The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-12-25
COMMITTEE TO FRAME PLAT
FORM FOR REPUBLICAN PARTY
Will Consist of II Members of Nation
al Committee and Number of Others

Announcement by National Chair
man Hays, following the recent meet
ing of the Republican National Com
mittee in Washington, of the plans
for committee on policies and plat
form, has made a profound impress
sion in Washington and throughout
the country.
The committee is to consist Of
twelve members of the national com
mittee and large number of other
Republicans, men and women rep
resenting all groups of interest, such
as business, labor, agriculture and
so on. The men and women who
will be on the committee will include
the foremost brains of the Republi-
can party in all walks of American
life and affairs. The total member
ship of the committee is likely to be
fifty or sixty and at least will be
forty AS the magnitude of the
proposition has come to be more and
more realized, however, the tendency
has been to enlarge the size OF the
committee John Callan O'Laughlin
is executive secretary of the commit
tee.
The purpose of the formation of
this committee is to obtain platform
suggestions for the consideration Of
the resolutions committee at the con-
vention and to obtain from them all
representative elements of the Re
publican party which means all rep
resentative elements of American good
citizenship.
The committee is intended to be
a working body whose members will
give serious and constant thought
and attention to the question of the
platform for the next six months. 1t
is not q perfunctory organization. The
various suggestions as to the plat
form will be taken up and coordinated
by a smaller body in the nature Of a
subcommittee made up by the com
mittee itself
Underlying the whole proposition
is the great fact that the national
committee recognizes that there rests
on the Republican party the tremen-
dous responsibility of lifting Amer
lea out of the slough of things into
which this administration has sunk
it, and putting into force in legis-
islative and administrative way the
most comprehensive program of wise
constructive measures ever attempted
in this republic. 1t is recognized that
the Republican party and no other has
the task to preform. If it is to be per-
formed, then the platform must be
one befitting the occasion and the need
1t is to be expected that the resolu-
tions committee, which will be work
ing SO to 48 hours continuously, might
and day, at the convention, can do
fuller justice to the need for a wise
and broad platform if it has a body
of material to work upon.
The platform will deal with the
great fundamentals of questions be-
fore the country and, once it is adopt
ed, it is purposed, as Chairman Hays
said, to be in the nature of a sacred
contractural document whose pledges
nd promises are to be kept.
ne idea of having the best brains
party work for six months in
ton of a platform is in har-
mony 4 the idea of the action of
the national committee in selecting
council of IL of the national and Y
n = of the national committee, four
whom are women. This council
4 make recommendations on
party welfare for the consideration
of the national committee. Here