The Falls City tribune., 1910-08-12
PLATFORM.

Lincoln, Neb, August l. 1910. To
the People of Nebraska-The primary
election for the nomination of candi-
dates for office by the several parties
will be held Tuesday, August 16, 1910.
| am "a candidate for the office of
Uuited States senator on the repub-
lican ticket.
| am in favor of all the legislation
declared for by the republican party
in its platform this year.
| am In favor of the performance
of every promise made by the re-
publican party in It's national plat
form of 1908, and for such a revision
of the tariff downwards as can be
discovered without the aid of a
search warrant.
am in favor of placing lumber and
other material used in the construct
ion of dwellings on the free list, and
of doing it at the next session of
congress.
| am In favor of placing on the
free list at the next session of con-
gress. agricultural implements, me-
chanic's tools of all kinds. sewing
machines, and everything which can
be produced here, the importation of
which yields the government practi-
cally no revenue, and which can be
manufactured here and sold for ex-
port at a less price thar for home
use.
| am for placing sugar on the free
list at the earliest day possible.
Ii the laws now in force are not
sufficient for the effective prosecu-
ton of forbidden trusts and combina-
tons, l am in favor of the enactment
of such further laws as will drive that
class of combinations out of exist
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Is | am in favor of such government
al control of transportation com
panies as will prevent unjust discrim.
nation of rates for service intend
ed to yield an income on nothing
invested.
In so far as that object may be ac-
complished by legislation, am in
favor of the enactment of laws which
will tend to decrease the cost of
living.
am opposed to ship subsidies.
am in favor of such legislation,
state and national, as will afford to
every depositor in a bank the great
est possible security for his money.
| am in favor of restricting the
franking privilege to the free trans
%portation of the Congressional Record
and parts thereof; the reports and
public documents of the government
or any department thereof, and of
making the free transportation of any
thing else through the mails a Grim
nal %offense.
| am in favor of reducing the post
age on the first-class matter. fifty
per cent, and that at the next session
of congress.
| am opposed to all legislation
which tends to the creation of great
interests and combinations by the
few to the ruin of individual efforts
and the destruction of industrious, in
dependent action of the many and
the deprivation of labor of it's Just
compensation.
| am in favor of liberal appropria-
tons to all ex-soldiers who have rem
dered faithful service to the govern
ment in time of war.
| am in favor of such federal leg
i~slation as will tend to prevent boot
Logging To that end | am in
favor of the enactment of Congress
at the earliest possible day of a law
which shall prohibit the government
from selling stamps or issuing per-
mits for the sale of intoxicating liq-
uors in territory where such sales are
prohibited by local law, and making
such sales in such territory crimes
against the federal government.
CHAS. o. WHEDON.
Temperance voters in either the
%populist, republican or prohibition
parties a all this time vote for
7. Nj. c. Birmingham for L. S. Sen.
ator. He is the only one of the four
candidates for this office on the.
Peoples party ticket that stands un-
reserved for temperance and meets
the requirements of their Grand Is
land platform.