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THE STATE REVIEW 



ciples as established in Republican laws and 

 applied by Republican administrations. 



"We emphatically affirm our continued 

 belief in the wisdom of the Republican pro- 

 tective tariff policy. Whatever changes in 

 tariff schedules may become necessary 

 should be so made as to preserve the Re- 

 publican principle of protection and to aid 

 the further advancement of American in- 

 dustry and achievement. 



\Varner Is Praised 



"As Michigan Republicans, as well as in 

 our own capacity as delegates representing 

 the working forces of our party in all sec- 

 tions of the state, we are most glad to give 

 cordial indorsement to the renomination of 

 Governor Fred M. Warner as the Republican 

 candidate for governor, already made by 

 55,000 Republican votes. In every featur3 

 of his official course as governor of Michi- 

 gan has Fred M. Warner fulfilled the prom- 

 ises made by himself to the people of this 

 state and made in his behalf by those who 

 knew him to be courageous, honest and true. 

 "He has assisted in the enactment of 

 laws which he believed were desired by a 

 majority of the people and has as vigorously 

 opposed other enactments, the purpose of 

 which he deemed undesirable. He has 

 familiarized himself with the status and 

 needs of our state institutions and with 

 sincere regard for their growth and ad- 

 vancement, has successfully urged the 

 greatest possible economy and care. The 

 people of Michigan know Governor Warner 

 and their knowledge of his qualities as an 

 official and of his character as a man will 

 lead them to elect him as his own successor 

 in November by an overwhelming majority. 

 "We also heartily ratify and approve the 

 nomination of the Hon. Patrick H. Kelly as 

 the Republican candidate for lieutenant gov- 

 ernor. We indorse the administration of 

 rtate affairs by all of the state officers and 

 believe their records will result in their 

 election by overwhelming majorities. 



"We commend the last legislature for its 

 efficiency and success in the disposition of 

 matters of state importance; for its prac- 

 tical economy in providing for state ex- 

 penditures and for its fulfillment of its 

 promises made to the people of the state by 

 our party. We believe that the action of 

 that body in the enactment of a primary 

 election law which is giving to the people of 

 this state an opportunity to enter upon a 

 practical test of the direct nomination sys- 

 tem, was a generous fulfillment of our 

 party's promises and is an assurance that 

 in such details as may be found necessary 

 that the law will be so perfected as to fully 

 as possible meet the best purposes it seeks 

 to attain. 



"We heartily endorse the action taken by 

 Governor Warner in appointing a delega- 

 tion of distinguished citizens to represent 

 the state at the Iowa convention to be held 

 in September nevt. We earnestly recom- 

 fend to those delegates that they direct 

 their efforts to the end that the people of 

 the United States so amend the constitu- 

 tion of the United States as to permit the 

 election of United States senators by direct 

 vote of the people." 



The Democrats Meet 



Two days later the Democrats gathered 

 in state convention at Detroit. They had 

 some real work to do in framing a platform 

 that would appeal to a normally hostile 

 majority of the voters and to find candi- 

 dates who would undertake the campaign. 

 Since Professor Ferris refused the honor 

 of being the Democratic candidate for gov- 

 ernor, there have been very few prominent 

 men to offer themselves. In the convention, 

 however, two appeared, Charles H. Kim- 

 merle of Cassopolis, and Stanley E. Park- 

 bill of Owosso. Mr. Kimmerle was nomin- 

 ated. The other members of the ticket are: 

 Lieutenant Governor, Rush Culver; Mar- 

 quette; Secretary of State, P. J. Devine, 

 Stanton; State Treasurer, Charles Wellman, 

 Port Huron; Attorney General, Judge E. J.' 

 Doyle, Grand Rapids; Auditor General, John 

 Yuell, Vanderbilt; Superintendent of Public 

 Instruction. Elmer R. Webster, Pontiac; 

 State Land Commissioner, Clarence L. Shel- 

 don, Bay City; Member State Board of Edu- 

 cation, James E. Sullivan, Muskegon. 



When Mr. Culver was notified of his 

 nomination he said that he could not accept 

 as his business requires too much of bis 

 time. 



