The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1920-09-24
Democratic Convention
Endorses State Ticket

1 - lUtO LleutSndQt GOVeTlOf w. w
Mcdowell before. the primaries,
would support him if he won. A goot
deal has been said about the nationa
candidates on the Democratic ticket
met Governor Cox and rode on the
train with him, and | am for Cox anC
Roosevelt, and l dare say that il
more than some Democrats will do
who are against the Nonpartisar
league. The men with me on the Dem
ocratic ticket will vote 1t straight and
| ask, will you do it?
was at this point in his speech
that Mr. Wheeler put his question tc
Judge Joens.
Among the NOnpartisan league can
didates present besides Mr.. Wheeler
were Burton Watson and M McCus-
ker, candidates for congress in the
first and second districts; r. A. Haste
candidate for secretary of state apd
Louis S. irwin, candidate 10 rattorney
general. Their presence at the conyen,
tfOn was the cause of surprise to
some, as it had been understood that
following a recent visit to Montana of
A.sC. Townley and conference of
state candidates, orders had been is
sue4 from the state headquarters Of
flee of the Nonpartisan league for all
candidates to remain aloof from the
Democrats convention and take no
part In its proceedings.
The Keynote Plank.
The principal planks in the plat
form adopted include:
Endorsement of the platform adop-
| ted by the national Democratic con-
vension in San Francisco; indorsemnt
OF Governor James M. Cox and Frank
iiA d. Roosevelt; Endorsement of the
Democrat state ticket.
The Keynote plank reads:
"A vital question before tho state
and nation today, is, how to legally
and effectively curb the profiteers
and protect the consumer Merchants
and manufacturers are entitled to a
| fatr return on their investments and
labor; the wage Garner, the farmer,
he clerk, is entitled to such return
for biz labor or his production as will
- E4ffcfent to support his family
rQyide q most cae for hi1 old
age. The farmer, the wage Garner and
the consuming public generally, des-
pite wage advances and higher prices
for farm products, finds the struggle
to attain decent living plane more
and more difficult The prufiteering
merchant and the profiteering manu-
facturer are the factors which are
most responsible for present condi-
tions in this country. We pledge our
candidates for the national congress
to cooperate wit hthe national gov
ernment in enacting effective anti
profiteering legislation, our candidat-
es for the legislature to vote for laws
with the same object in view, our
candidates for govrItor to approve
such legislation and our candidates
for state offices to see that such laws
are obeyed."
Taxation of Utilities
The platform also expresses pride
at the record of Montana soldiers and
sympathy for bereaved relatives. 1t
pledges cooperation and material as
sistance to veterans and declares that
the veterans should not, after the sac
rifices of war, be compelled to bear
an unfair burden of taxation and pay
tn cost of war. For this reason" it
says. I'VE demand that those who, be-
cause OF the war, made excessive pro-
fits. pays the cost of the war which
would otherwise fall upon those who
made the greatest sacrifices on the
battlefields of Europe"
In addition, the platform favors
equal taxation of individuals and pub
lie utilities corporations, including
telegraph, telephone, railroad, mining,
electric light and power companies
np xuyhn Il !,
state constitution with that in view.
Another Endorsement is the enforce
ment of the child labor laws and in
suring well being of children and
such additional legislation as is ne
cessary.
Federal Reserve System
The platform also indorses the fed |
eral reserve national farm loan sys-
TENS and the re-establishment OF rural |
credit banks. an effective weights and |
measures law; amendments to the |
state hail insurance law to give the |
largest protection to farmers at min |
imum of cost; responsibility for the
conduct of states business in the |
hands of representatives of all classes
of people and producers and consum-
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employees In industry, and proper
camp sanitation; for legislation re-
quiring all gasoline and kerosene to
conform to standards of the federal /
government; legislation giving owner
ship and control of public resources
to all the people, through legally con-
stituted bodies; amendments to grain
law, to protect grower and
eliminate unfair practices in dockage
and give full value for product: re-
Drganixation of state government to
pre-, ent overlapping OF departments
ana a budget system; strengthening
,f present teachers pension law: in
,pection Of electrical Installations
Condemns the Black List Ii
The system known as black listing
s un American. We favor Legislation
tho practice the plat
orm says. /
Extension Of rural telephone SCR
rice and assistance by the state. is ,
avored ~ Il exemption from taxation /
II improvements on homesteads.