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needed appropriations for this board, and to
assure business and labor that changes in rate
will bo made only to equalize the difference of
the cost of production and not to reduce rates to
the free trade, or purely revenue basis, favored
ly the democratic party.
"To avoid disturbance of business, wo urgo the
adoption by the congress of a joint rule of the
two houses recommended by the president and
leaders in congress by which tho two houses
could consider a single schedule or a slnglo
paragraph of the tariff without the necessity for
amendment which would lead to a general re
vision. Advances in tho cost of living are only
the local reflection of a tendency that is world
wide and can not bo truthfully said to bo duo
to tho present tariff."
The administration of Governor Hughes is
given strong endorsement, and President Taft
is congratulated upon his selection of Hughes as
a member of the United States supremo court.
On labor and capital, tho platform contains
the following paragraph:
"The record of republican legislation during
the past eighteen years, conserving the public
interest by improving the condition of labor, is
unequalled in our history. One hundred and six
such enactments were written in our statutes,
covering the whole range of labor interests in
the workshops, factories, mines and quarries and
upon all forms of public work.
"Wo believe that capital, honestly employed,
should bo permitted to feel that sense of se
curity essential to stimulate its legitimate in
vestment and thus safeguard the prosperity
which has been s&well' established under repub
lican administration."
Of conservation the platform says:
"In the interests of the growth and prosperity
of the state we favor the conservation, develop
ment and utilization of all our natural resources,
under conditions, however, which will protect
and safeguard tho rights of the state."
Direct nominations are endorsed as follows:
"To Governor Hughes is due the credit of con
vincing the people of the need of directly elect
ing their party officers and the party nominating
their candidates. We promise legislation which
will enact these principles into law."
Mr. Stimsqn, nominee for governor, was.
United States district attorney at New York
under President Roosevelt. President Taft and
all' the members of the old guard have con
gratulated him.
MR. SHERMAN IS HAPPY
SA .Utica, N. Y., dispatch carried by the As
sociated Press says: "Vice President James S.
Sherman of this city, in speaking of tho state
convention, said: 'I am entirely content with
tho result of the Saratoga convention. The plat
form is exceptionally clear and forceful, save
only in reference to direct nominations. In
that regard it needs explanation of its meaning
and explanations will differ. I preferred the
minority plank, which was clear and unequivo
cal in construction. The ticket named is most
excellent. Of course the convention was abso
lutely dominated- by one man and its every
action was taken at his bidding. That, how
ever, I regard as procedure and not basic. I ac
cept the result complacently and shall, of course,
support the ticket nominated."
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NEVADA DEMOCRATS
The Nevada democrats in convention at Car
son City adopted a platform, one feature of which
is a denunciation of United States Senator Nixon
for his attitude on national measures during the
last congress. The platform pledges democratic
nominees to tariff revision and the extension of
anti-trust laws; favors federal control of cor
porations engaged in interstate business, en
dorses tho administration of Governor Dickin
son and charges that the Southern Pacific rail
road is interfering in Nevada politics.
LAFOLLETTE'S PliATFORM
-The republican state convention for Wiscon-
' sin met at Madison. A Madison dispatch to the
Denver News says:
- Wisconsin was termed a pilot for the nation
and a compass for the other states by Senator
Robert M. LaFollette in his address here today,
at which the most radical republican platform of
a generation was adopted.
"A great campaign is on, not for our state
alone, but for all the states of this country of
ours, 'and for our great country itself," ho said.
?'I think God has been exceptionally good to
.Wisconsin. I say to you men here to carry out
the laws ombodled in this platform, that you
aro exceptionally fortunate. You will write into
the laws of Wisconsin you havo written into
tho platform of tho republican party of this
pioneer progressive state that which shall bo '
of groat valuo to tho great movoment now
sweeping over tho country from coast to coast
to restore representative government, not to de
stroy reprosontativo government, but to make
these safeguards that shall insure to the people
representative government.
"You aro going into the campaign now which
means not only ovorything for Wisconsin, but
means everything for this great movement.
"Go, my friends, into this groat work that
has been committed to you. tt is a high work,
it is a noble work. I can not tell how
fortunate I think you aro, being a part of thin
great movoment that is to write into the pages
of the history of tho most important chapters
written since tho civil war."
No mention of tho national administration
was made save to disparage.
Features of tho platform are:
"Condemnation of tho Pnyne-Aldrich tariff
act.
"Physical valuation of railroads- and more
stringent regulation of them.
"Federal ownership of Alaskan railroads.
"Second choice primaries.
"Initiative, referendum and recall.
"Anti-lobby law,
"Graduated income tax.
. "Home rule in the liquor traffic.
"National, control of natural resources.
"Advalorem taxation of corporations.
"Condemnation of tho 'pernicious activity In
tho irecent primary campaign of tho brewery
corporations, insurance agencies and tho binding'
twino trust. -- -
"Employers liability law.
"Condemnation of the suppression by 'special
interests in congress' of the investigations of
the country life commission.
"Regulation of working hours for women and
children.
"Urging the federal government to determine
the style of craft best adapted for river use in
the light of future improvement of streams."
