The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-06-12
SOUND MONEY
One PLANK IN.
COP PLATFORM
Financial Aid to Aged, I'm
employed and Farmers
Also Pledged
HOLD CURRENT RELIEF
IS3'MAJOR FAILURE

CLEVELAND. June IL. (UP),
The Republican party last night
made its supreme bid for victory
at the polls in November in a Is.
plank platform promising finan-
cial aid to the aged. unemployed
and farmers, and pledging preser.
walton of a "sound currency at all
hazards" .
The document, q compromise
between the ultra-conservative de.
mands of die-hard eastern con,
servatives and the liberal views OF
fighting group of rural western.
ers headed by Sen. VIM. E. Borah
R., Ida, was adopted by the con.
vention without opposition. f
Even before the convention act
ed, the shaggy-haired Idaho SEN
ator, happy over his victorious
clash with the platform builders,
was on train en- route to Wash
ington. 1t was not until after he
left Cleveland that he was des-
tined to learn of a pledge from
Gov. ALT M. Landon, of Kansas,
that if he is elected he will fight
for a constitutional amendment
authorizing states to 'legislate
| minimum wages and maximum
hours for women and minors
In so doing, .Landon will be ig-
| noring the platform drafters who,
facing sharp opposition from DO.
rah and other Republican big-wigs
to the proposed constitutional
| change, strapped the proposal
and went on record declaring the
goal sought could be achieved un-
der the constitution. -.
In addition to "sound currency
the platform calls for a pay-as-
you-go system of old age security
and a compromise farm program
providing reasonable" benefit
payments. .
The sound money plank men,
toned neither gold standard nor
| managed currency, but it pro-
posed to restore to congress the
power which the president now
has to fix the value of the dollar
and to oppose further devaluation'
Cooperation with other coun-
tries toward sterilization of cur
rencies was the only concession to
| those demanding a gold standard
return.
The farm plank covered wide
variety of proposals for agricul-
tural credit, soil erosion program
and disposal of SURPRISES, but the
main provision centered around
the plan of Rep. Clifford Hope OF
the Landon group. 1t said:
"To provide in the case of ag-
ricultural products, of which
there are exportable surpluses,
the payment of reasonable bene-
fits upon the domestically con-
sumed portion of such crops SO
as to make the tariff effective,
These payments are to be limited
to the production level Of the fam
lily type farm"
This was designed to make up
for farmers the cost which tariff
protection for industry adds to
the cost of products which the
farmers must buy.
Following is a summary for the
2,600-word Republican platform
as adopted by the resolutions com
mittee for presentation to the con-
vention last night:
PREAMBLE
An invitation to all citizens OF
all parties to support the Repub'
lican party in defense of the con-
! stitution and in support of the
platform.
The preamble is phrased in the
words of the Declaration of indie.
pendence in several parts and the
platform ends with a paraphrase
of the words of the original Re.
publican platform Of 1856.
The preamble also declares that
the campaign cannot be fought
this year on the traditional differ.
ences between the Republican and
Democratic policies.
A series of charges is presented
against the New Deal, reciting in
detail the opposition of the party
to any attempt to undermine the
] constitution or change the Ameri-
can form of government. :.
The committee wrote plan de.
claring that the only solution to
the unemployment problem is the
absorption of unemployed by in.
dustry and agriculture" 1t called
for abandonment Of all New Deal
| acts that raise production costs,
| announcement of legitimate bust.
| ness, and withdrawal of govern
! ment from competition with pri.
| vate business.
The platform said administra.
ton of relief was the "major fail.
ure" of the New Deal and de.
manded a return of relief admin.
istrative activities to non-political
state agencies familiar with com.
munity problems. 12baH 2eoj
The relief plank also urged fed
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