Evening star., 1924-06-28
LEAGUE P[EB|SC|TE
DEM0CRAT|CPLA
Majority of Platform Commit
tee Would Take Issue Out
of Politics.
KLAN NAME Is OMITTED
Fight on Convention Floor to
Specify Secret Order Believed
Almost Certain.
KLAN NAME is OMITTED
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Stan Correspondent OF The Star. T.
NEW YORK, June 2s.-The. Demo
cratic party is going to bat, in the
coming campaign with proposal to
take the league of nations question
out of politics." and submit the pro-
posal to enter the league to the peo-
pie in a referendum held after the
November elections, If majority re-
port of the platform committee, which
will be submitted to the Democratic
national convention today, shall be
approved.
The Democratic party will avoid a
devastating schism over the Ku Klux
klan issue If the report submitted by
majority Of the platform commit
tee is adopted.
Are Platform Features.
These are the principal verdicts
which. will. be returned by the plat
form committee today to the conven-
ton, in a platform declared by its
supporters to be the most progress
sive ever written by any major party.
Unable to complete the discussion
Of the Klan plank, the resolutions
committee adjourned at $40 am to-
day until 1880 this afternoon. 1t
was expected that the platform will
be before the convention before the
day closes, however.
This morning desperate efforts
were made to bring about last min
ute agreement not to mention the
klan in minority report and thus
throw into the convention an issue
which may split the party SO wide
open that hope for victory in Novem-
Der will be gone.
Khan Not Named.
The so-called anti-Klan plank sub
mitted by the majority of the COM
mittee does not name the Klan. That
was the great issue in the committee
to name or not to name the Klan. A
poll of the committee early this morn
ing showed that thirty-four MEM
hers of the committee were opposed
to naming the Klan and twenty were
in favor of naming the hooded order
in denunciation.
The convention itself may upset
both the decisions of the committee.
in the committee for Straightout
declaration for entry into the league
of nations, in accordance with the
plans of Woodrow Wilson, may take
the fight to the floor. Wilson's has
been name to conjure with In this
convention. McAdoo supporters on
the committee, and those of Smith
! and other candidates, too, opposed
Mr.. Bakers plan and voted for a ref
erendum: They want, a fight over
government in the Cnited States
! over decent government and corrupt
| government-they say, not over the
league of nations issue.
Khan Fight Bitter.
standing issue of the convention. II
is being fought out bitterly. A
minority report from the committee
| proposing to name specifically fhe
Klan is to be presented. notwith-
standing the eloquent pleas OF VIII.
| liam Jennings Bryan and others fol
peace and avoidance Of this issue
| which he declared to be extraneous
Mr.. Bryan may take the floor in the
convention and endeavor to throw oil
| on the troubled waters.
The text of the foreign relations
plank proposed by the committee
| majority, proposing the referendum
| of the league. which was laid before
| the convention follows:
The Democratic party pledges al
It's energies to the outlawing of tn.
whole war system. We refuse to be.
lieve that the wholesale slaughter oi
human beings on the battlefield II
any more necessary to mans highest
development than killings by indi
viduals. s-e-.
."rhe only hope for world peace an6
for economic recovery lies in the or
Eanized efforts Of nations combining
to remove the cause of war and sub.
stitutinE law and order for violence
Under Democratic Ieadership .
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