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The Republican Platform.

The Republican Platform.
The Republican party, whose dele
gates met in Chicago to nominate
candidate to oppose President Wilson
next November, was confronted witt
q situation such as no political part.
has ever faced 1t was admitted,
poverty stricken in the matter Of cam
paign issues.
The platform which the resolution:
committee reported Thursday is, to b.
generous, innocuously weak. 1t doe:
not present single item on which
decent fight can be waged or passing
fair opposition to Democracy offered
1t is as pitiful to cont mplate as sena
tor Harding's keynote speech
which even the republican adheren'
press has criticised as meaningless
tumble of words affirming nothing anc
denying as much.
The nearest approach to solid issue
was found in the declaration in favor OF
woman suffrage, but the props were
violently removed from even that when
certain faint-hearted deleg gates insisted
on a compromise that fixes the obliga-
ton on the states. Like all the rest OF
the proceedings of the convention thus
far the suffrage plank is a straddle-a
most unbecoming attitude in which to
place the ladies.
The platform declares for American
ism that shall be incorporating tow
ard 'hyphenates, plainly evolved from
President Wilson'S expressed opinions
on the subject. 1t declares for peace
with honor, not at any price. and IN
this endorses President Wilson's inter-
national diplomacy which has had no
other object 1t declares in favor OF
woman suffrage to be procured through
state action, which President Wilson
long ago told the women was the only
proper and hopeful way. 1t favors the
establishment of an International court
to settle disputes, the DEGREES OF the
court to be carried out by an interna-
tional army and navy, an idea which
originated in, or at least emanated
from the white house 1t declares in
favor of budget system of congress
sional appropriations, which prominent
democrats in congress have advocated
for number of years.
The platform promises adequate pre-
paredness, including navy capable OF
defending both coasts, which is delic-
iously funny since it was republican
misr lie that tumbled our navy into its
present inadequate place. 1t favors
federal control of all transportation sys-
tens, after ridiculing Mr.. Bryan's sug-
gestions to the same end. 1t condemns
democratic violations of the civil ser
vice law without citing instances) and
promises proper enforcement Of the
law, in the hope of winning back the
allegiance of civil service employees
whose suffrage the republican party
compelled while in Office, but who will
be wary of repetition of republican
reinforcement" of civil service laws in
future 1t also promises to better con-
ditions generally to laboring people Gg-
noring that conditions are now better
than ever they were under republican
regime); promises rigid federal child
labor laws forgetting the years of OPP
portunity when republicanism opposed
such legislation), and promises the up
holding of all labor's rights under ex-
listing statutes, which should be COM
pulsory with the oath of Office and COM
paratively easy now that the demo-
cratic party has placed on the books
statute defining and eliminating the
abuse Of the right of injunction.
1t ''stingingly" denounces both the
Mexican and the general foreign poll
cies of the President and dem ands strict
neutrality for the administration, cheer
fully neglecting to offer an adequate
solution of the Presidents difficulties
and failing to point out any instance in
which his neutrality has failed. AS
substitute for the ship purchase plan it
offers the ship subsidy plan which has
so often and for SO many years been re-
jected by the nation 1t was to be ex-
pected, indeed it would have been a
disappointment otherwise, that a pro-
tective tariff should be reiterated.
Considered from one end to the other
the republican platform convinces the
truth of President Wilson's declara-
ton: 1.-The republican party has not
had a new idea for thirty years. Tel
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