Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-01
DEMOCRATS VOTE
FOR FEWER LAWS
Incorporate This Plank in Plat
form Advocating Prefer
entail Voting.
TO TREAT WITH SUFFRAGE
ONLY BY REFERENDUM
Tax Revision, Extension OF
Roads and Municipal Free
dom Other Doctrines.
IFrom q STAFF Correspondent


IFrom a STAFF Correspondent
TRENTON. Oct. 1.-The platform
on which Acting Governor James u.
Fielder and the Democratic party
nominees for State senator and AS
sembly make their appeal to the
voters was adopted by the Demo-
cratic convention at Masonic Temple
late yesterday afternoon. The con-
vention followed the organization OF
the State committee, with Edward u.
Grosscup, of Gloucester, as chairman
for another term.
After the convention had organized
with former Senator j. Warren
Davis. of Salem, as chairman, and
job III. Lippincott, of Hudson. as sec
rotary, committees were appointed
on rules. credentials and platform
and resolutions.
The members of the platform COM
nittee then convened and adopted
the pla tform which was later recon-
mended to the convention for adop-
ton. Governor Fielder was elected
chairman of the platform commit
tee and Assemblyman Charles Nj.
Egan. of Hudson, candidate for State
Senator. secretary. Most OF the
planks suggested by the members OF
the committee were concurred in by
the committee without any opposi-
ton, but attempts by Assemblyman
Charles O'Connor Hennessy, of Ber-
gen, to incorporate plank providing
for constitutional convention and
by Mr.. Egan providing for mini
mum personal tax, met with decided
opposition both in committee ana
later before the convention and did
not find themselves in the platform
as finally adopted.
The platform as finally adopted by
githe convention, after lauding the
principles of President Wilson, the
support given by the New Jersey
Representatives in Congress to the
tariff bill and the candidacy of Act
ing Governor James F. Fielder for
Governor, reviewed the work accom-
plished by last years Legislature.
1t then set forth in a clear manner
the planks on which the candidates
will run this year. The platform in
full was as follows:
The Democratic Platform.
We, the members of the Democratic
State convention, chosen pursuant to the
Geran election law, do adopt the follow
ing as our party platform and pledge our
support to its articles:
principles. believing that in the obsery-
ance of those principles our party can
best represent the wishes, the hopes and
the aspirations of the great mass of the
people of the State and country.
We reaffirm orr loyalty to our distin-
guished fellow citizen. Woodrow Wilson.
who, 5 President of the United States,
has added fame and lustre to the State
istration as President, registering our be-
lief that the courageous, patriotic and
intelligent qualities of mind and heart
that he devoted to the service of this
State as its Governor will add materially
TO the prosperity and happiness of the
people of the nation We indorse his adj
ministrafion as Governor of this State
Under his guidance progressive legisla-
ton, for which the people Of our state
had been seeking for years and which
had been denied them, was enacted and
we are now enjoying the benefits flowing
from these legislative acts.
We express pride. also, in the steadfast
Devotion of our party representatives In
Congress to the work of setting free the
industries of our country from the burden
of unjust tariff taxes, under which pri-
vate monopolies have grown great and
powerful.
We commend the legislative record of
James F. Fielder, the president of the
Senate. and his administration as acting
Governor. As member of the Assembly
rs Senator and as acting Governor. he
has brought TO the public service high
alliances and conscientious determina-
ton TO faithfully discharge his duties
and he has at all times been o consistent
supporter of advancement and reform In
legislation and in state government. We
recommend his candidacy for the office
Of Governor to the voters of all parties,
believing that his past record is safe
guaranty of his future conduct.
At the last session of the Legislature
of this State. which was overwhelmingly
Democratic, laws were placed on the
efuf a re for hn fnU Ia n
railroad travel. for the strengthening of
the school laws, for instruction to school
children to prevent accidents, for the
pensioning of widows and their children,
for the correction and curbing of cor
poration abuses within the State. for the
abolition of grade crossings, for the regu-
lation of motor vehicle traffic. for the
establishment of uniform system Of
weights and measures, for agricultural
demonstrations throughout the state, for
the extension of the employers liability
act to municipal and State employees, for
scmi-inonthly pay to municipal and State
employees, for the establishment of
State department of records and archives.
for the use of public school buildings for
public gatherings. for the abolition of the
contract system of prison labor, for the
establishment of a board OF parole FOR
prisoners, besides many other equally
important and equally progressive meas.
ures. These enactments are an earnest
effort of the Democratic party to give to
the people of the State honest and pro-
gressive government.
Z We pledge the efforts of our candidates
to secure the location and establishment
within our borders by the Federal gov
crnnfent of Il navy yard, which will bring
10 the State a large increase In popllla-
lion and wealth aud will provide employ
ment for many hundreds Of our. citizens.
We favor the co-operat ton OF our state
government with the Federal government
In the adoption of a liberal and eompre-.
hensive plan for the development and
Improvement of oar inland waterways
settx Hon .aT n
scross our State, with sufficient depth
of water TO permit the passage Of yes
sells of standard draft, this providing for
competition With railroad transportation
aud making for economy. and safety in
the shipment of goods and merchandise
We insist upon the mathematics of our
electiou laws and corrupt practses act
inyiolate, strengthening them if found
necessary, so that the machinery whereby
orr off cials are chosen may be effective
for registering the will of the people.
To make sure that the primary vote
will express the choice of not less than
n majority of those voting upon D0mina-
tions. we favor the incorporation into the
primary law of an adequate system of
preferential voting, to the end that the
voter may not be confined to single
choice among number OF candidates,
Remodel State Departments.
Our State departments, institutions and
boards should be thoroughly examined
aud in many Instances rearranged. We
believe that their work can be simplihed,
departments can be consolidated and bet
ter administrative business methods de-