VOL. LIX NO. 18,598
Entered at Portland (Oregon)
Poftoffic- as Second-Class Matter
PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1920
PRICE FIVE CENTS
CONVENTION BALLOTS,
WILSON GOES TO BED
BRYAN GETS OVATION
IN BONE-DRY APPEAL
FIVE PERSONS HURT
AS AUTO HITS CAR
ANTI-McADOO VOTE
IS MINUS CANDIDATE
OPTED IIITACT
PMTFORM IS ADOPTED WHILE
PRESIDENT SLEEPS.
MAGNETISM
CAPTURE
AXD ORATORY
CONVENTION.
ONE-MAN IRVINGTON TROLLlaV
CAR KNOCKED OFF TRACK.
OPPONENTS HAVE NO ONE ON
WHOM TO COALESCE.
0
CHANCES
GINGER TAKEU OUT
0FM100MTIS
Opposition Is Lacking in
Savage Enough Leaders.
V
2 BALLOTS FAIL
TO DECIDE RACE
McAdoo and Palmer Are
at Head of Field.
NO ONE IS VERY STRONG
Little More Than Third of
Votes Needed to Nomi
nate Held by Any.
MANY CANDIDATES ENTERED
Night Session of Convention
Adjourns With Nomi
nee Unnamed.
AUDITORIUM, San Francisco,
July 2. Two ballots on presidential
candidates were taken tonight by the
democratic national convention and
with McAdoo and Palmer running at
the head of the list in the order
named, but all a long way from the
nomination, a recess was taken until
9:30 o'clock tomorrow morning. Cox
and Smith were third and fourth,
respectively.
The official count on the first bal
lot follows:
McAdoo 266, Cox 134, Palmer 256,
Gerard 21, Cummings 25, Owen 38,
Hitchcock 18, Meredith 27, Smith
109, Edwards 42, Davis 32, Glass
262, Simmons 24, Harris 6, Will
iams 20, Marshall 37, Wood 4,
Champ Clark 9, Underwood ,
Hearst 1, Colby 1, Daniels 1, Bryan 1.
The official total on the second
ballot follows:
Palmer 264, Cox 159, McAdoo 289,
Cummings 27, Gerard 12, Edwards
34, Owen 29, Davis ZlVz, Marshall
36, Hitchcock 16, Bryan 1, Clark 6,
Daniels 1, Meredith 26, Smith 101,
Harrison 7, Simmons 25, Glass 25.
Ex-Representative Fitzgerald of
New York moved an adjournment as
soon as the result of the second bal
lot was announced and the motion
was declared adopted.
Adjournment Is Fought.
The McAdoo people, claiming that
they were'eertain to put their candi
date over on the fourth ballot, op
posed the adjournment. When it
was put for a vote there was a
loud chorus on each side of the ques
tion, and Chairman Robinson de
clared it adopted, while some of the
McAdoo supporters were clamoring
for a rollcall on it.
The three leading candidates all
gained on the second ballot at the
expense of the big field of favorite
sons, a score of whom received some
support. Balloting on the presidency
started late in the evening after the
convention had adopted the platform
as framed by its platform commit
tee, rejecting the bone-dry proposal
of W. J. Bryan, the beer and wine
plank of the New York democrats,
the plank for Irish recognition
backed by several organizations of
Irish sympathizers, and several other
planks which were brought upon the
floor after they had been rejected in
the committee.
Prohibition Plank Omitted.
The result of the prohibition bat
tle was to leave the platform with
out any reference at all to that
subject.
On the first bajlot for presiden
tial nomination Alabama, the first
state to be called, split its strength
many ways, but McAdoo got the
lion's share of it, nine votes. In
Arizona, too, McAdoo had a wide
edge, taking four of the six votes,
Cox got more than any other can
didate in the Arkansas delegation.
Ten of California's 26 went to Mc
Adoo.
The first state from which Palmer
got a plurality was Colorado. Con
necticut cast her 14 solidly" for Na
tional Chairman Cummings. rJela
ware and Florida both scattered
their strength widely and then
Georgia cast her 28 all for Palmer,
and Idaho followed by giving all of
her eight to McAdoo.
