The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-04-24
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.

Carolina, in convention assembled in
Raleigh on this day, April II, 1900, do
hereby approve, endorse and fatify
the principles enunciated and set
forth in the platform of the National
Democratic party adopted at Chicago
in 1895.
We denounce the tariff legislation
of the Republican party, which has
increased the burdens of taxation
upon our consumers and increased
the powers of the trusts and mOnOpO-
lies to rob the people. Believing that
under our present method of Federal
taxation that more than three
fourths of our National revenues are
paid by people owning less than one
fourth of the property of the cOun-
try, we protest against such Unequal
ity and injustice, and in order to
remedy, to some extent, this great
wrong we favor an income tax and
favor all constitutional methods to
sustain it.
We denounce, the Republican party
for its passage of the recent legisla-
ton by which the gold standard has
been fixed upon Our people.
We denounce the policy of the Re
publican party for it's legislation by
which the people in territory ac-
quired by the United States are taxed
without representation and deprived
of the protection afforded by the
principle that the Constitution fol
lows the flag.
We are in favor of peaceful com
mercial expansion, but denounce i'm
perialism and militarism.
We cordially invite all voters, with
out regard to past political afilia-
tions, to unite with us in support of
our candidates who favor the prin-
ciples of the Chicago platform.
We admire the herOism and ability
with which Hon. William Jennings
Bryan has defended the principles of
the Democratic party, and hereby in
struct the delegation from this State
to the next National Democratic
Convention to vote for his re-nomi-
nation as a candidate for the Presi-
dency.
We denounce the administration of
the Republican party in North Caro-
lima by which negroes were placed in
high and responsible official positions
which ought to have been filed by
white people.
We approve of the passage of the
act of the legislature of 1899 to pre-
vent the removal of suits by foreign
corporations from the State to the
Federal courts.
We commend the legislature for
the passage of the election law of
1899.
We favor a government of the peO-
pie, by the people and for the peo-
pie economy in expenditure and the
abolition of unnecessary offices.
We heartily commend the action
of the General Assembly of 1899 for
appropriating 800, 900 for the bene-
fit of the public schools of the State,
and pledge ourselves to increase the
school fund so as to make at least a
four months term in each year in
every school district in the State.
We point with pride to the record
of the Democratic party in the build
ing and management of the institu-
tions for the care of the unfortunate
insane, and pledge the party to so in
crease the appropriations for this
purpose as that every needy insane
person in the State may be cared for
at public expense.
We approve of the passage of the
Corporation Commission act by the
last Legislature, and of the admins
tratiOn of the affairs of said commits
sion by which fairer rates have been
secured, which T more just to the
people and to the transportation and
transmission corporations, and such
assessment of railroad property as
will make it bear it's fair proportion
of the burdens of taxation.
We condemn free passes.
We denounce all trusts, monopo-
lies and trade combinations, and de
mand the passage of such legislation,
State or National, as will suppress
the same.
We favor the election of the United
States Senators by the people.
We favor the enactment of laws by