Arizona republican., 1920-06-20
The Temptation

There may be q strong wish in the democratic national convention to accept MT. Gompers labor plank which the republican national convention The millions of which he allows it 70 inferred, he controls be sneezed away but tho meantime the democrats will take other things into consideration. They will ask how the of the country feels about that labor plank whether the much greater public than is represented in the ranks of labor would not regard the plank inimcal to it. And then, too. there is the record democratic administration of the things which the plank opposes.
 The Galveston News of whose democracy there be question, thus outlines the reception Mir Gompers likely receive at San Francisco
 Gompers will lead the democratic party to the mountain top and offer it four million labor kneel before him and allow the union label to be imprinted it's forehead. In doing this he will act if not with the authority of the four million whose sovereignty he presumes pur up auction. least the Feeder ation Labor. The international convention organization has denounced the labor plank of the republican platform rejection of it's demands. and instructed Mr. Gompers to submit that demand to the democratic convention, reinforced with the promise that four million will plance
 The democrats will probably get their pencils and will indulge in mathematics. The figures MT. Gompers, -four million will undergo dis counting. So many have been delivered in body and will then is wide difference between million organized labor and four million Organized labor embraces some hundreds of thousands of who not citizens of the country; thousands who will not have secured legal residence localities where they may happen be- for labor shifting, that any other time Il the in dustral history of the country.
 And then as the News points out. the democratic convention cannot adopt the plank Gonpers without repudiating President Wilson. It will probably do that to extent the matter of the League of Nations but it will hardly do in the matter of his attitude in which he was plainly supported by the country
 Says the News, showing that the republican platform plank to which Mir. Gompers objects had been at time another by the president, while the blanks which rejected things which the president had opposed:
 What tho democratic convention will make to that temptation hardly worth while to conjecture But there are some considerations relevant this matter which, while they do make some suggestion, may be canvassed without mitting one to any forecast of its action
 When Mir. Wilson denounced the action of Boston policemen in deserting their posts nounced also the idea public may strike to enforce their demands. Hence much of the republican plank denies "the right against the government IS so perfectly in accord with the sentiment expressed by Mir. Wilson that occasion that the democratic platform could not dissent without putting the party in opposition to his declared conviction.
 When MT. Wilson had the bill sub mitted to congress he asked enact that railroad employees might not strike pending inquiry nto any controversy threatening strike and pend ng inquiry into any controversy threatening a strike and pending effort adjust it. Hence that part of the republican platform which that "n public utilities the establishment of impartial tribunal O of the facts and render decision"
 The decisions of the tribunal to be morally but not legally, binding, informed public senti- unent to be relied secure their acceptance does not go beyond the reach of MT. Wilson's pro posal to congress. if, indeed it goes so far. The democratic platform say on that par ticiilar aspect of the subject without la ing democratic president against itself and tor the republican declaration.
 MT. Wilson approved the transportation act which pISf rom dissenting from that paragraph repubIi- can plank which declares that flor public utilities we favor the type of tribunal provided for in the transportation act of 1920"
 So unless the democrats San Francisco throw the president overheard defy public sentiment Mir. Gompers will hawk his wares in vain He will be reduced to the necessity turning -four nfl- lion votes" the Pinchots party of the Com Inittee of Forty-Eight.
 An exchange which always finding fault with