The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-05-23


Mr.. Bacot of Charleston seconded
the resolutions earnestly and hoped
that the vote would be rising one.
Mr.. Stevenson spoke eloquently
for Chesterfield county.
Gov. MoSweeney also warmly sec
onded the resolutions.
Then they were adoped by rising
vote.
THE PLATFORM.
Col. James A. Hoyt then present
ed the report Of the committee on
platform and resolutions as follows:
Resolved, by the democracy of
South Carolina in convention as
sembled:
l. That we reaffirm and endorse
the platform of principles enunciated
by the State democratic convention
of 1900, with especial stress upon
the following sections:
'"That we view with alarm the
power which the trusts through the
republican party are exercising over
Legislation and national politics and
their ability to control the prices of
the necessities Of life without regard
to the law Of supply and demand.
We condemn the hypocritical atti-
tude of the republican leaders who
abuse trusts and combines, while
they use the money obtained from
them and extorted from the people
to debauch the ignorant voters of
the country.
THAT we denounce the imperial
istic policy Of the republican admin
istration as contrary to the letter and
spirit Of the Declaration of Inde
pendence and the constitution of the
United States, and as dangerous to
the liberty and freedom not only of
the people of the Spanish islands,
but of the citizens of this country as
we'll" The benevolent assimilation
"of the Filipinos has proven to be
the benevolence of murder and the
assimilation of robbery. We de-
nounce it as an outrage upon the
consciences of liberty-loving Ameri-
cans. Our free institutions cannot
long survive the destruction Of those
principles upon which they rest, and
the spectacle of subject peoples be,
ing held down by the bayonet and
robbed by the carpetbaggers, but
foreshadows the fate of our country
unless the people are aroused to our
danger. The unjust and cruel war
of subjugation now being carried on
in the Philippines should be ended
at once, with definite and specific
declarations to the natives as the in
tentions of this country to aid them
IN the establishment of free gov
ernment Of their own choice under q
protectorate by the United States"
That we reaffirm and endorse the
correlated sections of the Kansas
City platform upon the subject of
trusts and imperialism as follows:
Private monopolies are indefensi.
bic and intolerable. They destroy
competition, control the prices of ma
terial and Of the finished products,
thus robbing both producer and con-
sumer. They lessen the employment
OF labor and arbitrarily fix the terms
and conditions thereof, and deprive
individual energy and small capital
of their opportunity for betterment.
They are the most efficient means de-
vised for appropriating the fruits of
industry for the benefit Of the few
at the expedse of the many, and un-
less their insatiate greed is checked
all wealth will be aggregated in a
few hands and the republic destroyed.
The dishonest paltering with the
trusts evil by the Republican party
in State and national platforms is
conclusive proof Of the truth of the
charges that trusts arc the Legitimate @
products Of Republican policies, that
they arc fostered by Republican laws
and that they are protected by Re-
publican administration in return for
carnpain subscriptions and political
support. We pledge the Democratic
party to an unceasing warfare in ma
tion, State and city against private
mOnopo1y i'm, ,yory forn, Ex;et;ro r,