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Show Convention Adopts Platform After An Eight Hour Debate SAN FRANCISCO. July 2 William Jennings Bryan lost his fight today to have a bone dry plank included in the Democratic platform the convention snowing him under a roll call which followed a dramatic dra-matic debate. The official result was a hundred and fifty-five and a half ayes, nine hundred and twenty-nine and a half noes This finished Bryan's Bry-an's bone dry plan1, and the convention turned tc the next amend ment to the platform, which was the plank offered by Kepresentatr Hobson of Alabama. Declining to include in its platform any reference to the prohibition prohibi-tion issue, the Democratic convention rejected both the bone dry plank fathered by Wiiiiam Jennings Bryan and the cider, wine and berr plank presented by the New York delegation. DITORII 1 Bat I - o. Juls 2. At 6 o'clock tonight, after eight solid hours of demonstration, oratory' and debate, the Democratic national; convention came to the point of vot- lng on the I hanges proposed In thej platform by William Jennings Hr.an1 and others. There were eleven sub-! planks pending and offered for inclusion inclu-sion in ihe platform. Tho vote on the prohibition amendments was first. The plunks offered by Mr. Bryan, j Hobson and Cockran were to be tnken up in that order, but objection was made The first vote, therefore, came on Bryan's bone dry plank in the rcg-l ular order Rapid I otins Ik urn- in quick and successive votes, tho; Demoi ratlc national convention to- J daj voted down by heavy majorities all attcnlpts to amend the report of j the platform committee and threw out all substitute proposals. Including I the bone-dry plank by William J Bryan and the wet plank offered by W Bourko Cockran. T.ne administration's administra-tion's league of nations' plank, as reported re-ported by the committee was sustained sus-tained ogalnst all attack. The admln-lsiratlnn admln-lsiratlnn supporters were In control by heavy majorities all alone the line. Cochran Moist Plank. The official total which beat the Cockran moist plank was 72b 4 against it and 356 voting for It; votes were absent. Without a roll call the convention also voted down Mr. Bryan's plank for the publication of an official newspaper by the federal government. The Bryan profiteering plank also was rejected by acclama-, lion, in quick succession the convention conven-tion then voted down also the plank offeied by Mr Bryan declaring against compulsory military training in peace,' time. The Bryan league of nations, plank shared the same fate, going out I in a great chorus of noes." The Bryan prohibit Ion plank re-i Jected by the convention was as folio fol-io WD "We heartily congratulate the Democratic party on its splendid leadership in ihe submission and ratification rati-fication of ihe prohibition amendment to tne federal constitution, and we pledge the party to the effective enforcement en-forcement of the present enforcement law, honestly and in good faith, with-! out any lncrt-use in the alcoholic con-' tent of the permitted beverages and without weakening of any other of its provisions." The unseating of Senator Heed loft me viih.soijii ueie.gauon Hnon one Dole. ; its total was recorded a 35 Instead ofi 36 provided In the convention hall. I A plank for a commission to Investigate Investi-gate tho feasibility of a soldier bonus also was rejected without ioll call Tho cuLutlt.ute Irlah plank, declaring declar-ing it was the purpose of tho nation to' recognise the independence of the irisn republic, ulso uu voted down by the convention. Platform Is dopted. The total on the vote rejecting the substitute on the Irish pla-ik was '!:- .iKuWiit it and -lu.'', votes ror It Then Chairman QlaSS moved the adoption of the plrniorii) and it went through framed wi ii a roai WMti a heer the convention turned to thej first ballot for president. iirviMi Gets Howling Demonstration Brysn got a howling demonstration I Of twenty minutes aftet he concluded his speech for the bone dry plank, but when the balloting began it became i apparent that much of the enthusiasm was S personal tribute |