Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-09-12

rect this evil, we declare for the di' rect primary principle, the right te
 nominate by petition, the further
 amendment of the corrupt practices
 law, in particular forbidd!ng corpor ations to contribute to party funds
 and the enactment of a law providing for the registration of the lobby.
 We arraign the republican party l of the state of Connecticut, acting through its arbitrary organization
 for wilfully ignoring business prac tices in the collection of revenues and in their expenditures, thus treating with indifference. the report of the commission appointed by former Gov. ernor Cooke, which declared that an immense amount of money could be saved annually without in the least impairing the efficiency of govern ment. The sins of omission are as | bad as the sins of commission. We demand the right of trial by jury in all damage cases where eith- CT party wishes it. In this respect Connecticut Is the one corporation- ridden state in the union. l We demand the election of county commissioners, now part and parcel of the republican machine and there- fore not an instrument of govern ment, by the people, to whom at present they acknowledge no allegi- l ance.
 We demand the abolishment of the wretched fee system of compensating public servants and the substitution of the salary system, and we con demn the gradual relinquishment of executive and legislative power to of flee making commissions.
 We demand a more rigid supervis- ion of public service corporations. We condemn the railroad commission of the state, as at present organized, as a political machine, and call for It's reorganization.
 We endorse the enactment of an adequate and fair employers liabil- ity act, in order that the wage earn CTS of the state may enjoy the pro- tection they deserve against greedy terms of employment.
 We demand a system of represen- tation in the halls of legislation ac- cordtng to population, which shall give to each town at least one repre- sentative.
 We demand the recognition of the principle of home rule in municipal affairs, as result of which each community shall be its own judge of what concerns it's local life without the interference of general assembly, and that each town and city shall elect its own local judges. It is for each community to decide as to the adoption of municipal ownership of local utilities and the state should formally recognize that right. The state should neither impose govern ment ownership upon communities, nor deprive them of the right to en- joy 1t If so disposed. It is not a principle of general government, but an escape from intolerable conditions imposed by corporation mismanage- ment.
 We demand the establishment of a state purchasing department for all institutions dependent upon the state for supplies. and we heartily con demn the grafting' practices of the general assembly. both during and at the close of each session. We favor the further extension of the indeterminate sentence principle. the probation law and the parole principle as working in behalf of a higher civilization. We approve the establishment of state reformatory. not more for the early apprehension of amateur mis- demeanants than for the beginning of the destruction of the scandalous Connecticut jail system, which at present is busy school of crime. We demand the election of United States senators by the people.
 The platform was unanimously adopted as was the following resolu- tion:
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