The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-09-13

its tail feathers will be the sign I am a Democrat That bird, with the dele gate you are talking of (Donahue), will come home with a democratic sign at its tail feathers this year, If I am not mistaken" (Long cheers)
 Tn closing MT. Waller said: Compel the bosses and the lobbyists of the re- publican party to put into it's platform the right of trial by jury (applause), and then you know what they will do-- you know what Roosevelt says when he steals our thurider-how they did 1t all themselves. It is a right taken from the poor man. The corporation paying thirty dollars can take away from you or me our right to get our case heard by our peers. Another thing we will have to do, and do it In the Teddy Roosevelt style of P. D. Q.-and like that in him, asl he comes farther and farther into the democratic party-is to change the way of selecting county commissioners"
 Mr. Waller then attacked the present system of selecting county commission CTS, and discussed several other matters which were covered by the platform about to be adopted.
 The platform was unanimously adopt ed, as was also the following resolu- ton:
 "Yoted-That the members of the democratic state central committee elected at the convention held in Hart ford on September il and 12 shall take office from the date of their election and shall hold the same until the first general convention of the party to be held in 1908, and that this rule shall prevail hereafter, and that so much of the existing rules as continue then old committee in office until January ], 1907. be and the same hereby is re- pealed"
 THE PLATFORM.
 We the representatives of the dem- ocratic electors of the state of Connec- ticut. in state convention assembled declare that the approaching campaign should corlfine itself to the considera- ton of state issues as far as possible, and that national issues should be con- sdered in a national election two years hence.
 We declare that the recent course of the republican party is the state Is sub- versive of the principles which lie at the foundation of democracy, because it has substituted political aristocra- cy for individual liberty The republi- can organization is more powerful than the republican party which is success fully dictated by group of manipula- tors who have only their own ends in view. To correct this evil, we declare for the direct primary principle, the right to nominate by petition, the fur ther amendment of the corrupt prac- tlees law, in particular forbidding cor porations to contribute to party funds, and the enactment of law providing for the registration of the lobby.
 We arraign the republican party of the state of Connecticut, acting through it's arbitrary organization, for wflfully ignoring business practices in the collection of revenues and in their expenditures, thus treating with indif- ference the report of the commission appointed by former Governor Cook, which declared that an immense amount of money could be saved annu- ally without in the least impairing the efficiency of government. The sins of omission are as bad as the sins of com mission.
 We demand the right of a trial by jury in all damage cases where either party wishes it. In this respect Con- necticut is the one experimentation state in the union.
 We demand the election of county commissioners, now part and parcel of the republican machine and therefore not an instrument of government, by the people, to whom at present they acknowledge no allegiance.
 We demand the abolishment of the wretched fee system of compensating public servants and the substitution of the salary system. and we condemn the gradual relinquishment of executive and legislative power of office making commissions
 We demand more rigid supervision of public service corporations, We con- demn the railroad commission of the state, as at present organized, as a political machine. and call for its reor- ganization,.
 We indorse the enactment of an ade-