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The Norman Democrat-Topic
PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK
VOLUME 23.
NORMAN, CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1912.
NO. 85.
DEMOCRATS DEMAND TARIFF nicut of such additional legislation a-
REVISION AND IMMEDIATE "lay be necessary to make it impossi
RATE REDUCTION ON NECES blt' for a,l)ri"t(' monoPol>' to <,xisl
! in the I tuted States.
SARIES.
The full text of the democratic plat
form adopted at Baltimore is as fol
lows
We, the representatives of the dem-
ocratic party of the United States, m
national convention assembled, reaf
firm our devotion to the principles of
democratic government formulated by
Thomas Jefferson and enforced by a
long and illustrious line of demo-
cratic presidents.
We declare it to be a fundamental
principle of the democratic party that
the federal government under the
constitution has no right or power to
impose or collect tariff duties, except
We favor the declaration by law of
the conditions upon which corpora-
tions shall be permitted to engage in
interstate trade, including, among
others, the prevention of interlocking
directors, of stock watering, of dis-
crimination in price and the control
by any one corporation of so large .1
proportion of any industry as to make
it a menace to competitive conditions
We condemn the action of the re
publican administration in comprom
ising with the Standard Oil Company
and the tobacco trust and its failure
to invoke the criminal provisions of
the anti-trust law against the officers
of these corporations after the court
had declared that from the undisputed
for the purpose of revenue, and we, . .
. ' . f 5 facts of the records they had violated
demand that the collection of such I u ' : 4lw
taxes shall be limited to the necessi-
ties of government honestly and ec
onomically administered.
The high republican tariff i- the
principal cause of the unequal distri
but ion of wealth. It is a system of
taxation which makes the rich richer
and the poor poorer; under its opera
tions the American farmer and labor
ing man are the chief sufferers; the
tariff raises the cost of the necessar
ies of life to them, but does not pro
tect their product of wages. The farm
er sells largely in free markets and
. 4 * . - . . , . the judicial—each keeping within it*
buys almost entirely 111 the protected
the criminal provisions of the law
We regret that the Sherman anti-
trust law had received a judicial con
,-truction depriving it of much of it-
efficiency and we favor the enactment
of legislation which will restore
the statute the strength of which it
lias been deprived by such interpreta-
tion.
We believe in the preservation and
maintenance in their full strength and
integrity of the three co-ordinate
branches of the federal government
to the executive, the legislative and
markets. In the most highly protect
ed industries, such as cotton and wool
steel and iron, the wages of the l.i
borers are the lowest paid in any of
our industries. We denounce the r«
publican pretense on that subject and
assert that American wages are es-
tablished by competitive conditions
and not by the tariff.
We favor the immediate downward
revision of the existing high and. in
many cases prohibihitive. tariff duties
insisting that material reductions l>
speedily made upon the neccssari< -
of life.
Articles entering into competition
with trust controlled products and
articles of American manufacture,
which are sold abroad more cheaply
than at home, should be put 011 the
free list.
We recognize that our system ot
tariff taxation is intimately connect-
ed with the business of the country
and we favor the ultimate attainment -
of the principle we advocate by legis
lation that will not injure or destroy
legitimate industry
We denounce the action of Presi-
dent Taft in vetoing the bill to reduce
the tariff in the cotton, woolen, met
als and chemical schedules and the
farmers' free list bill, all of which
were designated to give immediate re
lief to the masses from the exactions
of the trusts.
The republican party, while prom
ising tariff revision, has shown by its
tariff legislation that such revision
is not to be in the people's interest
and having been faithless to its pledg
es of 1908, it should no longer enjoy
the confidence of the nation. We ap-
peal to the American people to -up
port us in our demand for a tariff for
revenue only.
The high cost of living is a serious
problem in every American home
The republican party, in its platform
attempts to escape from responsibili-
ty for present conditions by denying
that they are due to a protective tar
iff We take issue with them on thi-
subject and charge that excessiv
prices result in a large measure from
the high tariff laws enacted and main
tained by the republican party and
from trusts and commercial cotispira
cies fostered and encouraged by such
laws, and we assert that no substan
tial relief can be secured for the peo
pie until import duties on the neces
saries of life are materially reduced
and these criminal conspiracies brok
en up.
wn bounds and not encroaching up
on the just powers of either of the
others.
