Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-20
n. Y. REPUBLICANS
CONDEMN WILSON
National Administration Is Ar
raigned and Treaty Changes
Demanded
AGAINST ALIEN INFLUENCE
By the Associated Press

IbN tnt RSSTf'IPN tTeSS
New Yo-lS. Feb 90 Carving out
without changes the progra- mapped
ont hv party leaders the unoTi"inl Re-
publican state convention closed TODAY
with the adontion of a n'atform bitterly
arraigning the national administration
and with the recommends tion that
United States Senators Wordsworth and
Calder. and Nathan l.. Miller and Will
liam Royce Thomson be elected dele
gates at large to the national conven-
tion at the spring primaries.
The convention was not marked BY
single discordant note from the time
Elihu Root called IT to order AS tenn
norary chairman until the delegates filed
out of unheated Carnegie Hall upon
adjournment just before l o'clock.
John T,ord O'Brian, of Rnffr'o, who
was elected permanent chairman. de-
livered brief address. in which he
caustirally criticized the Wilson admin
istration.
Twenty women. including Mrs. Flor
ence Knapp, of Syracuse. who was a
candidate for delegate at-largo until
former Judge Miller. also resident of
Syracuse, was made n member of the
big Four when Mr.. Root declined
to serve, were named as honorary vice
chairmen.
The Platform
The platform says in part:
"The Republican party of the state
of New York reafirms its unyieldinS
devotion to the constitution of the
United States and to the guarantees of
civil, political and religious liberty
therein contained. 1t will resist all
attempts to overthrow the foundations
of the government or to weaken the
force of it's controlling principles and
ideals, whether these attempts be made
in the form of international policy or of
domestic agitation.
"We favor the immediate ratification
of the pending treaty Of peace with such
distinct reservations and declarations
as shall make it clear to all the world
that the United States retains its un
conditioned rights to withdraw from the
League of Nations on proper notice !:
that the United States assumes no
obligation, either legal or moral, to send
American soldiers or sailors for service
abroad unless the Congress, in the eXer-
else of its constitutional power, shall so
authorize and direct; that the Monroe
Doctrine is protected both in letter and
spirit; that no foreign power or council
of foreign powers shall have any con-
troll Whatsoever over the domestic
po!icies of the United States. and that
the government and the people of the
United States shall not be drawn by
the operation of Part XIII of the
treaty, to so-called labor clauses into
the net spread by International So
cialism.
Article Y Should Not Be Ratified
article y of the covenant for
League of Nations, in its original form,
cannot and should not be ratified by the
Senate or accepted by the people of the
United States. To do so would not only
contract away control by the American
people of their own policies and acts,
but would certainly embroil the country
in an endless succession of wars, great
and small.
I'VE believe that the proposed cove
nant for a League of Nations is gravely
in that it attempts to sub
stitutc discussion. instead of the rule of
law for force, in the settlement of inter
national difficulties. We declare it to
be the policy of the Republican party,
when the treaty of peace is ratified,
promptly to take steps for the insti..
tuition of an international high court of
Justice to hear and decide, in accord
ance with the principles of law and
equity disputes that are justiciable in
character arising between nations. and
for an international conference, meet
ing at stated intervals, to declare and
to revise the rules of international law
and conduct, and to urge upon the civil
zpd nations, as a long step forward in
promoting permanent peace, their as
sent to such a code of law defining the
rights and duties of nations, such as
vas adopted by the American Institute
Df International Law at Havana, re-
public of Cuba, Oh January %, 1917,
known as the recommendations of Ha-
vana.
Real Enemy of Democracy
1.-THE chief enemy of democracy, based
upon universal suffrage and majority
rule, no longer is the arbitrary gov
ernment of a monarch or of hereditary
aristocracy, but the cruel and relent-
less domination of a. class bent not
upon protecting liberty and equality of
but upon exploiting all
who are not Of their own kind and
group.
eve support and urge the most Wig
,rOus measures to prevent by education
he spread in this country of the doc
.rines of this dangerous and undemo.
ratio movement.
Urges Suffrage Amendment
1--WE earnestly urge upon the Legis
atures of those states that have not
,et acted on the pending amendment
o the constitution of the United States
hat it be promptly ratified in that
women generally participate in the cleo
ions to be held in November for Presi-
lent. Vice President, the Senate and
House of Representatives.
"The wage worker is entitled, as a
luman being, to proper wage. reason
lble hours and healthful conditions OF
abor, and to share in determining