WEEK’S NEWS OF THE
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
NEW YORK, June 30.—The Democratic platform was adopted
at 1:30 o'clock yesterday morning by viva voce vote, after the anti
klan forces had lost their fight by a single vote to put a plank in
the platform specifically denouncing the klan by name. Only a pow
erful speech by William J. Bryan prevented denunciation of the
klans in the platform which carries a general plank on religious lib
erty and political freedom, and indorses the League, but leaves the
question of American entrance to be decided by ^popular referendum
under a special act of Congress.
In an impassioned but losing appeal to the convention by New
ton D. Baker, to adopt the minority report on the League of. Na
tions plank, said: “I served Woodrow Wilson for five years, and
said to him ‘I.did my best, and I’m doing it now- You are still the
captain of my soul. Wilson is standing beside me now urging me
to say to you to save the nation-”
The Alaska delegation voted to denounce the Ku Klux Klan by
name.
NEW YORK, June 30—The com
pleted Democratic platform of half a
hundred planks was submitted to the
convention late Saturday afternoon,
when it reassembled, at three o’clock.
The plank on the Ku Klux Klan adopt
ed by the committee in its majority
report, was the Bryan plank vhich
does not name the klan, only by infer
ence.
Other planks include:
A national referendum for the
League of Nations.
Future tax reductions and revisions.
Tariff enactment.
Legislation designed to restore the
farmer again to economic equality
with other industrialists.
Immediate independence of the Phil
ippines.
Establishment of a full Territorial
form of government for Alaska.
Strict public control and conserva
tion of the Nation’s resources.
Recovery of all oil reserves fraud
uentlv leased and the vigorous prose
cution o fany guilty of wrong-doing
in the leasing transactions.
Government control of the anthra
cite industry ,and all other corpora
tions.
Government control of the necessi
ties of life where the public welfare
has been subordinated to private in
terests.
The Alaska Plank
The full text of the Alaska plank
in the platform reads:
“The maladministration of the af
fairs of Alaska is a matter of concedn
to all our people. Under the Republi
can administration development has
ceased and the fishing industry has
been seriously impaired. We pledge
ourselves to correct the evils which
have grown up under the administra
tion in that rich domain. An adequate
form of local self government for Al
aska must be established and to that
end we favor the establishment of a
full territorial form of government for
that Territory similar to that enjoyed
by all territories except Alaska during
the last century of American history.”
Lxcerpts l rom Platiorm
The Democratic platform started
off with an eulogy of President Wil
son, and a declaration of principles
the first of which was, “equal rights
to all and special privileges to none,”
the Republican party being accused of
holding that prosperity must origi
nate with special interests and seep
down through the channels of trade
to the least favored industries and
wage earners of all, and that the Re
publican party was chiefly concerned
with material things, and the demo
cratic party chiefly with human right.
The platform also declares that the
Democratic party stands for remedial
legislation and the Republican party
stands still.
After this platform urged a com
parison of the Wilson administration
and the Harding Coolidge administra
tion, asserting “there is no corruption
in the former and their pledges were
faithfully fulfilled.”
It was pointed out that “privilege
was uprooted and the corrupt lobby
ists driven from the National capital,
and it was further asserted that Am
erica enjoyed an unprecedented period
of social and material progress, up to
the time the world war was enacted,
and Wilson introduced more construc
tive and remedial legislation than the
Republican party has done for a cen
tury. “Under Wilson we had a leader
ship that carried America to greater
heights, honor, power and glory, than
she ever knew before in her entire
history.”
Republican Inefficiency
The next heading was Republican
inefficiency and corruption. The dec
laration was made that the govern
ment was never so tainted with cor
ruption and never had the adminis
tration so utterly failed. The Repub
licans were accused of attempting to
limit the inquiry into official delin
quencies, the platform declaring it
was these investigations that sent
former Secretary of the Interior Fall
back to Three Rivers in disgrace and
dishonor, and revealed the incapacity
and indiffeience to public obligation of
the secretary of the navy and con
firmed the general impression as to
the unfitness of the attorney general
and disclosed the appalling conditions
of the Veterans’ Bureau, and revealed
the criminal and fraudulent nature of
the oil leases.
Republicans Had Boasted
The platform further said that the
Republican party had long boasted it
was the only party fit to govern, but
had proven its inability to govern
even itself. The nation cannot af
ford to entrust its welfare to an exe
cutive whose policies have been re
jected by his own party, and explain
ed that “a vote for Coolidge was a
vote for chaos.”
