Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-07-11
SPLENDID PLATFORM
OF OHIO DEMOCRATS.

COLUMBUS, o., July 10.-The re-
port submitted by the committee on
resolutions to the Democratic State con-
ventfon consists Of a preamble and six
teen articles under the following heads:
Municipal Governments, Taxation.
conduct of State affairs, etc, peoples
rights, tariff reform, m~onopolies, mer-
chant marine, imperialism and expan-
sion. the Beers, Monroe doctrine, the
navy, civil service, election of sena-
tors, agriculture and labor, Republican
responsibility, and boss RUE and poll
ucal corruption.
The preamble follows:
che Democrats of Ohio reaffirm their
belief in the equality OF taxation and
other public burdens; their advocacy
of the equal rights Of all people, with
special privileges to none; their hostii-
ity to the monopolization of industry,
with its tendency, on the one hand, to
crush out individual enterprise, and, on
on the other, to promote a socialistlc
spirit among the people as the only ref
uge from oppression; and their faith
in that theory and practice of constitu-
tional government which brought the
nation existence and has preserved it to
the present generation.
The subjects above mentioned are
then taken up. II is declared that the
Municipalities of the State
should be radically reformed. The de-
NAL of home rule is declared to have
fostered special legislation and the i'm
position of burdensome axes. 1t is de-
manded that no franchise, extension, or
renewal thereof shall hereafter be grant
ed except on the vote OF the people.
On the subject of taxation, the plat
form says:
THE acceptance Of free passes or
other favors from railroads by public
officers or employees, shall be made ade-
uuate grounds for vacating the offices
neld by them. All public service corpo-
rations shall be required by law to make
sworn public reports, and the power
and duty of visitation and public re-
port shall be conferred upon the proper
State and local auditing officers, to the
end thai the true value OF the priyi-
leges held by those corporations shall
be made plain to the people.
Steam and electric railroads and
other corporations possessing public
franchises shall be assessed in the same
proportion to their saleable value as
are farms and city real estate.
''The proceedings OF the Republicaa
majority of the State board OF equali-
cation are a scandal. Property values,
instead of being equalized, were increas-
ed or diminished at the
Dictation of Political Bosses,
pursuant to corrupt combinations and
conspiracies."
Regarding the conduct Of State affairs,
the Republican administration and the
Republican majority of the general As
eembly are denounced.
Capitalization, which would destroy
the rights of the people" is condemned.
Tariff reform is demanded, on the
ground that the production of the
try far exceeds its power Of consump-
ton.
The enactment and rigorous enforce
ment Of measures to prevent monopo-
lies and combinations in restraint of
trade and commerce is demanded, as is
also the suppression of ali trusts and a
return 10 industrial freedom" AS a
means to that end, the platform declares
that all trust products should be placed
on the free list, and the government
should exercise a more rigid supervision
OF transportation.
Restoration of the merchant marine
is favored, without subidsies, how
ever.
On the subject Of
ssImperiaIism and Expansion"
the platform says:
Powers granted the federal govern
ment were not meant to be used TO con-
Quer or hold in subsection the people
of other countries. The Democratic
party opposes any extension Of the ma