The Sentinel=record., 1911-08-30
MEXICANS IN
 CONTENTION
DELEGATES UNUSED TO CoNSTI- TUTloNAL PRIVILEGES SPEND
 DAY ON A PLATFORM.
Adopt Weighty Document and Post pone Nomination of Candidates for President and Vice
 President.

President.
 Mexico City, Aug. 29.-Wearied by 5he exercise of theBr constitutional but hitherto unused right to nominate candidates for the presidency and the vice presidency, the delegates to the first national convention of the pro gressiye party late tonight adopted a platform that sags beneath its burden of reform. Tomorrow it is expected the nominations will be made.
 Fast work was done in adopting the various blanks of the platform af- ter getting rid of the First but this was accomplished only after a noisy debate. It provided for the strict maintenance of the constitution of 57 Some delegate proposed that there be added to this "and the laws of the reform" the measures by which Ben ito Juarez brought about the separa- ton of church and state.
 Delegates. jealous of the untrammel- ed exercise of their civil rights. ges- Iticulated and shouted their approval lof the amendment. The more conser- yative called attention to the fact that the principle of these laws had been embodied in an amendment to the con stitution and therefore the alteration In the plank was unnecessary.
 Tor more than three quarters of an hour, however, the doubting delegates vigorously expressed their opinlon, while those who remained silent con tributed more abundantly to the cloud of tobacco smoke that had settled over the parquet in the Hidalgo theater where the convention is being heiu. In the end the plank as written was adopted.
 The convention pledged it's candl- dates to carry out the principld of an and then work for a re- vision of the election laws.
 Another plank plans for the revision of the system of taxation, fayors the development of public resources ana promises to combat monopolies and special privileges.
 The party pledges its representa- tives to work for a reform of the jul dicial and legal system and also i'm provdment in the educational system of the country is also promised. One provision of the party's program is for an extension of the nations friendly relations with foreign coun- tries, especially those of Latin Am erica" and concludes with the promise to direct prudently thd policy of the government toward bringing about a union of the Central American re- publics."
 Special attention is paid to the in terests of laboring element in one plank which promises "to improve the moral. inteee!eetnal ad material condi- tions of workingmen. It is promised that it's representatives shall work for laws that will result in establish ment and maintenance of manual ,,f,,fr.rs onnoCTS
 The Mexicanization of the personnel of the National Railways is to be hastened and oos for providing knowletdge of railway operation are to be established. Laws looking to proper indemnification of those injur ed in the conduct of their work are promised and the question of pensions for disabled workmen also will be discussed.
 The Maya and Yaqul Indians are promisad that those deported by the old government will be returned by the new to their homes if they wish to return and that on public lands agricultural colonies will be establish ed for those who wish to avail them selves of the opportunity of dwelling there.
 The delegates did not begin the adoption of their platform until after six o'clock. Up to that time the day had been spent in listening to an ad dress of welcome by Jesus Unreta, on' Iof the prominent party leaders, an' lin the adoption of rules of order.
 Since this is the first convention of the party. the delegates were forc ed to take time to formulate rule of procedure instead of being able t pass a resolution to adopt the rule of the previous convention. /"
 Most important of these rules wa Ithat providing that candidates snoul'