Arizona republican., 1920-07-12

member of the Committee Forty-eight. in which he misapprehends intent the editor recently to ridcue the Committee in effort progress in Chicago to form party. We know that many members of the committee men and women of high ideals and that they earnestly believe that the forms which they demand essential attain the highest form of Democracy. and that the evils against they threaten existence s a republic.
 What we pointed out was the apparent mpos- sibihty making such a heterogeneous mass as that which is included in the Committee cohesive body and the dispatches describing the proceedings at Chicago to lend force to the prediction We 
 We learn for instance. that the delegates now in session at Chicago are fifty percent uJetal and forty-1iine per cent radical'--a gin of harmonious result We also learn there a spirited and bitter con tIoversy over should be the matter Of choosing a name party-all the elements. Single Taxers, Laborites. Farmers National Council, the Peoples Money Leaguers, the Produce Leaguers and the Consumers Leaguers clamoring thunder in the index
 We do not approve their entirety of either the Republican Democratic national platform Both arc to be criticised what they omitted rather what they included While both be defended they contain, neither is defensibe for it's neglect to say certain things perhaps many things that should said. platforms necessarily compromises sometimes of honest opinion, either the Democratic the Republican platform is good could have expected. any rate disclosed great degree of improvement previous party utterances indi- eating the progress which both political parties making
 But reforms not be completed in day, each of the elements of the Committee of Foryeight demands regarding it's plan of reform be We be content with progress for cannot attain sudden perfection.
 We think that the comparison spondent makes between the reforms advocated by Theodore Roosevelt which urged the platform of tn Progressive party in 1912, with reforms posed by all of the component of the Com nlittee of Forty eight is happy The Covenant with the People" was long step in progress, which we believed then should be taken and long has been taken direction by Progressive convention More it's recommend atons translated legislation other party declaration In vention has a deeper influence the country the Baltimore convention had Both Democrats and Republicans have since accepted either willingly or with reluctance many of the reforms urged in the Covenant.
 The fundamental government against which the Progressive convention cried have, some of been n process of removal. The Covenant was also protest against tn Republican party which fallen upon days in evil hands. Through chastsement otherwise it has far reformed that it has the approval nearly all the the Progressive movement. and had so far improved four years that it had approval hearty support of Colonel Roosevelt
 But what the reforms which the Committee of weight demand? We have many things should be cured-profiteering, instance, al parties and all persons agreed that but of them have yet outlined the the which the Committee for in he real sense, but experiment in commerce. in industry in transportation. and in almost direction corning which dreamers dreamed.
 At the bottom. o prime movers in the project for the formation party quite honest. in representing a bolt from the Republican party. We know that organ ization of. the party contemplated long before it known what the Republican platform would contain. Anyway, why, if there a the of the Committee leaders, reforms should be adopted of the parties they not wait and present their demands the Demo- cratic national convention? They could have enter tained equally lively hope of Democratic acquies they had of Republican acceptance, for which they pretended waited.
 But all the demands of the Committee within itself inconsistent conflicting and unadjusabe they. according dispatches, the first day of the convention bolt from the pretended bolt in prospect.
 More than a month the government announced that there supply of paper for three issues of the Congressional Record That didn anybody oyv the Record n is coming