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Show BRYAN FIGHTS TO SAVE PARTY FflOLlLIIII Peerleas Leader Looked To in Grave Struggle Over Platform to Prevent. Pre-vent. Wrecking of Party NEW YORK. June II By A. P.) The cloud of the Ku Klux Klan hung ao heavily -ever the Democratic Demo-cratic national convention that the platform committee,' after an all night eeaoton. waa unable to eoe j a rift ofi!ght In a laat offoct to provost on opon runturo on th floor of tha con van t ion oror tho louo, th com-mlttoo com-mlttoo authorlaad William Jonntnca Bryan t oalort aa wtonr moan bora aa ho might doom nacoaaary to nllat tho aid of party loadora and tha Tarloua Candida too for tha proa 4antia1 iiwnilnattong to romovo what waa raardad aa a aorloua throat of a optlt la tha part. Bforaovor,' tho moaaborri of tha ommlttaa. unrior lnatructiono 9mm rHair Wajtwarfloiios.- owptawT1 "a plank apocifictaliy naming tha klan. Toluntaorod .to eonfor with thatr eoUaaatiaa and urva thai tharw ho a roaona Id oration of tho aucatton. FLOOR flOHT CERTAIN. Raporta romlnf from lha eon-farnca eon-farnca rooms oarly this aflornpon .ahowod no Im mad lata proa poet of an afroamant that would kaap tha klan laaua off tho floor nf tha oon van t ion. Oolna; Into conaultatlon In ra-rloua ra-rloua aroupa aa aoon aa tho morn-Ina; morn-Ina; convention aoaaion ondod, tho party ehi-fa atruaffla4 daaporataiy j for a aolotlon of tho prooVora. Soma at 111 ho pad for aaoraao,- hut otharo waro prodlotlna; opanly, )uat ha-for ha-for a tha platform commltta ra-aumad ra-aumad Ita aaaalona, that no ajrroa-mant ajrroa-mant would bo pooaiblo. Shouad all thalp offorta fait, tha ( eommlttao probably will ouhmlt two ( raporta. ona by tho ma jority, con-damnlrf con-damnlrf tha klan without naming ,it, and ono by a fifth t Ina, uncom-I uncom-I promlalna; minority, directing a apa-rlftc apa-rlftc attack aaainat tha organlaa-tion. organlaa-tion. Than tha convention 'will rhooao botaraon tha two propoaala aftar a dabata. INTENSE DEBATE WAGED. From midnight until dawn tha klan laaua waa a aubiact of In tanaa dabata. But, aa tha flrat I light of a new day atole softly through the multicolored windows where the committee had labored , for daya and ntghta, realisation ' came that there could be no Immediate Im-mediate aolutlon of the problem. Hcpe.eas and weary, the committee com-mittee memhera were aummoned tn prayer on their departure by 'the great commoner, who for hours had waged an eameet fight again 1 what ha repeatedly declared waa an lasue that not only would 'rend the party, but would array man agalnat man-Before man-Before aeeklng rest, tha committee commit-tee directed Chairman Homer fl. Cumimnga to notify tha con van - It Ion that tha resolutions commit -1e hod been unable to complete the party, declaration for 124. and . to aak for an ad'otimment of the convention from o'clock until I S o'o'ock thla afternoon. Meanwhile, the committee will 4 meet at 1:9A p. m. to receive, the J report of Mr. Bryan, who waa i clothed with full authority to bring about a eettlement natlafactnry to the committee and. It was hoped, to the convention. SUPPORT ASSURED. . A number ef leaaera win r've their aupport. Before coming to the klan lasue. the commit tee approved a plank proposing a referendum on the ,j league of nations and pledging the 4 Continued on pace I.) Murt aa In lh debate en th lgua, allotting flv minutes to arh epealtar with th ictHvn of Br ran and iro4nttlv Fim J Oarroit of Tenn. th part y leader la ih houae, who were voted aa muck time a they migbt ear 4a lake. Hnlng tha debate, flryaa aald he did nt bllv tha klaa waa a ne ry or a permanent organisation and that If left aion it would b forgot tan four ye4vre from avow, He added that tha Inrluaion of tha nama af tha tnvtaibl ampiro tn tha platform would reeuit In tha wrack ing of tha lmocratto party. ' If tha klan la nimtd, Mr. -Brn aid, tha Demooratl partT ' will eeaae to eaiat aa a political entity and will go ta tha 'country with religion re-ligion a tha chief laaua. Joaaph A. Kallngg, tha memaar from Naw fork, argued that tha la-ana la-ana wontd not ba dodged end that tha