The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1914-10-10

Another plank in the same plat
form was as follows:
We condemn the action of the Re.
publican administration in comprom.
Using with the Standard Oil Co., and
the Tobacco Trust, and its failure to
invoke the criminal provisions of the
antitrust law against the officers of
those corporations after the court
had declared that from the undisput-
ed facts in the record they had vio-
lated the criminal provisions of the
law.
There is a statement from your
platform that these men were prac.
tically found guilty of violating the
criminal statutes of the country and
demanding that they be prosecuted.
You have held complete control OF
the reins Of this government for
nearly two years, and not one of
those criminals that you denounced
your opponents for not prosecuting
has been arrested or indicted, nor
has any attempt been made anywhere
to prosecute them for the violation
of law that you say in your platform
has already been proven and demon
strated. Does that look like good
faith?
Now, let us see further. You
said In the last plank of that same
platform:
Our pledges are made to be kept
when in office as well as relied up
on during the campaign.
1t seems to me 1t is up to you
| particularly-and when l say 1t is
| up to you, do not mean that the
responsibility is all off of everybody
| else-but you have a particular OBJ
legation here and particular duty
to redeem a pledge that you solemn.
ly made in order to get into office.
| But, Mr.. President, so that it may
not be thought for moment that
that plank in the platform was slip
ped in or got in by some circuitous
route, like it was claimed some 9th
err planks got in, l want to reac
Just what the president said abou
the platform pledges. This has beer
read several times before and | d.
not know but what | ought to apollo
gize for reading from the Democrat
ic platform and charging that 1t ha
been violated by Democrats sine
they have come into Office. Perhap
| ought to apologize for 1t, becaus
these violations are getting to d.
chestnuts. There is not anything PAL
ticularly left of the platform that ha
not been violated At the presen
time | can only think of one PLAN
and that is the plank that pledge
the candidate for President not to b
a candidate for reelection. That ma
not been violated yet. Mr.. Wilso
while a candidate, speaking in Ne'
Jersey on the 9Th day Of August l9l
said:
Our platform is not molasses
catch flies. 1t means business
means what it says. 1t is the ute
ance of earnest and honest men, WI
:, intend to do business along ines
! lines and who are not waiting to sc
whether they can catch votes VIII
tbose PROMISES before they dete
mine whether they are going to a.
upon them or not
With that statement by the ieaue
the man who is still the leader III
' this platform means business 10
y CON n Democrat consistently YOU
now 70 practically free all the
trusts from future prosecution ii
IN ,iberate them from criminal pre-
, ,eoution when your very pledge VI
a. to the contrary?
:. But. Mr.. President, there was a
=. other great Democratic leader W.
=, had something to say about platloi
q. pledges. Mr.. Bryan, speahihs
q. fore the legislature, at Harrispul
Il Pa, on the 18th day OF May 10
!" used this language:
" A representative who secures ON
" ON platform pledges and then Detra
az the people who elected him Is ori
|, inal worse than any embezzier
tn money.
v. That is not my language That
W. the language OF your leader II
ly is the proposition. 1t seems 10 |
=" that ought to be in the mino ol
- ery Democrat before he votes 10
is what | believe to be reputation
a platform pledge made for the
lie pose Of securing votes
". MT. Bryan says further
he II costs vast sums of money II
NV the lives of the best men IN the VIC