Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-09
DEMOCRAT STATE PLATFORM.
Adopted by the Party Council at To
peka.

sezzbled in party council, do hereby
reReW our faith in and pledge our
support to the principles of the DEM
ooTaHc party as enunciated in our
platform adopted at Denver in July,
1898.
We recognize in w. J. Bryan and
joan W. Kern, able and earnest ex-
D0nents of the doctrines enunciaten
in that platform, and we pledge 20
them The electoral vote of Kansas.
We reaffirm our position taken in
1906 for the enforcement of law and
pledge the people of Kansas that no
backward steps shall be taken by the
Democratic party.
We pledge the people TO correct the
giariHg defects in the present tax law
and to abolish the useless offices, and
do away with its unnecessary eX-
pcRsc.
We pledge the people of Kansas
that we will enact a bank guaranty
law that viii make absolutely safe
every dollar OF money deposited in
state bank. Such guaranty to be I'M
der the control and supervision of the
state. We condemn the last Repub-
llcan legislature for its failure to en-
act sEch law.
We favor the nomination of candi-
dates by the direct primary system.
hui would simplify and cheaper the
present system and amend it SO as TO
preserve the secrecy Of the ballot.
Railroads should be operated for
the benefit Of the patrons, employees
and the honest stock and secu-lty
holders, and not as n side line TO
market jobbing. The light should be
turned on and the public fully advis-
ed as to their operations. The rail-
road commission should be given full
power 20 accomplish this result.
The present standard of wages
should be maintained, and as q re-
ductiCn of wages would drive from
the service the most competent men
and iii their places with those less
competent, thus endangering life.
crippilng service and damaging the
pubic, no general reduction of wages
should be permitted by the railroad
commission.
We call attention to the fact that
there is now upon our statute books
q law providing for the physical valu-
ation of railroads, and we denounce
the Republican legislature for refus-
ing TO make an appropriation for car
rying into effect this law. We believe
that the spirit of this law should be
carried out and pledge the necessary
appropriation for that purpose.
We pledge the people to correct the
unjust provisions of the present tax
law through which the burdens Of tax
alton have been increased upon real
estate and lessened upon the holdings
Of big corporations, to the end that all
property shall bear an equitable part
of public expenses and that all I'M
necessary offices be abolished.
We pledge our state committee in
this campaign to make public, both
before and after election, a detailed
statement of It's receipts and expen
ditures, and we demand that the mex
legislature enact n law compellingNal
parties to prepare and publish sucl
statements.
We favor the election of all publ,
officials, state and national, including
United States senators, postmasters
tax commissioners and assessors, ant
federal judges, by direct vote of thu
people.
Economy in public expenditures ha
always been a cardinal principle witt
the Democratic party and we pledg
ourselves to correct the abuses of tn
Republican party whereby useless OF
fees have been created and unneces
sary burdens placed upon the taxpay
eCs.
We favor a state income and inner
ithnce tax.
The Democratic party promises t
make it impossible for the school boo
trust TO longer levy tribute upon tn
spread of education In Kansas. Thi
trust Is forcing schools to use poo
books at outrageous prices. Gu
school books should be printed by tn
state and furnished at cost.
We pledge our party to the enac
ment of laws which will put an on
20 the vicious practices resorted to
railroad and other corporations {
maintaining paid lobbyists and CO
rupdonists to defeat the passage an
enforcement of just laws.
The antipass law, the result Of th
Democratic campaign of 1906, whic
has already eliminated much CORFU
-,
should be enforc-1.
The temporary two-cent fare now
vogue, yielded by the railway cor
parties to the demands of the Peep
az the result OF the Democratic car
Raign of 1906, should be required /
a general law. that all the Peep
may continue TO have the benei