Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-03-27
THE pop CONVENTION.
tcOutinued from first page.l
THE STATE PLATFORM.

THE STATE PLATFORM.
We, your committee on platform
beg leave to submit the following re
port:
]. We reaffirm the fundamental
principles of the Omaha platform and
Instruct our delegation to the ma
tiOnal convention TO readiust any de.
tails, il possible, in such form that all
reform element can unite on one plat
form and one national ticket.
2. We favor changing our national
constitution so as to provide some
form OF direct legislation, and the
early admission of important national
questions to the people i,
3. We recommend that our national
convention devise some plan for the
effective protection of American labor
from the ruinous competition OF
Asiatic and European cheap labor, in
cluding rigid restriction, and eXclu-
sion, If necessary, of foreign imml-
grafton.
STATE AFFAIRS.
/. We denounce the Republican
party for its entire failure to perform
any promise IL made to the people OF
Oregon in the year 1894, and hold III
wholly responsible for the reckless
and extravagant waste of the tax
payers money by the legislative
assembly of the year 1895.
2. We pledge our candidates for the
legislature to vote for the abolition OF
all useless commissions and boards,
for the salary system Of paying public
officers, for state appropriations bill
providing only for the constitutional
salaries and the economical support OF
necessary state institutions and
against any appropriations for sec
tartan institutions.
3. We demand the reduction Of Off
cial salaries to correspond with the
reduction in the wages of labor and
the prices Of products Of labor.
4. We renew our demand for the
speedy abolition Of all flsh traps, fish
wheels, and a stringent regulation OF
seine and net fishing.
3. We demand the re-inactment OF
the mortgage tax law.
q. We favor an amendment to our |
state constitution providing for the
initiative and referendum.
From this resolution the convention
ordered the following words stricken
)ut: I'm its obligatory form and un-
Ill that is possible, we pledge our can
1idates for the legislature to do all in
their power to cause to be referred TO
yhe legal voters Of the state the queS-
lion of enacting or repeating any state
aw that Is demanded by petition,
signed by 10 per cent of the legal
voters of the state, the next session to
lct In accordance with the majority
1ote.
GAS to any new local or special law
or town, city or county, our candl-
lates shall vote for IL to be referred
o the voters interested before it takes
fleet.
"If ten percent Of the legal voters
# any county, city or town, shall by
,etltion demand any local law, our
will vote for the enact
nent of such law, providing that it
hall be referred TO the voters inter-
sted and take effect only when ap-
,roved by Il majority of those voting
hereOn.
with each proposed law, there
hall be printed and delivered TO every
'erson entitled TO vote thereon so far
$ possible, a short statement of the
easons for and against the law as
iven by its friends and foes"
RESOLUTION ADOPTED.
We protest against the policy of
he government In patentlng to rail
Dad corporations lands along their :
mes, OF (which in many instances
mineral lands are patented to said
operations, to the great injury TO
he miners of our state. y
Wherefore, we demand that all
lineral lands in the state be exempted 3
rom the grasp of such corporations
nd reserved for the use and benefit of
ne miners and the best interests OF r.
he state. q
OTHER MATTERS.
The w. &. II. u. resolution was "re-
One favorlng senators elected by the
eople was adopted. u
One favOring deduction for debt
nd n corresponding credit passed.