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Show JOKER IN THE PLATFORM .,! Baltimore, July 4. Whose was the g 8 "fine Italian hand" that slipped into Jm' ? the Democratic national platform an M' Innocent-appearing little clause about j. which groups of organized politicians y are talking today with much concern? $" Under the caption "Presidential & Primaries," in tho platform adopted $$ last night, the following clause oc- WT curs. jfo "Committeemen who are hereafter ; to constitute the membership of tho f Democratic national committee and S whoso election Is not provided for by Wm( law shall be chosen In each state at Hi: such primary elections, and the serv- , ice and authority of committeemen, wMH however chosen, shall begin Immedl- mtk'g atoly upon receipt of their credentials ffllvff respectively." " $m?' Innocent" as it may appear, it &d3 .j T said iuthe hotel lobbies tonight Uiat l i this clause strikes directly at tho grip jgl 3 which many of the members of the ll iJ committee now have on their Jobs, "by fj 4j virtue of their control of thoir local 3 5 state politics. In few states of the M union are members of the national -M .! committee elected by law. The na- K i tlonal committee itself has no legal ah existence. In most of tho states, in- si V, eluding Maryland, national commit- :m ' teamen are chosen by the stafiij con- JH ventlon, and according to party rules 4 nnd regulations. By controlling the .. j state conventions the politicians can vm )j control the selection of members of tm -K tho national committee. The declar- jK ,f. atlon in the party platform arop'oses ri that In such states the national com- M fl mitteemen shall be elected by direct v Jj primaries. , ' jB 1 William Jennings Bryan., is said to Wk "-3 be responsible for this as well as 4R u nearly all of the sentences in the platform, but to judge from com- 1M m ments heard in the hotels, there are fl some members of the committee bed jB M ex-merabors who had not read e jflS jQ platform carefully before it was sub vj mltted to the convention but who did ! listen ta the perfunctory reading of i8f' the document and who did not detect IS '$ the particular sentence until this -?! morning. 31 tj Declares for Wh'son. M 5 Madison, Wis., July 4. The Wh- M consln Stato Journal, progressive Lfe- 9 jm publican. In a front page editoriftK ma written by its editor, Richard Lloyd SfJI Jones, comes out for Woodrow Wll- tjW son for president The editorial con- MiM tends that every Wisconsin progres- jffH sive should consistently support Wil- AM son. It also further states that tho &IH State Journal will support state and It'H congressional progressive Republl- 6c can tickets. Tho understanding is M that this action meauB that LaFolletto I may support Wilson as tho editor of H the State Journal has been the spokes- ' H man for the senator for a year past. 7 H .rtr lM |