Show ATTITUDE ON N BOOZE CONTI CONTINUES UES BIG DIG MOOT POINT OF DEMOCRACY Leaders Such S as as Cummings Glass and Murphy Ar Are Busily Engaged in Endeavoring to Find a Solution of the I Issue sue That ThC Will S Satisfy Convention Convention Con Con- and Win Votes at Election but None I of of Them Is Disclosing His Hand HandAN V AN FRANCISCO June 24 Preliminaries 24 s to the Democratic national SAN convention got Into the In Inevitable period of hurry hurTY and scramble today with the appearance here of one after another of the men who are to play leading parts parts' In the big quadrennial drama In In the whisperings behind the scenes th the question of the party's policy toward bone borie dry prohibition continued the big theme them of or agitation with I prospects for a fight on the convention floor growing better and better i Arriving leaders and delegations also added some Impetus to the discussion of presidential candidates but that subject t still remained well in no the background Two figures newly arrived on the scene attracted p particular ular attention I One was Senator Carter Glass of Virginia Vir ginia gini fresh from Washington and generally reported to fo have to have brought I President Wilsons Wilson's own own- own draft of the platform Th The other was C Charles arles F. F Murphy of New York th the leader of Tammany Hall HaU who came direct f f om om the widely widely- heralded h conference of old line Une strategists party party str strategists at French tick Lick ick Ind Both of th them m were as busy as beavers beavers beavers bea- bea bea bea- vers but as silent and cagey as mice Privately they took careful stock of the situation and conferred earnestly with i other leaders from far and wide Publicly they they- refused to talk polities politics s outline what they they hoped hoped to accomplish or predict what the convention finally w would u d bring fort forth TAMMANY AND PROHIBITION Murphy was the new nev center of ot cin p the the subject subject of pr Th of Qt the I aNew N New Y A for rep repel repeal of the eighteenth nth amendment and nd widely circulated r r of the hatching of an dry plan at Flen French Frencht h I Lick lAck ck helped lo to bp b Impression im ng many delegates that Tammany would lead read in the effort to write S suc such i a pl nJ In the platform Not only the to Tammany chief but all aU his lieutenants 11 t steadfastly steadfastly- to discuss that subject subject orto or pr to say whether any lon movement really had been launched at the French Lick conference Thomas titre lOf Indiana Indiana Indi Indi- ana ano another her principal In Jn the conf conference conference confer confer- I rence r- r ence was expected to arrive h here re late today or early tomorrow but it generally gen gen- rally was predicted that the 1 lInes of I division on the prohibition Iss issue e would I not hot be clearly drawn until the convention convention convention conven conven- tion actually gets gets' under way on Monday Monday Mon day Mon I PRESIDENTS PRESIDENT'S ATTITUDE One element Yh which ch tended to keep the problem In flux was the uncertain uncertainty uncertainty tain ty or of many of those thoss here regarding the position of President Wilson The Virginia pl platform which has been given given en en the presidents president's s unqualified approval and on which the national platform is expected t to be modeled is silent silent- on the subject Some of Mr Wilsons Wilson's closest friends In the adminis- adminis however are known to have prepared a a liberalization plank for which they they are ready to make a fight in the convention 1 This pla plank planar said to J haye been drafted after conferences In Washington among men merL high ln In the party councils does not mention beer beer or 01 wines by byname byname byname name but makes a blanket declaration I tormore liberal Interpretation by congress congress con con- congress gress of the prohibition amendment Itis expected ed that a strong effort willbe will wUl be made by sponsors of ot the proposal to I throw the influence of the the administration adminis adminis- I behind it 1 I Mat Many of the party part lead leaders rs including I Homer HomerS S S Cummings Gummings the national i C Continued on page 10 ATTITUDE ON BOOZE i o r. r Continued from page 1 S chairman reiterated confidence that no platform plank would lead toa toa to a 8 fight on the convention floor The league of ot nations declaration as framed by administration supporters watt waS declared de cl dared red bj by these leaders to be certain ot of acceptance after only a nominal squabble in the platform committee e. e LEADERS CONFER a Senator Glass Glass' first conference after his arrival here late yesterday was with Chairman Cummings They had I dinner together In t tie the e chairman's hotel room and afterwards spent moat most of the evening in consultation William Jennings who an who is expected ex expected expected ex- ex to o lead the attack on such a treaty plank as well as the fight tight against a a. prohibition lIber liberalization de declaration de- de still was wu missing today from the the- constellation o ot of leaders here H He will WUl arrive late In the week and n rio rib one here pare pretends t I to know exactly what plan of ot campaign he he- may contemplate con con- template Word of Mr Mr Br Brjan's Bryans ans ann announcement un ment t t Helena Mont la last night that he would support Senator Walsh of ot that i tate state for jor permanent chairman of ot the com came as a surprise to most of the party chiefs here and started speculation as to how far the Nebraskan s- s kan might go l In n f n effort to overturn the the tl plans ns of ot the administration forces Secretary secretary- Colb Colby of ot the state department department depart- depart m ment nt Senator Robinson o ot of Arkansas and Chairman Cummings have been mentioned by administration support support- era for forthe the permanent chairmanship but it was said today there had been j no decision I HALL ARRANGEMENTS The suggestion that Mr 11 Cummings Cumming who will be temporary chairman be continued as presiding officer was waR put forward today as a means of ot shortening shorten shorten- ing the convention pro proceedings by dis dispensing TV with the formalities of ot a a. second second sec sec- ond convention organization Mr Cummings Cummings Cummings Cum Cum- said however that personally he did not favor the plan and hoped some Iome one else would be he hen given th the tha per per- manent chairmanship Physical preparations at the convention convention convention conven- conven conven conven- tion hall hall hall virtually were completed to today to- to da day daj the final perfection of ot a system system system tem of ot el electrical megaphones to carry the voices of ot speakers out to the corners corners cor cor- ners of ot the big enclosure Installation Installation Installation tion of the paraphernalia started a are are- re report report re- re port that President Wilson expected to address the delegates by long distance telephone but Chairman Cummings said It if there were any such intention he was not aware of it I One due ne hitch In the arrangements re remaining remaining re- re remaining to be eliminated had to do with the seating of state delegations which exceed In number the national committees committee's allotment In several states two or three times the tIle allotted number of delegates were selected with the Int intention that each should have a fraction of ot a vote Convention officials officials officials said every effort would be made to arrange for s seats ats for all such delegates delegates delegates dele dele- gates though some of ot them might have to sit In the visitors' visitors section |