The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-09-12

attorney general be stripped Of hi
present control over proceedings to test
title 10 public Office.
The platform repudlates "the claim
OF Governor Higgins that the legisla-
ture has no constitutional right to In
vestigate the executive departments"
and declares that "a searching inves-
ugailon Of every department Is due the
public"
District Attorney Jerome Is attacked
10y name rs follows:
Impartial enforcement Of the laws Is
OF paramount importance. The admin
stration Of law controlled by corpora
ton influence has been illustrated In
the case OF District Attorney Jerome
as well as In the case Of Attorney Gen
eral Mayer
I'VE express the disgust felt by all
good citizens over the failure of Dis
trict Attorney Jerome TO prosecute
criminally regardless OF their wealth
or social position those guilty of in
surance frauds.
ut btA'NtN
in the public ownership Of public util-
tiles that are natural monopolles. II
stands neither for private coniscation
of public property nor public contisca-
ton of private property. 1t believes in
unfolding and enforcing every prop
! erty right Holding that no person or
corporation is privileged TO conhscate
what rightly belongs TO another, il
stands for irreconcilable hostility 10
appropriations by corporations Of fran
chise values created by the community
ana belonging TO the community.
"'The first essentials for public own
ership are honesty in office and indie
pendence in voting"
The platform then goes on to prom
Use greater consideration for the farm
ers of the states, efforts to establish Il
two cent passenger fare and destruc-
ton of rebates and discrimination on
the railroads of the state, vigorous
extension of the good roads policy, the
enforcement of the eight hour day the
prevailing rate of wages, child labor,
compulsory education, convict labor
and other laws in the interest of the
working people, the restoration OF the
three platoon system in the New York
police force and its extension to other
street cleaners. The platform demands
also enforcement of the pure food law
| liberal appropriations for education
| and teachers pension system and
ample school accommodations In con
clusion it says:
Honesty in public service. the rule
of the majority, equality before thu
! law, regard for the welfare of the
whole people, Independence in politics,
! opportunity In business. freedom of
government from the grip Of corpora
ton control-these are the principles
for which the Independence league is
prepared to battle
Temporary and permanent organiza-
/ lions were perfected amid much en-
| thusasm.
The convention declared positively in
favor of the nomination of full state
ticket and instructed the committee on
resolutions to draft suitable reply to
w. J. Connors and other delegates to
the Democratic state convention at
Buffalo on Sept. %, who presented
memorial asking the Independence
league to defer nominating a state
ticket until conference could be had
with the Democrats.
There was much disorder in the con
vention when a motion to adjourn until
tonight was made after the routine
business had been concluded. Many
of the delegates did not want to adj
iourn and protested, half hundred or
more clamoring for recognition, while
Just as many cried for an adjournment
The motion was finally carried with
cheer.