Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-07-10
OLD PARTIES ARE
CALLED WINGS OF
SAME BIRD OF PREY"
Keyno Sounded by Chairman Of
Convention Called by Com
mittec of 48.
PRIVILEGE is DENOUNCED
ny Associated Press TO Every Evening

Chicago, July lO.-The Repub lican
and Democratic parties were denounced
"thc right and left wing Of the same
bird ri prey" at the opening of a proposed
third party" national convention here
today.
Sounding the keynote Of the asscmblage
called together by the committee oil 4S
to adopt platform and place IN the held
another set Of candidates for presidency
and vlcc-prcsidency, Allen, McCurdy,
Temporary chairman, charged that the
two big parties had evadcd paramount
domestic ISSUES at a time when what the
country needs is 'fcwer laws and more
treshom"
The abolition Of special privilege, MIR.
McCurdy said, WAS the issue around which
thu new party would appeal to the voters
IN November He said the party pur-
posed cffecting that end through removing
the sources from which privilege derives
ITS power.
TO accomplish this purpose" he de-
clared, ''it proposes public ownership OF
transportation and of the principal basic
resources oi the country and declares that
all land held out of use for speculation
should hc forced into use by taxation.
Consider the actual conditions under
which we meet. After years of secret
slavery the Republican party and the
Democratic party come into the open
and rcvcal themselves to themselves and
"a the nation nothing but the right
wing and the left wing of the same bird
Of prey. IL is no longer possible for any
one even to pretend that there Is any
difference any issue between them
There is not a word in either OF their
platforms that might not have been writ
ten and unanimously endorsed by con-
yal pf n
ton lawyers and Wall Street bankers.
The only difference between these plat
forms as some one has remarked, is
difference m the number of words used
IA sav nothing Confronted by the graz
e-t crisis IN the history of civilization,
they have demonstrated, even to their
own sdhcrcnts, that they are without the
viaon of craftsmanship, the courage of
leadership or the conviction of patriotism.
REPUBLICAN BID BOLD.
The Republican bid is bold. II
reads out of its councils every man and
woman who ever stood for any form of
human rights. adopts platform that
evades. equlvocates, or straddlcs every
living issue. paves the WY for war by
which in exchange for the lives and
Treasure of the people, Mexican oil shall
hc delivered 60 the interests endorses the
protests of farmers, workers and informed
citizens, and consistently crowns Its
work by nominating as candidate for the
Presidency of the United States IN the
,ear 1920 q proven. steady wheel horse
politician guarantced 10 stand without
hitching who learned all the politics he
ever learned IN the satisfactory and
thorough school Of Mercus A. Hanna and
Joseph Is. Foraker, way back IN the golden
age marked by the Standard oil scandals.
Thus stands the party of Abraham Lin
coin IN the last DAYS OF Its decadent faith
lcssness. naked and unashamed IN IT.
scrvile service of a greedy plutocracy.
The Democratic bid Is more than
bold: Il is brazer With mild reserve tions,
!, not only claims partisan credit. which
talongs to the whole nation, for fighting
and winning the war but IT declares that it
administered the conduct Of that war
without the tent of scandal And the
ghost. of Hog Island and aircraft, end
shipbuiding and cantonment construc-
tions. and nitrate plant appropriations
IRE still stalking through the land
scandal, Is it no scandal that In the
year 1917, the year of supreme sacrifice
when our boys were fighting and dying
for $50 a month, and our people were
economizing and sacrificing to buy Liberty
poratlon made net earnings of SSSS. .931,
5II. or twenty million dollars more than
It's total capital stock. What can we call
that whole orgy of war profiteerIng by
set of the most unscrupulousiset OF scoun-
drcls who ever fattened out of the neces-
sites and the miserles of great nation
AZ war? Shall we acknowledge that
scandal is too light word and say with
senator Capper IF this be not grand
larceny in dav time, j do not know what
else we should cali it," Even so the
scandal remains, for such profiteering was
never prosecuted by the prosecuting
encouragement.
Nor is this ell. There are some crimes
which by their sheer effroDtery become
sublime. Failure 10 protect ? people
against prohteering IN time of war might
be forgiven. but to break the faith of
whole nation cannot be forgiven.
BACK TO BONDAGE.
"The Republican party would lead us
back 90 the bondage of Marcus Hanna.
Not 20 be outbid the Democratic party,
through It's endorsement of the admins
traiiun Of A. Mitchell Palmer, would lead
US back TO the days OF Philip III of Spain,
Charles / OF England, the unspeakable
Mettcrnich Of Austria and cause their
inuuisltions, secret police, spies, espionage,
agents provocateur, star chamber pro-
ccedings, arrests without warrants, pri-
vate prisons, illegal detentions and admin
istrative justice 10 supplant the methods
provided by the bill Of rights which has
been the bulwark of Anglo-Saxon freedom
for nine centuries To such depths of
viii and performance has the party of
Thomas Jefferson descended.
"Such are the conditions under which
we are in convention assembled This
whole country is shocked by the action
Of these two major parties. The truth is
out af last Both parties have surrender
cd unconditionally TO privilege and reac-
non. Thousands are agreed with us
today for every one who agreed with us
IN January. The vast majority of the |
electorate realize that no matter whether |
.hc Republican or the Democratic party |
wins, the people lose. The necessity for |
the abolition of privilege was never so |
imperative as it Is today.
Therefore, that platform which is |
submitted as the basis of the deliberations |
of this convention has a most serious |
claim TO our consideration. Not only |
j. IL short platform but 1T Is single |
minded IN its devotion TO one determine |
ton. IL declares that the principal cause |
of the distress of this people Is economic |
IN It's nature and can be removed only by
economic action. Every word IN IT says
the same thing: Abolish economic privilege
A government controlled by privilege can