The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-23
WILSON SENDS
own PLATFORM
TO FRISCO MEET
Carter Glass Brings Ready
Made PIankS With Him.
Bryan VIII Lead Fight Against
Administration Forces.
ARE TWO MAIN ISSUES
Prohibition and League Pact
Furnish Material for Battle.
Women of the Party on Ground
With New Planks.
Carter Glass Brings Ready
Made Planks With Him.
ARE TWO MAIN ISSUES
Prohibition and League Pact
Furnish Material for Battle.
BY L. C. MARTIN.

San Francisco, June 23.=Platform
conferences are to begin here among
Democratic leaders Immediately after
the arrival late today of Senator Car
ter Glass of Virginia.
Senator Glass, who is slated to head
the resolutions committee, is reported
bringing with him the draft of plat
form bearing the approval of Presi-
cent Wilson; Glass conferred with
| Wilson before leaving Washington.
Glass's arrival stimulates interest in
the three platform planks concerning
which they may be disputes before the
resolutions committee and perhaps be-
Tore the convention. These are the
League of Nations, prohibition, and
the Irish planks.
Is Bryan Versus Wilson.
| w. J. Bryan has served notice he
VII! fight the administration forces on
poth the league and prohibition is
sues. He declared the Democrats dare
not go to the country on a plank un-
| quahfiedly endorsing the league as
President Wilson submitted it to the
senate.
Leaders here predicted TODAY BRYAN
VIII be decisively defeated in the reso-
Iutlons committee and that a plank
| Will be adopted based on that written
by Democrats of Virginia. The Vir-
glnla platform uses this language with
/
| I'VE advocate prompt ratification of
the treaty without reservations which
would impair its essential integrity
Bryan also wants a plank affirming
the party'S support of y national
prohibition. In that he is to be Wig
orously opposed by wet forces headed
by Governor Edwards of New Jersey
VINO is seeking the presidential norni-
nation on personal liberty platform.
Both the vets and drys will find
opposition from a great number of
delegates who believe that, in view of
the supreme courts ruling on prohibit
ton, the question is settled and should
not be touched upon by the Demo-
cratic platform.
. AS to the Irish plank, there is a
: very general feeling among leaders
and delegates who are on the ground
that some general, noncommittal ex-
Fpression of sympathy for irish nation
, alist aspirations might well be incIud-
ed IN the platform, 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 to
, Irish freedom should be coupled with
the demand for ratification of the
league covenant. An active lobby will
be on the ground late this week to
5 insist that a separate Irish plank be
: adopted.
Women Have Own Planks
Representatives of the Nationa
/ League of Women Voters win hold g
conference in Los Angeles this week
to draw up a series of planks which
they will submit to the Democratic
2 convention for inclusion in the ma.
tional platform.
THESE p1anks will include: Inde.
pendent citizenship for married WON
: en-; abolition of child labor; universe
S education in sex hygiene; establish
ment of comprehensive department
l for education: increased federal sup
: port of training in home economic!
l and reclassification of federal civil
[service.
Z Democratic women delegates ant
J | officials also have begun to formulate
= tentative planks including such pro
= visions as abolition of child labor. in
creased pay for teachers and continue
ton of wartime protection of womei
in industry