The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
BAKER DEFEATED
 ION LEAGUE ISSUE (BY CONVENTION
fcnnsinuad from Paee Onel


 sYia&er and more to the point and be. ause the minority proposal would tend b again thrust the league question into poHties. He read the long list of the states whose members of the platform eommittee had signed the majority re- Bort and predicted that If. the majority plank were adopted the democratic ackeE would sweep the country. The election of 1920, he said, failed fe represent a true referendum on the aaagus because the issue was tuterwov- With many other influences. He as- led that most of those who had sign the majority report were in favor of soing into the league" but did not 6ant direct issue raised as between he two great parties.
 Won't Quit Party
 9ssHKnny thousands" he said, twill scte tOI 10 into the league at a general afazance but they will not vote for 1t fhAy have to quit their party to fhn sneaker read letter from Owen I YorinR. who served with Charles G. wee on the reparations commission piring against making the league ,. finan issue in the 1924 campaign.
 enatorl A. A. Jones, of New Mex
 0olIoVked MT. Lueking, also speak
 for the majority plank. The ilnr heat in the hall and the flow eratoyM on a subject that manifest - A. uupermost in the minds of ssIS rntsa Sr spectators, had quieted sesstIv the fervor of the vast audience, I'll when Senator Jones LOOK tne ssesnker's stand great empty patcnes Red appeared among the delegate seats anA the galleries were tnlrd empty. i7shs crowd had sifted out slowy DuI szssy of them were seeking a Dit ot re sknent uearby, prepared to return is1sr aud ssee the fight over the klan'
 ''NOt For Politics' =. Raeiting how he had supported the IA wF,e without reservation and later 7% voted for 1t "even with the ob- .sszloaa Lodge reservations, the New 5F@Tlso senator pleaded with the con- fion not aagin to place the league - in politics by drawing a sharp
 on the question between the two reat parties.
 1fr. Baker then was recognized to de rns'd the minority report he had present. 's51 m the league plank. Be began by isSslnr that aside from his duty to God 3,sa his family, the League of Nations saa nearer his heart than any other 1hing in the universe.
 fsIthe man who ought to be pleading sSin caase," he said, ''is dead and lying IN eoneecrated ground. l don't like to s5.iseaf Ito your sympathy, but ] want sS n,DeaI to every emotion for we are Ss11inR with the most serious question kas can be considered by man
 Baker Cheered
 Tha former war secretary, as he went sa, ko state his case, with great empna- zir and feeling, was cheered repeatedly. s daelared the majority plank "revo- 5ss1sonary' in its proposal for refer sss 3'.,ra and inconsistent in that 1t ,ss sSrea the League, and then failed to arae American membership In 1t.
 AAfAnr all these honeyed phrases of ss .sIS for the League" he said, "there
 as n syllable in this plank that says
 fould go into the League until
 f MR illegal, preposterous' reVoiu-
 axy referendum.
 WkaE they propose is that the
 xua Do lifted out of party politics deoosited nowhere. They place us
 reaifion where the republicans can
 four years ago the democratic par
 ssa for the league; now they are
 f6r it or against 1t; they are affec-
 etsly disposed but not disposed to inaony.N"
 ESaiiing the steps that must be "A under the referendum plank, the
 IF called attention to the pro-