Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-07-03
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The plank was now offered to the
Democrats. he added, in order to drive
out of the party any profteers who
might remain in it.
The plank against military training
training also was argued very briefly
by the speaker and then turned to his
league declartion.
The constitution changed" he said.
$50 we cannot get out of war as easily
as we can get into war. We fought the
war to establish the great principle of
Democracy the principle of majority
rule. If we declare here for ratification
of the treaty with reservations that a
majority of the senators agree on. the
Republicans Will have to join in that
declaration or else we will take most of
the Republican party away
isn't it better to take this stand
which will insure acceptance of the
League of Nations. which the people
want and put the banner of progress
into the hands of Woodrow Wilson to
carry forward"
Mrs. Peter Olsen, of Minnesota, was
the next speaker to be called by Mr..
Bryan-in support of his program. She
said she spoke in the name of the mo-
therhood of a great country in support
ing the dry declaration.
Il am told" she said, that some
where in a lodge Doom in this building
three is a coffin. l wonder whether that
coffin is prepared for the liquor in this
or for the Democratic party For if
you put in this wet plank, you might as
we'll get the coffin ready"
1t was not the liquor interest but the
Nonpartisan League. she said. that re-
comfy defeated Representative Vol
stead, author of the VoIstead act, for
reelection in Minnesota.
Sir Oliver Lodge has recently pass
ed over this country" she continued,
holding communion with departed
spirits. But fro mthe smell of the
breaths of some of the men
here in San Francisco think they have
been in communication with the ghosts
to have been holding converse with
John Barleycorn."
In dramatic emotional appeal which
got the convention again to IFS feet
Airs. Olsen asked that God should help
her in the fight she was making, for
it was for the sake of her child that
she was lighting.
Let it never be said" she cried, that
the Democratic party thinks more of
Is chances than of the children of the
land. God speed the right"
God speed the right" repeated Mr.
Cochran in beginning his address. With
that the last speaker concluded and
with that he began. Il am opposed to
The word prohibition. l abhor it. 1t is
the word you will find chalked up in
al the penitentiaries."
IL it is necessary to have prohibition
and force the people to do what they do
'ot want to do. then say they are not
it for self government and are ready
pr submission TO anarchy.
There really are theories of govern
1eut, said The speaker, that Of detaoc-
racy. which rests on trust and conf
ioncc in human virtues. and that OF
sutocracy. which rests on coercive mea-
ures 70 curb the distrusted popular
faculties.
substitute for our democratic faith |
he coercion that holds club over poo
'le to make them good" he continued |
and you havc destroyed tie only con-
iLion of society under v hich dcn,oc-
les must exist.
We atc not proposing thu 1--WE tear |
own any constitutional PROV ; n The |
eighteenth amendment declare illegal |
~he sale Of Intoxicating liquors and ii |
'eclares tlaat the nation and the state |!
hall have concurrent Jurisdiction. The |
cderal government canuot enforce that |
aw without a machinery of federal |
officials which has never been provided |
and which it would be almost impossi- |
BILE to employ.
This amendment isn't enforced now
and it can't be. 1T may be enforced in
some sections where no amendment |
was necessary just as the fourteenth |
amendment is enforced in some north