New Britain herald., 1916-06-13
STONE BANGS AWAY
 AT i. Q. P.PLANkS
And Also CritiCizeS Justice LeaY-
 ing Bench for Politics

| of Missouri, chairman of the commit
 tee on foregin relations who, is to
 be chairman of the democratic ccEven- 1 tion's committee on resolutions, in ! charge of the platform, issued a state
 ment last yesterday criticising the re-
 publican and progressive platforms
 and assailing MT. Hughes acceptance
 of the republican nomination. MT. i Stone said he favored a constitutional amendment that would incapacitate 1 justices of the federal supreme court 1 from becoming candidates for office
 within five years after their service on | the bench.
 MT. Stone asserted that the repub- 1 lican platform promised chiefly either 1 things already enacted by the demo- cratic congress or put into effect by executive order, or things now pend- ing in congress and we'll on the way to enactme ent. The platforms criticism of President Wilson, he said, was a remarkable partisan fulmination.' .' The progressive platform, he contin- ued, was equally remarkab ble, 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 secretary was particularly caus- tic regarding MT. Hughes. He said the republican nominee was "so reserved and exclusive' as to suggest that he had come from the north pole" with frost in his whiskers not yet by any means dissolved" He exonerated him, however, from all suspicion of having used his judicial office for political h,r I,at z his decisions have been the subject of more or less popular criticism"
 The senator's statement follows:
 The Republican Platform.
 "The regular republican platform adopted at Chicago is remarkable par tisan illumination. It is without a prec- edent in party platforms About one- half the things it declares, have been already adequately provided for by laws enacted during the present ad- ministration, or have been already ac- complished by administrative action under the presidents immediate super vision and direction. The greater and better part of the remainder of the things declared for at Chicago are now in process of being worked out and formulated into statutory enact ments.
 T refer, of course, to such policies, advocated by President Wilson, as the rural credit bill, designed to aid the agricultural interests; the bills enlarg- ing the navy, to make it an adequate arm of first defense, for a large in- crease in aerial strength, and also for adequate coast defenses: also a bill to rehabilitate the merchant ma rine, and so forth. All these meas ures will be enacted into law during the present session of congress- unless republicans prevent action in the sen- ate by filibuster, as they did prevent action on some of these measures by that means during the last previous congress.
 'The Chicago platform is largely devoted to a rabid partisan criticism Df the president. This in dictment however, is general in terms, carefully avoiding particularly specifications. As a pleading it could be demurred out of a court as not stating a cause of action It merely charges the president with timidity, vacillation, lack of courage and as being unpatriotic and un-American. After hurling this blue flame of wrath around the presidents head and seek ing to make of him a vicarious sacri- fee, the distinguished gentlemen who framed this wonderful document stultify themselves by practically in- dorsing all the things accomplished and to be accomplished under the Wilson administration; and in so far as they venture to declare any afr native program of their own that program is practically along the line of that hitherto followed and now being followed by the president and the democratic congress. This plat form is indeed the most wonderful production of it's kind kSovn to our history.
 Discussed Justice Hughes.
 "As to the candidates, I have only to say that Judge Hughes is a gentle man of good ability and good char acter. He is so reserved and exclu- sive as to leave the impression that he emanated from the North Pole and came to the temperate zone with frost in his whiskers which is not yet by any means dissolved. His only public service prior to his ap po1ntment to the supreme court is confined, first, to gas and insurance frauds in the City of New York, which brought him into such prominence as to make him the republican can- 1 didate for governor
 The politicians and the republi- 1 can organization of that state were
 not for him, but, being then, as at 1 Chicago hard-pressed for a candi- l date, they reluctantly nominated Mr. 1 Hughes as a bright light in the wfrld l of reform and heralded him forth in 1 that character. He served two terms