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(Continued. From Pag One.) specific covenants, for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political Independence and territorial Integrity to great and small states alike." Hence, we not only congratulate the president on the vision manifested and the vigor exhibited In the prosecution of the war; but we felicitate him and his associates on the exceptional achievements at Paris Involved In the adoption of a league and treaty so near akin to previously expressed American ideals and so Intimately related to the aspirations of civilized peoples everywhere. We commend the president for his courage and his high conception of good faith in steadfastly standing for the covenant agreed to by all the associated and allied nations at war with Germany and we condemn the republican senate for its refusal to ratify the treaty merely because It was the product of democratic statesmanship, thus interposing partisan envy and personal hatred In the way of the peace and renewed prosperity of the world. By every accepted standard of International morality the president is justified in asserting that the honor of the country Is involved in this business; and we point to the accusing fact that before it has determined to initiate political antagonism to the treaty, the new republican chairman of the senate foreign relations committee himself publicly proclaimed that any proposition for a separate peace with Germany, such as he and his party associates thereafter reported to the senate, would make us "guilty of the blackest crime." On May 15th last, the Knox substitute for the Versailles treaty was passed by the Republican senate; and this convention can contrive no more fitting haracterization of Its obloquay than that made in the Forum Magazine of December. 1918, by Henry Cabot Lodge, when he said: "If we send our armies and young men abroad to be killed and wounded in northern Franco and Flanders with no result but this, our entrance into war with such an intention was a crime which nothing can justify." The intent of congress and the intent of the president was that there could be no peace until we could create a situation where no such war as this could recur. He cannot make peace except in company with our allies. It would brand us with everlasting dishonor and bring ruin to us also if we undertook to make a separate peace. Thus to that which Mr. Lodge, in the senate considered the "blackest crime," he and his party in madness, sought to give the sanctity of law; that which IS months ago was of everlasting dishonor, the republican party and its candidates today accept as the essence of faith. We endorse the president's view of our international obligations and his firm stand against reservations designed to cut to pieces the vital provisions of the Versailles treaty and we com-1 mend the democrats in congress forj voting against resolutions for separate peace which would disgrace the nation. We advocate the immediate ratification of the treaty without reservations which would impair its essential integrity, but do not oppose the acceptance of any reservations making clearer or more specific the obligations of the United States to the league associates. Only by doing this may we letrieve the reputation of this nation among the powers of the earth and recover the moral leadership which President Wilson won and which Republican politicians at Washington sacrificed. Only by doing this may we hope to aid effectively in the restoration of order throughout the world and to take the place which we should assume In 'the front rank of spiritual, commercial and industrial advancement. We reject as utterly vain, if not vicious, the republican assumption that ratification of the treaty and membership in the league of nations would in any way impair the integrity or independence of our country. The fact that the- covenant has been entered into by twenty-nine nations all as jealous of their independence as we ore of ours, is a sufficient repudiation of such charge. The president repeatedly has declared, and this convention reaffirms, that all our duties and obligations a3 a member of the league must be fulfilled in strict conformity vith the constitution of the United :States, embodied in which is the fundamental requirement of declaratory action by the congress before this nation may become a participant in .any war. Conduct of the War. During the war Pres. Wilson exhibited the very broadest conception of liberal Americanism. In his conduct of the war, as in general administration of his high office, there was no semblance of partisan bias. And yet, with the war successfully prosecuted and gloriously ended, the Republican party in congress, far from applauding the masterly leadership of the president and felicitating the country on the amazing achievements of the American government, has meanly requited the considerate course of the chief magistrate by savagely defaming the commander in chief of the army and navy and by assailing nearly every public officer of every branch of the service intimately concerned in winnine the war abroad and preserving the" security of the government at home. We express to the soldiers and sailors of America the admiration of their fellow countrymen. Guided by the genius of such commanders as General John J. Pershing, the armed force of America constituted a decisive factor In the victory and brought new lustre to the flag. We commend the patriotic men and women who sustained the efforts of their government in the crucial hours of the war and contributed to the brilliant administrative successes, achieved under the broad visloned leadership of the president. Financial Achievements A review of the record of the Democratic party during: the administration of Woodrow Wilson presents a chapter of substantial achievements un- , surpassed in the history of the republic. For 50 years before the advent of this administration" periodical convulsions had impeded the Industrial progress of the American people and caused inestimable loss and distress. By the enactment of the federal reserve act the old system which bred

