The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1906-09-28
DEMOCRATS PERFECT Their PROGRAM

Democratic party politics this week re-
solved itself at the state conven-
tion held in Butte Tuesday. The Chou
teau county convention was held Sat
urday.
The nominees of the state convention
vereHon. IT. ]. Walsh of Lewis and
Clark county, for representative in Con-
gress and Judge J. B. McClernan OF
Silver Bow county for associate justice
Of the supreme court.
Chouteau county was shown parttc-
ular distinction by the democrats by
the selection Of the state central COM
mittee, chosen at the state conVentlon'
of David G. Browne Of Fort Benton
az state chairman. Thomas c. Kurtz
Of Helena was named as vice chairman
and Harvey Bliss of Sweet Grass was
made secretary. Ex-I4ietenant GoVerno
"A. e. Spriggs declined the position OF
chairman.
At both the county and state conEen-
tons of the democrats it was made e.
yident that William Jennings Bryan was
still the idol Of his party, just as it
has been made by conventions all over
the United States during the week, and
that his ideas of political policies IN
Montana, as everywhere else, satisfy and
enthuse the members Of his party. Bry-
ans name, following that of jefferson,
leads the opposing paragraph of the
platform of the democratic party or
Montana which declares that Presi-
dent Roosevelt "owes his popularity to
his partial adoption of democratic IDEAS
The keynote of the declaration Of the
state platform is:
profits or public moneys belong to
the people and should be paid into the
state, county and city treasures We
pledge the democratic candidates for
the legislature to ask and vote for a
law or laws which will turn such pro-
fits on public funds into the public
legislature of 1905 for it's willful viola
ton Of it's party pledge to turn the
interest on public money into the treas
airy, and we demand that the attorney
general of tbs state bring act on
against any state treasurer who may
have violated the provisions of the
constitution prohibiting the making of
profit out of public money"
Other declarations Of particular and
insistent interest in Havre and Chouteau
county are the demand that the prop
cry of railway companies be assessed
fol. taxation at it's full cash value as
lation b. accomplished by the next le-
sislature that will regulate existing and
prospective trusts, "the object in view
being. particularly, to penalize the COM
within cur state;" law limiting the
hours Of labor of railway employe s
an: provides for the inspection of loco
motive engine boilers by the state boiler
NSt-NA~H'AA@e$NNS>A
republican legislature of 1905 for it's
"willful neglect in failing to pass an
effective railway commission law.
Other declarations Of the state plat
form endorse the administration of Gov.
JOSEPH. X. Toole and the initiative and
referendum system; heartily commend
tae course of United States Senator
Clark, while expressing regret that he
has decided to retire from active spo-
ntical live; "unreservedly" condemn the
action Of the present republican ad-
rainis.ration in abrogating the Chinese
exclusion law in it's application to the
Isthmus of Panama and for violating
the principles of the contract labor law
which, it Is declared, introduces the re
pre!,n.s ible system of peonage in govern
1ncnt work, conducted under the A
1ncrcan flag; condemn the voting in
congress of Congressman Dixon, par
ticllarly on labor questions: pledge the
party to work for revision of the tarif,
uron all articles" the prices of which
are hereafter may be controlled by
a trust; denounce the manner in which
the forestry law has been administered,
declaring that "reasonless regulations
have betn exerc sed with such arr0
CANT assumption of authority as tc
amount in many instances, to a petty,
but intolerable, tyranny" again de
nounce Congressman Dixon for an at
tempt to fasten joint statehood on Ari-
IONA and New Mexico: commend the &C
ton of Governor Tooie in vetoingtht
':so-called" railroad commission bill pas
sed by the last legislature, while con