Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1924-10-07
TILT
At CONVENTION
Republican Women to De-
mand Plank for Naming
of Education Supt.
BY THE STATE BOARD
KIan Issue May Be Heard on
+ FIoor-Both Parties to
Convene Today
BY THE STATE BOARD

TRENTON. Oct. (By The Asso-
ciated Press)-Derelction OF duty,
in the handling of his Anti-Ku Klux
Klan plank was alleged against the
Republican state convention plat
form committee today by State Sen
ator Emerson l.. Richards, of Allan
tic county.
Senator Richards declared, and the
chairman of the committee, State
Senator William B. Mackay, of Ber-
gan, admitted, that the copy of Sen
ator Richards rejected plank speci-
fcally naming the Klan was not sent
to the convention delegates as re-
quised by law. Instead, he said, an
amended form which omitted the
| name of organization was mailed to
the members of the convention as
the copy of Senator Richards plank
which had been passed by. The new
law under which conventions OF both
parties are being held this year re-
quire that copies of all rejected
planks together with the platform
committee tentative draft of declara-
ton of party principles be sent to
each delegate, not later than two
days after the organization meetings.
! which in this class were held in this
city on Tuesday last. Responsibility
| for the error has not been fixed.
TRENTON. Oct. Z. - Led by Mrs.
] e. T. Feickert, vice chairman OF the
state committee, and Mrs. Lewis 5.
/ Thompson, member of that body
| from Monmouth county and also the
national committee woman member
for New Jersey, a fight will be
| launched at the reconvening of the
Republican state convention here
| this afternoon for the inclusion of
three ideas in the platform which the
| trainers of the tentative draft have
| left out either through accident or
design.
| They will demand plank, similar
| to those of other years, calling for
| tn, enactment of a law placing the
appointment of the state commits
sioner of education in the hands of
| the State Board of Education and
| taking this authority from the gov
ernor's office. Secondly, they will
insist that the tentative draft go far
| ther than it does in speaking kindly
about the child labor amendment to
| the federal constitution. They want
q declaration favoring New Jersey
ratifying this amendment as soon as
| possible and commanding Senator
Edge and the Republican Congress
men for supporting the amendment
at Washington. The women's third
point of attack on the first draft of
the platform will be at the plank
| now included which urges a legfsla-
/ tive commission to investigate living
wage conditions. They do not favor
legislative body to do this work.
! They want commission on which
there will be representatives of the
employers, employees and the public.
| 1t remained for the arrival of Sem
ator Richards, of Atlantic, today to
| determine whether he would take
| the floor for his Ku Klux Klan and
liberal liquor plank. These were the
| leading ones of his several sugges-
tions submitted to the convention last
week.
| United States Senator Edge will
not be here today for the conventions
| and Governor Silzer will be absent
from the Democratic conclave. Mr..
Edge, therefore, will not be present
in the event that the state senator
from his home county starts row on
the proposal planks he has offered
and which political observers declare
are designed to embarass the Senior
Senator's campaign for reelection.
Senator Edge was here yesterday
to attend the meeting of the state
committee, county chairman and
vice chairman. to discuss campaign
finances and plans. He explained that
| he is taking no part in the draft
| ing of the state platform.
II surely would not seek to dictate
! the platform of convention of
which 1 am not a member" he ex-
planned when interviewed. "Especi-
ally, ought not to embarrass the
local candidates throughout the state
by insisting upon the platform rep
resenting my own ideas"
This last reference was to the sem
ator's advocacy OF a modification of
| the Volstead act. He addressed the
meeting yesterday and then left. The
| question of campaign finances was
settled by decision to apportion the
total moneys received on the basis
of fifty per cent to the national
committee, forty to the county bo-
dies and ten to the state committee.
Ogden H. Hammond. of Somerset
| county is chairman of the national
committee on contributions in New
Jersey, and is directing the drive for
! the funds.
Governor Silzer is campaigning in
the states of Illinois, Indiana and
Minnesota for the Davis and Bryan
ticket will not be here for the final
session of the convention OF the
Democratic delegates today. The de-
tails of the platform have already
been published and 1t was not ex-
pected that there would be any
changes today.