Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-02-05
REPUBLICANS To
SYSTEMAT T|CALLY
WORK OUT PLANS
FOR PLATFORM
Chairman Will H, Hays Re-
turns From West, Holds
Conference With Leaders
in National CAPITAL
FINDS PEOPLE EAGER
FOR G. O. P. CONTROL
Nothing Is Said Regarding
Plank on Foreign ReIa-
tionSi Many Hope Treaty
Will Be Finally Settled.
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Washington, Feb 4-Plans for
the work of the committee of III
which is to formulate recommenda-
ttions for this years republican ma
tional platform, got actively un-
der way today with the return to
Washington of VIII II. Hays, the
I parN's national chairman, after n
two months swing around the cir
Gle
The committees immediate task
as mapped out by the party chiefs
Is the collection of opinions on
more than twenty matters of do
mestic concern, with probable cre-
alton of a number OF sub-commit-
tees to deal separately with the
various proposed planks. Foreign
relations will be passed over for
! present as a possible factor in the
| campaign the committee waiting
| on the trend of the peace treaty
fight 10 develop part OF the plat
| form is to be devoted to that sub
ject.
These plans have been put into
| NpitltNN lblHi III IL
to committeeman and were outlin-
ed at a conference between Chair
| man Hays and more than score
of senators and representatives
! At the same time there was some
| discussion of the legislative situa-
| ton the party leaders in senate
| and house outlining what they
| hoped to accomplish by convention
time.
Some Opposition Voiced.
/ The meeting, which took place
| In the office of Senator Lodge, ma
jority leader of the senate. was ac-
| eompanied by a renewal of the on
| POSITION TO the committee plan,
| which developed In some quarters
| when 1t was announced several
! weeks ago. Although it was said
the practicahillty of the move was
not criticised during the conference
| there were some questions asked
which led Senator Watson, of In
diana, who has been selected to
head the resolutions committee. to
make a spirited defense of the
| project. A similar plan, he told
the conference, had been used for
a number of years in INDIANA.
| Meantime it became known that
two senator's Moses, of New Hamp-
| shire. and Mccormick, Of Illinois.
! had declined to serve on the COM
mittee, because they found them
selves out of sympathy with that
method of preparing platform re-
| concentrations.
Plan for Work.
! As outlined, the work of the
| committee does not contemplate
| that the fun membership shall be
assembled at any stage of the pre-
convention work. Most of its de-
liberations will be carried on by
| correspondence through its ex-
ecutive secretary and through tho
| heads of separate groups IL IL is
decided to create them TO deal with
special subjects. II Is emphasized
that the most of the committee or
| its groups will do is to recommend
| and that the recommendations will
| not be binding on the committee.
i Among the subjects selected as
| possible platform material, and on
| which opinions Will be collected
| and tabulated, are business reha-
bilitation, tariff changes, readjust-
ment of foreign and domestic COM
| merce, postal reforms, better labor
| conditions and review of the DEM
cratic administration. NE
After the conference Chairman
Hays said, however, that there had
| been no attempts so far to reach
definite conclusions and that the
whole work OF the committee still
was in a formative stage.
| Committee members generally de-
I ~ tn a 1, \, ,.V, Nf
| foreign relations from the list of
! possible campaign issues, beyond
| saying that the whole subject ap-
parently remained open until the
senate had made it, record on the
peace treaty.
1t has been an open secret for
weeks that some of the influential
| figures in the party, as in the DEM
| ocratic party, do not want the trea-
| ty extended into the campaign
| and considerable pressure has been
brought to bear TO secure some
sort of an agreement in the senate.
| In statement tonight regarding
his trip TO the Pacific coast, MIR.
Hays declared he found a general
sentiment everywhere in favor of
| republican success in the CAM
| paign and enumerated the subjects,
| all of them of domestic character,
of which he found the people
thinking. The statement follows:
What People Want.
Everywhere | find the people
regardless of past party affiliations,
| seeking republican success, moved
with the conviction that by such
success they will make certain:
| First, an honest. efficient, eco
/ nomical business administration
| of the country's affairs.
Second, that there will be de-
veloped and executed plan for the
reduction of taxes, with the re-
peal of taxes which kill initiative.
and the spreading of the war debt
over large number of years.
] Third, that there will be devel-
oped better relation between Ia
Dor and capital, with justice to both
| and with justice to the public, the
third side of the triangle, which
must not be forgotten.
Fourth that there shall be an
| administration of law and order
everywhere in the nation.
| Fifth. that the party will meas
ure its steps forward by the new
needs of the nation. with Its eyes
always ahead, but with Its feet air