Arizona republican., 1920-07-11
FEWER LAWS AND
 MORE FREEDOM
 3RD PARTY PLAN
Leaders of New Political Organization Declare Alp olition of Special Privi- lege Paramount Issue of Day-Score C. O. P. and Democrats
Republican A. P. Leased wlrel

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 Republican A. p. Leased Wire1 CHICAGO, July 10-The Republican and Democratic parties were denounced as the right and left wing of the same bird of prey" at the opening of a proposed third party" national con- vention here today.
 Sounding the keynote of the assem- blaze called together by the Commit tee of Forty eight to adopt a platform and place in the field another set of candidates for presidency and vice presidency, Allen McCurdy temporary chairman, charged that the two big parties had evaded paramount domes- tic issues at a time when what the country needs is "fewer laws and more freedom
 Declares For Public Ownership The abolition of special privilege, MT. McCurdy said, was the issue around which the new party would ap- peal to the voters in November. He said the party purposed offering to l that end through removing the source from which privilege derives it's power. ITO accomplish this purpose he de- clared, it purposes public ownership of transportation and of the principal basic resources of the country and de- clares that all land held out of use for speculation should be forced into use by taxation.
 Consider the actual conditions un- der which we meet. After years of secret slavery the Republican party and the Democratic party come into the open and reveal themselves to 1 themselves and to the nation as noth- ing but the right wing and the left wing of the same bird of prey. It Is no longer possible for anyone even to pretend that there is any difference on any issue between them. There is not a word in either of their plat | forms that might not have been writ | ten and unanimously endorsed by convention exclusively composed of l corporation lawyers and Wall street bankers. The only difference between these platforms as someone has re- marked is a difference in the number of words used to say nothing. Con- fronted by the gravest crisis Tn the history of civilization, they have dem l onstrated, even to their own adher- of statesmanship, the courage of lead ership or the conviction of patriotism.
 Scores c. o. p Platform.
 "The Republican bid is bold. It
 reads out of its councils every man i and woman who ever stood for any
 form of human rights; adopts a plat
 form that evades, equivocates or ] stradd1es every living issue; paves the
 way for a. war by which, in exchange l for the lives and treasures of the peo- pie, Me&lcan OH snail De uellNeTSu lo i the interests: endorses the infamous
 Esch- Cummins bill over the protests ! of farmers. workers and informed cit | izens, and consistently crowns it's work l by nominating as candidate for the
 presidency of the United States in the
 year 1920 a proven, steady wheel
 horse politician, guaranteed to stand
 without hitching, who learned all the
 politics he ever learned in the satis-
 factory and thorough school of Marcus l A. Hanna and Joseph B. Foraker, way
 back in the golden age marked by the
 Standard Oil scandals. Thus stands
 the party of Abraham Lincoln in the
 last days of it's decadent faithlessness,
 naked and unashamed in it's servile
 service of greedy plutocraacy. =,
 Says Democratic Platform Even Worse
 ''The Democratic bid is more than
 bold; it is brazen. With mild reser-
 vations, it not only claims a partisan
 credit, which belongs to the whole na-
 tion, for fighting and winning the
 war. but it declares that it admins
 tered the conduct of that war without
 the taint of scandal And the ghosts
 of Hog island and aircraft and ship
 building and cantonment construction,
 and nitrate plant appropriations are
 still stalking through the 1andl Sean
 dall Is it no scandal that in the year
 1917. the year of supreme sacrifice
 when our boys were fighting and dying
 for $30 month. and our people were 1 eCOnOnllZInS ana SaCrIlclnE to buy liberty bonds, that the United States
 Steel corporation made net earnings of $SSS. S.931,51t, of twenty million dol : lars more than its total capital stock l What can we call that orgy of war profiteerinG out of the necessities and l the miseries of a great nation al war Shall we acknowledge that scandal is 1 too light a word and say with Senator , Capper: If this be not grand larceny ) in day time, T do not know what else
 we should call it Even so. the scan ; 1 dal remains for such profiteering was never prosecuted by the prosecuting.
 crimes which by their sheer effrontery | people against profiteering in time ot ! war might be forgiven. but to break the faith of a whole nation cannot be l forgiven
 An "I Win, You Lose" Game | Such are the conditions under | which we are in convention assembled | This whole country is shocked by the | action of these two major parties l The truth is out at last. Both parties | have surrendered internationally tG | privilege and reaction. Thousands are | agreed with us today for every one l who agreed with us in January. The | vast majority of the electorate realize | that no matter whether the Republican
 or the Democratic party wins, the peo- l pie lose. The necessity for the abOH- | tion of privilege was never SC impera- tive as IL is today.