New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-01

| government which it enjoyed under a long
line of Democratic Governors?
We pledge ourselves to a thorough and
| exhaustive investigation of all their con-
duct in both the legislative and admins
| tratve departments Of our state govern
rnent. that the guilty may be punished and
| business interests relieved from black
mail.
Statewide Primaries.
| We declare in favor Of statewide direct
| primaries to insure to the people the right
| to choose members of political committees
and nominate candidates for public office
We favor the enactment of such measures
as Will compel personal registration of vot-
ers throughout the entire state.
we believe that every possible safeguard
| should be thrown around the right to vote
such safeguards to be uniform In their
application and not made for one portion
| of the state alone.
| We favor betterment of the laws to pre-
vent corrupt practices and bribery and am
pie appropriations for their rigid enforce
! ment.
We favor the popular election of United
! States Senator's
Income Tax Favored.
1 We tdNor an Amendment 10 the 1eQeral
| Constitution to permit the imposition by
! Congress of an income tax. a tax which
! falls most evenly upon the people in pro-
/ portion TO their ability to share in the ex-
| pense of government.
| We recommend the extension and devel-
| opment of the parcels post so as to in
crease the weight and size of parcels which
| may be carried by United States mail.
| The Of Iopd nd for
| powers should be preserved to the people at
! large, and the value of these natural
| resources and returns from them increase
| the state would benefit in the largest pos
sible measure consistent with the honest
enterprise of the present generation. We
condemn the malfeasance and incompe-
| tency Of Republican administration of the
| forest preserve. We demand strict and i'm
| partial enforcement of the forest laws. in
| Guiding Immediate abolition of unlawful
| special privileges in lands dedicated by the
law 70 tho use and benefit of all the people
We fave reasonable regulation by the
state OF public service corporations
We favor the strongest aid to our pres
ent ir"titutIons for agricultural advance,
the development of education along these
lines. abolition of the use of impure seeds.
and systematic effort to improve the con-
ditions OF trade in farm products to the
benefit of both producers and consumers.
Public expenditure on canals and roads
should be better directed 10 promote easier
access to th~ markets for foodstuffs and
other farm products that the cost of living
may be lowered and the value of farms i'm
proved.
The New York state Fair is important
factor in the improvement OF agricultural
conditions in the state, and believe in
it's furtherance an element in agricult-
ural education.
The increase throughout the state OF
accidents due to the existence of railroad
grade crossings makes it the duty of the
state in accordance with it's long settled
policy. to contribute its full share toward
the elimination of such grade crossings.
Compensation to laborers.
We favor the enactment of laws estab-
fishing the right of laboring men In case
of injury to indemnity out of the fruits
of their own industry, and the enlarge
ment and more efficient enforcement of
legal restrictions upon child labor.
In our government there should DE no
distinction In citizenship because of race,
color or creed. We believe that native and
abroad should have the equal protection of
our government. and it's passports should
secure the same privileges to those to
whom issued, regardless of such distinc-
tons
We are opposed to unjust and oppres-
sive sumptuary legislation, which inter-
feres with the personal rights of the citi-
zen.
We believe police officers are entitled to
the writ of certiorari, and that whenever
practicable the benefits of the eight-hour
law should be extended to them.
We believe that for the protection of
greater efficiency in the public service the
merit system should be extended when
ever it is found practicable and protection
given to Civil Service employees from I'M
just dismissal
We favor the enactment of appropri-
ate legislation to improve and extend the
means for the prevention and cure OF
tuberculosis.
The New NationaIism.
Lastly. we solemnly declare our infieX-
ible opposition to the so-called new ma
tionalfsm" Its inventors put this forward
as if ii were progressive. while in reality
If is sheer reaction to tyrannical methods
long ago shaken off by the free peoples of
the world oftentimeS at cruel cost in
treasure and blood. The settlers of our
country fed from Europe 10 escape 1t
Whatever advance it's adoption would bring
is advance toward socialism They would
have TO abandon freedom. They would
reduce the states to procedures governed
from Washington. They would clothe the
President with power to declare what Is
Iawful-a power usurped by one President
in the case of a giant corporation absorb
ing a competitor Such new national
ISM would lay the meddling hand OF
bureaucracy upon every industry, increas-
ing the burdens Of taxation, making the
struggle for life still harder and compell-
ing every American workman to carry on
his back a federal inspector. Against all
this exaItation of federal Capitalization of
mower TO the destruction of home rule;
against this despair of representative gov
eminent against this contemptuous impa-
tience of the restraints of the law and or
the decisions of the courts, we contend.
in supreme confidence, that the people or
this state and of this nation will not for
GET the noble heritage of their past but
upon that foundation will build the still
nobler progress of their future.
For all these reasons we call upon the
citizens of this state. regardless of past or
present party ties. to join with the Democ-
racv In putting an end tc these conditions
by supporting the platform and nominees
of this convention.