Archive Report
Archive Report
The Referendum in Theory and Practice
Democratic Proposal for National Referendum
In 1920 the Democratic Party pledged Itself to every effort to secure the entry of the United States into the League of Nations. On June 28, 1924, the Democratic national convention renewed its ex-pressions of belief In the League of Nations but proposed in its plat-from that the question should be taken out of party politics and sub-fitted to the judgment of the whole body of voters through a national referendum. The plank in which this Is set forth concludes as follows: “There is no substitute for the League of Nations as an agency for peace; therefore we believe that, in the interest of permanent peace, and in the lifting of the great burdens of ...