The copper era and Morenci leader., 1918-10-11
DEMOCRATIC PARTY COUNCIL ADOPT
 PLATFORM

The Democrats of Arizona, in Party Council assembled, adopt the follow people of the State may be apprised of the policies to which the party is committed.
 1. The immediate purpose of the Democratic party, the purpose which takes. precedence of every other, is to win the war. The fate of true Democracy everywhere depends up- on it's being won. It's object is to rid the world once for all of the threat of violence and injustice which must hang over it so long as there is any where an autocratic government which can disturb it's peace or doni- nate it's fortunes. The outrages against right which Germany has committed have directly touched our own citizens and our own liberties, and they have done much more than that. They have threatened right and liberty everywhere, and Germany must be brought to terms by such a victory as will leave no doubt in the minds of her rulers and her people as to what forces control mankind. We entered upon our present course in self-defense to resist a menacing assault, directed against our free dom and our national integrity; we shall not abandon it until our objec- tive is definitely attained.
 2. Because we mean to win the war, it is our purpose to support and sustain to the utmost the administra- tion of Woodrow Wilson His admin istration can be better supported by those who believe in it and trust it than by those who are constantly eager to make selfish use of what they conceive to be it's mistakes. It is, therefore, our purpose to supply the administration in our nominees with men who are it's real and un- questionable friends.
 3. We are confirmed and streng- thened in our support of the admin istration. and are in full harmony with it, not merely because we are at war and must stand behind the only common instrumentality through which we can win it, but also because the administration has deserved our confidence by it's record.
 4. Our purposes look beyond the period of the war. We recognize that the war must of necessity be followed by a period of reconstruc- tion, to whose problems it will be necessary that the best, most sym pathetic and most liberal minds of the country should be devoted. These problems will some of them be new. and many of them, though old problems, will wear a new aspect and significance. They must be ap- preached without regard to old party catchwords. formulas or prepossess- ions, in full recognition of the fact that they are new. and must be dealt with in a new way. Many thousands perhaps million, of our soldiers will return with health impaired. Eecessitating their employment in suitable occupations, under climatic conditions favorable to convalescence. The wonderful climate of the great Southwest can best give this aid, and of the southwestern states Arizona is most bountifully equipped by nature to play a remedial part. Prepara- tions should be made by this state to meet it's obligation, and to give em- ployment to our health-impaired sol diers. The wasting waters of our torrential streams should be harness ed to furnish power for the great plants which will arise for the refin- ing of our copper-one-third of the nations production of that metal and for it's transformation into ar ticles of commerce, and for the rec lamation of our arid lands, which will mean an inestimable increase of agricultural products and the essen- tials of life, more factories and many industries. We, therefore, favor legislation which will enable Arizona to discharge its duty in this respect, and to cooperate to the fullest ex- tent in the plan proposed by Honor able Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, to care for our return soldiers
 D. AS full a development as poSS1- ble of vocational training must be undertaken, particular attention being given to the rehabilitation of those who have been in one way or another disabled by the war. Opportunities for their industrial employment must be sought and found and they must be equipped to take advantage of those opportunities.
 6. And not in their case alone must the sympathetic aid fo the fed eral government be given to the allo- cation of labor, the development of its skill and the establishment of proper labor conditions, but such ser vices must be rendered all laborers and systematic effort must be made to raise the whole level of labor con-
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