Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-23

Comment on the platform adopted by
the Republican convention at Kansas
City has conferred about the farm relief
and prohibition planks. Many editorial
writer's discount the importance of plat
forms, anyhow. agreeing with the view
of the Nashville Banner independently
that platforms are rarely seriously
taken" and that "the man is the rally
ing point
1T is a plain platform, firmly spiked
together by some specific promises and
many performances by those who prom
iSe." says the Toledo Blade tindepend-
ent Republican,. while the Muncie Star
independently calls IL 1.-The program of
a party that knows the problems Of the
present and is prepared to deal with
way"
The San Francisco Bulletin (Repub-
licanl. recognizing that farm relief and
prohibition are paramount and that as
to the latter "the party is by no means
unanimous" though the dryS are In q
majority" holds that "a clear-cut dry
declaration is safer than any trimming. IS
That paper, however, contends that
law enforcement and farm legislation,
important though they are. cannot be
regarded as constituting a basic differ
ence for the two national parties"
The stand that 1T is not party issue
whether prohibition shall be repealed or
altered" as there are wet and dry
Democrats and Republicans" is taken
also by the Grand Rapids Press (in-
DEPENDENT. which believes that the
test of party has come to be not the
words OF It's platform. but the deeds Of
the administration"
1.-THE platform offers the farmer
everything within reason" says the New
York Sun independently. but after
enumerating the things offered, this
paper remarks: Whether this will
Soothe the heaving breasts Of the Mid
die West cannot yet be known" The
Sun continues: The plank on prohibi-
ton Is drier in appearance than III re-
atty. The question really was
whether the eighteenth amendment
should be retained or repealed. The
answer of the convention is 70 call for
observance and enforcement. At
any rate, the plank looks about as dry
as Senator Borah dared 70 make it,
The enforcement plank is called "re-
freShingly clear. definite and eoura-
geouS" by the Rochester Times Union Tin
DEPENDENT. which also states that the
farm plank repeats the offer previously
made by the administration through
Secretary Jardine" and that 1.-The Nc
NaryHaugen bill was unsatisfactory 10
the country as whole" Affirming that
1.-THE most fundamentally significant
thing" done at the convention was the
singing out of the eighteenth amerd-
ment for special mention in the plat
form and the pledge Of vigorous en-
forcement OF that provision OF the Con-
Stitution," the ST Joseph NewS-PreSS
independently believes that this may
make prohibition the paramount issue
for 1928"
Concentration for the dry plank
comes from others. including the Lam
sing State Journal Independently, the
Butte Daily Post (Repuhlicanl. Chat
tanooSa News independent Demo-
craticl and Ann Arhor Daily News tia
depcndenN, The Minneapolis Tribune
(Republicanl considers II important
that, for the first time In Republican
platform, the amendment Is mentioned
by name or number"
~
"Since the platform elsewhere in~
dorses without qualification the record
marks the New York World tinde-
pendent. as 10 the prohibition plank
"the only possible conclusion 10 be
drawn Is that the present mode OF
enforcement Is the klnd contemplated
in the platform" The Raleigh News
and Observer (pemocraticl and the
Little Rock Arkansas Democrat demo-
cratic) ask "how" the party would en-
force the amendment The Hartford
Courant independent Republican,
charges The plank utterly fails 70
meet the realities OF the situation, IL
is niled high with lodging sentences
and II rests ON weasel words"
On farm legislation, the Philadelphia
Evening Bulletin independent Repue~
lican) says; THE American farmer
may be relied ON to use his common
sense and rally 10 the practical prQgram
otieFed. aasASRd - It Is Of overwhelming