Relieving that the most efficient re-
sults under our system of government
are to be attained by the full exercise
by the states of their reserved sov-
ereign powers, we denounce as usur-
pation the efforts of our opponent*
to deprive the states of any of the
right - reserved to them, and to en
large and magnify by indirecton the
powers of the federal government.
We insist upon the full exercise of
all the powers of the government
both state and national, to protect th(
people from injustice at the hands of
those who seek to make the govern
ment a private asset in business
There is no twilight scene between
the nation and the state, in exploiting
interests can take refuge from both
t is as necessary that the federal
government shall exercise powers re
served to them, but we insist that
federal remedies for the regulation
of interstate commerce and for the
prevention of private monopoly shall
be added to and not substituted for
-tate remedies.
We congratulate the country upon
the triumph of two important reform^
demanded in the last national plat
form, namely, the amendment of the
federal constitution authorizing an in
come tax and the amendment provid
ing for the popular election of setia
tors, and we call upon the people of
all the states to rally to the support
of the pending propositions and se
cure their ratification.
We note with gratification the
unanimous sentiment in favor of pub-
licity before the election, of campaign
contributions, a measure demanded i 1
our national platform of 1908 and at
that time opposed by the republican
party, and we commend the demo,
cratic house of representatives for ex
tending the doctrine of publicity o
recommendations, verbal and written
upon which presidential appointment-
are made, to the ownership and con
trol of newspapers and to the expen
diture* made by and in behalf of
those who aspire to presidential non
illations and we point for additioua'
justification for this legislation to the
eiirnioti- expenditures of money in be
half of the president and his prede
cessor in the recent contest for the
republican nomination for president
The movement toward more popu
lar government should be promote*,
through legislation in each stat(
sion of
A private monopoly is indefensible1 which will permit the expre
and intolerable. We therefore, favor the preference of electors for nations
the vigorous enforcement of the crim-1 candidates at presidential pnmaru-
inal as well as the civil law against We direct that the eomm.ttee i
tiust officials and demand the enact corporate in the call for the next nom
Now That
The New University Law Building,
The New Canadian River Bridge,
The Interurban Oklahoma City to Norman,
The Splendid Crop Prospects,
The good road movement all over the country,
Are all assured will make investments in Norman
City property and Cleveland County farm land more at
tractive than at any time since the Opening.
We have some bargains to offer which can be purch-
ased practically at your own price and terms.
We are still making farm and city loans at cheap
rates and money promptly furnished It will pay you to
see us.
Greismer Forman
inating convention a requirement
that all expressins of alternates for
political candidates and alternates
made through a primary election con-
ducted by the party organization in
each state where such expression anil
election are not provided for by the
*tate laws. Committeemen who are
hereafter to constitute the member
ship of the democratic committee and
whose election is provided for by law
shall be chosen in each state at such
primary elections; service and au
thority of committeemen, however
shall begin immediately upon the re
ceipt of their credentials, respective
ly-
W e pledge the democratic party t-
ti., enactment of a law prohibiting
any corporation from contributing t<
a campaign fund and any individual
troin contributing any amount above
a reasonable maximum
We favor a single presidential
term and to that end urge the adop-
tion of an amendment to the consti
tution making the president of the
United States ineligible for re-elec-
tion, and we pledge the candidate of
the convention to this principle.
At this time, when the republican
party, after a generation of unlimited
power in its control of the federal
government, i* rent into factions, it
is opportune to point to the record
of accomplishments of the democratic
house of representatives in the sixty
second congress. We indorse its ac-
tion and we challenge comparison of
its record with that of any congress
which has been controlled by our op
ponents.
We call the attention of the patri
otic cizitens of our country to its rec-
ord of efficiency, economy and con-
structive legislation. It has, among
other achievements, revised the* rules
of the house so as to give to the rep-
resentative* of the American people
freedom of speech and of action in
advocating, proposing and perfecting
remedial legislation.
It has passed bills for the relief
of the people and the development of
our country; it has endeavored to re-
vise the tariff downward in the inter-
tst of the consuming masses and thus
to reduce the high cost of living.
