Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-01
NEW Y0RK'S DEMOCRACY
LAUDS OLD NATlONALISM
Platform Opposes Usurpation Of
State Rights by Government

ROCHESTER,, N. Y, Sept. SO.-The
platform adopted by the Democratic
state convention today contains the
following declarations:
"The Democratic party of New York,
in convention assembled, pledges IT.
self anew to the old nationalism en-
bodied in the constitution of the Unit
ed States and to the support in every
way of the independent and continued
existence of each of the three and sep
arate and distinct branches OF the red
eral government; preserving all from
attack and usurpation and each from
any possibility of encroachment by the
others, and in particular we condemn
all attacks on the supreme court OF
the United States.
eve are unalterably opposed to any
usurpation by the federal government
of the rights of the states.
BETRAYAL BY REPUBLICANS
1--WE denounce the Republican party
in the nation for its gross and swilltul
betrayal of the trust reposed In 1t by
the people, and point out that the de-
clared and expressed promise to re-
wise the tariff downward, upon Which
the Republicans. obtained office, has
been willfully disregarded and ignored.
"The Payne-Aldrich tariff law, pro-
nounced by President Taft to be the
best tariff that the Republican party
ever passed, was a fragrant breach or
faith by the Republican party. The
bill even increased the exactions OF
former Republican tariffs and has
placed great additional burdens on the
shoulders of the average man.
1--WE charge the Republican party,
both in nation and in state, with gross
extravaganza in public expenditures,
with creating many unnecessary offices
and adding to the public pay rolls
thousands of useless officials. we
pledge ourselves to retrenchment and
reform, and to the economical admin
istration of public affairs.
"Even this gross extravagance is
overshadowed by disclosures forced
from a reluctant Republican legisla-
ture of official corruption, betrayal OF
public trust and fragrant and open
bribery, which have astounded and
Mortified the citizens of the state ana
almost made the name of the New
York legislature a kissing and by
word in the mouths of decent men
throughout the country.
DIRECT PRIMARIES FAVORED
I'VE declare in favor of statewide,
direct primaries, to insure the people
the right to choose members of po-
litical committees and nominate can
didates for jublic office.
1--WE favor the popular election OK
United States senators.
owe favor an amendment to the fed
eral constitution to permit the impo-
sition by congress of an income tax
I'VE recommend the extension and
development of the parcels post so as
to increase the weight and size of
parcels which may be carried by
United States mall
THE profit of public lands and water
power sites preserved to the people
at large, and as the value Of these
natural resources and returns from
them increase, whether from develop
ment or otherwise, the state should
benefit in the largest possible measure
consistent with the honest enterprise
of the present generation. We con-
denim the malfeasance and tncompe-
tency of Republican administration OF
the forest reserve. We demand strict
and impartial enforcement of the for
est laws, including immediate apoi-
ition of unlawful special privileges IN
lands dedicated by the law to the use
and benefit of all the people"
NEW NATIoNALIsM SCORED
The platform concludes with a de-
nunClaJlOn OF Iuo lleW AelNAOAAoAASAiA
as follows
Lastly, we solemnly declare our in
flexible opposition to the so-called
new nationalism.' Its inventor put
this forward as if 1t were progress,
while in reality 1t Is sheer reaction to
tyrannical methods long ago shaken
off by the free people of the world at
cruel cost in treasure and blood. The
settlers of our country fed from Eu-
rope to escape 1t. Whatever advance
it's adoption would be is an advance
toward Socialism. They would have
us abandon freedom. They would re-
duce the states to procedures gov
erned from Washington. They would
clothe the president with power to de-
clare what Is lawful-a power usurped
by one president in the case OF a giant
corporation absorbing a competitor.
"Such a new nationalism' would lay
the meddling hand of a bureaucracy
on every industry increasing the bur-
dens of taxation, making the struggle
for life still harder and compelling
every American workman to carry on
his back a federal inspector Against
all the exaltation of federal central
ICED power to the destruction of home
rule. against this despair of repre-
sentative government, against this
contemptuous impatience of the re-
straint Of the confidence that the peo-
ple of this state and of this nation,
will not forget the noble heritage or
their past. but on that foundation VIII
build the still nobler progress of their
future"