Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-26
A Conceited, Shutting and
Insipid Platform

Any living who should completely embody in the flesh
qualities Of the Republican platform published from Chi
cago his figure such pusiaimousness of
character that he would certainly be added to the number Of the
unemployed
may say that this ambiguous and cowardly
the of the gentleman who presided over
Republican platform Let rather that the
character the platform the character of Mr. Fairbanscar
Fairbanks exaggerated and raised TO supernatural
degree of fubdub and forcibe feebleness
boastu of the past wholly scfatshed with the present
and vacatng everything but standpatism for the
future program public question II dis
every living pressing either in silence with
which nothing
To analyze of this document little like
describing the anatomy lard But few specifications
may be attempted
To begin platform very notable for the things
does moi course wholly the subject of
transforming national movement for direct primaries
the direct primaries pretty putting everlasting
end kind of convention that made this platform All refer
ence TO direct legislation eoquently epid article
deprecng ideas that misbavng judges should be
called buried flourish of phrases about the integrity Of the
courts, and so
Concerning all of the Taft administration in such
matters parcels post merchant marine and the
pure food laws the platform bragsbu promises moth
ing The party has program.
subject of the tariff which could not be avoided the
platform blind the dreadful record of the Republican party
repentance that 1T first goes the
present then single that tariff
taxes and be reduced but makes promise
reduce them
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publican party entrusted with nothing will be done
TO the tariff years for demands the continuation
the Taft for the tariff reduc
ton him the present Democratic house and Repub
can obedience overwhelming public enti
men-was that tariff board which had been work nearly
years collecting information which to recommend changes
had moi at that reported The Taft tariff board has since
ported and confessed IFS inability recommend definite rates
Republican platform demand for the continuation of the tariff
board sufficiently definite promise to the privileged
interests that tariff shall be withdrawn urtaled
long as Mr. Taft is president
the plank monopoly and privilege is study in
offending everybody abject subservenc
privileged class
The machine politicians Republican
anxious avoid ghest suggestion that the
corporate combinations should be legally controlled that they have
committed party the absurd doctrine that there ought
combinations all and that check put
petition criminal
public corporations and many other
poration usually called by that possibly
be regulated by competition BUT MUST BE REGULATED BY
LAW
employers of the bosses who will approve
the Republican platform know that the Chicago epse however
imperfecty worded full Not only
tariff plank every the lines faithful
promise the favored interests that the party will do little
possible to bother them in the future
The failure of the Republican platform with the
ghe hand certain matters that the people determined to have
that the interests trying desperately keep from them,
such the direct election of United States senators and the income
the high road of politics wide to the Democrats at
Baltimore
be question that the party that MIR Roose
welt rursng INTO life will seize these great popular de
They the East but the West they have
achieved an overwhelming power
The Baltimore convention would miss the greatest opportunity
that has been offered TO the Democratic party half century if
failed commit itself with simplicity and cearncsS the
whole great cause of popular progress
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