It has proposed an amendment to
the federal legislation providing for
the election of United States senators
by the people.
It has secured the admission of
\rizona and New Mexico as two
sovereign states.
It has required the publicity of cam
paign expenses both before and after
election, and fixed a limit upon the
election expenses of United State
senators and representatives
It has also passed a bill to prevent
the abuse of the writ of injunction
It has passed a law establishing an
eight-hour day for workingmen on all
national public works.
It has passed a resolution which
forced the president to take immedi
ate steps to abrogate the Russian
reaty
And it has passed the great supply
>ills which lessen waste and extrava
gatice and which reduce the annual
expenses of the government by many
millions of dollars.
We approve the measures reported
by the democratic leaders in the house
of representatives for the creation of
a council of national defense, which
will determine a definite naval pro
gram with a view to increased effi
ciency and economy. The party that
proclaimed, and has always enforced
the Monroe Doctrine and was spon
for the new navy will continue
faithfully to observe the constitution
al requirements to provide and main
tain an adequate, well proportioned
navy sufficient to defend American
policies, protect our citizens and up
hold the honor and dignity of the na
tion.
We denounce -the profligate wast
of the money wrung from the people
by oppressive taxation through the
lavish appropriations of recent repub
lican congresses, which have kept tax
es high and reduced the purchasing
power of the people's toil.
We demand a return to that simpli
city and economy which befits a dem
ocratic government and a reduction
in the number of useless offices, th
salaries of which drain the substance
of the people.
We favor the efficient supervision
and rate regulation of railroads, ex
press companies, telegraph and tele
phone lines engaged in interstate
commerce. To this end we recom
mend the valuation of railroads, ex
press companies, telegraph and te
phone lines by the interstate commi
sion. such valuation to take into con
sideration the physical value of th
property, the original cost, the c
of reproduction and any element
valuation fair and just
We favor such legislation a
effectually prohibit the railroads,
press, telegraph and telephone com
panies from engaging in busines
which brings them into competition
with shipper or patrons; also legis
tion preventing the overissue
stocks and bonds by interstate rail
roads, express companies, telegra;
and telephone lines, and legislation
which will assure reduction in trans
portation as conditions will permit
care being taken to avoid reduction
that would compel a reduction
wages, prevent adequate service
do injustice to legitimate investments.
We oppose the so-called Aldrich bill
or the establishment of a central
bank, and we believe the people of
the country will be largely freed from
panics and consequent unemployment
and business depression by such a
systematic revision of our banking
laws as will render temporary relief
in the localities where such relief i<
needed with protection from control
or domination of what is known a-
tlie money trust.
Hanks exist for the accommodation
of the public and not for the control
of business. All legislation on the sub
ject of banking and currency should
have for it- purposes the securing of
these accommodations on terms of
absolute security to the public and
complete protection from the misuse
of the power that wealth give
those who possess it
We condemn the present methods
of depositing government funds in a
few favored banks, largely situated
in or controlled by Wall Street, in re
turn for political favors, and e pledge
our party to provide by law. for their
deposit by competitive bidding in tin
banking institutions of the countr>
National and state, without discrimi-
nation as to locality, upon approved
securities and subject to call by the
government.
Of equal importance with tin ques
tion of currency reform is the ques-
tion of rural credits or agricultural fi-
nance. The reform we recommend is
that an investigation of agricultural
credit societies in foreign countries
be made so that it may bi ascertain
ed whether a system of rural credits
may be devised suitable to conditions
I in the United States; and we also f.<
legislation permitting national
nks to loan a reasonable proportion
their funds on real estate security
We recognize the value >i vocation
education, and urge federal appro
ations for such training and exten
ion of teaching in agricultur in co-
peration with the several state
We renew the declaration in ourjth
t platform relating to the conserva
ion of our natural resources and th-.-
evelpment of our waterworks The-
resent devastation of the lower Mi
sippi Valley accentuate the mov
lit for the regulation of river flow
additional bank and levee protec
ion below and the diversion, storage
d control of the flood waters above
nd their utilization for beneficial pur-
oses in the reclamation of arid and
amp land and the development of
ater power, instead of permitting the
flood- to continue, as heretofore
nts of destruction
We hold that the control of the
ississippi river is a national problem
nd the preservation of the depth of
water for the purpose of naviga
tion, the building of levees to maintain
integrity of its channel, and the
prevention of the overflow of the land
and its consequent devastation, result-
ing in the interruption of interstate
commerce, the disorganization of the
mail service, and the enormous loss of
fe and property, impose an obligation
hich alone can be discharged by the
general government.