Palmer Gains on Second.
The start of the second ballot
looked very much like the first, the
first four states passing without
more than a half dozen votes bein
changed.
When Massachusetts had been
passed. Palmer had 118, a grain of four
over the first ballot. McAdoo 104 H
(Ceacluded oa l'ge $, Column
Press. Reports of Delegates Activi
ties Xot "Wanted at White
House After 10 P. M.
WASHINGTON. July 2. President
Wilson slept soundly tonight while
the democratic national convention
in San Francisco adopted the party's
platform and took two ballots on
candidates.
Early in the evening: he read re
ports from the convention as trans
mitted to the White House by The
Associated Press, but shortly before
10 P. M. Dr. Grayson, his physician,
announced that no additional reports
were desired as the president had de
cided to retire. At that time the
platform had not been formally adopt
ed and no ballots on candidates had
been taken.
RULE DECLARED BROKEN
Passengers Allowed on Ship With
out Examination, Is Charge.
NEW YORK, July 2. Violation of
the health regulations at Cherbourg
by permitting 193 steerage passengers
to embark without being subjected to
rigid physical examination is alleged
against the steamship Olympic, with
2203 passengers aboard, which was
detained at quarantine today when it
arrived here from Southampton and
Cherbourg.
Asents took ashore today first and
second-class cabin passengers. The
1122 steerage passengers will be re
moved tomorrow to a government
quarantine station. The ship will be
fumigated before docking.
The Olympic, the first of the great
Atlantic passenger steamships to b
equipped with oil burners, made a
highly successful voyage after their
installation, according to her com
mander. .
GREEKS RESUME ADVANCE
54 Heavy Field (Inns and 1200
Prisoners Reported Taken.
PARIS. Jjuly 2. The Greek army.
which late last week halted in its of
fensive against the Turkish national
ists in Asia Minor, resumed its ad
vance on Wednesday and captured
the town of Balikesri, it is announced
in the latest Greek communique re
ceived here today.
With the town, the statement re
ports, the Greeks took 54 heavy field
guns, 20 quickfirers and 12O0 pris
oners. Capture of Balikesri marks an ad-
vance of some 30 miles by the Greeks
LIGHTNING FIRES FOREST
Of Five Blazes Near Roscburg, All
Are Put Out but One.
ROSEBL'RG, Or., July 2. (Special.)
Forest rangers in charge of the
Rock Diamond lake district reported
from Big Camas today that a severe
lightning storm had started five for
est fires in that district. A force of
fire fighters was sent out, and all but
one blaze was quickly extinguished.
A heavy downpour of rain during
the night was of great assistance to
putting out the fires, and only one
was reported to be still burning this
morning.
ACCIDENTS FATAL FOR
4S2 Mishaps in Industry Reported
for Week Ending July 1.
Th?re were seven fatalities in Oregon !
due to industrial accidents during the 1 '
week ending July 1, according to a ' ,
report prepared by the state indus
trial accident commission today.
Of the" 482 accidents reported. 468
were subject to the provisions of the
compensation act, 20 were from firms
and corporations that have rejected
the provisions of the compensation
law, and four were from public utility
corporations not subject to b.enefits
under the act.
CARPET-BAGGERS TO GO
Harding Promises to Name
Local
Men if He Is Elected.
HONOLULU, T. H., July 2. (Spe
cial.) Senator Warren . .J. Harding
has promised home rule for Hawaii if
elected. Home rule does not mean
statehood, but it means that federal
appointments will be made from peo
ple in the islands.
This is the sore point with the
inlanders, as the democratic federal
office appointees ire all southerners.
G0RGAS IS NEAR .DEATH
Ei-Surgeon-Gcncral of Army Ex-1
pectcd Momentarily to Succumb.
' LONDON, July 3. The death of Ma-jor-General
William C. Gorgas. former
surgeon-general of the United States
army, was expected momentarily
6:45 this morning.
