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Show 'comparing tiii: RECORDS. When ihe campaign is on again and the political line? are closely diav.n once more if they are indeed to be drawn bi t'.', cm our two historic his-toric old part'e; some political dope-sters dope-sters are wondering just what men like Senators Glass and Byrd can say when they are charged by supporters sup-porters of the adm'nistration with not going along in congress and on the stump to support the party. The answer, however, will be easy 'to find and there is little doubt that men as skilled in politics as the two statesmen mentioned above will be able to locate it. All they have to answer, in order to prove that they are "good Democrats" is to point that they have been standing squarely square-ly on the Democratic platform of 1932 and have been criticizing the Brain Trusters principally for policies poli-cies which do not square with the platform and with the pledges made j .'n the 1932 campaign. For example: If our memory does not fail us, the Democratic platform : three years ago advocated among ' other things "an immediate and dras- tic reduction of governmental expenditures"; expen-ditures"; "maintenance of the nation-! 1 al credit by a federal budget annual-' jly balanced"; "a sound currency to ' be preserved at all hazards." j I In addition the platform condemned condemn-ed bureaucracy and prom'sed its cur-i cur-i tailment together with a cutting j down of the number of federal em-' em-' ployees. It condemned also the "extravagance "ex-travagance of the farm board" and the "unsound policy of restricting agricultural products to the demands of domestic markets." Democratic speakers from the candidate can-didate for president on down, lauded the platform and promised to stand by its provis'ons. Now, when men like the so-called "old - fashioned Democrats" are criticized by New . Dealers for failure to cooperate and their partisanship is also called into question they have only in words of Al Smith to "look at the record" in-j eluding their party's platform in 1932 ; and a transcript of the speeches made during the campaign of that year, j |