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Show HVET VOICE BASS I FAKiNiE ASSERTS ) She Raps Craving for Liquor With Burning Issues at Stake in U. S. Br VASJtn ill Rfj ' M i I anion- Wmiiiuii Sliurt Slorj u riici in tmerlca. I; (Written BsClUSlvelg for L'idversul 8crlco. i Cop rIght 1920, by ("niversal R-rvlce i i ! SAN FRANCISCO, July 2 -How 'idry We are. hot lt Se ire. nobody i Known, how dryh-h-h-h we are ex- c-i-p- l."e sh' H.it in on Hi'-' I'epio- Icrutlc convention and saw It yawn and ifiufflo over Senator Carter Glass' eadlng of the Democrat platform which took no cognisance of the 18th amendment and ro through the prohibition pro-hibition scene so ably nfaged by that I well-known "heavy" on the dry! boards, William Jennings Bryan. Getting right down to fan, it wasn't I ,i particularly gratlflng commentary on our national munnern or manner oi thinking, this exhibition of our craving for niuor legislation above ir otner. ut ;i tin t- o, when the COIintry hut burning Issue.i at Ht.ike. Wv yawned, cat-calledj sblfted over b'cna'or tllu.ss' prepared presentation of lbs Democratic platfoum, dosed) oer the Questions II utcorporated,! sucli an league of nations, l.ihoi, fiee psech, taxes and even the high cost ! Ol llungTi but Shouted ourselves hoarse I oerho amount of alcohol to be ul- i low ed in the possible manufacture of light wlne. and beer. WL1 VOICIil IS DA8S Not the women The ..-t voice of; the world In a ba&s one. so the wet and dry demonstration at the auditor- i luni yesterday was sufficiently at cross! purposes to pitch the Democratic con-j vent ion Id the Key of "fireman save' Rl) i he-e-lld." William Jennings Bryan, In his ora- torlcal tones ami detachable cuffs, nhot them out of hln alpaca coat' sleeves with Bryonic vehemence, and although i f 1U-. : 1 1 pres. nt merely aft a delegate from Nebraska, took I ho day unto himself With all the self-appointed confidence of a SophOClee which, Instead of hiring s hall, used to appropriate tin- opn market plm . It was o great day for the" Bryan melodrama, fl reman says my che-e-Ud from firewater, Leading man, heavy and orchestra In one. he played the stops and the tremolos and be played them well, Intoned to rows of delc-',.iiis delc-',.iiis with taces the ' expression of such u tlow of rhetoric that the sides of the building and the sides of the "wets" fairly shook. in the company of Mr. Bryan, ex-Congressman ex-Congressman llobson, who made famous fam-ous the kiss and whom the kiss made famous. As Juvenile, ho played Straight for l he heartstrings :md the women and found them both. Mrs. Peter Olson was leading and wiongcd lady and. in the voice of Leah The Forsaken. Intoned that great actor and fireproof line. 'Save .My .'he-e-lld " K ) Ills (H I I GUI ER. "SavL- her from what'.'" yelled the gallery "L'lder and light beer?" Hoars of luughter Mr. Bryan (snooting his cuffs): ' Well, if you can't gel enough alcohol alco-hol to mako you drunk, why want It til all?" Chorus; '.'We don't want It at all wo want it all." And so on and ao on. the remaining issues of a solemn and auspicious occasion oc-casion drowned, as it were, In conver- j sationul L'.76 beer aud the cheers of Ihe POPUUM e, Uut Just the Same, no matter how dry of throat the men, and how dry of conviction the women, the one Issue not engulfed by tho prohibition tidal j wave was suffrage. The leading of that plank hrought forth a spontaneous man-made outburst out-burst In a four-da) siege of more oi les3 machine made demonstrations. With the exception of .Maryland, naturally .Mary being a bit diffident, every state present caught up its ban- nOT and sprang to Its foot nnd. to tho peppiest foxtrot in the bandmaster's repertoire, welcomed tho women. The bandmaster and Mr Hryun have a point In common. The are both unbidden, but highly wclcoim ! speakers. Tho former. In the Ian- j guage of music, who convenes US with "Hall, Hull the (Julia s All ll. re.' win n t)ie speaker's gavel falters at Its task, adjourns us to "How Tired I Am." condones us with the "Alcoholic Blues" and comments on petticoat. id politics with, "You Groat nig Beautiful Beauti-ful Doll." -Mr. Bryan makes himself heard I with sqUS. facllltv abovo the din. Uut right hero their paths converge. The I entire convention has marched to the i bandmaster's music. Tho same cannot can-not be said of .Mr. Urvun's music but . veil, there Is that line from Caegar We used to translate from tho Latin: "You cannot get a thirsty urrny to march." |
