Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-06-22
90 WOMAN VOTES WILL CARRY BIG CONVENTION POWER
LEMKE CHALLENGE
CITED BY LIBERALS
Others Say Smith Move
Shows Need for New
Type of Support.
By the Associated Press.

BY the AsS0clateo Press
PHILADELPHIA, June PA
Democratic platform. patterned at
the White House after the New
Deal" headed today toward q ma
tional convention in which pressure
from both left" and right" was
already in evidence.
Senator Robert Wagner Of New
York, prospective chairman of the
Resolutions Committee, bore the
White House draft to the convention.
Strong forces were at work among
arriving delegates to make the plat
form more liberal to meet the chal-
lenge of the new Union" party
headed by Representative William
Lemke of North Dakota and other
leftSt groups.
Smith Type Lost.
Leaders of the move in this direc-
ton pressed the view that the state
ment issued yesterday by Alfred E.
Smith and four other prominent
Democrats asking the convention TO
find a substitute" for President
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lost this faction beyond recall.
But James A Farley, National
Committee chairman, said he saw
no reason" in the Lemke movement
for "rearranging our plans" and there
were potent strategiSts who felt the
party had already won the great bulk
of liberals" and must cater to the
followers of Smith and his group.
Arrival Of Senator Carter Glass of
Virginia was expected to bolster the
latter viewpoint. The peppery Sem
ate veteran, a member Of every Plat
form Committee since 1896, wrote the
monetary plank four years ago. He
has often criticized New Deal meas
ures, but will support the Roosevelt
ticket.
ClaShing pressure from the "left"
and right" was centering on the
moentary plank and few others. in
Guiding the farm. Constitution and
social security programs. Foreign af-
fairs. monopoly and labor were other
possible fighting issues.
1t was recalled that there also was
a clash between liberal" and con-
servative opinion among the Repub-
hcans at Cleveland two weeks ago
and that a frankly compromise plat
form resulted.
Advantage 10 Democrats.
Democratic platform writer's had the
advantage of seeing the political
battlefront from closer range. The
Republican strategy was already be-
fore them. Lemkes program was
down in black and white. The Smith
group had spoken.
Chiefly the issue confronting the
Platform Committee and later the con-
vention was whether to stand on the
New Deal as now outlined, or ad-
vance. The reception given the Smith
statement by commenting leaders
showed little disposition to go back.
One of the most apparent sectors for
an advance was the farm front. Many
Democrats felt the Republicans had
approached them on this issue. and
new step forward was necessary.
There we're proposals for q new
scheme Of crop insurance to protect
farmers against droughts and other
acts Of God" that produce bad years.
Secretary Wallace and Chester
Davis, former A. A. A. administrator,
we're authoritstively said to be friend
~ to a crop insurance plank, but those
who participated in the recent White
Houss conference on the farm plank
said it was not discussed.
The White House platform was said
to contain a broad declaration Of prirl-
cipals on the farm question, indorsing
soil protection, rural identification.
cooperative organizations, credit for
farm tenants. reciprocal trade agree
ments and higher wages for urban
workers.
Little authoritative information was
available here on other planks in the
administration platform,