NATIONAL 
 
 DEMOCRATIC 
 PLATFORM 
 
 PROGRESS INJVERY PLANK 
 
 ADOPTED BY THE 
 
 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION 
 
 AT 
 
 BALTIMORE, JULY 2, 1912 
 
 For President 
 
 WooDROW Wilson 
 
 of New Jersey 
 
 For Vice-President 
 
 Thomas Marshall 
 
 of Indiana 
 
 ISSUED BY 
 
 The Democratic National Committee 
 
 200 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK, N. Y.
 
 NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM 
 
 The following is the platform adopted by the Democratic 
 National Convention. 
 
 We, the representatives of the Democratic party of the United States, in 
 National Convention assembled, reafifirm our devotion to the principles of Demo- 
 cratic government formulated by Thomas Jefferson and enforced by a long and 
 illustrious line of Democratic 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 for the purpose of revenue, and we demand that the 
 collection of such taxes shall be limited to the necessities of government honestly 
 and economically administered. 
 
 The high Republican tariff is the principal cause of the unequal distribution of 
 wealth ; it is a system of taxation which makes the rich richer and the poor poorer ; 
 under its operations the American farmer and laboring man are the chief sufferers; 
 it raises the cost of the necessaries of life to them but does not protect their product 
 or wages. The farmer sells largely in free markets and buys almost entirely in the 
 protected markets. In the most highly protected industries, such as cotton and wool, 
 steel and iron, the wages of the laborers are the lowest paid in any of our industries. 
 We denounce the Republican pretense on that subject and assert that American 
 wages are established by competitive conditions and not by the tariff. 
 
 Downward Revision of Duties. 
 
 We favor the immediate downward revision of the existing high and in many 
 cases prohibitive tariff duties, insisting that material reductions be speedily made 
 upon the necessaries 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 upon the free list. 
 
 We recognize that our system of tariff taxation is intimately connected with the 
 business of the country and we favor the ultimate attainment of the principles we 
 advocate by legislation that will not injure or destroy legitimate industry. 
 
 We denounce the action of President Taft in vetoing the bills to reduce the 
 tariff in the cotton, woolen, metals and chemical schedules and the Farmers' Free 
 List bill all of which were designed to give immediate relief to the masses from the 
 exactions of the trusts. 
 
 The Republican party, while promising 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 pledges of igo8, it should no longer enjoy the confidence of the 
 
 nation. We appeal to the American people to support us in our demand for a tariff 
 
 for revenue only. tt- u /~> ^ r t • • 
 
 ^ High Cost of Livmg. 
 
 The hight cost of living is a serious problem in every American home. The 
 Republican party, in its platform, attempts to escape from responsibility for present 
 conditions by denying that they are due to a protective tariff. We take issue with 
 them on this subject and charge that excessive prices result in a large measure from 
 the high tariff laws enacted and maintained by the Republican party and from 
 trusts and commercial conspiracies fostered and encouraged by such law's, and we 
 assert that no substantial relief can be secured for the people until import duties 
 on the necessaries of life are materially reduced and these criminal conspiracies 
 
 *''"°'^^" "P- Anti-Trust Law. 
 
 A private monopoly is indefensible and intolerable. We therefore f.ivor the 
 vigorous enforcement of the criminal as well as the civil law against trusts and 
 trust officials, and demand the enactment of such additional legislation as may be 
 necessary to make it impossible for a private monopoly to exist in the United States. 
 
 We favor the declaration by law of the conditions upon which corporations 
 shall be permitted to engage in interstate trade, including, among others, the pre- 
 vention of holding companies, of interlocking directors, of stock watering, of dis- 
 crimination in price, and the control by any one corporation of so large a proportion 
 of any industry as to make it a menace to competitive conditions. 
 
 We condemn the action of the Republican Administration in compromising 
 with the Standard Oil Company and the Tobacco Trust, and its failure to in.'oke
 
 the criminal provisions of the Anti-Trust law against the officers of those corpora- 
 tions after the court had declared that from the undisputed facts in the record 
 they had violated the criminal provisions of the law. 
 
