The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-06-10
LEAGUE PLANK
IS SOURCE OF
SHARP BATTLE
Disagreement, Although
Solved Today, Furnishes
Real Excitement-Commit-
tee Adjourns Late.
BOLT THREAT IS HEARD

CHICAGO, June 10.-The third day
of the Republican national convention
opened with the party machinery for
the moment at least doubly deadlock
ed, although the treaty plan deadlock
was resolved later.
There had emerged from endless
negotiating behind the scenes no
agreement as to a presidential candi
date or even tentative draft of vital
planks in the platform on which the
party will stand.
Overnight the league of nations
issue had been swept suddenly upward
to position of overshadowing i'm
portance, almost of menace, in party
councils
1t was the rock on which the special
harmonizing subcommittee on plat
form last night split after hours of
fruitless labor toward compromise.
Adjourn Without Agreement.
Unable to agree on any declaration
proposed to be incorporated in the
platform the subcommittee adjourned
long after midnight. A disagreement
report from the subcommittee faced
the full committee on resolutions
when it assembled at 9 a. M, to take
up the tack
Meanwhile the convention itself
must mark time. No real progress
could be made with its work and an
! other early adjournment seemed likely
today. When the mass of the more
than 1000 footsore delegates arose to
resume the endless round of candi-
dates camps and other headquarters
that fills the days for them pending
| the final struggle of balloting, the air
about them was tense with whispers
Of impending events
Undefinable rumors of serious rup.
lures between factional leaders were
abroad. There was talk of bolts and
| of what delegations would walkout in
that case, and there was no one to
| say from where this talk came
A few hours ago it was the anti
| league forces against which a cry of
prospective insurrection was raised.
| Yesterday the pro-leaguers, the res
ervationists,' were openly charged bv
! their opponents with having brought
| discord into the council of platform
! makers.
And underneath this dispute on is
sues still lay the unsolved riddle of
| the candidates-Wood, Johnson, Low
| uSu OT-WHO.
Candidates Still Struggle.
The first sharp turn to the treaty
question negotiations by the select
subcommittee of the resolutions COM
mittee came yesterday when former
Senator w. Murray Crane, of Massach-
usetts joined the ranks of those fav-
oring qualified acceptance of the
league covenant, and served notice
that such course must be followed
or backed by senators who took that
position in Washington, or the fight
would be carried to the floor of the
convention.
This was turning the enemy's guns
upon him with a vengeance. Hereto
fore apprehension had prevailed
among those leaders struggling for
party harmony that it would be the
''irreconcilables" who would stir to
action the uncertain waters of an "un-
bossed" convention, if their views
against the league were not met in
the platform.
For a moment the irreconcilable
forces in the select committee domi-
mated by Senators Borah and McCor-
mick seemed taken aback. They then
sprang to arms in full force and from
that time until after one o'clock this
| morning the battle waged furiously
} from behind the locked doors of the
hotel bedrooms, where the committee
J men in shirtsleeves and worn by the
long strain, searched every avenue
for possible escape from an open
break.
Echoes of Fight Spread.
Echoes of the contest spread swiftly
to even the most outlying posts of the
convention encampment. Toward the
end, before the select committee gave
up the task and decided to carry tha
league issues with several other i'm
portant points back to the full com
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