Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1901-08-21

have been as literally cared for as the
resources OF the State would permit
The annual outlay for pensions and
for the Soldiers Home is not less than
| $4,000.
An Agricultural Department has
been established, and also a Bureau of
Labor.
Notwithstanding several years Of Sc
we're name al depression population
has grown; cities and towns have been
established; manufactures, trade, and
commerce have advanced, lands hereto.
fore vacant are being occupied, and the
volume of farm products constantly
increasing.
Capital, already invested, is yielding
profitable returns, and outside capital
is seeking investment.
1t is a settled and unfagglng
purpose of the party to further i'm
prove Che public school system; to
extend the greatest possible aid to
deserving pensioners, and to omit
nothing in the way of the enactment
and execution of laws that will tend
to promote the intellectual ard
material progress Of the Common
wealth.
| We promise that in all departments
of the government that rigid economy
shall be practiced which the taxpayers
ate entitled to demand.
J. The condition of the public roads is
a ma ter of serious Importance to all
the citizens, and we are in favor of the
adoption OF effective measures to secure
the obvious and manifold advantages
| to be effected by their speedy and
permanent improvement at theexpense
of the counties in which they are
located.
| We are in favor of the enactment
by the General Assembly of a i'll
modifying the feilow.servant doctrine,
so as to impose just and reasonable
liability upon hazardous Transportation
companies in respect to their
employees.
| We declare unalterab!e opp )sition
to criminal trusts and to every illegal
comb nation of capital.
| We denounce such trusts as
serious menace to public welfare,
restricting the opportunities, and
absorbing the substance of the people.
They are the direct product of partial
and unjust legislation, and reckless
multiplication of corporations, banded
together for their destruction.
| We arr,ign the Republican party
both for its failure to enforce existing
laws and to enact others against the
| trusts.
The Democratic party recognizes, as
it has EVER done, the great Importance
of the fish and oyster industries of the
State Of Virginia, and it pledges itsef
to foster and encourage those industries
by all necessary Legislation, and that
the public rocks and bottoms shall
be held for the exclusive use Of our own
citizens.
We declare ourselves as favoring the
principle of the selection of party can
didates by primary eleetion; believing
this to be the surest method of arriving
at the will Of the people and main
tanning Democratic institutions.
We accordingly direct the State
Central Comm, tfen to provide primary
Otootion plan ror the choice of party
candidates for the United States
Senate, and for all elective State officers;
and for members of the House of Repre-
Sentatives of the United States; for
members of the General Assembly, |
and for county and municipal officers, |
except where no party nominations are
made, and except in the case OF county |
and municipal officers, where for
special reason the local party authority
shall deem it inexpedient. And the
party plan of organization, in so far
as the same may conflict with any Of
the above requirements, is hereby
altered 10 that extent.
We further favor the enactment by
the Gendral Assembly OF law legal
izing the primaries 10 be conducted
under the plan herrin provided for,
The said plan when adopted by the
to be uniform as to method,
md to require the elections to be held
IN the same day throughout the Stste,
or counties as the case may