The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-06-28
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL
" CONVENTION IN SESSION:
HEAR KEYNOTE SPEECH

In the meantime managers of presi-
Dental booms were keeping in touch
with delegates and working for posi-
tions in the early balloting Delegates |
and leaders were prepared for fight
over both the platform and candidates.
The subject of keenest interest to the
delegates manifestly was the impend
ing prohibition fight, but talk of can
didates was gaining more and more at
tention.
The latest turn of the McAdoo boom
furnished new angle to the conyen-
tion preliminaries but its precise effect
on the relative situation of the candi-
dates was not yet clear Announce
ment that the former secretary of the
treasury, despite his declaration that
| he did not want the nomination but
would be willing to accept it, was va
riously accepted by the several ele
ments in the fight. The Palmer and
Cox managers sought to discount the.
lapparent significance of the McAdoo
announcement Among the best in
formed politicians the general opinion
was that it was still too early to fore
cast definitely what would happen.
State commissions similar to the fed
eral trade commission to prevent pro-
fteering are a feature of plank on
profteering proposed by William Jen-
nings Bryan 1t says in part: "The
Democratic party pledges the nation
to rid it of the profiteer and to close
the door against his return. 1t will
endeavor to eliminate all unnecessary
middlemen by the encouragement of or
CARNATIONS among producers that will
bring those wkO sell and those who use
, nearer together It will enact and en-
force laws that will effectively prevent
excessive charges by such middlemen as
are necessary. 1t will make it unlaw
: | ful for any one engaged in commerce
J to make the sale of one article depend
ent upon the purchase of another arti
Gle. 1t will also endeavor to create ii
the several states trade commissions
5 with powers as ample as those of tht
E federal trade commission and to enae
l laws tdith 4oNdA
to create as needed similar commits
! sions for the investigation of local
+ charges of profiteering.'
h "a summary of Chairman Cum
;, mings 5 address will be found on pag
7. Convention stories by David Law
: renee appear on pages 3 and 81
It Both vets and drys have launched thti
planks on the Democratic seas of alec
| sto ~,
promised to the final harbor of the cor
vention floor
f .'The Bryan prohibition plank follows
1--WE heartily congratulate the Demo
- cratic party on its splendid leadership i
the submission and ratification of the pre-
L hibition amendment to the federal cor
t stitution and we pledge the party to til
{. effective enforcement Of the Volstea
; law, honestly and in good faith, withor
any increase in the alcoholic content {
) permitted beverages and without an
le weakening of any other of its provisions
The proposed plank, which Mr. Burl
son said he believed would meet the SCI
timent of the great majority of Il
American people, reads
"The open saloon has been general
condemned by the American people as
he menace to society and the well being
he the people and it's restoration shou
h not be tolerated The validity of tt
no 18th amendment to the constitution ha
10 ing been sustained by the supreme coul
must be strictly enforced.
he However, the Democratic party pledg
10 its utmost endeavors to prevent this ne
of grant of federal power from being exc
n. cised in such manner as to become c
! pressive or deprive the people of that
= dividual liberty which it was the purpo
of the union of states to guarantee a
preserve through all time The Nolste
act, vetoed by a Democratic President a
no passed over his veto by a Republican &C
,oe gress, is an extreme exercise of
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