Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1920 — THE G. O. P. PLATFORM [ARTICLE]

THE G. O. P. PLATFORM

The Republicans in national convention have finally declared their stand by presenting their platform

for the approval or disapproval or the people. They bitterly denounce the Democratic party for its so-called misrule during the past seven years. They blame President Wilson for the fact that the United States Is still at war, while they forget that it was in the face of the pleading of the president that the Republican congress refused to accept the treaty and the League of Nations that 37 other nations of the world gladly accepted and thus ended their state of war. They are eager to recognize the farmer as the backbone of the nation and declare that they will help him by regulating the prices and helping him sell his products. The planks on foreign relations and all international relations are simply a denunciation of President Wilson and his administration. The platform* favors free speech, liberal appropriations for roads and highways, woman’s suffrage, liberal support to education ahd ’ assistance in the housing situation as It now stands. The plank on the League of Nations asks for the same things that the Democratic party has been trying to get for over a year, and at the same time they cry that things would have been allright if President Wilson had not been determined to have his own way. The planks seems more an effort to satisfy <the different elements of the party rather than to get anywhere internationally. The difference between the plank adopted and President Wilson’s version of the League of Nations is that they want the Republican party to get the glory. As usual, it is a platform to bamboozle the people and "get in on,” if possible, and that Is about all that can be said for it.