New-York tribune., 1920-02-21
Fair Wages for Teachers,
Private-Owned Merchant
Marine and. Laws to
Curb ''Reds'' Advocated
Against the Plumb Plan
Government Ownership of
Railroads Also Opposed;
Small Standing Army

Fouoscins is the platform of th,
Republican party Of the State o.
Nem York as adopted yesterday /,
convention at Carnegie Hall:
The Republican party of tic State
Of New York. assembled in repre-
sentative convention, reaftirms its
unyielding devotion to the Consttu-
ton Of the United States and to tho
guarantees of civil, political and re-
ligious liberty therein contained. 1t
will resist all attempts to overthrow
the foundations Of the government
or to weaken the force of its con-
trolling principles and ideals,
whether these attempts be made in
the form OF international policy or
OF domestic agitation. It insists
upon government Of laws, not Of
men.
Individuals and minoritics, irrc-
spective of race or creed. arc entitled
10 the rights assured them by the
Constitution. The safety of our in
stitutions demands the maintenance
OF order. and to all forms of violence
and revolutionary agitation we op-
pose as the best national safeguard
an unyielding and impartial justice.
Immediate Ratification
OF the Peace Treaty
TREATY OF PEACE AND
LEAGUE OF NATIONS: We favor
the immediate ratification of the pend
ing treaty of peace, with such distinct
reservations and declarations as
shall make it clear to all the world
What the United States retains it's un-
conditioned right to withdraw from
the league Of nations on proper no.
tice: that the United States assumes
no obligation, either legal or moral,
10 send American soldiers or sailors
for service abroad unless the Congress,
in the exercise of its constitutional
power. shall so authorize and direct:
that the Monroe Doctrine is protected
both in letter and in spirit: that no
foreign power or council of foreign
powers shall have any control what
soever over the domestic policies 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. the so-called labor clauses.
INTO the net spread by international
socialism.
Article X of the covenant for a
'eague of nations, in it's original
torm. cannot and should not be rat
fed by the Senate or accepted by the
people of the United States. To do
so would not only contract away con-
troll by the American people of their
cwn policies and acts, but would cer-
'ainly elnbroi the country in an
endless succession of wars, great and
small.
We believe that the proposed
covenant for league of nations is
gravely defective, in that it ATTEMPTS
10 substitute discussion instead Of
The rule OF law for force in the
settlement of international differ
ences. We declare it to be the pol
icy OF the Republican party, when the
,reaty of PEACE is ratified promptly
o take steps for the institution of
an international high court of JUS
ice to hear and decide, in accord
snce with the principles of law and
equity, disputes that are justiciable
n character arising between nations,
and for an international conference.
meeting at stated intervals, to declare
and TO revise the rules of interna-
-lonal law and conduct; and to urge
upon the civilized nations, as a long
step forward in promoting perma-
nent peace, their assent to such a
code Of law defining the rights and
duties of nations such as was
adopted by the American Institute
Of international Law at Havana, Re-
public of Cuba, on January %, 1917,
known as the Recommendation Of
Havana.