The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-29
HONEST RULE i.
PROMISED BY /
DEMOCRATS
Farm Relief Outstanding
Pledge Made in Party
Platform.
DRY PLANK IS STRONG
All Factories in Accord on
Draft; Moody, Richie (
Fall in Line.
BY PAUL r. MALLON
United Press staff Correspondent

United Press STAFF Correspondent
HOUSTON, June 29.-Governor
Alfred E. Smith will run on a plat
form pledging honest law enforce
ment and substantial farm relief,
written around the slogan of An
drew Jackson, Turn the rascalS
out"
The platform was adopted by the
Democratic party as represented in
its national convention here with
scarcely dissenting voice, just be-
fore the roll call upon which Smith
was nominated.
The unaninity of opinion among
the vets and drys, NIcNary- Haugen-
ties and farm conservatives, ants
and pros of all principles was DEM
onstrated when Governor Dan Moo
dy Of Texas, who undertook the
role Of "Boy Bryan" dry leader here,
and Governor Ritchie of Maryland,
a spokesman of the vets, declined
to submit minority reports, al
though both spoke from the plat
form on their views.
| Dry EIank ReWrlCIeu
The prohibition plank was re-
written by Senator Carter Glass OF
Virginia, the most ardent OF en-
thusiastic drys, it said:
THE Republican party, for eight
years in complete control of the
Government at Washington felt
compelled in it's national platform
to promise obedience to a provi-
sion of the Federal Constitution
which it flagrantly has disregarded,
and to apologize to the country for
it's failure to enforce laws enacted
by the Congress of the United
States.
Speaking for the national
democracy, this convention pledges
the party and its nominee to all
honest effort to enforce the
Eighteenth Amendment and all
other provisions of the Federal
Constitution and all laws enacted
pursuant thereto"
Glass succeeded in eliminating
from the report, as presented by
the committee, a statement as to
how the Eighteenth Amendment
and the Volstead act could be re-
pealed.
, Glass Accepts Points
He accepted the plank as it stood,
although he is an earnest opponent
Of Smith. Moody explained he had
fought for the bone dry plank
adopted by the Texas State conven-
ton and Ritchie said he adhered
to the plank without sacrificing his
argument that prohibition usurped
the rights of States.
In the final analysis, however.
everyone seemed to agree about
everything and Smith appeared to
have obtained as near an acouies-
cent endorsement from the bone
dry south as he possibly could re-
ceive.
The farm relief plank spoke in no
specific terms about the Nc. .arv-
Haugen equalization fee system. bIt
II promised agriculture about everv-
thing a democratic convention
could offer without endorsing a Re-
publican bill.
1t offered a Federal farm board
system to handle the surplus. de-
Velopment of cooperative Market
ing facilities, and every possible
eHorJ 10 diminish the spread be-
tween the producers sale price and
the consumers buying price.
But the convention chose "Renub.
llcan corruption" as the bio iss,,o
upon which the party will set smith
10 battle in November against Her
pert Hoover, the Republican nom
NEE. This plank was second among
the thirty planks, running about
5000 words. 00"'
shocking thieveries," sordid corr
ruptlon and unabashed rascalitv"
compound frauds" and "startlino,
Geprayitles" were the terms used BY
the platform to describe what the
Democrats considered Republican
lnlqulties, such as charged in the oil
scandals and campaign expenditures
investigations.
The watchword Of the dav
should be: Turn the rascals OUT"
the plank concluded.
Four Cures" Offered
The remedy for agricultural ilIs
must be found in one of the four
following things, the platform COM
mittee told the convention:
l. Credit loans by the Governs
ment to co-operatives on a basis
similar to Government aid for the
merchant Marine.
2. Creation Of a Federal farm
board to assist the farmer in mar
keting, as the Federal reserve board
has done for the banker and BUSH
ness man.
3. Reduction of the spread be-
tween the price the farmer sells for
and the price the consumer pays,
aimed apparently to reduce the
profits of the middlemen and the
cost of transportation.
4. Consideration of agricultural
conditions in formulation of Cow
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