The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-23
HARMON CHOSEN
FOR GOVERNOR
BY DEMOCRATS
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of public funds which, to the extent of
three hundred million dollars Is openly
confessed, is worth looking after, especial
ly now when the people who have to
make it up, are everywhere struggling to
meet the cost of living. And neither econ
omy or watehful regard for the common
welfare is possible in Washington while
the reign of the favored goes on, and
the practical genius of our people finds
such small expressions in the conduct
of their public business
Nominations Are Made
When the governor had concluded the
senatorial endorsement fight was renew
ed and the plan defeated by vote of
$40 against 254
After the adoption of the platform the
nomination of minor candidates began.
Atlee Pomerene of Canton was renom-
mated for lieutenant governor on the
second ballot and the vote was made
unanimous without concluding the roll
call Mr.. Pomerene withdrew after the
first ballot, but the convention nominated
him unanimously.
The following resolution presented by
the committee on resolutions was adopt
ed by the convention indorsing Governor
Harmon for the presidency in 1872:
We invite the attention of the nation
to Judson Harmon and the works he is
doing for Ohio. Two years hence it will
have been completed, then we can spare
him for larger duties. He believes that
guild is personals acting on that be-
lief at home and would act upon 1t in
larger fields. A high sense of duty pre-
vents his only motive for official ac-
lions and Wis sense of Justice alone COM
pels Judgment Firmness and strength
mark him the man TO supplant vacilla-
ton and weakness The nation needs a
real man and the Ohio democracy here
presents and indorses for President in
1912 Judson Harmon.
Convention Platform
The platform as presented to the con-
vention is in part as follows;
The coming campaign in Ohio for the
election of state officers should and must
be fought on state issues and 1t is, there
fore, proper that we declare first and
foremost our position upon these ques-
lions of state government in Ohio, in
which we are most interested.
We must indorse the record made and
making by the present democratic state
administration.
Instead of protecting and defending
grafters, as was the way of republican
officers, the present government is having
them prosecuted and has issued for the
return to the state of the many thou
sands of dollars secured by fraud and
wrongdoing.
We favor maximum aggregate tax
rate of 10 mills.
The fair and just regulation of all other
public utilities as well as railroad with
the right of home rule as to franchises
cayefulIg ,safeglJardsd- -,r-p---,..,.,...- tax
| amendment for the federal constitution.
We demand the election of United
States senators by direct vote of the
people.
In national affairs we favor the appli-
cation of business methods in the admin
istration of the federal government.
We demand the revision of the present
unjust and oppressive tariff, reducing
rates so as to lower the prices imposed
on consumers .<the need of revenue for
the economical conduct of the government
must be the guiding principles instead of
demands of favored interests.
And the chief burden of tariff taxation
must be taken from articles of the cheap
err grades where 1t was placed by the
law of PayneAldrlch, Sm9ot and Can
non, which the President approved
We favor the immediate enactment of
the dollar day pension bill introduced
in both the Sixtieth and Sixty-first Con-
crosses.
We believe in the conservation of our
national resources and we denounce the
administration, and especially Secretary
Ballinger, for disn1issng from the public
service tried and true officers. whose only
aim was the preservation to the people
of such resourceD.