Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-30


fore, it is the duty of the govern
ment to utilize their resources by
reclamation.
Postal Employees
We declare in favor of adequate
salaries to provide decent living
conditions for postal employees.
Popular Elections
We pledge the Democratic party
60 a policy which will prevent
members of either house who fail
of reelection from participating in
the subsequent sessions of congress.
Probation
We favor the extension of the
probation principle to the courts
of the United States.
Activities of Women
We welcome the women of the
nation to their rightful place by
the side of men in the control of
government whose burdens they
always shared.
Mining
Mining is one of the basic in
dustries of this country. The value
of our mineral production is sec
ond only to agriculture. Mining
has suffered like agriculture and
from the same causes. 1t is the
duty of our government to foster
this industry and to remove the re-
strictions that destroy its prosperi-
ty.
Regulation of Corporations
We pledge the Democratic party
to regulate by governmental agen-
cies the anthracite coal industry
and all other corporations controll-
ing the necessaries of life where
public welfare has been subordinat-
ed to private interests.
Merchant Marine
The democratic party condemns
the vacillating policy of the Repub-
lican administration in its failure
to develop an American flagship
ping policy.
Education
We believe with Thomas Jeffer-
son and other founders of the re-
public that ignorance is the enemy
of freedom and that each state, be-
ing responsible for the intellectual
and moral qualifications of its citi-
zens. and for the expenditure of
moneys collected by taxation for
the support of its schools, shall use
it's sovereign right in all matters
pertaining to education.
Civil Service
We denounce the action of the
Republican administration in it's
violations of the principles of civil
service by its partisan removals
and manipulations Of the eligible
lists in the postoffice department
and other governmental depart
ments; by it's packing the Civil
Service Commission so that the
commission became the service in
strument of the administration in
its wish to deny to the ex-service
men their preferential right under
the law and the evasion of the re-
quirements of the law reference to
appointments in the department.
Conservation
We pledge recovery of the navy's
oil reserves; and all other parts of
the public domain, which have been
fraudulently or illegally leased or
otherwise wrongfully transferred to
the control of public officials, pri-
vate citizens and corporations that
participated in these tranactions;
revision of the water power act, the
general leasing act, and all other
legislation relating to the public
domain, that lmay be essential to it's
conservation and honest and eff
Gent use on behalf of the people
of the country. We believe that
hit enation should retain title to
its water power and we favor the
expeditions creation and develop
ment of our water power. We fav-
or public control and conservation
of all the nations natural resources
such as coal, iron, oil and timber,
and their use in such manner as
may be to othe best interest of our
citizens.
Improved Highways
Improved roads are of vital inn
portance not only to commerce and
industry but also to agriculture and
rural life. We call attention to the
record Of the Democratic party in
this matter and favor a continuance
of federal aid under existing fed
eral and state agencies.
Veterans of Wars
We favor generous appropria
lions, honst management and sym
pathetic care and assistance in the
disqualification, rehabilitation and
of the veterans Of ali
wars and their dependents. The
numanizing of the veteran bureau
is imperatiyely required
Campaign Contributions.
The nation now5 knows that +bo
interests have, by supply