Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-04-10

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Stands on Baltimore Platform,
The Baltimore platform is the
working program of the Democratic
party. 1t was beaten into shape in
the white heat of a memorable ma
tional convention. 1t is indeed the
Magma Charta of the New Free
DOM 1t is the pledge of performance
given by the Democratic party to the
American people, and it should be
faithfully kept. This does not imply
that slavish adherence to letter which
would destroy it's spirit or defeat it's
greater plans and purposes; nor does
1t deny the right and duty of new
decision based on conscious judgment
under clearly changed and perhaps
critical conditions. To assert or claim
less would be neither Democratic nor
American. In that spirit l stand
squarely upon the Democratic nation
al platform and shall strive for it's
honest, prudent and thorough enact
ment into administration.
FavOrs Equal Suffrage-PrOhibiti
There are at least two great, moral,
human rights problems lying square,
ly across the path of American pro-
gress. demanding solution. They are
not directly dealt with in the Balti-
more platform, but they will be be-
fore the United States Congress for
action during the senatorial term for
which l am asking consideration
indeed, bills are now pending in both
senate and house. l refer to the pro-
posed national constitutional amend
ments, G establishing equal suf-
frage, without distinction of sex,
throughout the nation; and CD pro-
viding for nationwide prohibition of
the manufacture, importation or sale
of alcoholic liquors for beverage pur-
poses. These are not party questions.
They break through and rise above
party lines. 1t is, however, the right
of the citizens Of Washington to
know that if elected to the United
States senate, as fundamental DEM
ocrat and as an American, I shall
by vote and voice and every honor
able influence at command, support
the submission to the several state
legislatures of constitutional amend
ments, which when adopted by the
necessary three-fourths of the states,
will establish national equal suffrage
and national prohibition.
Favors State Prohibition, Too.
desire neither nomination nor
election under false pretenses, and
while fully recognizing the right of
any Democrat or other partisan to a
different opinion upon either or both
Of these questions, could not be con-
sistent with my record through three
contests and a quarter-century of
struggle which finally brought equal
rights to the women of Washington,
unless I stood ready to strive for the
same opportunity for the women of
all America. And similarly, in the
United States senate, as in the state
senate Of Washington and as mayor
of Seattle, l shall be consistent with
my life-record and pledge eternal OPP
position to the humanity-destroyin
politics-polluting traffic in alcoholic
poisons. l am standing for state
wide prohibition in Washington as
moral issue, above all partisan diff
ferences, and shall work and vote
for it's adoption next November. In
the Unites States senate shall stand
for national prohibition, by constitu-
tional amendment, as necessary
safeguard for human life and happi-
ness, the greatest asset and the high
est object of the nations protective
powers.
West Side Needs Senator.
An unwritten law, whose wisdom
and fairness can scarcely be ques-
toned, has given recognition to the
two natural divisions of our state by
the selection Of one United States
senator from each side of the Cascade
range. Three-fifths of our popula-
ton and a greater proportion Of our
taxable resources are on the West
side. Indeed, more than half of the
state population is in the counties
bordering upon Puget Sound and it's
tributaries. During a quarter-cen-
fury of statehood. this unwritten law
of senatorial distribution has never
been broken in the interest of the
West side. For three years past, both
United States senators have come
fro,, aoct IF tho mount ms do not