The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-10

nous sessions, the committee on Noso iutions tonight at 11:2o o'clock con clnded it's work on the platform. anu after a period of revision and rear raneement of sections. the members or the committee, headed by the char man. Governor Haskell of Oklanoma' with the document under ms arHi' started for the convention hall. After the last plank had been agreed nnon. Senator Daniel of Virginia. anu ex Senator Smith of New Jersey, an nounced their intention to support tne nominee of the convention on the platform agreed upon.
 The committee adopted for presen- tation to the convention the following resolutions regarding Abraham Lan- coln's birth celebration: ssWhereas. the tooth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln occurs on February 12. 1909; there fore be " Resolved by the Democratic Nation- al convention that we recommend us appropriate celebration throughout our lands
 Tha committee voted down a reso- iution providing that hereafter e ma 5orIty vote shall be sufficient to enect the nomination of any candidate TOT president or vice president in Nation- al Democratic conventions.
 The platform, as reported by the committee is as follows:
 The Democratic Platform.
 we the representatives of the Dem orracy of the United States in National convention assembled. reaffirm our be- lief in and pledge our loyalty to the principles of the party.
 "We reioice at the increasing signs Of an awakening throughout the coun- try. The various investigations have traced graft and political corruption to the representatives of predatory wealth and laid bare the unscruplous methods by which they have debanched cleo tions and preyed upon defenseless public through the suhsevient officials whom they have raised to place and power. ssThe conscience of the nation Is now aroused to free the government from the grip of those who have made 1t q business asset of the favcr-seeking corporations: 1t must become again a peoples government and be admin istered In all it's departments accord ing to the Jeffersonian maxim "equal rights to all and special privileges to none"
 ssShaiI the people ruie?' is the over shadowing issue which manifests It. self in all the questions now under dis cussion.s
 once Holders.
 'sCofncfdent with the enormous in- crease in expenditure has come a like addition to the number of ofice hold CTS. During the past year. 23.7s4 were added, costing s1e,15s,0e0 and in the past six years of the Republican ad- ministration the total number of new offices created. aside from any com missions. has been s9,s1s entailing an additional expenditure of nearly $T0,. 100000, as against only 10.279 new of. fees created under the Cleveland and Mckinley administrations, which invoI we'd an expenditure of only es,000, 900 We denounce this great and growinf increase in the number of of1ce holderi as not only unnecessary and wasteful but also as clearly indicating q deIib crate purpose on the part of the admin lstration to keep the Republican party In power at public expense by this in. creasfng the number of it's retainert and dependents. Such procedure W, declare to be no less dangerous and corrupt than the open purchase oi votes at the polls
 Economy fin Admintstrntiou.
 'sThe Republican Congress in the ses. sion just ended has made appropria- lions amounting to 31,00S. 900. 900. ex- ceedinE the total expenditures of tho past fiscal year by s90.000. 900, and leav. ing a deficit of more than $50. 900 .00( for the fiscal year. We denounce tht needless waste of the peoples money which has resulted in this appaliine increase as a shameful violation of al prudent conditions of Government. al no less than a crime against the mil lions of workingmen and women from whose earnings the great proportion of these colossal sums must be ex' torted through excessive tariff exac tions and other indirect methods II is not surprising that in the fact oi this shocking record, the Republican platform contains no reference to eco nomicai administration or promise therein the future. We demand that z stop be put to this frightful extrava' eance and insist upon the strictesi economy in eevry department compati- ble with frugal and efficient admints- tration."
 Arbitrary Power of Speaker.
 ''The House of Representatives. wal designated by the fathers of the con stitution to be the popular branch O our government responsive to the pub lie will.
 "The House of Representatives, al controlled in recent vars by the Repub lican party, has ceased to be a delib crate and legislative body, responsiv' to the will of a majority of It's mem bers, but has come under the absolute QQHllnatlOn Ol LiiO OpEdANSAe "hO hoo OAA tire control of it's deliberations, an' powers of legislation.
 we have observed with amazemen the popular branch of our federal gov ernment helpless to obtain either tn consideration or enactment of meas ures, desired by a majority of its mem bers.
 'Iegislative government becomes failure when one member in the perso Ia ranWaFfuI fha the entire body.
 wye demand that the House of Rep resentatives shall again become a de Lucrative body controlled by major ity of the peoples represntativs an not by the speaker. and we pledge our selves to adopt such rules and regula tions to govern the House of Represen tatives as will enable a majority of il members to direct Its deliberations an control legislation"
 Misuse of Patronage.
 asWe condemn as a violation of tn spirit of our institutions the action ( the present chief executive in using th patronage of his high office to secuI inc nomination of one of his cabin' officers. A forced succession in th presidency is scarcely less repugnaI to public sentiment than is life tenul in that ohace. No good intention c the part of the executive and virtue in the one selected can justify the e tabiishment of a dynasty. The rigl of the people to freely select their O ffciaIs Is inalienable and cannot be de egated.
 Publicity of Campaign Contribution
 we demand Federal legisla ton fol ever terminating the partnership whic has existed between corporations ( the country and the Republican part