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Show ' BRYAN ON DEMOCRATIC PROGRES- SIVENESS H Referring to the Democratic national m convention at San Francisco, Mr. Bryan B declares in his newspaper The Commoner B,1 "The progressives had no chance in the mh Democratic party this year. The admin- 'H istration presented no econoinic issue up- B ' on which a division could bo made. Those 1 who spoke for the president made the in- t dorsement of the treaty 'without reser- B vations' the dominant in fact the only f test, Nothing could be done or said that j' would in any way be construed as a re- B ' flection upon the administration or as a m , suggestion of improvement Nearly a 1 third of the delegates at the Democratic m , convention seemed to be interested in B nothing tyut the liquor question. B "The administration did not want anv- i thing said on the prohibition question, B doubtless because it might be construed fl as a rebuke to the president for silence on m ' the subject in general and his lamentable 1 effort to repeal war prohibition at a time B when it would have invited a national Bj spree of a few weeks duration before con- BJ stitutionat prohibition went into effect. |