The Mena weekly star., 1920-06-17
DEMOCRATS LINING.
Up FOR MARSHALL.
Eastern Party Leaders Consider him
en- Anti-Wilson Platform-Mur-
ply and Smith Of New York Con-
fer With Taggart.

Chicago, June 15.-Thomas r. Mar.
shall of Indiana, vice president of the
United States, was DISGUST here yes
terday by delegates on their way to
the San Francisco convention as q
formidable candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination on an anti-admin-
istration platform, which would in
corporate these salient features:
Ratification of a treaty of peace
with reasonable reservations for
safeguarding American rights, not
adhering strictly to the Wilson in
terpretative reservations and ap.
preaching the Lodge reservations
Amendment of the Volstead pro-
hibition enforcement act giving
power to the states to establish an
alcoholic content limitation in the
manufacture of light wines ano
beer.
Expression of sympathy for the
friends of Ireland in the United
States, who are seeking TO aid the
cause of the freedom of Ireland and
the establishment of an Irish re-
public
Marshalls name was being men
toned here as a strong possibility
notwithstanding the general impress
sion that William G. McAdoo, choice
of Wilson and the administration
forces, is to fight it out for the nom
ination against Governor Cox of Ohio,
the latter appealing principally on b
prohibition liberalization issue.
Tammany Hall for Marshall.
Last night at French Lick, Ind,
Charles f. Murphy, leader of Tam
many Hall, and Governor Smith of
New York, were in conference with
Thomas L. Taggart with respect to
Marshall's candidacy. Advance guard
delegates from Tammany, who stopt
in Chicago, let drop the hints that
Tammany might be for Marshall and
cut away from both McAdoo and Cox,
if Marshall could be induced to come
out on a straight forward anti-Wilson
league, moist and Irish sympathy
platform.
The vice president, according to his
intimates here, has long been opposed
to President Wilson's rigid insistence
upon unreserved ratification of the
peace treaty, has ever been liberal
on the prohibition issue, and is in
sympathy with the cause of Irish
freedom. With such candidate and
such a platform, Democrats said, the
issue between the Republicans and
Democrats could be clearly drawn.
McAdoo, they said, would represent
the views Of Wilson. Cox, in their
opinion, would represent a straddle
on the league issue, with sympathy
for prohibition liberalization and the
hopes of the Irish. Marshall, they de-
elared, would stand four-square on all
three vital issues in direct opposition
to the Republican platform.
The East to Fight Bryan.
Whatever becomes of the Marshall
candidacy, there is every indication
that Eastern Democrats are prepar.
ing to fight Bryan on the prohibition
issue and to give adherents of the
Irish cause, turned down by the Re
publicans, prayerful hearing. AS te
the league issue, all depends upon the
strength of the anti-administratio
forces. One issue, it is believed, will
be tied up in the fate of the other
Norman. e. Mack, national committee
man from New York, said today that
he believed the Democrats could over
come Bryan on the prohibition ques-
ton.
"All we need is a moist plank tC
win," he said. "Give the states a right
thru amendment of the Volstead act
to determine the alcoholic contents oi
light wines and beer up to certain
federal limitation. That is all that
will be necessary to win the coming
election"