The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1920-07-10
OLD PARTIES
DENOUNCED As
BIRDS OF PREY
Committee of 48 Opens
Convention With
Ringing Speech
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cun and democratic parties were de-
nuunccd as the right and left wing
Of the snme bird Of prey" utSthe
opening Of proposed third party
national convention here today.
Sounding the keynote OF the as
scmblagc called together hy the Conn
mittce Of IS to adopt platform and
place In the field another set Of cam
didntes for presidency and vice prcsi-
/ dcncy, Allen McCurdy. temporary
/ chairman. charged that the two big
parties had evnded paramount do
mestic issues at time when what
| the country needs In "few laws and
moro freedom"
The abolition OF special privilege
| Mr.. McCLrdy said, was the Issue
around which the new party would
appeal tn the voters In November. He
said the party purposed efecting that
end through removing the sources
from which privilege derives its
power.
Public Ownership.
TO accomplish this purpose" he
declared. 1t proposes public owner
ship OF transportation and of the
principal basic resources OF the
country and declares that all land
held out Of use for speculation
should be forced into use by taxation
Consider the actual conditions un-
der which we meet After years OF
secret slavery the republican party
and the democratic party come into
the open and reveal themselves to
themselves and to the nation us moth
ing but the right wing and the left
wing of the same blrd OF prey. II
is no longer possible for anyone even
to pretend that there Is any differ
ence on any issue between them.
There IL not word In either OF their
platforms that might not have been
written and unanimously endorsed by
a convention exclusively composed of
corporation lawyers and Wall Street
bankers.
The only difference between these
platforms as someone has remarked.
IN difference In the number OF
words mied to say nothing. Con-
fronted by the gravest crisis In the
history Of civilization. they have dem
onstrated, even to their own adher-
ents, that they are without the vision
OF a statesmanship. the courage OF
leadership or the conviction OF pa
triotlsm.
"Thc republican bid is bold. II
reads out of It's councils every man
and woman who ever stood for any
form of human rights; adopts a plat
form that cvades. equivocntes oI
straddlos every living issue; paves
the way for war by which, In eX-
change fOg the lives and treasures OF
tho people. Mexican oil shall be de-
livercd to the interests. endorses the
Infamous Esch-Cummins bill over the
protests Of farmers, workers and In
! formed citizens: and consistently
crowns its work 10y nominating as
candidate for the president of the
} United States In the year 1920. n
proven steady wheel-horse politician
guaranteed to stand without hitching
: who learned all the politics he evei
learned In the satisfactory and thor
ough, school of Marcus \. Hanna ant
Joseph ID. Foraker, way back In tn,
golden age marked by the STANDARD
oil scandals. Thus stands the party
Of Abraham Lincoln in the last day
Of It's decadent faithfulness. nhket
and unashamed in its servile service
I Of a greedy plutocracy.
Democratic Bid Brazcn.
70 THE democratic bid is more thar
: Vations. II not only claims u partisan
= credit which belongs to the Who'll,
/. nation for fighting and winning TN
IT war but 1t declares that It admins
tered the conduct of that war with
out the taint OF scandal. And tn
4 ghosts of Hog Island, and aircrat
and shipbuilding and cnntonmen
constructions, and nitrate plant ap
| propriutions are still stalking through
the land, Scandal. Is II no scanda
that in the year 1917. the year q
supreme sacrifice when our boy
were fighting and dying FOR $40 .
month and our people were economic
ing ana sacrificing To buy libert,
bonds. that the United States Stee
= corporation make net earnings o
, SSSS.931,5il, or twenty million dol
lars more than its total capital stock
z what can we call that orgy Of wa
!, profiteering by "A set OF the most un
r scIupulous scoundrels who ever fat
. tened out OF the necessities and tn
miseries OF great nation at war
I Shall we acknowledge that scandal !
[ too light word and say with Sen
. ator CRpper; If this be not gram
. larceny In day time. | do not know
4 what else we should call IT, Evel
4 so the scandal remains, for sucl
/ prOfiteering was never prosecuted b.
I the pargeCutiug attorney general"