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I When the Democrats Met at Houston This )>; i .lie of flip opening of the Democratic national convention at Houston. Tex., was taken just before Claude Bowi.s delivered ♦he ringing keynote ?pe« cli', which time after time brought the hundreds of delegates to their feet in cheering confusion, it was taken Ifoui the re;ufof tie hail.-looking to ward the speakers’ platform, and indicates the huge size of the auditorium. Inset is a dose-up of Senator Joseph Jtobtnson of Arkansas, permanent chairman of the convention. Democrat Support To Bring Relief To Farms Republican Parly Is Scored For I nfilled Promises To Relieve Distress—Corruption. The text of the platform adopted by the Democratic national conven tion follows in part: We, the democratic party in convention assembled. pause to pay our tribute of love and respect to the memory of him who in his life and in his official actions voic ed the hopes and aspirations of all good men and women of every race and clime, the former president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson His spirit moves on and his example and deeds wiii' exalt those wire come after us as they have inspired j us. wp are gratetm tnat \vr were privileged to work with him and again pay tribute to his high ideal; and accomplishments. We reaffirm our devotion to the j principles of Democratic govern ment formulated by Jefferson and! enforced by a long and illustrious1 line of Democratic presidents. We hold that government must; function not to centralize our’ wealth but to preserve equal op portunity so that all may share in our priceless resources; and not confine prosperity to a favored te\v_ We. therefore, pledge the Demo cratic party to encourage business, small and great alike; to conserve human happiness and liberty; to, break the shackles of monopoly air! free business of the nation; to re- : spend to the popular will The function of a national plat form is to declare general princi ples and party policies. We do no'. there, assume to bind our party respecting local issues or details or legislation. Wc, therefore, declare the policy of the 'Democratic party with re gard to the following dominant is sues.: Rights Of States. , We demand that the constitu tional rights and powers of tty states shall preserved in their full vigor and virtue. These constitute a bulwark against centralization and the destructive tendencies of the Republican party. | We oppose bureaucracy and the rtHJlUphfLUion of.ortipat and.pfCicc holders. We demand a revival of the spirit of local self-government without which free institutions cannot be preserved. Republican Corruption. Unblushingly the Republican party offers as its record agricul ture prostrate, industry depressed, American shipping destroyed, work men without employment, every where disgust and suspicion and corruption unpunished and un afraid. Never in me entire mstory of the country has there occurred in ••any.,given, .per iod of .time or., in deed. in all time put together, such a spectacle of sordid corruption ami unabashed rascality as that which has characterized the administra tion of federal affairs under eight j blighting yyars of Republican rule. Not the revels of reconstruction. I nor all ihe compounded frauds suc ceeding that evil era, have ap proached in sheer audacity . the shocking thieveries and startling de pravities of officials high and low ' in the public service at Washing ton. Prom cabinet ministers, with their treasonable crimes, to me cheap vendors of officials patron age, from the purchasers of seats in the United States senate to the vulgar grafters upon alien trust j funds, and upon the hospital re sources of the disabled veterans of I the World war; from the givers and receivers of stolen funds for Repub- ( lican campaign purposes to the public men who sat by silentiy ! consenting and never revealing a fact nor uttering a word in con-, detonation, the whole official or ganizations under Republican ruie j has become saturated^ »tith dishon- j esty, defiant of public opinion and actuated only by a partisan desire to i perpetuate Its cotitroi trt the eminent. A in the time of Samuel .1 Til* den. from whom the presidency wits stolen, the watchword of the day should be: 'Turn the rascals out.” This is the appeal of the Democm Uc party to the people of the conn* try. To this fixed purpose should be devoted every effort and applied every resource of the party; to this end and every minor difference on non-sxentia! issues , should be put aside and a determined and united fight be made to rescue the gov ernment Iron! tlio.se who have be trayed their trust by disregarding it. Economy. ■ ii«-Democratic party stands tor efficiency and economy ‘in the ad ministration- of public affairs and we peldge: <ai Business-like reorganization of all the departments of the .gov ernment. ibi Elimination of duplication, waste and overlapping. <cf Substitution ot modern btw.i ne.ss-like methods for existing ot^o-' lete and antiquated conditions. No economy resulted from the Republican party rule. Tlie savings they claim take no account of the elimination of expenditures follow ing the end of the World war. the iarg-e sum realized from the sale of war materials, nor its failure to supply sufficient funds for the ef ficient conduct of many important governmental, activities. Finance, Taxation. 