Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-09-15
The Democratic County Convention
at Elma Saturday Was
Harmonious Gathering.
A Platform Adopted Broad Enough to Hold Every
Conscientious Voter in Chehalis County
Strongest Ticket Ever Nominated in This County
by any Party.


presented to the republican county col
vention, and were turned down by tie
committee on resolutions.
PLATFORM.
We, the democratic party of Chehalis
county. in representative convention
assembled, do declare:
We declare our continued allegiance to
the democratic party of the nation, and
on national issues reaffirm the principles
laid down in its last national platform,
adopted at Kansas City.
The democracy commends the Hon.
George Turner, United States senator,
for his splendid efforts in behalf of the
State OF Washington, and expresses the
pride that the state has in the splendid
record he has made and the national
reputation his abilities have won for
himself.
The democracy expresses its grief and
great loss at the demise of the Hon. John
II. Rogers, Governor Of the State of
Washington, whose administration as
democrat along the lines of democracy
was approved by his state, was an honor
his ma me and blessing to the com.
monwealth.
We favor an economical administration
of the affairs of this county, and an
equal assessment of all property for the
purpose of taxation. And we condemn
the actions of the republican party and
its officials for the favoritism shown by
! it and them to the corporations in the
assessment and rebating of taxes on
their property in this county.
We declare that the present laws for
assessing the property of railroads and
other public service corporations should
be so changed as to compel the assess
ment OF those properties at not less than
their saleable value as going concerns
and to prevent their evasion OF just
| taxation.
Believing that government by iniunc
ton, if persisted in, will wreck the liber-
ties OF the people, we favor statutory
law prohibiting judges from issuing in
functions in labor matters.
We favor the system OF direct legisla-
ton adopted by the state of Oregon, as
an effective method of protecting the
people against the abuses of legislative
power.
We pledge our legislative candidates,
that, in the event that the election of a
democrat to the United States senate is
an impossibility, they will support such
a republican for that Office as shall be
determined upon by a caucus of the
democratic members, to the end that as
the time of the session is required for
necessary legislation, it be not squan.
dered as heretofore in an unseemly
wrangle by the republican party in the
election of the senator.
We insist that the present harsh laws
to prevent the just recovery of personal
injuries suffered by servants in this state
shall be so modified that. the master
shall be liable in all cases where the ser.
want, without his neglect causing the
injury, has been injured through the
negligence or improper conduct of the
master. And to that end, we recon-
mend the adoption of the following acts,
endorsed by the State Federation OF
Labor, looking to the better protection
of labor and the just recognition Of the
rights of employers:
An Act defining and limiting the risks
assumed by employees engaged in work.
ing in mills, factories and other work
shops where dangerous machinery is
used and dangerous places exist.
Be it Enacted by the Legislature Of
the State OF Washington:
Section /. All employees engaged in
working in mills, factories and other
workshops where dangerous machinery
is used or dangerous places exist shall by
entering and continuing in such employ
ment be deemed to have assumed all the
ordinary risks and hazards incident ia
such employment; provided, however,
that whenever the person, persons OF
corporation engaged in operating such