New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
Declares Issues Covered
i'm Tribune's Contest
All Deserve Place i'm
Party's Declaration
Others Voice
Their Approval
Republican Leaders, Men
and Women, Commend
Brevity of Expression

read The Tribune's Prize Platform are
generally agreed on the excellence Of
its planks and the worth Of the con-
test. Some Of the comment follows:
Chauncey M. Depew, delegate to the
Republican National Convention:
"This platform is safe and sound
and adequate to the large demands Of
the times on all the phases of national
life that it treats. 1t is splendid
statement Of the Republican party's
efficient methods and policies in a
period when feeling against the griev-
GUS blunders Of the Administration in
power Is so strong that we could go
to the country and win on the plain
basis Of Put the rascals out
"Party platforms have been too long
in the past and the average citizea
hasn't had the time or inclination to
read them. At first glance 1 see that
the platform makers have not made
that mistake in this one.
81 believe heartily in the plank on
foreign relations. Certainly we can
not stand aloof from world affairs out
with them not as internationalists
but as an independent nation. My own
convictions on this matter are ex-
pressed in the Lodge reservations.
GAS for national defense, 1 favor
universal training. 1t is the demo-
cratic, American way Of defense. But
l believe our standing army might now
be reduced to 100000 men and our
navy can be reduced also, for their
present size burdens the nation. 1t
is too expensive to maintain such a
system when 1t Is unnecessary. This
is just one example Of reductions in
various departments of the govern
ment. We have too many people in
government employ.
"But the real way to cut down the
cost of living is to force larger pro-
duction. The plank about arbitration
in industry is most serious, because
that problem is 80 intricate. Of
course the nation, as a nation, must
do something of large consequence to
ease the relations between capital and
labor.
81 approve the plank on the Consti-
tuition, because l certainly believe our
Federal government must be decentral-
lied to distribute the power that one
man wields now"
Right on Two Great Issues
Colonel Thomas W. Miller, assistant
Eastern director of the Leonard Wood
campaign:
This platform is right on the two
greatest international questions con-
fronting the United States to-day. The
first is foreign relations. The Repub-
lican party, through it's representa-
tives in the Senate, favors ratifying
the treaty of peace with reservations.
The treaty itself would have been rati-
fled long ago had not the President
boasted that he would tie the league
of nations with it so that they could
not be cut apart. AS this is the great
est question, it is only proper that a
strong plank on foreign relations
should have first place on any plat
form.
1.-The second greatest question before
the country and the world is the state
of unrest existing over half the terri
tory of the globe. When we see mon
arches and foreign governments being
used by radical elements known as
Bolshevists we must recognize the sit
uation as grave. These radical ele-
ments are reaching out and spreading
their propaganda to the fertile soil of
our own great country. So the party's
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define it's attitude on this subject.
Reconstruction after the war must
deal with capital and labor, national
defense, education, conservation and
taxation, as purely domestic problems,
and a well-balanced platform should
contain unequivocal statements as to
the Republican party's attitude and
what the country may expect it to do
on these issues should it be success
full.
"The Mexican situation is peculiar
to America, and it is apparent to all
that there must be some change from
our Mexican policy that will insure
the protection of Americans and their
rights in the republic to the south of
us.
"The Tribune platform Is concise
and intelligent and every good Amer
ican citizen should approve it,"
Good, Strong Platform
George w. Glynn, chairman of Re-
publican State Committee:
1T reads like a good, strong Re-
publican platform. It should be COM
mended for it's brevity. Every cit
izen would read a platform of that
length and the brevity of it hasn't
taken away much that is important
don't see where it gets off the beaten
path of the country's needs and it is
liberal withal.
"The plank on the Constitution and
its checks to a perversion of power
is one of the most concise statements
Of party principles that / ever have
read. That is good Americanism. 1t is
certainly time to call halt and have
an understanding on what sort of a
government the Constitution permits
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