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Show I Ten Thousand Dollars For I Platform Suggestions By I Young Republicans I Through the Republican National I eommittee, Mr. Truxton Beale, for- mer United States Minister to Persia and an anient llepublican who has the best k of his part at heart, offers cash prizes aggregating 110,000 for the best platform sug-gestlons sug-gestlons by young- Republicans lu the country. His offer hag been formally ac-. ac-. copied by Chairman Will H. Hays, of the National Committee, and the contest con-test will open" at once and close on March 31, 1920. A first prize of 6,000 will be given for the best manuscript received; re-ceived; $3,000 for the second best, and $1,000 for the third. Manuscripts are limited to 6,000 words and must be addressed to Walker Blaine Beale, Contest Division Divi-sion of Young Voters, Republican National Committee, 923 Woodward Building, Washington, D. C. Four typewritten copies must be submitted one only of the number being Bigned. Under date of November 20, 1919, Mr. Beale, in a letter to Chairman Hays, quoted William Roscoe Thayer's Thay-er's description of .National Convention, Con-vention, with Its scenes of turmoil and atrife as given iu his life of Roosevelt. In this chapter Mr. Thayer said: "A spectator from Mars might have remarked, 'but for so important import-ant a business a the choice of a candidate whomay become President of the United States you ought to have quiet, deliberation, free-play not for those Tvho can shout the loudest but for those who ran speak (he wisest. "And to this remark the following whirling dervishes who attenned the convention might nave responded, If they waited long enough to hear It through, by yelling 'Hail, Hall, the gang's H here.' and would have dnrt- |