Issues
The platform declared under the
heading “issues,” that “the dishones
ty, discrimination .extravagance and
inefficiency that exists in the govern
ment and the burdens of taxation have
become unendurable. Agriculture
was asserted to be in distress and the
slowing down of industry was causing
; high costs of living. The tariff was
' alleged to be destroying foreign mar- i
I kets and the high cost of transporta-1
i tion was taking the profit from the ;
mining and other basic industries. The j
platform then pledged the democracy !
to drive from public places all who i
make barter of National power and |
put nothing but honest men in office |
and practice economy in expenditures j
and reverence and respect the rights
of all under the constitution, destroy- ;
ing government by the spy and black- j
mailer ,the Republican administration
encouraging and practicing both.
Tariff Denounced
The platform denounced the Ford- |
ney-McCumber tariff as the most un-:
| just and unscientific and dishonest j
; tariff measure ever enacted in the his- j
| tory of the country.
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Little attention was paid to the dis
cussion of the Ivu Klux Klan question
until the sentence “renewing our faith
in the League of Nations” was pro
nounced, when a brief demonstration
was made, after the promise of a ref
erendum on the League of Nations
question.
A plank relating to religious liberty
was read, “The Democratic party re
affirms its adherence and devotion to
those cardinal principals contained in
the constitution and the precepts \
whereon our government was found- !
ed,” that Congress shall make no j
lows respecting the establishment of;
religion or the prohibition of free ex- ;
ercise thereof or abridging freedom j
of speech or the press.
These principles we pledge ourselv- j
es to ever defend and maintain. We
insist at all times upon obedience to
the orderly processes of law’ and de
plore and condemn any effort to arouse
religious or racial dissention.”
The platform then concluded by af
firming “our faith in these principles
and submit our cause to the people.”
Demonstration Follows
The demonstration which followed,
lasted less than half a minute. Chair
man Cummings moved for the adop
tion of the above plank. Newton D.
Baker then presented a substitute
plank on the League of Nations which
was followed by applause.
Wm. R. Pattangall, of Maine, rep
resented the minority plank on the K.
K. K., which he said fourteen commit
teemen had signed ,and the galleries
yelled when the Klan was mentioned,
but Walsh pounded for order and the
the sergeant at arms quieted the of
fenders.
The convention then adopted the
committee plan to debate the League
of Nations for two hours and the klan
question for two hours, starting in:
with the League of Nations fijrst.
No Agreement Reached^
Reports from a conference of Dem
ocratic leaders early this morning
showed no prospect of an agreement
to keep the Ku Klux Klan issue off the
floor of the convention. Anti-Klan
leaders selected Former Secretary
Colby to lead their fight ,and it was
indicated that William J. Bryan might!
ead the fight for the Klan.
Alarmed Over Klan
Thoroughly alarmed by the poten
tialities o fthe fight over the Ku Klux
Klan yesterday on the convention floor
various groups and leaders conferred j
last night seeking some way or means i
to smooth out the situation. Three,
planks with respect to the Klan were;
presented to the Platform committee.
One plank would pledge the party to
oppose the efforts of the Klan or any
similar organization that interferes)
with political or religious freedom.
Bryan would leave out of the plank '■
any mention of the Klan.
The third or so-called Alabama
plank reviews the history of the1
“know-nothing party and declared
that the Democratic party openly op-!
posed it and there is no reason now i
why they should not specifically op
pose the Klan as they did in 1860.
Proposal Approved
The proposal for a National refer
endum on the League of Nations ques
tion for American Membership was
approved by the Platform committee.
Homage To Will on
New York, June 29—The Democrat
ic National Platform opens with pro
found homage of the memory of Wil
son, saying “our hearts are filled with
gratitude that the American Demo
cracy should produce this man, whose
ideals on government will serve an
example and inspiration to future gen
erations.”
The platform declared for trade on
an interchangeable basis with recip
rocal advantages to all countries par
ticipating, which is a time-honored
doctrine of the Democratic party. The !
party’s position was given as “in fav- j
or of a tax on commodities entering
the customs house that will promotej
effective competition and protect
against monoply and at the same time '
produce a fair revenue to support the
Government.” It was contended that J
the only taxation relief the Republi
can party had suggested was “a cut
of three hundred million dollars in
direct taxes and that was to be given
principally to those with the largest
incomes” and it was remarked that
“fortunately this plan of their admin
istration failed and under Democratic
leadership aided by progressive Re
publicans a more equitable plan was
adopted which reduces direct taxes by
about four hundred and fifty million
dollars.”
ravor Income I axes
“We hold that the fairest taxes
with which to raise revenue for the
Federal Government is an income tax.
