Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1916 — How Much is New Left of the Baltimore Platform? [ARTICLE]

How Much is New Left of the Baltimore Platform?

The president had boldly signed the Pork river and harbor bill, and his facile pen is dripping with ink eager to attach itself to a pork public buildings bill. The friondßest apologists of the president’s part In the profligate waste of money wrung from the people by oppressive taxation have nothing better to say for him than that It is hardly fair to expect a man to say "I forbid!** in his presidential year when he is a candidate. The foregoing words describing the profligate waste of the people’s money with executive approval are taken without change from a plank of the platform on which Woodrow Wilson was elected in 1912: "We denounce the profligate waste of money wrung from the people by oppressive taxation through the lavish appropriations of recent Republican congresses, which have kept taxes high and reduced the purchasing power of the people’s toll. We demand a return so that simplicity and economy which befits a democratic government” How much is now left of the principles declared and the promises registered at Baltimore as inducements to citizens to vote for Wilson. Possibly it is because he and his party have been such reckless, such wholesale aepudiators of the pledges of 1912 that few people remember or care to remember what pledges were made In his behalf about forty days ago at St Louis.—New York Sun.