| Show A purt democratic hopes that its it 1 plat forin may lure to its stand standard ird evidently no account of the essential fact that wit a nati nation onil 1 platform plit form no loneer longer means anything sas the herald ile p it may a accurate aa ly represent patty faith at the tile moment ot or its adoption but it is subject to change chango without gotico and therefore valueless A republican n convention adopts in its plat fonn only those principles in which it believed belie and anti which tt it proposes to write into leib legis if given the can cat party rejects such p proposed r 0 p 0 9 e d anks as it dis ovas preferring prefer rinK tn t court tho the opposition af their authors richt r thin than promise whit it dots dols not mean to fulfill the tile democracy finds it nut nuth 11 8 miller to promise an anything thing jod avil everything aa aks it to Pion lise thin to ignore the pledge when the hour comes for fulfillment the latest nati nation onil il plit torm means nothing because that party has a platform i w only something to got into office on but not to stand on afterwards A democratic platform plit pi form is not a pro krain grain thit mirtys declaration of if filth four years ago endorsed the presidential term ind and pledged tho nominea of tho the convention to abide by it that pledge has acen repudiated it endorsed remis remission of tolls to american coastwise ships passing through the tile xana Pi naru 11 ll i t canal yet one of tha first acts after taking tatting control was to repeal the law which bruited trie tolls nut put its most conspicuous failure to redeem a platform pledge is its terence to the tile prom iio c that american citizens should be prote ettl on lind and arid sea u wherever they might go it is the punishment of the tile pledge breaker that future pledges are not viete with respect the democratic patty finds itself undergoing that penalty it broke faith with the tile people and the stople will not I 1 I 1 again place trust in ili it |