 We regret that the Sherman Anti-Trust law has received a judicial construction 
 depriving it of much of its efficacy, and we favor the enactment of legislation which 
 will restore to the statute the strength of which it has been deprived by such 
 interpretation. ^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ States. 
 
 We believe in the preservation and maintenance in their full strength and 
 integrity of the three co-ordinate branches of the Federal Government — the Exec- 
 utive, the Legislative and the Judicial — each keeping within its own bounds, and 
 not encroaching upon the just powers of either of the others. 
 
 Believing that the most efficient results under our system of government are 
 to be attained by the full exercise by the States of their reserved sovereign powers, 
 we denounce as usurpation the efforts of our opponents to deprive the Statesof any 
 of the rights reserved to them, and to enlarge and magnify by indirection 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 the people from injustice at the handsof those_ who 
 seek to make the Government a private asset in business. There is no twihght 
 zone between the Nation and the State in which exploiting interests can take refuge 
 from both. It is as necessary that the Federal Government shall exercise the 
 powers reserved 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 State remedies. 
 
 Income Tax and Popular Election of Senators. 
 
 We congratulate the country upon the triumph of two important reforms de- 
 manded in the last national platform, namely, the amendment of the Federal Con- 
 stitution authorizing an income tax and the amendment providing for the popular 
 election of Senators, and we call upon the people of all the States to rally to the 
 support of the pending propositions and secure their ratification. 
 
 We note with gratification the unanimous sentiment in favor of publicity, 
 before the election, of campaign contributions, a measure demanded in our national 
 platform of 1908, and at that time opposed by the Republican party, and we com- 
 mend the Democratic House of Representatives for extending the doctrine_ of 
 publicity to recommendations, verbal and written, upon which Presidential appoint- 
 ments are made, to the ownership and control of newspapers and to the expendi- 
 tures made by and in behalf of those who aspire to Presidential nominations, and 
 we point for additional justification for this legislation to the_ enormous expendi- 
 tures of money in behalf of the President and his predecessor in the recent contest 
 for the Republican nomination for President. 
 
 Presidential Primaries. 
 
 The movement toward more popular government should be promoted through 
 legislation in each State which will permit the expression of the preference of the 
 electors for national candidates at Presidential primaries. 
 
 We direct that the National Committee incorporate in the call for the next 
 nominating convention a requirement that all expressions of preference for Presi- 
 dential candidates shall be given and the selection of delegates and alternates be 
 made through a primary election conducted by the party organization in each State 
 where such expression and election are not provided for by State law. Committee- 
 men who are hereafter to constitute the membership of the Democratic National 
 Committee and whose election is not provided for by law shall be chosen in each 
 State at such primary elections, and the service and authority of committeemen, 
 however chosen, shall begin immediately upon the receipt of their credentials 
 respectively. Campaign Contributions. 
 
 We pledge the Democratic party to the enactment of a law prohibiting any 
 corporation from contributing to a campaign fund and any individual from con- 
 tributing any amount above a reasonable maximum. 
 
 Term of President, 
 
 We favor a single Presidential term, and to that end urge the adoption of an 
 amendment to the Constitution making the President of the United States ineligible 
 for reelection, and we pledge the candidate of this convention to this principle.
 
 Democratic Congress. 
 
 At this time, when the Republican party, after a generation of unlimited power 
 in its control of the Federal Government, is rent into factions, it is opportune to 
 point to the record of accomplishment of the Democratic House of Representatives 
 in the Sixtj^-Second Congress. We indorse its action and we challenge comparison 
 of its record with that of any Congress which has been controlled by our opponents. 
 
 We call the attention of the patriotic citizens of our country to its record of 
 efficiency, economy and constructive legislation. 
 
 It has, among other achievements, revised the rules of the House of Repre- 
 sentatives so as to give to the representatives 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 revise the tariff taxes downward in the interest of 
 the consuming masses, and thus reduce the high cost of living. 
 
