Arizona republican., 1920-06-12
The Platform

The Platform
 The national Republican platform which the party safely before the country It presents record of achievement amid meager opportunities it arrangns the incompetence of the democratic national administration within the last seven years and 1t outlines constructive program the future
 It evades nothing it straddles nothing though in one instance plank was reached by the compromise of widely varying elements there is no appearance of compromise document itself.
 It will of course be charged there been evasion of the prohibition question Leaving out .he explanation that plank clause requested by the Anti-saloon League which accepted by the committee resolutions inadvertently omitted but would by of the acceptance by the committee become an integral part of the plat form. we think ground is fully covered in the declaration the platform in favor of the full forcenent of the laws. is all the Anti Saloon League vhnts, for the volstead is law. and the party stands pledged it's enforcement As to the repeal or the amendment there has been formal proposal
 Concerning the subject of the high of liv- ing the one in which the people are more intimately and vitay concerned. that is attributed in the main to our inflated currency as we pointed than a year ago. that the chief cause Of high prices. was of course inevitable be imitation. It necessary that there should be an expansion of currency and credits But in the platform the democratic administration is
 
 trol of processes expansion imitation became unchecked
 We think reasonable objection be urged against the industrial plank of the platform We that will receive the of the radicals in organized labor and with little approval by reactionaries the employing who still live in the past when labor exploited. The platform reflects the expressed views of for ward looking of all classes. who have given earnest thought the industrial problem which
 
 The plank recognition of the right the great third party.-the public-and it the public that plank makes it's strongest appeal It does propose that the interests of either the employer the empIoye shall be sacrificed in order that the public may be protected but that. between the ployer the employe, there shall be no prolonged quarrel that shall jeopardize the public interest.
 first time the great political par ties has recognized the principle collective gaining and the right of the employe insist upon his demands. but it gntemplates tribunal by which the dispute be adjusted with justice to both parties. public meanwhile spared punishment that would be imposed upon it by strike or a lockout. Compulsory arbitration is advocated but suggested by which the parties to the dispute may be brought together in genuine desire to compromise their differences.
 The League of Nations plank believe will have the approval of the majority of Ameri can people, It recognizes the duty of this nation to perform it's part in safeguarding civilization and
 
 flee nothing of Amercan sovereignty the right of the American people, through congress determine what their duty should be- The plank is endorse 1nent the opposition the republican sena tors though in widely different groups. the original covenant in which the relinquishment of American determination. proposed. On this point the republican was the main point in this historic controversy. The only dispute among the republicans the senate was as to the that should taken to correct tho mistake which the president committed at Yer saillcs In this view composition of the differ among the delegates Chicago was easy
 The extravagances of the administration charged in the platform, have long admitted and de- pIored That there recklessness of expendi- ture waste through sheer incapacity or careless ness. by the war department and by the original shipping board, think, there is no one now with the hardihood deny Q not think that anyone will refute the that it was through republican influence in that whatever there was applied to the reckless outpouring of the funds taken from the people by taxation or which in their patriotism they had given up The platform lays where it belongs, at the door of the administration, failure budget bil republican enacted a urgent demand of the country for the application of like methods the country's business.
 E The platform is pleasingy devoid plattude: which usually form large part of convention utterances. with a just pride that it recall. the constructive record of the party it with confidence of fulfiment pledges itself to thu people for the future.
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