We favor a graduated tax upon in
comes which will be so adjusted as to
lay the burdens of government upon
tax payers in a direct proportion as
benefits their ability to pay. We op
pose the so-called nuisance tax, sales i
taxes, and all other forms of taxation
that unfairly shifts the burden on the 1
consumer.
Illustrates Policy of Party
“We refer the Democratic revenue
measure passed last congress as dis
tinguished from the Mellon Republi-'
can plan, as an illustration of the pol
icy of the Democratic party. We con
tend the Democratic plan has so
changed the proposed Mellon plan as
to eliminate taxes upon the poor, re
ducing them upon moderate incomes!
and to a lesser degree upon incomes
of multi-millionaires. The party is al
so pledged to further reductions.” The
Mellon Plan was denounced as “a de
vice to relieve the multi-millionaire.”
Under the heading “Railroads” the;
Esch Cummins act of 1920 was pro
nounced a failure which was quite in- !
adequate to function for that high de
gree of public welfare which the peo
ple demand.
Under other headings the platform
re-affirming their policy regarding
Muscle Shoals embodied in the Nat
ional defense act of 1916, arift denoun
ced the “recent cruel, unjust contrac
tion of legitimate and necessary cred
it and currency.’ ’ The policy de
manded that the Federal Reserve sys
tem be so administered as to give
stability to industry and commerce
and finance as was intended by it un
der the Democratic party.”
A revision of the water power act
and general leasing act and other leg
islation relating to the public domain
was declared, and “strict public con
trol and conservation of all the na
tion’s natural resources such as coal,
oil, timber was promised in the plat
form. The conservation of migratory
birds and the establishment of game
preserves and a national policy of re
forsetation and improvement of roads
was also pledged. Under the heading j
“Mining” the platform said, “It is the j
duty of the government to foster this
industry and remove all restriction !
that destroys its prosperity.” The
party was pledged to regulate the an
thracite industry and others control
ling the necessaries of life.
First Test of Strength
Balloting for the presidential nom
ination began this morning, the first '
test of strength of the two leading ^
candidates resulting in 431 for Me- ]
\doo, 230 for Smith with a total ’
rote of 1096. Alaska gave Smith 3, j
Underwood 2; McAdoo one higher. <
Flarrison x’eceived 43, Governor Bry- 1
9n 18, Ralston 30, Ferns 30. Silzer
28, and others scattering.
McAdoo Gaining Strength
NEW YORK, June 30.—On the
third ballot McAdoo received 437, A1
Smith 255, Robinson 41.
Liquor Interests Prominent
NEW YORK, July 1—William G.
McAdoo ,addressing a rally held in the
interests of his candidacy, declared
that the liquor interests as well as
big game business was seeking to
block his nomination.
Two Candidates Eliminated
The seventh and eighth ballots fail
ed to accomplish the nomination of
McAdoo, who received 442 votes to
A1 Smith’s 261. Two favorite sons
were eliminated, the first being Gov
ernor Sweet of Colorado ,his delega
tion going to Smith and Senator Ken
drick of Wyoming, whose delegation !
was divided between McAdoo and A1
Smith. „
Recess at Ninth
At the end of the ninth ballot the
convention took a recess until 8:00
o’clock last night .McAdoo received
444, Smith 278, and John W. Davis, j
who began with 31 votes rose to 63. i
AH thq campaign managers declared
they were satisfied with the result
of the balloting which did not indi
cate anything favorable to any can
didate.
Fourteenth Ballot
On the fourteenth ballot with 1098
voting, McAdoo received 475, Smith
306, John W. Davis 64, Raison 31,
Underwood 40, Ritchie 17, Glass 24,
Bryan 11, Cox 60, Robinson 19, Har
rison 20. No material change in the
15th ballot and the convention ad
journed until 10 a. m. tomorrow.
Governor Davis Withdraws
NEW YORK, July 1—Governor
Davis, of Kansas released his twenty
delegates to McAdoo while New Jer
sey changed her 28 votes from Silzer
to Smith.
