The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-10
NOTHING FOR "THE INTERESTS
 -ALL FOR THE PEOPLE.


 The platform adopted by the Demo cratic State convention. is a very com prehensive deliverance, though com paratively brief
 Upon national issues, it favors rati= fication of the income tax which is. properly carried into effect, the fairest of all taxes, for it graduates the bur den to the paying ability of the per son; it declares for the election of fU s. Senators by the peop1e-wou1d iBu1keIeyt have "a ghost of a chance" under that condition, or eveh Mclean, with suspicion of the railrbad taint liked upon hirn; it favors an extension of the tariff free list and a reduction Of duties granted solely as the price of political support.
 Upon State issues. the platform is very comprehensive It asks for the creation of a fifth Congressional dis trict which has been wrongly with held because of the difficulty of cary ing out a new district without making it Depaocratic ara eI1dfafntgerdfng dfft Repub- Ifcan supremacy in one or more of the other districts.
 It favors the creation of an effective public utilities commission. it's mem bers to be elected by the people. and it's jurisdiction to cover all public ser vice corporations. The convention did not heed President MeIlen's virtual plea for the exception of his railroad from the commissions jurisdiction, nor his argument for the establishment of .saa commerce; court'' to deal exclusively with sscomplaints against us.''
 It favers repeal of the s5,000 death damage law, which was. if we rightly remember, vigorously criticied from the Superior court bench by George w Wheeler. since chosen member of the Supreme court
 It favors athe enactment of an -en- | ployers' liability law. This was prom ised by the Republican party in the last campaign, but the pledge was frepudiated by the last Legislature, heavily Republican in both branches
 It declares in favor of real home rule for counties cities towns and .bor- oughs, including both the choice of their officers and the adjustment of their local affairs. This. carried into effect, would prevent the too frequent racing of politicians of the dominant | party to Hartford to procure partisan changes in the charter.
 stconservative undermining of the l Sunday 1aw'' is advocated. This is in Eaccord with probably preponderant Ipublic sentiment. for the Puritan ESabbath'' isrilI adapted to modern con- ditfons and is honored in the breach rather than in the observance. The platform urges the adoption of a ! uniform city charter, dealing with fundamentals'' only and leaving all I else to the city itself. This policy is { growing in favor with publicists. It demands abolition of ''the present bindefensible method of electfngs county conrnissioners", which would leave them to be elected by the people. as is the Sheriff, the only other county official.
 It favors the direct nominating pri- mary which would root out the boss evil, as it has in several States The people would be in full control. as they should be under a system of popular government.
 I Ia favors the publication before cleo tion of lists of contributors to cam paign funds, and the several amounts of their contributions. Republican policy favors publicity only after cleo tions, and that reluctantly.
 It also favors s.an honest and effec- tive corrupt practices law; the en- actment of a civil service law and the merit system for employees of the l State; reasonable economy in expen- ditures; abolition of the direct State tax which was necessitated by Repub- lican extravag gance; and adoption of a single purchasing department for all State institutions.
 There is not in the platform an eauivocaI statement-no little jokers'' . and no sentence susceptible of a dou-
 bIe meaning. "The interests, and
 the political bosses who act for them.
 will find nothing to comfort them; the people will find their cause upheld on
 every issue.