Show THE republican AND democratic PLATFORMS on account of lack of space we had to postpone the publication of the platforms adopted by the republican and democratic conventions of september to this issue our readers having them before their eyes can digest them thoroughly and judge for themselves which of the two will be the one will receive their stamp of approval by voting the republican or the democratic ticket we refrain from going into particulars and wo we also wish visit to state emphatically that in local elections it is more important to vote for the man than for the party but we cannot very well retrain refrain front from a few remarks pertaining to the general makeup make up of the two platforms in doing so we find that the republican platform is a constructive document enumerating certain things that ought to be done while the democratic document simply criticizes the opposing party without going to the trouble to state where the remedy lies in other words it is not criticism of the constructive sort A platform is fundamentally a promise and while every voter knows that pre election promises are like new years resolutions yes we make them not to keep them but to break them we nevertheless are of the opinion that a promise to build up will get more votes than a promise t to 0 tear down |