The copper era and Morenci leader., 1922-10-06

state Republican administration, a pledge of economy in public affairs 1 endorsement of the many irrigation and power projects in the state and advocacy of a revision in the Arizona election laws are putstandinE fea- lures of the Democratic party plat
 form, filed with Ernest R. Hall, sec retary of state, at 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
 Planks favorable to the cotton in-
 terests of the valley and to agricul- ture in general throughout the state,
 proclaiming education a vital factor
 of government and declaring for a continuance of the present high stan dard of learning in all state institu- tions. favoring recognition for eX- service men and touching upon the relations between capital and labor also were written into the document, which covered IS typewriter pages.
 The platform follows:
 PLATFORM OF THE DEMOCRAT
 IC PARTY ADOPTED UNANI-
 MOUSLY BY THE DEMOCRATIC
 COUNCIL, ON TUESDAY, THE
 26TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1922
 Declaration of Principles
 We, representatives of the Demo- cracy of Arizona. in party council assembled, sincerely desiring the good of the Democratic party and the reclamation of union and state from business and political chaos, deem it proper and fitting to enunciate this Declaration of Principles:
 Abhorring political deceit, political knavery, political cowsrdice--sub- terfuge, straddling, sidestepping-we deem clear statement of the party's faith, clear expression of tho par tvs purpose, vital to the party's honor and good, and essential to the proper information of the citizenry of the state. Of the people, the Demo- cratic party should have no conf dences save with the people; existing for the people, it should have no aims save their service. To that enl this declaration is made.
 The True Faith
 As it was founded, as it has stood so today the Democratic party is the party of the masses. It is the liberal party. It is the champion of human liberty-free speech, free press. and the right peaceably to assemble. IL stands for equal opportunity. It un alterably opposes special privilege. It yields to none in the adequate safeguarding of property rights, but holds that the cause Of humanity, as holy as that of liberty-transcends the cause of the dollar. It adheres to the traditions which form it's ioUn- dation and gave it fame, and with enthusiasm contemplates a super structure built of the timbers, straight hewn, of enlightened prog ress and enlarged responsibilities.
 The Democratic party of Arizona is one with the party in the nation It stands with Jefferson, with Jack son and with Woodrow Wilson. It Walks with the man in the road"
 Indictment of Republican Party
 We indict the Republican party for responsibility for the greatest dis aster this country has known since the Civil war
 Finding a state of industrial de- pression brought about by its own sbortsighted, impeding ard fiibus- tering methods and policy, the Re publican party, hypocritically of fered to the American electorate as remedy for existing conditions the false and misleading remedy of a prohibitive tariff. Its party leaders including Senator Cameron and Gov. ernor Campbell, offered to the voters of the state of Arizona a panacea for all existing evils by a proposal to enact a tariff law protecting the i producers of Arizona against foreign l and upon this mislead- | ing and erroneous proposal misled i fI,0 <~f x1, '>f A,.tro and having accomplished their de- i sires by securing their own election. ! repudiated the platform of the na- | tional party, as well as their direct ! and personal pledges to the electors | of the state of Arizona. Instead of 1 securing for the cotton raisers and l other producers of the state of Ari- : zona an increase in price for Ari- ! zona products by means of tariff, such products as are produced by the people of Arizona will be found elin- mated from the tariff schedules, while such producers under the per nicious tariff bill enacted by a Re publican congress are compelled to pay eXhorbitant prices for the necess saries which they must buy.
 One of the guiding principles in the enactment of taxation laws and the raising of revenues should be This guiding principle. has been shamefully ignored by the nH- tional administration with the result that the burden of taxation has been from the shoulders of in 1ustry. most properly suited to, and most capable of sustaining it's proper burden, and the same has been shift ed to the shoulders of the poor and needy and those least able to bear the same. Through the means of changes in the income tax law. the profiteers are enabled to retain profits illegally gotten, .a1d the common laborer- and the needy people of our country under the pro hibitive and privileged interest tariff law recently enacted by a Republican congress are mulcted for millions which they are compelled to pay by way of taxation to secure the neces- Saries of life.
 The national Republican party and it's representative in the state of Arizona during the last political cam Iol,