The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-13
HUGHES AND COP. PLATFORM RAPED
 BY SENATOR STONE
Says Republicans Have Invaded Supreme Court Requ sition Man to Lead Hopeless Cause-Platform Is Tribute to Democratic statesmenship- Roosevelt s Refusal Tragic Betrayal of His Followers

St. Louis, June 13-Senator Stone of Missouri, chairman of the Com mittee on Foreign Relations, who is to chairman of the Democratic con- vention's committee on resolutions, in charge of the platform, issued a state nent yesterday criticising the Re publican and Progressive platforms and assailing MT. Hughes acceptance of the Republican nomination. MT. Stone said he favored a, constitutional amendment that would incapacitate Justices of the Federal Supreme Court from becoming candidates for office within five years after their ser vice on the bench.
 MT. Stone asserted that the Repub- 1ican platform promised chiefly either things already enacted by the Demo- cratic Congress or put into effect by executive order, or things new pend ing in Congress and well on the way to enactment. The platforms criti- cism of President Wilson, he said, was a remarkable partisan fulnination-' The Progressive platform, he contin- ued, was equally remarkable, in that, instead of proposing to do battle for issues, it made Colonel Roosevelt it's platform, and now he declined to do battle for his followers.
 The Senator was particularly caus- tic regarding MT. Hughes. He said the Republican nominee was ESQ re- served and exclusive as to suggest pole with frost in his whiskers not yet by any means dissolved He ex- onerated' him, however, from all sus- -picion of having used his judicial off, flee for political nanoeuvring, by say ing that some of his decisions have been the subject of more or less pop u1ar criticism
 
 The Republican Platform.
 t"The regular Republican platform adopted at Chicago is remarkable partisan Illumination. It is without a precedent in party platforms. About one-ha1f the things it declares for. international and domestic, have been already adequately provided for by laws enacted during the present administration, or have been already accomplished by administrative ac- tion under the Presidents immediate supervision and direction. The greater and better part of the re- Chicago are now in process of being worked out and formulated into stat utory enactments.
 ''I refer, of course, to such policies, advocated by President Wilson, as the Rural Credit bill, designed to aid the agricultural interests; the bills en- 1arging the navy, to make it an ade- quate arm of first defense, for large increase in aerial strength, and also for adequate coast defenses; also a bill to rehabiNtate the merchant ma rine and so forth. All these meas ures will be enacted into law during the present session of Congress, un- less Republicans prevent action in the Senate by a filibuster, as they did pre- vent action on some of these measures by that means during the last pre- vious Congress.
 'HThe Chicago platform is largely devoted to a ra'bid partisan criticism of the President. This indictment, however, is general in terms, careful Iy avoiding particular specifications. As a pleading it could be demurred out of court as not stating a, cause Of