Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-07-10
Session Adjourns

X Session Adjourns X
X Chicago, July 10.-After two !.
hours OF argument over dulles *
X and permanent Officers, the X
X convention of the commit *
tee OF 4S adjourned at 8 p. X
X M. for lunch, r, meet again x
X at y. m. and complete or x
X ganization. X
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dency. Alien McCurdy, temporary
chairman, charged that the two big
parties had evaded paramount domes-
tic isues at time when what I've
country needs is "fewer laws and more
freedom"
The abolition of special privileges.
Mr. McCurdy said, was the issue
around which the new party would ap-
peal to the voters in November He
said the party purposed effecting that
and through removing the sources
from which privileges derives it's pow
er.
Public Ownership Sought.
ITO accomplish this purpose" he
declared, ut proposes public owner
ship of transportation and of the prin-
cipal basic resources of the country
and declares that all land held out Of
use for speculation should be forced
into use by taxation.
Consider the actual conditions ur-
der which we meet. After years of
secret slavery the republican party and
the democratic party come into the
open and reveal themselves to them
selves and to the nation as nothing but
the right wing and the left wing of
the same bird Of prey. 1t is no longer
possible for any one even to pretend
that there is any difference on any
issue between them. There is not a
word in either of their platforms that
might not have been written and unan-
imously endorsed by a convention ex-
clusively composed of corporation
lawyers and Wall street bankers. The
only difference between these pa:-
forms, as some one has remarked, isl
a difference in the number Of words
used to say nothing.
"Republican Bid Bold"
Confronted by the gravest crlsi- vli
civilization they have demonstrated
even to their own adherents, that they
are without the vision of staternanshi3,
the courage of leadership or the con-
viction of patriotism.
'The republican. bid is bold. It reads
out of its councils every man and wo-
man who ever stood for any form of
human rights; adopts a platform that
eyades, equivocates or stradddles evef,
living issue; paves the way for war
by which, in exchange for the lives
and treasures of the people, Mexican
oil shall be delivered to the interests; |
endorses the infamous Cunlmins
hill over the protests of farmers,
workers and informed citizens: and
crowns its work by non.-
mating as candidate for the presidency
IF the United States in the yea 1920
a proven, steady, wheel horse politi-
clan, guaranteed to stand without
hltching who learned all the politics
he ever learned in the satisfactory and
thorough school of Marcus A. iie niia
and Joseph e. Foraker. way back I'll
he golden age marked by the stand
ard Oil scandals. Thus stands the
,artv of Abraham Lincoln in the last
laws of its decadent, faith,essness,
.aked and unashamed in it's servlle
service of a greedy plutocracy.
Democrats Brazen.
"The democratic bid is more more
han bold, it is brazen. With mild res
.ryations, it not only claims partisan
.redit which belongs to the whole ma
ion. for fightind and WinEing the war
mt II declares that it administered
he conduct of that war without the ;
aint of scandal.
.And the ghosts of Hog Island ami ,
;rcraft and shipbiulding and canton i
,ent constructions, and nitrate plant {
nnronriations are still stalking {
brough the land. candal. 1t is no
candal that in the year 1917, the year
+ supreme sacrifice when our boys A
yare fighting and dying for $50
month, and our people were econofnN- 4
no and sacrificing to buy liberty
onds. that the United states SIeei
Annexation made net earnings OF
or twenty million dollars
,ore than its total capital stocH' Q
What can we call that orgy OF war
rofiteering by a set OF the most uh-
.runulous scoundrels whoever tal- :
mod ont of the necessities anu 1hF
,;saries of a great nation at war L
har we acknowledge that scandal is
~ I;obt a word and say with Sena-
-. C,onner. If this be not grand lar
~ in dav time. / do not know what i
SO we should call it, Even SO the Z
,andaI remains for such proiiteering T
as never prosecuted by the persecut- ).
10 attorney general. }
s.Sor is this all. There are some B
INES which by their sheer affront- E
v become sublime. Failure to pro-
ct a people against profiteering IN c
me of war might be forgiven but 10
cal. the faith of whole nation can
1t be forgiven.
Democrats Scored.
aThe republican party would lead p
hack to the bondage of Marcus o
anna. Not to be outbid. the demo- Il
attic party. through its endorse
ent of the administration OF A
itchell Palmer. would lead US back to 8
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