Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-08

| speak as long as he pleases on any Subject that he chooses. The "pre- vious question" is unknown to the senate rules. There is no method by which majority may close debate and force vote so long as any sen- ator desires to talk.
 Freedom of debate in the senate will be preserved but the abuse of the
 right-the fiibuster-must be abol- ished.
 publican nominees for president and Ivice-president have conferred and agree to base thei rcampaign prima-
 rily on the necessity of wrestling the government from what they term personal control" and restoring party control" This implies that other features of the Chicago plat form are to be subordinated to the false issue based on prejudice and misrepresentation that President Will son performs the role of dictator. Since the president went to Paris to discharge in person the duty imposed upon him by the constitution to ne- gotiate the treaty of peace, it has been the policy of the republican leaders to assault him as an usurper. This unjust campaign has been con- tinued in spite of the fact that for almost year and half the president has been too ill to perform, without great suffering, the imperative du- ties of his office.
 It is proposed that the nagging process carried on for a year and a half in the senate shall be made the chief manifestation by the republican nominees of their fitness for office !? If the senate as body had per formed it's duty half as promptly as the president did his, the world long ago would have been at peace. With a jealousy unworthy of their sta ton, senators who formerly advocat- ed the league of nations turned against it when the president be- came it's effective champion. Foreign Problems. Radical differences are easily ob-
 servable between the democratic and
 republican platforms respecting the various phases of foreign policy at issue.
 Our platform affirms the principle
 of self determination and expresses
 sympathy with the aspirations of the
 people of Ireland for nationality. An
 earnest purpose is avowed to render
 every possible assistance consistent
 with our constitution to the peoples
 who have recently realized their in-
 dependence.
 I The announcement in favor of inde-
 pendence for the Philippines is evil
 dence of the sincerity of the declara-
 tion concerning the principle of na-
 tional self-determination. Democrats
 believe that the extension of self
 government to the subject peoples
 of the earth means the end of autoc-
 racy and every other form of political
 oppression.
 Among the mysterious and inexplic- able blanks in the republican plat
 form is that relating to Mexico. It
 scolds the administration, but it is wholly worthless as a guide to the policy of the republican party touch- ing Mexican affairs.
 There can be no controversy about the necessity for stable government in Mexico. The republican platform, while bitterly condemning the course of the present administration toward Mexico, proposes no plan for the sta- Utilization of the institutions of that unhappy republic.
 We recognize the right of the peo- pie of Mexico to work out their own destiny, to determine and maintain their own institutions, withholding se- cognition from the new government until ample proof is afforded of it's ability to maintain law and order and to protect the lives and property in