At that hour Mrs. Oorgas and Brigadier-General
R. E. Noble, who for
some time has been .associated with
General Gorgas in his work as a san
itary expert, were at his bedside.
1 CITY GAINS; 1 LOSES
Sioux Calls, S. D., Shows Increase
and Danbury, Conn., Decrease.
WASHINGTON. July 2. Census
figures announced today give Dan
bury, Conn., 1S.SS0, a decrease of 1345.
The ceneus report on Sioux Falls,
S. D., is 25,176, or'an increase of 11,0S3.
HPT FADED YET
Son-in-Law Gets 50 Dele
gates Over-Night.
400 WON'T STAND HITCHED
Opponents Likely to Break at
Any Time, Is View.
SEVERAL DEALS BREWING
Palmer Vote Expected to Scatter
Soon After First Ballot and
Some Will Go to Cox.
BY CHARLES C. HART,
( Washington, D. c. Correspondent for The
. Or.onian.)
SAN FRANCISCO, July 2. (Spe
cial.) Look out for the son-in-law.
Moreover do not let yourself be de
ceived by any of these reports about
something more than 400 last ditch
ers who will not vote for th white
house candidacy under any circum
stances.
Many things have been coing on
since the convention adjourned about
10 o'clock last night. When the man
agers of other candidates began to
survey the field this morning they
discovered that Son-in-law McAdoo
had picked up approximately 50 dele
gates over night and given them pre
ferred front seats on the band wagon.
Bum Are Rdhi1us Thingrs.
The more than 400 delegates who
have been holding out against Mc
Adoo are in large part men not able
to reveal their intentions. Being in
that state of mind they were . put
down as opposed to the Wilson heir.
These so-called last-ditchers, how
ever, are controlled to a considerable
degree by the bosses like Taggart.
Murphy, George Brannan and Jim
Nugent and there are signs that the
son-in-law managers and some of the
bosses are reaching a common under
standing. For example, Stuart G. Gibboney ot
Huntington, N. T., McAdoo's personal
representative, was sitting today with
the Tammany delegation and wearing
a delegate's badge. There was a ru
mor that he has been able to make
an agreement with Tammany whereby
the New York delegation will go to
McAdoo on the third or fourth ballot.
Other Deals Afloat.
Other deals with Taggart of Indiana
and Brennan of Illinois to deliver
votes to McAdoo by a slow process,
beginning with possibly the third bal
lot, were under negotiation. Attorney-General
Palmer's strength will
fall away early, and then much de
pends on where Pennsylvania's 76
votes go. On account of the fight
against Palmer in the Pennsylvania
(Conclude on Pass '1, Column 5.)
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Procession or Prohibition Enthus
iasts Marked by Clashes for
States' Standards.
AUDITORIUM, San Francisco, Cal..
July 2. William J. Bryan, with one
of his old time speeches in support
of a bone-dry plank for the demo
cratic platform turned the convention
almost upside down late this after
noon with the magnetism and force
of his oratory and started one of the
greatest and noisiest demonstrations
the assembly had yet seen.
When Bryan had concluded his re
ply to the advocates of a wet plank
the demonstration cut loose on the
floor, and wholly unaided by the band
or the organ or any of the other in
strumentalities which had been ef
fectively used to keep other demon
strations going it proceeded spon
taneously and resisted all efforts to
get the convention back to order.
Bryan, standing smiling In the
limelight at the edge of the speaker's
platform, and with tears 'of emotion
coursing down his cheeks, reviewed
a procession of prohibition enthus
iasts who tore up state standards and
started a, moving column of delegates
about the hall. There was more than
one fight over whether a state stan
dard should go in the demonstration.
A particularly sectacular battle raged
around possession of the California
standard, ' when' Mrs. Georgia C.
Ormsby of Oakland, attempted to
carry the standard into the demon
stration. All that remained of the
standard when the wreckage wan
cleared away was a tattered part of
the pastel top which once had borne
the letters of the state name. Ala
bama's standard suffered a similar
fate and the bits were triumphantly
borne about the hall by the prohibi
tion forces.
