The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-08-09
THE NEGRO DRAGGED IN
Measures in Certain States to Disfran.
chise Him Condemned.
kcKlNLsY'S FOREIGN POLICY ENDORSED
The Platform favors Such Modification Of the
Tariff Schedules as May be Required
to Prevent Them Giving
Shelter 10 Monopoly.
(By the Associated Press.)

NDS tbC AooOSiolSu L lCSS'J
Cedar Rapids, Ia, August THE
ticket:
Governor-A B. Cummins, Des Moines
Lieutenant Governor-John Harriott,
Stuart.
Judge of The Supreme Courts. NJ
Stewart, Iowa Falls.
Railroad Commissioners. c. Brown,
Sheldon.
Superintendent of Public Instruction
r. G. Barrett. Usage.
With the above ticket the Republicans
of Iowa will go into the next State cam
paign.
The platform adopted expressed graft
fication over the endorsement given to
the administration of President Mciney
by the decisive majorites of last year,
and rejoices in the manifolds benefits re-
sulting to the country from his re- election
which has inspired new confidence to the
business world, established authority and
order in our new possessions and
strengthened the position of this country
before the world.
The people of the country are con-
graduated upon the enjoyment of a
tUdt DItSStS every CLASS anu
community.
The work of the Fifty-sxth Congress,
its action for the reduction of taxation
and the constructive legislation giving
effect to the party declarations of 1896
and 1900 are approved.
The platform continues:
/ 1--WE would emphasize our endorsement
of its action in more firmly establishing
our money system upon gold basis and
in providing for civil government in
Porto Rico and the Philippines, and for
the REIMBURSEMENT of our authority in
Cuba. The policy OF this government to-
ward these islands has followed inevita-
by upon our expulsion of the authority of
Spain. 1t has been dictated by the con-
ditiOns. has been consistent with the
spirit and within the provisions of the
Constitution, and the paramount con-
sideration has been to secure the lasting
welfare of these people. whose fortunes
and destinies have become in large degree
dependent upon us. The fact that our au-
thority there is the result of war waged
not for our agrandizement, but in the
name of humanity, must forever govern
and inspire our relations to them.
islation designed to accomplish the dis
reimbursement of citizens upon lines of
race, color or station of life, and con-
denim the measures adopted by the
Democratic party in certain States to
accomplish that end.
Reciprocity is endorsed as the natural
complement of protection, and it's devel-
opment is urged as necessary to the le-
alization of our highest commercial pos
sibilities.
Regarding combinations of capital the
platform says:
1--WE assert the sovereignty of the peo-
PIE over all corporations and aggrega-
tions of capital, and the right residing
in the people to enforce such regula-
tions, restrictions or prohibitions upon
corporate management as will protect the
individual and society from abuse of the
power which great combinations of CAPT
tai WELD. We favor such amendment
of the Interstate Commerce act as will
more fully carry out its prohibition of
determinations in rate making and any
modification of the tariff schedules that
may be required to prevent their afford
ing shelter to monopoly"