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Show BUY VOTES WITH FALSE HOPES . '" WA8JHNOTON, Joty.7. The lle-pubican lle-pubican Fubldty aasoeiatlon, tbri Us president, Hon.' Jonathan fyjurp Jr.lodAy gre. qut .tha..fbUowlaT statement from' Its' Washington head Quarters; , "Keeplac , In. mild the readlaws with which the Democratic arty tuti made promises which It did not ex' pect to fulfill but through which It could appeal to cUsa Intereat, anl reasoning a priori. It la safe to predict pre-dict that ono ot .the planks of Mh Ban Francisco platform will bo a pledgo to reatoro par ralue to th'i Liberty bonds now held by, some flf-looa flf-looa millions of the pooplo of ,th4 United States. By this pledge, tt.H Democrats will hope to win eoouKl rotes to orercotno the rote tb(.y wilt lose because ot their extrani-gaace, extrani-gaace, their loeffieleacy, their encouragement en-couragement of radicalism, their ut-temptcd ut-temptcd aurrender of American sovereignty, sov-ereignty, and their substitution ot executive dictatorship tor reprwo tatlro government., " "Anything to get the Tote.' will be the policy ot tho Dempcratio party par-ty In 1J0, 04 It waa la 1912 when reduction ot the cost of living wo.i tho promise .and In 1016, when keeping the nation out ot war was tho slogan. The same party which boasted that It got the solM support of the railroad brotherhoods through the enactment ot the infamous. Ad- amson law will not hesitate to mate-; a play for the rotes of holders ot Liberty bonds by promising to ro-Btore ro-Btore tho raluea which Democratic policies have destroyed. By posing as tho saviors ot Liberty bpnda, tho party will assume the rolo ot tho mock hero, who throwB tho lady overboard ov-erboard In order to hare the opportunity oppor-tunity ot saving her lite and win ning her baud. I "Speaking at Cooper Union, New York City, on June 4, 1917, Secretary Secre-tary of the Treasury IfcAdoo said, in urging tho liberal purchase ot oonds by the peoplo: " TVo hare ottered this great Liberty Li-berty loan. hWat doe It menf It means that our government offv you a prlrlU-go. It ask you rasa and women not to glre something lo your government, but to buy thei best Investment on earth, the safe-it' thing you can possibly possess, 'some thing that l is safe as currency nnd yet bolter than currency because currency does not boar interest.' "Tho Democratic party rojocted plans of financing which would han assured maintenance of bonds at par and adopted plans under which bonds depreciated. Not only that, but the administration, through lu control ot tho federal rosorve sy-Km, sy-Km, adopted policies which forcei tho sale of bonds and thud acfleler-ntcd acfleler-ntcd tho depreciation. By Its extra-vaganco extra-vaganco tho administration necessitated necessi-tated cxcttulvo issuance ot bondi. thus making moro difficult tho floating float-ing ot loans, Increasing tho market rato of intorest and indirectly tending tend-ing to dopreclato tho market ralu of Liberty bonds. The same political politi-cal party which threw tho bond overboard ov-erboard will now poso as their -vlor by promising to bring thorn back to par, and It will expect Ite reward through the dollvery ot thi rote of bond holders who may bo deceived by" tho duplicity. "That tho Democratic party has no slncero lntoutlon ot restoring tho bonds to par by sound financial inothodB Is evidenced by tho fact that during tho present congress tho administration askod for appropriations appropria-tions exceeding by $2,700,000,000 Iho appropriations which tho Republican Re-publican cougross granted. If tho congress had yloldcd to tho domands of Democratic incompetency and extravagance, ex-travagance, uioro issues of bonds woud bo noccBaary nnd groater do-predatlou do-predatlou would hayo resulted, la vJow of the past rccordof'tho Dem. ocratlc p'arty tho peoplo of.'the country coun-try will bo vriso if they dlKro3lt.now promises made by that party and aJ trust both the legislative and executive execu-tive policies of the nation to tlm Republican party which has demonstrated demon-strated Its purpose to restore tho nation to sound principles', 'ccon6ro in administration and preaorratlon ot Americanism-", |