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Full Text of G.O.P.Platform ~
Adopted by State Convention
Following is the full text of the republican statfe platform as adopted
by the convention today:
State Tax J,avr.
We commend the last general assembly
for Us action in revising: the tax law of
Indiana. The virtues of this law com
mand themselves, the defects have been
made apparent througrh its enforcement.
We pledge ourselves to immediately cor
rect these defects through proper legis
lation. We believe that the control of
tax levies and bond issues should bo re
stored to local taxing units in order that
the right of self-determination and local
self-government by the various counties,
townships and municipalities of the slate
may at all times be preserved.
Bine Sky I-avr.
The republican party of Indiana recog
nizes the need of some remedial legisla
tion for the protection of its citizens from
unscrupulous and irresponsible stock and e
posing schemes, commonly termed “biue
sky" propositions. We, therefore, rec
ommend that the next session of the gen
eral assembly give the matter due con
sideration and adopt whatever legislation
is necessary to remedy such conditions.
Salaries of Officials.
We believe that public officials are serv
ants of the people, charged with devoting
their energy and ability to the perform
ance of their duties and that they should
receive just and adequate compensation
for their services.
Budget System 'in State and National
Government.
The republican party favors the estab
lishment of a national bureau of the
bndsret and nn accounting department. *
The republican party favors the estab
lishment of a bureau of the budget and
an accounting department in the state of
Indiana.
Soldiers' Memorial Building.
We favor the erection of a state sol
diers’ memorial building which will be
commensurate in every respect with toe
services rendered and the sacrifices made
by Indiana’s soldiers, sailors and marines.
Merchant Marine.
We regard a merchant marine a
necessary factor for our national defense
and essential to the proper development
of our foreign commerce. Therefore, we
favor federal provision for the promotion
of a privately owned and privately oper
ated merchant marine of the best type of
modern ship flying the American flag an.!
manned by American seamen; sufficient
in number satisfactorily to carry our
commerce and our mails.
I’arms and Homes.
The republican party deplores the
enormous increase of tenantry in this
state and pledges the enactment of leg
islation designed to encourage the own
ership of farms in the country and homes
in the cities and towns.
Economy of State Administration.
Notwithstanding the extraordinary
financial demands made by reason of the
war the present state administration has
made an unprecedented record for
efficiency and economy in al! the state
departments of government. We heartily
Indorse this economic expenditure of
public money and we pledge the repub
lican partv to a continuance of the policy
of efficiency and economy. We indorse
the state administration of Bov. James
P. Goodrich and unqualifiedly indorse
the stand taken by Senators New and
Watson and the Indiana delegation in
the lower hall.
Highway*.
We favor the enactment of such laws,
or amendment of our present highway
laws, in such manner as to compel the
proper maintenance and construction of
our township, county and state roads.
Increase! Salaries for Trewi.rrs.
We favor a law which will provide
such Btlarics as will attract capable
men aud women to the business of
teaching, enable them to live, plus
enough to cover further education, re
creation and old-age maintenance.
Primary la*.
Experience has demonstrated that the
present direct primary law is cumber
some. unsatisfactory and expensive: taat
it does not accomplish what was hoped
for it. We believe the sentiment of the
people is heartily in favor of revision
of this law and we favor an amendment
of the primary law.
Woman Suffrage.
We reaffirm our position in favor of
the immediate ratification of the amend
ment to the federal constitution provid
ing for the enfranchisement of the wom
en of the country.
Women as a parlor in State Agencies.
We advocate that women be appointed
on the various boards of the state deal
ing with employment qf women and
children, public health and morals and
education.
We further advocate that the depart
ment of women and children, under tbo
industrial board, be made permanent
and enlarged with adequate appropria
tion for its maintenance.
Women ajwt the Republican Party.
The republican party in Indiana wel
comes the women into fullest participa
tion in party affairs and believes these
new voters should be encouraged to af
filiate completely with the party.