McAdoo Gains Trifle
While McAdoo climbed to 478 in
the sixteenth ballot he dropped to
471 in the seventeenth with 312 for
Smith, John W. Davis 64, Cox 60,
Glass 4 4, Ralston 30, Robinson 28,
Underwood 28. The aim of the
Smith managers to show a one-third
vote thus convincing McAdoo he is
blocked in the nomination.
Missouri Deserts McAdqp
NEW YORK, July 1—Missouri de
serted McAdoo on the twentieth bal
lot casting thirty six votes for Davis
of West Virginia. The results of the
ballots were, McAdoo 432, Smith 307,
Davis 122, Underwood 45,. 732 votes
are necessary to nominate McAdoo.
McAdoo regained six votes on the
twenty-first ballot and the twenty
second failed to show any matei'ial
changes. North Carolina and Kansas
are reported wavering in their sup
port of McAdoo.
NEW YORK, July 1—The dragging
pace set by the leaders heartened all
the favorite son supporters to a hope
for a deadlock and that the voters
would break away in a new direction.
McAdOo leaders say he will be nomi
nated today or tomorrow. Smith peo
ple hold their prediction that at some
time or another their candidate will
go across.
NEW YORK, July 2—After making
gains several ballots were struck at
five p. m. and then the convention re
cessed until eight tonight. The totals
2405,were, McAdoo 438, Smith 308,
Davis 121, Cox 60, Glass 20, Ralston
32, Robinson 23, Walsh 9.
NEW YORK, July 2—Bryan ap
peared ebfore the Mississippi delega
tion, then in the act of switching to
Davis, whom he attacked declaring
his professional connections with J.
Pierpont Morgan would cost the party
something in the west .
Ralston Coming Up
NEW YORK, July 2—Ralston was j
coming up last night as a possible
compromise candidate. The twenty
sixth ballot showed McAdoo as losing
twenty votes when Oklahoma threw j
tier votes to Senator Owen. The 25th !
ballot was McAdoo 436, Smith 308, J.
W. Davis 126, Cox 59, Ralston 31, Un
lerwood 39. After a conference with
McAdoo Bryan was advising the dele
gation that if the nomination of Mc
Moo was impossible, he favored turn
.ng to Ralston.
Thomas Taggart, Indiana, Ralston’s
nanager held various conferences to
lay with Bryan and his brother Chas.
W .Bryan.
NEW YORK, July 2—The thirty
second ballot showed McAdoo gradual
y losing his lead, with Smith and
lavis holding their own. Alaska gave
me more to Smith on the 32nd, giving
dm four to Underwood two. The dif
erent delegations have been discuss
ng the possibility of bringing out
Newton D. Baker, former Secretary
>f war- to break the dead lock and ob
ain the nomination. Backers of Ral- !
ston are still claiming he will forge
ahead in the proper time. The thirty
second ballot gave Smith 322, Mc
Ado'o 415, Davis 128, Underwood, 39,
Ralston, S2, Glass 24, Robinson 24,
Cox 57.
NEW YORK, Juy 2—At the close of
the 30th ballot last evening at eleven
o'clock, the convention adjourned until
ten thirty this morning. The result of
the 30th ballot left McAdoo 415, Smith
323, Davis 126, Cox 57, Ralston 33, Un
derwood 39, Robinson 23, Glass 24.
The movement of Missouri delegates
from McAdoo lineup, to be thrown to
Ralston and Davis , has been started
and it is expected it will speedily elim
inate both leaders.
NEW YORK, July 2—The three
leaders on the thrity-third ballot show
ed losses because Michigan took her
thirty votes which had been divided
among them ,cast them for Senator
Ferris. On this ballot the leaders
stood McAdoo 404, Smith 310, Davis
121.
On the 34th ballot Mississippi flop
ped back to McAdoo with her twenty
votes after having voted for John
Davis for a number of ballots. On the
same ballot Oklahoma flopped back to
McAdoo with her twenty votes.
NEW YORK, July 3—Thomas Tag
gert leader of the Indiana democrats
this afternoon launched his long
heralded offensive for the nomination
of Ralston as a long succession of
ballots approached the half hundred
mark, the Indiana leader began bring
ing from under cover the votes he had
been holding out unt*l he had convinc
ed the leaders had been eliminated.
