Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-23

reported bringing with him the draft
of President Wilson.
Glass conferred with Wilson be
Glass arrival stimulates interest in
The three platform planks concerning
which there may be disputes before tue
resolutions committee and perhaps be-
FORE the convention.
These are the league Of nations pro-
Ihbition aud the Irish planks.
W. ]. Bryan served notice he Will hght
the administration forces on both the
league and prohibition issues.
He declared the democrats dare not
go to the country on a plank unquali-
fiedly indorsing the league as President
Wilson submitted it to the senate.
Leaders here predict Bryan will be
decisively defeated in the resolutions
committee and that a plank will be
adopted based on that written by the
democrats Of Virginia.
The Virginia platform uses this Ian
guage with reference to the league:
I'VE advocate prompt ratification of the
treaty without reservations which
would impair its essential integrity"
MAJORITY CONSIDER
LIQUOR ISSUE DEAD.
Bryan also wants a plank affirming
the party's support of national prohibit
ton
In that be is to be vigorously opposed
by wet forces headed by Gov. Edward /.
Edwards Of New Jersey who fayors q
personal liberty platform.
Roth the vets and drys viii find op-
position from a great number of dele
gates who believe that in view OF the
supreme courts ruling on prohibition
49, question is settled and should not
be touched upon by the democratic Plat
form.
AS to the Irish plank, there is a very
general feeling among leaders and dele
gates who are on the ground that some
general. noneOmmittal expression OF
sympathy for Irish nationalist aspira-
tons might well be included in the plat
form, but a wrangle threatens over the
form of the plank.
Some hold the view that Ireland's
hope Of freedom lies in the league OF
nations and that any reference 70 Irish
freedom should be compiled with the de-
aaRd Reconsideration Of tie 'Ieaigf cose--
nanE
An active lobby win 5e on the grouno
late this week to insist that an Irish
plank be adopted
WOMEN To MEET
IN Los ANGELES.
Representatives Of the League Of
Women Voters will hold conference in
Los Angeles to draw up a series OF
planks which they will submit TO the
democratic convention for inclusion in
the national platform.
These planks will include Indepen-
dent citizenship for married women
ah14tion Of child labor; universal edu-
80 In sex hygiene and a compre-
Hshsive department for education; in
creased federal support Of training in
rrnfa n
federal civil service
Among those who will attend the con-
ference are Mrs. Richard Edwards and
Miss Adah Bush Of Indiana
Democratic women delegates and Of
fcials also have begun to formulate ten
tatiye planks, including such provisions
as abolition of child labor, increased
pay for teachers and continuation of war
time protection for women in industry.
NeADOo BOOM
WON'T STAY DEAD.
Counting William G. McAdoo and
President Wilson-and no list Of demo-
cratic presidential possibilities is con-
sidered by the party men now here to
be complete without the names Of both
there are pretty nearly 4 score Of can
dldates, in the open or potential, al
ready under consideration
Alphabetically there are Bryan. Cox.
Clark, Cummings Davis, Edwards. Glass.
Gerard, Hitchcock, McAdoO. Marshall.
Meredith, Owen, Palmer Payne, Sim
mons and Wilson to name those most
frequently mentioned here.
The McAdoo boom has refused to stay
dead
Finished. dead and buried though
McAdoo himself insists his boom must
be considered, the managers Of other (.
candidates now here drumming I'D sup
port for their men keep on talking of /
McAdoO.
In the same breath they treat him as
dead one and yet as one still to be
watched.
.McAdOO.' they say. sis entirely ont /
OF the race Whatever support he ever I
had, is now gone, split up among the 1
other candidates. But if MeAdoos name /
ts presented to the convention -" I
GENERALLY BELIEVE
HE'LL BE NOMINATED.
The general belief here since the Me
Ad0O- Shouse telegram, is that McAdoO's /
Ame will be presented to the demo-
craAc convention here and will be /
voted on.
As to what will happen then, opinion |
is divided.
Some declare that after the first bal /
lot OF two, when McAdoo will receive
8 complimentary and scattering vote, his .
name viii disappear. Others say along /
about the eighth ballot or so McAdoo
viii be put across with a rush just as
Senator Harding was in Chicago.
WOMAN TO VOTE