The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-11
PLATFORM OF DEMOCRACY IS
 WRITTEN INTO STATUTE LAW
Detailed Analysis Shows Unriyalled Record of Promises Redeemed in Four Years of Presi- dents Administration . Farmer and La borer Get Action Instead of Empty
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Democratic party has gone even fur ther.. Giving 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 impetus by what the Progressive party has done. Our strongest party antagonists have &C., cepted and enacted into law, or en- bodied in their party platforms, very many of our most important princl- pies. Much has been accomplished in awakening the public to a better un- derstanding of the problems of social and industrial welfare.
 Real Reforms in Peoples Interest.
 No party in the history of the na- tion has ever written upon the statute books a greater body, of progressive and constructive laws. Labor has given it's approval to the laws written by the Democratic party to conserve the interests of labor. No greater advance has ever been made in the interest of the farmer since the Re- public was founded, and the farmers
 
 enlightened than ever before, have given. their endorsement to what has been done in their behalf.
 Real reforms have been accomplish ed in the interest of all the people. There has never been time when the reserves of the national banks of the country. representing the prosperity of the people, have been larger.
 What has been done by President Wilson for the greater liberty, freedom and prosperity of the American people constitutes the finest record of any American statesman.
 In times like these. when the whole world has been rent by war, when the United States itself has been imperiled, President Wilson, compelled as he has been to give the major part of his att tention to the critical problems involv- ing the peace and honor of the nation, might well have been excused if he had not been able to complete his record of internal reforms. But he has been as successful in his domestic accom- plishments as he has been ip his hand ling of foreign affairs and in uphold i lg the honor and dignity of the nation. No Domestic Policies Challenged.
 So complete has been the President's s success in handling domestic preb- lems that no domestic issue has been raised against him In the absence of domestic issues, his opponents have tried to find an issue in the still deli cate situation involving the peace and honor of the nation which the Presi- dent, with a statesmanship in harmony with the best traditions of the United States, has been upholding.
 Forcing the respect of the world and compelling the recognition of Ameri- can rights, twice compelled to raise the mailed fist, the President has left no doubt that America, more powerful but with the same spirit that prevail ed in '76 stands ready to defend with lives and treasure its new-found free- dom and it's old-time honor.
 The President and the Democratic party enter the present campaign, challenging comparison of it's prom ises and performances with the prom ises and performances of the Repub- lican party in the days when it was the dominant party.
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