The convention was notable for two 

 things; first, its indirect endorsement of the 

 Wayne county convention's action in turn- 

 ing down Daniel J. Campau, by recommend- 

 ing that each congressional district appoint 

 10 delegates to the Bryan reception and 

 that there be no delegates at large, a propo- 

 sition that there be four such having been 

 made supposedly in Mr. Campau's interest; 

 second, its slap at Hearst by tabling the 

 resolution condemning National Chairman 

 Thomas Taggart, which is believed to have 

 been fathered by Willis J. Abbott. The con- 

 venion unanimously endorsed Thomas E. 

 Bark worth to succeed General Alger as 

 United States Senator. 



Build a Platform 



The following platform was adopted: 

 "L Evils under the form of combinations 

 and trusts which have so shocked the moral 

 conscience of the nation in the last two 

 years are a direct outcome to. class legisla- 

 tion by the Republican party conferring 

 privileges upon corporations at the expense 

 of the common people. A continuance of 

 such legislation is now threatened by the 

 many bills of like charactere, as for instance 

 the ship subsidy bill, and inadequate reme- 

 dial laws enacted by congress, showing that 

 there is no honest purpose on the part of 

 the Republican party to relieve the people 

 from the evils thus cast upon them by the 

 unjust class legislation. Their affiliations 

 with the classes thus favored make it abso- 

 lutely impossible to obtain relief from Ke- 

 imblican sources. In proof of the uncer- 

 tainty of the Republican party in affording 

 us any relief from these national evils, we 

 have but to refer to their actions in reject- 

 ing the proposition of Senator La Follette 

 regarding railroad rate legislation which, 

 if adopted, would have brought certain 

 relief, and were in perfect accord with the 

 declarations on that subject in the Demo- 

 cratic platform of 1896. 



"Fully believing in the honesty, integrity 

 and wisdom of William Jennings Bryan, and 

 that under his leadership the people would 

 receive relief from the many ills above re- 

 i'erred to, we commend him to the people of 

 the United States as candidate for president 

 in 1008. 



We favor the nomination of all can- 

 didates for office by direct vote ol the people. 

 We favor the adoption of such legislation 

 or constitutional amendments as shall pro- 

 vide, viz.: 



"a. For the election of railroad and tax 

 commissioners by direct vote of the people. 



"b. We favor home rule, giving to any 

 city, village, county or township the right 

 to decide for itself subject to the referendum 

 all matters of pureley local interest, regard- 

 ing local taxes and the question of owning 

 and operating any given public utility, re- 

 quiring franchise rights, or granting of fran- 

 chise for such ownership to a private com- 

 pany. 



"c. We are in favor of the nomination 

 and election of United States senators by 

 direct vote of the people. 



"d. We favor the repeal of the so-called 

 indeterminate sentence law, and restoring to 

 the judges discretion in the punishment of 

 persons convicted of crime. 



"e. We favor the abolition of the state 

 pardon board. 



"f. We reaffirm our faith in popular 

 government by majority vote and pledge 

 ourselves to en-act the same by the adoption 

 of that principle of pure democracy, the in- 

 itiative and referendum and the popular 

 recall. 



"3. We are in favor of a passenger rate 

 on railroads not exceeding two cents per 

 mile in the southern peninsula of this state, 

 and not exceeding three cents per mile in. 

 the northern peninsula. 



"4. We most emphactically declare for 

 the election of delegates to the forthcoming 

 constitutional convention and that any can- 

 didate for delegate may have his name as 

 such candidate placed on the official ballot, 

 il! a petition by a reasonable number of 

 voters is filed in his behalf. The names on 

 the official ballot should be without party 

 or other designation. 



"5. We condemn in the most unmistak- 

 able terms the action of the last legisla- 

 ture in passing the change of venue law, 

 which makes it possible for a litigant upon 

 making a prescribed affidavit without any 

 investigation, as to the truth of the state- 

 ments therein made to have his case trans- 

 ferred to another circuit, thus placing a 

 premium upon perjury and discommoding 

 litigants and making the trial of causes a 

 farce. 



"6. We believe that laws should be 

 enacted making it a criminal offense for 

 any member of the state legislature or a 

 state officer, to accept or use free trans- 

 portation from any railroad or transporta- 

 tion company. 



"7. We denounce the present primary 

 election law as a fraud and sham, and pledge 

 ourselves to enact a primary law simple and 

 workable, and that will not, in its operation, 

 deprive any voter of his franchise." 