 It has proposed an amendment to the Federal Constitution, providing for the 
 election of United States Senators by the direct vote of the people. 
 
 It has secured the admission of Arizona and New Mexico as two sovereign 
 States. 
 
 It has required the publicity of campaign expenses both before and after 
 election and fixed a limit upon the election expenses of United States 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 workmen on all national 
 public Avork. 
 
 It has passed a resolution which forced the President to take immediate steps 
 to abrogate the Russian treaty. 
 
 And it has passed the great supply bills which lessen waste and extravagance 
 and which reduce the annual expenses of the Government by many millions of 
 dollars. 
 
 We approve the measure 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 programme with a view to increased efficiency and 
 economy. The party that proclaimed and has always enforced the Monroe 
 Doctrine and was sponsor for the new navy will continue faithfully to observe 
 the Constitutional requirements to provide and maintain an adequate and well 
 proportioned navy sufficient to defend American policies, protect our citizens and 
 uphold the honor and dignity of the nation. 
 
 Republican Extravagance. . 
 
 We denounce the profligate waste of the money wrung from the people by 
 oppressive taxation through the lavish appropriations of recent Republican Con- 
 gresses, which have kept taxes high and reduced the purchasing power of the 
 people's toil. We demand a return to that simplicity and economy which befits 
 a democratic government and a reduction in the number of useless offices, the 
 salaries of v/hich drain the substance of the people. 
 
 Railroads, Express Companies, Telegraph and Telephone Lines. 
 
 We favor the efficient supervision and rate regulation of railroads, express 
 companies, telegraph and telephone lines engaged in interstate commerce. To this 
 end we recommend the valuation of railroads, express companies, telegraph and 
 telephone lines by the Interstate Commerce Commission, such valuation to take 
 into consideration the physical value of the property, the original cost, the cost of 
 reproduction, and any element of value that will render the valuation fair and just. 
 
 We favor such legislation as will effectually prohibit the railroads, express, 
 telegraph and telephone companies from engaging in business which brings them 
 into competition with their shippers or patrons; also legislation preventing the 
 overissue of stocks and bonds by interstate railroads, express companies, telegraph 
 and telephone lines, and legislation which will assure such reduction in trans- 
 portation rates as conditions will permit, care being taken to avoid reduction that 
 would compel a reduction of wages, prevent adequate service, or do injustice to 
 legitimate investments. 
 
 Banking Legislation. 
 
 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 con- 
 sequent unemployment and business depression by such a systematic revision of
 
 our banking laws as will render temporary relief in localities where such relief is 
 needed, with protection from control or dominion by what is known as the 
 Money-Trust. 
 
 Banks exist for the accomodation of the public and not for the control of 
 business. All legislation on the subject of banking and currency should have for 
 its purpose the securing of these accomodations on terms of absolute security to 
 the public and of complete protection from the misuse of the power that wealth 
 gives to 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 return for 
 political favors, and we pledge our party to provide by law for their deposit by 
 competitive bidding in the banking institutions of the country. National and State, 
 without discrimination as to locality, upon approved securities and subject to the 
 call of the Government. 
 
 Rural Credits. 
 
 Of equal importance with the question of currency reform is the question of 
 rural credits or agricultural finance. Therefore we recommend that an investigation 
 of agricultural credit societies in foreign countries be made, so that it may be 
 ascertained whether a system of rural credits may be devised suitable to conditions 
 in the United States ; and we also favor legislation permitting national banks to 
 loan a reasonable proportion of their funds on real estate security. 
 
 We recognize the value of vocational education and urge Federal appropria- 
 tions for such training and extension teaching in agriculture in cooperation with the 
 several States. 
 
 Waterways. 
 
 We renew the declaration in our last platform relating to the conservation of 
 our natural resources and the development of our waterways. The present 
 devastation of the Lower Mississippi Valley accentuates the movement for the 
 regulation of river flow by additional bank and levee protection below, and the 
 diversion, storage and control of the flood waters above, and their utilization for 
 beneficial purposes in the reclamation of arid and swamp lands and the develop- 
 ment of water power, instead of permitting the floods to continue, as heretofare, 
 agents of destruction. 
 
