Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-06-23

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tutes are imperfect or out Of harmony
with the constitution, Il 10 the right
OF the people through their repre-
sentatives to alter them.
While the builders OF the tentative
pla have agreed: to O farm relief
plank even broader in form than
that suggested by Barnard NJ. Bar
ucn. former chairman of the War In
dustries Board. a number of western
men desire that the provisions be
even broader. Mr.. 'Barucf's proposal
embodied a promise OF q lower tariff,
reconsideration Of the Z. freight and
ocean rate structure, and government
tai: stimulation for. cooperative mar
keting. y. ~,
While the platform committee will
have as a basis of its work the gen.
eral outline of the platform as agreed
upon by leaders, it will receive a
mass of suggestions from many
other sources. Many Of the arriving
chieftains are bringing individual
planks or entire platforms with: them
and representatives Of scores Of or
ganizations of various kinds will
present their views on the platform
at public hearings. Senators Walsh
OF Massachusetts,, and Caraway OF
Arkansas, made public tonight q
platform draft which they will pre-
sent to the committee. In terse and
brief language. It would dedicate the
party to q Fundamental principles,
chief among which are:
To drive from public places all
who would make barter of the ma
tional honor, its resources or the ad-
Illustration of its laws; economy in
public expenditures; ito condemn
and destroy government by the spy
and blackmailer": to enforce all
laws; to regulate the anthracite coal
industry land all other monopolies
controlling the necessities of life;
to lower transportation costs: the re-
peal Of the present tariff law; mem
bership in the world court, and such
other world associations as may be
most helpful in the promotion of
duction Of armament on land and sea.
The League of Nations Nonparti-
san Association made public a plank
dealing with the League Of Nations
and the world court which its presi-
dent, former Justice John II. Clark,
has drawn and which he personally
will present to the platform commit
tee.
Under the provisions Of the plank
the Democratic party would form an
expression of confidence in the ideal
of world peace land in a league of
nations and world court of justice
as together affording the only prac-
ticable means Of realizing that ideal
by substituting cooperation and jus
tice and law for strife and force and
war among nations"
The Woodrow Wilson Democracy.
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Camden, N. j., who twice placed Mr..
Wilson'S name in nomination for the
presidency. also will present a league
plank under which the party would
reaffirm its allegiance to the ''prin-
ciples and ideals of Woodrow Wilson
for which he made the supreme sac
rif1ce." @ ..~
Samuel rGompers. president of the
American Federation of Labor, has
called meeting of the federation's
legislative committee for tomorrow
to consider the presentation of labor's
case to the platform committee.
The requests to be made by the or
ganization' probably will be identical
with those presented to the platform
committee of the Republican con-
Nentlon at Cleveland this month.
William Jennings Bryan, who ar
Ai'Cu ASI NAoSI' iiSit, llouS puUHC tO-
day a plank which would invite the
cooperation Of all parties in a de-
termined effort ito devise such COM
plete machinery for peace as shall
insure. the settlement of all interna-
tional controversies by reason in
stead of force"
The National Association of Manu-
facturers announced that it would
present to the platform committee
the same platform of American in
dustry" that was submitted to the
Republican platform committee at
Cleveland >,,>f'..
E. H.. Moore, of Ohio, announced
that, he would submit a plan. which
specifically denounced the Ku Klux
Klan. by name and declared that he
was sure OF $40 votes in the conven-
tiosa for. its adoption. ~ =" -