The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-21
REPUBLICANS MAKE.
plATF0RM SURVEY.
|,,,,k Two Years Gathering
Material For Use In
1910 Policy
WILLIAM PINkERTON

VILLAIN PINkEKION
,'pIeH1NGToN, June 20 Up
WA h,,lky volumes of republican
Foa r,;ne papers''-the sum of two
F'Torsin, Thor by 200 men and won-
year, s,ors moved up to Philadel-
-I q been moved to serve the
Es ma S. platf0rm-makers'
~ officials said the page-on-
r. u fact and opinion which was
bas s,od last winter into the final
sun of DR.. Glenn Franks Re-
fpu aon Program committee
'nd become the working tools of
" resolutions committee.
n.e,ing before the bands and
'.ua Of a political convention.
l sna taken over the town, this
paw mitIee of senators, bankers,
aainessmen and farmers hopes to
n . tentative statement of par
ave s,Iicv for the 1910 campaign
Pr when the delegates arrive
s'r nick their presidential candi-
Mon going from the capital to
in the representatives of every
s ~. and territory in sessions on
y Wv tn floor of a Philadelphia no.
\ the Bellevue-stratford) voiced
ao+prmination that the subject
. national defense should not
E,,ct out domestic issues.
one Republican strategist sug'
,s,sd that the platform might
|;sd the two major subjects to-
. as in an assertion that seven
Es.rs Of new deal" administra-
IN had left the nation poorly
H',irped to finance military and
wal re.armament and to meet
rtb united effort threats fl o m
ithout. eco,
The 5.man committee which will
t,rt its deliberations Monday car
les within it the facets of political
%rajn.power: statesmen, students
md the ear > to = the : ground boys
rom back home.
Hot from the political forums of
Eashington 60 young Senator Hen
Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts,
inquistivie army reserve Off
who has taken a leading role in
tense debate; Senator John G.
mnsend, Jr., of Delaware, the
Me.haired strawberry-raiser who
as made the hard study of bank
" and government finance his
vecialty in Washington; and Sen
Tor John Thomas of Idaho, who
anne back to the senate last fall
! successor to the late William
Borah.
The house is represented by a
lyear.old veteran of the World
Fa, Charles Halleck of Indiana,
no was active on the Smith COM
dttee Investigating the labor
bard.
Links with the days Of Republi-
n ascendancy during the twen-
Is are two former senators:
fuge Wharton Pepper of Penn
EFania, on whose shoulders fell
e mantle of the colorful "Boss"
Ge Penrose in 1922, and Walter
Se Of New Jersey, who rose
sn printers devil to be COVER
h, senator and ambassador to
tsnce.
Another diplomat in the commit
rs ranks is Henry P. Fletcher
Rhode Island, who was a pri-
BE in Theodore Roosevelt's
Rough Riders" during the Span
tAmerican war and worked in
%nbassies and legations in Cuba,
pile, Mexico, Portugal, Belgium
hd Italy. He was Charles Evans
ghs Undersecretary of State,
ID served as a delegate at two
sn'American conferences.
Edge links the statesmen and the
adents on the committee, for he
rs a member of DR.. Franks ZOO
AN group.
Oher observation-disclosures who sur
ved the nations problems with
rank include Orville Burlington of
ssas' a Wichita Falls lawyer who
l run for governor, and j. Sam
mite Of North Carolina.
MOI a member Of the resolutions
pamlttee himself, Frank, a mid
sslern editor, has been invited to
Ppear before the platform-mak-
with his nine regional vice.
lafmen Including Bullington) to
AcuSS the conclusions of their two .
ar study.
frank has said that his group
sW out Of a realization that ''the
Ae is past when a party can hope
produce an adequate platform
vne or two evenings in the heat
" hurry of a national conven- ]
W. look the job of surveying the
,uoa Tor republicanism after a {
sIso career as editor, educator !
"Aen a La Toilette = controlled s
Paiu OF regents called him from
MwlSnlp OF the Century Magazine {
u ue presidency of the University I
"!sconsin in the twenties, stu