The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-16
PLATFORM ADOPTED BY
 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION

the repeal of the present law limiting the recovery in death cases to $5,00O or any other arbitrary sum.
 The Connecticut Democracy favors the enactment of a workingnen'S com pensation law for injuries.
 We favor the re-esta blishment of To- cal self-government in the State to the end that counties, towns and cities and poroughs may have the right to elect their own officers and regulate all matters of purely local interest; and we also favor a conservative modern izing of the Sunday law.
 The Connecticut Democracy favofs home rule for the cities of the State, and to this end it advocated uniform city charter policy dealing with funda- mentals and leaving to each connmun- ity the right to work out its own po- difference.
 We demand the abolition of the pres ent undefensibIe method of e1ecting county commissioners.
 The Connecticut Democracy favors the direct primary form of nomina- t1ons, in order that the people may select their own servants. And we favor the passing of a law requiring the publication before election of the amounts contributed for campaign pur- contributors.
 The Connecticut Democracy favors an honest and effective corrupt prac- -tices law, which shall stop the use of money a means of advancing sell. fish men to office, and which shall say u every CILlZ0n IndL his TlgnL to serve his fellows is a matter of char acter, not of debauching human be- ings: The enasculation of the law by the Republican General, Assembly was a wicked abuse of political power and undertaken that contests for political offices might proceed without restric- tionS E
 We believe in the establishment of g, civil service law for the State, that the employees of all State institutions may be appointed on the merit sys-
 We call attention to the fact that now for many years the Republican party has used the lower courts of States city. borough and town courts as part of their political machine for the payment of political debts. A more disgracefu1 use of the Judiciary is not conceivable, and the Republican party has so used these courts for many years.
 We favor rational economy in the expenditures of public funds and the abolition of the direct State tax on property.
 ]. We ask that the recornmendation of the Hon. Rollin S. Woodruff that single purchasing department be es- State be. adopted. We believe that the present methods are uneconomica1 and open to the greatest abuses and permeated with petty patronage.
 For years the party has demanded these reforms. The restoration of the full right of trial by jury in negligence cases was bII0 I65U4C O1 =DGulOCIaIlC aSl- tation. The Republican partyshas been averse to these changes and grants only what it can no longer with safety refuse The people of this State should entrust the enactment of these measures to their zavowed friends rather than to their secret enemies.
 Therefore we ask the people of Con necticut to elect the State ticket that we place in nomination, and so secure an administration Of the affairs of State during the next two years which will put public interests before party interests, cut off unnecessary expenses and do equal and exact Justice to every citizen.