The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1920-03-05
Party Issues Are Defined

"The democratic party has endeav-
ored to have the United States aban-
don the Filipinos with our pledges
half redeemed, placing in jeopardy
what has already been accomplished.
"7. The republican party establish
ed and extended the rural free deliv-
cry service, which means so much to
small communities.
"The democratic party, throughout
the present administration, has sys-
tematically curtailed and crippled that
service.
80. The republican party, for ten
years before the war, endeavored to
secure the rehabilitation of our mer-
chant marine through mail subven-
tions involving but a nominal cost to
the people.
"The democratic party succeeded in
defeating those attempts, but came
forward with no substitute proposal
until the war furnished a pretext for
spending billions of the peoples mon
ey in the construction of ships.
"9. The republican party stands
for economy and careful supervision
in the expenditure of public funds.
The congress is now engaged in a cam
paign of drastic retrenchment in ap-
preparations, and has in process of
passage a budget bill that will save
millions of dollars.
"The democratic party is emerging
from such an orgy Of criminal waste
as has never been witnessed before
in the history of the world. Even a
year after the war had ceased it made
requests for funds far in excess of
those needed for the necessary func-
tioning of the government, which have
been saved to the people only through
the vigilance of a republican congress.
40. The republican party, through
it's representatives in congress, pro-
posed to the states a constitutional
amendment giving the right of suf-
frage to women.
"The democratic party was unable
to secure the passage of such an
amendment giving the right to suf-
frage to women.
I'll. The republican party, while
endorsing the i%nalienable right of
free speech and peaceful assembly, be-
lieves in the prompt suppression of
speech and action intended to cripple
or destroy the government.
"The democratic party, on the one
hand, has invoked war emergency leg
i~slation to stifle legitimate expressions
of thought considered inimical to it's
own welfare, and, on the other hand,
has negotiated with radicalism, parley-
! ed with bolshevism, and temporized
with sedition.
"12. The republican party believes
that in a quick return to the law Of
supply and demand lies the real solu-
ton of the high cost of living from
which the country now suffers.
"The democratic party seeks a rem
edy in artificial stimulation of sup
ply and arbitrary regulation of price.
A year after the war has ceased the
country finds itself in the throes of
an orgy of profiteering in sugar as
the direct result of such unnatural in
reference.
"13. The republican party believes
that the highest efficiency in the OPP
Grafton of public utilities, as we'll as
other industries, can be found only in
the application of private initiative
stimulated by the prospect of reason
able profit.
"The democratic party believes in
the elimination of private participa-
ton in the operation of utilities, de-
pending upon a harassed public to
meet absurd grants of wages demand
ed by INSCRIPTIONS elements in la
Dor, and to make good the deficits
that are necessary Accomplishments to
federal management.
"14. The republican party believes
that the public is entitled to the pro-
duction and transportation of the nee
essaries of life free from interruption
by disputes among those engaged
therein. To that end it favors the Gre
alton of boards of arbitration, which
will hear and decide controversies be-
tween employers and employees, with
equal justice to all and a minimum of
inconvenience to the public.
"The democratic party, during the
war and since, has made little effort
to secure impartial and permanent
adjudication of labor disputes, pre-
ferring to purchase temporary peace
by prompt surrender to demands &C
companied by threats. Although ex-
igencies of the moment have been
relieved, increased demands in the fu-
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