Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-15
MOOSE BAITED
AS DEMOCRATS
OFFER HAVEN
Party Kills Fatted Calf for
Orphans, Says Samuel
G. Blythe
HAVE LOST "BIG FATHER"
By SAMUEL G. BLYTHE


copvsohf, 1875. bp tAs csntraI Ne,cs Association
ST LOUIS, June 15.--They spent the
night killing the fatted calf in the Commit
tee on Resolutions. appointed by the DEM
ocratic Convention, which went into ex-
cessvely nuncupative session here yester-
day killing the fatted calf for the Progress
sives, or erstwhile brethren of the Bull
Moose
OF course, strictly speaking. the Progress
sives are not prodigal sons 80 far as the
Democrats are concerned Orphans would
be the better term for them, for they seem
TO have lost their big father and they have
no home However. Il was the Democratic
idea that they should be welcomed effuslve-
", via the platform of Sterling Principle
20 be enunciated here today or tomorrow,
albeit the enunciation Is likely to bo some
what susurrated. provided the Hon WILL
lam Joel Stone reads 1t in his capacity as
chairman of the committee, for the honor
able William whispers all his enunciation.
PLAN ADEQUATE REFUGE.
Still the platform, as the convention will
assert, will speak for itself
To the end of making It easy for Progress
sives to find a sheltering and sheltered re-
treat the platform was constructed to meet
as many of their well-known principles as
possible. OF course, there will not be any
thing In 1t about the initiative and refer
endum nor the recall of judges nor much
about social Justice, but any Progressive
who has not too much of a crouch on the
existing order will find adequate refuge in
the tenents to be proclaimed so the DEM
ocrats think, and so the Resolutions Com
tnfttee labored last night to make sure.
CRANKIsNIs AND CRoTCHETs.
There was ample data on hand when the
committee met to furnish guidance for Its |
deliberations GaCretary NeyVtOn Ralxar did |
not pack that big suitcase for nothing all |
the way from Washington. Furthermore, |
the committee was submerged with all sorts |
Of outside suggestions and demands. These |
came from all quarters, and embraced |
every kind of crankisms and crotchets, from
the benefits to be derived by the public at |
large by the exclusive pse of bran sas q |
food to proposed plank declaring II to |
be the sense OF the Democratic party that |
this country's appropriations and finances
should be conducted on the budget system,
which suggestion caused John ]. Fitzgerald.
New York's member of the committee and
chairman of the Appropriations Committee
of the House of Representatives, to emit
loud shrieks of agonized protest
After the grain had been wnnowed out,
what follows was substantially the re-
suit l make no attempt to give the exact
words. but in It's important paragraphs the
platform stands for these things
It Is very strong on our foreign policy;
puts real patriotism as the first requisite
for exalted government and true national
ism, and goes specifically after hyphenates
and their insidious anti-Americanlsm. II
dsnounces any foreign Power that seeks
to control the policies of the United States
by means of the Vaccinations of citizens
of that country temporarily sojourning in
lhe United States.
MEXICAN MUDDLE.
Mexico is not mentioned specifically, but
the platform demands for small govern
ments the right to conduct and regulate
their own internal affairs to suit them
selves which Is the Administration way
OF answering critics of Wilson's American
policy.
It asserts that when the present legisla-
tive program of the Administration has
been completed by the Congress there will
be enough remedial laws, and says the
shall be given an opportunity to
rest and recuperate.
A Tariff Committee advocated. and an
clause The platform de- !
nands navy strong enough to prevent ag. /
gressive attacks by sea, and strong enough !
to enforce the Monroe Doctrine, which !
means very strong navy.
PEACE AND PROSPERITY.
An army Is advocated that shall be
strong enough VIGOROUSLY to meet unex. :
oected assault by any foe with reserve :
'orce sufficiently large to protect the coun-
try from any aggression whatever whether
Unexpected or expected Peace and pros .
'erity are referred to in adequate and ad. :
hiring terms, as the results of the !
,enefcient democratic rule. u
There is the usual lot of minor matter,
Ind the Baltimore platform is lndorsed as
whole, which relieves the party OF any
specific reference to the Panama Canal
oils plank in that platform or to the r
Texatious one-term plank. :.
Meantime the Presidents own keynote !.
ipeech at Washington was taken as the :
ext for the campaign Dear Old Columbia :
will be praised to the extreme limit of
,anegyric from now until next November
" both sides. Let us trust she will retain d
Ter native or girlish modesty, and not get o
VI puffed up over II. "
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