'if The federal reserve system created and inaugurated under Democratic auspices is the greatest legislative contribution to construc tive business ever adopted The ad ministration of the system for the advantage oi stock market specu lators should cense. It must be ad ministered for the benefit of farm ers. wage earners, merchants, and others engaged in constructive busi ness. 1 b• The taxing function of gov ernments. free of despotism. has for centuries been regarded as tire power above all others which re quirs vigilant scrutiny to the end that it be not exercised for pur poses of favor or oppression. Three times since the World War the Democrats in congress have 1 favored a * reduet ton ofr-the-tnx -bor* dens of the people in face of stub born opposition from a Republi can administration: and each time these reductions have largely been made for the relief of those least able to endure the exactions of a Republican fiscal policy.* The tax bill of the session recently ended was delayed by Republican tactic* and juggled by partisan considera tions so as to make impossible a full measure of relief to the greater body of taxpayers. The moderate reductions afforded were grudgingly , conceded and the whole proceeding ir: congress dictated as far as pos- 1 si bit* from the White House and treasury, denoted Che proverbial de sire of the Republican party always to discriminate against the masses in favor of privileged classes. The Democratic party avows its belief in the fiscal policy inaugu- j rated by the last Democratic ad- ! ministration, which has provided a ! sinking fund sufficient to extin- j guish the nation’s indebtedness within a reasonable period of time, j without harassing the present and i next succeeding generations with ; tax burdens, which, if not unendur able, do ui fact ciitri. ir.irivtvre it. enterprise and progress in business. Taxes levied beyond the actual re- ' quirements of the legally-establish- 1 ed sinking fund are but an added1 burden upon the American people, and the surplus thus accumulated in the federal treasury is an incen tive to the,increasingly extravagant expenditures which have character ized Republican administrations. We, therefore, favor a further re duction of the internal taxes of the people. Agriculture. Deception upon the farmer and stock raser lias been practiced by j the Republican party through false i ar.i 4elam* pr'xmisaj . Xot more j than fifty years. Specially favored industries have been artificially aided by Republican legislation. Comparatively little has been done for agriculture and stock raisin ; upon which national prosperity rests. Unsympathetic inaction with regard to this problem must cease. Virtulent hostility of the Republi can administration to the advocates of farm relief and denial ot the right, of farm organizations to lead in the development of farm policy must yield to Democratic sympa thy and friendliness. Four years ago, the Republican party, forced to acknowledge the critical situation, pledged itself to take all steps necessary to bring back a balanced condition between agriculture a,nd other industries and labor. Today it faces the coun try not only with the pledge unre deemed, but broken by the acts of a Republican president ' who is pri marily responsible for the failuir to offer a constructive program to restore equality to agriculture. While lie hud ho constructive and adequate program to offer in its stead, he has twice vetoed farm re lief legislation and has sought to justify his disapproval of agricul tural legislation partly on grounds wholly inconsistent with his acts making industrial monopolies the beneficiaries of government favor; and in indorsing the agricultural policy of the present administra tion the Republican party in its de cent convention served notice upon the farmer that the so-called pro* tective system is not meant for him; that while it offers protection to the privileged few, it promises con tinued world prices to the produc ers of the chief cash crops of agri culture. We condemn the policy of the Republican party which promes re lief to agriculture only through a reduction of American farm pro duction to the needs of the domes tic market. Such a program means the continued deflation of agricul ture the forcing of additional mil lions from the farms, and the per petuation agricultural distress for years to come, with eenunued bad effects on business and labor throughout the United States. The Democratic party recog nizes that the problems of produc tion differ as between agriculture and industry. Industrial production is lately under human control, wlp«r agricultural production, be cause Of co-ordination, among the 6,500,000 individual farm units, a'hc! because of the influence of weath er, pests and other causes, is large ly beyond human control. The re sult is that a large crop frequently is produced on a small acreage and measured in money value it fre quently happens thata large