The Monticellonian., 1916-06-08
THE PLATFORM.

Tx IS Sh"s
We the Democrats of Arkansas, in
convention assembled endorse the Ma
tional Administration of President
Wilson.
We favor a revision of our revenue
laws. so as to fix and enforce a 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
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 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 mi
tiated.
Capital and labor are inter-depend.
ent, and each should have regard for
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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
tons 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
exercise of the pardoning power. shall
enforce Sections 1867 and 1876 of Kir-
by's Digest, requiring a publication of
notice of the intention to apply for
tho pardon
We favor the passage of Amend.
ment No. II. 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 enforcement from poll
ties.
We favor the converting 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 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-
coed the income of the state
We denounce mob law. and all forms
of iawlessness, and call upon the
courts and juries to enforce the laws
to the end that life and property
may be made secure
We favor 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 INDUCED to much
focal 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 curb
this evil.
We recommend the reorganization
of the State Guard. along the lines,
as suggested by the National Admins
tration, and call upon the young men
of the state to lend their assistance
to this plan.
i. We favor the prompt perfecting of
plans for the adequate handling Of
| the problems of the feebeminded. to
be carried out as fast as the financial
condition of the state will permit.