The Prescott daily news., 1908-07-30

l party in forty-fOur states and two ter ritories, have met in national conven- | tion to nominate absolutely independ- ent of all other political parties can didates for president and vice presi- dent of the United States.
 Our action is based upon a deter imitation to wrest the conduct of pob- lie affairs from the hands of selfish interests. political tricksters and cor rupt bosses and make the government, as the founders intended, an agency | for the common good At period of unexampled prosperity and prominence staggering blow was dealt to legiti mate business by the unmolested prac. tice of stock watering and dishonest financiering. Multitudes of defense- less investors, thousands of honest business men and an army of idle worhngmen afe paying the penalty. Year by year, fostered by wasteful and reckless governmental extravaganee, by the manipulation of trusts and by 1 privilege-creating tariff, the cost of living mounts higher and higher Day l by day the control of the government | drifts further away from the people and more firmly into the grip of ma chine politicians and party bosses. The Republican and Democratic par | ties are not only responsible for those l conditions, but are committed to their | indefinite continuance. Prodigal of promises, they are as barren of per | formance that to a new party of in dependent voters the country must | look for the establishment of a new D1t aud -atY, t.xx ~,,l.. government.
 Our object Is not to introduce violent 1 innovations or stratling new theories. We of Independence party look back ] as Lincoln did to the declaration of in | dependence as the fountainhead of all | political inspiration It is not our purpose to attempt to revolutionize the | American system of government. but | to restore the action of tgoehevrn to restore the action of the government l to the principles of Washington and | Jefferson and Lincoln. It is not our purpose to effect a radical change in the American system of government. but to conserve for the citizens of the | United States their privileges and lib- critics won for them by the founders of this government, and to perpetuate the principles and policies upon which the nations greatness has been built,
 The Independence party Is, there fore, a conservative force in Ameri. can politics, devoted to the preserva. tion of American liberty and independ- ent to honesty in elections, to oppor- tunity in business and to equity before the law. Those who believe in the J,I a,-t,. are convinced that genuine democ- racy should exist; that a true repub- lican form of government should con. tinue; that the power of the govern ment should rest with the majority of the people, and that the government should be conducted for the benefit of the whole citizenship, rather than for the special advantages of any par ticular class.
 Direct Nominations.
 As being absolutely of the first i'm of the government to the people, to make their will supreme in the pri mares, in elections and in control oi public officials, after they have been elected, We declare for direct nomi nations. the initiative and referendum and the right of recall.
 It is idle to cry out against the evil of bossim while We perpetuate a sys tenn under which the boss is inevita hle The destruction of an individual
 boss is of little value. The people, ir their politics. must establish a system : which will eliminate not only an ob
 iectonahle boss, but the system oi bosssm
 The Referendum.
 We believe in the principle of the initiative and referendum, and we par
 ticularly demand that no franchise grant go into operation until the terms and conditions have been ap proved by popular vote in the locality interested
 The Recall.
 We demand for the people the right to recall public officials from the pub lie service. The power to make off cials reside in the people, and in them also should be the power to unmake and remove from office any official