The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-28

<taf1es when social unrest is everywhere apparent; when exist Ing forms of government are being challenged. and their very founda- vsons disturbed or swept away, it is we'll for us, here in America, to pause for a period of solemn de1iberation.
 We. who assemble in this great con- veutfon, counsel together, not merely as members of a partys but as chil- dren of the Republic. Love of country and devotion to human service should purge our hearts of all unworthy or misleading motives. Let us fervently pray for a Divine Blessing upon all t that we do or undertake. Let us pledge ourselves anew to equality of opportunities; the unity of our coun- try above the interests of groups or ~classess and the maintenance of the high honor of America in her deal 9nss with other nations.
 The people will shortly determine which political instrunental1ty is best ,suined to their purposes, most re- xpcnsive to their needs. They will have before them many platforms and InaMy promises. In what direction will they turn? There is no better way of judging the future than by the past We ask, therefore, that the people turn from the passions and the rre5udjces of the day to the con S06RTaI1On CT a record as C16dr as k. enduring
 RepubHCan Leadership.
 The Republican Party was unsuc- ycsxEful in the elections of 1912 be- cause 1t had persistently served spe- ciaI interests and had 4osS touch with the spirit of the ti1ne- Those who controlled it's destiny derived their p0lf1ical Inspiration from the good old days of Mark Hanna" and neither desired a new day nor were willing to recognize a new day when it had dawned- To each pressing prob lem, they sought merely to reappty the processes of antiquity
 r There were clements in the Re publican Party which were intoler- amt of its mental sloth and moral ir- responsibility These influences sought to gain party control in 1912 and again in 1916- They renewed the hopeless struggle at the conven- ton recently held at Chicago
 Despite these efforts, the leaders who have manipulated the party me chanism for more than a generation, s1re still in undisputed control
 The Republican platform, reac- tinnary and provincial, is the very apotheosis of political expediency- Filled with premeditated islanders and vague promises, it will be search ed LII Nalu IDI Olle COa1S UT uCLlSC SllSo- gestion for the reforma ton of the conditions which it criticises and de- p1ores- The oppressed peoples of the earth will look to it in vain It contains no message of hope for Ire Land, no word of mercy for Armenia, :, and 1t concea1s sword for Mexico 1t is the work of men concerned more with material things than with hu- man rights It contains no thought, T1n 11FI criyr jYr,T, leo CT thrill to those who love liberty and hope to make the world a better and happier place fo- the average man.
 Democratic Achievements.
 The Democratic Party is an un- entangled party-a free party-owirsE no allegiance to any class or group to take up and carry through to sue cess the great progressive program outlined in our platform of 1912 During the months which intervened between March 4th, 1913, and the outbreak of the World War, we plac- ed upon the statute books of our country more effective, constructive < and remedial legislation than the Republican Party had placed there in a generation
 The Income Tax was made a per manent part of the revenue produc- ing agencies of the country, thereby relieving our law of the reproach of being unjustly burdensome to the poor The extravagancies and in- equities of the tariff system were re- moved; and a non-partisan tariff commission was established so that future revisions might be made in the light of accurate information scientifically and impartially obtained Pan-Anericanism was encouraged and the bread thus cast upon the in ternationaI waters came back to us many fold The great reaches of Alaska were opened up to commerce was destroyed A corrupt lobby was driven from the national capitol An effective Seaman's Act was adopted The Federal Trade Commission was created. Child Labor legislation was enacted The Parcel Post and the Rural Free Delivery were developed A Good Roads Bill and a Rural Credits Act were passed A Secre- tary of Labor was given a seat in the Cabinet of the President Eigh hour laws were adopted The Clay. ton Amendment to the Sherman Anti. Trust Act was passed, freeing Ameri can labor and taking it from the category of commodities. Thf Smith-Lever bill for the improvement
 
 ed. A Corrupt Practice Act wa. adopted. A well considered Ware house Act was passed. Federal Elm ployment Bureaus were created Farm Loan Banks, Postal Saving: Banks and the Federal Reserve Sys tenn were established.
 These enactments and n,any other provisions of a remedial character had a cleansing and quickening effec upon the economic life of our coun. try. The farmer was freed iron the deadening effects of usurfou, financial control. Labor was giver it's Magma Charta of liberty. Busi ness and finance were released from the thraldom of uncertainty anc hazard. The economic life of Ameri ca was refreshed by the vitalizins breath of economic freedom.
 This extraordinary narration sound like a platform of promises. Tn. sober fact is that it is an inadequat,