Norwich bulletin., 1920-07-03
PLATFORM AS PRESENTED
 TO FRISCO CONVENTION

San Francisco. July 2-Folow;ng is the text of the platform submitted to the democratic convention today:
 The democratic party il it's natio.fali l. convention now assembled, sends greet ings to the president of tiie Cnte1 STates, sWoeaEaRss lsap, and shails with patriotic pride the great achieya;nenrs for ccrE- try and the world wrought by a deu:t cratic administration under his hador- ship.
 It salutes the mighty people of this great republic. entering wita imperi' la ble honor rom the sevn-e tests siri grievous strains of the most tragic War in the history, having earned the plaunts and the gratitude of all free nations.
 It declares it's adherence to the fInda- mental progressive principles of sociai, economic and industrial justice and ad- vance and purpose to resume the great work of translating these principles into effective laws, begun and carried far by the democratic administration and inter- rupted only when the war claimed all national energies for the single task of victory.
 League of Nations.
 The democratic party favors the League of Nations as the surest if not the only, practical means of maintainine the permanent peace of the world and terminating the tnsufferable burden of great military and naval establishments. It was for this that America broke away from traditional isolation and spent her blood and treasure to crush collosal scheme of conquest It was upon this basis that the president of the United States. in pre-arrangement with our al lies, consented to suspension of hostili- ties against the imperial German govern ment; the armistice was granted and a treaty of peace negotiated upon the def mite assurance to Germany, as well as -to the powers pitted against Germany, that "a general association of nations must be formed, under specific covenants, for the purpose of affording mutual guar antees of political independence and ter ritorial integrity to great and small states alike" Hence we not only congrat- ulate the president on the vision mani fested and the vigor exhibited in the prosecution of the war; but we felicitate him and his associates on the exceptional achievements at Paris involved in the adoption of a league and treaty so near akin to previously expressed American ideals and so intimately related to the aspirations of civilized people every where.
 Commend Wilson For Course.
 We commend the president for his
 
 good faith in steadfastly standing for the covenant agreed by all the associ- dted and allied nations at war with Germany. and We condemn the republican senate for it's refusal to ratify the treaty merely because it was the product of democratic Statesmanship thus interpos- ing partisan envy and personal hatred in the way of the peace and renewed pros- perity of the world.
 By every accepted standard of inter- national morality the president is justi- fled in asserting that the honor of the country is involved in this business: and we point to the accusing fact that before it was determined to initiate political an- tagonism to the treaty the now republi- can chairman of the senate foreign rela- tions committee himself publicly pro claimed that any proposition for a sep- arate peace with Germany such as he and his party associates thereafter reported to the senate, would make us guilty of the blackest crime"
 Senator Lodge is Quoted.
 On May Is last the Knox substitute for the Versailles treaty was passed by the republican senate and this conven- ton can contrive no more fitting char acterization of it's obliquy than that made 1918, by Henry Cabot Lodge when he said:
 If we send our armies and young men abroad to be killed and wounded in northern France and Flanders with no result but this, our entrance into the war with such an intention was crime which nothing can justify
 The intent of congress and the intent of the president was that there could