Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-06-11
Platform as Adopted by Convention

by practical and adequate represent ations in the appointment of govern mental officials and commissions; the right to form cooperative associa- tions for marketing their products, and protection against discrimination; the scientific study of agricultural prices and farm production costs at home and abroad, with view to re- ducing the frequency of abnormal fluctuations; the uncensored publica- tion of such reports; the authoriza- tion of associations for the extension of personal credit; national inquiry on the coordination of rail, water and motor transportation with adequate facilities for receiving, handling and marketing food; the encouragement of our export trade; an end to unne- cessary price fixing and ill-considered efforts arbitrarily to reduce prices of farm products which invariably result to the disadvantage both of producer and consumer; and the encouragement of the production and importation of fertiliZing material and of it's exten- sive use.
 "The federal farm loan act should be so administered as to facilitate the acquisitionof farm lands by those de- string to become owners and proprie- tors and thus minimize the evils of farm tenantry, and to furnish such long time credits as farmers may need to finance adequately their larger and long time production operations.
 National Economy.
 "A republican congress reduced the estimate submitted by the administra- tion for the fiscal year 1920 almo st three billion dollars and for the fiscal year 1921 over billion and quarter dollars Greater economies could have been effected had it not been for the stubborn refusal of the administration to cooperate with congress in an eco- nomy program. The universal demand for legislative budget is recogni- tion of the incontrovertible fact that leadership and sincere assistance on the part of the executive departments are essential to effective economy and constructive retrenchmen.
 "The Overman act invested the pres ident of the United States with all the authority and power necessary to re- store the federal government to a normal peace basis and to reorganize retrench and demobilize. The domi- nant fact is that Is months after the armistice, the United States govern ment is still on war time basis and the expenditure program of the execu- tive reflects war time extravaganza rather than rigid peace time econ omy.
 "As an example of the failure to retrench which has characterized post war policy of the administration, we cite the fact that, not including the war and navy departments, the execu- tive departments and other estab- lishments at Washington actually re- cord an increase subsequent to the armistice, of PISA employees. The net decrease in payroll costs contained in the 1921 demands submitted by the administration is only one per cent under that of 1920. The annual ex- pense of federal operation can be re- duced hundreds of millions of dol. lars without impairing the efficiency of the public service.
 "We pledge ourselves to a carefully planned readjustment to peace time basis and to a policy of rigid economy to the better coordination of depart mental activities, to the elimination of unnecessary officials and employees and to the raising of the standard of individual efficiency.
 Executive Budget.
 eve congratulate the republican congress on the enactment of 8 law providing for the establishment of an executive budget as 2 necessary in- strument for a sound and business like administration of the national ii. nances, and we condemn the veto of the president which defeated this great financial reform"
 Other blanks included endorsement of reclamation, strict enforcement of the civil service law, condemnation of the present postal-service, a well come to women as voters, an anti lynching appeal, oposition to govern ment ownership of railroads, tax and banking and currency reform, regula ! tion of industry and commerce and stricter naturalization laws.