 We hold that the control of the Mississippi River is a national problem. The 
 preservation of the depth of its water for the purpose of navigation, the building 
 of levees to maintain the integrity of its channel and the prevention of the overflow 
 of the land and its consequent devastation, resulting in the interruption of interstate 
 commerce, the disorganization of the mail service and the enormous loss of life 
 and property, impose an obligation which alone can be discharged by the general 
 government. 
 
 To maintain an adequate depth of water the entire year and thereby encourage 
 water transportation, is a consummation worthy of legislative attention and presents 
 an issue national in its character. It calls for prompt action on the part o^ Congress, 
 and the Democratic party pledges itself to the enactment of legislation leading to 
 that end. 
 
 We favor the cooperation of the United States and the respective States in 
 plans for the comprehensive treatment of all waterways with a view of coordinat- 
 ing plans for channel improvement with plans of drainage of swamp and overflowed 
 lands, and to this end we favor the appropriation by the Federal Government of 
 sufficient funds to make surveys of such lands, to develop plans for draining of the 
 same and to supervise the work of construction. 
 
 We favor the adoption of a liberal and comprehensive plan for the development 
 and improvement of our inland waterways, with economy and efficiency, so as to 
 permit their navigation by vessels of standard draught. 
 
 Post Roads. 
 
 We favor national aid to State and local authorities in the construction and 
 maintenance of post roads. 
 
 Rights of Labor. 
 
 We repeat our declarations of the platform of 1908 as follows : 
 
 "The courts of justice are the bulwarks of our liberties and we yield to none 
 
 in our purpose to maintain their dignity. Our party has given to the bench a 
 
 long line of distinguished justices who have added to the respect and confidence 
 
 in which this department must be jealously maintained. We resent the aMe-mpt of 
 
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 the Republican party to raise a false issue respecting the judiciary. It is an unjust 
 reflection upon a great body of our citizens to assume that they lack respect for the 
 courts. 
 
 "It is the function of the courts to interpret the laws which the people enact, 
 and if the laws appear to work economic, social or political injustice, it is our 
 duty to change them. The only basis upon which the integrity of our courts can 
 stand is that of unswerving justice and protection of life, personal liberty and 
 property. As judicial processes may be abused, we should guard them against 
 abuse. 
 
 "Experience has proven the necessity of a moditication of the present law 
 relating to injunction, and w^e reiterate the pledges of our platforms of 1896 and 
 1904 in favor of a measure which passed the United States Senate in 1896, relating 
 to contempt in Federal courts and providing for trial by jury in cases of indirect 
 contempt. 
 
 "Questions of judicial practice have arisen, especially in connection with 
 industrial disputes. We believe that the parties to all judicial proceedings should 
 be treated with rigid impartiality, and that injunctions should not be issued in 
 any case in which an injunction would not issue if no industrial dispute were 
 involved. 
 
 "The expanding organization of industry makes it essential that there should 
 be no abridgment of the right of the wage-earners and producers to organize for 
 the protection of wages and the improvement of labor conditions to the end that 
 such labor organizations and their members should not be regarded as illegal 
 combinations in restraint of trade. 
 
 "We pledge the Democratic party to the enactment of a law creating a 
 Department of Labor represented separately in the President's Cabinet, in which 
 department shall be included the subject of mines and mining."^ 
 
 We pledge the Democratic party, so far as the Federal jurisdiction extends, to 
 an employee's compensation law providing adequate indemnity for injury to body or 
 loss of life. 
 
 Conservation. 
 
 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 navigable streams and all the other 
 material resources with which our country has been so lavishly endowed, consti- 
 tute the foundation of our national wealth. Such additional legislation as may 
 be necessary to prevent their being wasted or absorbed by special or privileged 
 interests should be enacted and the policy of their conservation should be rigidly 
 adhered to. 
 
