The Prescott daily news., 1916-06-02
PLATFORM ADOPT
 ED BY CONVENTION
Endorse National Administra- tiOn of President Wilson, Favor PardOning Board and Passage Amendment No. 12.

cratic state conventions:
 We, the Democrats of Arkansas in convention assembled, endorse the National administration or President Wilson
 We favor revision of our tariff laws so as to fix and enforce fair basis of assessment, prevent tax lodging, and make all assessments uniform.
 We favor an enforcement of the act of the Legislature of 1913 providing for a Budget System for the purpose of keeping the expenditures of the State government within the bounds of the revenue raised for State pur- poses.
 We favor such legislation as will place the state on cash basis.
 We endorse the primary election bill prepared by the Committee ap- pointed by the Democratic State Con- vention of 1914, and now being ini- tiated
 Capital and labor are inter-depend- ent, and each should have regard for the rights of the other. We favor such legislation as will protect both.
 We favor the passage of law with proper safeguards for the protection of the state that will permit corpora tions required to give bond to deposit our own bonds as security.
 We favor a pardon board and until it can be created with some power, We demand that the Governor in the ex- ercise of the pardoning power shall enforce Sections 2567 to 2575 of Kirby's Digest, requiring a publica- tion of notice of the intention to ap- ply for the pardon.
 We favor the passage of Amend ment No. 12, submitting to a major ity vote of each school district the right to increase their school taxes from seven to twelve mills.
 We ask liberal appropriations for the State University, the State Nor mal, the Agricultural Schools, and the Charitable Institutions, and a separate millage tax for said institu- tions, and demand their divorcement from politics.
 We favor the convcning of q con e+;+ut;ono1 ooovap+iop to frop,a q naw constitution, more responsive to the needs of a growing commonwealth.
 We favor, as soon as the finances of the state permit, the establishment of State Reformatory for girls.
 We favor the enactment of a law whereby the bonds representing the permanent school fund of the state shall be increased to such an amount as will allow the interest rate of six per cent per annum from the date of their issuance to the present time, and that provision be made that said bonds shall bear six per cent interest hereafter.
 We demand the abolition of useless offices and commissions; the retrench- ment in public expenditures; the strictest accountability of officers who handle public funds; and insist that the aggregate of all appropria- tions by the General Assembly shall not exceed the income of the state.
 We denounce mob law and all forms of lawlessness and call upon the courts and juries to enforce the laws to the end that life and property may be made secure.
 We favor system of marketing bureaus for the distribution of farm products, so as to enable the producer to reach the consumer at the least cost and inconvenience.
 We favor prison reform, the merit system, honest business methods in the management of state prisons, free from politics, but demand that the penitentiary should be made self supporting.
 We favor immigration and ask the General Assembly to make liberal pro- vision for advertising the resources of the State.
 We favor the improvement of the public roads of the state, and urge the Legislature to make such changes in existing road laws as will bring about this result, and conserve the funds selected for that purpose.
 We believe the Legislatures in the