Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-07-14
THE DEMOCRATS
HOLD THEIR MEETING AT RED
FIELD AND DO SOME
RESOLVING.
ATTENDANCE is PLEASING
Old Party Leaders Make Strenuous
Effort and Eajoy Most Har-
monious Maeting.

Neulelu-I lie state democratic Con-
ventlon held it's session in this eli Y.
The attendance was good, considering
the extreme heat, and the gathering
most harmonious. The import.n,
work of the meeting was the adoption
OF code of principles for which the
party pledges itself If successful at tue
polls Following Is the full text of
their promise:
We, the representatives of the DEM
ocrauc party of the State of South
Dakota, in convention assembled re-
assert our belief in democratic prin-
ctples as taught by Jefferson and Linz
coln-Equal Rights to all and Special
Privileges to None" And we call spe-
cial attention to the platform adopted
by the part of the nation assembled at
Denver, which we hereby most heartily
endorse
We denornce this so-called Aldrich-
Payne tariff bill as a fraud upon the
people, and we condemn our represen-
tatives in congress for supporting IT.
We demand an honest downward re-
vision of the tariff in the interest CT
all the people, and that all goods which
compete with trust made articles in
this country be admitted free of duty
We favor the election of the United
States senators by direct vote of the
people
We favor the repeal OF all laws con-
ferrins jurisdiction in federal courts
in controversies arising between the
citizens of different states and the
enactment of such legislation as Will
require the trial of such cases in the
courts of the states where the con-
troversy arose.
We denounce the o-called bank de-
post guarantee law passed by the last
legislature as an evasion of the many
pledges made by all Of the political
parties, and we pledge our party to
enact an honest law for the guarantee
of bank deposits.
We favor the assessment and tax
alton of the property of railroad cor
porations and of all public service
companies in the same manner and
upon the same basis as other property.
We realize that If our state is to
| prosper economy must exist and be
pra cticed in fact as we'll as in name,
and we pledge the democratic party
to a firm, steady and uncomproms-
ing resistance to all measures looking
to a multiplication Of offices and of
salaries.
We affirm that the annual revenue
of our state is sufficient, If properly
| expended, to provide adequate and
liberal support of all state institutions
and all necessary current expenses,
and also to furnish a large balance to
be devoted to the discharge Of the
state debt.
We affirm that there is no necessity
for further increase of the state debt
and declare that no actual necessity
ever existed for the creation Of the
present and increasing debt, and we
condemn the administration of Cover
nors Crawford and Vessey as incom-
petent and recklessly extravagant.
We realize that the apportionment
of public funds for the support Of
the state institutions by the legisla-
| ture is, has been and Will continue
to be a source of jobbery and combi-
nations of the legislature and among
the members thereof, so long as
present methods continue, leading to
the enactments Of bad laws and pre-
venting the due consideration of pro-
posed acts and measures We there
/ fore demand that bipartisan board
be created by law, whose duty it shall
be to make the necessary apportion-
ment of public funds for the support
Of the state institutions.
We believe that the platform adopt
ed by the party is binding upon all
those who are elected by said party
and we are in favor OF a law aeing
enacted, providing for recall on petit
tioi of any officer who in the opinion
of the petitioners has been derelict In
his duty.
We favor a primary election law
but the present primary law was evi-
IDENTITY drawn by the republican party
bosses in control OF our legisla ture fo1
the purpose of perpetuating party gov
eminent. We pledge the democratic
government to the enactment o.
amendments to said law which will
make it understood and leave the vote,
untrammeed in the selection of hi:
choice for the candidates for Office.
Recognizing the value Of the unit
ed effort in developing and advertis.
ing the resources Of our state, in or.
der that permanent citizens may b.
.4-~atc. TO .Ucate and capital to inves
in south Dakota, we favor such legis
lation as will aid in carrying out thi!
purpose.