Evening star., 1924-06-27
Two Reports to
Be Made on
Issue.
ACTION
TO BE SIMILAR
Committee Hopes to
Submit All Planks
Tonight.
BY G.. GOULD LINCOLN.
STAFF Correspondent Of The Star.

StaH correspondent OF Inc Stdr.
NEW YORK, June N.-The plat
form will go to the convention with
a majority and minority report on
the Ku klux Klan plank and prob
ably the league of nations plank,
Senator David |. Walsh of Massa-
chusetts said as the subcommittee
on resolutions recessed this after
noon. The full committee has been
asked to meet at 3 pm, and every
effort will be made to get the plat
form to the convention tonight. The
majority report OF the committee, it
is said, will omit the name of the
klan from the anti-klan plank, and
the minority will name the klan.
Il do not think that the Klan
fight on the floor can be avoided"
said Senator Walsh
Newton D. Baker. former Secre-
tary Of War, is conducting a fight to
promise the Democratic administra-
ton, if elected, entrance into the
league of nations on the same terms
proposed by Wilson. Other members
of the committee are opposing this.
report.
Best Ever. Says Bryan.
William Jennings Bryan. as he left
the committee room, said:
1t will be the best platform ever
drawn up. We are making splendid
progress+by avoiding the contro-
v4rted questions" he added with a
h said: member OF the
"Mr. Bryan, shall we tell them
about the word you used in the COM
mittee room?"
ing" said the commoner, standing
beside the bier, when one of the COM
mittee hoped up and declared 1t
would never do to say standing be-
side the bier. What l intended to say
of course. was standing beside the
bier of President Harding"
With the big, preliminary noise of
the convention behind them-the
placing in nomination of McAdoo,
Smith, Underwood and others-the
convention today have their minds
bent on the two great matters to be
settled, first, the adoption of A plat
form. and. second, the naming of
their standard bearer.
The delegates are in no mood to
brook further delay for mere noise.
They are fed up on noise. There is
tense atmosphere about the con-
vention that promises trouble If the
proper spark is applied.
Several nominating speeches and
seconding speeches remained to be
delivered when the convention met
and then the platform was to come.
Mny Ballot Today.
AS the delegates gathered it was
in the expectation that the platform
would be handled before adjournment
tonight and that possibly the bal
loting for the nominee for President
would be begun.
From sources in touch with the
representative of the ku Klux Klan
here 1t was reported that the Klan,
not satisfied with the stand taken by
McAdoo, has practically decided to
abandon him. The rumor persists
also that McAdoo has abandoned the
klan.
Seek Bryan Aid.
Inc hlanSmen are seeking deSper-
ately to prevent the organization be-
ing named in the Democratic plat
form. 1t is said efforts are being
made to get a neutral, preferably
William Jennings Bryan, to take the
floor in opposition to dragging the
Klan question into the Democratic
platform if the Klan issue is ac-
tually taken to the floor, as it is now
threatened to do.
Orators Delay Work.
The subcommittee met again about
noon, and the full platform commit
tee at o'clock. The committee has
been delayed by floods of oratory
among its own members. One dis
tiguished orator on the committee
has delivered twelve speeches. Sew
eral of the senatorial members of the
Congress have also conducted them
selves on the theory that the Senate
rule of unlimited debate prevails.
If it is found to be impossible to
report the platform today, the con-
vention, weary of waiting for the re-
port of the resolutions committee,
may seek to bring about balloting on
the nominees before the adoption of
the platform. This is likely to lead
to a row. The McAdoo forces will
ask for the balloting and the Smith
forces and other opponents of Nc
Adoo will seek to prevent it. The
order of business adopted by the con-
vention provides for the considera-
ton of the platform before balloting
begins. But the impatient delegates
may try to upset this.
Parker Case Cited.
Should the platform committee find
itself hopeless and helpless in reach
ing decision on the big issues
presented, the proposal may be made
to go ahead and name a candidate
and let him in a measure determine
the platform on which he will stand
Some of the delegates feel that any
man who obtains two-thirds vote
of this convention for President will
have the confidence of the convention
to a sufficient extent to permit him
to decide what the platform shall say.
1t was pointed out that the Demo-
cratic platform was changed to suit
Judge Alton b. Parker years ago when
he was nominated He insisted upon
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