The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1916-08-10
uNRivALLRp RECORD or PROM.
isas REDEEMED IN FOUR
YeARs OF HIS ADMiNlsTRA.
TON.
REAL REFORMS RESULT
Farmer n Laborsr Receive sene
Nts instead Of Empty Rspuel'.
q Pm

IN ms letter 10 tno FlobEcssI'N va
tional Committee, largely devoted 10
q discussion OF he support given by
the Gsrman-Amsrican Alliance 70
My. Hughes and the reason for his
" defeat Colonel Roosevelt IN
ciuded the following characteristic
statement:
II In folly 70 pay heed 10 any
q the promises In the platform
N which he president WILSON,
now stands, In view OF the tact
that almost avery important
promise on which b. stood -four
years ago has since been broken.
II In q mixim OF the courts that
whom O witness Is false In one state
ment he may be regarded ~ false IN
all.
The Democratic party. in It's plat.
form of 1912, promised tariff reform,
and tariff reform 10 now q fact. II
promised additional and more con
structivs laws for the regulation OF
corporations and the Clayton anti.
trust law n the result.
Direct Elections and Income Tax.
The platform commented upon the
passage by Congress Of ar amend.
msnt to the Constitution 20 permit
the enactment Of an income tar law
and another amendment providing
for the direct election OF Senators
the resolutions for the two amend
ments having been put through by
the Democratic party and both laws
are o written upon the statute
books.
There was a plank for banking
and currency reform and the promise
has had It's fulfillment in the best
banking system ever given to IN"
people OF the United States and Ia
generally approved By the financial
world.
A rural credits system vas prom.
nod to the farmers Of the country
who had been promised such reform
By the Republican party for twenty
ynrs without fulfillment. As n re.
suit Of the ~ascendsncy OF the Demo
cratic party 10 power. rs a result OF
President Wilson's leadership. both
branches OF Congress have now
pssssd q rural credits measure which
eventually will enable tenant farm.
srs to own their own land without
circumference. The Democratic
measure was passed almost unanl.
mously IN both branches. the Repub.
Leans being obliged TO give II their
approval.
Agricultural Cooperation.
Another OF the important planks in
the Democratic platform was one ad.
vooattng agricultural cooperation
with the States. Such co. operation.
with . new and modern marketing
systsm, Federal aid In road building
and other aids TO the farmer. ls now
reality.
Justice to labor and the conserya.
don Of the rights of labor were
promised In the platform OF 1912 and
Samuel GompeFs. President Of the
American Federation Of Labor, has
said that mor was done for the Ia.
boring people under the Leadership
Of President Wilson and under the
Democratic party than under any
previous administration.
Conservation OF the natural re-
sources OF the country was PROMISED
snd there has beer progressive cor.
SER alton. accompanied by sane ds
vsiopm ont. No administration las
ever had q more efficient operation
~ the Interior Department.
rhs Gpifit OF tls platform as vel
~ rs latter have been upheld. IN,
Democratic party has gone ever
further, Giving tine answer 10 his
oHn characteristic statement, will
his well known agility, Colone
soossvelt in tha same letter 10 Ii.
Prosrsssi7s National Convention
says:
Tho Progressive movement has
beer given IN incalculable impo-
tus BY what the Progressive
party las done. Our strongest
party antagonists nave accepted
and enacted into law, or en-.
bodied In their party platforms,
VERY MANY OF OUR MOST
IMPORTANT PRIN CiPLEs.
Much mas been accomplished in
awakening the public 70 a better
understanding OF he problems Of
social and Industrial welfare.
Reforms In Peoples Interest.
No party IN ths history OF the ma
ton has eVer written upon the stat
ute books a greater body OF progre,
sive and constructive laws. i.abo
has given tie approval 10 the law
written by the Democratic party
conserve the interests OF labor Y
greater advance has ever been mad
% the interest OF the farmer sine
gha Republic vas founded, and th
farmers themselves, more prosperou
snA moro enlightened than ever b,
fore, have given their endorsemsr
70 what has been done In their b,
half.
Real reforms have been accom-
Dlishsd In the iaterest OF all the PEE
pls. There has never been q tim
vhau the reserves % the nations
banks OF the country. representa-
Dc prosperity OF the people. hav
bssa larger.
what has been done by Prssidsl
Wilson for the greater liberty, fire.
dsn and prosperity OF the Amsrisa
psopls constitute the finest record
sM6 American statesman.
In times like these, when n
whale world has bssn rent By va
vHen shs United States itself ID
nssa impsytisd. PrssidsMt Nviiaei
s-uannaslaA IN hs has seen b afvs n