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panics was replaced by a new system which insured confidence. It was an indispensable factor in winning the war and today It Is the hope and inspiration of business. Indeed, one vital danger against which the American people should keep constantly on guard Is the commitment of this system to partisan enemies. Under Democratic leadership the American people successfully financed their stupendous part in the greatest war of all time. The non-partisan federal reserve authorities have been wholly free of political interference or motive; and, in their own time and their own way, have used courageously, the instruments at their disposal to prevent undue expansion of credit in the country. As a result of these sound treasury and federal reserve policies, the inevitable war inflation has been held down to a minimum. After a year and a half of fighting In Europe and despite another year and a half of Republican obstruction at home, the credit of the government of the United States stand unimpaired. We condemn the attempt of the Re publican party to deprive the American people of their legitimate pride In the financing of the war an achievement without parallel in the financial history of this or any other country In this or any other war. And in particular we condemn the pernicious attempt of the Republican party to create discontent among the holders of the bonds of the government of the United States. Tax Revision We condemn the failure of the present congress to respond to the oft-repeated demand of the president and the secretaries of the treasury to revise the existing tax laws. The continuance in force in peace times of taxes devised under pressure of Imperative necessity to produce a revenue for war purposes is indefensible and can only result in lasting Injury to the people. The Republican congress persistently failed through sheer political cowardice, to make a single move toward a readjustment of tax laws which is denounced before the last election and was afraid to revise before the next election. We advocate tax reform and a searching revision of the war revenue act3 to fit peace conditions, so that the wealth of the nation may not be withdrawn from productive enterprise to wasteful or non-productive expenditures. We demand prompt action by the next congress for a complete survey of existing taxes and their modi fication and simplification. Public Money. Claiming to have effected great economies in government expenditures, the Republican party can not show the reduction of one dollar in taxation as a corollary of this false pretense. In contrast the last Democratic congress enacted legislation reducing taxes from eight billions, designed to be raised, to six billions for the first year after the armistice, and to four billions thereafter; and there the total is left by our political advarsaries. Affecting great paper economies by reducing departmental estimates of sums which could not have been spent in any event, and by reducing formal appropriations, the Republican statement of expenditures omits the pregnant fact that congress authorized the use of one and one-half billion dollars, in the hands of various departments and bureaus. The high cost of living and the depreciation of bond values in this country are primarily due to war itself; to the necessary governmental expenditures for the destructive purposes of war, to private extravagance, to the world shortage of capital, to the influence of foreign currency and credits, and in larger degree, to con scienceless profiteering. The Republican party is responsible for the failure to restore peace and Deace conditions in Europe, which is a principal cause of post-armistice lntiation the world over. It has denied the demand of the president for necessary legislation to deal with secondary and loyal causes. The sound policies pursued by the treasury and the federal reserve system have limited in this country, though they could not prevent the inflation which was worldwide. The single truth is that the high cost of living can only be remedied by increased production, strict governmental economy and a relentless pursuit of those who take advantage of post-war conditions and are demanding and receiving outrageous profits. We pledge the Democratic party to a policy of strict economy in government expenditures and to the enactment and enforcement of such legis lation a3 may be required to bring profiteers before the bar of criminal justice. The Tariff We reaffirm the traditional policy of the Democratic party in favor of a tariff for revenue only and to confirm the policy of basing tariff revisions upon the intelligent research of a nonpartisan commission rather than upon the. demands of selfish interests, temporarily held in abeyance. Budget In the interest of economy and good administration, we favor the creation of an effective budget system that will function in accord with the principles nf thn rnnRfltiitinrt. The reform should ! reach both the executive and legislative aspects of the question. ! A budget bill was passed in the closjing days of the second session of the sixty-sixth congress, which, invalidated by plain constitutional defects and defaced by considerations of pat- ', ronage the president was obliged to ; veto. The house amended the bill to meet the executive objection. We coni demn the Republican senate for adjjourning without passing the amended i measure when by devoting an hour or two more to this urgent public business a budget system could have been provided. Agricultural Interests To the great agricultural interests of the country the Democratic party does not find it necessary to make promises. It already is rich In its record of things actually accomplished. In the first term of this Democratic administration the national bank act was so altered as to authorize loans of five years maturity on improved farm lands. Later was established a system of farm loan banks. from which the borrowings already exceed 20,000.000 of dollars and under which the interest rate to farmers has been so materially reduced as to drive out of business the farm -loan sharks who formerly subsisted by extortion upon the great agricultural Interests of the country. Not only did the Democratic party put into effect a great farm loan system of land mort

