The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-06-18
PLATFORM

devotion to the time honored principles
of the party. We declare our altera-
BILE opposition to criminal trusts and
monopoles, fostered by Republican
protective tariff, which brushes out in
dependent enterprises, destroying COM
petition, estricts the opportunities of
labor, burdens our farmers and arbitra-
rily fixed prices
2. We invite all of those who favor
principles of Democracy, regardless of
their former political convictions, to
support the candidates q our party.
8. Believing that w. j. Bryan is
the greatest living representative of
our party, we pledge our support and
instruct our delegates to Denver, to
vote for him as the choice Of the Demo-
cratic part of Arkansas, for President.
A. We demand that our next Gener-
al Assembly pass law making it un-
lawful to grant free transportation to
anyone, except bona fde employees of
railroads or their families, and minis
tiers of the gospel.
5. We recommend to the General
Assembly the passage of laws that
will encourage the development and
conservation of the States resources
of timber, coal and mineral wealth.
6. We favor the enactment of laws
that will provide equitable and just
means of reclaiming our overtlowed
lands and developing the levee interests
of our State.
7. Believing that the best interests
of our people will be greatly promoted
by the development of our inland water
ways, we hereby instruct and request
our senators and representatives in
Congress to do all in their power to adj
vance our interest in these matters.
s. We demand the General Assem-
bly, to refrain from passing special laws
in any case, which general law is, or
can be made applicable.
9. We believe that all competition
between convict labor and free labor
should, as far as possible, be avoided.
We believe that the welfare of the
convicts can be better maintained when
they are employed in work directly for
the benefit of the State, and to do all
that we can tc this end, we favor work.
ing the State convicts on the public
roads, keeping only sufficient number
on the States farm to raise supplies to
clothe and feed themselves and those
engaged on public roads. And we are
unalterably opposed to the making of
any further contract in which any con-
Wet is leased or hired to any person,
firm or corporation, and we especially
charge and direct the Legislature next
to convene, to pass such laws as will
carry out these principles.
10. Believing that the improvement
of the public roads and h ghways is a
30, .x~f, fol orto fn hn
er development of our State, we hearth
ly favor all measures to that end, and
we especially recommend to the next
General Assembly to consider the feast
bilty of adopting State aid for public
roads and to establish comprehensive
system of highway improvements.
II. We believe that the general laws
of the State are inadequate for the pro-
lection Of depositors of money in the
bank of the State; we therefore favor
the passage of wise and conservative
banking laws such as will provide for
the proper inspection of banks and the
maximum protection of the people who
deposit their money therein.
IL. AS agriculture is the founda
ton of our prosperity and as the great
mass of our people are engaged in that
pursuit, we favor the establishment
and maintenance of not less than four
agricultural schools in different parts
of the State-one to be located at the
University of Arkansas and another at
the State Normal School.
Is. We favor the passage of such
laws as may be necessary to provide
for the proper protection of labor. We
favor wise and vigorous law for the
collecting and dispensing of informa-
ton regarding science of agriculture,
horticulture and animal industry through
out this State. We favor safeguard
ing, by appropriate legislation, the
safety of persons employed in mining
manufacturing or other industries.
IA. We pledge the people that. the
! incoming administration of the State S
government will be devoted to the de-
velopment of the States resources and
! that the business interests of this
State shall be fostered and encouraged.
/ We favor the encouragement of all the
States educational interests from the
district public schools to the University
of Arkansas, free from the baneful in
huence of political craftsmanship. We,
| therefore, not only renew the party s
protection and pledges to this int rest,
but we pledge ourselves to the develop
ment Of the entire system of education
! in the State. and believing that all leg
itimate expenditures in this line Of work
Weld the greatest profit 10 ciVIIizallon,
we recommend liberal appropriations
for the education of the youth of the
State.
l6. We favor the enactment end en-
.orcement Of laws TO suppress gambling
~ agricultural commodities.
II. We recommel". hat the powers
of the Railroad Cema- sion be so in
creased so as TO reg II. { and control
the transportation .. light nd pas
sengers and roadbeQ nd equipment
of railways, and that 2essary relief
in such matters may be z,ranted. with
out The necessity for special logisla'
ton.
Is. Believing n the peoples night
to rule, we favor the Submission OF an