Show Wets Cheered By Rockefeller Dry Law Stand L I Oil Magnates Magnate's Action Confuses Confuses Confuses Con Con- fuses G. G 0 O. P. P Platform Platform Platform Plat Plat- form Drafters CONVENTION FIGHT LOOMS Dual Platform Suggestion Faces Failure B By LYLE C. C WILSON United Press Tress Stiff Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON June Junc 7 Bolt 7 Bolt of John D. D Rockefeller Jr from the forces of ot prohibition to the backers of repeal aroused new furor today over party prohibition platforms Republican senators who found foun hearted half agreement in a country club conference Sunday upon a revision revision revision re vision retention or repeal referendum referendum dum plank arc again in confusion James R. R Garfield prospective chairman of ol the Republican national convention resolutions committee met with the senators again and discovered discovered dis dis- dis covered the prohibition agreement shattered Senate drys demanded that any proposed proposed pro PlO posed state slate action on any alteration of the eighteenth amendment be by legislatures insisted insisted in in- that the states stales elect conventions conventions conven conven- for the sole purpose of passing passing passing pass pass- ing on the question of maintaining the amendment in its present form abandoning it or revising its stringent language ISSUE UNDECIDED I Garfield was understood to be intending in in- tending lending to return toda today to Cleveland with pith the issue undecided Forthright senate wets wels meanwhile threaten their theirl moist and dry colleagues with wilh a straight out fight in the convention on the repeal issue if no compromise can be had on a n resubmission pro pro- gram ram The Rockefeller letter has heartened the group They are more confident today than at any time since the eighteenth amendment became effective Senator Bingham Republican Connecticut Connecticut Con Con- who is in the forefront of the repeal struggle welcomed the Rockefeller Rocke Rocke- feller reller statement thus Obviously the costly experiment backed jacked by the greatest wealth in the United States has failed in the opinion opinion ion of those who invested huge sums of money moncy in an attempt to regulate personal habits of the American ceo ceo- I I pie from rom Washington Senator Bulkley Democrat Ohio who was elected on a wet platform said I 1 am glad to see sec one more convert I I hope both parties in their Chicago conventions will include in their plat piat- forms planks for repeal of the eighteenth eighteenth eight eight- amendment DEMOCRATS COOL This dual plank suggestion has other supporters but is is not believed likel likely of adoption John J J. J Raskob chairman of the Democratic national committee is reported on reliable authority authority au to have suggested the idea some days ago Influential Democrats Democrats Democrats Demo Demo- however were cool to the idea Raskob was a visitor at Capitol hill hiU yesterday Reports that he had renewed renewed renewed re re- his suggestion that the parties a agree ree on an identical prohibition plank could not be confirmed Senator Borah Republican Idaho who is threatening to bolt the Republican lican national convention unless it meets his views on prohibition characterIzed characterized char char- the prohibition plank suggested sug sug- by Republican senators as a combination of sham and hypocrisy |