The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-05
PLATFORM ADOPTED BY
 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION

the repeal of the present law limiting the recovery in death cases to s5,0OO or any other arbitrary sum. The Connecticut Democracy 4avora the enactment of workingmen's com pensafion law for injuries, We favor the re-esta bltshment of To- end that counties. towns and cities and boroughs may have the right to elect their own officers and regulate all
 matters of purely local interest; and we also favor conservative modern izing of the Sunday law | The Connecticut Democracy favors and to this end 1t advocated a uniform city charter policy dealing with funda- menta1s and leaving to each conmun- tty the right to work out it's own po- litical existence without legislative in- terference-
 We demand the abolition of the pres- ent undefensfble method of e1ecting county commissioners
 The Connecticut Democracy faWOrs the direct urinary form of nomina- tions. in order that the people may favor the passing of a law requiring the publication before election Of the aL1oonts centrfbuted for campaign pgr- poses. together with the names of the contributors.
 The Copnecticut Democracy favors an honest and effective corrupt prac- tices law, which shall etOp the use of money as a means of adTancfne sell fish men to office, and which shall say lO every ClLIASn mat GlG TlH-nE to serve his fellows is a matter of char acter, not of debauching human be- ings. The emasculation of the law by the Republican General Assembly was a wicked abuse of political power and undertaken that contests for political offices might proceed without restrfc- tfous.
 We believe in the establishment of 8 civil service law for the State that the employees of all State institutions may be appointed on the merit sys- tenn.
 We call attention to the fact that now for many years the Republican party has used the lower courts of State, city, borough and town courts as part of their political machine for the payment of political debts. A more diSgraceful use of the judiciary is not conceivable, and the Republican party has so used these courts for many years.
 We favor a rational economy in the expenditures of public funds and the abolition of the direct State tax on
 We ask that the recommendation Of the Hon. Rollin S. Woodruff that @ single purchasing department be es- tabNshed for all institutions of the State be adopted. We believe that the present methods are uneconomical and open to the greatest abuses and permeated with betty patronage.
 For years the party has demanded these reforms. The restoration of the full right of trial by jury in negligence cases was the result of Democratic agi- tation. The Republican party has been averse to these ohanges and grants only what it can no longer with safety refuse. The people of this State should entrust the enactment of these measures to their aVoWed friends rather than to their secret enemies
 Therefore we ask the people of Con nect4cut to elect the State ticket that we place in nomination, and so secure an adEniniStration of the affairs Of State during the next two years which will put public interests before party interests. cut off unnecessary expenses and do equal and exact justice tl every citizen