The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-09-02
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

ne nGDuD11Cd1S VI AOIln NdIO141dS
in convention assembled at Green's
boro on the 28th day of August, 1902,
adopt the following as a declaration
of principles upon which they ask the
support of the people of the State:
We deplore and deeply mourn the
death of President Mckinley. His
Christian character, noble impulses
and patriotic spirit have done more to
strengthen Republican institutions
than any other agency which has been
employed in modern times; and his
life and work will prove a tower of
strength to the Christian religion and
to official integrity and fidelity for all
time to come.
While we deeply mourn the loss of
our beloved President, at the same
time we appreciate the fact that in
President Roosevelt we have a Presi-
dent whose honesty of purpose and
patriotism are such as to assure us
that the affairs of the American peo-
pie are in safekeeping, and his faith
in the principles of Republicanism is
such as to guarantee a faithful adher-
ence to those things that have made
for this Republic the splendid reputa-
ton which it now has as a world
power.
We endorse the national platform
of the Republican Party adopted at
Philadelphia, and point with pride to
the unexampled prosperity which a
Republican administration has
brought to the country at large.
Intelligence being the corner stone
of the State, and the education of the
masses being dependent solely upon
our public schools, we favor the sup
port by public taxation of at least a
four months school in every school
district in the State, and We condemn
the Democratic Party for its failure
to provide proper educational facili-
ties for the education of the poor
children of the State during it's lease
of power from 1870 to 1895.
We favor generous public aid to all
charitable institutions of the State,
and the enactment of such pension
laws as will give the ex-Confederate
soldiers a more generous and equita-
bic distribution of this fund than is
provided for by the present pension
laws.
We favor such State legislation as
will encourage the investment of CAPT
tai, both foreign and domestic, and
we respectfully invite capitalists from
abroad to come among us and assist
in the development of our wonderful
resources.
We invite the attention of the peo-
pie of the State to the clean, able and
economic administration of u State
government by the Republican and
Populist Parties from 1897 to 1901,
and challenge a comparison of it with
the present reckless management. of
our affairs by the Democratic Party.
We arraign the leaders of the Dem
ocratic Party as false to every pledge
made in the last campaign.
They promised to reduce expenses,
and instead of doing so they have in
creased expenditures in almost every
department of our State Government.
They promised to curtail rather
than increase the number of offices,
and instead of doing so they have in
creased the number of judges and So
l%icitors from twelve to sixteen, and
have made other increases by provid-
ing for the employment of clerical
help that has not heretofore been
deemed necessary under similar cir
cumstances.
They promised to reduce salaries,
but instead of doing so they have in
creased the Governors salary during
his term of office, in violation of the
Constitution, and have provided many
ways by which the people are to-day
taxed far in excess of any rate they
have heretofore had to pay.
They promised to reduce taxation,
and instead of doing so they have leg
islated so that our receipts increased
within three years in the sum of $780,
1897.
They promised to reduce expendi-
lures, and instead of doing so, in three
years they have increased expendi-
lures in the sum of $1,088,54
They promised, by affidavit and 9th
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