The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-23

Party Has Done the Things
 Which It Promised to Do
 A Record of Eighteen Months
 of Progressive Legislation
 and Constructive Statesman
 ship UnexceIIed in the His tory of the Nation.
 s6Bys Hon. Henry T. Rainey, Member
 of Congress from Illinois.)
 The Democratic party has kept the faith. We have sfbeen true to the theories upon which the party was founded and to the great unwritten constitution which has regulated and controlled Democratic policies in all the decades which have passed since the days Of Jefferson.
 A Dernocratic Congress has met without fear the great problems which have been confronting the country through all the years of Republican r11e-problems which have been com tinualIy pushed forward into the fu-l tt1re by the Republican party through all it's years of supremacy. Under the wise patriotic guidance of the great est president the country has had in haIf a gentry of time, the present Com gress has remained in session longer than any Congress since the Civil War. The term of the present executive is not yet half over. There still re- mains another session of the Congress now in session, but we have already remedial measures we promised the country during teh last campaign for the Presidency. We proudly call at tention to a marvellous record of per fornanee not equalled by any party in the same length Of time during all our history as a Republic.
 We have kept our promises literally and have revised the tariff downward. We have written into the laws tariff provfsi ons which have wiped out ev- cry vestige of: the old. war tariffs. We have enacted the lowest tariff law we a.1te1belIum days Our factories are running. many Of them day and night. The predicted business disasters and pauics have not come.
 Already in the wholesale prices of goods the sEect of our revisi on is be- ing felt. Long before the next Pres idential election retail price reductions and cheapening of methods of distri- button will make impossible the re- turn to power of any party, in any section of the country, which promises or advocates a restoration of the old expressive Republican tariff sched- uIes
 
 income tax ret gulatiofls the kind of a tax which eofnpels the rich to bear their fair share of the burdens of rum ming this goveFnfpent. We have all ready accom- pIished the currency re- form demanded ny present dsy con ASt as not Vet in operation but will be before the elections in November Already the fact that the law will soon be in operation has had it's reassur- ing emecf upon the barik1ng and bus il1egs interests of the country. Bank panies and extenstve business depres- sfsnss are5 now eL thing of the past We have abolished forever the dollar dip losaaacys of the Republican party--the s7lpInrnacv which m can't that invest 4nerrts of Wan street capitalists and specuiators in the weaker republics of the western world would be pro- 4ected aoy the armies and navies of the United States, and compelled to yield the return the investors demanded. we have substituted for that policy +E,a doctrine of human rights. AL; ready a feeling of confidence toward ,Is is being established in the weaker republics south of sus. Bonds of friendship are beginning to nola. .- .lo- getaer the republics of the western world, and it will snot be long before we may expect printable trade rela'-- lions with the prcsperous produclng coantrdes of South land Central Amer ics. which up to the present time time have reaerked our overtures and our our comrnercia1 advanees.
 we have driven forever out or Con- kress the Instdtous Hobby, and no long- CT are the corridors of our National csanftoI hIIed with the men who rep- resent great interests and who demand legislation at the expense of the great nToduc1ns masses Of our population ton, tra tfaax we. have already by wise legisla.- ton re-estabdished the American merchant marine and we have accom- p1tsfrsd 1t without subsidies. Under Democratic laws, enacted by Demo cratic najorities in both Houses of the National Congress, approved by a Democratic president, scores of ships are applying for registry under the American flag, and 1t will not be long 7,ntiIe the American flag flying over American spnerc1aait vessels IS as Ia rniliar upon the seas of the world as the flag Of any other nation.
 We have taken the necessary steps toward opening up the vast territory roe Alaska. with all it's possibilities The policy of the Republican party was either to give away to the inter ests the resources of this great sec ticn of the continent or to tie then ID forever. me people reaoiled against th former course, and g, Republicau administration, weak and ineficient merely tied up ts F great reaources and left Ire problem for us to solve
 We have met it unflincftngly: and to. day groups of American surveyors ars penetrating the interior of Alaska pre- paring for the great railway made pos sibIe by a. Democratic administration
 We have made effective the popu- lad vote for United States Senator's.
 We have averted great railway strikes by arbitration.
 We have destroyed the Telegraph and Telephone trusts.
 We have made efrectuaI and possf- ble trust disso1utions.
 We have destroyed Cannonisrn fr the House of Representatives and have made that body responsive, not to the will of a few political bosses