The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1913-01-23
Republican Ideas Approved.

have been paid the republican party
Of Missouri and its gubernatorial leader,
Governor Hadley, came from the dem.
ocratic party and its new governor.
The democratic leaders, in their con
vention last September, took up the
main propositions advanced by the re-
publicsns OF the state during the last
eight years and embodied them in
their platform, thus putting the stamp
Of democratic approval upon them and
pledging to enact them into laws il
empowered to do so by the people.
This was done because the democratic
leaders knew at that time that the
people favored every one Of these prop
ositions, and also because the demo
cratic senate had made a great mistake
in preventing the enactment OF laws
proposed by Governor Hadley for put
ting these propositions into effective
operation.
Although thus driven bypublic sen
timent to accept and to advocate things
persistently rejected and opposed by
democratic law makers, the democratic
leaders in that convention swallowed
their medicine and it gave new energy
to their party-gaye it something to
stand for,
When Elliott W. Major began his
campaign as democratic nominee for
governor he shrewdly espoused every
one Of these propositions, and auda-
ciously claimed personal and political
responsibility for them, although he
had shown, during his term Of four
years as attorney general, personal and
political antipathy to any and every
proposition advanced by the repub-
lican governor in his messages to the
legislature, and had manifested a con-
temptible spirit toward the governor
himself. In his inaugural address Gov
ernor Major, in a bombastic yet plaus'
ible manner, urged the immediate en-
actment OF laws for the improvement
of educational facilities; for the more
liberal support Of the state university
and the normal schools; for an organ
lied system Of road improvement, in
cluding a highway department for the
state, and similar departments for the
counties; Tor the employment OF con-
vict labor in road making; Tor the ap-
pointment Of immigration commits
sioners with ample appropriations by
the Legislature for immigration work;
for the reclamation Of swamp and un'
used lands; for revision OF the syatem
Of taxation; for tax on express CON-
panies; for the taxation OF money and
other personal property which escapes
taxation under the present loose taxa.
tion laws; for better support of the
hospitals for the insane and a more in.
telligent and affective treatment Of in
sane patients; for higher standard Of
efficiency in the eleemosinary institu.
tions; for a public service commission
to regulate the rates and service oI
public utility corporations and COM
panies, including railroad, street rail-
way, telephone, telegraph, express,
light, heat, power and other public
utility companies, and with authority
over the issuance Of stocks and bonds
by such companies. He also recon-
mended a workingmen's compensation
law, the simplifcation Of court pro.
ceedure and the elimination Of mere
technicalities by the courts in arriving
at judicial decisions. He recon
mended pardon board, and an in
crease in the facilities Of reformation
institutions, together with an exten
sion Of the powers Of the board 0
charities and corrections, and a NOR
liberal support Of that board. H
recommended home rule for the cite
Of the state (without referring to tn
fact that such rule had been deniet
St. Louis and Kansas City by demo
cratic Legislators for more than a qual
; ter Of a century,. He also recon
mended that officers Of foreign col
porations doing business in Missou
! be made liabl, to personal prosecute
for any violations OF law in conductin