Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-03

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| started moving column of delegates
about the hall.
! There was more than one fight over
whether a state standard should go
| in the demonstration. A particularly
spectacular battle ragged around pos
session of the California standard
, when a number of men attempted to
prevent Mrs. Georgia c. Ormsby of
Oakland from carrying it into the
demonstration.
Nebraska in Line.
Among them was an assistant SER
geant arms. Francis J. Heney who
bounced on the man and threw him
into the crowd. All that remained of
the standard when the wreckage was
cleared away was a tattered part of
the pasteboard top which once had
borne the letters of the state name.
Alabama's standard suffered a similar
fate. and the bits were triumphant1y
borne about the hall by the prohibit
ton forces.
During the demonstration some one
bore the standard of Bryan's home
state to the platform and, reaching
out. Bryan lifted it high above the
rest. while the crowd roared
the next speaker to be called by Mr..
Bryan in support of his program. She
said she spoke in the name of the
motherhood of America in supports
ing the dry declaration.
Il am told" she said, that some
where in a lodgeroom in this building
there is coffin. l wonder whether
that coffin is prepared for the liquor
interests or for the democratic party.
For II you put in this wet plank you
night as well get the coffin ready"
sighting for Her Child
In dramatic emotional appeal
which brought the convention again
should help her in the fight she was
making. for it was for the sake of
her child that she was fighting.
> Let ii never be said" she cried.
that the democratic party thinks
more of it's chances than of the chill
dren of the land. God speed the
right"
God speed the right" repeated Mr..
Cochran, in introduction. with that
the last speaker concluded and with
| that ! begin. We have heard a great
ideal here that was highly interest
But it is peculiar thing in history
| that most of what is bad was con-
| ceived by people who were good, by
li1l-digested efforts to coerce people
! in their daily lives.
II am opposed to the word prohibi-
ton. / abhor it, 1t is the word you will
| fnd chalked up in all the penitentiaries.
| II it is necessary to have prohibition
and force the people to do what they
do not want to do. then l say they are
not fit for self-government and are
;ready for submission to anarchy. The
!question is whether in an effort to up
root fancied evil We are going to
overturn the whole system and founda-
ition Of government"
( There really were only two theories
of government, said the speaker. that
trust and confidence in human vir-
tues. and that of autocracy, which
| rested on coercive measures to curb
the distrusted popular faculties
Walsh Takes Floor for Irish.
! Senator David ]. Walsh of Massa-
chusetts. who had led the unavailing
fight for the Irish plank in committee e,
took the stand to conclude the argu-
ment for it's adoption by the con-
,vention
| Circumstances connected with the
fight of the Irish people for freedom
he told the convention, require that
there be something more than mere
Repression OF sympathy. 40 word
spoken during the war So thrilled the
depressed people Of the world as the
statement that America WAS in the
war to apply the Dfi8ejpis Of self
determination.
Termination? II TIERS is, wkere on
1.-THE face of Gods esftk sfYssIa thai
lprinctple be appliss II Hst in ffsiabd
where we find ths only English
speaking people IL ali me weird tha'
town.
IF there was 10 he no ffefA war"
said Senator Walsh. "fBe6 II was ssis
by peaceabie means sHaf fte DgiieS
ipiied."
The frst and most if6BsyteSs stst
in that direction. he ae9isfsa, igte
since mad been taken WheH the JFisf
tpeople by every ySssibis sHssHs baf
informed Great Britain ana tfe W6rjf
what their desire was Ana how over
Whelmlng was the sentiment sijf,USft.
ing irish independence fhs ttisf
argument concluded. Mr.. Lyons tool
the platform TO argus for his PLANK
on soldier relief
E 1t provided for appointment of ,
commission TO study the question o.
! TAR ana Just compensation" for ex
I service men.
He said the, plank lost out in eso
. mittee by majority Of one, twenty
SIX supporting II AMI twenty sever
| opposluK ~.
1T is said" the speaker continued
I that II VIII take u lot Of money sp
: OF the Treasury. But We sta no
asking for one cent except for IN,
expenses of this commission, an.
then if it Is decided that eefnsenss
ton ought not to he paid. that auss
ton can be decided when il comes ~
r. c. Murchie. Democratic bstjena
committeeman from SsW Hampshire
joined in supporting ths fainefit
compensation plank.
He said that most 1T those VII
served in the war we're able TO tak
care of themselves. but that Their
were some who were III need.
: Il He added that he was opposed I
cash bonus and thought That som
other method ought 10 he worked Oh
for SHose desiring fsiisf,
7 Bryan battles tar rtsshs.
~ With twenty minutes 1T his hou
| remaining, Mr.. Bryan again took III
: platform to carry home his BATH
I, for his minority piahks The crow
i yelled again when they raw hi
] familiar figure reappear at tn