The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-05-02

lNeIf party pltlIolIa. NtltNer one nor
The other. Apparently they think their
action requires no apology. and they
and most of them are before the peo-
pie taking an interest in the coming
campaign with as much assurance as
though they had carried out every
promise made in their platform. I'm
der these conditions must We not in
Quire whether or not political plat
form means anything? Is party
bound by its platform. or by any plank
nit? Are its candidates for office, if
elected. under any obligations to carry
out the provisions of the platform
upon which they stood through the
campaign, or are they free to repudi-
ate those provisions and to act as they
please. If platforms may be thus easily
and lightly repUdiated and disregard
ed, how can the people ever have any
assurance that their wishes will be OBJ
served? How can they ever accom-
plish anv reform or make themselves
felt in the government of our sttae?
If party platforms are only for the
purpose of catching votes. and if when
elected the officials may renudiata and
disregard those Platforms why longer
keen IN the farce that this is a free
government "of the neonIe nv the emo
ple and for the peonIe?" WHY not at
once turn over the affairs of this state
to the great corporati0ns for manage
n1ant and direction, and save the nao-
and save TO the cornorations the then
useless exnansa of maintaining a
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as he who obtains their money by such
demonstrations. Nor will it do TO SIM
ply hold responsible and punish the in
dividual who NAV violate his party
pledges. To do so may indeed drive
not cure the evil. The party managers
and DO" teal bosses in the republican
party appear to be very quick to see
the necessity of putting uD new men
in each campaign. so that if the odium
attaching to broken promises is to be
borne by the individual only, the party
by nominating new men who are
equally ready and willing to use the
party platform for their own selfish
ends and violate the trust reposed in
them by the people may go on indefi-
nitely and forever, making promises to
get votes and to win the election. and
breaking those promises to please the
great corporations, to get campaign
funds or as private graft.
We have in this state an honest, in
telligent and independent class of
voters, who will not always follow the
party name for the names sake. and
sooner or later. if we remain true to
our party principles and true to the