crop brings less than a small crop Producers of crops whose total volume exceeds the needs of the domestic market must continue at a disadvantage until the govern ment shall intervena as serouslv and as effectively in behalf of the farmer as it /nas intervened in be half of la£>w and industry. The-o is a need of supplemental legisla tion for the control and orderly handling-, of agricultural surpluses, tr. order thui the -prlcenr (.he. sur plus may not determine the price of the whole crops. Labor has bene lited by collective bargaining and some Industries by tariff. Agricul ture must be a:, effectively, aided. The Democratic party in its 1924 platform pledged its support to such legislation. It now reaffirms that stand and pledges the united efforts of the legislative and executive branches of government, as far as may be controlled by the party, to the immediately enactment of such .'egbbtArvo,.and to surf- other steps as are necessary to place and maintain the purchasing power of farm products and the complete economic quality of agriculture The Democratic party has always stood against special privilege and for commct^ equality under the law It is a fundamental principle of the party that such tariffs as are lev ied must not discriminate against any industry, class or section. There fore, we pledge that in its tariff policy the Democratic party will in sist upon equality of treatment be tween agriculture and other indus tries. Farm relief must rest on the basis of an economic equality of agriculture with other industries. To give this equality a remedy must i be found which will include among other things: < a * Credit aid by loans to co-op eratives on at least as favorable a basis as the government aid to the merchant marine. i >b> .Creation of a federal farm ! board to assist the farmer and stock raiser in the marketing of their products as the federal reserve board has done for the banker and business man. Whe nour archaic banking and currency system was revised alter its record of disaster, and panic under Republican ad ministrations, it was a Democratic congress in the administration of a Democratic president that accom plished its stabilizatiorrthrough the 1 federal reserve act creating the fed eral reserve board with powers ade quate to its purpose. Now In (he hour of agriculture’s need the Dem ocratic party pledges the establish i merii of a new agricultural policy I fitted to present conditions. Under ! the direction of a farm board vest ! ed with all the powers necessary to ! accomplish for agriculture what the , federal reserve board has been able I to accomplish for finance, in full ! recognition of the fact that tile banks of the country, through vol untary cooperation were never able to stabilize the financial system of the country until government, powers were Invoked to help them. <c> Reduction through proper government agencies of the spread between what the farmer and stock raiser gets and the ultimate con sumer pays with consequent bene fits to both. (di Consideration of the condi tion of agriculture in the formula tion of government financial and tax measures. We pledge the party to foster and develop co-operative marketing as sociations through appropr ate gov ernment aid. We recognize that experience has demonstrated that members of such associations alone cannot success fully assume the full responsibility for a program that benefits ali pro ducers alike. We pledge the party to an earnest endeavor to solve this problem of the distribution of the cost of dealing with crop sur pluses over the marketed units of the crop whose producers are bene fltted by such assistance. The solu tion of this problem . would avoid government subsidy to which the (Democratic party has alw>ays bean opposed. The solution of ibis prob lem will be a prime and immed iate concern of a Democratic ad ministration. We direct- attention to the fact the* !* was a Democratic congress in the administration of a demo cratic president, which established the federal loan system and laid the foundation for the entire rural credits structure, which has aided agriculture to sustain in part the shock of the policies of two Repub lican administrations; and we prom ise thorough-going administration of our rural credits laws, so that the farmers In all sections may secure the maximum benefits in tended under these acts. The Japanese sent some Ma rines mto Mfchdnvma otfcw iaj v We hadn’t known Manchuria was to have an election. NOTICE OF SUMMONS. North Carolina, Cleveland County. In the Superior Court. Dorkis Philbeck Gray, Plaintiff, vs. James Gray, Defendant. The defendant above named will take notice that an action entitled as above has been commenced in j the superior court of Cleveland i county. North Carolina. whereby | the piainliii is asking tiirvoorl fc. a divorce absolute on the grounds of five consecutive years separa ; tion as alleged in the complaint of the plaintiff filed in this action; and the said defendant will further take notice that he is required to 1 appear before the clerk of the su perior court of said county at Shel bv, North Carolina, on or before the first day of August. 