The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-06-03

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tion of Il national board OF 0ssimia-
ton. This board would be charged
| with "the duty of COurdinating all eX.
! listing governmental activities relating
to immigration, of facilitating the safe
and expeditions distribution Of imml-
/ grants arriving here to their several
/ destinations, of supplying them with
! information and assistance In respect
/ 10 securing employment In those indus
4 tries for which they are best adapted,
/ of airordiug them instruction In the
| English language and in the history,
/ customs and institutions of our com
/ try, of protecting them against fraud,
/ eXtortlOn and exploitation, Of making
them feel thar they are not strangers
/ in a strange land and of providing for
cooperation by the several branches
Of the federal state and municipal
. governments"
Erecting the Platforms.
The platform makers in the pc.
/ Iti~l parties are now Busy OF
course the platform Of each po~
/ litcul party will be actually put to-
I gcthrr by the committee on resolutions
| of it's national convention, but it is
/ Important for the leaders Ia know
/ fairly well I'm advance what the plat
/ form is to contain. The Republicans
are following Il new plan this year IN
getting up their platform. Last Janu-
! airy, IT will be recalled, the chairman
| of !h.'r national committee, VIII II.
| Hays, created committee ON plat
! form suggestions made up of more
| than $50 men and women representing
\ the various shades of opinion in the
! party This committee was divided
I into subcommittee, each subcommit-
! tee with a chairman
The next step of the committee on
/ platform suggestions was to send out
qucsuounalrp 10 influential members
/ of the party The questions embraced
/ a large range of subjects These Ques-
/ uOnnaircs brought in a large fund Of
/ information and the chairmen of the
/ subcommittee are now sitting this in
4 formation. At meeting here the
/ other day they decided to take the
! boiled down facts brought ont by the
! questionnaires and from them frame
| recommendations to the convention
! committee on resolutions, OF course
| the convention committee IS under no
/ obligation to follow the recommended
/ tions of the committee on platform,
! but It IS generally assumed that on y
/ good many of the topics of the day It
viii use the recommendation or sug
4 gestionS of this committee as a basis
for platform planks.
Topics That Were Avoided.
The national committee Of the Re
/ publican party deemed II advisable to
/ have the committee on platform sug-
/ Lpstions stay away from a few topics,
| among them all matters relating 10 In
| lcinational affairs and this includes
/ the treaty of peace and the League of
/ Nations; the tariff the prohibition
/ question, and the arrangement Of the
/ Democratic administration. At recent
/ conferences here substantial agree
/ ment was reached MS to the wording
! of the plankS that Will deal with the
/ treaty and the League Of Nations and
| the prohibition legislation. If this
| agreement stands. the platform will
! first If all condemn President Wilson
/ for his handling of the treaty and will
] Ia, ~
/ tl0n of the senate In refusing to ratify
| the treaty without reservations Amer
4 lCanizing IT,
In handling the subject of prohibit
! tIon It was the thought of the men
/ who attended these conferences that
there shall be no specific reference to
! the federal prohibition amendment or
! the legislation by congress under
! which the amendment Is enforced, but
instead declaration I'm favor of law
I enforcement In support of this plan
/ IL is argued that nationwide prohibit
I tlon is ii fnct legally speaking, and
/ that there Is no occasion for the party
/ 10 say that It favors or opposes prohi-
billion in It's present form The Anti
/ Saloon league, II Is asserted, has indl-
Gated thut general declaration In
/ favor e. law enforcement Is all 1t will
i ask for.
PIanks for the Democrats.
The Democrats have no committee
4 on platform suggestions az work, but
! the chairman 81 their national commit.
! tee Homer Cummings, and other men
connected with the national orgunl2a.
! tlon have recently been putting In IA
/ good deal OF time on the platform II
/ Is generally assumed that President
Wilson viii write the more Important
[ panks lie has already written in
/ spirit AT least the plank dealing with
the treuty Uf peace and the League Of
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