New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-06
Plank Demands
.TOBe Drawn by
.Drys Tuesday
General Convention in Chi
cago Is Called to Plan a
Campaign to Get the
Aid of Republicans
Many Leaders on Hand
Bryan Will Be One of the
Chief Speakers; Many
Conferences Are Held
From a Staff Correspondent


CHICAGO, June 5.-Demands of the
Prohibitionists tor plank in the Re-
publican national platform will be
formulated at a general convention of
the dry forces next Tuesday. The Ma
tional Prohibition Committee, the
Anti-Saloon League leaders, William J..
Bryan and others will attend.
Plans for injecting the dry issue
into the convention by demanding that
the Republicans adopt platform plank
favorng strict enforcement of the Vol
stead act were discussed to-day by dry
leaders, who are assembling here from
all parts of the country.
The state superintendent of the
Anti-Saloon League of America held a
preliminary conference at the Congres So
Hotel early in the day. Afterward the
National Prohibition Committee issued
the call fer the convention.
Leaders OF the prohibition movement
declared that they were confident that
the Republicans would become the dry
party in the forthcoming campaign.
An effort would be made to have both
parties adopt dry planks. they said,
but they added that they are more
hopeful of persuading the Republican
forcement of the prohibition act than
the Democratic convention.
The drys have decided that the
drafting Of the plank would be left to
the resolutions committee of the con-
vcntion, if the resolutions committee
agrees to their demand that dry
declaration be included in the plat
form
The prohibition committee has sent
QUESTIONABLE to all Republican
Presidential candidates asking them
whether they favor enforcement of the
Nolstead act and whether they favor
reopening the fight on the Eighteenth
Am endment.
The declarations Of both the Repub-
lican and Democratic National conven-
tons of 1872, opposing a reopening of
the fights on the Thirteenth, Four
teenth and Fifteenth amendments to
| the Federal Constitution and favoring
the sustaining Of those amendments,
will be used by the dry forces rs the
model for their demand that the Re-
publicans declare in favor Of unfolding
and enforcing the Eighteenth Amend
ment.
The presence of Bryan in the coun-
ellis of the drys here is being watched
with interest Brynn's principal fight
| at Dan francisco Will De Tor prom d.
ton enforcement, and his activity here
to persuade the Republicans to support
his position on that question is re-
garded by many as an acknowledgment t
that he faces difficult fight in the
Democratic convention.
Bryan did not attend the meeting of
the dry leaders to day, but he has sent
word that he will be present next Tues
day.
United States Senator Capper, Re-
publican, of Kansas, probably will lead
the dry fight in the convention.
The call for the convention is signed
by the following: Bishop Samuel W.
Fallows, David Starr Jordan, Daniel A.
Polling, DR.. J. H. Kellogg. Judge Nc
Kenzie Cleveland, former Governor
Eugene H. Foss, of Massachusetts ;
Judge Robert McMurdy, Francis f.
Baldwin, DR.. William Sadler DR.. Lena
Sadler, Mrs Harriet Taylor Tread
we'll. Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCol-
Tough, John T. Stone, John G.. Shedd,
Rev. Wilbur +. Crafts. Mrs. T. F. Dow
nelly, Virgil G. Hinshaw Mrs. Inez
norman. Dean Edward T. Lee. Arthur
B. Farwell, Professor Frank Little. Ed
ward l.. Reiner, Caroline Mcdowell and
Philp barrow
The call declares in part as follows ::
Prohibition has become a part of
the Federal Constitution by vote of
fortyhve states Of the Union, and a
law has been enacted by A two third
vote of Congress, known as the Vol
stead act. defining Intoxicating liquors