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Show j I NOT IN CAMPAIGN V iff TEXT BCO'. Ml I' For Home unexplained reason, the MB Democratic platform adopted by the MJ a I Inst national convention ot the party BBK U yn has not been incorporated In the Hum- mm (' ocnttlc campaign textbook Just re- Iffll I II ccntly Issued. Tho only assumption nR l ' Ii that somo unkopt pledges led tho W I II uutliurs ot this Interesting llttlo vol- jfljK J I nine to this omission as a matter ot " su I II i expediency. MJ I If Tho high cost ot living was una ot I H ILl "10 "rHt 8l,l)Jects touched by the plut I Bwl l H Iorm "la':org ftl Baltimore, who pledg- Hffi ' M ed tho party to reduce tho coat ot Hf 1 living by a reduction ot the tarlfr. Mf J j Tho tarlft has been reduced but how I H i 1 nbout tho reduced cost ot living? Ask Mtfi l tho man who eats, sleeps or rides on :Mff' ' IK n train. MJ I j Then, said tho platform makers: j'H "Wo favor a Bluglo Ficsldentlal term Mj and to that end urge tho adoption ot M ' j an amendment to the constitution Hi I I making tho President ot tho United HI; States ineligible to reelection, and j Hi I I 'wo plodgo the candldato ot tne con- ' -vcntlon to this principle." Ej I : Wilton Stopped It M 1 1 A resolution to amend tho constl- Mi. j- tutlon and limit the Presidential ton- Mj' ,' uro to ono term was Introduced In Ml' , Congross. President Wilson sent a letter to Ilopresentativo Palmer op. !ji posing this reHolutlon. Palmer went j t before tho Judiclnry committee of tho ! Houso and presented tho letter. Tho II resolution died. j Democratic Extravagance 1 1 ii "Wo donounco tho profllgnto waste 1 ! of the monoy wrung from tho people 1 by oppresalvo taxation through lav- ' )sh appropriations of recent Ropubll- HI can Congresses which havo kept tax- U ) J es high, and reduced the purchasing H j powor ot tho pcoplo's toll. Wo do- HI j mnnd a return to that simplicity and Hfmj j cconoiyy which bents a Democratic Hj j government and a reduction In tlie fnumbor of useless offices, tho salor les of which drain tho substance of tho people" Sounds good, doesn't It? nut In flljlj $ tho faco ot that plcdgo the present H jll 1 Congress will appropriate riot less H II j thnn $300,0no,000"moro than tho last ffllilj J Republican Congress. A "pork bar- Hi! I rcl" bill to appropriate $53,000,000 Ml if wns defeated by tho Ilopubllcans. Mill E T'10 nuin,,or of now oftlccs created by Mill'' J ' "''3 administration run into hundreds Mil 3 and au additional $105,000,000 ot dl- Mjljj ii rect taxes Is Just about to be levied. I lil ' Thus wo hare the real doflnltlon for Jill I "Democratic ormpllclty." Hljlj S Rural credits legislation Is ot equal HI 'i lmportanco with tho question ot cur- JjnJl 1 rency reform, the platform says. B'I j President Wilson, himsolf, halted I J j action by Congress on this legislation. I jl I j "Wo favor national aid to Stato 3jj j j and local authorities In the construe- HI 1 I tlon aud malntcauce of postroads," Is III j another plank. A bill to carry out ji II I this pleclgo passed tiio House by an ! 1 overwhelming vote and nothing Hai I j II , been heard of tho mcasuro since. I III .0 Hut listen to this: "Wo favor tho I l I il oxcmptlun from tolls ot American I 111 1 Rhlps ciiKngcd in tho coastwlso trndo l 'J passing tlirougli tho Panama Canal." 1 1 Everybody knows this plcdgo was I III 1 broken. A bill already passed grant l,j if lug freo tolls to Amorlcan coastwlBC I Hi V ships was repealed by order of Pros 1 blent Wilson who from tho stump dur- I 1) ing tho campaign had ovorywhero up- II Jj proved of tolls exemption. I 3 Merit System Abandoned 1 And then: "Tho law .portalnlng to l tho Civil Service should bo honestly ji and rigidly enforced to tho end that j merit nnd ability shall bo tho stand- , I ard ot nppolntment and promotion, Iy rather than sorvico ronderod to a ! 'I J political party." JK Tho first thing that happened attor I tho Democratic administration camo v Into power was to ordor rooxamlnu- r i ' $ tlons of 20,000 fourth class postmust- X I ers nlroady In tho civil sorvico. Wlion ' l , theso postmastors happened to be Ho- ij ? publicans, their places were- filled by ft 51 Democrats who had made much low. IN I 41 or ratings In tho examinations. When M j tho Incomo tax law was passed, car.j I jU fill provision was mado to havo the M reunions thus created filled outside IfyMMMMk wHMhMMmV .ho civil service. An attempt was j then mado to remove deputy United States marshals from the civil der-vlce der-vlce and a similar blow is now being directed against the present experienced experi-enced and efilclent assistant postmasters. postmast-ers. On top ot this, Postmaster General Gen-eral Huilcson would like to kill oil the jobs of the capable civil Bcrvlco rural touto carriers aud let tho contracts con-tracts for carrying theso routes to tho lowest private blddors, Parcel Peat Another plank declares: "We favor tho establishment ot a parcel post or postal express, and also the extension of tho rural delivery system ns rapidly rap-idly as possible" Quito nice, In vlow of tho fact that a parcel post bad already been established estab-lished by a Republican administration but as to tho latter part of that plank the rural population la referred to a letter recently sent out to members of Congress by the Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gorierat in which he says that "I think you will agree with me that much can be accomplished In this line by the establishment of additional ad-ditional routes." |