Seward daily gateway., 1924-07-05

NEW YORK, June 30-The com pleted Democratic platform of half hundred blanks was submitted to the convention late Saturday afternoon, when it reassembled, at three o'clock. The plank on the Ku Klux Klan adopt ed by the committee in it's majority report, was the Bryan plank which does not name the klan, only by infer ence.
 Other blanks include:
 A national referendum for the League of Nations.
 Future tax reductions and revisions.
 Tariff enactment.
 Legislation designed to restore the farmer again to economic equality with other industrialists.
 Immediate independence of the Phil ippines.
 Establishment of a full Territorial form of government for Alaska.
 Strict public control and conserva- ton of the Nations resources.
 Recovery of all oil reserves fraud uently leased and the vigorous prose cution fany guilty of wrong-doing in the leasing transactions.
 Government control of the anthra- cite industry ,and all other corpora tions.
 Government control of the necessl- ties of life where the public welfare has been subordinated to private in- terests.
 The Alaska Plank
 The full text of the Alaska plank in the platform reads:
 ''The maladministration of the af- fairs of Alaska is a matter of concedn to all our people. Under the Republi- can administration development has ceased and the fishing industry has been seriously impaired. We pledge ourselves to correct the evils which have grown up under the administra- tion in that rich domain. An adequate form of local self government for Al aska must be established and to that end we favor the establishment of full territorial form of government for that Territory similar to that enjoyed by all territories except Alaska during the last century of American history"
 Excerpts From Platform
 The Democratic platform started off with an eulogy of President Will son, and a declaration of principles the first of which was, "equal rights to all and special privileges to none" the Republican party being accused of holding that prosperity must origi- nate with special interests and seep down through the channels of trade to the least favored industries and wage ealners of all, and that the Re- publican party was chiefly concerned with material things, and the demo- cratic party chiefly with human right. The platform also declares that the Democratic party stands for remedial legislation and the Republican party stands still.
 After this platform urged a com parison of the Wilson administration and the Harding Coolidge administra- tion, asserting "there is no corruption in the former and their pledges were faithfully fulfilled"
 It was pointed out that "privilege was uprooted and the corrupt lobby ists driven from the National capital, and it was further asserted that Am erica enjoyed an unprecedented period of social and material progress, up to the time the world war was enacted, and Wilson introduced more construc- tive and remedial legislation than the Republican party has done for a cen tury. "Under Wilson we had leader ship that carried America to greater heights, honor, power and glory, than she ever Knew before Tn her entlfe history"
 Republican Inefficiency
 The next heading was Republican ineficiency and corruption. The dec laration was made that the govern ment was never so tainted with cor ruption and never had the admins tration so utterly failed. The Repub- licans were accused of attempting to limit the inquiry into official delin- quencies, the platform declaring it was these Investigations that sent former Secretary of the Interior Fall back to Three Rivers in disgrace and