To maintain an adequate depth of
ater the entire year and thereby en
courage water transportation is a con-
summation worthy of legislative at
tention, and presents an issue national
in its character It calls for prompt
action on the part of congress and
the democratic party pledges itself t(
the enactment of legislation leading
to that end.
We favor the co-operation of the
United States and the respective
states in plans for the comprehensive
treatment of all waterways with
ievs of co-ordinating plans for chan-
nel improvements with plans for drain-
age of swamp and overflowed lands,
and to this end we favor the appropria-
tion by the federal government of suf-
ficient funds to make surveys of such
lands, to develop plans for draining
the same and to supervise the work
of construction
We favor the adoption of a liberal
and comprehensive plan for the d
velopment and improvement of oi
inland waterways, with economy and
efficiency, so as to permit their na\
gation by vessels of standard draft
We favor national aid to state and
local authorities in the construction
and maintenance of post roads
We repeat our declarations of th<
platform of 1908 as follows:
"The courts of justice are the bul
arks of our liberties, and we yield t<
none in our purpose to maintain their
dignity. Our party has given to th
bench a long line of distinguished jus
tices who have added to the respect
and confidence in which this depart
ment must be jealously maintained
We resent the attempt of the repu*
lican party to raise a false issue rc
-pecting the judiciary It i- an unju-
rcflection on this party to assume tha
they lack respect for the courts.
"It is the function of the courts t
interpret the laws which the peopl
enact and if the laws appear to work
tconomic, social or political injustice
it is our duty to change them The
only basis upon which the integrity
our courts can stand is that of un
swerving justice and protection of life
personal liberty and property As ju
dicial processes may be aimed,
should guard them against abuse.
"Experience has proved the neces
fre
of a modification of the present
law relating to injunction, and We
iterate the pledges of our platform
of 1896 and 1904 in favor of a measure
which passed the United States sen-
18% relating to direct con-
tempt in federal courts and providing
for trial by jur> in cases of indirect
contempt
Questions of judicial practice have
arisen, especially in connection with
industrial dispute- We believe that
the parties to all judicial proceedings
should be treated with rigid impar-
tiality, and that injunctions should not
be issued in any case in which an in
junction would not issue if no indus-
trial dispute was involved.
"The expanding organization of in-
dustries makes it essential that there
should be no abridgement of the right
of the wage earners and producers t
organize for the protection of wages
nd the improvement of labor's condi-
tion to the end that such labor organi-
zations and their members should no
be regarded as illegal combinations i
restraint of trade
"We pledge the democratic party t
the enactment of a law creating a dc
partment of labor represented separ-
ately in the president's cabinet
which department shall be included
the subject of mines and mining
"We pledge the democratic party,
so far as the federal jurisdiction ex
tends, to an employes' compensation
law providing adequate indemnity for
injury to body or loss of life.
"We believe in the conservation
and the development for the use of
all the people of the natural resources
of the country. Our forests, our
sources of water supply, our arable
and our mineral lands, our navigabl*
streams and all the other material re
sources with which our country has
been so lavishly endowed constitute
the foundation of our national wealth
Such additional legislation as may be
necessary to prevent their being wast
ed or absorbed by special or privi
leged interests should be enacted and
policy of their conservation should
• rigidly adhered to.
"The public domain should be ad
inistered and disposed of with due
regard to the general welfare. Re
\ations should be limited to the pur
poses which they purport to serve
and not extended to include land
wholly unsuited therefor. The
necessary withdrawal from sale
settlement of enormous tracts of pub
lie land upon which tree growth nev
existed and can not be promoted
tends only to retard developmen
create discontent and bring reproach
upon the policy of conservation.
