The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-08-19
Ohio Democratic
State Platform

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The Democratic party Of Ohio in con.
vention assembled, reafflrms its faith and
devotion to those essential principles Of
Democracy which have ever held tbs
party together in victory and defeatI ita
unity and confidence after a long series
OF reverses in national elections are Bufs
fioient attestation to the sincerity Of ita
belief.
Guided by these principles the Demo
Ortaio party founded national unity and
prosperity, and established local self
government for the states and muniois
palites. They are alike applicable to ths
government of the nation and the stata.
The coming campaign in Ohio for the
election of state officers should and must
be fought on state issues and IL II
therefore proper that we declare first
and foremost our position upon these
questions of state government in which
the people are most interested.
We submit to the voters the record
made and making by the present Demo-
cratic state administration. Every doll
lar Of the peoples money on hand u
working for them, instead Of for office
holders and favored politicians, drawing
full interest as a result of fair compet~
ton, and that interest is now all going
into the treasury for the first time in
many years
Instead of protecting and defending
grafters, as was the way Of Republican
officers, the present government is haV-
ing them prosecuted and sued for the
return to the state of the many thou
sand dollars secured by fraud and
wrOng-doing.
Every agency at his command is being
employed to bring to account officers who
were recreant to the trusts reposed in
them by the people.
The governor is handicapped in the
task OF purifying and improving the
public service by the opposition OF hos
tile legislature and Republican state off,
cials He will continue the work so we'll
begun, but we call on the citizens to
uphold him by electing his associates on
thu ticket and legislature that win
help. instead OF hinder, In eliminating
graft, introducing bushes methods and
graft the the effectiveness while re-
ducing tire cost of state institutions and
departments a
Planks In Platform.
We favor a maximum aggregate tax
rate Of 10 mills, without any right to
Increase It, except by a vote Of the
people
we favor the fair and just regulation
OF all public utilities as well as railroads,
WIN lle TlSHl Vi uOIuO EulO dS " AIeiA-
chises, carefully guarded.
We favor the ratification of the In
come tax amendment Of the federal con-
stitution, which was stified by the pres
ent Republican legislature.
We demand the election OF United
States senators by direct vote Of the
people
To that end we pledge a Democratic
to take the necessary action
looking to a convention OF the states to
adopt the constitutional amendment re-
quirld
Pending the campaign for compliancs
with the peoples demand, 80 long denied
by a Republican senate, we promise the
enactment by a Democratic legislature
Of a law so far as public sentiment
will enforce it, providing for the nomina"
tion of senators by popular vote at the
regular elections in senatorial years.
We favor:
A uniform school book law.
The principle Of the initiative and ref
erendum.
The extension Of the teaching Of agri.
culture.
ciary by the placing Of the names Of all
judicial candidate on a separate ballot
without party distinction.
The enactment Of legislation limiting
the hours of labor of employed women.
National Affairs.
In national affairs we favor the appli" |
cation Of business methods to the ad-
minstration of the federal government
In order to reduce its enormous and fast
growing expenses which involve a waste
now admitted to be $500, ,Ooe per year.
We demand the revision Of the present /
unjust and oppressive tariff, reducing /
rates 30 as to lower the prices imposed j
On consumer; the need Of revenue for the |
economical conduct Of the government /
must be the guiding principle instead Of
The demands of favored interests And i
the chief burden Of tariff taxation must /
be taken from articles Of the cheaper /
grades where It is placed by the law Of
Payne, Aldrich, SmOot and Cannon, which /
Ahe president approved The gradual re-
auctions in tariff taxation to make It q
means Of raising revenue, instead Of an
Instrument of extortion, can not be safe-
but should be intrusted to the Demo-
,ratic party, whose motto is equal Jus
lice to all without either favors or In
Jury to any.
we favor the immediate enactment Of
he dollar a day pension bill introduced
Ind championed in both the Sixtieth and
sixty-arst congress by that Democratic
veteran. General Isaac r. Sherwood OF
Ohio, and we condemn the arbitrary ac'
Ion of the speaker Of the house and the
ADMINISTRATION in refusing to allow this
and patriotic measure to come
10 q vote In the house Of representatives.
We believe in the conservation Of ouf
natural resources and we donounce the
and especially Secretary
BallingoF. for Diminishing from the public
service tried and true ofiloers whose
Dnly aim was the preservation 20 the
people q such resources