The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-28

crippled; providing for the mainten-
ance at the penitentiary of a state
| asylum for the criminal insane; pro-
| viding for the care of the destitute in
sane crowded from the state hospitals
| for want of room; making it felony
for a husband to neglect or desert his
! family; providing for fire escapes on
all public buildings, apartment
houses and school buildings; providing
| a model child labor law; providing
for the commission form of govern
ment including the initiative, refer
| endum and recall for cities of Kansas.
| ''It has strengthened and enforced
| rigidly the prohibitory law.
1T has reduced freight and passen-
ger rates and sleeping car rates in
| Kansas and interstate rates affecting
1 the welfare of this community.
"It has secured the stringent inspec-
| ton of hotels and restaurant kitchens
"It has given the people the Blue
| Sky Law, which requires state in
81 ection of all corporations Offering
stocks or bonds for sale, thus leading
| the whole United States and foreign
countries in reform that is being
rapidly adopted elsewhere.
''These things have been done I'M
der Republican state administrations.
| With this record behind the Republi-
can party as an Endorsement and a
guarantee bond that our pledge will
be fulfilled, we make the following
| promises to the people of Kansas and
| bind all Republicans in. the admins
| trative, legislative and judicial de-
partments of this government to the
fuifillment of the following obliga-
ticns:
1--WE pledge the enactment of a law
creating commission on higher edu-
cation composed of the three boards
of regents of the educational institu-
tons of the state.
We ia 10
Inheritance tax law, and the enactment
of a new law exempt.ng absolutely
the widows or widowers estate, ana
exempting the children'S estate up to
$4,000 and for an appropriation to
reimburse estates under $4,000 which
have paid to the state under the pres
ent law, according to the governor
recommendations to the last legisla-
ture.
1--WE promise to adopt mortgage
recording tax law: to examine care
fully into the facts as 20 the wisdom
of state publication of school books,
and follow the wiSeSt course reported
by an honorary commission: to aool-
ism the fee system in county offices ana
nut all county officers on a fair salary
basis; to vote in the legislature for the
federal constitutional amendment pro-
yidines for direct election of United
States senators; to pass a law against
the white slave traffic.
ITO establish better conditions among
the workingmen of Kansas, we favor
law that will guarantee wage earners,
farmers and fruit growers the right OF
organized effort, so that their assocla-
lions shall not be regarded as ulegal
combinations in restraint of trade; the
enactment of an amendment TO the
present Injunction law prohibiting the
issuance of temporary inJunct1onS IN
la Dor disputes without hearing, and
prohibiting the punishment for con-
tempt of court, not committed in the
presence of the court, without a jury
trial, except where life ana properly
are in danger; the enactment OF law
limiting the hours of labor for women
TO an eight hour day, or 4S hours pei
week. in factories and all continuous
industrial occupations, and to promote
the establishment of an eight-hour Gay
in all hazardous occupations Where
oyerstrain threatens the lives OF the
people; the enactment of law to saie-
guard labor from competition with
convict labor at Lansing and so far as
practicable to provide for the employ
ment of the inmates in constructing
highways, they to be paid Tor their
services by the various counties, the
wages going to their dependent faml-
lies: to secure protection through nav
ing the proper life saving apparatus on
hand for Immediate use, in every ran
sas NINE with adequately trained men
for rescue work; to PROVIDE Tor state
mine inspection with proper life saving
anparatus. oxygen helmets, pulometers,
efc.-used so successfully by the federal
government; to secure an amendment
providing for the enlargement OF the
scone of the Workingmen's compensa-
tion law, reducing the limits now bur-
daninp the law, as to number OF enl-
nlovees in industries, and to PROVIDE
that the workmen's compensation act
shall he extended to include all state
employees; to enlarge the power OF
the present bureau OF labor, giving II
oIr< an
wages accidents, hours and other in
dustriaI conditions in all lines of Kan
sas industry and to devise methods anu
means for preserving proper relation
between wages end the cost of living;
to nroyice for the proper public notice
IF ali shop and mine weights, schedules,
scales, tallys and piece work condi-
tons.
I'VE also pledge ourselves to:
ITO enact a new revised and sim
plified code of criminal procedure
ITO conserve the rural schools
."To enact a presidential preference
primary law.
.'To enact a law providing for the linn
itatio1 of campaign expenses and for tire
publication of such expenses under oath
both before and after the primary and
election
providing for the initiative, the referen
dunn and recall of unfaithful public Of
ficers and for a state system of good
I'VE hereby instruct the senators and
request the members of congress from
Kansas to vote for the following laws:
ITO vote for a constitutional amend
ment limiting the terms of federal judges.
Not to be bound by the party caucus
In matters OF legislation, but to vote as
free men, for the interests of their consu-
tuents.
s'For the establishment of a nonpartisan
expert tariff commission with plenary
powers to examine books and install