The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-09-05
Platform of the True Republican Party.
The true Republican party of South Caroll'

Platform of the True Republican Party.
The true Republican party of South Carroll
ma enunciates the following platform:
Whereas gross and hagrant abuses In the
administration of the affairs of the State OF
South Carolina have grown up IN the executive
and legislative departments of its government
and have become an intolerable burden on the
Republican party and the State and whereas
the State Republican Convention has put IN
nomination for Governor, Franklin ). Moses,
Jr., who is responsible, with others, for many
of these abuses, and who. as Speaker OF the
House of Representatives, fraudulently, issued
pay certificates for an immense sum, has re-
ceived large sums from the armed force" Iund,
when no such force was in existence, and mas
corn,ptly controlled much of the legislation OF
the State; and whereas the Republicans of the
State have generally demanded that those who
have been guilty of corrupt practices shall be
elected from office; and whereas the Conyen-
ton, instead of making an honest and true
Republican nomination, has by its action
shown that the corruption and incompetency
which have characterized the present admins
tration are to be perpetuated; and whereas we,
a portion of the general Convention, have felt
that. in view of this condition of affairs, and
of this breach of trust on the part of the Con-
yention. it is our duty to withdraw ourselves
therefrom. and by the selection of a ticket
thoroughly Republican and honest, to go before
the masses of the party for the justification OF
our course; therefore, be it
Resolued, l. That we declare our cordial ac-
ceptance of the platform of the Philadelphia
Convention, and pledge ourselves to the earnest
support of its standard bearers, General Grant
and Honorable Henry Wilson.
O. That inasmuch as the notoriousy corrupt
and imbecle character of the present State
administration has brought disgrace upon Ke-
publicanism everywhere, and is now heavy
burden upon the National party, impeding, II
not endangering, its success, therefore, the Re-
publicans of South Carolina owe 1t to them
selves to elect such officers as will insure an
honest administration of government, and thus
assure their brethren all over the land that the
disgrace which attaches to the party IN this
State shall be removed.
8. That we pledge the honor of the State to
the payment of all its debt which has been le-
gally and honestly contracted; but that we
will not hesitate to repudiate that portion OF 1t
which is illegal, and therefore null and void.
4. That we pledge ourselves to !naugurate
and carry out an honest administrator OF the
State. and to resist the payment OF all traudu-
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Treasury.
5. That we pledge ourselves, so far as in our
mower lies. to an immediate reduction of the
enormous taxes under which the people are
groaning, and that we believe that this can be
most speedily accomplished by introducing hon
esty and economy into the management OF the
various departments of the State government.
6. That the pledges made by the Convention
nominating Franklin J. Moses, Jr., must be
Judged of in the light of his record, and of
those who sustain him, and that when thus
viewed, the people of the State will not hesi-
tate to say that pledges from such a source
have no value, but are simply intended to blind
the ewes of the people to the true purpose OF
those men, which purpose must be in the future,
as in the past, the accomplishment of purely
selfish ends, regardless of the welfare OF the
State.
Z. That, in our judgment the best safeguard
to the public treasury is the election OF honest
and faithful officers to the various departments
of Government; and that the history of the
present administration shows that no statutory
safeguard will protect the Treasury with
Franklin J. Moses, Jr., at the head of the gov
ernment and his willing tools in the other
Offices. ;.
8. That under our Constitution, we believe
any other than an ad valorem system OF taxa
tion to be null and void, and hence that the
general license law, passed at the last session of
the General Assembly, was in violation of the
Constitution and of the rights of the people,
and could only have originated in desire to
extort from the people of the State still larger
sums of money, to be corruptly used by the
men who controlled the Government
9. That we blush for our party when we re-
member that, under this administration, the
education of the people has been so shamefuily
neglected, in consequence of the failure OF the
Government to pay promptly. and faithfully
the appropriations made by the Legislature {;
and that we pledge ourselves to apply a remedy
for this crowning disgrace in the future,
10. That every encouragement which can
legtimately be given to those endeayoring to
develop the national resources of the State
should be extended, and that the interests of
the laboring men in the State concur with the
interests of capital in the demand for an earn
est effort to develop new and varied industries
within our borders. This we regard as the
means of improving the condition and increas.
ing the wages of those who form the bone and
sinew of the State.
ACTION OF THE DEMOCRATIC STATE EXEC
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