The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-07-03

assert that no substantial relief can be
secured for the people until import
materially reduced and these criminal
conspiracies broken up.
Anta-Trust Inv.
y private monopoly Is indetens!blc
and intoierabl We therefore favor
the vigorous enforcement OF the Grim
inal as well as the civil law against
trusts and trust officials and demand
the enactment OF such additional leg s.
lation as may be necessary to make
1t impossible for private monopoly
TO exist in the United states
We favor the declaration by law Of
the conditions upon which corpora
lions shall be permitted to engage in
interstate trade. including. among
Others. the prevention of holding com
panies, OF !nterlockdng directors, Of
stock watering, OF discrimination in
price and the control by any one cor
poration OF so large a proportion of
any industry as TO make it a menace
TO competitive conditions.
We condemn the action OF the Repub-
iican administration in compromising
with the Standard Oil Company and the
Tobacco Trust and its failure to invoke
the criminal provisions of the anti
trust law against the officers Of those
! corporations after the court had de-
clared that from the undsputed facts
in the record they had violated the
criminal provisions OF the law.
! We regret that tho Sherman anti
trust LAW has received a judicial con-
structlon depriviny 1t of much OF It's
efficacy and we favor the enactment of
legislation which Will restore to tho
statute the strength of which 1t has
been deprived by such Interpretation.
Rights OF the states.
fr. --,.- 49,. 4
maintenance in their full strength and
integrity of tho three coordinate
branches OF the Federal government
the executive. the legislative ana the
1udicial-each keeping within its own
bounds and not encroaching upon the
Just powers of either of the others
Believing that the most efficient re-
suits under our system OF government
arc to be attained by the full exer-
else by the states OF their reserved
sovereign powers. We denounce as
usurpation the efforts OF our opponents
| TO deprive the states of any OF the
| rights reserved to them, and to en-
large and magnify by indirectlon the
powers OF the Federal government
We insist upon the fun exercise OF
/ all the powers of the government both
state and national. TO protect the peo-
| pie from injustice at the hands OF
| those who seek 10 make the govern
ment private asset In business. There
is no twilight zone between the ma
1 ton and the state In which exploit
/ ing interests can take refuge from
! both. 1t is as necessary that the Fed
| eral government shall exercise the
| powers reserved to them. but we In
! sist that Federal remedies for the reg
| ulat!on OF Interstate commerce and for
the prevention OF private monopoly
shall be added 10 and not substituted
for state remedies.
Income Tux and Popular Election OF
Senators.
We congratulate the country upon
the triumph of two important reforms
demanded in the last national plat
form. namely. the amendment OF the
/ Federal Constitution authorizing an In :
come tax and the amendment provid-
! !ng for the popular election of Scna =
tors. and We call upon the people of
all the States TO rally to the support
OF the pending propositions and secure
their ratification.
| We note with qualification the unan-
imous sentiment in favor OF publicity
| before the election, of campaign con-
| ,rlbutions-a measure demanded in our
national platform OF 1905 and ut that
time opposed by the Republican party
and we commend the Democratic
House OF Representatives Tor extend
ing the doctrine OF publicity to recon-
mendaiions. verbal and written upon
| which presidential appointments are
maze. to the ownership and control
| OF newspapers and to the expenditures
made by and In behalf OF those who
| aspire to presidential nominations, ana
We point for additional Justification
for this legislation to the enormous
expenditures of money in behalf of
the president and his predecessor in
the recent contest for the Republican
nomination for President.
Presidential Primaries.
The movement towards more popu-
lar government should be promo / ed
through legislation in each State which
will permit the expression OF the pre-
ference OF the electors for national can
didates at presidential primaries
We direct that the National Commit
tee incorporate in the call FOR the next
nominating convention a requirement
that all expressions OF preference for
presidential candidates shall be given
and the selection OF delegates and al
ternates made through primary cleo
ton conducted by the party organiza-
ton IN each State where such express
sion and election are not provided for
by State law. Committeeman who are
hereafter TO constitute the membership
OF the Democratic National Committee
and whose election is not provided for
by law shall be chosen in each State
at such primary elections. and the SER
vice and authority OF committeeman.
however chosen. shall begin Immediate
~ upon the receipt OF thei. creden-
tials respectively
Campaign Contributions.
We pledge the Democratic party to
the enactment of law prohibiting
any corporation from contributing 10 a
, campaign fund ana any individual from
contributing any amount above a rea-
: sonable maximum.
Term OF President
We favor single presidential term.
and TO that end urge the adoption OF
an amendment to the constitution
making the President OF the United
States ineligible for recollection. and
we pledge the candidate OF this con-
vent!on to this principle.
Democratic Congress.
At this time. when the Republican
party, after a generation OF unlimited
power in its control OF the Federal
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