Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-04-23
WOODROW WILSON NOT LIVING
 UP ID HIS PERSONAL AND PARTY PLEDGES

form pledges. Speaking face to face to these men, he said:
 "The party platform is binding on every honest man who runs for office on it. A representative who secures office on platform pledges and then betrays the people who elect ed him is a criminal worse than any of money"
 In the same speech, MT. Bryan de- clared that any man whose conscience would not let him carry out platform pledge should resign his office rather than repudiate his platform.
 Now MT. Bryan not only supports MT. Wilson's bill to repeal the tolls eX- law, but he favored the rule that would prevent amendment or ade- quate discussion of the bill
 A different kind of voice rises from a Democratic leader in the House of Representatives While Wilson and Bryan are doing all they can to repudi- ate their platform pledges, Fitzgerald of Brooklyn, chairman of the Appro- priations Committee, is doing his best to hold the Democrats to their faith The Democratic platform says:
 "We denounce the profligate waste of the money wrung from the people by oppressive taxation through the law ish appropriations of recent Republi- can Congresses, which have kept tax es high and reduced the purchasing power of the peoples toll. We demand a return to that simplicity and econ ory which benefits a Democratic gov ernment and a redurtion in the num- Der of useless officers, the salaries of which drain the substance of the people"
 In speech in the House of Repre- Sentatives, directed specifically to the Democratic side, Fitzgerald upbraided his party colleagues for their extrav- agance and their pledge breaking, say ing:
 q am looking now at Democrats who seem to take amusement in so- liciting votes on the floor of this House to overturn the Committee on in it's efforts to carry out the pledges of the Democratic platform. They seem to take it to be a huge joke not to obey their platform and to make ridiculous the efforts of the members of our party who do try to live up to the promises they made to the people,"
 Tt is some effort for me to speak, and I should not attempt to do so if did not feel that my colleagues upon the floor seem either to be indifferent to a very perilous situation for party, or else, while I do not wish to belive has so far forsaken Democratic prac- tices and Democratic principles as not to deserve to continue in the con- -rol of this government I would not to speak under these circum- stances If 1 did not hope to awaken them to a realization of what the sIt- lation is"
 We charged the Republicans for twelve years of my service in the House under Republican administra- ton with being grossly extravagant and reckless in the expenditure of the public money. I believed that charge o be true. I believed that my party, when placed in power, would demon Strate that the charges we had made n good faith were true. We are en- titled to the help and to the support 0f the members on this side of the House in honest efforts to carry out he pledges of the Democratic party, md in our attempts to show that what we charged in order to get in power vas true. We have not had that SUD- port. Our Democratic colleagues have not given that support to us thus far turing this session of Congress. They lave voted against recommendations hey should not have voted against They have unnecessarily piled up the public expenditures until the Demo cratic party is becoming the laugh ng stock of the country.
 q appeal to them now, before it is co late, I appeal to them now before We have gone beyond recall, to stop he conduct of which they have been guilty. Do not continue to vite for .hese and improper and improvident appropriations. Those who propose to continue to do so should at least have he courage to openly to assert upol. he floor of this House that they be- ieve the professions of the Democratic party have not been made in good faith md that they can not be carried out, md that we are not entitled to power because of these professions"
 LEES LICE KILLER