"The public lands should be ad
ministered in a spirit of the broade
liberality toward the settler exhibit
ing a bona fide purpose to comply
therewith, to the end that the invita
tion of this government to the land
less should be as attractive as poss
hie; and the plain provisions of th
forest reserve act permitting home
tead entries to be made within the
national forests should be minified by
dministrative regulations which
mount to a withdrawal of great area
f the same from settlement.
"Immediate action should be tak
1>> congress to make available th
vast and valuable coal deposits of
Alaska under conditions that will !
a perfect guaranty against their fall
ing into the hands of monopolizin
corporations, associations or interes
We rejoice in the inheritance of mi
eral resources unequalled in extent
variety or value and in the develop
ment of a mining industry unequall
in its magnitude. We honor the me
who, in the hazardous toil unde
ground, daily risk their lives in ex
tracting and preparing for our use th
roducts of the mine, so essential
he industries, the commerce and the
>mfort of the people of this countr
and we pledge our party to the exten
sion of the work of the bureau
mines in every way appropriate f«..
iational legislation with a view of
afeguarding the lives of the miners
essening the waste of essential re-
iources and promoting the economic
levelopment of mining, which, along
with agriculture, must in the near fu-
ture, even more than in the past, serve
as the very foundation of our national
prosperity and welfare and our inter-
national commerce.
We believe in encouraging the de-
velopment of a modern system of ag-
riculture and a systematic effort tc
ve the conditions of tracts in
farm products so as to benefit both
the consumers and producers and a-
fficient means to this end we fa
vor the enactment by congress of leg
islation that will suppress the perni
ious practice of gambling in agricul
tural products by organized exchange
or others
We believe in fostering by constitu
tional regulation of commerce the
growth of a merchant marine which
shall develop and strengthen the com-
mercial ties which bind us to our sU
ter republics of the south, but with
out imposing additional burdens upon
the people and without bounties or
subsidies from the public treasury.
We urge upon congress the speedy
enactment of laws for the greater se-
curity of life and promperty at sea.
and we favor the repeal of all laws
and the abrogation of so much of our
treaties with other nations as provide
for the arrest and imprisonment of
amen charged with desertion, or
ith violation of their contract ot ser
Such laws and treaties are un
\nierican and violate the spirit if not
letter of the constitution ot the
nited States
We favor the exemption from tolb
American ships engaged in coast-
ise trade pas-ing through the Pain
ma Canal.
We also favor legislation forbid
ding the use of the Panama Canal b..
hips or controlled by railroad car
engaged in transportation com
titive with the canal
We reaffirm our previous declara
ions advocating the union and
rengthening of the various govern
lental agencies relating to pure food
luarantine, vital statistics and human
alth. Thus united and administer
without partiality to or discrimina
ion against any school of medicine
stem of healing, they would con
itute a single health service, not
ubordinate to any commercial or fi
ncial interests, but devoted exclu
ely to the conservation of human
fe and efficiency Moreover, thi<
alth service should co-operate with
e health agencies of our various
ates and cities, without interference
ith their prerogatives or with the
edotn of individuals to employ such
lical or hygienic aid as they may
tit.
The law pertaining i« the civil ser
ce should be honestly and rigidly en
reed to the end that merit and abili
shall be the standard of appoint
ent and promotion, rather than ser
ce rendered to a political party; ant
e favor a reorganization < f the civil
rvice with adequate compensator
commensurate with the class of worV
rformed for all officers and em
joy« -; we also favor tin extension
ill dawes of civil service employe
f benefits of the provisions of th
mployers' liability law: we also rec
gnize the right of direct petition t
gress by employes for their grie\
ances.