' Drrrlng' the demonstration someone
(Concluded on Page 2, Column 1.)
LOG OF DAY AT CONVENTION
BY EDGAR B. PIPER. i
SAN FRANCISCO, July 2. (Edito
rial Correspondence Nothing
doing on the platform at 10
o'clock this mrning. That committee
has had a sweaty time. Divided be
tween love and duty love of a winner
and duty to Woodrow it has been
sorely distracted thVough long and
wearing hours. Besides, it has had
Bryan on Its-haniis. They do say that
the things said by those democrats
about one another in executive session
were neither, gentlemanly nor parlia
mentary. '
The vast Jam That crowded the gal
leries last night, and the other great
throng that, blocked the adjacent
streets is absent this morning. The
crowd that was shut out was mad all
the way through because it didn't get
in and the other crowd that got in
was even madder because it wasn't
worth the effort made to break in.
Press opinion is divided as to who
let them in, and .why. Some say the
galleries were packed with Irish sym
pathizers who proposed to take a
hand in the good old heckling style in
the debate on the Irish question; and
others say that they were recruits
from the great -army of California
wets who were there to get Bryan
down. We Fh.ill see today whether it
A FOURTH OF JULY TRAGEDY.
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Witness Declares Autoist Was Go
ins 50 Miles an Hour; One
Victim May Die.
Five persons were injured, one
perhaps fatally, in a collision be
tween an automobile and a one-man
Irvington street car at East Fifteenth
and Fremont streets, at 6:15 o'clock
last night. Both the automobile and
the street car were wrecked.
The injurea were: Robert E. -Kennedy,
24, of 468 Fast Broadway, skull
probably fractured; Nan Kennedy, 20,
head cut and small gashes all over
body from flying glass; Florence Ken
nedy, 13, leg cut and shocked badly;
Earl Claytor, 451 East Webster street,
cut about face, and E. H. Lambert of
Marysville, face cut. Both the girls
were sisters of Robert E. Kennedy,
driver of the automobile. All the In
jured were riding in the automobile.
The automobile was going west on
Fremont street. M. R. Schloth. 641
Fremont street, told the police that
Kennedy was driving 65 miles an
hour. Lambert, one of the passengers
in the automobile, was arrested and
held as a witness by Patrolmen Case
and Simpkihs. Lambert told the p'o
lice he thought Kennedy was intox
icated, and estimated the speed at
the automobile at 50 miles an hour.
The street car was going north on
East Fifteenth street, driven by C. L.
Beck, motorman and conductor. The
force of the collision knocked the
street car off the track and turned
it partly around. The vestibule and
whole front end "of the street car
were smashed. The automobile was
a complete wreck. The machine was
the property of the Fashion garage.
Tenth and Taylor streets, and Ken
nedy had rented It at 4:05 P. yes
terday. Witnesses of the accident said
Lambert was thrown entirely over
the street car. He alighted in a va-
(Concluded on Pase 2. Column 3.)
can be done. A first rate guess is
that' It cannot be done.
About 11 o'clock Carter Glass, the
little man with the big job of nailing
down the Wilson ideas in the plat
form, shows up and begins to read
the platform. He doesn't say any-H
thing. Ha doesn't need to. They will
speak for themselves.
The., fierce struggle 'has- affected
Glass' larynx, '."he platform itself has
a frog in Its throat. But the dele
gates get up on their hind legs and
r.t out at the indorsement of the league
without nullifying reservations. They
want nc prcfaae hand on the sacred
Wilson ark.
Now he is reading the war plank
commending ihe military genius of
John Pershing without mentioning
the unnecessary and Irrelevant fact
that he is a republican. Admiration
for the soldiers and sailors, but no
bonus. Letting 'em smell the honey,
but refusing any bread, the Barme
cide feast.
Brother Glass Is working himself up
into a fervor of parental enthusiasm
over the federal reserve system, his
own fat child. But it's heavy going
for the convention. Why don't they
send for Senator Jim Watson, plat
form reader par excellence, who can
(Concluded on Page 3, Column 2.)
