The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-23

the repeal of the present law limiting the recovery in. death cases to s5,000 or any other arbitrary sum.
 The Connecticut Democracy favorS the enactment of a working gmen's com pensation law for injuries
 We favor the establishment of To- car seIf-goYernment in the State to the end that counties. towns and cities and poroughs may have the right to elect their own officers and regulate all matters of purely local interest; and we also favor a conservative modern iz1ng of the Sunday law
 The Connecticut Democracy favors home rule for the cities of the State. and to this end it advocated a uniform city charter policy dealing with funda- Inentals and leaving to each cornrnun- ity the right to work out it's own po- iltacal existence without legislati in reference.
 F We demand the abolition of the pres- ent undefensible method of electing county commissioners.
 fne Connecticut Democracy favors the direct primary form of nonina- t1ons, in order that the people may Lavor the passing Of a law requiring the publication before election of the amounts contributed for campaign pur- poses. together with the names of the contributors.
 The Connecticut Democracy favors an honest and effective corrupt prae- rfees law, which shall stQP-the use of money as a means of advancing sell fish men to office, and which shall say to every citizen that his right to serve his fellows is a matter Of char acter, not of debauchinsy human be- 1ngs. The ernasculation of the law by the Republican General Assembly was 8 wicked abuse of political power and undertaken that contests flor political offices might proceed without restric- tions-
 We believe in the establishment of a 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 the payment of political debts. A more disgracefu1 use of the judiciary is not conceivable, and the Republican party has so used t1eese courts for many years.
 We favor rational ecodomy in the expenditures of public funds and the abolition of the firect State tax on property.
 We ask that the recommendation of the Hon. Ro1lin s. Woodruff that a single purchasing department be es- State be adopted. We believe that the present methods are uneconomical and open to the greatest abuses and permeated with petty patronage.
 For years the party has demanded these reforms. The restoration of the full right of trial by jury in negligence cases WAS the reS1AI OF T4O6mOcFaIlc. a$sl- tation. The Republican party has been averse to these changes 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 nectic1t to elect the State ticket that we place in nomination, and so secure an administration 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 to every citizen.