Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-07

I pioyer, and without resort to force
succeeded in keeping in continuous OPP
GRAFTON the steel. mining and trans
portation industries of the state. ad-
mittedly Indispensable to the comfor,
| of your people and To the success OF
our armies.
| THE budget system is an enduring
monument to vour genius in states
manship. This mes sure placed the va
rious state departments on sound
| financial basis. Notwithstanding the
! greatly increased cost of adlninistra-
| ton incident to the war, the state gov
| eminent has been operated without in
| crease in tax rates. The measure has
! proved so satisfactory that the re-
publican nominee has declared for a
similar system of co-ordinating ma
| tonal income and expenditures.
When you became governor you
| found the rural schools of the state
| Inadequate and poorly maintained. A
| Tnasterful organization was effected,
which resulted in consultations from
which has come the best rural school
| system in the Union
The reforms inaugurated in the
prisons of Ohio during your admins
! trations have made the penal inStitu-
lions of this state effective agencies
| Tor the protection of the public against
! crime and for the reformation of the
! criminals.
| The intercounty highway law. upon
which many other states have modelled
! their systems; the mothers pensi on
| law, the child labor act. the blue sky
! law, the Warnes law, reforming the
| tax system of the state, are among the
important improvements you promoted
any one of which is of sufficient merit
and Importance to entitle you to re-
nown.
| Evidence of Fitness.
This incomplete list of reforms you
have accomplished for Ohio in the face
| of organized opposition is evidence of
/ your fitness to bear the weightier bur-
! dens and to discharge the more COM
prehensive responsibilities of chief ex-
ecutive of the nation.
| 1T is not alone because of rare ex-
ecutive ability SO convincingIy dis
played that this nomination has come
| TO you. but even more for the reason
, that you are known to be in hearty
! sympathy with the principles express
| ed in our party platform.
Your expressions regarding it's pro-
visions are eagerly awaited by the
public. 1t therefore seems appropriate
| that only brief reference to the plat
form be made in these remarks.
THE document clearly defines the
attitude of the democratic party on
vital domestic and foreign problems.
Unlike the republican platform, which
was deliberately made ambiguous in
order to conceal irreconcilable differ
ences of opinion among the delegates
the San Francisco platform is easily
| understood and is not susceptible of
conflicting interpretations.
Our platform points out the sim
pie truth that by defeating the treaty
of peace, and thus prolonging the
technical state of war, the republican
party is responsible for the continu
ance of the high cost of living, and
| that this cannot be remedied save
through increased production, a strict
economy and the relentless pursuit
apd punishment of profiteers.
We undertake, if empowered, to
acts so as to adjust them to peace
conditions. and encourage thrift and
enterprise.
1.-The republican Congress passed a
bill for a budget which was plainly
unconstitutional, and the President
has declared for a budget law Which
will conform to the Constitution and
which will tend to keep federal ex-
penditures within the revenues. If a
| national budget system can be de-
Vlsed which Will prove as successful
as that of Ohio the federal finances
Will be placed on a business basis.
Measures for Farmer.
''The democratic party has advanced
|
of many measures, particularly the
farm loan act, the agricultural ex-
tension law, the bureau of farm mar
kets, the bureau of farm manage
ment, the cotton futures act, the
grain grades law, the cooperative
farm administration measure and the
federal warehouse act. Our platform
proposes to secure to farmers the
right of collective bargaining and of
cooperative marketing, and to IA
cilitate the expectation of farm prod
ucts.
THE democratic party has demon
strated it's friendship to labor by es-
| tablishing the Department of Labor
and by the creation therein of a
woman's bureau and the employment
service.
1--WE passed the child labor act,
the federal workman's compensation
| law, the eight-hour law and the voca-
tional training act.
"Our platform insists that justice
shall be done the toiler; that labor
shall be awarded adequate compen-
sation and shall have the privilege
of collective bargaining. At the same
time We insist that both labor and
capital shall have due regard for
| the public welfare. We declare for
| fair method of composing differ
| ences likely to result in strikes and
| lockouts, which endanger the health
| and lives of the people. We con-
| tend that the right to strike against
| the government does not exist, and
| for this reason every precaution must
| be taken to assure public employees
| just treatment and fair compensation.
! You espoused the cause of woman
| suffrage early in your public career
| and it must give you sincere pleasure
| to realize that our party is committed
| to ratification of the equal suffrage
| anne ndment. consummat ton soon to
| be expected.
| Our platform declares for co-opera-
| ton of the national government with
| the states for the protection of child
| life, the prohibition of child labor
| the promotion of the welfare of work
ing women and the stamping out OF
| illiteracy as means of elevating the
standard of citizenship.
| The democratic partt passed the
| war risk insurance act, which digni-
| fies and makes attractive military and
| naval service by justly protecting the
! dependents of our soldiers and sail
| ors.
VIII Aid Service Men.
! THE platform commits the party
| to the policy OF aiding service men to
secure homes. a provision which may
| be made more beneficial than cash
] bonus legislation.
I During recent years the rules OF
| the Senate have been invoked to pre-
| vent that pody from expressing It's
conclusion regarding many subjects
in which the public felt a profount
interest. We have what is known al
the rule of unlimited debate which
permits a senator having the floor, II
| speak as long as he pleases on an,
subject that he chooses. The pre-
| vious question is unknown to thu
Senate rules. There is no method b,
which a majority may close debate
and force vote SO long as any sena
tor desires to talk