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Show oo era would LEAVE NO GAP ! FORM ITS If Liouor Traffic Is Dead It Should Be Buried Like Any Other Corpse. AUDITORIUM, San Frannon July! 2. William Jennings Hryan. with one of his old-time speeches in support of a bone dry plank for the Domocraticl platform turned the convention al-j mo4t upelde down late today and started one of the groateat and nolsest demonstrations the assembly hud .een When Bryan had concluded his re-' ply to the advocates of a wet plank the demonstration cut loy.re on th! floor, and. wholly ur.alded by the hand or the organ or any of the other Instrumentalities In-strumentalities which had been used effectively to keep other demonstrations demonstra-tions golns. It proceeded spontaneously spontaneous-ly ana resisted all efforts to get the convention back to order. Bryan. standing, smiling in the limelight at tne edge of the speakers') platfoim. and with tears of emotion coursing down Ml .heek., reviewed a procession of prohibition enthusiasts, who tore up state standards and started start-ed a moving column of delegates about the hall There was more than one fight over whether a state stand-1 ard should go into the demonstration. A nart lcularl v aucrtai ul.ir battle raged around po.-wcysion of the California Cali-fornia sBandard, where, when Mrs.) Georgia C Ormaby of Oakland attempted at-tempted to carry the standard into' the demonstration, a number of rm-n attempted to to prevent it. Among' them was an assistant sergeant-at-' arms. Francis J. Meney pounced on the man and threw him Into the crowd. All that remained of thel standard when the wreckage was. learcd away waa a tattered part of I the pasteboard top which had once borne the lettetsi ot the state's name ! Alabama a standard suffered a slmllari fate and the bits were borne triumphantly triumph-antly about the hall by the prohibition i forces. I During the demonstration, someone bore the standard of Bryan's home state to the platform, and, reaching' out. Bryan lifted it high above the rest, while the crowd roared. Finally, after the crowd had been' quieted, Chairman Robinson recognized recog-nized Senator Glass. Al'L'ITORll M. July 2. While the i"i iiiuiiuaiiiunj nt-iv iii-uiK rea the leaders conferred on a plan tc limit debate to three houis and a half Chairman Bol inson presented the ar rangemont to the convention for approval, ap-proval, and although there wore criei of Cut It down," and one delegutc yelled "C'Jt out the three hours.'' Unanimous consent for the agree ment was refused by a chorus of objections, ob-jections, but on motion of Senatoi (iluss the rules were suspended anvJ the three hour and a half plan wa, Hgte'il to Then W. J. Bryan wai recognized to begin argument on his proposal He was allotted an hour unoor th convention's agreement, but said he would yield a largo part ol that time to others supporting him. Beginning his argument In support of the eighteenth amendment. Mi Bryan soon got the convention to cheering. Every Democratic state, said, had ratified the amendment, and every one recognized that tho 'liquor .rafru Is dead, never to be resurrected." resurrect-ed." The only question it whether we shall recognize it as dead," ho continued, con-tinued, or allow it to lie out on tho ground uncovered. Decency requires that a corpse be put out of sight.'' The liquor interests were not trying to reopen the question, but now had come down to advocating wine and beer for home consumption only. He argued that to remain silent on the suDjeci would leave open the possibility possibili-ty of change In the law to Increase the alcoholic content. "I want to leave no opening for misunderstanding mis-understanding or quibble," he aald. So I have put into my plank the provision pro-vision that there shall be no relaxation relaxa-tion of the law What we hat is alcohol, alco-hol, and wo hate It whether we find it in whisky. In wine or In beer. They tell you that wine Is a harmless drink, but you will find thmt through the agea if has been wine that cursed mankind. If you can't get enough alcohol to make ou drunk, why do you want alcohol at all 1 .Some tell you that If you pass my plank some- people will leave the party. That's true. But while you may lose some you'll bring In a number Inf.nitely greater, and when they come they'll come out of iove for the principles for which we have declared." As he worked Into his speech the Nebraakan mtzed many Biblical reference refer-ence with his rounded rhetorical pe rlods. His full voice filled the hall. I and he irot the galleries nd s.m ofl the delegatea going into longer and longer burata of applause as ne went on. When he prepared to turn to the o'her planks he had presented there wre protests from the galleries and demands that he go on. No." he replied, while the crowd cheered, 1 but I'll get.