1928 and an I swer or demur to the said com i plaint, of the plaintiff, or the plain ' tiff will apply to the court for the | relief demanded. This 2nd day of July, 1928 A. M. HAMRICK. Clerk Superior ! Court. Bennett & Edwards, Attys. for » i Plaintiff. * Leading Southerners Accept Smith. Better Than Corruption of The Republicans. (By ULNN DRUM.) The South will support A1 Smith in November Southern leaders de clare. and that being certain politi cal leaders of the east and welf are positive that the democrat who will follow Woodrow Wilson into the White House will be the New York governor. Immediately following the Smith nomination, this writer, represent ing The Star and the Charlotte Ob server a,t Houston. immediately queried nine of the South’s leading democrats. Not a single one spoke of opposing Smith Shortly after nomination. Joseph us Daniels, former secretary of the navy and one of the three out standing dry leaders at Houston, told this writer that Smith’s record as a governor was remarkable and that he found cnly one objection to him—that of his wet tenders::,', which is the sentiment of the Smith country In the interview Daniels pledged himself to the newsboy grad uate of the iFulton Fish market who rose and kept rising until he was tendered the highest honor of the democratic party. Later, however, reports were that Daniels would ; align himself with the ultra dry 'group planning .a fight on both parties—this after Bishop Cannon I had okayed the platform as drawn at Houston. But dispatches today have Daniels saying that he will support Smith and make his fight against prohibitipn changes in con gress. The North Carolinian said he would rather support Smith any time than the party which has been as false to prohibition as it has been to corruption. Danieis further de clared that Smith may have his own personal views, but that he runr. I upon the democratic platform—and II have never known A1 Smith to | violate a pledge." Major Cohen, publisher of the | Atlanta Journal, waged one of the '"hardest fights against Smith prior ! to the nomination, but declared be fore leaving Houston that his paper : would support Smith and Georgia {would vote democratic as usual. Not more than six outstanding southern leaders—leaders of na tional note—were oposed to Smith in the floor fight at Houston and in various newspaper interviews beiore leaving they all took the stand of ' Daniels and Cohen, which is illus j trated by the fact that Representa i live Cordeli Hull, of Tennessee, for 1 whom this state voted, switched his own state's vote to Smith before the final call came on the' first ballot. Press dispatches saying that North Carolina will be the center, of a uem ocratic revolt are more or less bunk um The idea seems to have ori ginated in the unfortunate fight over the religious liberty issue, which was not participated in by more than eight Carolinians with the others regretting the occurrence "S^ure we will support Smith.'’ declared W. C. Newland, former lieutenant governor and delegation chairman. "If he can't win witn that winning personality of his and that remarkable record as gover nor of New York, then a democrat cannot win. That with the dry plank adopted. I think he will win.’’ Not a single member of the North Carolina delegation declared he or she would not support the ticket, although a few of those engaged in the fight that gave North Carolina a black eye were feeling ashamed of their little act and were sulking too much to come over readily..!* -v ■ En route back many of the dele Everybody Likes | To Be Strong - j Physically speaking—To1 be strong otherwise is veryi embarrassing. Overcome! this hazard with fresh) underwear daily — SAM-i SONBAK UNION SUITS solves this problem. They] are genuine HANES— Per Suit. i eater, who fought for Hull to the end, were making campaign plans in s import of Smith for president and Oardner for governor. The South will vote democratic And, unless this writer is badly mistaken after spending a wxek with the North Carolina delegates. North Carolink will vote democratic The Smith majority will not be any thing like the Oardner majority— but it will be a majority. People talk about a single standard, but the simple truth is, women can forgive and men can’' Women have had so much more practice. Correct this sentence: "1 wish the speaker would hush,” said the that crying infant in the next pew.' CHIEF ALI EN THANKS VOTERS.. Through the columns of The C!ev eland Star I wish to thank the voters of Cleveland county for the confidence imposed in me for the office of sheriff, as evidenced by the fine vote given me in the run-off primary Saturday. I assure you that I shall undertake to justify your confidence in me by- striving to , make the county a capable conscien- ; tious officer. Your support la ap- i 1 preciated to the fullest extent. IRVIN M. ALLEN. Take a day off and go on that farm tour. The experience of the. other fellow will oft-times aid you in solving your own problem. A Comervaliontit A lazy Indian sunning , himself outside u small railway ■.mion in New Mexico gazed nr the land«'cnp« first tetth one eye, then the other. 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