Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1922-09-28
ECONOMIC PLATFORM ADOPTED
BY REPUBLICANS AT PORTLAND
Primary Upheld as Means OF
Selecting Candidates; Budget
System for Counties Endors-
ed; Aliens Banned From Ore.
Tax Reduction Big Issue; Presi-
dent Harding Commended for
Work of National Administra-
ton; Platform in Part.

Portland Sept. 27.-The republican
platform conference completed its
labors here Tuesday without dis
cordant note after charting a course
for the part and giving pledge to
the pec>,. The enunciation of prin-
ciples, referred to by one speaker as
"a splendid portrayal of composite
republican thought was adopted un-
animously and. without debate, says
the Oregonian.
One hundred and thirty-fiye repub-
lican officers and nominees, gathered
from every section OF .Oregon-the
first statewide gathering held since
19l0--reaffirmed faith in the direct
primary and pledged the enactment of
legislation which win require repre-
sentatives, duly elected by the voters,
OF the respective political parties. to
meet for the express purpose of
drawing up a platform setting forth
what each party stands for and
proposed to accomplish.
II was held that the democrats, no
less than the republicans, are vitality
concerned in this matter.
The platform adopted by the Repub-
lican state convention in part as fol-
lows.
We commend the President Of the
United States. Warren G. Harding,
and the Republican congress for ma
tional Legislation that reduced the
burden on the peorio of this country
a billion dollars a wear.
That brought Liberty bonds from
S5c to par;
That reduced appropriations three
billion dollars;
That cut one hundred thousand
needless civi. employers from the pay
rolls;
That reduced army and navy expen-
ditures half billion dollars:
That ended .he state of war with
Germany and brought American soldi-
ers home from the Rhine.
That stopped the crimina, waste of
the peoples monev and established
economic expenditures through the
adoption of budget system;
That made liberal appropriations for
Oregon rivers and harbors and road
improvements;
That brought about an agreement
FOR reduction Of armaments among
the leading nations of the world;
That by wise diplomacy avoided a
conflict with Japan and that has so
reestablished confidence in this coun-
try that the army Of five million idle
men that existed few months ago as
a result Of Democratic inefficiency
and misguided policies iss' been re-
duced tS nothing.
lndepe ndents Condemned
We believe that in the very nature
o. our government political parties
are a fundamental necessity and that
anything that tends to destroy them
is inimical to the best interest of the
state and nation and can only end in
chaos;
We believe continuation of the
Republican party in power in state and
nation is necessary to their welfare.
We unalterably and severly con.
denim all so called Independent" and
"Non-Partisan" movements.
We eearnestly assert and maintain
that the only legitimate method Of
setting any differences of opinion that
may exist in party ranks is to do 8.
in the primaries, and that it is the
duty of every Republican voter, and
in keeping with the American stand
ard of good citizenship to abide by the
result of the primaries end present
united party front at the general