East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-07-02
Senate is Condemned for Hav-
ing Interposed Partisan Envy
and Personal Hatred in Way
of Worlds Peace.
COMMITTEE PRESENTS
SWEEPING PLATFORM
Playing Criticism Of League At
titude is Coupled With En-
tire Plank on Gross Misrep-
reservations of G. O. p.


SAN FRANCISCO. July AT 1874;
the long awaited for report of tho
platform committee was formally
brought before the convection. 1t was
the opening gun of the days fight and
| William J. Bryan was waiting TO offer
minority reports on five planks.
: Framed after days and nights of de-
i bate in the resolutions committee the
draft was laid before the democratic
national convention today.
The committee platform was silent
on prohibition enforcement. 1t was
long document. efforts to produce a
brief and emphatic statement of its
principles having been balked.
wide range of subjects were treat
ed. including agriculture, labor and
soldier relief and score or more of
domestic questions. The preamble was
confined to tribute TO the leadership
of President Wilson.
Condemns Senate
Foremost among the planks came
the endorsement of the League of Ma
tions, and condemnation of the repub-
lican senate for having interposed.
partisan envy and personal hatred in
the way OF world peace. The pres
ident"s stand against reservations
designed TO cut to pieces the vital pro-
visions of the Versailles treaty" was
applauded. but coupled with this de-
claration went a statement, written in
after a prolonged committee struggle
that the democratic party did not OPP
pose the reservations making clearer
or more specific obligations of the |
United states to the league associates"
Accompanying this was the assertion |
that the president had Repeatedly |
declared and that the convention now |
that the American obliga-
lions as a league member must be ful-
filled in strict conformity with the
of the United States, en-
bodied in which is the fundamental |
of declaratory action
oy the congress before this nation may
in any war"
Irish PianE Brief
The Irish plank. the ceuter of hours
If committee dispute, was brief and
pecific reference followed by the
General assertion reaffirming the
principle of self-determination as
var aim which victory established"
t was merely renewed within the
imitation of international comfy, and
party by sympathy with
rish aspirations for self government.
Among other international subjects
ouched upon was the non admission
# Asiatic immigrants. declared to be
Is national policy "a true expression
If the judgment of our people" Sup
bort was pledged the states where the
of that policy was of par
ocular concern. l.
Scores Financial Dealings.
The financial plank condemned a
attempt of the republican
1arty to create a discomfort among
he holders of bonds of the govern
nent, and to drag our public finance
md our banking and currency system
back into the arena of party politics"
Failure to enact tax revision meas
nres through sheer political cowar-
lice" also was charged against the
congress having made no
move. ii was asserted. toward the
read diustment of tax laws which it de-
before the last election and
was afraid to revise before the next
lection" Claims of republican pub
io economy were also branded "as
false pretense." The attack on the re-
publicans reached its climax in sepa-
|,
ruption."
This section discussed shocking
of the lavish use of
by candidates for the repub-
lican presidential nomination and
conviction of a republican senator
from Michigan charged with having
violated the campaign expenditures
laws TO draw the inference that there
Is indicated the re-entry, under the
republican auspices. of money as I'M
influential factory elections. stern
popular rebuke" is invoked upon the
republicans, the plank adds. and con-
troll of the senate only by the virtue
of the Michigan election is men
toned. i
The Armenian plank also expFessed ,
but was silent on the ques-
ton of acceptance by the United /
States of a mandate.
The Mexican plank asserted that I
the administration remembering in /
all circumstances that Mexico was an
independent state. had been "unwill- !
ing either to profit by the misfortunes .
of the people of the country or.to en-
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