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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1924
Page
6
The Democratic platform adopted at the convention pays homage to Woodrow Wilson. It expresses gratitude for his leadership and confirms commitment to the ideals of democracy and the standard he bore. It pledges to advance these democratic principles for future generations.
The Democratic party advocates equal rights and remedial reform while the Republican party defends special privileges, arguing that national prosperity comes from elite interests. The piece contrasts Democratic focus on human rights with Republican emphasis on material gain and entrenchment of privileges.
The speaker contrasts eight years of Democratic leadership from 1913 to entering World War I with the preceding Republican era. Mentioned achievements include tariff cuts, creation of the Federal Trade Commission, farm loan system, child labor laws, good roads, eight-hour workday, labor secretary in cabinet, Clayton anti trust amendment, Smith Lever act, warehouse act, federal employment bureaus, farm loan banks, and the Federal Reserve. The narrative claims extensive legislation and national progress under Democrats and condemns the subsequent three and a half years as sordid and unworthy, contrasting public service with avarice.
A vehement charge against the Republican party depicts a government immersed in corruption. It highlights failed inquiries, resignations from top posts, sensational disclosures in veterans affairs, and oil leases, arguing continued party control would worsen chaos and misrule.
A political plea warns that supporting Coolidge would unleash chaos across the nation, urging voters to reconsider their stance and highlight perceived risks to stability, economy, and public order.
The piece argues that dishonesty discrimination extravagance and inefficiency in government burden taxation agriculture industry and living costs. It claims Republicans fail to curb these ills and pledges a Democratic program to purge corruption practice economy and uphold constitutional rights.
A political critique argues the Fordney McCumber tariff is unjust and anti democratic. It claims it raises living costs, harms agriculture, and serves monopolies, while contrasting Republican and Democratic tax relief steps. The piece cites a shift toward a more equitable tax cut under Democratic leadership and progressive Republicans.
The issue centers on relative taxation burdens and capital distribution. The party backs a graduated income tax tied to ability to pay, opposes nuisance taxes, and cites a prior Democratic reform as fairer than the Mellon plan. They pledge further tax cuts and denounce Mellon as favoring multimillionaires.
The four year Republican governance is blamed for farm distress from comfort to bankruptcy. The report cites isolationist foreign policy harming export markets, the Fordney McCumber tariff raising domestic costs, and high transportation rates that erode farm profits. It argues Europe shifts to agricultural work increasing supply and hurting US prices.
The document outlines aims to restore farmers to parity with industrialists by adopting cooperative international policies. It calls for reestablishing export markets, balancing Europe’s economy, lowering rail and water rates, completing internal waterways, expanding water power for cheaper fertilizer, promoting cooperative marketing, securing affordable credits, and reducing the price gap between producer and consumer.
A rail sponsors group disputes the Bach Commune transportation act of 1920 arguing it fails to cut costs or improve service. They say labor provisions hurt disputes resolution and recapture benefits favor strong parties, calling for rewrite to lower rates on bulky raw commodities and raise them on valuable manufactured goods.
A statement by the Democratic majority of the Sixty-fourth Congress affirms Muscle Shoals as essential for nitrates and wartime munitions. It argues for maximum capacity operation of Muscle Shoals plants to produce and distribute fertilizers to farmers and opposes limiting power usage.
The statement denounces the Republican deflation policy of 1920 and its impact. It claims a five billion dollar withdrawal of bank loans and a fifteen hundred million dollar currency contraction within eighteen months after the 1920 election, bankrupting farmers and harming industry and employment. It calls for Federal Reserve reform to restore stability, aligning with Democratic intent.
The statement calls for recovering the navy oil reserves and other public lands wrongfully transferred to private hands, prosecuting involved officials and citizens, and revising key acts. It advocates retaining title to water power, expediting its development, strict public control of coal iron oil and timber, wildlife preservation, migratory bird protection, game preserves, and nationwide reforestation policy.
The piece highlights the importance of better roads for commerce industry and agriculture and endorses continued federal aid via existing federal and state agencies. It notes mining as a basic industry and asserts the country produces more coal.
The speaker argues that iron copper and other mineral productions surpass agriculture in value but have suffered amid same causes. He calls on government to foster mining remove restrictions and pledges the Democratic party to regulate the anthracite coal industry and other crucial industries restrained by private monopolies.
The Democratic party condemns Republican shipping policy and subsidies that hinder American commerce. It advocates an American-owned merchant marine built and crewed by Americans, government ownership to ensure naval security and protect farmers and manufacturers, while not blocking private flag ships.
