Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-16
REFORMER CHOSEN
IN pennsylvania
Democratic State Convention De-
Cides on Grims for
Chief Executive
About a Fourth Under Regular
Associated Press1

ALLENTOWN, Pa, June 15.-When
the Democratic state convention re-
assembled this afternoon after a brief
recess Chairman Harman announced
Webster Grims of Bucks county had
been selected as candidate for governor.
In opening the convention Chairman
Harman said:
"The hour for action has arrived
such an hour and such a condition as
seldom presents itself to minority
party in Pennsylvania, and such con-
dition as is the logical result of Re
publican misrule.
From Pittsburg, where seemingly
a Stone can say by way of afterthought
I was not bribed, to Philadelphia, cor
rupt, contented; from Harrisburg, so
lately the scene of shameless raid, with
two poor souls in Jail; to Washington,
where increased travel money and a
White House on wheels seems inev-
table, where the Republican party
needs Democratic support, we have
seen this rotten system in full flower.
"What the state wants Is not a
mourning bench for criminal office
holders What we need, and what we
demand, is honest men in public office,
not rOgues we have to put in jail.
The platform was adopted and set
forth that the present Payne-Aldrich
securing profits to particular classes
and combinations of producers and a
means of patronage to other than true
protection; that majority of the law
full trusts now in existence are the
direct and natural result of excessive
tariff duties; that such trusts and
monOpolies should be abolished or con-
trolled by the supervision and man
agement of their business by legiSla-
I16 Nv Vi
mands the strictest economy in every
department of the national and state
| government and the public lands, the
| forests, the water power, the mineral
| resources Of the territories and the
United States which have not passed
out of governmental control must be
! safeguarded by legislation from ex-
! ploitation of any kind that will render
| the private property.
| 1t further states: "The present ma
| tional administration has been con-
| Vcted in the eyes of the world Of be-
| lug in league with favored corporations
and capitalists who seek selfishly tC
! grasp the rich natural resources of Oul
| distant possessions in order that they
may increase their already swollen anC
! dangerous wealth and tighten theil
| control of the comforts and living OF
! the people. The scandal Of the disposi-
| tion of the friars lands in the Philip
pines and the ore and mineral wealth
| of Alaska is a national disgrace fol
which the Republican administration is
! directly responsible. The retention by
| the president of his inculpated secre-
/ tary of the interior is an affront to the
| honesty and moral sense Of the ma
| ton"
An income tax as a part of our rev
enue system is favored and declaration
| is made for a proposed constitutions
] amendment authorizing congress Il
| levy and collect a tax on individual
| and corporate incomes, limited to Ger
! tain amounts.
The enactment of a federal and state
compulsory arbitration law for the set
| tlement of labor disputes Is favored, az
| is further legislation, both national anC
! state. which will definitely determine
| what campaign expenses are to be re
garded BIS legitimate and such laws AZ
| will provide for the compulsory publ
cation in detail, under heavy penalties
! of such expenses.