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Help Write The Platform
The Republican National Convention will meet in June to nominate candidates
and draft a platform for the 1920 campaign. What should its planks be?
?The Tribune believes you ought to have a chance to help write these planks.
It offers you an opportunity to get your ideas before the Republican leaders.
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The Tribune invites you to submit your planks and to w rite letters about the planks
proposed by other readers through its columns.
For the best planks and letters of discussion the Tribune offers the following prizes:
For the best plank.S500.00
For the second best plank. 250.00
For each of the eight next best planks . 100.00
For the best letter a daily prize of . . 10.00
For the best letter in the whole competition 100.00
THE TRIBUNE will make up a plat?
form of ten planks to be deter?
mined by your votes. Every plank
submitted, and every letter advocat?
ing a plank, will be counted as a vote
for the issue it covers.
The ten issues receiving the most
votes will be the planks of the final
platform. The ten planks that best
express the chosen issues will be se?
lected by the judges for the prize
awards.
The Tribune believes in short plat?
forms. It limits each plank to 100 .
words. In judging between two
planks or letters of equal merit, the
shorter will be chosen.
There are only 298 words in the
Ten Commandments, 69 in the Lord's
Prayer, 297 in the vital part of the
Declaration of Independence and 279
in Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. If
these platforms for the whole human
race could be told in so few words, 100
words are ample for a party plank.
While The Tribune cannot guaran?
tee to publish all the planks and letters
readers send, it will open its columns
freely for discussion of the main
issues presented.
Every plank and letter must bear
the name and address of the sender,
although only initials or a nom de
plume will be published if the writer so
desires.
THE contest will close April 30,1920.
A manuscript mailed before mid?
night on that day at any place in the
United States will be eligible.
Manuscripts will not be returned,
even if stamps accompany them.
The judges of the contest will be
three of The Tribune's editors. They
will award the prizes, basing their de?
cisions on sound thinking and brevity,
clearness and strength of statement.
The Tribune expects that this dis?
cussion will result in a valuable public
service. It hopes that a large pro?
portion of its readers will participate.
Write as many planks and letters as
you like.
Following are suggested subjects for planks, but readers are not required to follow them:
WORLD RELATIONS
League of Nations
Monroe Doctrine
The Mexican Question
AMERICANIZATION
America's duty to the foreign born and their
duty to her
LAW AND ORDER
Government by free consent expressed at the
ballot box
The Problem of Bolshevism
SAFEGUARDS OF DEMOCRACY
Free speech and assemblage
SOCIAL JUSTICE
Betterment of living conditions
Regulation of Child Labor
Improvement of health and education
NATIONAL FINANCE
The budget system
Taxation
THE RAILROADS
CONTROL OF PUBLIC UTILITIES
LABOR AND CAPITAL
Their partnership
Labor's rights to organize and to bargain
collectively
Control of big business
High cost of living?its relation to wages,
profits and production.
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC COMMERCE
The tariff
Merchant Marine
Waterways
ARMY AND NAVY PROGRAMS
Universal Military Service
PENSIONS AND WAR RISK INSURANCE
CONSERVATION OF NATURAL
RESOURCES
AGRICULTURE
OUR ISLAND POSSESSIONS
The Philippine Islands
Hawaiian Islands
Guam
Porto Rico
Virgin Islands
POLICY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
TOWARD THE 20,000,000 WOMEN
VOTERS
Address all communications to
PLATFORM CONTEST EDITOR
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