The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-13
Advise Convention Not to
Expect Platform Before
Thursday.
FIGHT ON FEE SYSTEM
Strong Dry Enforcement
and Campaign Fund
PIankS Approved.
BY PAUL r. MALLON
United Press staff Corresnondenl


A resolutions sub-committe charged
with drawing a platform for the
Republican party notified the con-
Vention at II a. m. today it was
deadlocked over farm relief plank.
Senator Borah, emerging at that
hour from meeting of the COM
mittee after it had been in session
all night told newspaper men the
convention officials had been ad-
Vised not to expect a platform be-
fore Thursday.
Borah indicated the sub-com-
mittee which reconvened at 10 a.
m, after a six-hour rest period,
did not expect to report to the full
committee this afternoon and
probably not tonight, unless very
late.
The full committee must approve
the platform before submitting it
to the convention.
night session, in which all
planks save the one relating to
farm relief were disposed of, broke
up in row on the farm issue at
4 a. m. and the committee men,
bers went to bed for little sleep
before attempting to iron out their
differences.
Members indicated they were
seeking a compromise on farm re-
lief without indorsing the equaliza-
ton fee system. The Hoover group
had numerical control in the COM
t1ittee.
No Water Power Plank
No mention was made of the
water power Boulder Dam or Mus
Gle Shoals issues in the committee
draft, but members assembling for
resumption of the session, said they
will propose planks on the subject
before the meeting is over.
The full committee listened for
five hours in open Hearings to ap-
peals for planks of many sorts.
Most outspoken we're those pleading
for and against prohibition planks.
Vets were headed by President
Nicholas Murray Butler of Colum-
bia University and drys by F. Scott
Mcbride, general superintendent Of
the Anti-Saloon League, and Mrs.
Ella Boole, president of the w. G.
T. U.
Borah won an Unexpectedly easy
victory for his corrupt campaign
expenditures" plank, The theory
under which he acted in soliciting
money to have the party repay the
Sinclair contribution was accepted
by the drafters without much dis
cussion, although the wording of the
~, hi
Urge Celapaign Publicity
AS adopted the plank pledges the
party to complete publicity of cam
paign expenditures. 1t suggested the
Hoover campaign should follow the
campaign of President Coolidge in
1924 when no campaign deficit was
incurred. 1t does not mention the
Sinclair contributions specifically.
TIE plank is a radical departure
from previous party platforms
which have considered the subject
of campaign contributions taboo.
The prohibition plank as finally
adopted read as follows:
I'VE reaffirm the American con-
stitutionel doctrine as announced by
George Washington in his farewell
address, to-wit The Constitution
which at any time exists until
changed by the explicit and anthem
tic act of the whole people is sacred
and obligatory upon all.
Strict Enforcement
1--WE also reafirm the attitude Of
Abraham Lincoln: We are by both
duty and inclination bound to stick
by the Constitution in all its letter
and spirit from beginning to end. 1
am for the honest enforcement of
the Constitution. Our safety and
the preservation of our liberty de-
ponds upon the Constitution as our
forefathers made it inviolate.'
"The people through the method
provided by the Constitution have
written the Eighteenth Amendment
into the Constitution.
1.-THE Republican party pledges
itself and it's nominee to the OBJ
Servance of enforcement of this pro-
vision of the Constitution"
No mention is made of the Vol
stead act
Ware Loses Fight
Borah's fight for the prohibition
plank was opposed strenuously by
Senator-Elect William S. Ware,
Pennsylvania leader, who demanded
adoption of his modification plank.
Other members of the committee
sided with Borah, and defeated Ware
Overwhelmingly.
Little discussion attended adop-
ton of the other tlirty-two planks
of the platform. In most instances
the tentative draft written by Smoot
and other party leaders was &C
copied.
The foreign relations plank high
iy commended the efforts of PreSi-
dent Coolidge to negotiate treaty
outlawing war among nations.
Marine occupation of Nicaragua was
praised.
The States rights principles of
home rule and local self Govern
ment were sharply affirmed, and a
policy of developing inland water
ways was adopted.
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