The Republican platform says Wilson & the Dems were unprepared for war and unprepared for peace. It promises to end “executive autocracy” and restore constitutional government; it attacks Wilson’s “vindictive vetoes.” It calls for tightening immigration and naturalization, and for continuing the exclusion of Asians. Calls for “Americanizing” the foreign population of Hawaii and the “rehabilitation of the Hawaiian race,” whatever that means. It vaguely calls for Congress to “consider the most effective means to end lynching”. Calls for states with Republican legislatures to ratify the women’s suffrage Amendment in time for this election. On the League, it says it supports “agreement among the nations to preserve the peace of the world” buuuuut without compromising national independence or the US people’s “right to determine for themselves what is just and fair when the occasion arises without involving them as participants and not as peacemakers in a multitude of quarrels, the merits of which they are unable to judge.” It accuses Wilson of being a “dictator” in demanding the Senate ratify the covenant without any changes.
Hiram Johnson declares victory on getting that anti-League plank. Victory over whom? International bankers, of course.
Florence Harding says she’d rather Warren not be president: “I can see but one word written over the head of my husband if he is elected, and that word is ‘Tragedy.’”
The American Federation of Labor’s annual convention warns affiliated unions, specifically the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, against excluding blacks. Black delegates objected to being referred to during the debate as “nigger freight handlers,” as well they might.
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