Milford chronicle., 1905-07-14
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some Questions That Answer Them


election?
Why do the Democrats hope to ae-
cOmplish any good for the country
while their congressman and senators
are not committed to cling to the gild-
ed plank which their presidential can
didate threw out as a life preserver as
soon as he discovered the unsea-
wOrthiness of the Democratic ship?
Why do the Democrats complain that
our export business is not increasing
/ fast enough and at the same time
object to our building a navy sufficient
to protect the foreign trade we al
ready have?
Why do the Democrats seek. as their
platform states, to so reduce our brave
army that it would be hard to sud
denly turn out a trained "corpOral's
guard in time of need?
Why do the Democrats find fault
with the Republican policy of caring.
to the fullest possible extent for the
men and those dependent on them who
fought for the honor Of their coun-
try's flag?
Why do the Democrats always fight
among themselves when any grave is
sue is before the country, as now?
Why do the Democrats imagine they
could handle the national finances bet
ter than do the Republicans when the
ledger of the country shows that their !
last four years try at that big job re-
suited in adding $262OOO,OO0 to our |
bonded debt simply to pay ordinary
running expenses?
Why do the Democrats fail to see
that the want of business confidence
which would follow the election of
their untried candidate would result
in a worse paralyzation of American
industries than that which followed
the election of their tried candidate
in 1892?
Why do the Democrats in their plat
form set themselves up as economic
ers Of the national finances when in I
their last four years of control they
had in time of peace to go in debt
1862, 100000 to square their cash ac-
,Ount?
Why do the Democrats prate in their
platform about the "Jeffersonian sim
'licity of living" when it is a we'll
,nOwn fact that Mr.. Jefferson was an '
ristocrat and lived as well and as e.
as did any prominent man b
f his day?
Why do the Democrats insist in
heir latest platform for "liberty of u
ersonal contract when the silver
lank, still in force, of their two pre-
eding presidential platforms sought =
l effect to destroy the liberty of .
ersonal contract" by making it lille fe
al for personal contract to be made
ayable in gold?
Why do the Democrats in their lat E
It platform demand the sacred full be
lment of public and private Obliga-
ons" when by reason Of the absence
a gold money plank in that plat eA
rm their representatives in congress, II
'und by the free silver plank Of the =
70 br sceding platforms, could Justly.
ON party standpoint, seek the en- h
tment Of law covering that plank,
ID that law, if passed, would destroy =
e sacred fulfllment' business by
abling a debtor to pay in dollars
lrth so cents or less a contract for
lich he had received full value in
D cent gold dollars?
Why do the Democrats falsely de-
unce the Republican party as play
: into the hands of the so called
lists and they put forward a presi-
ltial candidate backed by Wall
eet and a vice presidential candidate
10 has become enormously wealthy
ough the profits of so called trusts?
Why do the Democrats say in their
torn $50 called that protection
a robbery" and in the same para
ph carefully refrain from proposing
abolition or even any drastic
nges in the tariffY
Thy do the Democrats shout aloud
t Roosevelt was "imperialistic" in
uiring what the people wanted-the
ITS and property of the Panama ca
in face Of the fact that the Demo
lie senators who tried to block the Or,
2 We're by many southern mass
'tings called of from further op-
tion? r.,
hy do the Democrats expect the
lligent voters to cast their ballots
a party whose platform is a series
legations and contradictions from N'li
first word to the last?
by do the Democrats indulge in
a pipe dream as the thought that
people Of the United States want
ut that party out Of power whose
y enabled the country to export
100000 worth of goods more in
fiscal year than in even the very -
Democratic year? 4
ny do the Democrats fondly in Ek
e in the illusory fancy that with 1B
ndidate Of no political record and LII
} positive opinions they can come Ma
IN million votes Of defeating that E$
rican American, Theodore Roose- lN