The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-09-05
Platform Of the Moses Republican Party,

Platform Of the Moses Republican Party.
The Republican party of South Carolina, in
Convention assembled, hereby declares to the
country that it stands, in the coming campaign,
upon the following platform, and will demand
of all its representatives in the State Govern
ment the faithful maintenance and practical
enforcement of the policy and principles here
in enunciated:
1st. We affirm our earnest adhesion to the
platform of principles adopted by the National
Republican Convention at Philadelphia on the
9th day of July, 1872, as embodying the true
ideas of American progress, impelled by the
spirit of the American Union.
I'd. We support, for President and Vice Pre-.
sident of the United States, U. S. Grant and
Henry Wilson, knowing that the safety of the
nation and the rights of all American citizens
will be secure under their administration.
Sd. We pledge ourselves to effect instantly q
financial reform in the State Government, by
suspending the payment of the interest on eve
ry bond of the State to which can be attached
the shadow of suspicion, and providing for
the punctual payment of the principal and in
terest of the unquestionably valid debt. Aud
that the members of the Legislature elected by
the Republicans shall be pledged to carry into
effect the meaning and intent of this plank.
4th. In the interest of financial reform and
good government, we pledge ourselves to throw
around the State Treasury every safeguard ne
cessary to insure the faithful application of the
public funds solely to the public service, pur-
suant to just laws, enacted in the interest of
the whole people of South Carolina.
5th AS essential to the reform herein guar
anteed and imperatively demanded by the peo-
pie as the vital necessity of the State, we shall
require that the public expenses shall be re-
duced within the public revenues to be derived
from q moderate system of taxation, based
upon a fair and equitable assessment OF all
property liable to taxation under the Constitu-
ton. To effect this needed reduction in ex-
penditures we insist that there shall be an i'm
mediate reduction in the salaries of all public
officers, from the highest to the lowest, in the
State and counties, and that there shall be
iudicious reduction Of the public officers them.
selves, and that the number of attaches shall
be declared by law.
9Th. Experience having proved that the gen.
eral license law, although honestly designed by
the Legislature to relieve the burdens of taxa
ton on real estate, is, in its practical opera
ton, odious and oppressive, we pledge ourselves
to its instant repeal.
7th. Believing, from sad experience that it is
necessary safeguard to the public treasury,
that all its transactions should be constantly
open to public inspection, and always under
the eye of the people, we pledge ourselves to
secure the enactment of law providing that
no moneys shall be paid out of the Treasury
except in pursuance of an appropriation speci-
flying the amount to be paid, and such payment
shall be made only upon the warrant of the
Comptroller General, duly countersgned by
the Governor and requiring the Comptroller
General and Treasurer to publish daily state
ment of the transactions of their respective
offices, showing what warrants have been drawn,
and the receipts and disbursements during the
past twenty-four hours.
Sth. We pledge ourselves that the govern
ment of the State shall hencef0rth be so adj
ministered in all its departments that neither
the public schools nor asylums of charity shall
be closed for want of proper maintenance on
the part Of the State.
9Th We shall demand the due enforcement
of law and order in every section of the State;
and here state that we believe these can be best
secured, and an enduring peace established IN
South Carolina, by the cooperation OF all
classes of citizens, in mutual respect for all
rights of property and persons guaranteed by
the Constitution and laws, and considerate
and just toeration of all differences of politi-
cal opinion, each citizen being free to assert his
own rights and privileges, while solemnlly
bound by the common country to sscrnpulousiy
respect the rights and privileges of others.
10th. We maintain the authority of the Gen.
eral Government to interpose for the preserva-
ton of domestic tranquility in the several
States, and we acknowledge with gratitude
such interposition in this State, and with the
hope that the example lately presented TO the
civilized world within our borders, Will avail
to assure to our people the enjoyment OF the
right of free speech, and human rights, we in
woke for such violators of the enforcement act
of Congress as were ignorant and undeslgning,
the merciful exercise Of Executive clemency.
| IL. We pledge ourselves to the enactment
and enforcement of proper laws for the liberal
encouragement of immigration to our State,
from all quarters of the world, to the end that
the arabic land in the State, three-fourths of
which now lie fallow, may be brought into
speedy cultivationt manufactures established,
and our grand material resources be developed
under our benefcient system of government,
which recognizes as between citizens OF South
Carolina no discrimination on account of races,
color, or nativity.
II. With full faith in the justice of these
principles, confessing our errors of legislation
and administration i'll the past, which have
wrought grevous injury to the State, we appeal
to all true Republicans to unite in bearing our
candidates to victory, ana 10 prove 10 tne
world that in South Carolina, Republicanism
and good government are not inconsistent with
each other.
ANY OTHER WAY WOULD HAVE BEEN
BErrER-An Arkansas local soliloquzes thus
w. "Some of our exchanges are publishing as
curious item q statement to the effect that "a
horse in Iowa pulled the plug out of the bung
hole of o barrel We do not sec anything ex-
traordnary in the occurrence. Now, if the
horse had pulled the barrel out of a bunghole
and slakcd his thirst with the plug, or if the bar
rel had pulled the bungholc out of the plug and