The border vidette., 1918-10-19
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.


 the following declartions to the end that the people of the state may be appraised of the policies to which the party Is committed:
 1. The immediate purpose of the Democratic party, the pur pose which takes precedence of every other, is to win the war. The fate of true Democracy everywhere depends upon it's be- ing won. It's object is to rid the world once for all of the threat of violence and injustice which
 must hang over it so long as there is anywhere an autOcratic government which can disturb | it's peace or dominate its for tunes. The outrages against
 right which Germany has com
 mitted have directly touched our own citizens and our own libert
 ies, and they have done much
 more than that. They have threatened right and liberty everywhere, and Germany must
 be brought to terms by such g.
 victory as will leave no doubt in the minds of her rulers and her people as to what forces control
 mankind. We entered upon our present course in self defense to resist a menacing assault, di-
 rected against our freedom and
 our national integrity; we shall | not abandon it until our object
 i've is definitely attained.
 ?. Because we mean to win the war,it is our purpose to sup
 port and sustain to the utmost the administration of Woodrow | Wilson. His dministra ton can
 be better supported by those
 who believe in it and trust it than by those who are constant | ly eager to make selfish use of
 what they conceive to be it's mis- takes. It is, therefore, our pur pose to supply the administra tion in our nominees with men who are it's real-and unqueStiOn
 able friends.
 3. We are confirmed and
 strengthened in our support of
 the administration, and are in
 full harmony with it, not merely 1 because we are at war and must
 stand behind the only common
 instrumentality through which
 we can win it, but also because
 the administration has deserved
 our confidence by it's record.
 f. Our purposes look beyond
 the period of the war. We re
 cognize that the war must of ne-
 cessity be followed by a period of reconStructiOn,tO to whose prob
 lens it will be necessary that
 the best, most sympathetic and
 most liberal minds of the country
 should be devoted. These prob
 lens will some of them be new,
 and many of them, though old problems, will wear a new aspect
 and significance. They must be approached without regard to
 old party catchwords, formulas
 or prepossessions, in full recog-
 milton of the fact that they are
 new and must be dealt with in a
 new way. Many thousands,
 perhaps a million, of our sol
 diers will return with health i'm
 paired, necessitating their em-
 ployment in suitable occupations
 under climatic conditions favor able to convalencence. The wonderful climate of the great Southwest eau best give this aid, and of the southwestern states Arizona is most bounti fully equipped by nature to play a remedial part. Preparations should be made by this state tc meet it's obligation, and to give : employment to our health i'm paired soldiers. The wasting waters of our torrential stream! . should be harnessed to furnish } power for the great plants whicl } will arise for the refining of ou
 third of the nation
 production of that metal-an'
 for it's transformation into arti . cEeS of commerce, and for tn S reclamation of our. arid lands q which will mean an inestimabl ;] increase of agricultural product N and the essentials of life, nor .3 factories and many industries N We, therefore, favor legislatio g which will enable Arizona t S3 discharge It's duty in this re S spect, and to co operate to tn ,: fullest extent in the plan pro < posed by Honora ble Franklin K g Lane, Secretary of the Interior S: to care for our return soldiers. S B. As full a development a 2 possible of vocational trainin ! must be undertaken, particula