 The public domain should be administered and disposed of with due regard 
 to the general welfare. Reservations should be limited to the purposes which they 
 purport to serve and not extended to include land wholly unsuited therefor. The 
 unnecessary withdrawal from sale and settlement of enormous tracts of public land, 
 upon which tree growth never existed and cannot be promoted, tends only to retard 
 development, create discontent and bring reproach upon the policy of conservation. 
 
 The publio land laws should be administered in a spirit of the broadest liberality 
 toward the settler exhibiting a bona-fide purpose to comply therewith, to the end 
 that the invitation of this Government to the landless should be as attractive as 
 possible ; and the plain provisions of the Forest Reserve act. permitting homestead 
 entries to be made within the national forests, should not be nullified by admini- 
 strative regulations which amount to a withdrawal of great areas of the same from 
 settlement. 
 
 Immediate action should be taken by Congresss to make available the vast and 
 valuable coal deposits of Alaska under conditions that will be a perfect guaranty 
 against their falling into the hands of monopolizing corporations, associations or 
 interests. 
 
 Mines and Miners. 
 
 We rejoice in the inheritance of mineral resources imequalled in extent, 
 variety or value, and in the development of a mining industry unequalled in its 
 magnitude and importance. We honor the men who, in their hazardous toil 
 underground, daily risk their lives in extracting and preparing for our use the 
 products of the mine, so essential to the industries, the commerce and the comfort 
 of the people of this country. And we pledge ourselves to the extension of the 
 work of the Bureau of Mines in every way appropriate for national legislation, 
 with a view of safeguarding the lives of the miners, lessening the waste of essen- 
 
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 tial resources and promoting the economic development of mining, which, along with 
 agriculture, must in the future, even more than in the past, serve as the very 
 foundation of our national prosperity and welfare and our international commerce. 
 
 Agriculture. 
 
 We believe in encouraging the development of a modern system of agricul- 
 ture and a systematic effort to improve the conditions of trade in farm products 
 so as to benefit both the consumers and producers. And as an efficient means to 
 this end we favor the enactment by Congress of legislation that will suppress the 
 pernicious practice of gambling in agricultural products by organized exchanges 
 or others. 
 
 Merchant Marine. 
 
 We believe in fostering, by constitutional regulation of commerce, the growth 
 of a merchant marine which shall develop and strengthen the commercial ties 
 which bind us to our sister republics of the South, but without 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 security 
 of life and property 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 seamen charged with desertion, or with violation of their contract 
 of service. 
 
 Such laws and treaties are un-American and violate the spirit, if not the letter, 
 of the Constitution of the United States. 
 
 We favor the exemption from tolls of American ships engaged in coastwise 
 trade passing through the Panama canal. 
 
 We also favor legislation forbidding the use of the Panama canal by ships 
 owned or controlled by railroad carriers engaged in transportation competitive with 
 the canal. ^ _ . ^ 
 
 Pure Food and Public Health. 
 
 We reaffirm our previous declarations advocating the union and strengthening 
 of the various governmental agencies relating to pure foods, quarantine, vital 
 statistics and human health. Thus united and administered without partially to 
 or discrimination against any school of medicine or system of healing, they would 
 constitute a single health service, not subordinated to any commercial or financial 
 interests, but devoted exclusively to the conservation of human life and efficiency. 
 Moreover, this health service should cooperate with the health agencies of our 
 various States and cities, without interference with their prerogatives or with 
 the freedom of individuals to employ such medical or hygienic aid as they may 
 
 Civil Service Law. 
 
 The law pertaining to the civil service should be honestly and rigidly en- 
 forced, to the end that merit and ability should be the standard of appointment 
 and promotion rather than service rendered to a political party ; and we favor 
 a reorganization of the civil service, with adequate compensation, commensurate 
 with the class of work performed, for all officers and employees; we also favor 
 the extension to all classes of civil service employees of the benefits of the pro- 
 visions of the Employers' Liability law ; we also recognize the right of direct 
 petition to Congress by employees for the redress of grievances. 
 
