The Republicans' Platform The" platform" adopted by the Republican Party
Con- gress at Chicago, at which Mr. Hoover was renominated, vi rtually without opposition, is of interest to Americans chiefly for the ingenuity with which the Prohibition plank was drafted, and to the world generally for a paragraph which marks a definite advance in the American attitude (for the Democrats will certainly go as far as the Republicans in this direction) to international problems. The Republicans favour the enactment by Congress of a measure authorising the Government— which means the President—to call or take part in an international conference in case of any threat of non- fulfilment of that article in the Kellogg Pact providing for the settlement of every international dispute by peace- ful ,means. The world is not standing still when a Republican Congress can say that. On Prohibition, the Republicans, by a majority of about three to two, are prepared to let any State go wet that chooses, but without the restoration of the saloon, and with retention for the Federal Government of "power to preserve the gains already made in dealing with the evils inherent in the liquor traffic "—whatever that may mean. The minority was for repealing the Eighteenth Amendment altogether and restoring control by the several States. This will probably be the Democrats' line.
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