To this end, we urge that, until In
diana women are wholly enfranchised,
temporary arrangements be made to give
women the fullest representation pos
sible on party committees and in party
affairs.
Employers' I,lability and Workmen'*
Compensation Law,
We indorse the workmen's compensa
tion law as amended by the legislature
of 1319 and we pledge ourselves to make
cncb further amendments thereof as
practical experience as may prove to
be just and equitable to the employer,
the employe and the public.
Protective Tariff.
We reatTirm onr belief in a protr.etive
tariff. We favor a tariff that shall be
reasonable in amount, bnt sufficient to
protect, adequately, the American labor
ing man, the American farmer and ail
domestic industries.
We also maintain that conditions,
brought about as a result of the wan
require that a reasonable amount of
the needed additional revenue should
be raised from a protective tariff.
Law and Order.
The republican psrty is now and has
always been devoted to the great prin
ciples set forth in the constitution of
the United States. We believe that its
provisions should be held sacred, and
affirm that no nation can become great
or even maintain its existence without
the highest regard and respect paid by
its citizens to the fundamental laws of
the land in which they live.
The republican party will resist to
the utmost evety effort from any bouy
of men to overthrow the fundamental
laws of our government, no matter from
what sour< e the attempt is made. Wb
affirm that every citizen is entitled to
the protection of the law, no matter as
to his race or erfed, and that every citi
zen should respect the law that affords
him protection.
Social Standards.
The republican party recognizing that
housing, health, education and recrea
tion form the basts upon which the so
cial advancement of the state depends,
approves such progressive measures as
will secure better conditions of housing
and sanitation.
The educational work In the several
state institutions should be under the
supervision of our state educational sys
tem and better adapted to the peculiar
needs of the various groups.
We fu’ly recognize the state's respon
sibility to the defectives, dependents and
delinquents who are the state’s weirds,
and pledge the party to their adequate
care and protection.
We pledge the party to the strength
ening of the compulsory school attend
ance laws and to the abolition of child
labor Insofar as It interferes with the
normal, healthy development of the
child, the acquisition of an elementary
education and the necessary vocational
training.
G. A. K.
The republicans of Indiana, true to
their record of the past, delight to
honor the union veterans who served
the nation in its hour of darkest need,
and believe that continued liberality in
the matter of pensions to the compara
tively few who survive is pot only an
act of justice bnt should be a pleasure
as well. Pensions paid to them are not
gifts, but are tardy and inadequate par
tial payments on a debt that is beyond
measurement. We must cordially ap
prove the Fuller bill, which has now
been enacted into law by a republican
congress. The declining years of the
veterans yet living will be made glad
by this act of grateful appreciation. Ws
also favor liberal provisions for the sol
diers of all other wars. \
Labor Conditions.
The republican party was born* out of
issue of free labor. edged. to
keep labor forever free. It still believes
in the saying of Abraham Lincoln: “La
bor is prior to and independent of cap
ital. Capital is only the fruit'of labor,
and could never have existed If labor
had not first existed. Labor is the su
perior of capital and deserves our higher
consideration. There is not, of neces
sity. any such thing as the free hired
laborer being fixed in his condition of
life. No men living are more worthy to
be trusted than those who toiled up from
poverty, and none less inclined to take
th :t which they have not honestly
earned.’’
The republican party is opposed to
class government and believes in a gov
ernment that is ever supreme, always
dealing out exact social and industrial
justice to all elements of its people.
Complete emancipation of unjnst and un
fair industrial conditions and the grant
ing of a living wage based on the Ameri
can standard of living is the surest pre
ventive of industrial disorders and the
most effective* cure of radical and u u
archistic tendencies.
Labor was loyal in the war and will
he equally loyal in peace. The bulwark
f free government and the safety -of
the state can best be guaranteed by its
contented and well paid toilers. The
hours of employment of women should
be limited; the working conditions im
proved; wages should be based on occu
pation and earning capacity rather than
sex and should be adequate to the needs
of the worker.