klan should ba named. If lha party did not nama It, ha aald. tha paopla would laal that Democracy la afraid of It. landing hla veto to tha poaltloa taken by Mr, Bryan, Kapreeantailve Uarrett declared tha klan waa a temporary thing that would dtaap-pear dtaap-pear in a faw yeara unlaaa It ron-tlnued ron-tlnued to roe t to undue Publloity by political convention. Hi argued that slnea oongreaa cannot leglaiet on tho matter, H would ba futile for i tha Democratic, party to racocnlaa In Ha platform that It la a quean for atate to ragulata by prohibiting prohibit-ing tha wearing af maafca. A charge that lha klan had die- rupred the aocial, religion and political po-litical Ufa In Maine waa made by W. R. Patten1 1 1, the member from that atata. Ha Inelated that tha klan ba named, WOULD ABOLISH TWO. Senator Owen of Oklahoma told the commit lea that ta mention tha ,Ku Klui kvian in the platform BRYAN FIGHTS TO SAVE PARTY . ( FROM OBLIVION (Continued from page 11 party to a policy af caoparattoa with tb at her na liana In tha pea-motton pea-motton of world paaca. Thie plan waa Ihe eubjeot af five houra of dlacuaaloa with Newton D. Baker, aocratary of war under Wood row W 14 eon. contending to, tho laat for a repetition of tha 1910 derlaratloa calling for immediata America a ma m be rah I p n t k a laagua. Tha former war eac rotary p rape ra-pe rod a rough draft of a minority raport. but when tha committee ad. Joumed ha had not ranched n final deoleton aa 4o whether ha would praaent 4t to the oonvontlon. Thraa klan planka ware taken under conaldcrallon. One. , by Bryan, onittted tha nama of tha Invisible In-visible empire. A eocond, which waa n com pool t a draft from tho aug-geeiloae aug-geeiloae of aa vera I of tka antlklan leaden, denounced the klan by natne. A third, . which waa praaantad ba tha member from Alabama, referred to ' Knownothtng party, recalled that tha lamocrati had danounoad that organtaatlan In ml and declared that thara waa pa raaaon now why It ebould not iveclfically oppooa tha Ku Klua Klan. COMPOtlTI PREtKNTIO. Tha com peal te planka. which had tha aupport of a majority In the platform committee, eye: "Wa condemn poll t La 1 aocret ao- , cfetlea af all klnda aa appoaed to1 tha eaerclee of froe government and contrary1 to the enlrtt. If not to the latter of the eonatltutlon. No member mem-ber af Bitch aoclaly can iuatly claim to ba ft died pie of Tboinaa Jelfei aon. "Wa thorefora pladga tha Pamo-crntlo Pamo-crntlo party t oppoaa tha efforts af tha Ku Klux Klan or any aimt lar arganlaatlan that Interferes with polltlcaj 'fraadnm or religlaua liberty, lib-erty, ar which engenders racial prejudlcea, lha devotion of the Democratic party ta religious fraodom aa guar-antada guar-antada under tha eonatltutlon la reaffirmed re-affirmed In the Bran plank, whlck makes no spdetflo mention of tha klan, TWO ARB PRIVILgagQ. Iwouia rum Airroa n, nmnn no ft candidate and a boll eh M,cAdao, Ha aaeerted that In Ma atata tha klan waa fading away and that the aame oondlt ion oboaed In other out hern atatea. Tha dlacuaaloff booamo ao ganaraj that tha five-minute rule araa a bat lahed and there was aa agraament that tha time should ba limited ta fifteen minutes for proponents and thirty mlnutaa for opponent a, but thla agraament Inter aaa abrogated Debate baaama unlimited. About thla time one member of tha aom- With thaaa thraa planka bafora ;ham. tho mambara of tha oommlttaa oommlt-taa dacldad to follow tha aama pro- imlllee aald ha had come from hie delegation instructed ta vote for ft reeolutton naming tha klan and urged that a solution ba arrived at before daylight. "Hell, Ita daylight now. exclaimed ex-claimed another aommlttaeman. This sentiment at leaat found general aupport and soon afterward the committee adjourned. David U Rockwell, campaign manager for afcAdoo, declared after the recaee of tha morning aeaeion of tha aonvantlon that tha outlook for agreement aa tho klan plank waa moat promising. "Tha judgment af tha wiser men In tha Democrat i party is about ta prevail." ha added. "By that I mean that tha platform wlM reflect a national party view rather than ft local view" , |