Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-19
BRYAN TOOPPOSE
NOMINATION OF
GOVERNOR COX
[The Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
e23 Riggs Building.)
BY THEODORE TILLEB

WASHINGTON, June 17.--William
Jennings Bryan will be the official
| "bodyguard" of dry" plank If it
| is inserted in the Democratic plat
form at the San Francisco conven-
form is not Cost between the reso-
lutions committee room and the con-
vention hall, as mysteriously hap
pened at Chicago.
| This was the promise today of the
Anti-Saloon league through Wayne =.
| Wheeler, general counsel, who at the
same time announced the unalterable
! opposition of the league and Mr.
Bryan to the candidacy of Governor
| Cox, of Ohio. Mr.. Wheeler says the
| Ohio governor is the last resort of
| the Democrats is unthinkable and
| would be "a menace to law and
| ORDER
"The resolutions committee at Chi
cago adopted a Reinforcement plank
and lost it between the committee
room and the convention" observes
Mr.. Wheeler. Mr.. Bryan will act
as a bodyguard for it if it is adopted
by the resolutions committee at San
Francisco"
Once having a dry plank in his
possession, Mr.. Bryan will prove a
husky bodyguard, and nobody will
get it. away from him, according to
Washington belief. And both Mr.;
the inclusion of such a plank in the
party platform, despite the bunch
| of many Democratic politicians that
the party may win if it is just,
bit moist" by carrying the solid
Ohio GIG'i' Indiana ISHs1 a. and 1 California s
Governor Cox is now firmly written
on the blacklist of Messrs. Bryan
and Wheeler and their "dry'' CO.
horts., Quoting Mr.. Bryan today, Mr..
WHEELER declared that, all the dry
nomination of Governor Cox.
1.-THE friends of law enforcement, "
he said, will present solid front
against Governor Cox. He is the
last hope of the vets in their pro-
Cox's makes him an impossibility, if
national prohibition is to be effective
ly sustained and enforced. He has
served the vets long and faithful
ly. He championed the license law
of Ohio, under which he had the ap-
build strong political wet ma
chine. He encouraged lawlessness in
Ohio by refusing to aid the friends
of law and order after the state had
provision by referendum vote. His
declaration for light wine and beer
amendment, which is a notification
measure. will ALLEVIATE not only the
'drys,' but the frineds of law and
order"
Mr.. Wheeler quotes William J.
Bryan as saying that Governor Cox IS
record is as malodorous as that of
| Governor Edwards, and extends over
| a longer period" 1t is the height
of audacity that man with such a
record and such a support should
| aspire to a Democratic nomination in
face Of the fact that every Democratic
state ratified the prohibition amend
ment, and the further fact that
thirty-four of the states are dry by
their own individual acts.
After quoting Mr.. Bryan, the coun-
sci for the Anti-Saloon league says
| that Governor Cox is the logical can
didate of the west, but now that the
nation is under constitutional prohibi.
ton, his candidacy is unthinkable
and a menace to law and order"
Mr.. Wheeler says the prohibition
lists will ask the Democratic conven-
ton to include a dry plank IN its
platform reading as follows: eve
declare for the effective enforcement
of the eighteenth amendment anc
laws enacted pursuant thereto as con
strued by the supreme court of the
| Tinted States"