While encouraging and fostering habits
of industry, thrift and frugality we favor
such child labor legislation as may be
necessary: to insure to all children a
normal, physical development: and ed
ucation equivalent to the eighth grade
js a minimum: vocational training which
shall be extended to include girls as well
as boys, and which shall iuclude voca
tional guidance to minors entering all
industries; the codification of all exist
ing laws relating to the employment of
minors: and an appropriation which shall
lie adequate to administer thta program
effectively.
We recognize the rights of labor to
organize for the betterment of their
working conditions and of both capital
and labor to bargain collectively with a
view to securing a wage commensurate
with the high standard of living now
maintained bv the American workman
and securing for themselves hours of la
bor such as will allow them time for
physical and social improvement.
Federal Tax r.t toil.
We advocate a’ rapid and material re
duction in federal tsxes. To accomplish
such reduction we demand that the fed
eral government at once institute meas
ures of the most rigid economy in every
department. We advocate such wise re
funding of present indebtedness as may
relieve the present generation of exces
sive burdens of taxation and also serve
to maintain the purity of present gov
eminent securities. We urge revision of
present federal tax laws for the purpose
of eliminating those vicious features
which tend toward extravagant busi
ness management, and to the high cost
of living.
, Education.
The republican party stands for a pro
gressive program for the betterment of
the school system of the state of In
diana, and for the adequate financing
of all of our institutions of learning.
High Co%t of Living.
The cost of living is becoming more
and more onerous. While the ruthless
prosecution of profiteers may aid to an
extent, we must realize that real relief
can come only through a gradual de
flation of our currency, supplemented by
the grim determination of all our people
to produce more and spend less.
Government Ownership of Railroads.
We are absolutely opposed to gov
ernment ownership of railroads. The
transportation of the country should be
privately owned and privately managed
under strict government regulation that
will insure the lowest possible rates to
passenger and to shippers, while afford
ing to the owners of the railroads a fair
return upon their investment, and to
enable the railroads to establish rates
of pay and working conditions which
will attract to this important line of
industry the high class labor required.
The returns must be sufficient to at
tract the large amount of capital needed
for further construction and development
in order that the needs of the public
may be met. Above all else, the public
interest demands a stable, consistent and
constructive policy toward the trans
portation system on which the country's
prosperity so largely depends, rather
than a policy of restriction and star
vatlon. That a federal commission shall
supervise the issue of all railroad securi
ties to make impossible in the future
exploitation of the railroads by financial
pirates.
Foreign Immigration.
We demand the rigid enforcement of
the federal immigration laws and the ex
tension of revision of such laws so as
to fully protect the character of enr
American citizenship and the wage.* of
our working men against the fatal com
petition of low priced foreign labor. We
affirm the policy of selective immigration
as one which experience lias shown as
vltailv necessary for the determination of
the character of our citizenship and we
favor the enactment of an administrative
law carrying into intelligent execution
such a policy. We declare it to be the
policy of the republican party that our
immigration laws be extended so as to
exclude from entrance to the United
States ail undesirable citizens from so
cial or political standpoints and to pro
vide for an increase in the physical re
quirements necessary for tbe admission
to the United States and the enactment
Do Not Allow Yourself to Be
Bamboozled Into Paying an
Excessive Price for a De
cent Suit of Clothes.
There is no sound reason why any
tailor should charge you from 575 to
SIOO for the $35 suit you bought in
1915.
The argument of the excess profit
tailor is: "In five years woolens have
gone up more than 100 per cent. Why
shouldn't wool clothing go up more
than 100 per cent?”
Seems square, doesn’t It?
The fact is, however, that In 1915
3t 2 yards of aU wool serge cost $6.10;
today the same yardage costs but
$9.(10 more. Conceding a proportion
ate rise fn linings, trimmings, etc.,
ants also an increase of 50 per cent on
labor costs, yet there is no good rea
son why the price of today's suit
should be double or triple that of five
years ago.
