Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1920-06-18
BY EDWARD W. .PICKARD.
For President:
Warren G. Harding, of Ohio.
For Vice President:
salvln Coolidge, of Massachusetts,

There is the ticket with which the
Republicans hope and intend to regain
possession Of the national government
next fall.
For president, a man from the home
state Of many presidents. statesman
of long experience and solid Repub-
lican, who has been a member OF the
United States senate since 1914, a
member of the "Old Guard" who stands
well with the Republicans who are in
control of the senate.
For vice president, the governor OF
the Bay State, who was virtually I'M
known to the nation at large until the
strike of Boston policemen and his Wig
0rous course In Its suppression gave
him q vast amount of publicity and
made him the favorite son of Massa-
chusetts In the balloting for first
place on the ticket.
The gentlemen now stand before the
electors Of the country on platform
that is so broad that it embraces
nearly every topic and issue of the
day.. though there are those who as
sert that in some places the planks are
perilously thin. It's builders, however,
maintain that there is no danger of
the candidates falling through the
weak spots and it may be that, with
some judicious straddling and side
stepping this will prove true.
Seldom, If ever has the choice of
presidential candidate been so closely
connected with the building of the
platform-or 1t might be more exact
to say the rejection Of candidate
for II Hiram Johnson, and his sup
Sorters, could have compelled the adop-
t!l0n OF just the plank they demanded
on the league Of nations issue, the
California senator, and he alone, could
with consistency have consented to go
before the people standing on the plat
form. AS 1t was, his threat to bolt
the party caused a long deadlock in
the deliberations of the committee on
resolutions and at last forced the adop-
ton Of a plank based on the cabled
suggestion of Elihu Root. That wise
man had gone to Europe, but kept In
close touch with the doings in Chicago
and at the crucial moment his plan
was presented to Johnson, Borah, Nc
Cormick and the other "irrecOncii-
ables" and accepted by them.
The resolution as finally incorpor-
ated in the platform and swallowed
BY the convention, almost without a
culver, completely avoids any pledge
to ratify the treaty of peace and the
league covenant with or without reser-
vations, strongly indorses the action
of the Republican senator's in that re-
gard and promises that the party Will
work for some kind of international
agreement for the peaceful ADJUST
ment of disputes between nations with
put the sacrifice of American soyer-
eighty. Thus, as will be seen, the way
= laftt open for an administration
elected on this platform to do almost
anything It sees fit In this regard ex-
cept to ratlfy a treaty and league COW
eDant such as president Wilson
brought home from Paris.
For the rest, the platform, in brief
scores President Wilson and the Dem
ocratie administration for their I'M
preparedness for war and for ths
equally unprepared condition OF thu
nation for the reception of peace. De
nouncing the autocratic assumption o.
authority by the president the plat
form pledges the restoration Of consti
sutiOnal government. The Republican
congress is praised for its efforts Il
cope with the problems caused by thu
presidents course.
The farmers gained their requested
support for extension of farm loan
and the right to engage In cooperative
marketing and buying.
The Industrial plank was the sub
5ect Of much discussion. Some Of tn
committee members, presumably speah
Ing for big business, favored a planl
for the prevention of strikes by Law
Governor Allen and others wanted Ia
Kansas industrial court plan Endorsed
and President Gompers travelled al
the way to Chicago to tell the com
mittee what kind of plank the Amer
lean Federation of Labor demanded
None of these requests were satisfIel
but the plank adopted recognized th
justice OF collective bargaining an
continues:
"The strike or the lockout, as
means OF settling Industrial disputes
anfIicts such loss and suffering on ID
community as to justify goVernmen
initiative to reduce its frequency an
limit Its consequences.
eve deny The right to strike againi
the government; but the rights and n
fexests OF III government employees
npet be safeguarded by impartial Law
ED tribunals.
9she failure Of the administration
ret-ench during the postwar perla
and the addition of thousands
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