We recognize the urgent need «
reform in the administration « f civil
and criminal laws in the United Stat
and we recommend the enactment
uch legislation and the promotion
f such measures as will rid the pres
nt legal system of the delays, ex
use and uncertainties incident t(
e system as now administered
We reaffirm the position thrice an
nounced by the democracy in nation
al convention assembled against
olicy of imperialism and colonial ex
loitation in the Philippines or else
where. We condemn the experiment
in imperialism as an excusable blunder
i hich has involved us in enormou-
xpense, brought us weakness instead
of strength, and laid our nation open
to the charge of abandonment of th*
fundamentals of self-government We
favor an immediate declaration of the
nation's purpose to recognize the in-
dependence of the Philippine Island-
soon as a stable government can
established, such independence to
guaranteed by us in the neutraliza-
tion of the islands to be secured by
treaty with other power- In recog-
nizing tin independence of the Philip-
pines, our government should retain
uch land as may be necessary for
oaling stations and naval bases
We welcome Arizona and New
Mexico to the sisterhood of states
and heartily congratulate them upon
their auspicious beginning of. great
and glorious career-
We demand for the people of Ala
ka the full enjoyment of the rights
and privileges of a territorial form o
government and we believe that th
officials appointed to administer th
government of all our territories and
the District of Columbia be qualified
by previous bona fide residence
We commend the patriotism "f the
democratic members, of the Senate
and house of representative- whicii
compelled the terminating of the Rus
sian treaty of 1832, and we pledge our
elves anew to preserve the sacred hi
rights of American citizenship at
home and abroad No treaty should
receive the sanction of our govern-
ment which does not recognize the
equality of all our citizenship, irrespec-
tive of race or creed, and which does
not expressly guarantee the funda-
mental right of expatriation
The constitutional rights of Ameri-
can citizenship should protect them
on our borders and go with them
throughout the world, and every
American citizen residing or having
property in any foreign country is en
titled to and must be given the full
protection of the United States gov
eminent for himself and his property
We favor the establishment of a
Is post or postal express, and
also the extension of the rural deli\ •
y system as rapidly as practicable
We hereby express our deep inter
t in the great Panama Canal Expo
tion to be held in San Francisco in
1915 and favor such encouragement
can be properly given.
We commend to the several states
the adoption of a law making it an
ffense for the proprietors of places
f public amusement and entertain-
ment to discriminate against the uni
form of the United States similar to
the law passed by the congress ap
plicable to the District of Columbia
d the territories in 1911
We renew the declaration of our
last platform relating to a general
pension policy.
We call attention to the fact that
the democratic party's demand for a
return to the rule of the people, ex
ressed in the national platform four
ear^ ago, has now become the ac
epted doctrine of a large majority
f the electors. We again remind
the country that only by a large excr-
of the reserved power of the peo-
ple can they protect themselves from
the misuse of delegated power and
the usurpation of governmei.tal in-
-truments by special interests.
For this reason the national com
mittee insisted on tfie overthrow of
Cannonism and the inauguration of a
system by which United States sena-
tors could be elected by the people's
vote. The democratic party offer? it
self to the country as an agency
through which the complete overthrow
and extirpation of corruption, fraud
and machine rule in American poli-
tics can be effected.
Our platform is one of principles
which we believe to be essential to
our national welfare. Our pledge . are
made to be kept when in office as well
.i- relied upon «1
and we invite th
citizens, regardlc
lieve in maintaii
nstitutions and
country
; ing the campaign
co-operation of all
< of party, who be
tig unimpaired the
traditions of the
GRAHAM CHALLENGED.
In your annoui
191>. published
r. you state
g the race fo
hird terint on y
l.eade
ement of May 10.
n the Lexington
that you are mak
county attorney
ur record. 1 here
iv challenge v
ion before tin
ounty at time
>n by us
>ii for a joint discus
voters of Cleveland
and places agreed up
signed,
J I) (iKlGSBV
I', F. Morris returned Sunday night
from I."* Xngeles, California, where
he and Mrs. Morris attended the na
tional convention of the Knights and
Ladies of Security They spent sever-
al week- in California and the moui
tain states Mrs Morris stopped at
Salida. Colorado, where she wijl spend
the summer
Mrs 1' J Tlieil and son of Purcell
came up last Friday to visit her sis-
ter, Mrs. Tom Brannon and family
On Saturday afternoon she left for
Tulia, Texas, tc \i-it her father, C.
W Ford and family.
IJ I Larsh returned last Friday
from Lamed, Kansas, where he took
mother for burial
Our Spring
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The Norman Democrat-Topic (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 23, No. 85, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 16, 1912, newspaper, July 16, 1912; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc120091/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.