Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-04-26
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Instructions
! + d LoWDEN
Iowa Republicans in State
Convention Instruct
Their Delegates for
LOWden.
CUMMINS
Soldiers Relief is Also En-
dorsed in Republican
Convention.
CUMMINS


The Iowa state. Republican conven'
ton in Des Moines Thursday instruct
ed its delegates to the national conven'
ton for Frank @. Lowden Of Illinois
for president. Indirectly Senator Cum
Minis was endorsed as against Colonel
Brookhart and soldier relief was fay
Ored.
The resolution as to Lowden fol.
lows:
1.-THE republicans of Iowa whole
heartedly indorse the candidacy OF
Gov. Frank o. LOwden, of. Illinois
for president Of the United States
This state knew him in his youth
and has watched him in his maturity.
1t knows his worth, has pride in his
achievements, and believes in his
sound judgment, patriotic purpose, re-
publican conviction, and administra-
tive capacity. 1t is confident that the
republican national convention in
nominating him for president will be
rendering the best possible service to
the people of the United States.
sAThe republicans of Iowa, in con-
vention assembled, this twenty-second
day Of April, 1920, hereby instruct its
delegates to the. republican national
convention, to be held at Chicago in
June, to vote for Gov. Frank D.
|Lowden for president and to use all
honorable means to secur his n0mina,
ton and election"
Friendly to Cummins.
A second resolution practically in
dorsed Cummins against Colonel
Brookhart. his opponent. The resolu-
tons committee report was taken up
resolution by resolution and the report
speeded through with precision and
rapidity.
The Cummins resolution was not
labeled as such, but it strikes at many
of the planks in the BrOokhart plat
form. 1t stands for all planks upon
which Senator Cummins will make his
campaign for reelection. ill., nf
The resolution follows:
1.-THE republican party, above all
things, stands for liberty, law, peace,
good order, and progress. 1t stands
for individual initiative and enter
prise, for good wages, honest work and
fair profits for capital. 1t stands, not
only for human rights, but for property
rights, without which human right is
a meaningless phrase.
ut is opposed to socialism and
communism in all their forms.
1T is opposed to the assumption
by the government Of business under
takings, unless it has been clearly cs'
tablished that private enterprise has
failed to render the required service.
1T is opposed to the government
ownership and operation Of railroads
and approves the recent act Of con
gress, returning them to their owners.
1T stands for continuity and regu.
larity in transportation and insists
that measures be adopted to %effectuate
such results. The people + entitled
to the regular and continuous trans
p~ortation service from place to place
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The third resolution offered by the
resolution committee stands for al
justed compensation for men who serv,
ed in the world war. 1t read as fol
lows:
'"The republican party stands upon
its record of over fifty years of fair
ness to and consideration and recogni'
ton Of the soldiers and sailors of oul
cOuntry's wars. 1t recognizes an
acknowledges the deep and lasting
debt which the entire country owes t.
the service men and women Of the
world war and declares its intention t.
treat this not only as a debt of graft
tude to, but to compensate. IN ever!
proper material way, these brave mer
and women for the sacrifices they have
made for the country good.
1T is the sense of the Iowa re
publican state convention that the
United States should recognize the
mood of ond nrOvide for. some OArt OF
adjusted or deferred compensation fol
those persons who served their coun'
try in the military and naval service
during the last war.
The fourth resolution was n which
stated that the party was again need
ed ut Washington.
yVohstor lity nOilcc have been asked