DAVIS IN CURIOUS POSITION
Friends and Foes of Wilson's
Son-in-Law for Ambassador.
COX IS STILL HOPEFUL
Palmer Forces, Too, Vp to Time of
Balloting, Continue to Assert
Their Confidence.
BY MARK SULLIVAN.
CopyriEht by the New York Evening Post.
Inc., Published by Arrangement.
THE AUDITORIUM. San Francisco,
July 2. (Special.) As it seems to
your correspondent, with the begin
ning of the balloting in sight, the
situation is McAdoo far in the lead.
with John W. Davis in the curious
position of being the second choice
of the McAdoo people and the first
choice of the anti-McAdoo people.
The convention Kas now settled
down into McAdoo and anti-McAdoo.
In this division each group has a
following of about half the conven
tion, and neither group has a fol
lowing of the two-third necessary to
win. The anti-McAdoo forces have
enough votes to prevent his nom
ination if they should stand fast, but
persons with long experience In ob
serving this kind of situation are
not persuaded that the anti-McAdoo
group has the characteristics essen
tial to success in any backs-to-the
wall stand against a powerful candi
date.
Tnggert Support Lacking.
The leaaera ot this antf-McAdoo
group are Illinois and New York.
They have so far been counting on
Jhe co-operation of a third powerful
leader, Thomas Taggert of Indiana.
("But "there Is good reason for 'saying
that Taggert does not stand with
them. Taggert, according to the gos
sip of the politicians, is believed to
be Influenced by the expectation of
running for the senate himself In
Indiana. In this situation he will
need every possible democratic vote
and cannot afford to antagonize
either the friends of McAdoo in In
diana or the powerful backers of
McAdoo in the administration forces.
Aside from failing to have Taggert
with them, the anti-McAdoo group
otherwise lacks elements essential to
success.
For one thing, the leaders of the
anti-McAdoo group do not seem to
your cor.respondent to have sufficient
determination.
Leader Not Savage Knouck.
They do not "nave the implacable,
almost savage, quality necessary in a
leader if he is to make this kind of
la fight successfully. Neither do they
have the compactness .among; their
followers that is necessary. New
York is supposed to be one of the
two states in the van of the anti
McAdoo movement, but the New York
delegation is shot through with sedi
tion in favor of McAdoo. Further
more, the anti-McAdoo group has not
so far had a candidate. They have
spent most of the time so far in
trying to agree upon some one can
didate with whom to make the fight
against McAdoo, but they have never
been able to find one suitable for
the purpose. All day yesterday they
tried to line up In favor of Colby,
but it quickly became apparent that
Colby was not available.
Juct now they have more or less
agreed upon John W. Davis, but they
have agreed upon him not in the
spirit of an aggressive last-ditch
fight; they have agreed upon him
rather In the spirit that they must
have some kind of a rallying point,
and that he is the best man.
MrAdoo Antla I.ok Ginger.
In short. In your correspondent's
judgment, the ginger has more or
less gone out of the anti-McAdoo
fight, and the leaders of that cle
ment are now for John W. Davis
merely In the spirit in which they
would be for any first-class man.
Curiously enough, John W. Davis, it
seems to your correspondent, is also
the eecond choice of the McAdoo peo
ple, but as things stand now McAdoo
ought to win. The delegations sup
porting his opponents are full of sedi
tion. Even in Pennsylvania, Palmer's
home delegation, there is a good
deal of McAdoo sentiment. It may
reasonably be expected that Vance
McCormick, who is more or les a
central figure in the Pennsylvania
delegation, will be with McAdoo at
heart.
As to Cox, the situation Is more
or less the same. In short, it seems
to your correspondent that the only
thing which could now prevent Mc
Adoo's nomination would be the di
rect interdiction of Wilson.- Of
course, the public will never be per
suaded that Mr. Wilson personally is
not identified with the administra
tion group that backs McAdoo, but
that is the fact.
MeAdoo'a Followers Ineaa;.
Mr. Wilson personally never has
taken part In the McAdoo movement,
and $ the large number of office
holders who are here working for
McAdoo are doinx so with one un-
lCc.nciud.ed en Fag 4 Caiuma i.
