THE DEMOCRATS

Hokitika Guardian, 1 July 1932, Page 5

THE DEMOCRATS

A SHORT PLATFORM IFAVOURS DRY LAW REPEAL. ‘ r' •- (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) CHICAGO, June 29. The platform committee of the 1 Democratic Party’s Convention has by h two to one majority decided to favJ>ur the repeal of the prohibition law. j * , TARIFF AND CURRENCY. CHICAGO, 1 - June 29. \ At the Democratic Convention the tariff and silver giving the farmers difficulties. Argument arose in the Platform Committee, over whether the tariff"" declaration should contain an assertion that such levies would be for‘revenue •only. This proposal-was finally adopted by the committee. On silver,, the committee 'accepted the sub-committee’s proposal, pledging the party in favour of an international monetary conference to rehabilitate , silver.

One of the last planks approved declared flatly against the conception of war debts. ROOSEVELT’S POSITION. CHICAGO, June 23. There is yet ,no solution at the Democratic Convention of the deadlock between the Roosevelt and antiRoosevelt forces. The director ,of Mr Melvin Traylor’s campaign for the Presidential nomination. announced . that he was offered ten thousand dollars to announce Traylor’s withdrawal, in favour of Roosevelt. The Roosevelt Party leader, Mr Jim Farley declared the s(or y to be ridiculous. V THE PLATFORM. CHICAGO, June 29. When the Democratic Party’s delegates was reconvened after dinner, it was monstrously hot. ..The Chairman Senator Walsh, had extreme difficulty in getting order so that the Platform which meantime had been completed, could be read, The Chairman leaped into a deep rage. He shouted for the gentlemen—if they were gentlemen—to sit down.

It was the shortest platform one A of approximately 1200 words, ever offered to an American Political ConJvYention. The Platform remarked the return of the Democratic Party to nearly all of its traditional .policies which, y for one hundred years before ' the ' re- / cent industrial and financial growth \ of America, had made the Democrats ' ■ the Party of the primary producers

nnd the rural committees who are opposed to the so-called “big business” afi9 the conservatism of the industrial communities. No better proof of this fact, of a return to traditional policy can be found than in the Party’s tariff platform, viz: A Competitive Tariff for revenue only; and reciprical tariff arrangements with foreign nations. I SMITH’S GREAT OVATION. ( CHICAGO,' June 29. ‘ Ex-Governor A 1 Smith received a ovation when he delivered an effective address favouring the Repeat;' He remarked: “The Eighteen ..Amend; ment must be repealed in order that future generations may be warned that such prohibitory legislation can never again be written into the American Constitution, ’ The Convention ■ thereafter adopted the Prohibition Repeal plank. dry law repeal. CHICAGO, June 29 Of course when the phrase “We advocate the repeal-of the Eighteenth Amendment” at the Democratic Party Convention w.°s read, it precipitated a wild, animal-like demonstration, tins issue, somehow, dulling all of the perceptions of the Party’s remarkable reversion to- its old time principles m -/ America’s political life. *>, The great - electric organ in tne Convention stadium, which is not a musical device, but a fantastic instrument of human torture, made possible by the machine age, produced a noise seemingly greater than could be borne by the human ears. When this repeal demonstration began, it was difficult not to believe that the Americans are a hysterical people. FOUR TO ONE MAJORITY. CHICAGO, June 29. The vote at the Convention was 934 m for the Repeal Commitment, and 213 & in favour only of recommending the ,,