STATE POLITICS
Revell, Aldric
State Politics Republican Platform Hot Air Spouted Against Meddling [Bj alm1c REVEIX1 YOU can take a Republican politician by the scruff of the neck and stick his head in a boxful of facts but he...
...s ¦ -..¦'.-nil'.'-!.' meddling in business, but said nothing about the war orders the Heil Co...
...It certainly is not pleasant to contemplate what is going on in Europe, to realize that this country can only be saved the same fate by having an intelligent electorate, and then to cover a convention and listen, to hot air being spouted...
...Yet, like sheep backed into a corral, they baaed approval of the empty phrase-making of such political lightweights as Heil, Gov...
...For the past ven years the states have been run-ring to Washington with their hand* it and now the Republicans want to op federal encroachment upon the lights of the state...
...Whew...
...Other innocuous planks such as those calling for higher tariffs, against government meddling in business, :neutrality in foreign wars, conserva-'ion program, defending the constitutor...
...The delegates at the convention were supposed to be the most active Republicans In the state and supposedly the most intelligent...
...Of these...
...At lea-ji they couldn't violate such a vi'ienk \<SA?> ' >lF.OI>LI...
...A sure sign that the political hypocrites who drafted the platform knew what had and had not been violated...
...his a dminist ration associates and representatives and legislators of ¦Wisconsin for their conduct of the affairs of our state for *he past two years, for their furtherance of the 1938 platform entrusted to their .'•tewardship, etc...
...And if Republics favor this why don't they try to ave the administration practice more - f it...
...The crack about furtherance of the platform would make a laughing hyena bust his vocal cords...
...The Republican party In Wisconsin echoes the GOP in the nation...
...were not violated because the state couldn't do •nything about them anyway...
...blah...
...Thus the Republican party pol-ticians bl'nked their eyes to the odious violations of their 1938 plat-nrm and had the crust to commend the administration for a furtherance of these platform planks...
...Yet the administration was commended, for furthering the platform...
...State Politics Republican Platform Hot Air Spouted Against Meddling [Bj alm1c REVEIX1 YOU can take a Republican politician by the scruff of the neck and stick his head in a boxful of facts but he won't see them...
...But this was only typical of the type of Republicans now seeking election by the people...
...from attack, etc...
...Another plank: "We demand discontinuance of the i ncroachment of the federal government upon the rights of the states...
...Congs...
...It Is just this sort of vague and useless pletform plank Republicans should adopt...
...The 1?40 platform, however, said nothing about civil service, cost of production for the farmer, lower license fees, highway diversion, appointment of legislators, greater old age pensions, etc...
...The 1938 Republican platform contained 23 pianks...
...Johns spouted about the national debt and gave the impression that with a Republican president the debt, woulri Vie wirvpd nnt...
...They were against the recipro-'aj trade agreements, for neutrality, etc-., and blah...
...To add insult to injury, the delegates adopted a 1940 platform written under the direct supervision of Gov...
...At the Green Bay convention, the delegates adopted a resolution which contained the phrase, 'We commend the executive...
...PRAISE FOR NOTHING The first, 10 planks praised Heil for ome things he was not responsible 'ir and made certain claims that nuld hardly be substantiated by the Then 'he boys let themselves go and Md the people what they would seek •¦> do for them in the coming bien-nium...
...Well, who doesn't...
...Republican politicians are more myopic than bats in the day time...
...Bolles talked about how Roosevelt in the past seven years had spent billions for defense and the country was in bad shape as far as defeases are concerned...
...14 planks were patently flouted...
...They laid down a barrage of not air...
...Bricker of Ohio, Johns, Bolles et al...
...Julius P. Heil...
...PLANKS VIOLATED The nlanks on civil service, cost of production for the farmer, right of workers to organize and bargain collectively, old age assistance, pay-as-you-go basis for state expenditures, economy, reduction in auto license fees, increased school aids, appointment of legislators to office, anti-highway diversion, and public hearings for every bill and resolution were among those violated...
...Instead of being a platform it was a cheap boosting of the Heil administration...
...As a matter of fact, the 1940 platform failed to mention any of the planks in the 1938 platform which were violated...
...This type of meddling, of course, is all right...
...They liRve nothing constructive to offer and depend upon invective and vacuous promises 'o win votes...
...Hell's cohorts...
...Stephen Bolles and Joshua L. Johns addressed the convention...
...Cnc oeg!r>* tct wish Nieolet had nev-•¦ !'tided nr.ir Green B^.y...
...of Milwaukee has been getting from the federal government...
...That's a hot one...
...All their arguments arc destructive and levelled "I Roosevelt...
...Another typical plank: "We favor honest and competent administration of the regulation of utilities, transportation, securities and banking...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 23
