New-York tribune., 1918-07-23

support to the great leader Of the
world democracy, Woodrow Wilson,
President of the United States. Our
nation is at war. We entered this con-
f1ict in self-defence, to protect and pre-
serve our rights, our integrity and our
national honor: We will accept no
compromise. We will agree to no in
conclusive peace. We will not quit the
fight until we have destroyed the Ger
man autocracy and made the world safe
for democracy. The supreme issue is
to win the war. The way to prolong
the war is to start the Presidential
election now. The way to hasten the
victory is to sustain the commander
in chief.
1--WE send greetings to the men who
are fighting for our country across the
seas. We assure them that while they
are fighting our battles at the front
we will take care of the snipers in the
rear"
After "congratulating the country-on
the high standard of camp sanitation"
compared with that in vogue in the
war with Spain the platform says:
Demands Militant Government
"New York must have a government
as militant as her citizenship. We
want no officials who think they are
self sacrificing patriots if they give the
President half hearted help. We must
have a Governor who will devote his
every thought, energy and ambition to
support the President, not to supplant
him. His administration can be sus-
tanned better by those who believe in
him, honor and trust him than by those
who constantly seek to make political
capital out of what they pretend to be
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nate the state administration with the
general administration by nominating
for every state Office loyal supporters
of Woodrow Wilson,
Then follows an attack on Governor
Whitman and his administration, which
follows in part:
"The administration of Governor
Whitman has been self-centred, waste
full and devoid of any constructive
achievement. He has governed the
state with his eye on the White House
and his mind on the machinery of prac-
| tical politics. No expenditure of the
no political reprisal has been too petty,
if by sanctioning it he could build up
bis personal machine.
State Expenses Increase
He began his career as Governor
with carnival of ripper laws de-
signed solely to create jobs for his re-
tainers. He ends it by throwing into
turmoil the agricultural interests so
vital to the successful conduct of the
war.
"He was elected upon his pledge to
reduce the cost of the state govern
ment; he has increased it by 70 per
cent. He promised the people that he
would cu1tail the political patronage;
to-day his payroll exceeds his prede-
cessors by 80 per cent The Demo
cratic party only four years ago con-
Quoted the state government on total
appropriations of less than 5000 900
Governor Whitman has increased the
appropriations to more than SS1 900 600
and of this vast amount only about
] $3,O00,000 is for war purposes"
Governor Whitman's executive bud.
get is an expensive sham We renew
our demand for an open, specific ane
unified budget system, containing esti
mates Of both income and expenses
and so itemzed and published thai
every taxpayer may be fully informee
as to it's details"
Then follows a declaration that the
party cordially approves Presiden-
Wilson's thought and aspiration fo,
''the birth of new day" in public af
fairs.