Evening star., 1934-09-09
KEYSTONE c. D. P.
HEADED BY REED
Senator Made Committee
man at Conference-PIat-
form Opposes New Deal.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH. eptember B.
Spurred by recent reverses which
threaten 40 years of unbroken control,
State Republicans united today to
pick Senator David A. Reed as ma
tional committeeman and adopt a
platform designed Ito show the coun-
try" what Pennsylvania thinks of the
New Deal.
There was little levity in the fea-
lures of the 113 State committeeman.
whose followers gave Herbert Hoover
36 of his SO electoral votes in 1882.
No one mentioned it openly, but there
were bitter memories of reverses such
as the election of a Democratic mayor
of Pittsburgh, William N. McNair, and
the big increase in Democratic regis
trationS throughout the State.
Davis Lauds Reed.
Senator Reed was introduced as
the ''brainieSt man in the Senate"
by State Chairman NJ Harvey Tay-
lor, and as one deserving of the larg-
est majority ever given a candidate
from Pennsylvania" by his fellow
member, Senator James J. Davis.
Senator Davis, incidentally, in the
primary did not openly support Sen
ator Reed, who was elected national
committeeman today to succeed the
late William S. Ware of Philadelphia.
Says Theorists Control.
Reed, who is 81, said:
1.-THE very integrity of constitutional
government is in the balance. The
individual liberty for which our an
ceStors gave their lives, is jeop-
ardized by group of bureaucratS. a
little band of theorists, who have in
simulated themselves into the national
administration and find themselves
intoxicated with the sudden posses
sion of great power"
The platform. which Reed helped
to fashion, added:
We insist upon home rule. -" - De-
mand that 80 per cent of the in
creased Federal estate tax be
returned to the States. Oppose
exploitation of women and children in
industry. Oppose having deputy sher-
ifs on pay rolls or under the control
of private individuals or corporations.
Favor legislation imposing proper
limits upon the rate of real estate
tax. Unalterably oppose sales of
homes of the unemployed for tax
delinquencies and
Asks Stabilized Currency.
"Pledge ourselves to provide funds
for pensions for the blind and for the
operation of the old-age assistance
laws and to provide funds necessary
to pay the States fair share of the cost
Of unemployment relief. Stand
Squarely for immediate abolition OF
this vast Federal bureaucracy, which
increases the Federal pay roll by
more than 5000 100000 a year, and
return to the spirit and letter OF
the American Constitution. = = Stanc
Squarely for immediate stabilization
of the currency and for the prompt
repeal of those laws that authorize
further currency tinkering by the Exec
utive. Detest the agricultural pro-
cesSing system as un-American anC
unconstitutional. Stand sQuarely
against the further elaboration of the
Democratic socialistic activity of put
ting the Government into business
Stand for immediate repeal oi
the recent law that vests in the
Executive the right to make tariff
reductions by treaty with foreign
nations and without consent oi
Congress. Dedicate ourselves
again to the defense of the Consti-
tuition which was framed ir
Pennsylvania"