The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-03

IIuns and the full extension of the fMH eral road act to Alaska. p&
 For the extension to Alaska of the> federal farm loan act.
 The policy of the United states With reference to the non-admission of Asiatic immigrants is a true express sion of the judgment of our people and to the several states whose geo. graphical situation or Internal condi- tions make this policy and the enforce ment of the laws enacted pursuant thereto of particular concern we pledge our support
 THE POSTAL SERVICE
 The efficiency of the postofilce de-f parment has been vindicated against a malicious and designing assault by the efficiency of it's operation. It's rec ord refutes its assailants. Their voices are silenced and their charges have collapsed.
 We commend the work of the joint commission on the reclassification or salaries of postal employees. recently concluded which commission was ere ated by a democratic administration. The democratic party has always fa- vored and will continue to favor thef fair and just treatment of all gov3 ernment employees
 FREE SPEECH AND PRESS We resent the unfounded reproache5 directed against the democratic aa ministration for alleged interferenc with the freedom of the press and freeS dom of speech
 No utterance from any quarter has
 been assailed and no publication has heen repressed which has not been animated by reasonable purpose ana directed against the nations peace, or der and security in time of war We reaffirm our respect for the great principles of free speech and a free press but assert as an indisputable proposition that they afford no toler- ation of enemy propaganda or the ad- vocacy of the overthrow of the gov ernment of the state, or nation by force or violence.
 REPUBLICAN CORRUPTION The shocking disclosure of the. lavish use of money by aspirants for the re- publican nomination for the highest of flee in the gift of the people has ere ated painful impression throughout the country. Viewed in connection wlth the recent conviction of a republican senator from the state of Michigan for the criminal transgression of the law, limiting expenditures on behalf of candidate for the United States Senate, it indicates the re-entry under republic an auspices of money as an influential factor in elections, thus nullifying thel
  merous laws. enacted by the people. toY protect the ballot from the contamina-@ ton of corrupt practices We deploreS those delinquencies and invoke their stern popular rebuke, pledging our earn est efforts to a strengthening of the present statutes against corrupt prac- tices and their rigorous enforcement We remind the people that it was only by the return of republican senator in
 Michigan, who is now under conviction and sentence for the criminal misuse of
 money in his election. that the present organization of the Senate with re- publican majority was made possible
 .4 CONCLUSION Believing we have kept the democratic faith and resting our claims to the con- fdenee of the people not upon grand jose promise, but upon the solid per- formances of our party, we submit our record to the nations consideration and ask that thep lodges of this platform be appraised in the light of that record.