Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1910 — NEW PARTY BORN IN PENNSYLVANIA [ARTICLE]

NEW PARTY BORN IN PENNSYLVANIA

Meeting of Members of All Parities Held in Philadelphia. BERRY NAMED FOR GOVERNOR Full Ticket Selected and ‘ Principal Planks of Platform Are Given Herewith-r-Mr. Berry Is ExState Treasurer.

Philadelphia. July 29.—A convention without a boss, the state convention | of the uew third party, sat in this city and producted as its campaign offering the ticket headed with the name of Ex-State Treasurer William H. Berry of Delaware county, for the governorship, Keystone Party is the title adopted by the independents. Berry’s associates on the ticket are: For lieutenant governor, D. Clarence Gibboney, president of the Philadelphia Law and Order society ; -for state treasurer, Cornelius D. Scully, lawyer of Pittsburg; for secretary of internal affairs, John J. Casey, former legislator, representative of labor and author of the state employers’ liability law, of Wilkesbarre. These are the chief demands of the third party as contained in the platform; Revision of the election laws to provide a simplified secret system that will guarantee an honest return; a short ballot; more rigid provisions for the appointment and promotion of place holders upon the merit system; sale of liquor to be subject to the will of the community; local option without designating the unit; a standard and efficient public school system; election of United States senators by direct vote of the people; revision of the tax laws to equalize the burden and to prevent evasion; a general public service commission that shall have supervision over railroads, water, gas and electric light and all other public service corj>oratiohs; number of public officers to be reduced to the minimum consistent with good service; general improvement of the highways of the state; state aid for township roads; legislation for the cities looking toward a greater centralization of power and responsibility ; a municipal or lower court to be substituted for the present magistrate system with members to he learned in the law; liberal hppropriatoins to public charities; provision for needy veterans; and judicious laws for the better protection of labor.