The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-22
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their faces as soon as their votes were
secured A power so fnsolent in its
control of the law making powers must
be overthrown without delay and will
be if the American people have not lost
their spirit 80
There can be no relief as long as
the interests which profit through
tariIL laws are allowed to frame them,
as thus far they have always done. 1t
has just been shown in the most strik-
ing way that these have complete COM
mand of the Republican party, as an
organization. Insurgency is merely
protest. They scoff at it. The only
agency by which they can be dislodged
is the Democratic party.
''The election of state officers will
turn, as it should, on the important
home affairs which are now the chief
concern of our citizens. 1 shall refuse
to be drawn away from these What
the present administration has done
and tried to do is known to all and the
question is, shall it be approved or con-
demned?
But good government means just the
same in Washington as it does in Col
umbus and if the discussions which the
state campaign involves shall help the
voters TO elevate the public service i'll
both capitals at once, 1 shall he dou-
bly, glad to have had a part in them. y
Governor Harmon referred to the
honor accorded him by the Democracy
of Ohio and the renewal of confidence
and continued:
phrase serving the people a true de-
scription and not a false pretense or
a figure of speech. 1t expresses the vi
tai idea of Democratic government
"a chief magistrate does not serve
the people who uses the power entrust-
ed to him to advance his own or any
other than the public interests, or fails
to use it to safeguard the general vel
fare whenever it is endangered by neg
lect, incompetence, wrong doing or the
passage of unwise or unconstitutional
laws.
Efforts to continue reforms in the
state will have a further effect this
year The need of reforms is still great
er in the federal government and it
can be met in the election of congress
men. The waste of public funds which,
to the extent of 300 million dollars. is
openly confessed, is well worth looking
after, especially now when the people,
who have to make 1t up, are every
where struggling to meet the cost of
living. And neither economy nor watch
full regard for the common welfare is
possibla in Washington while the reign
of the favored goes on and the practi-
cal genius of our people finds such
small expression in the conduct of their
public business"
The Platform.
me 1OllOWIHS pISScllSQ ny lIlo
committee on resolutions. was adopt
ed by the convention endorsing Gov
ernor Harmon for the presidency in
1912:
We invite the attention of the ma
ton to Judson Harmon and the work
he is doing for Ohio. Two years hence
it will have been completed, then we
can spare him for larger duties. He
believes that guilt is personals act
ing on that belief at home, and would
act upon it in larger fields. high
sense of duty provides his only motives
for official actions, and his sense of
justice alone compels judgment. Firm
ness and strength mark him the man
to supplant vacillation and weakness.
The nation needs a real man and the
Ohio Democracy here presents and
endorses for the presidency in 1912
Judson Harmon
The leading points of the platform
are as follows:
THE coming campaign in Ohio for
| the election of state officers should
and must be fought on state issues,
and it is therefore proper that We de-
clare first and foremost our position
upon these questions of state govern
ment in which the people are most in
! terested.
! I'VE submit the record made and
being made by the present Democratic
state administration.
! Instead of protecting and defend