The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-15
Democratic Legislators And inc EnCome-Tax
 Amendment.
(New Haven Union,

,rectte Kipling's inspiring ballad, "GunEa Din? Did you ever read this poem? We'll, you ought to do so. It tells the story of poor India water carrier who ran the gauntlet of the firing line to supply water to | the fighting Tommy Atkins" in the midst of battle. One of the British soldiers is telling the taie-how he abused poor Gunga Din and cussed ] the poor fellow was, how when this soldier was badly wounded Gunga Din carried him to a place of safety though himself mortally wounded. and gave him his last few drops of water before he (Gunga D'in) died. The concluding stanza of the piece reads something like this (we quote from memory:
 By the living God that made you, Through beat you and I fiayed you, You're a better man than I am
 Gunga Din"
 well. we were put seriously in mind of poor old Gunga Din, by one of those peculiar psychological twists of the mind and the imagination that one cannot account for when we kheard Representative Chandler speak ing in favor of the income tax in the l O beat him and have hayed this poor, Ebenighted Republican with our pen, here he was provingl himself a better fDemocrat than a lot of those so-call- ed Democrats we supported during the last campaign to represent the people at Hartford! Myi How we did lam haste the said Chandler for lambast- ing Judge Baldwin. We cartooned him and we lampooned him, and we beat him and we f1ayed him, and here he turns out a better Democrat than lot of Democrats up in the Legls- lature who have repudiated their own party's campaign pledges and plat form.
 Tn next Sundays issue we are go- ing to print in toto the able address of MT Chandler delivered on Tuesday of
 this week in the House in favor of the so-called income tax amendment to
 the federal constitution. We recom-
 mend a careful reading of this speech
 to Senators Mitchell and Marlowe of this city, who voted against this meas ure in the Senate, despite the fact that the party platform upon (which both of them ran and were elected
 expressly pledged the party and it's
 representatives in favor of this meas
 ure.
 MT. Chandler says that he is going
 to use this repudiation by Democrats
 of their party platform as campaign
 material in the future. He ought to use 1t; and if he does we will help him to give it increased publicity; and if he doesn't use it, we will. MT. Chandler cannot hurt our feelings in the slightest by smoking out repudia- tors of their campaign promises, be they Republicans Or Democrats; and we trust he will not confine his att
 tention to the latter alone. There
 are a few repudiators of their cam
 .fn 11f D household. After he cleans his own house of these breakers of party pledges, we shall welcome him over to help us rid our party of individuals
 of a like kind.
 Thank heaven there are many Dem
 ocrats at Hartford who appreciate and
 respect the sanctity of their party
 pledges to the people. Representa-
 tive Tingier of Vernon, the Democratic
 floor leader, did not put the matter
 any too strongly when he declared in the House last Tuesday, that he had
 who would deliberately repudiate the platform promises of the party that elected him"
 The candidate who accepts a party nomination accepts his partys plat form, unless he openly and expressly repudiates such provisions of that platform as he desires before he is
 
 ought to be clearly understood by his fellow partisans and the people be-
 fore they nominate and elect him.
 The time for a candidate for office to
 repudiate any part of his party's plat form is before he accepts nomina- ton upon that platform. The time
 for a cndidtaeaaaaaaaaoaa -Aoo)wIL
 for a candidate to take the people into
 his confidence on his party's platform
 pledges is before, not after he is elect
 ed. This dark lantern method of seeking political office does not ap- peal to the square deal sentiments of honorable men.
 Senators Mitchell and Marlowe
 should have repudiated the Democrat ic platform before election if they did not like itsa pledges. Having kept discreetly silent and having been elect ed on this platform, they are bound
 by 1t just as if 1t were a promissory note which they had signed.
 But, says Senator Mitchell in exten- uatfon of this repudia tion of his par tvs pledge on the income tax mat ter: "Gov. Baldwin in his message
 did not favor the income tax amend
 ment. I am following the governor" 1"
 Ig Gov Baldwin had even assumed the position alleged by Senator Mitch ell the propriety of the senator in al- lowing the governor to do his think
 ing for him on this important matter
 is not clear We submit, however, that Gov. Baldwin's message fairly