Evening star., 1920-07-02
PMnks Framed
After Night
Clashes.
VETS DEFEATED
IN COMMITTED
President :sLeadership
Receives q Warm
Tribute.
BY. the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July g.
Framed after days and nights of strug-
gle with clashing interests and opinions.
the resolutions committee draft of plat
form was laid before the democratic ma
tional convention today for adoption.
The platform committee last night
voted, 80 to II, to reject the light wines
and beer platform.
A wide range of subjects were
treated, including agriculture, labor,
soldier relief and a score more domes-
tic questions.
The preamble was brief 1t was con-
fined to a tribute to the leadership of
President Wilson.
Foremost among the planks came in
dorsement of the league of nations and
condemnation of the republican Senate
for having interposed partisan envy
and personal hatred" in the way of
world peace. The Presidents stand
against reservations designed to cut to
pieces the vital provisions of the Yer
sailles treaty" was applauded. but
coupled with this declaration went the
statement. written in after a prolonged
committee struggle that the democratic
party did not oppose reservations MAX
ing clearer or more specific the obliga-
tions of the United States to the league
associates"
Accompa nying this was an assertion
that the President had repeatedly de-
clared, and the convention now reaf-
firmed, that American obligations as a
league member must be fulfilled in
strict conformity with the Contitution
of the United States. embodied in
which is the fundamental requirement
of declaratory action by the Congress
before this nation may become par
ticipant in any war"
Irish Sympathy Renewed.
The Irish plank. center of hours of
committee dispute, was brief. The
specific reference followed a general
assertion reaffirming the principle Of
aim which victory established" It
merely renewed within the Limitations
of international comfy and usage"
previous expressions of the democratic
party of sympathy with Irish aspira-
tions for self-governIpent. &s
The Armenian plank also expressed
sympathy. but was silent on the ques-
tion of acceptance by the United States
of a mandate over that country. for
which the President asked authority
of Congress. Consistent with the Con-
stitution and American principles, the
committee plank said, the government
should lend "every possible and prop
up government of their own.
International Subjects.
Among other international subjects
touched upon was non admission Of
Asiatic immigrants. declared to be as
the judgment Of our people, Support
was pledged to. states where enforce
ment of that policy was of particular
concern.
The Mexican plank asserted that the
administration, remembering in all cir
pendent state. had been unwilling
either to profit by the misfortunes of
the peoples of Mexico or to enfeeble
their future by imposing from the out
side a rule upon their temporarily dis
tracted councils Order was 'gradu-
added, and "at no time in many years
have American lives and interests been
so safe as they are now"
The new Mexican government should
be recognized when it had proved it's
ability to maintain order, signified its
tions and had given foreigners in Mexico
rights as well as duties" the plank
continued. 1t served notice, however,
that until that time Mexico must real
ize the propriety Of policy that as
serts the right Of the United States to
demand full protection for it's citizens"
Indicts Republican,.
On one point throughout the plat
form committeeman apparently were
republican Congress and the repub
lican party on many counts, including
warning of well defined indica-
tons" of an impending assault upon
vital principles" of the federal re-
serve system in the event of a re-
IL Sof II.
financial plank condemned ,"the per-
nicious attempt of the republican
party to create discomfort among the
holders of the bonds of the govern
ment" and to drag our public finance
and our banking and currency system
back into the arena of party politics"
Failure to enact tax revision meas
ures through sheer political cow
ardice'' also was charged against
the republicans. Congress having
made no move, it was asserted, ito
ward readjustment Of tax laws
election and was afraid to revise be-
fore the next election"
Claims of republican public economy
were branded as false pretense"; but
the attack on the republicans reached
it's climax in a separate plank devoted
to republican corruption"
This section DISCUSSED the shock
ing disclosure >of the lavish use of
money" by candidates for the re-
publican presidential nomination and
1.-The conviction of republican
senator" from Michigan charged with
having violated campaign expendi-
lures laws to draw the inference that
there is indicated 1.-The re-entry, under
republican auspices, of money as an
influential factor in elections" and
"stern popular rebuke" is invoked.
The republicans, the plank adds, con-
troll the Senate only by virtue Of the
Michigan election mentioned.