The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-10
Anti-InjunctOn Plank Is Put In Shape To Suit All
 Concerned
MAJORITY WILL NOT
 CONTROL CONVENTIONS 
Resolutions Are Presented Recon1- mending Appropriate Celebration of Abraham LincoIn's Birth
 day In Whole Country.

Denver. July 9-After more than 54 hours of almost continuous sessions, the committee on resolutions tonight at 11:20 o'clock concluded it's work on the plat form and after a period of revision and encouragement of sections. the members of the committee. headed by the chairman, Governor Haskell of Oklahoma, with ths document under his arm, started for the convention hall.
 After the last plank had been agreed upon Senator Daniel of Virginia and ex- Senator Smith of New Jersey announeed their intention to support the nominee of tine convention on the platform agreed upon.
 The committee adopted for presenta- ton to the convention the following reso- lutions regarding Abraham Lncoln's birth celebration:
 Whereas, the one hundredth anniver- sary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln oe- CUTS on February 12, 1909
 Therefore. be 1t resolved by the dem. ocratic national convention, That we recommend it's appropriate celebration throughout our land"
 The committee voted down a resolution providing that hereafter d majority vote shall be sufficient to effect the nomination, of any candidate for President or Viea President in national democratic conven- tons. Democratic Platform. Following is the platform We, the representatives of the demoe- racy of the United States in national con vention assembled reaffirm our belief m and pledge our loyalty to the principles of the party
 We rejoice at the increasing signs of an awakening throughout the country The various investigations have traced graf and political corruption to the represent tatlves of predatory wealth and laid bare the interruptions methods by which they have debauched elections and preyed upon defenseless public through the sub servient officials whom they have raised to place and power
 The conscience of the nation Is nov. aroused to free the government from the trip of those who have made it a busl- less asset of the favor-seeking corpora- tons; 1t must become again a peoples government and be administered in all It's departments according to the Jefferson. ian maxim, Equal right to all and spe- cial privileges to none"
 
 shadowing issue which manifests itself in all the questions now under discussion. Publicity of Campaign Contributions. We demand federal legislation forever terminating the partnership which has existed between corporal tions of the coun- try and the republican party under the expressed or implied agreement that in return for the contributions of great sums of money wherewith to purchase cleo t1ons they should be allowed to continue substantially unmolested in their efforts to encroach upon the rights of the peo- pie
 Any reasonable doubt as to the exist ence of this relation has been forever dis pelled by the sworn testimony of wit nesses examined in the insurance nves- tigati in New York and the open ad- mission, unchallenged by the republican national committee. of a single ndivid- ual that he himself, at the personal re- uest of the republican candidate for the presidency. raised over a quarter of million dollars to be used in a single state during the closing hours of the last cam palgn.
 In order that this practice shall be stopped for all time. we demand the pas sage of statute punishing with imprls- onment any officer of a corporation who shall either contribute on behalf of, or y, ration of any money or thing of value to be used in furthering the election of president and vice president of the United States or of any member of the congress thereof.
 We derounce the action of the republ- can party, having complete control of the federal government, for its failure to pass the bill. introduced in the last congress. to compel the publication of the names of 1 uted toward campaign funds and poins ee the evidence of their insincerity when they sought by an absolutely irrelevant and impossible amendment to defeat the passage of the bill As a further evil dence of their intention to conduct their campaign in the coming contest with vast sums of money wrested from favor seeking corporations, we call attention to the fact that the recent republican na- tional convention at Chicago refused, when the plank was presented to 1t, to declare against such practices.
 We pledge the democratic party to the enactment of a law preventing any cor poration contributing to a campagn fund and any individual from contributing an amount above reasonable minimum, and providing for the publication before cleo tion of all such contributions.
 Railroad Regulation.
 We assert the right or congress |" exercise complete control over inter state commerce, and the right Of eaci state to exercise like control over cor merce within its borders.
 We demand such enlargement of powers of the interstate com' commission as may be necesS 1 compel railroads to perform theiN as common carriers. and prev crimiDation and cxtortion.
 We favor the efficient s' and rate regulation of rail