The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-07-07
OF DEMOCRACY is
WRITTEN INTO STATUTE LAW
Detailed Analysis Shows Uvaed Record of Promises Redeem
ed in Four Years of Presidents AdmnistratOn-Farm-
er and LabOrer Get Action Instead of Empty
G. 0. P. Phrases.

letter
devoted to discussion Of the support given by the German
American Alliance to Mr. Hughes and the for his own
defeat Colonel Roosevelt included the following characteristic
statement
1t is folly to pay heed to any of his promises in the
platform on which he president Wilson, now stands IN
view of the fact that almost every important promise on
which he stood four years ago has since been broken
1t is maxim of the courts that when witness is false
in statement he may be regarded as false IN all
The Democratic party, in its platform Of 1912 promised
tariff REFORM and tariff reform is fact 1t promised
additional and constructive laws for the regulation Oh
corporations and the Clayton antitrust law is the result
Direct Elections and Income Tax
The platform commented upon the passage by Congress
of an amendment to the Constitution to permit the enactment
the direct election of Senatorthe resolutions for the two
amendments having been put through by the Democratic
party-and both laws written upon the statute books
There was plank for banking and currency reform ana
the promise has had its ullment in the best banking 8ys
tenn given the people of the United States and Is ge
ally approved by the financial world ,
rural crd system promised to the farmers Of the
country who had promised such reform by the Republican
party for twenty years without fullment AS result OF
the ascendency of the Democratic party to power as result
Of President Wilson'S leadership both branches of Congress
have now passed rural credits which eventually will
enable tenant farmers to their land without encumbrance
The Democratic measure was passed almost UNANIMOUSLY III
both branches the Republicans being obliged to give their
Agricultural Cooperation with States
Another of the important panks in the Democratic plat
form advocating agricultural cooperation WIN he
States Such cooperation with new and modern marKeCng
system Federal aid in road building and other ads 10 te l
Justice to labor and the conservation of the rights of labor
President of the American Federation Of Labor has said that
more was done the aborn people under the leadership
of President Wilson and under the Democratic party than u
der any previous administration.
Conservation of the natural Of the country
promised and there has been progressive conservation accom-
a more efficient operation of the Interior Departmnt
The spirit of the platform well as its letters have been
upheld The Democratic party has gone even furtne GVg
the answer his characteristic statement with ms Wen
agility Colonel Roosevelt in the same letter to the Pro-
gressve National Convention, says:
impetus by what the Progressive parry mas mas uonf 6
law, embodied in their party platforms EEF1 MANY
OF OUR MOST IMPORTANT PRINCIPLES Much has
been accomplished in awakening the public to better u
erstandng of the problems of social and industrial welfare
Real Reforms in Peoples Interest.
No party in the history of the nation has ever written upon
the statute books greater body of progressive and construct
i've laws Labor has given its approval to the laws written D
the Democratic party to conserve the interests OF labor NO
greater advance been made the interest OF the farm
er since the Republic founded and the farmers themselves
more prosperous and enlightened than before have
given their endorsement to what has been done IN their Den
Real reforms have been accomplished in the interest OF
all the people There has been time when the re-,
serves of the national banks of the country representing he
What has been done by President Wilson for the greater
liberty freedom and prosperity of the American people con-
In times like these when the whole world has oeen REM
by war when the United States itself has been pered Pres
dent Wilson, compelled he has been to give the MAJOR part
of his attention to the critical problems involving the peace
and honor Of the nation might Wen nave Peen sTcSre m
But he has been successful in his domestic accomplishments
he has been in his handling OF foreign alas ana III upho
4 ing the honor and dignity of the nation.
81 No Domestic Policies Challenged
So complete has been the Presidents success IN handing
domestic problems that domestic issue has been raised
against him. In the absence of domestic issues ms opponents
have tried to find an issue in the still delicate situation involving
the peace and of the nation which the President with
craftsmanship in harmony with the best traditions OF the
Z United States has been uphodng. -
Forcing the respect of the world and compelling the recGg
milton Of American rights twice compelled to raise the malice
fist the President has left doubt that America more power
full but with the spirit that prevailed in 76 stands ready
to defend with lives and treasure its newound freedom an
3 its od-time honor.
The President and the Democratic party enter te pesen
campaign challenging comparison of its promises and perform
ances with the promises and performances OF the Repuoha
& party in the days when it the dominant party,
1t challenges comparison of the military, naval industrial
economic and spiritual preparations of the past three year
with the weak structures that left to President Wso
as heritage from his immediate predecessors It challenge
ri comparison of its deeds with the promises OF those Wh
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