 Law Reform. 
 
 We recognize the urgent need of reform in the administration of civil and 
 criminal law in the United States, and we recommend the enactment of such 
 legislation and the promotion of such measures as will rid the present legal system 
 of the delays, expense and uncertainties incident to the system as now administered. 
 
 The Philippines. 
 
 We reaffirm the position thrice announced by the Democracy in National 
 Convention assembled against a policy of imperialism and colonial exploitation 
 in the Philippines, or elsewhere. We condemn the experiment in imperialism 
 as an inexcusable blunder which has involved us in enormous expense, brought 
 us weakness instead of strength and laid our nation open to the charge of aban- 
 donment of the fundamental doctrine of self-government. We favor an imme- 
 diate declaration of the nation's purpose to recognize the independence of the 
 Philippine Islands as soon as a stable government can be established, such inde- 
 pendence to be guaranteed by us until the neutralization of the Islands can be
 
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 secured by treaty with other powers. In recognizing the independence of the 
 Philippines, our Government should retain such land as may be necessary for 
 coaling stations and naval bases. 
 
 Arizona and New Mexico. 
 
 We welcome Arizona and New Mexico to the sisterhood of States and heartily 
 congratulate them upon their auspicious beginning of great and glorious careers. 
 
 Alaska. 
 
 We demand for the people of Alaska the full enjoyment of the rights and 
 privileges of a territorial form of government and we believe that the officials 
 appointed to administer the government of all our Territories and the District 
 of Columbia should be qualified by previous bona-fide residence. 
 
 The Russian Treaty. 
 
 We commend the patriotism of the Democratic members of the Senate and 
 House of Representatives which compelled the termination of the Russian treaty 
 of 1832, and we pledge ourselves anew to preserve the sacred rights of American 
 citizenship at home and abroad. No treaty should receive the sanction of our 
 Government which does not recognize that equality of all of our citizens, irre- 
 spective of race or creed, and which does not expressly guarantee the fundamental 
 right of expatriation. 
 
 The constitutional rights of American citizens 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 entitled to and must be 
 giv^ the full protection of the United States Government, both for himself and 
 his property. 
 
 Parcels Post and Rural Delivery. 
 
 We favor the establishment of a parcel post or postal express and also the 
 extension of the rural delivery system as rapidly as practicable. 
 
 Panama Canal Exposition. 
 
 We hereby express our deep interest in the great Panama Canal Exposition 
 to be held in San Francisco in 1915, and favor such encouragement as can be 
 properly given. 
 
 Protection of National Uniform. 
 
 We commend to the several States the adoption of a law making it an ofifense 
 for the proprietors of places of public amusement and entertainment to discrimi- 
 nate against the uniform of the United States, similar to the law passed by 
 Congress applicable to the District of Columbia and the Territories, in 191 1. 
 
 Pensions. 
 
 We renew the declaration of our last platform relating to a generous pension 
 policy. 
 
 Rule of the People. 
 
 We call attention to the fact that the Democratic party demand for a return 
 to the rule of the people, expressed in the National Platform four years ago, 
 has now become the accepted doctrine of a large majority of the electors. We 
 again remind the country that only by a larger exercise of the reserved power of 
 the people can they protect themselves from the misuse of delegated power and 
 the usurpation of governmental instrumentalities by special interests. For this 
 reason, the National Convention insisted on the overthrow of Cannonism and 
 the inauguration of a system by which United States Senators could be elected 
 by direct vote. 
 
 The Democratic party offers itself to the country as an agency through which 
 the complete overthrow and extirpation of corruption, fraud and machine rule 
 in American politics can be effect-ed. 
 
 Conclusion. 
 
 Our platform is one of principles which we believe to be essential to our 
 national welfare. Our pledges are made to be kept when in office as we\\ as 
 relied upon during the campaign, and we invite the cooperation of all citizens, 
 regardless of party, who believe in maintaining unimpaired the institutions and 
 traditions of our country. 
 
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