The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-08-02
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
|. MAPS STATE fight
FOR HUMAN NEEDS
Endorse Vision Of Roosevelt Ad.
ministration Lifting Nation
From Chaos
BACK MISSOURI DIVERSION
Ask Emergency Adjustments Of
Tariff to Permit Duty
Free Stock Feed
BACK MISSOURI DIVERSION

Hopeful Of victory in the fall cam
paign, North Dakota Democrats were
en- route home Thursday after hav-
ing placed new man in control OF
the party machinery.
He Is John G. Eaton, Fargo, long
time Democrat, who took the place
Of +. w. Mclean as state chairman.
Mclean, manager Of the Home Own
ers' Loan corporation in the state,
pleaded pressure Of his official duties
and asked to be relieved. Thurman
Wright Of Linton was named party
secretary.
The Democratic fight In North Da-
kota this fall viii be based largely
on an extension into state govern
ment Of the Roosevelt new deal rs
enunciated at Warrington.
Their platform contains, for exam
pie, proposals for social insurance to
protect the unemployed and the aged
against want. It calls for soil sur
veys, land classification and water
conservation, thereby bolstering the
national program which Is largely d.
rected toward the same ends.
On the debt issue, they call for q
legal moratorium which would permit
Of debt adjustment Is well q re-
prieve from forced collection.
Text Of Platform
The text Of the platform adopted
by the Democratic state central COM
mittee follows:
We reaffirm our faith In the funda-
mental principles OF the Democratic
party. We commend and endorse the
vision and the splendidly human full
fillment Of these principles under
the administration Of Franklin d.
Roosevelt which has brought our
country from despair and chaos well
along the road to national recovery.
We pledge our militant support to
every principle Of the new deal.
In present conditions In our state Of
North Dakota we recognize much
more than a mere political situation.
A great majority Of our people are at
this time living on poverty level.
This is largely due to conditions over
which they themselves have no con.
troll. Chief Of which is the phenomena
Of drouth which, In the current year,
affects more than two-thirds Of the
entire area Of our state. Its effects
are such that there Is no feed for
livestock, there will b, no money crop
and q relief problem Is constituted
such as North Dakota has never faced
before.
In this condition we commend to
our people thoughtful consideration Of
the great human problem that must
BE- met In this state with the aid Of the
federal government.
North Dakota having passed one
pioneer era must pioneer In q new
field Of development. Fundamental
in its detectives must be conservation
Of its natural water supplies and In
telligent classification Of its land UNI
der . carefully considered and detail
ed land use program.
Endorse Missouri Diversion
We endorse without reservation the
diversion Of the flood waters Of the
Missouri river and controls for the
Mouse river which will meet the water
conservation needs Of the Mouse river
loop country. We endorse al other
water conservation projects which
will impound and :'lake available nat
ural water supplies COW dissipated In
waste.
We commend the vision and wise
planning Of the nationa. administra-
ton in It's proposals to construct
shelterbelts Of trees to check the in
fluence Of erosion Ia the wide areas Of
the state and We recommend tree
planting to the people Of the state and
cooperation In the carrying out Of
this project.
We ask immediate emergency i'd
justments Of existing tariffs 20 that
plentiful hay supplies In Canada may
b shipped into the state duty free
20 aid Ia Nintering livestock ct time
when cattle and horses would other
wise have to Be shipped from the
lstate ct distress prices. We pledge
our adherence TO and support Of al
the institutions Of constitutional
government.
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