The tailors themselves are not alone
to blame for this condition. Refer
ence to the Senate Document- will
show that seventeen of the woolen
and worsted mills listed reported net
incomes of 100 per cent. It shows
that one made 1,770 per cent profit
in a year.
I, alone, cannot correct all these
abuses; but I can help.
T can and do make an all-wool suit,
which I guarantee to fit and to be
satisfactory in every way, for as lit
tle as $35.00.
I can do this because I have cut out
all the frills of doing business. I do
not give credit.
Less than 50 cents a suit will coTer
my rent and overhead expense. All
work is done in my own shop. I em
ploy forty people and pay them all
good wages.
The customer who is not satisfied
gets his money hack or anew suit.
Come up to this out-of-the-way shop
if you care to save from sls to S4O on
a suit of clothes. My prices range
from $35 to $65.
LEON ETTINGER.
We have several uncalled-for
suits that we will sell at a
liberal discount.
I TAILORING CO.,
j ,fl far 1 Jik
\ Second Floor, East of Pennsylvania St.
WE HAVE WITH '
USTODAY
THE TIMES has prepared a ques
tionnaire consisting of ten ques
tions, which it submits each day to
some well-kooVn person.
Introducing
Thomas F. Hatfield,
Fales Manager Hatfield Electric Com
pany.
Q. iVhat is your name in full?
A. Thomas Francis Hatfield.
Q. Have you ever had a nickname?
A. “Hattie.'’
Q. What was your favorite sport
when you were a boy ?
A. Baseball.
Q. What athletics did you engage or
excel in when you were in school?
A. Baseball.
Q. How did you happen to meel
your wife, and where did you
meet her?
A. On a hayrlde, Indianapolis.
Q. What is your hobby today?
A. Golf.
Q. What was your ambition when
you were a boy ?
A. To become a big league ball
player.
Q. What event in your life causeu
you to choose ; _ our present pro
fession?
A. Receiving a job as office boy in
my father's electrical store.
Q. If yon had your life to live over
what profession would you
choose?
A. Electrical engineering.
Q. What would you do with $1,000,-
000 if you had it to give away?
ffA. Build municipal playgrounds aud
golf courses.
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of laws requiring a complete record of
the crimes or offenses against civil gov
ernment of any immigrant seeking admis
sion to the United States.
We urge the congress to enact a law
providing for the supervision of all im
migrants admitted to this country for a
period of one year after such admission.
We believe that there should be provis
ion made for a limitation upon the num
ber of foreigners admitted to this count
try in adition to the physical, intellectual,
moral and educational tests which we
now have. We recommend the revision
of our naturalization laws which have
remained unchanged for 100 years and
that additional tests and requirements
for citizenship be enacted into law.
Former*' Legislation.
We favor the enactment of a good law
providing for labeling of all seeds to the
end that the people of Indiana mav be
effectively protected against fraudulent
misrepresentation as to the qualities of
seeds. We advocate the enactment of
legislation providing that all feeds and
fertilizers be labeled on the basis of ttieir
true food value. Wo believe tnterurban
systems should be authorized to trans
port live stock under reasonable regula
tions in the use of city streets.
Conservation of State Resource*.
We believe that steps should he taken
to preserve the coal and oil supply by
uti'izing the waterpower of the state;
that the preservation of one forests and
reforestation should bo loitered by
kindly legislation.
Efficiency and Economy In Federal Gov
ernment.
We emphatically condemn the national
democratic administration for its wan
ton extravagance during the hist eight
years in squandering the people's money
and wasting the country's products. Wo
pledge the republican party to an ad
ministration of rigid efficiency aud the
strictest economy.
Military I’olley.
We favor the return to the basic
principles of military policy upon which
this government was founded as declared
by law during Washington's administra
tion, namely, a universal obligation to
serve the republic In time of war and
the universal obligation of every citizen
to he fit to serve when war comes.
