The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1902-06-05
STATE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
Articles of Faith Enunclated By the
State Convention.


platform adopted by the State Demo
cratic Convention at Columbia
1t was presented by Col. ]. A HoyI
and was adopted unanimously.
Resolved, b. the Democracy OF
South Carolina in convention assem-
b!ed:
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 pow
er which the trusts through the Re
publican 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 attitude OF
the Republican leaders who abuse
trusts and combines while they use
the money obtained from them and
extorted from the people to sebauch
the ignorant voters of the country.
That we denounce the imperalistic
policy of the Republican administra-
ton as contrary to the letter and
spirit of the Declaration Of Indepen-
dence ard 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 well"
The benevolent assimilation "of the
Filipinos has proven to be the bene-
violence of murder and the assimila-
tion Of robbery. We denounce it as an
outrage upon the consciences of lib
erty-loving Americans. Our free in
stitutions cannot long survive the de-
struction of those principles upon
which they rest, and the spectacle OF
subject peoples being held down by
the bayonet and robbed by the carpet
baggers 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 to the intentions Of this country
to aid them in the establishment Of a
free government Of their own choice
under a protectorate by the United
States"
That We reafirm and endorse the
correlated sections of the Kansas City
platform upon the subject Of trusts
and imperialism as follows:
Private monopolies are indefensible
and intolerable. They destroy compe-
tition, control the prices Of material
and of the finished products, thus rob-
bing both producer and consumer.
They lessen the employment Of labor
and arbitrarily fix the terms and con-
ditions thereof, and deprive Individual
energy and small capital Of their op-
portunity for betterment. They are
the most efficient means devised for
appropriating the fruits of industry
for the benefit of the few at the ex.
pense of the many and unless their
insatiate greed is checked all wealth
will be aggregated in few hands and
the republic destroyed. The dishon-
est paltering with the trusts evil by
the Republican party in State and ma
tional platforms is conclusive proof
of the truth of the charges that trusts
are the legitimate products Of Re-
publican policies, that they are fos-
tered by Republican laws and that
they are protected by Republican ad-
ministration in return for campaign
subscriptions and political support.
We pledge the Democratic party to an
unceasing warfare in nation, State
and city against private monopoly Ill
every form. Existing laws against
trusts must be enforced and more
stringent ones must be enacted pro-
viding for publicity as to affairs Of
corporations engaged in interstate
commerce and requiring all corpora
tions to show, before doing business
outside Of the State Of their origin.
that they have no water in their stock
and that they have not attempted and
are not attempting to monopolize any
branch of business or the production
of any article of merchandise, and the
whole constitutional power OF con-
gress over interstate commerce. the
mails, and all modes of interstate
commerce, shall be exercised by the
enactment of comprehensive laws
upon the subject Of trusts. Tariff laws
should be amended by putting the pro-
duct os trusts upon the free list to
prevent monopoly under the plea Of
protection.
We are opposed to private monopoly
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