Convention, after a struggle lasting an hour, agreed that a plank should be inserted in the platform declaring lat the Party would do all that is in its power to hold a national refer-end am on the question of joining the! League of Nations and that it would carry out the people's mandate expressed by it.
When the Democratic Convention assembled this morning, it was expected that the platform would be submitted for ratification, but, owing to differences in the platform committee, it was not ready. Mr. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee, promised that the platform would be ready in a few hours, He announced that on the League of Nations plank there would be a minority report presented by Baker, the ex-Secretary for War. With regard to the Religious Freedom plank, by which the Ku Klux Kian is meant, Mr. Cummings said that the committee had discussed the question throughout the night and wanted more time, as they did, not wish to bring' religious differences on to the floor of the Con. vention, tired and worn with lack of sleep since Tuesday. Mr. Cummins, amid a dramatic silence, described' hhow after the all-night session the members of the Committee at dawn joined in unison in the Lord's Prayer, after which" Mr. William
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