The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-10
Democrat Platform Text
Submitted to Convention

Text of the Democratic state plat
form as submitted today to the
party's state convention in Cadle
tabernacle follows:
The Democratic party pledges its
officials
To an honest, economical and ef-
flcient administration Of all official
/ duties.
To relieve the undue burden Of
taxation on real property by the
adoption, in lieu thereof, at least for
state and school aid purposes. OF
other methods, including an income
tax, with exemptions not less liberal
than those of the federal income
! tax.
To give equal opportunity for all
school children to acquire an educa-
ton in all school units. We favor
provision for equitable collection of
state aid funds for our poorer school
districts, and the proper, honest and
efficient distribution Of this fund.
To properly maintain and support
the state library.
To the continued support of the
George Rogers Clark memorial.
To extend and improve the state
highway system, not as a corrupt
political machine or football of pol
itics, but so as to make it more use
full and more efficiently admins
tered and to protect the highway by
regulating the traffic thereon.
To the economical extension of
our state park system; to the con-
servation Of our states natural re-
sources; to the reforestation of
wastelands; to the creation of state
forests in areas not adaptable to
agriculture and to the protection of
wild bird and animal life.
Stricter Bank Examinations
We favor such legislation as may
be necessary and beneficial to the
proper protection of our ex-soldiers,
nurses and their dependents.
Indiana coal should be purchased
and used by Indiana institutions.
State banking institutions exami-
nations should be equal to those
made by national bank examiners
under federal law, to the end that
we may have fewer bank failures
with their consequent losses in the
state of Indiana.
Waterways for transportation
from the Great Lakes to the Gulf
of Mexico should be opened and
maintained by the United States
government and Indiana senators
and representatives should give this
their undivided support.
We reaffirm our faith in the prin-
cipleS of constitutional liberty and
the bill of rights pronounced by
Thomas Jefferson and practiced by
Woodrow Wilson.
We charge that the people no
longer govern themselves.
We charge that Republican poll
ticians in Office have exercised priv
ilege and favoritism to the point
where it has begotten crime. For
crime today is a national disgrace
and menace, starting incipient rev.
olutionS in prisons and penitentiar
les. This crime wave came while
Republican administrations were in
full control Of all the law enforce
ment agencies. Following corruption
IN high places, it has spread like
contagion throughout the nation,
and with the examples at Washing
ton and Indianapolis before them,
the common criminal feels safe.
Charge Spirit of Plumber
No member of Democratic Pres
ident's cabinet, no Democratic Gov
ernor of Indiana has even been in
d1cted or convicted of crime.
Republican officials are response
bic Tor not SuppresSing crime before
it reached its present alarming pro-
portions. They are responsible for
the lawlessness of election in Lake
county. L the Democratic party
comes into power. honesty and in
tegrity in office, the enforcement of
law and the suppression of crime
will be basic policies.
We charge that the spirit of plum
der and privilege has caused the
present financial panic. 1t pervades
the pending Smoot- Hawley tariff
bill the most Ubiquitous measure of
its kind ever proposed in the ma
tons history. If enacted into law,
every citizen will be its victim.
We therefore indict the master
politicians of the Republican party
for crimes that have defiled, debased
and COMPOUNDED justice; for conduct
that has corrupted and corroded
conscience; for the lust and lure of
privilege that has brought about the
auctioning off of seats in the United
States Senate primaries in various
states at hundreds of thousands of
dollars each; for the unemployment
of millions; for the worst panic in
the nations history, for preaching
abolition Of poverty while raising
the cost of living through unreason-
able tax and tariffs, thus picking
the pockets Of consumers and low
eTlng the wages OF CnoSe VINO SClll
have jobs, and for intolerable taxes,
the result of reckless spending.
Governors Expenditure
We denounce the illegal and I'M
warranted action of the last legisla-
ture in appropriating the additional
sum Of $4,000 for the maintenance
of the Governors home and house
hold at time when our industrial
workers are unemployed by thou
sands and our farmers are threat
ened by bankruptcy.
We further charge that it is I'M
wise to place in the hands of any
Governor the unprecedented sum Of
100000 without check or control.
We charge that the present sec
rotary of state has used the vast