The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-06-27
STATE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM

| Convention in Nashville last week,
with the exception of the back-tax
clause and amendments proposed
to the election laws:
We, the Republicans of Tennessee
in convention assembled in Nashville,
believing that the measures inaugu-
ated by the national Republican party
through President Mckinley and be-
ing carried out by President Roose-
welt, together with the policies, plat
forms and principles from it's birth,
touching both home and foreign re-
lations to be the only true American
policy leading to individual happiness,
prosperity and national greatness,
hereby reattirm our fidelity to and
support of the same as set forth fully
in the national platform of 1900:
2-Realizing that trusts may be the
creatures of both State and national
legislation, and while we recognize
and would encourage legitimate, cor
porate enterprise, yet we favor legal
restraint of monopolies and trusts
formed by aggregations of capital for
the purpose of controlling products
and fixing of prices. We felicitate
the party for having passed the first
and only federal law on this subject.
3,-Realizing that capital is the
creature of labor, we favor an adjust
ment of both and declare in favor of
such laws as will protect and control
both in all things guaranteeing to
capitalists lawful protection and to
labor it's just reward.
4-Realizing that from the soil we
live and largely acquire wealth we
therefore favor perfect organization
and support of the agricultural bureau
of the State and the establishment
and holding of agricultural Institutes
or schools in every county and the
teaching of scientific farming among
the masses of the people.
s. Realizing the inequality and
hardShips of the present fee system in
Tennessee in favor of larger and
against smaller counties, we favor
laws regulating and defining the fees
Of the county officials.
Eve favor the Australian system
of voting and denounce the present
Dortch law as unjust and unfair.
S-We favor the adoption of the fol-
lowing constitutional amendments:
1-Giving cities and counties, in
their discretion, the right to exempt
from taxation enterprises for limit
ed per cent. from it's Investment.
2-Such revision of criminal laws
and their administrations as will re.
lieve the State and counties of the eX-
pense of prosecution of petty crimes
and misdemeanors and as will impose
on the real criminals the cost of their
prosecution.
3-TO give the municipalities and
counties under proper regulations for
the expression of the popular will full
control of all matters purely local in
their character.
9-We declare in favor of the extern
sion of the 4-mile liquor law to all
towns and municipalities containing
5000 inhabitants or less by the last
census, upon majority vote of the
qualified voters of said towns and mu-
inequalities.
love declare in favor of an in
creased school tax, that the schools
may be kept running at least nine
months in the year.
live deplore the recent catastro-
phe in the Fraterville mine at Coal
Creek, and while sympathizing with
the widows and orphans of this unfor-
tunate event, we favor and demand
stringent laws for the protection of
human life in the mines of the State,
and that there shall be required to be
kept in all coal mines instruments
and appliances to test the presence of
fire damp or other dangerous condi-
tion of gases.
Eve further appreciate the inter-
ests of organized labor and recommend |
that the union label be placed on ali |
public printing. -
FOSTER V. BROWN,
Chairman,
j. W. E. BOREN,
H. NJ. SHERWOOD,
W. BURKETT MILLER,
JOHN w. OVERALL,
f. j. W. GRANT,
FRANK S. ELGIN,
A. NJ. HUGHES,
B T, BoNDURANT,
JOHN Redo,
FRANK S. ELGIN, Secretary.
NJ. &. w Inner Tubes IS cts. each
at U. c. Cycle Co.
Finest candies in the city to be
had at Dahnke's.
Million Dollars in Gold Bars.