The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-29
of the cut and dried platform went
through with a whoop.
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

of the cut and dried platform went
| through with a whoop.
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
The Republicans of North Carolina'
| in convention assembled at Greensboro
| on the 2Sth day of August, 1902. ADOPT
| the following as a declaration OF prlncl-
| Piles 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 en-
ployed in modern times; and his life and
| work will prove a tower of strength 10
| the Christian religion and to official IN
| tegrity 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 President whose
honesty of purpose and patriotism are
such as to assure us that the affairs OF
| the American people are in safekeeplng,
| and his faith in the principles of Re-
publicanism is such as to guarantee
faithful adherence to those things that
have made for this republic the splen-
did reputation which it now has as a
world power.
We endorse the national platform of
the Republican party adopted at Phli-
adelphia, and point with pride to the
uneXampled prosperity which Repub-
lican administration has brought to the
country at large.
Intelligence being the corner stone of
| the State and the education of the
| 1rasses being dependent solely upon o@r
public schools, we favor the support by
public taHation of at least torr months
school IN every scnool district in the
State, and we condemn the Democratic
| party for its failure to provide proI er
| educational facilities Tor the education
| of the locr children OF the State during
| its lease of rover 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 equitable distribution
of this fund than is provided for by the
present pension laws.
will encourage the investment of capi-
! tai, both foreign and domestic, and We
respectfully invite capitalists from
abroad to come among us and assist in
| the development of our wonderful re-
| sources.
| We invite the attention of the people
| of the State to the clean, able and
economic administration of our State
government by the Republican and Popu-
list parties from 1897 to 1901, and chal-
lenge comparison of it with the present
reckless management of our affairs by
the Democratic party.
We arraign the leaders of the Demo-
cratic party as false to every pledge
made l.: the last campaign.
They promised to reduce expenses, and
instead of doing so they have Increased
| expenditures lin almost every depart
nent of our State Government.
They promised to curtail rather than
increase the number of offices, and in
stead of doing SO they have increased
the number of judges and solicitors
from twelve to sixteen, and have made
other increases by providing for the en-
ployment of clerical help that has not
heretofore been deemed necessary under
similar circumstances.
They promised to reduce salaries, but
| instead of doing so they have increased
| the governors salary during his term
| of office, in violation of the constitution,
and have provided many ways by which
I the people are today taxed far in ex-
( cess 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,
| 419.97.
They promised to reduce expenditures,
| and instead of doing so, in three years
| they have increased expenditures in the
| sum of $1,0SS,545.
They promised, by affidavit and other
| wise, that no white man would be dis
| franchised under the amendment to our
Constitution, but instead of observing
their pledge with respect 20 this matter.
TIE Democratic State chairman is now
forced to admit that $4,000 white rGcn
will te denied the right 10 v tie at The
| apf roaLhing election
We condemn them for their unwarrant-
ed effort to mpeach two of our Supreme
| Court JUSTICES LOT purely Pal IIShH pun
poses for following precedents establish
d by the Supreme Court of this State in
a long line of decisions covering period
| OF more than sixty years.
We further condemn them for the en-
actment of legislation appropriating the
money of the people for the purpose OF
defraying the expenses of persons in
dicted for the violation of laws which
they had sworn to obey, and for granting
amnesty to such persons from prosecu-
tion in the State courts.
We declare that when the Constitu-
tional amendment was adopted by the
people of North Carolina two years ago
it passed out of the realm of politics, and
that if Governor Aycock, Senator Sim
mons and others keep faith with the
people in the pledges then made, there
can be no such thing as a race issue in
the present campaign.