The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-10-03
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
Adopted Friday at New York State
Convention


Following is the program adopted
by the democratic New York state
convention at Rochester:
The platform presented to the con-
vention pledged the party first to the
preservation of the old nationalsm.
II condemned: "All attacks upon the
supreme court OF the United States.
II declared for sovereign state rights,
for the largest possible measure of
home rule for all cities Of the state
1t denounced the republican party for
its government of the state; it de-
clared that the Payne-Aldrich tariff
law was "a breach of faith" by the re-
publican party and responsible for
4 the high cost of living Only by
downward revision of the tarin it
held, could the cost Of living be re-
duced
It charged the republican party
with extravaganza and pledged the
democratic party to reuenchment.
Even this gross extravaganza" he
said. lis overshadowed by the reyela-
lions CT corruption forced from a re-
publican legislature. This almost
made the legislature a kissing and
byword throughout the nation" It
pledged the party to thorough in
vestigatioh OF all official wrong-doing
that the guilty may be punished and
business relieved of blackmail. We
declare in favor of statewide primar-
les to insure to the peop'e the right
to elect candidates and make nomi-
nations for public Offices. We favor
the enactments of such legislation as
shall compel the compulsory registra-
ton Of voters throughout the entire
state.
The platform declared for popular
election of United States senators for
m income tax and for parcel posts,
for the preservation of water power
for all the people, for forest reserve,
for reasonable regulation by the state
Of public service corporations. The
new nationalism plank c'osed the doc
ument Il was as follows:
Lastly, we solemnly declare our in
flexible opposition to, the socalled
new nationalsm: its inventor put
this forward as il It were progress
while in reality It is sheer reaction
to tyrannical methods long ago shak
! en- off by the free peoples OF the
world ofttimes at cruel cost in treas
ure and blood The settlers OF oui
country fled from Europe to escape II
Whatever advance its adoption would
bring is advance toward socialism
They would have us abandon free
dom. They would reduce the states
to procedures, governed from Wash
ington. They would clothe the presi
4 dent with power TO declare what /:
lawful-a power usurped by one pres
ident in the case OF giant corpora
ton absorbing a competitor Such {
new nationalism" would lay the met
ding hand Of bureaucracy upof
every industry. increasing the bur
dens of taxation, making the struggl,
) for life still harder and compelling
} every American workman TO carry OF
4 his back federal inspector. Agains
all this exatation OF federal central
\ ICED power to the destruction of HON,
4 rule; against this despair OF repres
entative government. against thii
contemptuous impotence OF the re
straint OF the law and OF the decis
a ions of the courts-we contend, II
supreme confidence that the people
OF this state and of this nation viii
+ not forget the noble heritage of thei
past, but upon that foundation will
a build the still nobler porgress of thei
) future.