New Britain herald., 1916-09-29

what that platform is-the destruc- ton of democracy with it's unequalled accomplishments. AS they put forth no promise of anything constructive except the tariff-that mother of special privilege-they rest mainly on their hostility tc democracy and it's achievements.
 What are the democratic achieve ments? More remedial legislation than had been passed before in lifetime. Internally the soundest financial legislation ever placed on our statute books; the overthrow of the privilege which for so long bound the people in subjection to a class with headquarters in Wall Street, who dominated for selfish interests the legislation of the country; an income tax law which helps to equallize the burdens of our expenses; and the re- constitution of a non-partisan Tariff Commission, which will report as to the best way to impose such tariff duties as may be deemed necessary. And now added to it's other accom- plishments is the Rural Credits Act which will do for the farmers what the Banking and Currency Act has done for the cities.
 Externally, the powerful prosper ity of people and land kept at peace in the midst of a war which has drawn every other great power of the earth within it's destroying confagration The emancipation of the people, the peace and prosperity of the country and the power of the government greater than ever before, are the fruits of the democratic ad' ministration.
 Shall America Change.
 The question is: Shall America in this crisis change? Shall we, in the hour of peril when the whole world is swept by the most devastating and overwhelming storm in history, change the pilot whose steady hand has guid ed us through all the perils that beset us and has kept us at peace and in prosperity, with power and honor. Shall America in this crisis substitute for this safe. tried, pilot. whose guiding star has been only America and Americas vital inter- ests under the aegis of international rights, an untried pilot, nominated by tho bosses at the boasted dicta- ton of the "German-American AL liance," which in it's allegiance put a foreign country before America? To make change in the midst of this crisis would be simple madnes What might follow such a change none can tell. It might be war, it might be only panic It would certainly be the deliverance of the American people once more to the powers of Wall Street and the subsidized republican bosses in league with the German ,te1, destroy they first make mad" Will the Fates betray the American people into the hands of those who would shackle them again? Shall the Sam son rejoicing in his strength be be" trayed into the power of those who fattened on his labor, and shorn of his strength blinded by his captors be forced again to grind in the mill and at their beck make diversion for his captors?
 That "sober second thought of the American people, which MT. Lincoln relied when he said that he did not believe in swapping horses in the midst of the stream, can still be relied on, and even if the disloyal, un- American, German hostiles within our borders, who boast openly that they dictated MT. Hughes nomination to punish MT. Wilson, unite with the bosses of high tariff and privilege to beat him, we may feel sure that the true Americans of German blood will stand with those of other blood to uphold the defender of America and American rights.
 Honor for Unfalter-ing Courage.
 we love him for the enemies he has made" was said of another great democratic president-so of this one; we honor him for the unfaltering courage with which he has stood against the enemies of America and the American people.
 Why should they change ?-and change to the republican party, the party of, privilege and the bosses and to MT. Hughes the candidate of the bosses? See what Mr. Roosevelt, late head of the late progressive party said of them. They are the same now that they were when he showed them up'' for the detestation