The statement denounces Republican conduct in civil service removals and partisan manipulation of eligible lists in the Post Office and other departments. It pledges to apply civil service rules, extend protections to internal revenue officers, ensure ex service men preference, and provide adequate salaries for postal workers.
The Democrats propose a policy that bars defeated members from participating in the next Congress. They call for fixing Congress convening days after national elections and for letting voters in states decide on constitutional amendments addressing this issue.
The party applauds women’s rise to political power and their role in enacting beneficent laws and enforcing public service fidelity. It supports generous appropriations and honest management, plus hospital care rehabilitation and compensation for veterans and dependents, urging humane reforms of the veterans bureau.
The passage calls for ending private campaign money in politics and requires public funding of elections. It demands publicity before primaries and elections, limits on individual contributions and total expenditures, and a full revision of the corrupt practices act to curb corrupt practices and Newberryism exposed by investigations.
The passage denounces narcotic addiction and heroin spread among youth as a grave danger to America. It criticizes the Republican administration for failing to enforce prohibition and trafficking in liquor permits. It promises Democratic commitment to education, control, suppression, and strict legal enforcement.
A manifesto arguing that states must be preserved in vigor as a bulwark against centralizing tendencies of the Republican party. It denounces nationalizing state functions, opposes bureaucracy, and the growth of federal offices and agencies.
A call for revived local self-government emphasizes preserving free institutions and pledges support for excluding Asiatic immigrants, highlighting a regional stance on immigration policy.
A political platform proclaims the Filipino peoples have built table government and deserve immediate independence. It denounces Alaska’s maladministration under Republicans and calls for a full territorial government, better national parks, harbors, roads, and welfare legislation for Hawaii and the Virgin Islands.
Policy urges war only for national defense with mass conscription of manpower and full drafting of resources. It calls for sweeping armament cuts and a joint world disarmament agreement with a referendum on war, except in direct threat or attack, and stresses consulting those who bear wartime sacrifices.
The statement condemns Lausanne for bargaining American rights and Armenia, pledges to protect U S authority in Turkey, and supports Wilson arbitral awards on Armenia. It welcomes Greece to the sisterhood of republics and extends good wishes to its government and people.
The text argues that the Democratic party seeks to outlaw war, promote world peace through sovereign cooperation, and support the League of Nations and a world court. It calls for a referendum to decide U S membership with reservations to the league covenant, and vows to act on an affirmative result.
The article promotes deep waterways from the Great Lakes to the Gulf and Atlantic, inland waterway development, and removal of discrimination against water transport. It endorses flood control, lowering flood levels, Mississippi and Colorado river flood relief works, reclamation and irrigation projects, and liberal appropriations.
The text outlines coordinated surveys by the United States to assess navigation improvements and water power development on navigable streams. It argues for reliable information on economical navigation improvements and efficient water power development and favors delaying federal water power licenses until Congress reviews Commission reports on license applications.
The passage argues that states, responsible for citizens' intellectual and moral qualifications and for funding schools, should use sovereign rights in education. The federal government should offer guidance and aid through federal agencies to improve schools, aligned with national needs.
The Democratic party urges immediate reclamation of arid lands in public-land states, faults federal inefficiencies, and presses for efficient, active projects. They cite the 1924 reclamation act and its removal from a deficiency bill as a partisan setback, demanding equitable corrections and government accountability.
The piece argues for swift laws to let states enforce limits on aggressive promotion and refinancing of inflated and overcapitalized corporations. It links such practices to railroad, public service, and industrial collapses and to rising unemployment and investor losses.
The passage asserts the Federal Trade Commission has issued reports revealing monopolies and illegal combinations and criticizes the Republican administration for inaction. It claims Democratic commitment to vigorous enforcement of existing laws and to enacting further measures to curb private monopolies.
The speaker calls labor a human right and backs collective bargaining and limits on work hours and conditions. They urge convict labor products traded interstate be governed by destination state laws and public works for job relief. They note child labor amendment passage depended on Democratic votes in Congress.
The piece notes enduring friendly ties between Latin American republics and the United States. It asserts growing closeness as relations deepen and states the Democratic party extends cordial greetings to these nations. It emphasizes neighborly bonds and the aim of lasting friendship through justice.
The Democratic party affirms its adherence to core constitutional principles including religious liberty free speech press and assembly and church state separation. It pledges to defend these standards uphold lawful order and oppose efforts to incite religious or racial discord.
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