The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-11
A COMPROMISE ON LEAGUE PLANK IS
 FORGED BY LODGE
Declared If Crane Plank Was Adopted He Would Leave Platform and At
 tack Report on Floor
Fly CLINTON W. GILBERT

By CLINTON W. GILBERT
 Coliseum. Chicago, June 10.-(Spe- cialD-Senator Medil Mccormick an- nounced soon after the convention as sembled today from the platform of the Coliseum that the subcommittee on the League of Nations had reached al agreement. The plank on this subject, with the rest of the party platform, was submitted to the convention when it reassembled this afternoon at 4 o'clock.
 The compromise was forced by Sem atcr Lodge. who declared that if the Murray Crane plank was adopted he would descend from the platform and attack the report of the resolutions consnittee from the floor.
 Lbdge was put in a peculiar position. Ind convention favored his reserva- t.oTs. but he was forced to oppose them. Wien he was named chairman of the coIfvsntion it was on an agreement that he eEwould use his influence for a plank negative enough for the bitter -enders to stand upon. He has had to carry out this compact and fight his own res ervations in the Blackstone confer ei.ces.
 The quarrel has all been over ver- biage, as it was at Washington. The plank finally agreed on is more spe- officially for the League than the In diana plan. Both bitter-enders and mild reservationists will stand upon it as best they can.
 TROUBLE WITH THE LEAGUE
 The republicans have had as much trouble with the League of Nations at Chicago as they did at Washington It was job for specialists. for the top liners of the party. The regular sub committee was no more trusted with 1t than Will H. Hays advisory committee was trusted with it.
 The regular subcommittee met in the auditorium The masters who wrestled with the league plank met somewhere in the Blackstone hotel. They were an informal conference. and all the best practitioners of the art of word splitting who got their hands in with nearly years work at it in Washington put forth their best ef- forts.
 They took their efforts very seri- ously. When one young senator emerged from the meeting last evening, some
  What do you think of the progress of the Wood movement today. senator?" The senator dashed his cane angrily upon the ground. What" he asked, lis the use of talking about candida cies? By midnight there may not be any republican party. We shall not know until these gentlemen get through their work on the league plank
 The young senator's worst fears have, happily, not been confirmed. He is very young senator. He did not know how hard it is to split anything but words, which are the easiest thing ia the world to split though it some times takes time. The ladies in the Blackstone watched the clock go round as words were pitted against words. At the Blackstone stay ladies who can only wear a gown once during the con- vcEtion. Mentally they reckoned up their gowns which would last till Sat- urGay, but would the convention get through by Saturday? Upstairs were so many words to split and the whole resources of the unabridged dictionary were available. The nomination would not be made until next week Wood rcw Wilson was the enemy of mankind. Why did he ever bring his League of Nations back from Paris?
 A COMPROMISE PREDICTED
 Other men than the young senator wko dashed his cane upon the ground ana asked if anything but the ghost of the republican party would walk the pui ilieus of Michigan avenue after mid Eieht said there would be a compro- mise William Allen White. wrestling inth labor and other issues and peeled down to his shirt sleeves in the audi torium. far from these upper realms of thought at the Blackstone, where the question of the league was being set ted or unsettled. declared that there would be a compromise on the league.
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 Uncowed bf socialists.
 Robuster persons twiddle
 Tremendously big fists
 Bill White is "robuster person." He never dashes his cane upon the floor and asks whether there will be re- publican party after midnight Bill Whites faith is that there should be no compromise. but there always is com promise.
 ? BILL BORAH DEFIANT
 Bill Rorah. too. is "robuster per son. He tossed his mane as he came from the inner place. where the dic- tionary was being offered up as sac fifice to the gods. but he did not dash lis cane upon the floor nor express doubts as to the republican party by midnight He said he would fight, fight fight upon the floor of the con vention. He would bring the poor words out before the delegates. point to the gaping wounds and show wAat rent the knife of the envious Muffay
 
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