Platform points on attack against the GOP
The document outlines a platform denouncing GOP leadership, praising Woodrow Wilson, and calling for reforms. It attacks monopoly, favors fair revenue, tariff adjustment, cheaper transport, and state control of coal, with civil service expansion, postal pay, anti corruption laws, and independent Philippines governance. It also calls for disarmament, canalization, anti monopoly laws, and a referendum on the league of nations.
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Pedins
Woodrow Wilson
Republican Party
Jeetreyten
Mellon
Internal Revenue
Congress
Philippines
Alaska
Great Lakes
Gulf
Atlantic Ocean
League of Nations
Ku Klux Klan
Democratic Convention Delivers Fiery Anti Klan Oratory
In New York on June 29 the Democratic Convention faced a tense clash over an anti Ku Klux Klan plank. William Jennings Bryan urged unity and denounced Klan influence while others pressed to name the organization in the platform. The intense session closed with heated speeches from leaders across the party.
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New York
David I. Walsh
Massachusetts
Calby
Ohio
Andrew C. Erwin
Athens
Erwin
Te Kian
Walsh
J. Y. Sanders
Louisiana
Antiklan
C. M. Bryan
Memphis
Itenn
Francis X. Busch
Illinois
Bryan
Ku Klux Klan
Tmall High
Bors
Minority Report
Democratic Party
Secret Society
Owen
Oklahoma
Thomas J. Walsh
Montana
Bainbridge Colby
Colby
Buit
Hostil
William R. Pattangall
Klan
United States
Pattangall
Carroll Miller
Pennsylvania
McAdoo
Smith
William G. McAdoo
Alfred Smith
Treasury
Samuel M. Ralston
Indiana
John W. Davis
West Virginia
Charles Bryan
Nebraska
Jonathan M. Davis
Kansas
Ralston
Homer F. Cummings
Silver
Thomas Taggart
William Jennings Bryan
David Ladd Rockwell
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