Evening star., 1922-09-23
BAY STATE c, O.P.
FRAMING POLICY
Five PIanks Rejected by Com
mittee at State Con-
Venti0n.
"REFLECTIONS ON LODGE"
Coolidge, as Chairman, Points to
Waxing Prosperity and Party
Success.
PROJECTIONS ON LODGE"
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ES the Associated Press.
BOSTON, September 23.-The repub-
/ lican state convention assembled to-
day to adopt a platform upon which
Henry Cabot Lodge will seek re-elec-
thanning II. Cox a second term as
governor. They were renominated in
The primaries.
Five planks. proposed by Joseph
Walker. who opposed Senator Lodge
in the republican primary, were not
reported by the resolutions commit
tee.
explained that were any one Of the
five adopted it would cast a reflection
on Senator Lodge.
One Walker resolution urged the
party to go on record as approving
PRESIDENT Harding's veto of the bonus.
which the senator voted to override.
Asothef favored declaration of condi-
tions upon which America would en-
ter the league of nations. against
which Senator Lodge waged a sue
aessful fight. The remaining planks
FOR unseating Of Senator Newberry
and opposed any change in the prohi- :
bition act.
Vice President Chairman.
4 Vice President Coolidge was chair
han of the convention.
Reviewing present-day conditions.
which he said constituted an era OF
prosperity. he asserted they would
not have been possible without
rnent in it's economic policy at home
and its peaceful policy abroad
The promises of the republican
party. he said, have been and are
under your party has not failed. 1t
has not defaulted: it has succeeded
1t has responded beyond prophecy
beyond expectation"
The tariff law he described as the
result of a policy to do the best
that could be done under the condi-
tions as they existed"
1T is scarce nineteen months now
since this administration came into
power" he said. "Who would have
dared to claim then that so much
could be done in so short a time
Who would have thought that agri-
culture would now be well on the
way to prosperity; that mills and
factories would be opening up again:
hat in the great basic industries of
steel and textiles wages would be ad-
vancing; that the building trade
would be active; the consumption of
raw materials and our exports and
imports far above any former peace
lime period, with private obligations
thoroughly liQuidated. credit abun-
Gant, interest reasonable, and in gem
rral, a great business revival sweep
ing over the country.
Wise Economy Needed.
Before US lies the imperative need
of wise economy to meet deficit
which threatens to exceed $500. .O00, 900,
the better ordering of our industrial
relations, the establishment of a more
. thorough realization that in a broad
way economic justice does prevail, and
The continued determination to support
the cause of ordered government and
the authority of the law The new
s.ariff was given principal attention
as a campaign issue by Senator Lodge.
The great question to be decided in
this election" he said. lis not whether
we approve or disapproVe certain items
in the tariff bill, but whether we are
prepared to abandon the policy of pro-
lection.
Despite the deprecated currencies
fof other countrieS) the average of
rates in operation in the whole bill
Payne-Aldrich bill, and 1 believe of
any republican protective tariff bill
hitherto passed. We shall have under
this new bill a larger amount coming
in under the free list than ever before
in any protective bill"
The senator referred to an annual
saving of s1,600,000, 900. which this
republican administration has made in
the routine expenditures of the gov
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