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gage banks, but it passed tbje SmithLever agricultural extension act. Meanwhile the Republican leaders at Washington have failed utterly to propose one single measure to make rural life more tolerable. They have signalized their 15 months of congressional power by urging schemes which would strip the farms of labor; by as sailing the principles of the farm loan system and seeking to impair its efficiency; by covertly attempting to destroy the great nitrogen plant at Muscle Shoals upon which the government expended $70,000,000 to supply American farmers with fertilization at reasonable cost; by ruthlessly crippling nearly every branch of agricultural endeavor, literally crippling the productive medium through which the people must be fed. We favor such legislation as will confirm to the primary producers of the nation the right of collective bargaining and the right of cooperative handling and marketing of the products of the work shops and the farm and such legislation as will facilitate the exportation of our farm products. We favor comprehensive studies of farm production costs and the uncensored publication of facts found in such studies. Labor and Industry The Democratic party is now, as ever, the firm friend of honest labor and the promoter of progressive Industry. It established the department of Labor at Washington and a Democratic president called to his official council board the first practical workingman who ever held a cabinet portfolio. Under this administration have been established employment bureaus td bring the man and the job together; have been peaceably determined many bitter disputes between capital and labor; were passed the child labor act, the worklngmen's compensation act, the extension of which we advocate so as to include laborers engaged in loading and unloading ships and in interstate commerce; the eight-hour law, the act for vocational training and a code of other wholesome laws affecting the liberties and bettering the conditions of the laboring classes. Labor is not a commodity; it Is human. Those who labor have rights and the national security and safety depend upon a just recognition of those rights. At the same time, the nation depends upon the products of labor; accession of production means loss and, if long continued, disaster. The whole people, therefore, have a right to insist that justice shall be; done to those who work. Labor, as well as capital, i9 entitled to adequate compensation. Each has the indefeasible right of organization, of collective bargaining and of speaking through representatives of their own selection. In private Industrial disputes we are opposed to compulsory arbitration as a method plausible In theory but a failure in fact. With respect to government service, we hold distinctly that the rights of the people are paramount to the right to strike. However, we profess scrupulous regard for the conditions of public employment and pledge the Democratic party to instant inquiry into the pay of government employes and equally speedy regulations designed to bring salaries to a just and proper level. Women's Suffrage We endorse the proposed 19th amendment of the constitution of the United States granting equal suffrage to women. Women In Industry We urge co-operation with the states for the protection of child life through infancy and maternity care; In the prohibition of child labor and by adequate appropriations for the children's bureaus and the woman's bureau In the department of labor. We advocate full representation of women on all commissions dealing with women's work or women's interests and a reclassification of the federal civil service free from discrimination in sex hygiene; federal legislation which shall insure that American women residents In the United States, but married to aliens shall retain their American citizenship and that the same process of naturalization shall be required for women as for men. Disabled Soldiers The federal government should treat with the utmost consideration every disabled soldier, sailor and marine of the world war, whether his disability be due to wounds received in line of action or to health impaired in ser vice; and for the dependents of the brave men who died in line of duty the government's tenderest concern and richest bounty should be their requital. The Democratl administration wise1 ly established a war risk insurance bureau, giving four and a half millions of enlisted men insurance at unprecedently low rates and through the medium of which compensation of men and women injured in service is readily adjusted, and hospital facilities for those whose health is impaired are abundantly afforded. The federal board for vocational education should be made a part of the war risk insurance bureau in order that the task may be treated as a whole, and this machinery of protection and . assistance must receive every aid of law and appropriation necessary to fully and effective operation. We believe that no higher or more valued privilege can bo afforded to an American citizen than to become a free holder in the soil of the United States and to that end we pledge our party to the enactment of soldier settlements and home aid legislation which will afford to the men who fought for America the opportunity to become land and home owners under conditions affording genuine government assistance unencumbered by needless difficulties of red tape or advance financial investment. The Railroads. The railroads were subjected to federal control as a war measure without other idea than the swift transportation of troops, munitions and supplies. When human life and national hopes were at stake profits could not be consirered and were not. Federal operation, however, was marked by an intelligence and efficiency that minimized loss and resulted in many and marked reforms. The equipment taken over was not only grossly inadequate but shamefully outworn. Unification practices overcame these initial handicaps and provided additions, betterments and improvements. Wage raises, which private control would have found necessary, were made, and labor was dealt with an exact justice that secured the enthusiastic co-operation that victory demanded. The fundamental purpose of federal control was achieved fully nd splendidly, and at far less cost to the taxpayer than would have been the case un3er private operation. Investments In railroad properties were

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not only saved by government operation, but government management returned these properties vastly improved in every physical and executive detail. A great task was greatly discharged. The president's recommendation of return to private ownerthlp gave the Republican majority a full year to enact the necessary legislation. The house took six months to formulate its idea and another six months was consumed by the Republican senate in equally vague debate. Aa a consequence the EschCummins bill went to the president in the closing hours of congress, and he was forced to a choice between the chaos of a veto and acquiescence in the measure submitted, however grave may have been his objections to itThere should be a fair, complete test of the law until careful and mature action by congress may cure Its defect and insure a thoroughly effective transportation sytem under private ownership without government subsidy at the expense of the taxpayers of tho country. Improved Highways. Improved roads are of vital Importance not only to commerce and industry, but also to agriculture and rural life. The federal road act of 1916, enacted by a Democratic congress, repreented the first systematic effort of the government to Insure the building of an adequate system of roads in this country. We strongly favor the increased use of the motor vehicle in the transportation of the mails and urge the removal of the restrictions imposed by the Republican congress on the use of motor devices in mail transport in rural territories. Merchant Marine. We desire to congratulate the American people upon the re-birth of our merchant marine which once more maintains its former place in the world. Trade Commission. The Democratic party heartily endorses the creation and work of the federal trade commission in establishing a fair field for competitive busi 54 off July