&bgt & cheered. Hut I 11 come back to that after a while." rropjw Nati'Mial Bulletin. The plank for a national bulletin to e BsVi publish official news, he declared.' would put the party on record as fa-; vonng light and not darkness." Many newspapers, he argued, were conttolled by predatory interests.1 while many others erred unlntentlon-1 ally through the influence of advertisers. adver-tisers. Briefly he presented the merits of the profiteering plank hv ordered and which he F-ald ho could not get into the Bepubllcan platform because ' nearly all the profiteers were there In1 the convention or In the galleries." The plank now n .1 offered to the Democrats, he added, in Order to drive out of tho party any profiteers who I might remain in It. Would bonge onstltnilon. The plank against universal military, training wax also argued very briefly by the speaker, and then he turned In his leaguo declaration. 'I want th.' constitution changed.' he said, so we can get out of war as easily as we can get into war. We fought the wr to establish the! ' I great principle of Democracy, the 'j principle of majority rule. If we declare de-clare here for ratification of the treaty 1 with reservations that a mijorii. of 1 the senators ugree on. the KSjtUOll- 1 cans will have to Join us In that decla-'I decla-'I ration or else we will lake most of the l Republican party away. I ' Jsn t it better 10 lake this stand, 'which will Insure acceptance of the league of nations, which tho people I want and put the banner of progress ,1 Into the hands of AVoodrow Wilson to cjrry forward. " ppiau- for Bryan At the close of tho speech the ap- plause swelled up again as Mr. Bryan J leaned smiling over tho rront ot tn j platform and received a large bouquet 1 of peonies sent up by Mrs. George F. j Hull of Lincoln. .Neb., his home town. i..j Barred in.m Convention iihh. The demonstration lasted only a j fraction of a minute, however, and ' Kichmond Fearson Hobson of Alabama Ala-bama was presented to support tho ! Bryan dry plank. Hobson got into the convention on a proxy, although earlier ear-lier in tho dav senator Keed of Mis-! Mis-! aourl left for home Lcauee he could j not Set on the convertlon floor wlh an alternate a proxy. Hobson stirred up a rumpjs when i he charged that th r was 0.1 fo' 1 ' conspiracy" against the constitution. , In the center of the hall Keproacnia-' Keproacnia-' live A. J Sabbath of Illinois Jumped to his feet and shouted. You are aaylng something that la not true," ! and hisses mingled with the applause I The chairman got order, but the disturbance dis-turbance started up again when a moment mo-ment later the speaker shouted that . those who did not like the lonstitu-I lonstitu-I tlon should leave the country. Mitmeeola Woman i aw. Mrs Peter aleeon of Minnesota was ' the next speaker to be called by Mr I Bryan In support of his program. She said she spoke n the name of the motherhood of America in supporting j the dry declaration. it was not the liquor interests but the Non-Fartlsan league, she said thst recently defeated Bepreaentattv a Volstead, author of the olstead act. for re-election In Minnesota. Sir ijllver Ixidge recently passed over thle country.' she continued. ' on with departed piriu But from the smell of the breaths of "e-ime or tii mr 1 ..- tni here In San Francisco. I think the h.e tieen In communication wi:h Use u ind hart bee n holding . i with John Barleycorn." 't- nized for thirty mil. il t.. rep), f., Brvan s arguments and speak 1 r and light wine plank. The text of the sub plan offered b W Bourke Cockran follows: The validity of the eighteenth amendment to the constitution lias been sustained by the supreme court, and any law e raited under its author -l' must be enforced In the interest r personal Hi.rrt . to roneerv rights of the states, we favor legisla-i tlon under tho eighteenth amendment allowing tho manufacture and sale for home consumption only of elder, ll'ht wines anil beer, preserving to ihe various vari-ous state power to fix any alcoholic' content thereof other than as fixed by congress as may be demanded be the opinion or wishes of each Io ility." |