The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-04-18
C. D. ?. LEADERS
PLAN PLATFORM
BELIEVE ir MUST SHOW PARTY
HAS LEARNED LESSON FROM
RECENT HAPPENINGS.
BY EDWARD q. CLARK


resignation of Attorney General
Daugherty, they are also thinking on
the subject of the platform to be
adopted at the national convention.
The leaders seem to think that on the
platform this year the chance of vic
tory may depend.
Some of them say that a lesson
ought to be learned from recent hap
| penings, and that the lesson has been
learned they declare ought to be
shown in the platform to be framed
and put into use next June.
| The basis of this belief of course is
that great many progressive Repub-
licans cannot be held loyal to the party
| If they know in advance that old-line
Republicanism still is to rule the
roost, old-line Republicanism being
the polite name for reaction.
The Republican party, the progress
sives here claim, swung back to the
old-time mOorings after 1920. There
was promise of progress, they say. but
1t did not materialize. A good many
Republicans in Washington admit that
many of the things which have been
done by the appointed officials of the
party in the last three years would
not and could not have been done if
the size of the victory In 1920 had not
made some Of the Old-timers believe
, they could get away with murder or
| something close to 1t.
Poor Appointments Resented.
The real trouble, some old Bull
Moosers here say, was the appoint
ment to high office of men chosen be-
cause they were personal and political
friends and perhaps also because they
! were of reactionary tendencies, little
or no thought being given either to
their ability or TO the certainty that
progressive Republicanism would re-
sent their being named to high places.
1t Is striking thing, perhaps, that
the recent and most insistent demand
/ for removals or designations of GER
tain high officials of government has
come from the leaders of the most ex-
| treme conservatives in the Republican
ranks in congress. Three years ago
there wasn't murmur from any of
them because of the seeming reaction
| airy nature of some of the appoint
ments. They thought the country was
tired of sO-called progressivism and
! that all would go well. Now 1t Is the
old-timers of Republicanism who are
| demanding that the next platform
shall be made so insistently progress
sive that its meaning cannot be mis-
understood.
1t was thought, old Bull Moosers
here say, that the Republicans had
| learned their lesson in 1912. They did
learn 1t, but as the thought of pro-
gressives here runs, they later forgot
1t. 1t is about as sure today as any
thing can be that President Coolidge
will be nominated and that he will
write his own platform, write it with
] progressive ink, and for the text of
his announcements in the name of
the party he will have the ready en-
/ dorsement Of old-time conservatism
which, whatever its thoughts may be
about the dangers of radicalIsm, GER
tainly desires to keep Its party In
power.
! Rely on cooIldge's Wisdom.
] The Republicans here seem to think
I, that the President can be depended
upon to propose platform planks that
will be so nicely balanced between a
proper conservatism and a proper pro-
gressiyism that all elements Of the
party can view them without alarm.
This sounds as If evidences Of trim
ming win be found In the next Repub-
! lican platform. The Presidents New
England friends, however, say that he
| is not a trimmer and that If his In
| fiuence Is paramount in platform
making the expressions of party inten-
ton will be explicit and that, further
more, if he is elected he will carry
out every promise provided congress
will help him along.
The task that will confront the Re-
publican platform makers will be
hard because one endeavor will be 10
make the announcements sufficiently
progressive not only to satisfy the
pupils of the milder schools of pro-
gressivism, but to satisfy the radical
Republicans who are threatening a
bolt. The one thing that the party
managers desire is to keep the north
west in line for the ticket.
While Republicans seem to be con-
vinced that the people are getting fed
up on the oil scandals and some other
| things noxious and to believe re-
action favorable to Republicanism has
set in, the fact remains that not one
of them but knows and says the party
has been hurt by the doings that have
been disclosed in certain of the de-
partments
Women Flock to Washington.
| Woman is coming to town, and let
/ 1t quickly be said none of them are
in rags, but most of them in the vel
vet gowns of the nursery rhyme or
| in the equivalent of such. During the
month OF April there will be thirteen
conventions TO which delegates rep
resenting as many different organi-
cations of American women will hold
credentials.
Confession is made that one Is glad
he can put first and foremost the con-
ventiOn Of highly patriotic body Of
American women representing every
state Of the Union. the Daughters of
the American Revolution. The Daugh-
tiers not only are patriotic but they