Arizona republican., 1920-06-27
DRY, T,LABOR,
 MAIN ISSUES IF FIGHT
Leaders See Little Hope of Determining Controver- sies Without Fight on Convention Floor-Bryan Leads War on Adminis- tration Forces
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 SAN FRANCISCO. June 26-Bone dry prohibition, profiteering, industrial relations. the league of nations and the Irish question promise to be the head liners in the fight over blanks in the Democratic platform.
 In this category, the prohibition question was easily foremost in the minds of leaders and delegates as the bone drys and the antis began the actual counting of noses to see where they stood. A convention floor fight seemed almost certain, both sides in- sisting that they wanted verdict on the issue by separate vote of the body of delegates itself
 Coming rapidly into the limelight and also threatening a fight in the open convention was the Irish ques- tion on which a whole scale of recom- mendations running from Irish recog- milton to an expression of sympathy, will be laid before the resolutions committee.
 May Block Wilson Plank
 The league of nations TOW was more or less in the background, but op- ponents of President Wilson of various shades of irreconcilability were making an effort to get together to block his ratification plank.
 As to the labor problem and prof. teering, only the beginning of a dis agreement were in evidence. On the profiteering issue, however, both William Jennings Bryan and Attorney General Palmer will have ideas of their own which may bring out a skiff alignment more or less along admin istration and anti administration lines. MT. Bryan, as usual, seemed likely to- night to be the stormy petrel of the platform fight. He took charge dur ing the day of the prohibition forces, lined up support for his league of na- tions fight and made himself quite generally the chief subject of specula- tion among the friends of President Wilson and the Virginia platform en- dorsed by him.
 On prohibition. three courses are open. Mir. Bryan and his supporters want an affirmative declaration foI the enforcement and preservation un- changed of the present one half of one per cent Volstead act. 4 group in which the New York and New Jersey delegations for the present are taking the lead are in favor of a liberalization of the law, for which they say way has been opened by the supreme courts opinions. Still a third large class of delegates and leaders are for no prohi- tion plank at all.
 Dry Hopes High
 Enheartened by the action of the
 
 struct it's representatives on the reso- lutions committee to urge a modified ton of the Volstead act, the drys late today were claiming that not only would they be able to prevent a wet plank from being built into the party platform, but would be able to include a plank commenting the law.
 Mr. Bryan announced he would fight the vets from the committee to the floor of the convention. That the com mittee has a majority for the drys is conceded but the vets are planning minority report and Norman Mack, na- tional committeeman from New York. said his state would make a determined fight for the modification of the Vol stead act even if New York state stood alone.
 The drys were saying tonight that their opponents were approaching the whole issue with d view of saving the local organizations in the localities known to be wet.
 Although overshadowed by the pro- hibition fight, the contest ever the league of nations plank got increasin attention $ those who have disagreed conspicuously with the president gath cred here. The general prediction wa s that the administration plank endors- ing the league without destructive in the committee though there might be 8 contest against it on the conven- ton floor.
 Would Jail Profiteers
 Another issue which received in creasing attention was the profiUeering plank Attorney General PalmeTs plank, which 1t was indicated he might make public in the near future, is said to advocate federal control of securities issued by all concerns doing interstate business in necessities: federal licens- ing of all interstate corporations; and a system of marking commodities handled in interstate commerce with the production price.
 The backbone of MT Bryan's pro- poSal is understood to be jail sentences for profiteers and strict enforcement of all anti -profiteering laws now on the statute books
 Advocates of 9, plank on the question of Irish independence swarmed about the convention city today armed with proposals of many varieties and it ap- peared certain that the subject would be one of the most bitterly fought when the resolutions committee began it's de- Alterations. The party leaders hoped to keep that row off the floor of the convention, but were far from certain they could do so.
 President Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, will lead in per son the fight to put organized labor's program into the platform and Mir. Bryan also will submit a suggested plank opposing compulsory arbitration tribunals. The only apparent clue to- night to the desires of the administra- tiOn on the subject was the general declaration of the Virginia platform characteriztng strikes and lockouts as "deplorable" and advocating that methods be contrived for peaceable set clement of industrial conflicts. I CEMCIIC DETIInMc