We favor the traditional policy of a
email standing array with a trained clfl
zen reserve, the training of citizen
soldiers to !>e tinder national supervision
and its purpose to be not only to 'pro
vide a trained citizen reserve upon
which the nation may depend for de
fense in time of need but to prom.c,-
the health of the youth of the land a*
well as to Instruct them in good citizen
ship and in useful habits of industry.
Amrriwnlsm.
We favor absolute devotion to Ameri
canism and all steps necessary thereto.
Peace Treaty.
The treat yof peace with Germany
ought to have been made immediately
after the armistice. If that had beeii
done the treaty would have been ratified
many months ago, peace would have been
established and a technical state of war
would not have remained between Ger
many and the United State*. Tbe pretd
dent Insisted upon making, and forced
the representatives of the associated pow
ers to adopt, the covenant of the league
of nations as an integral part of the
peace treaty. lie thus sarritn-ed peace
to his own plan for the league of nations,
seeking in this way through coercion t<>
nttllfy the constitutional powers of the
senate In regard to trestle*, in defense
of our own constitution, and for the pro
tection and the safety and the independ
ence of the United States, the republicans
of the senate resisted this effort to force
upon ns the league of nations as the
president submitted It. Reservations were
adopted by the republican majority of
the senate for the purpose of safeguard
ing the sovereignty and the vital interests
of the United States.
As representatives of the republican
party, in convention assembled, we de
clare our absolute opposition to the cove
nant of the league of nations as sub-
An All-Wool
Blue Serge Suit
*35
Made-to-Measure A r^%Vv o
Get a swatch of this splendid, ail-wool material. Try to du
plicate it at $35 in a hand-me-down Buit. Try to duplicate
it at SSO in a made-to measure suit. Besides blue serge, wo
offer choice of twelve- other patterns at $35. If the suit Is
not as good as any SSO suit yon can buy anywhere, yon need
not take it.
t
Last Monday a customer protested because we had adver
tised choice of twelve patterns at $35 and could only show
him nine. The ad ran Friday and on Saturday we had sold
out three of the patterns. To avoid future misunderstand
ing let us make it plain that on Friday and Saturday we
guarantee choice of at least twelve patterns at $35. On
Monday we may have less or more—all according to Satur
day's sales and incoming shipments of new woolens.
INDIANA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1920.
mitted by the president and we fully ap
prove the action of the republicans of the
senate iu resisting its adoption.
Twice the treaty with these reservations
was submitted to the senate and twice the
president brought about its defeat. This
result Is due to the president alone. In
this way he has carried the question of
the treaty as submitted by him to tbe
senate into the campaign.
Tbe republicans are not responsible for
the delay In securing peace thus ca-used,
but they welcome Ihe issue. They gladly
submit all questions involved in tbe cov
enant, of the league of nations to the
considerate judgment of the American
people. They ask their approval of the
action of the republican senators. They
appeal with confidence to the great trib
unal of the people of the United States
upon the momentous questions which
have thus been raised and which involve
nothing less than the Independence, the
sovereignty and the future or the country.
We favor an association of nations to
promote the peace of the world. The
judicial settlement of international dis
putes has always been a policy of tbe
republican party and the first general
arbitration treaties were negotiated by a
republican administration. We favor the
establishment of a world court to ad
minister international justice and also
earnestly support a general agreement
among nations for a reduction of arma
ments, but we are unalterably opposed to
any league or covenant which gives to
foreign nations in any way whatever the
slightest control over the military and
naval forces of the United States or
which gives to a foreign country or trib
unal the bast jurisdiction over the do
mestic affairs of the American people or
the right to interfere in the full exercise
iof tbe constitutional powers of our gov
leminent or to abridge in any way the
I American policy known as tue Monroe
doctrine.
