The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-09-15
THE CONVENTIONS PLATFORM.
Full Text of the Resolutions Adopted
Yesterday at Trent on

Full Text of the Resolutions Adopted
Yesterday at Trent on.
The platform which was adopted at
yesterdays convention was strong
document, and set forth the principles of
the Democracy In terse. forcible man
ner. This is the document in full
The Democratic party of New Jersey in con-
vention assembled declare:-
That they reaffirm the National Democratic
Platform adopted at Chicago and enthusiastic
ally endorse the nomination of Grover Cleveland
and Adlai E. Stevenson for President and Vice
President of the United States.
That they endorse the administration of Gov
ernor Leon Albeit. AS an answer to the SIAN
derS of those who have perSistently misre pre-
sented the exis ting management of State affairs
we call the attention of the people to the follow
ing facts:-
That the only permanent State officers to
which any salary or compensation is allowed,
created by the Democratic Iarty during the
past three years, are as follows:-A Commis
sioner of Banking and Insurance, Chief Of
State Police, State Board of Taxation, a State
Board for the Arbitration of Differences Be
tween Employers and Employees, a Board of
commissioners Of Electrical Subways, a Com
missioner of Mines a resident physician at the
State Prison and Superintendent of the School
Census.
The acts creating the office of the Commits
sioner of Banking and Insurance and Commis-
sionerS of Electric Subways provide that the eX-
penses of these departments shall be paid, re-
spectively, by the insurance and telegraph com :
panies doing business in this State The total of
all salaries to be paid by the State to permanent
officers created by Democratic Legislatures dur
ing the present administration is less than
$4,000.
The pledge made in our State Platform of 1889
that there should not be any general State tax
imposed upon the people has been faithfully
kept, and we renew the promise then made that
there shall not be any general State tax i'm
posed while the affairs of the State are intrusted
to the Democratic party. On January l, 1889,
the floating debt of the State amounted to
S400 0O0 Every dollar of this has been paid, and
over quarter of million dollars expended for
the improv ement of public buildings and the
purchase of camp ground at Sea Girt. That
these expenses have been met without the i'm
position of q single dollar of direct State tax up
on the property of private owners. and without
an increase in the rate imposed upon the proper
ty of corporations. supports the claim that the
State Government of New Jersey is the most
economical in the Union.
That in pursuance of its pledge made in its
platform of 1889, to legislate in the interest of
labor, the Democratic party has, during the
present administration, through its legislative
representatives enact ed the following mea ,ures,
all of which received the approval of Demo
cratic Governor, to wit:-Acts which secure, be-
yond the reach of fraud, the payment of wages
to mechanics and others engaged in the erection
of building; an act providing for sixty free
scholarships in the State Agricultural College;
acts to authorize the establishment of free
public libraries and reading rooms in cities and
towns; an act giving lien for wages due and
laDOr anu udt0TldlS 1uTulSueu Ill
finishing silk and goods of which silk is a COM
moment part; an act for the improvement of the
State Agricultural Experiment Station; an act
making Saturday half holiday an act extend
money due for labor or materials furnished in
the erection of public buildings; an act
prohibiting corporations from forcing, their
employees to contribute to relief funds;
act creating a state Board of Arbitration for the
amicable adjustment OF grievances and disputes
that may arrise between employers and en-
FIJI in
the exercise of the elective franchise; an act
providing for commissioner of mines to inspect
all mines in this State and to secure proper safe
guards for the protection of the lives of men en-
ployed therein; an act making wages due work
men and laborers first lien upon the assets of
insolvent corporations; an act providing for the
incorporation of trades unions and labor or ganl-
cations, and other acts.
In dealing with the municipal government of
the State, the Democratic party has adopted the
plan of yesting in the Mayors OF large cities the
power of appointment of municipal boards and
officers, and we submit to the people of the
State that this plan of municipal government is
entitled to thorough test in lights
political partisanship. Under this sys-
tem. there is a concentration of personal and
political respons biity in single Office the &C.
cupant of which is chosen by tue vot eS of the
entire city. The plan is in nowise antagonistic
to local self-government, but, on the contrary,
affords ince ntive to citizens to participate in
municipal elections. Under it the grievous evil
of sectional strife for municipal patronage can
be avoided and economy enforced. While the
plan is necessarily imperfect, it is subject to
amendment, and should be given far trial
and receive impartial judgment before return
is made to system under which responsibility
is distributed and elusive.
We denounce all frauds perpetrated upon the
elective franchise, and we call the attention of
the people to the fact that prosecution and pun
ishment of those crimes have been the work of
a Democratic court and prosecutor and Demo-
cratic Jurors. We ask from fair-minded citizens
O comparison Of this fact with the action of
a Republican Senate which voted to seat as Sen
ator from Hudson man who, every one knew
was not entitled to the office. The action Of
that Senate was protected by constitutional
privilege, but 1t was none the less crime.
The necessity for o diversion of the proceeds
from the sale of riparian lands from the school
fund to funds necessary to pay the expense of
rebuilding the State House and other extraord-
nary expenses having ceased. we favor repeal