Coo&ters Busy. Seeking: Accessions!
From Enemy Field During;
Platform Demonstrations.
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.. July 2. The
combination against William G. Mc
Adoo found itself tonight, to use the
language of one of the administration
leaders, without any candidate on
whom to coalesce. McAdoo support
ers continued to predict a nomination
for him somewhere near the fifth
ballot.
While the convention was engaged
in the demonstration of the platform
fight McAdoo supporters were work
ing to make accessions from the
field and the inner circle of old line
party leaders who hoped to prevent
the nomination of the president's son-
in-law continued at work but rri-
vatcly said they were accomplishing
little because they could find no can
didate about whom all the forces
against McAdoo could be centered.
JAPAN PLANTS CLOSE
Shutdown of Iron Works Near "o
kohama Reported.
TOKIO, July 2. Announcement has
been made in the newspapers of the
closing of the Asana Iron works near
Yokohama Thursday. More than 700
workmen were paid off and dis
charged. Suspension of the works was
attributed by the newspapers to
financial depression.
It was also reported that three
steamship companies, the Nippon Yu
sen Kaisiia, tle Osaka Shoshcn Kai
sha and the Toyo Kisen Kaisha. as a
result of the American shipping pact
have decided to withdraw from the
China-Pacific steamship union and
operate independent in general freight
competition.
DEBT DOWN ONE BILLION
Increase for Fiscal Year of 19 19
Estimated by Treasury.
WASHINGTON'. July 2. The public
debt decreased by more than a billion
dollars during the fiscal year of 1919
just ended and by more than $2,000,
000,000 since last August 31, when
the war debt was at its peak, accord
ing to the quarterly debt statement
issued tonight by the treasury.
On June 30 the public debt was
J24. 299.321. 467. 07. a drop of $1,185,184.
692.98 from the June 30, 1919 total
of $25,484,506,160.05 and a decline of
$2,295,380,180.94 from the peak figure
of $26,596,701,648.01 on August 31. The
decrease lor the period from May 31 to
June 30 was $675,641,559.72.
DH0RCEE IS TAXI DRIVER
Ex-Wife of Wealthy Manufacturer
Starts Earning Livelihood.
CHICAGO, July 2. Mrs. Belle Gaert
ner, divorced wife of William H.
Gaertner, wealthy manufacturer, to
day started work as a taxi driver in
the "loop" district.
"When our decree was signed re
cently I found I had $3000 and my
car," she explained. "I decided Im
mediately to convert the car into a
public cab and run it myself."
- Mrs. Gaertner is wearing a trim
green riding habit for her work.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
- The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature.
85 degrees; minimum, 55 degrees.
TODAY'S Kalr. continued warm; south
westerly winds.
National.
Destroyer is dispatched to Turkey to aid in
freeing American missionaries held cap
tive. Page O.
Senator Harding and wife will motor from
Washington to Marion, O. Page 4.
Dome e tit.
Ginger is taken out of McAdoo antis.
Page 1.
Bryan wins ovation with appeal for bon
dry plank. Page 1.
Wilson can name anyone at convention but
himself. Page
McAdoo's chances not faded yet. as son-in-law
gets 50 delegates over night.
Page 1.
Platform as compiled by committee Is
drafted without any changes. rage 1.
Two ballots fail to nominate at demo
cratic convention. Page 1.
Story of convention told as it ran through
out day. Page 7.
President Wilson sleeps while convention
adopts platform and ballots. Page I.
Health declared oniy bar to Wilson's nom
ination. Pa.cc 14.
Pacific Northwest.
All Oregon National Uuardsmcn to go to
camp. Page 5.
Chief Poker Jim and stalwarts betting on
McAdoo as next big chief of Dalefaccs.
Page 1.
Sports,
Pacific Coast League results: Portland 9.
Oakland 8: San Krancisco 5,. b'uJt Lake
4; Seattle 3. Vernon 6; Los Angeles 1,
Sacramento 3. Page Hi.
