Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-07-05

terlockinE -eetors, Of stock watering,
of discrimination in price, and the con-
troll by any one corporation of So
large a proportion Of any Industry as
to make IL a menace to competitive
conditions.
we condemn the action Of the Repub-
lican administration in compromising
with the Standard Oil company and the
tobacco trust and its failure to invoke
the criminal provisions of the antitrust
law against the officers of those cor
porations after the court had declared
that from the undisputed facts in the
record they had violated the criminal
provisions of the law.
We regret that the Sherman anti
trust law has received a judicial con-
struction depriving il of much of its
efficiency, and we favor the enactment
OF legislation which will restore to the
statute the strength of which IL has
been deprived by such Interpretation.
RIGHTS OF THE STATES.
We believe in the preservation and
maintenance in their full strength and
integrity Of the three coordinate
branches Of the federal government
the executive, the legislative and the
judieial-each keeping within it's 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 10 be attained by the full exercise
by the states OF their reserved sover-
eign powers. we denounce as usurpation
the EFFORTS Of our opponents TO deprive
the states of any Of the rights reserved
to them, and TO enlarge and magnify
BY indirection the powers Of the fed
eral government
We insist upon the full exercise Of
all the powers Of the government both
state and national, to protect the peo-
ple from injustice at the hands of those
who seek to make the government a
private asset in business. There Is no
twilight zone between the nation ana
the state in which exploiting interests
can take refuge from both. 1t is as
necessary that the federal government
shall exercise the powers reserved to
IL. but we insist that federal RENEE
dies for the regulation Of interstate
commerce and for the prevention OF pri-
vate monopoly shall be added TO and not
substituted for state remedies.
INCOME TAX AND POPULAR ELEC-
TIoN OF SENATORS.
We conera tulate the country upon the
triumph OF two important reforms de-
manded in the last national platform,
namely. the amendment of the federal
constitution authorizing an income tax
and the amendment providing for the
popular election Of senator's, and We
can upon the people of all the states TO
rally to the support of the pending
propositions and secure their raunc ca
ton.
We note with qualification the unani-
nous sentiment in favor OF publicity be-
fore election of campaign contributions,
a measure demanded in our national
platform of 1908, and at that time OPP
posed by the Republican party, and we
commend the Democratic house OF repre-
sentatives for extending the doctrine Of
publicity 10 recommendations, verbal and
written, upon which presidential APP
pointments are made, to the ownership
and control of newspapers and to the ex-
penditures made by and in behalf of
those who aspire to presidential nomina-
lions. and we point for additional jus
tihcation for this legislation TO the enorm-
Gus expenditures of money in behalf Of
the president and his predecessor in the
recent contest. Republican nomination
for president.
PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES.
The movement toward more popular
government should be promoted through
legislation in each state which will per-
NIT the expression OF the preference Of
the electors for national candidates at
presidential primaries.
We direct that the national committee
incorporate in the call for the next NOM
mating convention a requirement that
all expressions Of preference for pres
idential candidates shall be given, and
the selection Of delegates and alternates
made through a primary election Of del
egates and alternates made through a
primary election conducted by the party
organization in each state where such
expression and election are not provided
for by state law.
Committeeman who are hereafter to
constitute the membership of the DEM
ocratic national committee and whose
election is provided for by law shall be
chosen In each state at such primary
elections and the service aud authority
begin Immediately upon the receipt Of
their credentials. respectively.
CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS.
We pledge the Democratic party 10 the
enactment Of a law prohibiting any cor
poration from contributing to cam
paign fund and any individual from con-
tributing any amount above a reason
able maximum.
TERM OF PRESIDENT.
We favor a single presidential term,
and to that end urge the adoption Of an
amendment 10 the constitution making
the president OF the United States ineli-
gible for reelection. and we pledge the
candidate of this convention to this prin-
ciple.
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS.
At this time, when the Republican par
~ after a generation OF unlimited power