The Pulaskian., 1916-06-09
THE PLATFORM.

Wilson.
 We favor a revision of our revenue laws, so as to fix and enforce fair basis of assessment, prevent tax dodg- ing, and make all assessments uni form
 We favor an enforcement of the Act Of the Legislature of 1913, pro viding for a Budget System for the purpose of keeping the expenditures of the State Government within the bounds of the revenue raised for state purposes.
 We favor such legislation as will place the state. on a 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 flor the protection of the state that will permit corpora tions required to give bond to deposit our own bonds as security.
 We favor pardon board, and until it can be created with some power, we demand that the governor in the exercise of the pardoning power, shall enforce Sections 2567 and 2575 of Kir- by's Digest, requiring publication of notice of the intention to apply for the pardon
 We favor the passage of Amend. ment No. 12, submitting to a majority 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 nal, the Agricultural School, and the Charitable Institutions, and separate millage tax for said institutions, and demand their divorcement from poIi- tics.
 We favor the convening of con- stitutional convention to frame new constitution, more responsive to the needs of a growing commonwealth.
 We favor, as soon as the finances of the state permit, the establishment of a State Reformatory for girls.
 We favor the enactment of law whereby the bonds representing the permanent school fund of the state shall be increased by such an amount as will allow an 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 here after.
 We demand the abolition of useless offices and commissions; the retrencn- ment in public expenditures; the strictest accountability of officers who handle public funds, and insist that the aggregate of all appropriations by the General Assembly shall not ex- ceed 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 lavor a 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-sup- porting,
 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 sucn 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 past decade have indulged to much local and special legislation in disre- gard of the spirit of the Constitution. and we urge the next General Assem- bly, to reduce to minimum this evil. We favor such an Amendment to the Constitution as would effectually curD this evil.
 We recommend the reorganization of the State Guard, along the lines, as suggested by the National Adminis- tration, and call upon the young men of the state to lend their assistance to this plan.
 We favor the prompt .perfecting of plans for the adequate handling of the problems of the feebleminded, to be carried out as fast as the financial condition of the state wlll permit.