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ness, free from restraints of trade ami monopoly, and recommends amplification of the statutes governing its activities, bo as to grant It authority to prevent the unfair use of patents in restraint of trade. Mexico The United States Is the neighbor and friend of the nations of the three Americas. In a very special sense, our international relations in this hemisphere should be characterized by good will and free from any possible suspicion as to our national purpose. The administration, remembering always that Mexico is an independent nation and that permanent stability in her government and her institutions could come only from the consent of her own people to a government of their own making, has been unwilling either to profit by the misfortunes of the people from the outside a rule upon their temporarily distracted councils. As a consequence, order is gradually reappearing in Mexico; at no time in many years have American lives and interests been so safe as they now are; peace reigns along the border and Industry Is resuming. When the new government of Mexico shall have given ample proof of its ability permanently to maintain law and order, signified its willingness to meet Its international obligations and written upon its statute books just laws under which foreign investors shall have rights as well as duties, that, government should receive our recognition and systematic assistance. Until these proper expectations have been met, Mexico must realize the propriety of a policy that asserts the right of the United States to demand full protection for Its citizens. Ireland The great principle of national selfdetermination has received constant reiteration as one of the chief objectives for which this country entered the war, and victory established this principle. Within the limitations of international comity and usage, this convention repeats the several previous expressions of the sympathy of

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States for the aspirations of . Ireland ror eeir-government. The Philippines) We favor the granting otf Independence without unnecessary delay, to the 10,500,000 inhabitants-of 'the PaH-H lpplnes. , - Asiatic Immigrants The policy of the United Efcates with reference to the nan-admfeeioa of Asiatic Immigrants is a true, expression of the judgment of oyer people and to the several states whose geographical situation orUnteroal coa-4 ditlons make this policy; and -'the enforcement of the . laws, enacted pursuant thereto, of psLrticnlarrconcern. we pledge our support. Postal Service The efficiency of ahe postoffice department has been vindicated against a vicious and dangerous assault by the efficiency of its operations. Its record refutes its assailants. Their voices are Bilencedi and their charges have collapsed. We commend the -wotrk of the joint commission on the reclassification of salaries of postal employes, recently concluded, which commission was cre-4 atea by a Democratic administration The Democratic party? has always favored and will continue to favor thei fair and Just treatment of all govern-, ment employes. Free Speech.-and Press We resent the unfounded reproaches directed against the Democratic administration for alleged interference with the freedom of the press and freedotm of Speech. No utterance rfrom any quarter has been assailed, and rao publication has been repressed, which has not been animated by treasonable purpose and directed against he nation's peace, or der and securltyjin time of war. ! We reaffirm our respect for the great principles? of free speech and a free press, butassert as an indisputa ble proposition that they afford no J toleration of enemy propaganda or the I advocacy of the overthrow of the gov i-1 ONLY ONE PRICE

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ernment of the state or nation by , force violence. -Republican Convention 'The shocking disclosure of the lavish use of money by aspirants for the Republican nomination for the highest office in the gift of the people, has created a painful Impression throughout the country. Viewed In connection with the recent conviction of a Republican senator, from the state of Michigan for the criminal . transgression of ths law limiting expenditures on behalf of a candidate for the United States senate it Indicates the reentry, under Republican auspices, of money as an influential factor in elections, thus nullifying the letter and flaunting the spirit of numerous laws, enacted by the people, to protect the ballot from the contamination of cor nipt practices. We deplore those delinquencies and invoke their stern, popular rebuke, pledging our earnest efforts to a strengthening of the present statutes against corrupt practices and their vigorous enforcement. We remind the people that it was only by the return of a Republican senator In Michigan, who is now under conviction and sentence forthe criminal misuse of money in bis -election, that the present organization of the senate with a Republican majority was made possible. Conclusion Believing that we have kept rm Democratic faith, and resting our claims to the confidence of the people not upon grandiose promise but upon the solid performances of our party, we submit our record to th nation's consideration and. ask that the pledges of this platform be appraised in the light of that record. FOR SALE High grade used Upright Piano . Mahogany Case Walter B. Fulghum 1000 Main St. Phone 2275 Co.

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