Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1912-05-09
Convention at Walla Walla
Adopts Platform Broad
Enough for All
ARRAICNS REPUBLICANS
Outlines State Legislation
That Would Benefit All
the People

WALLA WALLA, May S.--The fol
lowing is the platform adopted by the
Democratic convention:
Il. The Democrats OF the state of
Washington, in convention assembled,
reaflirm our allegiance to the princi-
pies enunciated in the democratic plat
form adopted at Denver in 1908, and
hereby declare our faith in the spirit
of true democracy as eXemplitied in
the life of Thomas jefferson, Andrew
Jackson Grover Cleveland William
Jennings Bryan and other great lead
ers OF our party.
Republican Party Arraigned
"2. The Republican party has been
intrenched in power so long that I
has become bold in its iniquities. un-
responsive to the welfare of the mass
es and subservient to the trusts. cor
porations and special interests. Its
history presents story of broken
promises, insncerity and lack of fidel-
ity to the interest of the people. 1t
suspended popular government in the
house of representatives by system
of rules which vested arbitrary and
autocratic power in the speaker. 1t
created and imposed upon tue people
a system of wasteful extravaganza un-
paralleled in the history of any coun-
try. 1t has not only permitted the es-
tablishment of monopoly, but gave eX-
ecutive sanction to the destruction by
the greatest trust on earth of it's most
potential rival. 1t is directly respon-
sible for the existence of that vast
system of combination and control
which raised the prices of living to
the point where the actual necessities
of life are almost beyond the reach of
the great industrial classes. In the
last national election it went before
the people promising correction of
its own iniQuities. 1t promised re-
vision of the tariff; and in violation
of the promise it gave the people that
monstrosity known as the Aldrich-
Payne tariff bill which imposed high
tax on the necessities of life for the
benefit of the favored few. Declaring
the most important schedule of that
bill to be utterly indefensible, the
president nevertheless signed the
measure and gave it force of law.
Achievements in Congress.
"The people then turned to the
Democratic party for relief from these
iniquities and elected a Democratic
house. In response to the demands u
the people this Democratic house
passed a bill reducing the tariff tax
upon woolen goods; but III response to
the demands of the monopolies and
protected industries, the president We
toed this measure OF reform. Our
Democratic representatives have again
undertaken a revision of the most I'M
portant schedules of the present IN
iuuitous tariff in the hope that their
labors in behalf of the people will not
again be rendered abortive by the act
of n standpat executive. We heartily
indorse and commend the action of the
Democratic party in these efforts of
reform in overthrowing 'Cannonism
and restoring to the people their rep
resentative form of government in the
popular branch of congress.
State Administration Attacked.
"3. The uninterrupted rule of the
Republican party in this state has led
Republ can officials to become so bold
in the administration CT our state al
fairs that we witness inefhciency,
waste. eXtravagance, dishonesty and
corruption in many departments OF the
government, both state and count!
This extravaganza and dishonesty
have led to increased burdens of tax
alton; to the loss of millions of dol
lars to the state through barterins
away of it's school lands at ridiculous
" low prices, thus robbing the school
and educational institutions of the
state of their just heritage; and We
urge the immediate passage of law
vesting in the boards Of regents OF
our several state educational institu