The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1910-07-30
he yTANDS FLAT-FOOTED ON EVERY.
PLANK or THE NATIONAL DEMO.
CRATIC PLATFORM.
Is in for an Aggressive Fight Against
The Republican Protective Tariff.
Trusts and Combines,
And Boldly Advocates the Election Of
D. 5. Senator's by the People and
Repeal Of the Fifteenth
Amendment.
WHAT | STAND FOR.

WHAT l STAND FOR.
/. I stand fiatfooted on every
plank of the Democratic Platform
as announced by the Democratic
party in National Convention al
Denver.
2. | am against the great Com.
bines and Trusts receiving special
privileges from the National Gov.
ernment, plundering the people,
and sapping the vitality of this
great Republic.
3. ] am in favor of rigid sup.
.ervisipn of the Railroad Companies,
and al other Public Service Cor
porations operating in these United
States. These Public Utility Cor
porations should not be permitted
to issue a Watered Stock, and
create thereby a fictitious capitaIi-
zation for the purpose of fooling
the government officials, preying
upon the people, maintaining Rob-
Der Freight Rates, and declaring
dividends on a fictitious Capital
Stock of three times the amount
invested.
a. ] am in favor of a revision
and q reformation of the Tariff
Schedules so as to harmonic them
with every principle and with every
plank of the National Democratic
Platform.
4 en- strongly opposed to the
Tariff on Lumber, and would do my
utmost to repeal and to nulIify this
Republican measure passed by our
last Congress for the Sole Benefit
of the Gigantic Lumber Trust, and
of the Great Hungry Timber Barons
Of the Northern States. This in
famous measure makes it compul-
sorry upon the part Of each and
eVeFv consumer Of lumber to donate
to- tfsfr bloated Golfers three. dol
lars and seventy-five cents for each
and every thousand feet of lumber
that he uses; all this in the shape
of Tariff. That iniquitous tariff
would not be fastened upon our
groaning people today, had it not
been for the unseemly traitors and
coWardly assistance of the thirty
six Squaw Democrats who shame
lessly and fiagrantIy voted with
Payne and Aldrich in the very ranks
of the Republican party.
5. / am in favor of Labor Unions.
The one and only way in which the
producers, the farmers of this rich
country can ever hope to receive
fair play and just reward for their
agricultural products is through
the efforts and the combined
strength Of their Glorious Union.
The one and the only way that
the employees of the great enter
prises of this country can hope to
maintain and receive just pay for
their labor is through the organiz-
ed efforts Of their great unions.
] am also in favor very fixedly Of
liberal appropriations for our
rivers and harbors, and if elected,
will most assuredIy exert myself to
the utmost towards securing the
proper recognition of our claims,
and getting the largest possible ap-
preparations for the Mississippi
river, for the great levee systems.
and for all our navigable and pro-
spectively navigable streams.
6. While | favor good and honor
able people immigrating into this
country, / want it understood right
now that ] would fight with all my
the further importation
into this country of ours, Of the
criminal class, the ignorant Scum
Of all creation, the Anarchists and
the Cinnamon. whose very presence
on our American soil is a menace
and perpetual danger to our in
stitutions.
Z. I favor the Agricultural De
Of our Federal Govern
ment, but regret to state that this
most important department. has.
spent vast sums of the peoples
money in many sections of the
but has so far done ex-
tremely little for our own State Of
Mississippi.
This is all wrong. and as we are
now in dire need Of assistance to
fight the boil weevil in this c1Sssa-
gressionaI district. / pledge myself
unreservedly, that if elected, will
devote my best energies to secure
The proper appropriations for the
relief and benefit of the Agricul-
tural interests Of this District and
State.
s. | am heartily in favor of ex-
tending the Rural Free Delivery
system throughout this entire
country, and especially to force the
Post Master General to proceed at|
1nce to install the many routes III
his State which have already been
approved. and are now held up
the petty tyranny OF a bull
acrsftFsl So