The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-07-03
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.

written q. good platform. AS DeHocIdtiC
platforn-it means well. It has considerable
appeal to most anyone who wants to vote the
Democratic ticket, and it has been worked out
with an idea Of capitalizing discomfort and
capitalizing every error that has been made by
the Republican party. It properly "denounces'
the Republican party for its action as a 'house
divided and it's inability to carry out its own
party pledges and at the same session the
Democrats give an exhibition of house divid-
ed which proves the most spectacular in poll
teal history.
The platform offers a lot of panaceas, but
lit gives no assurance that any of them will
ever be carried out. 1t declares in it's opening
paragraph "The Democratic party believes in
equal rights for all" and then the party spent
it's longest and its most acrimonious session
trying to keep those rights from one division
Iof the party #
1t has a lot to say about 'unscientifc taxa
tion'' but it fails to tell just when the Demo
cratic party did anything to give scientific
tax which was any better than the tax laws
proposed by the Republican party.
It clings tenaciously to the old League OF
Nations. The priced orators Of the party are
called into action to defend the league. All of
them are agreed that they want it and they
want it bad, but in the end the numbers of the
party see the spectre of the 1920 campaign
and go on record as being favorable to nothing
more than a referendum vote on the league
We like the plank the Democratic party has
written as they refer to conservation of the
nations wealth. We believe with the platform
that all Americans should have equal chance
for the pursuit of happiness, we are not against
it's ideas in dealing with Muscle Shoals, its call
for good highways, paid for as they are built
appeals to every sound thinking person, most
anyone will agree with it's denouncing fake
stock selling and it's idea that education should
be given every possible advancement.
We believe with the Democracy that war is
justifable only when the national defense de-
mands it and that both material resources and
man power should be drafted in time of war
We are for a better civil service with the Dem
Iocrats and we believe that the laws should be
enforced no matter what these laws may be.
The Democracy offers an unusual sop to the
discouraged farmer. 1t is most encouraging, in
its suggestions of better time, but not one OF
the Democrats who framed these planks of the
platform could give the assurance that the
theories followed could even be written into
practical laws. AS in other cases the agrcul-
ture plank listens well,', but it proposes i'm
practical plans for discrimination in favor
of one class of people which would never stand
the tests of courts.
The platform is one which will make it hard
for the Democrats to find anyone to stand on
Not one of the candidates suggested could &C
cept it in its entirety as a platform which CO
incides with his personal views.
Of course political platforms have come tc
be of minor Importance and the man named tt
lead has come to be the party platform of any
and every parity d
Possibly the Democracy in the closing ses.
sions of the convention may find a man who
can say, Il accept the nomination and the
platform" and will make the platform coincide
with my vieWs.4. <@
At any rate, as platforms go, we consider il
a good platform with a lot of suggestions
which are of value to the people.