Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-06-25 | Page 28 | Hitchcock for Top Job or Nothing

HIT HC CK fORI M fl JOP JUO JO EJ 0 R l N f IN t- t t J i Senator Declares I r. r t J Y N Not t Pla aX i Second Fiddle I k a r y SHIN li OJune F June 25 Sena Senator Hitchcock of ot Nebraska a announced today toa to to- day a he would not accept the Demp- Demp r e presidential nomination y S nat r Hitchcock's announcement was iii made de iti hi hi a a a- telegram to Arthur F. F i Mullen ilen member ember of the Democratic national na nIt- committee from Nebraska Nebrask answering an- an a. a letter In which Mr Mullen had said the senator was bein being n omi- omi mentioned ned for the vice prest- prest d I Sri r 11 I a. a am not a n. candidate for vice dent and would not accept the tho nomination nomina- nomina t l tion for second place the telegram m said I The Democratic platform will no not contain either a wet or dry plank in do inthe th the opinion of Senator Hitchcock Hitchock ock but bui he expressed the cony conviction today y that eH include a strong league of nations na- na plank fI I cannot cannot conceive t that at the D Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- moc mo- mo c cratic party will place a plank in the platform de declaring for or against proS pro- pro S he said Prohibition is not an issue between Democrats If a dry plank were were inserted it Il would mean mean the reading out of the party those Democrats who had bad not favored pro pro- hl If a wet plank were adopted ed it would mean that the men who foe foe- e- e elleve Ji lieve v in prohibition must be outside the party