Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-07-10

nomical administration or prondB8
 thereof in the future. We demand
 that stop be put to this frightfut
 extravagance and insist upon tha
 strictest economy in every department
 compatible with frugal and efficient
 administration.
 "Coincident with the enormous ins
 crease in expenditures is like addis
 ton to the number of ofiiceholders. During the past year B, ,7s4 were add ed, costing $1G, 156,O0O, and in the past : six years of the Republican advuiIdss tration the total number of new offices | created, aside from many commis~ sions, has been 99.3l9, entailing an ad4 ditional expenditure of nearly x70,s 100000, as against only 10,279 new offices created under the Cleveland and Mckinley administration, which involved an expenditure of only s6I- 100000. We denounce this great and growing increase in the number of officeholdcrs as not only unnecessary and wasteful, but also as clearly in- dicating deliberate purpose on the part of the administration to keep the Republican party in power at puhlic expense by thus increasing the nun. Der of its retainers and dependents Such procedure we declare to be lo less dangerous and corrupt than tue opening purchase of votes at the polls.
 We condemn as violation of spirit
 nf ot.r fs.a nE present chief executive in using the patronage of his high office to secure the nomination of one of his cabinet officers. A forced succession fin the presidency is scarcely less repumant to public sentiment than is life tenure in that office. No good intention on the part of executive and no virtue in the one selected can justify the estab- llshment of a dynasty. The right of the people to freely select their ofi- cias is inalienable and cannot be del- egated.
 We favor an income tax as part of our revenue system. and we urge the submission of a constitutional amend ment specifically authorizing congress to levy and collect a tax upon indi. vidual and corporate incomes, to the end that wealth may bear it's propor. tionate share of the burdens of the federal government
 "A private monopoly is indefensible and intolerable. We therefore favor the vigorous enforcement of the crirn- inal law against guilty trust magnates and officials and demand the enact ment of such additional legislation As may be necessary to make 1t impossi< bic for private monopoly to exist i'd the United States. Among the addE tional remedies we specify three-nrst. a law preventing duplication of di. rectors among competing corporations, second. license system which wfii. without abridging the right of each state to create corporations or lfs right to regulate as 1t will foreign cor porations doing business within it's lin< its, make it necessary for a manufac. turing or trading corporation enfaeed in interstate commerce to take out q federal license before it shall be per. mitted 10 control as much as 25 per cent of the product in which it deals. the license 10 protect the public from watered stock and to prohibit the con. trol by such corporation of more thsu 5O per cent of the total amount of any product consumed in the United states. and. third, a law compelling such lt caueod sorr,nratf< e. ..n s- sn ~.. chasers in all parts of the country o1 the same terms after making due d. lowance for cost of transportation
 The conclusion of the platform is d follows:
 The Democratic party stands for democracy. The Republican party has drawn to Itself all that is arfstocrnfia and plutocratie
 The Democratic party Is the chan pion of civil rights and opportuniiies to all The Republican party iB ths party of privilege and private moncpa Oly. The Democratic party listens fs the voice Of the whole people snd gauges progress hy the prosperity sn5 advancement Of the average nan. Tks Republican party Is subservfent to ske comparatively fev. who are the b<ns- fciaries Of governmental favcrfrEm- We invite the cooperation of an. r< gsrdisss of previous political aHiAz- tian sr past difTsrences. who fesiz ts preserve a government of the pesr.s hy the peopie ard fer the peopl< ed vho fsrur sueh an adminlstration e< the government s uil insure. rs fra ss human wisfou can thsf ezeh cI4 zea shah drav fron soci<fr q rs~x-5 conzsns1rzts uith his c1afrfs1uco