The Cairo bulletin., 1914-07-20
fine DEMOCRATIC
SPEECH MADE BY
ROGER SULLIVAN
Szk ----
At the Annual Picric of The County
Democrats of Cook County,
Saturday.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY is
PARTY THAT DOES THINGS
Mostly Republican Office Holders
Who Make Complaints About
a. Administration.

In the speech at the annual pic
mic of the County Democrats of Cook
County, held at Palatine, ILL.,, Satur-
day, Roger c. Sullivan, candidate for
the Democratic nomination for
United States Senator. tells of what
was expected Of the Democrats, when
they got in power, what they have
thus far accomplished and the pur-
poses of future conduct. That there
would, OF course, be opposition to, no
matter what the Democratic admin
istration attempted to do or would
do for the benefit of the people of
the country as whole.
H is speech in part follows:
"When the representatives of the
~, .'N"ratie party were given control
of the government at Washington,
they had not only authority, hut in
structions from the country at large
TO follow prescribed line of con-
duct. There was nothing indefinite,
nothing uncertain, about those in
structions. They were clear and
conclusive and President Wilson
and the members of the Democratic
party in congress would have be-
trayed the public and especially .he
Democrats who nominated and
elected them. If they had not
considered these instructions as
binding.
The chief items in the list of in
structious given the President and
the members Of his political faith in
the congress were: FIRST, that there
should be a revision of the tariff
downward, second, the enactment of
an income tax law; third, the enact
ment of laws for the reform of our
currency, and, fourth, the enactment
Of laws touching the manner and
methods to be followed in the CON
duct of our bGsincss---not to hamper
business, not to impede or restrict
the course of business, but to step
rascality, encourage clean mcthC s
and put a reward upon honesty and
carable management.
"The Democrats have been in
power for sixteen months, They
have revised the tariff downward.
They have enacted the income tax
law, for which we had been striving
for more than twenty years, and the
tax lis being paid into the national
treasury now. And the currency
law, which in the early stages of its
course. through congress was the
cause of so much false alarm on the
part of timid bankers, has been
passed, and is about to become eff
fective. 1t is about to ,ome CT
fective witgbthe belie "A faith Of
even the, ative of our
.4leIa., Ii ----,,e Of tho hos,
Coy, 1b.---.ad written for us in
McCann a.
Errr.- e you these things to recall
% your minds that the Democratic
party is a party that does thin"9:
that 1t keeps faith with the people,
and that when its representatives are
instructed to do a thing, they do it
at once and do not put it off until
-
next generation. The record is the
proof, for it is record of achieve
ment. and not Of put-off promises
"The Democrats lave kept their
promises because they believed that
not only was it their duty to do SC,
hut because they believed the people
wanted those promises kept, and
that the welfare of the country de-
manded that they should be kept.
The people had had time to con-
slider, they had maturod their ideas
into definite opinions before they
gave the Democrats the authority to
write those opinions into laws. And
we believe the country will be better
that our progress will be more sure
and certain, that our business and
individual ideals will be higher and
our collective and personal efficiency
greater through the rehabilitation
of our affairs to be brought abou;
by the doctrines the Democratic
party has already made effective
and that there will be still greater
progress when the further program
of the Democrats Is carried out.
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