Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-12
TEXT Of PLATFORM
ADOPTED BY c. D. P;
LEAGUE IS FLAYED
Commends Senate for Re-
jecting Pact - Declares
Against Strikes Against
United States

COLISEUM. CHICAGO June II.
The text of the platform as adopted
by the Republican national conven-
tion follows:
The Republican party, assembled
in representative national convention,
reafirms ITS unyieldi.ng devotion to
States and to the guarantees of
civil, political and religious liberty
therein contained. 1t will resist all
attempts to overthrow the founda-
lions of the government or to weak
en- the force of its controlling prin-
cip1es and ideals whether the at
tempts made in the form of in
ternationai policy or domestic agi-
tation.
For seven years the national gov
eminent has been controlled by the
Democratic party. During that pc
Rod a war of unparalleled magni-
ture has shaken the foundations of
civilization, decimated the popula-
ton of Europe, and left in its trail
economic misery and suffering sec
ond only to war itself.
The outstanding features of the
Democratic administration have
been complete unpreparedness for
war and complete unpreparedness
for peace.
Unpreparedness for War
Inexcusable failure to make time
~ preparation is the chief indict-
ment against the Democratic admin
istration in the conduct of the war.
Had not our associates protected US,
both on land and sea, during the
first twelve months of our Npart1ci-
patton and furnished US to the very
day of the admistice with munitions,
planes and artillery, this failure
would have been punished with dis
aster. 1t directly resulted in I'M
necessary losses to our gallant
troops, in the imperilment of vic
waste of public funds literally
poured into the breach created by
gross neglect. Today it is reflected
in our huge tax burden and in the
high cost of living.
Unpreparedness for Peace So
Peace found the administration
as unprepared for peace as war
found it unprepared for war. The
vital needs of the country demand
ed the early and systematic return
to a peace-time basis. This called
for vision, leadership and 1ntelli-
lacking. While the country has been
left to shift for itself, the govern
ment has continued On a wartime
basis. The administration has not
demobilized the army of place hold
financing which was indefensible
during the period of reconstruction.
1t has used legislation passed to
meet the emergency of war to con-
rial control over the life of the peo-
pie in time of peace, and to carry
confusion into industrial life. I'm
de rthe despots plea of necessity
or superior wisdom, executive usur-
patton of legislative and judicial
functions still undetermines our in
situations.
Eighteen months after the armi-
stice, with it's wartime powers I'M
abridged, it's wartime departments
undischarged, its wartime army of
place holders still modified, the ad-
ministration continues to founder
helplessly.
The demonstrated incapacity of
the Democratic party has destroyed
public confidence, weakened the au-
thority of government and produced
feeling of distrust and hesitation
so universal as to increase enor-
mously the difficulties of readjust-
ment and to delay the return to nor
NAL conditions.
Never has our nation been con-
fronted~with graver problems. The
people are entitled to know in def
mite terms how the parties purpose
solving these problems. To that end
the Republican party declares it's
policies and. program to be as fol-
lows:
We undertake to end executive au-
tocracy and to restore to the people
their constitutional government.
The policies herein declared will
be carried out by the federal and
state governments, each acting with
in its constitutional powers.
Congress ana Reconstruction
Despite the unconstitutional and
dictatorial course of the president
and the partisan obstruction OF the
Democratic congressional minority,
the Republican majority has enacted
program of constructive legislation
which, in great part, however, has
been nullified by the vindictive We
L toes Of the president.
The Republican congress has met
the problems presented by the ad-
ministration's unpreparedness Tor
peace. 1t has repealed the greater
part of the YeXatious war legisla-
ton. 1t has enacted a transporta-
ton act making possible the rehabil-
itation of the railroad system OF the
country, the operation OF which, I'M
der the present Democratic admin
istration, has been wasteful, extrav-
agant and inefficient in the highest
degree. The transportation act made
provision for the peaceful settlement
of wage disputes, partially nullified
appointing the wage board created by
the act. This delay precipitated the
outlaw railroad strike.
We stopped the Hood of public
treasure, reCkleSSly poured lNLO the
lap of an inept shipping board, an(
laid the foundations for the creation
Of a great merchant marine; we tool
from the incompetent Democratic ad
ministration the administration o!
the telegraph and telephone lines o!
the country and returned them II
private ownership; we reduced tn
cost of postage and increased the pay
of the postal employes-the poores
paid of all public servants; we pro
vided pensions for superannuateC
and retired civil servants and for al
increase in pay of soldiers and sail
ors. We reorganized the army on ;
peace footing and provided for thu
maintenance of a powerful and eff
cient navy.
The Republican congress estab
lished by law a permanent woman
bureau in the department of labor
we submitted to the country the con
4 stIturional amendment for woman
suffrage and furnished twenty-nin
of the thirty-five legislatures which
have ratified 1t to date.
Legislation for the relief of tn
consumers of print paper, for the ex
tension of the powers of the govern
: ment under the food control act, TO
r broadening the scope Of the war risl
insurance act. better provision TO
the dwindling number of a%sd veter