The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1908-07-18
DEMOCRATIC
PLATFORM

The full text of the platform
adopted at Denver is as follows:
We, the representatives of the De-
mocracy of the United States. in ma
uonal convention assembled, reafiirm
our belief in, and pledge our loyalty
to, the principles of the party.
We rejoice 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 unscrupu-
lous methods by which they have de-
bauched elections and preyed upon
defenseless public through the subser-
Went officials which they have raised
to place In power.
The conscience of the nation is now
aroused to. free the government from
the grip of those who have made II
business asset OF the favor-seeking
corporations. II must become again
peoples government, and be admins
tered in all it's departments according
20 the Jeffersonian maxim off equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none.
Shall the people ruler" is the over
wheiming issue which manifests itself
in all the questions now under discus
sion.
Oniceholders.
Coincident with the enormous in
crease in the expenditures Is a like
addition to IA number of offlceholders.
During the past year 23,7S4 were
added, costing sl6,i56.O00, and in the
past six years of the Republican adj
ministration the total number of new
offices created, aside from many COM
missions, has been 99,3l9, entailing an
additional expenditure of nearly $7O,-
100000. as against only 1929 new OF,
fees created under the Cleveland and
Mckinley administrations, which In
volved an expenditure of only $4,000
600. We denounce this growing In
crease In the number of oficeholders
as not only unnecessary and wasteful.
but also as clearly indicating de-
liberate purpose on the part OF the
administration to keep the KepuoIcan
party in power at public expense by
thus increasing the number of Its re-
tainers and dependents. Such pro-
cedure we declare to be no less dam
gerous and corrupt than the open
purchase of votes at the polls.
Economy in Administration.
The Republican congress In the ses-
sion Just ended has made appropria-
tons amounting to s1,00s, 100000. ex-
ceeding the total expenditures of the
past fiscal year by $50. 900, 900. and
leaving a deficit OF more than $780,
100000 for the fiscal year We de-
nounce the Needless waste OF the peo-
PIES money which has resulted In this
appalling Increase as shameful vio-
lation of all prudent conditions of gov
eminent and as no less than crime
men and men from whose earnings
the great proportion of these colossal
sums must be extorted through ex-
cessive tariff exactions and other in
that in the face of this shocking rec
ord the Republican platform contains
no reference to economical admins
tration or promise thereof In the fu-
ture. We demand that a stop be put
TO this frightful extravaganza and In
sist upon the strictest economy n
frugal and efficient administration.
Power of Speaker.
The House of Representatives was
designed by the fathers of the consti-
tuition to he the popular branch of our
government, responsive to the public
will.
The House of Representatives as
controlled In recent years by the Re-
publican party has ceased to be de-
Lucrative and Legislative body, re.
sponsive to the will of a majority OF
Its members, but has come under the
absolute domination of the speaker
who has entire control OF its delibera'
lions and powers of legislation.
We have observed with amazemen'
the popular branch of our federal gov
eminent helpless to obtain either the
consideration or enactment OF meas
ures desired by a majority of III
members
Legislative government becomes {
failure when one member In the per
son OF the speaker is more powerful
than the entire body.
We demand that the house of repre-
sentatiyes shall again become de
jority Of the peoples representatives
and not by the speaker. and we pledg'
ourselves to adopt such rules and reg
sentatives as will enable a majorit!
of its members to direct its deiibera
lions and control legislation.
Misuse Of Patronage.
We condemn, as a violation of tn
spirit OF our institutions, the action o
the patronage of his high office to Sc
cure the nomination OF one OF HI
cabinet officers A forced succession
pugnant to public sentiment than I
life tenure In that office. No good In
tention on the part of the executive
Justify the establishment OF a dynasty
The right of the people to freely Sc
lect their officials Is inalienable an
cannot be delegated.
Campaign Publicity.
We demand federal legislation for
which has existed between corpora
tions OF the country and the Republi
can party under the expressed or i'm
piled agreement that In return for tn
contribution OF great sums of none
wherewith to purchase elections, the
should be allowed to continue substan
TALLY unmolested in their efforts /
encroach upon the rights of the PEG
pie.
Any reasonable doubt as to the ex
istence OF this relation has been for
ever dispelled by the sworn testimon
of witnesses examined in the insur
ance investigation In New York an
the open admission--unchallen b
the Republican national committee
of a single individual, that he himsel
at the personal request OF the Reput
lican candidate for the presldenc
raised over quarter of n million {
dollars TO be used in a single stat
during the closing hours of the las
campaign. In order that this practic
shall be stopped for all time we d,
mand the passage of a statute punish
ing with imprisonment any officer
a corporation who shall either cor
tribute on behalf OF, or consent TO III
contribution by, a corporation OF an
money or thing of value to be used
furthering the election of a presider
or vice-president OF the United State
or OF any member of the congress
thereof.
We denounce the action of the RI
publican party, having complete col
troll of the federal government for 4