The Clovis news., 1916-07-21
| WILSON KEEPS
PARTY PLEDGES
UNRlvALLEO RECORD OF PROM.
lsES REDEEMED IN FOUR
YEARS OF HIS ADMiNlSTRA.
TON.
REAL REF0HMS RESULT
Farmer and Laborer Receive eene'
fits Instead Of Empty Republi-
can Phrases.

In his letter TO the Progressive Ma
tional Committee, largely devoted to
Il discussion OF the support given by
the German.American Alliance to
Mr. Hughes and the reason for his
own defeat, Colonel Roosevelt in
cludcd the following characteristic
statement:
1t is folly to pay heed to any
of the promises in the platform
on which he president Wilson,
now stands, in view of the TACT
that almost every important
promise on which he stood four
years ago has since been broken.
II is mixim Of the courts that
when witness Is false in one state
ment he may be regarded as false IN
all
The Democratic party, in Its plat
form of 1912, promised tariff reform,
ana tariff reform is now a fact. 1t
promised additional and more con
structiye laws for the regulation OF
corporations and the Clayton anti
trust law t. the result.
Direct Elections ana Income Tax.
The platform commented upon the
passage By Congress OF an amend
mcnt TO the Constitution to permit
the enactment of an income tax law
and another amendment providing
for the direct election of Scnators-
the resolutions for the two amend.
mems hay ng been put through by
the Democratic par'y-and both laws
are now written upon the statute
books.
There was plank for banking
and currency reform and the promise
has had It's muiiment in the best
banking system eyer given to the
people OF the United States and is
generally approved by the financial
world
ural credits system was prom.
ised 10 he farmers Of the country
who bad been promised sych reform
by the Republican party for twenty
yurs without funlwont A. re-
suit of the ascana ancy of the Demo
cratic party to power as u result OF
President Wilson's leadership. both
branches Of Congress have now
passed n rural credits measure which
eventually viii enable tenant farm.
ers TO own their own land without
circumference. The Democratic
measure was passed almost ununl-
mously in both branches the Repub.
licans being obliged TO give it their
approval
Agricultural Co.Opreatiop
Another OF the important panks in
the Democratic platform was one ad.
yocating agricultural cooperation
with the States. Such cooperation.
with u new and modern marketing
system, Federal aid in road building
and other aids to the farmer, is now
reality.
Justice TO labor and the conserva.
tion of the rights of labor were
promised in the platform of 1912 and
Samuel Gompers. President of the
American Federation of Labor, has
said that more was done for the la
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
and there has been progressive con.
servation, accompanied by sane de-
velopment. No administration has
ever had a more efficient operation
of the Interior Department.
The spirit OF the platform us well
as its letter have been upheld. The
Democratic party has gone even
further. diving the answer to his
own characteristic statement. with
his well known agility, Colonel
Roosevelt in the same letter to the
Progressive National Convention,
says;
The Progressive movement has
been given an incalculable impe-
tus by what the Progressive
party has done. Our strongest
party antagonists have accepted
and enacted into law, or EN-
bodied in their party platforms,
VERY MANY OF OUR MOST
IMPORTANT PRIN CIPLES.
Much has been accomplished in
awakening the public TO better
understanding of the problems OF
social and industrial welfare.
Reforms in Peoples Interest.
No party in the history of the ma.
ton has ever written upon the stat.
ute books Il greater body of progress
Sive and constructive laws. Labor |
mas given its approval to the laws |
written by the Democratic party to |
the interests of labor, No
greater advance has ever been made |
n the interest OF the farmer since |
he Republic was founded, and the |
armeGs themselves, more prosperous /
md more enlightened than ever be
ore. have given their endorsement
q what has beoR done IN their be-
laI(
Read reforms have been accom-.
'lished In the interest OF all the pee.
ne. There has never boon time
When the reserves of the national
,anks Of the country, representing
he prosperity of the people, have
,een larger,
What has been done by President
wilson for the greater liberty. free.
om and prosperity Of the American
,cople constitute the finest record of
nd American statesman.
,0 ti,rcs Ike these. when the
'r,'o world has been rent by war.
r. H' rr.t1 Saies iisclf has
.N ."rr..-. President Wilson.
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