Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-07-10
DEMOCRATS MAINTAIN
REPUBLICANS ARE
fxTRAvAGANT
Scores Party In Power for
Billion Dollar Session
OF the Last Con.
gTeSS.
USUAL DEMANDS"
ARE IN PLATFORM
Many Things viii be Changed.
They Promise. if Votes Should
Happen to Add Up Right This
Fdll--Brydn'S Hand In Evil
denCe Through Document.

Denver, July 10.-The platform
adopted during last nights session of
the Democratic national convention
says:
I'VE, the representatives Of the
Democracy of the United States, in
national convention Assembled, re-
affirm our belief in and pledge our
loyalty to the support of the party.
I'VE rejoice at The increasing signs
OF an awakening throughout the
country, The various investigations
have traced graft and political cor
ruption to the representatives OF
predatory wealth, and laid bare the
! INSCRIPTIONS methods by which they
have debauched elections and preyed
upon a defenseless public through the
subservient officials whom they have
raised 10 place and power.
THE conscience of the nation Is
now aroused to free the government
from the grip OF those who have made
T. a business asset of the favor-seek-
Ing corporations; 1t must become
again a peoples government and be
administered in all it's departments
according to the Jeffersonian maxim
of equal rights to all and special
privileges to none
"Shall the people rule? is the over
shadowins issue which manifests It.,
sell in all the questions now under
discussion"
The platform then goes on to say
that during the past year 23,704 Of
flee holders have been added to the
national government and during the
past six years 99,319 have been added,
entailing an additional expenditure OF
nearly seventy million dollars. 1t
protests against this extravaganza and
| accuses the Republican party of add
ing these dependents to keep itself in
power.
Economy In administration is de-
| manded, the appropriations of ST.
OOS,OO0 by the recent Congress fur
| nishing an opportunity for this plank.
A pledge is made that in the event
| of Democratic success at the election
the power of the speaker of the
House of Representatives will be
taken away and that body governed
more by its members.
Roosevelt is accused of using pat
ronage to secure Taft's nomination
and this action OF the chief executive
IS condemned.
Federal laws requiring publicity of
campaign contributions are demand
ed and contributions from officers of
corporations are condemned, this
plank saying:
In order that this practice shall
be stopped for all time, We demand
the passage of a statute punishing
with Imprisonment any member of a
corporation VINO shall contribute to
..Ie campaign fund, or shall consent
to the contribution by a corporation
of any money or thing of value to be
used in furthering the election Of
president or vice president of the
United States. or any member of Con-
gress thereof"
A plank opposing Capitalization of
power in the federal government and
demanding greater state rights is in
cluded, the demand being made that
federal regulation of interstate COM
merce and prevention of monopoly
shall be added to the state remedies,
and not substituted for them.
The tariH plank says:
I'VE welcome the belated promise
OF tariff reform now offered by the
Republican party in tardy recognition
OF the righteousness of the Democrat
ic position on this question; but the
people cannot safely entrust the
completion Of this important work to
a party which Is so deeply obligated
to the highly protected interests as Is
the Republican party. We call at
ten,ion to the significant fact that the
promised relief was postponed until
aIte- the coming election--an election
TO succeed in which the Republican
party must have that same support
from the beneficiaries OF the high pro-
tectiye tariff as it has always hereto
fore received from them; and to the
lurther fact that during years Of un-
Interrupted power, no action what
ever has been taken by the Repub-
lican Congress to correct the admit
tedly existing tariff inlquities.
I'VE favor immediate revision of
the tariff by the reduction Of import
duties, Articles entering into compe-
ttion with trust controlled products