The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-06
IC, O.P. WILL BUILD
 PLATFORM CHIEFLY | ON N'AMERICANISM'
Wilson's s Mexican and Euro pean Policy Will Be At
 tackled by Party.

Chicago, June 5.-Republican lead CTS are busy outlining a platform. Senators Lodge. Sutherland and Bo- rah are preparing tentative blanks for the first meeting of the Committee on Platform and Resolutions when it is organized. The understanding among the men slated for that com
 nittee is that the most important plank will be on |'Americanism.'
 President Wilson is to be assai1ed by the Republicans. He will be charged with injuring the United States both at home and abroad, by the destruction of the protective tar taxation and by neg1ecting the rights of the people and thereby humiliating them.
 'The great cry of the Democratic party is and will be that their Presi- dent has kept the peace,'' said one of Platform Committee. '"The virtue of keeping the peace depends upon how it is kept. You can always keep the peace if you will submit to any wrong, to any outrage, to any oppression.
 ''The peace of this country would have been far better kept if we had kept it without humiliation, kept it in honor and without fear. We all want peace, but we shall insist-we Repub- licans at 1east-that American rights shall be protected at home and abroad, in Mexico and on the seas."
 To Hit WatchfuI Waiting.
 Great stress is to be put the pol icy of ''watchful waiting in Mexico ," The President will be held responsi- especially the raid oni Columbus, N. M, and for the ''chaos'' that now reigns beyond the border.
 It is believed that Senators Lodge, Borah and Sutherland will be ap- pointed a subcommittee to frame the international blanks of the platform. They are very bitter partisans on that question. They think that President Wilson has fallen far short of his duty in demanding the rights of American citizens in Mexico and on the high seas. The platform will start out by com pairing the Republican Administration with that of the Democrats. It will
 practically abandon the declaration of 1912 that ttit believes most earnestly
 in the peaceful settlement of interna- tiona1 disputes and in the reference of all controversies between nations to an international court of justice
 Instead of this the platform will go strong on demanding respect and on preparedness.
 The plank on monopoly and privi1- ege will not be strong. The Repub-
 1icans will tread lightly when they touch upon those subjects.
 Other G. O. P. Attacks. The tariff plank will follow the plan of that of four years ago with
 some caustic comment added on the failure of the Underwood-Simmon act
 to bring in revenues, and its tdestruc- tion'' of legitimate business. "The high cost of living will be featured by the Republicans. They
 will charge that the Democrats have crippled domestic enterprises by cut | ting out the tariff without lowering the cost of living to the masses. They will claim credit for the new banking act-the Federal Reserve Act. They will contend that had ii mot been for the votes of Republicans l it could not have been put through Congress.
 Much ado will be made about the
 violation of the principle of the civi
 service by the Democrats. President
 Wilson, it will be pointed out, has
 set aside the civil service to reward
 friends of the Administration. The action of the Senate in trying
 to free the Philippine Islands alsc will be denounced