In quick succession two states left
the McAdoo standard and went over
to recruiting for Ralston. First Mis
sissippi and then M*ssouri went to
Ralston. Ralston was third in the
52nd ballot with ninety-three votes,
having passed John W. Davis, whose
total had fallen to 59. McAdoo had
dropped to 412 with Smith 320.
NEW Y ORK, Juiy 3—McAdoo shot
over the f’V' hund o.l mark last night.
His vote ii re i >*\i-.;h ballot w >.-• f>35
to 317 for Srnth. At the clo«e of
^2nd balloc the convention at midnight
adjourned >i i\’l tee this ?• oin:ng. The
•csults of O’e 42nd ballot .,'iov. ' o. f .r
McAdoo. 313 for Smith, Davis 6”. rv
deiwood 39, Cox 55, Glass 29, Ralston
30, Robinson 24.
Bryan, speaking again tonight from
ffie p.’atform, replying to a taunt of
»lu .n';\v Jersey del-g*Gu:i V.not Mc
Ai.oo’s acceptance of . retainer from
‘he oi: companies, ret- rted- “Mr. ho
•utyh retainer relate 1 to oil in Mex
ico but hit go for a thousand, and -ay
if .«»r> oil touched rf.Aaeo. intense a 3
r>*--«-istp • opposi . • V/all '••r ot
has washed it away.”
Senator Walsh of Massachusetts
presided as chairman last night in
stead of Senator Walsh of Montana.
NEW YORK, July 3—Seeking to
pull the convention out of a deadlock,
Bryan, v arhorse of many campaigns,
look the pJatform yesterday and de
clared himself for McAdoo two votes
; of the ninety, which for thirty-six
ballots had been cast steadily for ex
j governor Smith. This started Mc
Adoo supporters off on another dem
! onstration. The two delegates break
j ing to McAdoo were Lathrop Brown of
j St. James, and Roscoe Irwin of Kinks
) ton. The votes were Robinson 24, Mc
i Adoo 444, Smith 321, Davis 107, Cox
55, Glass 24, and Ralston 32.
NEW YORK, July 3—There was no
nomination on the 45th ballot, and no
difference of vote between ballots cast
j for McAdoo on the 43rd and 44th bal
| lot. The convention is preceding thi3
morning before practically empty gal
| leries. The Forty-forty ballot gave
I McAdoo 484, Smith 319, Davis 71, Un
derwood 39, Ralston, 31, Glass 25, Rob
inson 43. Alaska gave McAdoo one,
Smith three and Underwood two on
this ballot.
j NEW YORK, Juiy 3—The conven
tion adjourned at four o’clock yester
day until eight that evening, the 38th
ballot showing McAdoo 444, Smith 321
and Davis 104. Bryan, in his ad
dress from the platform cited a long
list of eligibles including Ralston, Rob
i inson, Walsh, but he climaxed his long
speech with a direct appeal for Mc
Adoo’s 'nomination.
NEW YORK, July 3—Bryan is off
the grape juice today. He came out of
i a. confect'onery store with a box of
, taffy.
j Taggert is a modern politician, he
; comes to the hall every day with his
I pockets full of chewing gum for the
women and cigars for the men.
Parley Sheldon, Iowa banker, 81,
a veteran of every democratic conven
tion since 84, finds the present gather
j ing the best thriller in his experience
j he says, and thinks the convention is
. still young.
NEW YORK, George Brennan, boss
of Iilonois deligation, notified the del
egation not to make any arrangements
to return home for the Fourth. Mc
Adoo leaders idicated this morning to
hand the- play over to their opposition
at any stage in the proceedings from
now on, but that they have plans all
ready that if they should fail with Me
Adoo, to throw their support to a can
didate of their own picking and get
the credit of naming the candidate.
Senator Walsh of Montana is to
be their man if they cannot push Mc
Adoo through.
NEW YORK, July 3—Oklahoma
with twenty votes, left McAdoo and
went to Robinson on the forty-fourth,
fifth, sixth and seventh votes. Glass
released twenty-four of the Virginia
' delegation from their pledges to him
but the delegation decided to continue
voting for him until they could agree
where to go. Several members of the
: National Committee are discussing on
i the floor of the convention that the
! committee is seeking to end the dead
lock by pressinfi for simultaneous pub
lic withdrawal of both Smith and Mc
Adoo. The forty-seventh ballot gave
| McAdoo 484, Smith 320, Davis 70, Un
J derwood 54, Cox 54, Glass 24, Ralston
31, Robinson 45.
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