him"
Senator Glass. who arrived last
night from Washington, as the com
monty reputed spokesman of the
white house, also said that he presi-
dcnt would not seek to control the
deliberations here.
Bryan Due Today.
Mobilization of democratic ma
tional convention forces for the ex-
pected clash over a prohibition en-
forcement plank in the party's 1920
platform will approach completion
tomorrow when William j. Bryan
arrives.
The Nebraskan is generally re-
garded as field marshal of the bone
dry element. lie may also function
as supreme commander OF allied
and associated interests opposed to
President Wilson's platform views,
and his arrival is expected to see
battle lines for the whole platform
sharply drawn.
Wnuc the enforcement question
remained the outstanding issue with
the factions far apart, interest in
other platform questions was stim-
ulated by the presence OF Senator
Glass of Virginia, who is known to
be fully advised as 10 the presidents
views on wha: the party should do
on the league OF nations issue and
similar questions. Supporters of
proposals to modify the Nolstead en-
forcement act are claiming presi-
dental favor for their proposition,
but Mr.. Glass has not indicated
what views Mr.. Wilson may have ex-
pressed in this regard during the
conference which preceded the sem
ator's departure from Washington.
Mr.. Bryan has disclosed that he
has n plank of his own to present
on tho enforcement question. He Is
understood to favor putting the
party on record for rigid enforce
ment OF the prohibition act To the
fun limit of the Volstead measure.
Between this suggestion which
gained the support of Senator owen
OF oklahoma. and that of the en-
aANnrufnH n
the gulf is so wide that no posi-
bility of compromise is visible. un-
less it should be based on an agree
ment to follow the platform of the
Virginia democrats and ignore pro-
hibition entirely.
Bone Drys in Lead.
The bone drys have working
majority on the committee. That is
admitted by the modifiers of all
shades of opinion. They also are
credited with slight majority in
the convention itself; but the would
be rain workers who view with
alarm the present drought are very
hopeful this can be upset.
There is pressure to expedite pro-
ceedings. II was said today that
II an enforcement plank was framed
by the committee, probably 1t would
be allowed TO go to the convention
with virtually no time devoted to
committee debate by its opponents;
but accompanied by n flatly con-
Trajectory minority report that
would bring the whole subject into
the open forum of the convention it.
self.
Planks on welfare OF children and
women in industry, that a meeting
OF democratic women tomorrow
might may ask the democratic ma
tional convention 10 incorporate in
Its platform, were taken today by
the women's democratic club OF CAL
ifornia.
One OF these proposed planks rec
ommended that federal government
schools be established for children
of American men killed in the war,
Each day next week a breakfast
for convention women will be held
and the various asplrants for the
presidential convention have been
asked to speak. Sen. Robert l.,
owen of Oklahoma is TO address
the first breakfast Monday
Entertainment plans include af-
ternoon and evening receptions each
day at California headquarters al
the auditorium, California fruits
and flowers will be distributed.
Leaders have not modified their
opinions as expressed by Chairman
Cummings on the national commit
tee that no other platform issue
would fail TO be adjusted In COM
mittee. Mr.. Cummings had knowl-
edge, IL Is believed. OF the course,
both administration forces and the
Bryan faction proposed as to the
league issue. In some quarters his
statement was taken as a hint that
a compromise on which harmony
could be based had already been
worked out for submission to the
committee. There was no antici-
patton that differing views on the
labor plank, profiteering, radical
ism or any other subject could not
be brought into accord,s
Mr Bryan's arrival should clear
the air as to the league itself Lead
ers here now apparently are pre-
pared 10 accept President Wilson'S
views in this regard with little ques-
tion, some Of them because they are
in fact in accord with him and 9TH
ers for reasons of political expe-
diency; but IL Mr., Bryan. as has
been suggested. plans to urge what
would amount practically TO accept
ance of republican reservations "a
the league covenant as framed in
= the senate, there is a likelihood that
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