Ortega to fight O'Dowd again. Page 12.
Olympic try out entries selected here last
night. Page 13.
Commercial and Marine.
Wheat harvest begins in southern sec
tions of Pacific coast. Page ill.
Heavy selling breaks corn prices. Page 21.
Wall street stock market strong and ac
tive. Page Si.
Captain J. K. Bulger, supervising federal
inspector, pronounces Pennell plan for
converting wooden ships, built for gov
ernment. Into steam schooners the
best yet devised. Page J0.
Portland a.nd Vicinity.
Five persons injured when auto knocks
street car off track. Page 1.
Community health centers advocated
Page 10.
Valuable papers of missing Vermont bank
er are found in cache near Macleay
park. Page 11.
Court decid-sa Polk county highway con
test. Page 15.
Law to segregate the tuberculous is advo
cated at meeting of Oregon Tubercu
losis association. Page 1'u.
State aid sought fjrr Cedars. Page 10.
Portland milk prk ( advanced. Page 13,
Attempts to Amend Re
port Ail Beaten,
BRYAN'S DRY PLANK LOST
Administration's League of
Nation's Policy Is Sus
tained Against Attacks.
CONVENTION ACTS RAPIDLY
Profiteering Pledge Also Is
Rejected, as Is Soldiers'
Bonus Proposal,
SAN FRANCISCO. Julv 2. Th
democratic platform as framed in
me resolutions committee, declarins:
for the peace treaty, expressing
sympathy for Ireland and saying
nothing at all about prohibition,
came unscathed through a furious
floor fight today and was adopted
without amendment in a great ava
lanche of applause.
W. J. Bryan led the fight for
amendment, but his bone dry plank;
was buried after a dramatic day of
debate by a majority so overwhelm
ing that he did not even ask for
rollcalls on the. four other minority
proposals he had prepared.
Then Chairman Glass moved the
adoption of the platform and it
went through as framed with a roar.
Wet Plank Also Defeated.
A cider, wine and beer plank
championed in an emotional speech
by W. Bourke Cockran of New York
also was thrown out by the conven
tion along with a plank for recog
nition of the Irish republic backed
by several organizations of Irish
sympathizers.
In the battle for the platform as
framed the administration forces
were led by Secretary Colby and
Senator Glass of Virginia, during a
debate in which both sides stirred
.delegates and spactators to repeated
bursts of emotional enthusiasm.
Mr. Bryan got a howling demon
stration of 20 minutes after he con
cluded his speech for the bone drv
plank, but when the balloting began
it became apparent that much of
the enthusiasm was a personal
tribute to his past service to the
party and not an expression of
sympathy with his present views.
Nominee Balloting Begun.
With the platform adopted the
convention was up with its schedule
and the voting on presidential can
didates began.
Chairman Gass obtained permis
sion to strike four words from the
platform plank relating to treat
ment Of service men in the late war
after the platform had been adopted
by the convention today. He de
clared that the resolutions commit
tee did not think the change of signal
importance, but R. C. Murchie, na
tional committeeman from New
Hampshire, who argued for the
minority plank on the subject whih
the convention had previously turned
down by a close vote, asserted that
the correction carried the plank far
towards meeting the view of the
service men. The sentence altered
originally read:
Wording Is Unchanged.
"The fine patriotism exhibited
. by American soldiers, sail
ors, marines . . . constitutes a
sacred heritage of posterity, the
worth of which can i ever be recom
pensed from the treasury and the
glory of which must not be dimin
ished by any such expedient."
The words "by any such expedient"
were eliminated, but the preceding
portion of the sentence was left un
changed. , In quick and successive votes th
convention voted down by heavy
majorities all attempts to amend tha
report of tne platform committee and
threw out all substitute proposals, in
cluding the Done dry plank by Will
iam J. Bryan ana the wet plank of
fered by W. Bourke Cockran.
The administration's league (of na
tions plank as reported by the com
mittee was sustained against all at
tacks. The administration supporters
were in control by heavy majorities
all along the line.
The official total, which beat the
Cockran mo let pljnk, was 7 26
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