Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-05-05
The Republican County Platform

The Republican County Platform
There is small comfort for the Pro-
gressives in the platform adopted by
the Republican county convention last
Saturday, the document being reac-
tionary in the extreme. This was sur
prising considering that fully one-half
the delegates were Progressives, who
were coming back to the old party in
the expectation of being received with
some consideration of the views held
by them in 1912, and not yet aban-
doned Some of the returning prodig-
ais squirmed at the elimination Of
Roosevelt contained in the paragraph
which said: THE welfare of the ma
ton demands that the choice of the
national convention for presidential
nominee should be the best man
WITHIN THE REPUBLICAN PAR
TY," but none seemed bold enough to
raise protest.
It's trainers very carefully omitted
reference to the legislation enacted
by the Democratic congress, save and
except the tariff. 1t neglected to de-
nounce the Federal Reserve law, the
enactment of which saved the nation
from a repetition of the Republican
panic of 1907, at outbreak of the Eu
ropean war; it did not deplore the
Income Tax law, that lifted 100000
900 in taxes from the shoulders of
consumers and placed it upon those
better able to pay. 1t failed to en-
ter complaint against the Trades Com
mission act, which passed the House
of Representatives without dissent
ing vote, nor did it attack the Alas
ka Railroad bill, so that taken by
and large, Democrats have much more
reason to be pleased with the platform
than have our Progressive friends.
The only national issues attempt
ed-except the tariff which is always
stereotyped in Republican platform
were the administration policy in
Mexican affairs and it's failure to de-
clare war on Germany, Austria, Eng
land, France, Russia, Italy and Japan.
To be sure, an attempt is made to
make a political issue of Prepared
ness plans now being digested by con-
gress, although every reader of the
papers knows that there is absolutely
no party lines drawn in the discus
sions now going on, and that our own
Senator Jones has joined the Bryan
Pacifist class. The cuckoo slam at
the secretary of the navy is too alb
surd for serious consideration, while
the gratuitous SANDER of the navy
gives the lie to Admiral Fletcher, who
testified that it was close second
in the world in size and first in point
of efficiency.
1t attacks the Wilson administra.
|tion for conditions in Mexico, but is
silent about the Taft administration,
which in the spring Of 1911, rushed
a big army to the border when seven
Americans were killed by Mexican
soldiers and eleven wounded, on the
American side Of the border, near
Douglas, Arizona. Under Taft, nc
pursuit of the marauders was made
into Mexico as has been done by Pres
ident Wilson, yet the latter is denounc'
ed for failing to go to war with the
Mexican nation because of the acts OF
squad of bandits, presumably upon
the theory that it would help those
killed, or their relatives, to have the
blood of thousands of Americans spill
ed in Mexico, poor, anarchy ridden
nation, for the condition of which
under similar conditions the immor
tai Lincoln expressed deep sympathy
The tariff plank, denouncing the
Democratic tariff as ruinous to the
lumber industry becomes decidedly