The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-16
Senator Stone Reads Document
to the Delegates.
Carry Suffrage Fight to Floor
of Convention.
DISCUSSES PAST and FUTURE
Democrats Crushed Money
Power, Says Platform.
Takes Crack at "Hyphenates"
and Urges World Peace.

st. Louis, June 16.-The full resoIu-
tions committee adopted the Demo-
cratic platform as submitted by the
subcommittee, today, and Senator
Stone read the document before the
convention following the opening at
/ m. today.
A few minor changes were made in
the original draft and the only snag
struck by the platform builders was
the woman suffrage plank. This was
carried before the convention on
minority report submitted by Cover
nor Ferguson of Texas. By vote of
25 to % the resolutions opposed the
proposed plank for a national suf-
frage amendment.
The platform as submitted by the
committee follows:
The ST. Louis Platform.
THE Democratic party in national
convention assembled, adopts the fol-
lowing declaration to the end that the
people of the United States may both
realize the achievements wrought Dy
four years of Democratic administration
and be apprised of the policies to
which the party is committed for the
further conduct of national affairs:
I'VE endorse the administration OF
Woodrow Wilson. 1t speaks for itself
1t is the best exposition of sound DEM
ocratic policy at home and abroad.
1--WE challenge comparison of our
record our keeping OF pledges and
our constructive legislation. with those
of any party of any time.
1--WE found our country hampered
by special privileges, a vicious tariff,
obsolete banking. laws and an in
elastic currency. Our foreign affairs
were dominated by commercial inter
ests for their selfish ends The Re-
publican party, despite repeated
pledges was impotent to correct
abuses which it had fostered. Under
our administration under a Leadership p
which has never -faItered, these abuses
have been corrected and our people
have been freed.
Makes Panics Impossible.
"Our archaic banking and currency
system, prolific of panic and disaster
under Republican administrations
long the refuge of the money trust
has been supplanted by the federal
reserve act, a true democracy of credit
under government control, already
proved a financial bulwark in a world
crisis, mobilizing our resources, plac-
ing abundant credit at the disposal of
legitimate industry and making a cur
rency panic impossible.
I'VE have created a federal trade
commission to accommodate the per-
picking questions arising under the
antitrust laws so that monopoly may
be strangled at its birth and legitimate
industry encouraged. Fair competi-
ton in business is now assured. We
have effected an adjustment of the
tariff, adequate for revenue under
peace conditions, and fair to the con-
| sumner and to the producer.
1--WE have adjusted the burdens OF
| ia axation so that swollen incomes bear
their equitable share. Our revenues
have been sufficient in. times of world
stress.
| Uplift for Labor.
I'VE have lifted human labor from
the category of commodities and have
secured to the working man tho right
| of voluntary association for his pro-
lection and welfare.
I'VE have protected the rights OF
the laborer against the unwarrantet
| issuance of writs of injunction ant
| have guaranteed to him the right o.
trial by jury in alleged contempt cases
committed outside the presence ot
the court.
I'VE have advanced the parcel pos
to genuine efficiency, enlarged thu
postal savings system added ten thou
sand rural delivery routes and exten
sions, thus reaching two and one-hal
millions additional people, improve,
the postal service in every branch ant
placed the postoffice system on a self
supporting basis with actual Surplu
in 1913, 1914 and 1915.
THE reforms which were most oh
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