Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-09-13


noting careful consideration in
the choice of words and great
sense of responsibility for the
thoughts behind them, the candi-
date said, at half past four o'clock
yesterday afternoon, gazing over
the heads of those assembled on
the Lawn:
81 have no disposition to boast
of what the Democratic party has
accomplished. 1t has merely done
its duty. 1t has merely fulfilled
its explicit promises
After few minutes devoted to
the enunciation of elegant per-
iods previously fabricated, the
candidate at quarter before five
o'clock returned to the subject of
Promises honorably redeemed:
Il have not spoken explicitly,
gentlemen, of the platform adopt
ed at ST. Louis; but it has been
implicit in all have said. The
people of the United States do not
need to be assured now that that
platform is a definite pledge, a
practical program. We have prov
ed to them that our promises are
made to be kept"
Made to be kept!
At this point there was a dis
turbance on the Lawn. An angry
Shadow pushed his way to the
front and shook his fist directly
beneath the Hon. Woodrow Will
sons smugly smiling countenance.
Il am Baltimore Promise Num-
Der Onen' shouted the angry
Shadow. 81 am the Single Term
Promise made in your behalf and
by you accepted and utilized to
your profit to the extent of cleo
ton for four years at salary of
$4,000 and emoluments. | de-
mand to know if | have been
kept | demand to be told, not in
weasel words but in straightfor-
ward English, why, when there
was feeble attempt in Congress
to start an amendment to the Con-
stitution making the President of
the United States ineligible for re-
, election, you privately and per-
sonally interposed your political
, influence to block it,
But before Tumulty could call
the detectives another Shadow
, was menacing the Candidates
nose. Il am Baltimore Promise
Number Twow he roared. 81 am
, the Promise to Return to the Sim
plicity and Economy which Belts
, a Democratic Government. | want
to know if | have been kept l
want to know what this wielder Of
words has to say to the unprece-
denied total of lavish appropria-
tions by Congress during his Ad-
ministration, the prohigate waste
of money wrung from the people
, by taxation, the utter abandon
ment of even a pretence of full
filling the Baltimore pledge"
And the Shadows of the broken
promises made at Baltimore came
crowding up to the speaker
stand tumbling over one another's
heels in their eagerness to give
the lie to the Candidates impu-
/, dent declaration that he and his
, party had proved that their
e pledges were "made to be kept"
i The Shadow of the Promise tc
: reduce the high cost of living
!, the Shadow of the promise of 6
|, tariff for revenue only; the Shad
), ow of the promise to maintain the
;, egrity of the coordinate
S branches Of the Federal Govern
l. ment and not to allow the Execu
tive to encroach on the just pow
D ers of the others; the Shadow o
a the promise to restore the mer
, chant marine without bounties o
subsidies; the Shadow of tn
: promise to exempt from tolls a
NJ the Panama Canal American ship
- engaged in the coastwise trade
= the Shadow Of the promise to en-
i force honestly and rigidly the civ
~ service standards of merit an
- ability rather than political sci
~ vice rendered the party-in angr
~ procession the Shadows of tn
- broken promises of Baltimor
- surged into the presence of tn
~ candidate in demonstrate
. amounting almost to riot.
- And last of all came the yount
H. est and blacklist of the gatherin
st Shadows, the Shadow of the Ba
timore promise of a return to tn
n rule of the people,; protectio
lkfrn,,n tho mi c11cn nf lnlonntr