DISSATISFIED
; A Saratoga dispatch to the Denver News says:
"Now that Colonel Roosevelt has unhorsed tho
old guard and apparently routed them horse,
foot and dragoon, tho question is asked by dele
gates in their calm moments after tho adjourn
ment, what was it all about, and why was the
fjcdit precipitated? It is probable that had
Barnes and the rest of tho organization con
trolled the convention, some other candidate
would have been nominated for the governor
ship, but the bulk of the ticket would be as it
is today. Controversialists must turn to tho
platform to have the question answered, and,
reading the platform, neither Barnes nor Wood
ruff, nor J. Sloat Fassett, or any other of tho
machine leaders or their henchmen would have
framed it differently if they had been given
the opportunity to make it. It is unstinted in
its praise of President Taft; it asserts about the
Aldrich tariff bill all that President Taft has
ever claimed for it; the Taft administration Is
painted as without spot or blemish; and when
that ,1s said, with the addition of the perfunc
tory denunciation of graft, and tho assertion
that the republican party turns out its own ras
cals and docs .not wait for other parties to do
the job, the platform is complete. There is
nothing in the platform that is not in any stand
pat state republican platform that has been
adopted up to the present time."
RHODE ISLAND DEMOCRATS
. The Rhode Island democrats met at Provi
dence and adopted a platform denouncing the
republican tariff, Cannonism and the retention
of Secretary Ballingor in the cabinet. The
ticket is as follows:
Governor Lewis A. Waterman, Providence.
Lieutenant governor Dr. Philip E. Clarke,
Warwick.
Secretary of state John- I. Devlin, Provi
dence. General treasurer Tristam D. Babcock,
Westerly.
Representatives First district, George F.
O'Shaughenessey, Providence; Second district,
Thomas F. Cooney, Cranston.
The convention also pledged the democratic
. candidates for the general assembly to support
Judge Arthur L. Brown of the district court as
a successor to United States Senator Nelson W.
Aldrich.
Lewis A. Waterman, chosen an tho party'
standard bearor in tho state is a mombor.of tho.
bar and a former stato roproBontatlvo. Ho in
a graduate of Brown university.
NKW YOIllf DEMOCRATS s
Tho Now York democrats mot at Rochester
and nomlnatod tho following ticket:
For governor John A. Dlx, Washington
county.
Lloulonant governor Thomas ! Conway,
Clinton county.
Secretary of state Edward Lnzansky, Klngs
county. Comptroller William Sohmcr, Now York.
Stato troasurcr John J. Kennedy, Erie
county.
Attorney general Thomas J. Carmody, Yatos
county.
Stato onglneer and surveyor John A. Bonzol,
Now York.
For associate judgo of tho court of appeals,
Frederick K. Collins, Chemung county.
Alton B. Parker was temporary chairman.
Tho platform adopted by tho New York demo
crats Is as follows:
"The democratic party of Now York in con
vention assembled pledges itsolf anew to tho
old nationalism embodied in the constitution
of Uio United States and to tho support in every
way of the independent and continued cxlstenco
of each of tho three separate and distinct
branches of tho fedoral government, preserv
ing all from attack and usurpation and each
from any possibility of encroachment by tho
others and in particular we condemn all attacks
on tho supreme court of tho United States.
"We aro unalterably opposed to any usurpation
by the federal government of tho rights of tho
states.
"Wo donounco the republican party in the
nation for its gross and wilful betrayal of tho
trust reposed In it by the people, and point out
that tho declared and expressed promise to re
vise tho tariff downward upon which tho repub
licans obtained office has been wilfully, dlsrn-?..
gardea una fgnoroa.
"Tho Payne-Aldrlch tariff law, pronounced by'
Presidont Taft to bo tho 'best tariff that the
republican party ever passed,' was a flagrant
breach of faith by tho republican party. Tho
bill oven increased the exactions of former re
publican tariffs and has placed great additional
burdens on the shouldors of tho avorago man,
thereby largely contributing to tho present high
cost of living, a cost out of all proportion to tho
earning capacity of tho great mass of tho peo
ple. "Wo charge tho republican party, both in na
tion and in stato, with gross extravagauco in
public expenditures, with creating many unnpe
cssary offices and adding to tho public payrolls
thousands of useless officials. Wo pledge our
selves to retrenchment and reform and to the
economical administration of public affairs
Even this gross extravagance Is overshadowed by
tho disclosures forced from a reluctant repub
lican legislature of official corruption, betrayal
of public trust and flagrant and open bribery,
which has astounded and horrified the citizens
of tho state and almost made the namo of tho
New York legislature a hissing and a by-word
in tho mouths of decent men throughout tho
country. y
"We declare in favor of state direct prima
ries to insure to tho people tho right to chooso
members of political committees and nominate
candidates for public office.
"Wo favor tho popular election of United
Stato senators.
"Wo favor an amendment to tho federal con
stitution to permit1 the imposition by congress of
an income tax, a tax which falls most evenly
. 4ipon tho people in proportion to their ability
to share in the expense of government.
"We recommend the extension and develop
ment of the parcels post so as to Increase tho
weight and size of parcels which may be carried
by United States mail.
"The profit of public lands and water powers
should be preserved to the people at large and
as tho value of these natural resources and re
turns from them increase, whether from de
velopment or otherwise, tho state would benefit
in the largest possible measure consistent with
the honest enterprise of the present generation.
We condemn the malfeasanco and incompetency
of the republican administration of tho forest
preserve. We demand strict and impartial en
forcement of tho forest laws, including imme
diate abolition of unlawful special privileges i&
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