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Show REAL FIGHT TO I Friends Have No Doubt of Outcome Out-come While Opposition Lines Up For Struggle WALSH SUPPORTERS WORK UNDER COVER Wets and Drys Put On Extra, Steam and Irish Independence Independ-ence Advocate Pow-wow j i SAX FRANCISCO. June 27. The; fight against Senator Glass of Vir- glnia, the administration's choice tor chairman of the reaolutionn committee, commit-tee, remained an indefinite quantity tonight, but was attracting Increasing .ttentIon in conventio gossip. Administration leaders declared lhatj 1 there was no doubt as to the outcome, 1 and some even asserted that the move-I move-I ment agaiim Senator Glass would' collapse beforo the committee met to- morrow. Those active in the opposition opposi-tion were less positive, but declared it; was a real fight. ; Walsh to Oihh: Glass. I Spnator V. alsh ot Montana, who re-j Ijccted President Wilson's advice audi voted last March for ratification ot! I the peace trenty with the Republican' i reservations, wan the candidate urgod( I against the Virginian. A group of west-, I crn delegates seemed to form the 'backbone of the Walsh movomem.: I but those in charge of it conccdedly ; were making their fight under cover! and said they did not care to tip their , hnnd by revealing who had promised support. I William J. Rryan expected to be the; center of platform disputes in the-committee, the-committee, sold he had no candidate, for the chairmanship. Ho previously has advocated Senator Walsh's scloc-1 tion as permanent chairman of the convention,, however, and th,e general' prediction was that if a roll call woro taken In the commitoc, he would line I up against Glass. I The movement to make the Montana' senator permanent chairman appar-, i ently had been abandoned, though in was" said some eastern states which might have supported him for that place probably would not be for him i'to.- resolutions" chairman. I Advocates of Sonuiur Walah's can-I can-I didacy to head the committee insisted j that the fight was not essentially an I anti-administration one. and that his j selection would not necessarily mean l overturning the administration pro-J pro-J gram of declaring for the peace treaty I without destructive reservations. They j declared they wcro conducting their i whole campaign on the basis of the I personal qualifications of the two men. ! Wets and Drys Put on Steam. So far as platform Issues were concerned, con-cerned, there was no evidence of a change in the situation during the day except that both wets and drys put on extra steam, and the advocates or an Irish independence plank held fur-; fur-; they pow-wowr, in an effort to get to-1 to-1 gather on a program. The group op-! op-! posing the administration treaty plank : also continued work on various sug-! sug-! gested substitutes, but apparently reached no very definite conclusions. |