I The republican party also believes that
lit shonld be the declared policy of our
government that the freedom and peace
of Europe being again threatened by any
7 lower or combination of powers, as was
(the case in 1914, the United States should
regard such n situation with grave con
cern as a menace to its own peace and
freedom. We believe that under such
circumstances the United States should
eonsnlt with other powers affected with
n view to devising means for the re
moval of such a menace and be prepared
when the necessity arisus to render every
service, as we did in 1917, for the defense
of <•!• ilization.
M exlco.
We condemn the Mexican policy of
the present adminislration ns unstable,
insincere and prejudicial to the interests
of this country ns well as to those of
; Mexico, which has been reduced to chaos
and anarchy. In the seven years of this
! administration’s peculiar and unhappy
j dealings with Mexico, a vast aggregate
' of American Investments has been lo*t
or confiscated, hundreds of American
lives have liyen sacrificed unrequited of
Justice, and our inoral position in tbe
eyes of tbe world has been profoundly
affected.
The republican party pledges a fixed
and forceful policy in solving the Mex
Doctors
Use
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cases with great success. Some cases
require only ONE DOSE.” (Signed)
Dr. W. A. Line. Wcstbaden, lnd.
Adler-i ka flushes BOTH upp*r and
lower bowel so completely it relievos
ANY CASE gas on the stomach or
sour stomach. Removes fool matter
which jtoisoned stomach for months.
Often CURES constipaiton. Pre
vents appendicitis. Adler i-ka is a
mixture of buckthorn, cascara, gly
cerine and nine other Blmple ingre
dients. 11. J. Huder, druggist. Wash,
and Penn. Sts.—Advertisement
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ican problem through diplomatic
agencies experienced in Latin American
effuirs: a diplomacy, courteous but
righteously firm. We unhesitatingly af
bi.u our support of a policy demanding
respect for our flag, the adequate pro
tection of our nationals and their vested
property rights.
We are NOT selling goods below
cost! But better value you will
not find than tbe Suits for
Men and Young Men
$47.50
THIS is a business founded on confidence
and good will —exaggeration and mis
statement is not to be found in our print
ed word. Truth is a part of our advertising
and our policy. But we are sure of this point
—no better suits are to be found today, at the
price, than the special suits marked at $47.50.
We believe the public wants the straightfor
ward way we do business here —and offer as
proof the growth of the store. We also hold
this policy of fair dealing as our greatest as
set —and mean to maintain it at all costs.
There are models for men and young men —
single and double-breasted ideas of the mo
ment. The fabrics are dependable, the pat
terns are diversified, and the values, in the
light of today’s market, truly remarkable.
BUT we do not deceive you! Neither in
the selling nor in the value you get.
These special Schloss suits are examples of the way we are
going about it. Big values, honest through and through,
sold on a basis of your satisfaction. See them in the win
dows, come try them on, compare them with others you
see! We will risk your decision —and gladly.
Other good suits $35 to $75
schloss Pros Cos
Outfitters for Men and Boys
STATE LIFE BUILDING
Indiana's Finest Hair Cutting , Zsc
Boys' Store—2nd Floor Children's Barber Shop
Auction 1
I Famous Furniture Cos., |
I 448 West Washington St. I
I Now closing out entire furniture stock at public
auction. Sales daily at 1:30 and 7:30 p. m. until
all is sold.
' for.
Shortridge Debaters
to Meet Old Rivals
A stiff and interesting contest is ex
pected at Caleb Mills hall Friday night
when the Shortridge High school state
debating team meets the debating team
of tbe old Shortridge rival, Steele High
school, of Dayton.
“Employes, as such, in each industria’
corporation, should be allowed to elect
from their own ranks at least one-third
of the board of directors of the corpo
ration, al] directors having equal rigbtg
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Shu White cleans and whitens soiled
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and privileges,” will be th® sobjtect ofl
the debate. 1
Speakers on the Shortridge team are-1
narry Wades Edwin Hurd and John-
Collett, and William N. Otto is coach.
Out-of-town judges wiU be used, but:
so far only ODe, Dr. George I*. McHv
tosh of Wsbash has been chosen.