Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 311, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1919 — HAYS, IN BUFFALO SPEECH, DISCUSSES REPUBLICAN AIMS. [ARTICLE]

HAYS, IN BUFFALO SPEECH, DISCUSSES REPUBLICAN AIMS.

Buffalo, N. Yj —Referring to -the action of the republican national committee iri Washington last week in the creation \of a council of twenty-four members, twelve members of the national committee, of whom four are women, and a committee on policies and platform to be named later, Chairman Will H. Hays of the committee, in a speech delivered at a large republican gathering in Buffalo, said: “The committee on policies and platform will consist of about sixty representative men and women. On this committee will be the twelve members of the national committee who are on the feouncil, and approximately fifty other men and women, not on the committee, senators and congressmen and representatives of all groups in interest in the country, including labor, business, the farmer, etc. “The purpose of the formation of this committee is to obtain platform suggestions for the consideration of the resolutions committee at the convention from all representative elements of the republican party,, which means all representative elements of American good citizenship. “The committee is intended to be a working body whose members will’ give serious and continued thought and attention to the question of the platform for the next six months. It is not to be a perfunctory organization. The various suggestions as to the platform will be taken up and co-ordinated in order that the specialized suggestions of one group may co-ordinate with the specialized suggestions of another group, for we all go up,. oi*4tfwn, together. “Underlying the whole plan is the great fact, which the national committee recognizes, that there rests on the republican party the tremendous responsibility of lifting America cut of the slough of thongs into which this administration has sunk it, and putting into force in a legislative way the most comprehensive program of wise constructive measures ever attempted in this republic. It is recognized that the Republican party has this task to perform. If this is to be performed, then the platform must be one befitting the occasion and the need.”