The Washington times., 1924-06-04
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Wants It ,Short-Farm Aid
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By GEORGE r. HOLMES,
International Nawa SArYica.

meet mere one week from To-Day
to whip into shape the party dec
1aration Of principles for 1924
there will be presented to them d
fairly complete and comprehensive
draft Of just what President. Cool
ioge desires in the way Of planks.
Word TO this effect has been
brought to Cleveland by William
N. Butler, of Massachusetts,, upon
whom will devolve the major re-
sponsibility of conducting the
Presidents campaign.
Mr.. Coolidge wants the plat
form short, positive and concise,
according to the word passed to
the leaders gathering here. The
ingredients, the main ones, at any
rate, are being prepared by his
own hand. There will be more
pointing with pride" than "view-
ing with alarm"
Points Decided Upon.
On foreign affairs there will be
q number Of positive claims to
achievement. The principal points
the President desires emphasized
are:
1-Affirmation of the party'a
faith in a world court as laid down
in the Harding-HugheS program
and endorsed by Mr.. Coolidge.
2-The Dawes plan, wherein
America was enabled to help Eu.
rope without at the same time
getting her feet mired down in the
morass of European trouble.
3-High praise of the Republican
record in re-establishing peaceful re.
lations with the world, pointing to
the treaty of peace with Germany,
resumption Of relations with Mexico
and the numerous steps taken to
insure and promote peace in the
Central American republics.
1.-The arms conference, which
will be described as the greatest
diplomatic achievement in history,
as it provided for arbitral settle.
ment of disputes between the sigma
tory powers; Slashed expenditure
for national defense and removed the
danger Of war in the Pacific. There
will also be a definite promise of
another such. conference as soon
as world conditions make 1t FEAST
BILE.
5-Reaffirmation Of the party'a
intention of collecting and not
Cancelling the billions Of dollars
IN European war debts. .
Domestic Issues Lead.
While great emphasis will be
placed on the parry's record in
foreign affairs, it will be domestic
issues that will claim the chief
ahare of attention in the Coolidge
platform.
Tax reduction viii be most heavi-
~ emphasized, along with the
economies instituted simultaneously
! with the establishment of the
budget. The claim will be made
that Harding Coolidge policies OF
strict economy have saved hun.
dreds of millions of dollars and
special pride will be taken in the
rs per cent reduction in income
taxes effected for the present year
1923.
The definite promise Of further
tax reduction, and a revision Of the
new tax bill along the original
scientific lines" proposed by Sec
rotary of the Treasury Mellon. will
be made.
The disgruntled farmers Of the
grain belt will be promised Fedora!
aid in the establishment and Cpro.
motion Of more cooperative mar.
keting, which both Harding and
Coolidge have declared offers the
farmer thu best way out Of his
present difficulties, and the Demo
Gratis and insurgents, who. by coali.
ton controlled the sixty-eighth Con.
gress, will be blamed for failure to
extend more aid at this session of
Congress.
AT the same time there will be a
positive declaration to the effect
that the troubles Of the farmer are
economic ills not legislative ills
and as such must be cured by
economic and not Legislative
remedies.
Attitude on Scandals.
In the oil scandal it will be
claimed that guilt is personal and
non-partisan, together with a vigor.
Gus declaration to the effect that
every man proved. guilty Of wrong,
doing will be punished irrespective
OF party affiliations. There will
also be q strongly worded pledge OF
''clean government"
President Coolidge is insisting
that the soldiers bonus, passed over
his veto by his own party, be "de,
plored." This Is considered likely
to promote a spirited fight in the
platform committee, for other Rc
pubitcans must stand on this ll!at
form besides Mr.. Coolidge, and the
men who helped pass the bonus dc
not relish having their act de,
plored." -
There may be a compromise on
this plank by ignoring the bonus,
and merely pledging the party to
continue efforts in behalf Of the
disabled veterans. -.
The tariff bill will be hailed as
one Of the greatest aids to pros
perity following the depression OF
Prohibition and the Ku Klux Khan
viii not be touched on except
through the medium of q vigorous
plank In favor of claw enforce.
ment." m.
The platform committee will be
under the chairmanship Of Charles
Beecher Warren, ambassador tC
Mexico. and long a skilled hand in
the drafting of party policies. His
selection for this all.important post
gives ample assurance that the
wishes of the President will be fully
carried out.
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