The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-07-05

tation
We believe in the preservation and
maintenance in their full strength and
integrity of three coordinate branches
of the federal government-the exec
utive, the legislative and the judic1al
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
are to be attained by the full exercise
! by the States of their reserved soy
ereign powers, we denounce &c usur-
patton the efforts of our opponents to
Edeprive the States of any of the rights
reserved to them, and sto enlarge and
magnify by ipdirection the powers Of
the federal government.
We insist upon the full exercise Of
all the powers of the government,
both State and national, to protect the
people from injustice at the hands OF
those who seek to make the govern
ment a private asset in business.
There is no twilight zone between the
nation and State in which exploiting
interests can take refuge from both.
1t is necessary that the federal gov
ernment shall exercise the powers re-
served to them, but we insist that fed
eral remedies for the regulation of in
terstate commerce and for the pre-
vention of private monopoly shall be
added to and not substituted for State
remedies.
Income Tax and Popular Election.
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-
ing for the popular election Of sena-
tors, and we call upon the people of
all the States to rally to the support
of the pending propositions and Sc
cure their ratification.
We note with qualification the unan-
imous sentiment in favor of publicity
before the election, of campaign con-
tributions, a measure demanded in
our national platform of 1908 and at
that time opposed by the Republican
party, and we commend the Democrat
ic house of representatives for ex-
tending the doctrine of publicity to
recommendations, verbal and written,
upon which presidential appointments
are made, to the ownership and con-
troll of newspapers and to the expen-
ditures made by and in behalf of those
who aspire to presidential nomina-
tions, and we point for additional JUS
tifcation for this legislation to the en-
ormous expenditures of money in be-
half of the president and his predeces-
sor in the recent presidential contest
for the Republican nomination for
president.
Presidential Primaries,
The movement towards more popu-
lar government should be promoted
through legislation in each State,
which will permit the expression of
the preference of the electors for ma
tional candidates at presidential pri-
maries.
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 selecting of delegates and al
ternates made through primary cleo
ton conducted by the party organiza-
tion in each State where such express
sion and election are not provided for
by State law Committeeman who are
hereafter to constitute the member
ship of the Democratic national COM
;mittee and whose election is provided
for by law shall be chosen in each
State at such primary elections and
the service and authority of commit
teemen, however chosen, shall begin
Immediately upon the receipt of their
credentials respectively.
Campaign Contributions.
We pledge the Democratic party to
the enactment of a law prohibiting
any corporation from contributing to
a campaign fund and any individual
from contributing anv amount above