The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-17
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION OPENS;
 JULIUS C. DAVIDSON CHAIRMAN;
 DAY IS SPENT IN SPEECH MAKING
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last national republican convention held at Philadelphia.
 9 We favor the organization of labor for it's legitimate protection and the en- actment of laws for the peaceab.e and fair settlement by arbitration of dis agreements as they may arise between organized labor and capital
 8 We favor legislation opposing the working of children under fourteen years of age in cotton factories excepting when necessary for the support of widowed and dependent mothers, and favor the enact ment of state law to the end that no child shall be worked over hfty-five hours in a week.
 1. We favor and urge in our state the extension of education and believe in absolutely free tuition for children for period of at least eight months in each year.
 We condemn that spirit which seeks to arouse the prejudice of the people against railroads. We are in sympathy with and We encourage capital in protective and building new railroads in Alabama. We advocate the enactment of laws so reg ulating the railroads as to adeouatelv protect the interests of the people, but are opposed to any dractic measures which may deter the investment of capi- tai in railroads and other industries in the state of Alabama
 We endorse the wisdom of the Dingley tariff law, and urge continuance of that policy. The nominees of the democratic party of Alabama go before the people of the state asking further suffrage without single issue or promise on any subject whatever. Therefore, we declare that if given power by them we shall enact laws as will carry into effect the rpni1hlipan nO1iaiae will bring the greatest good to the great est number.
 The republican party is to be com mended for taking decisive steps for the construction of an inter-oceanic canal which directly connects the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The south. and, especially Alabama, is to be con graduated upon this project, as it is to throw open to her for her agricultural and manufactured products, the markets of the eastern world.
 We stand up to and applaud our gal lant soldiers for the dangers and priva- tions they have undergone in the Philip pines and for their bravery and heroism in maintaining the glory of our flag in foreign lands, and we condemn the at tacks of the democratic party made upon cur soldiers while fighting and shedding their precious blood under the flag of our beloved country
 Resolutions. Whereas. We remember that in VII liam Mckinley we had one of the ablest presidents of the United States and the representative of the highest type of American manhood end citizenship it Is with pride and satisfaction we join to his illustrious career and we recognize that through him the wise and conserva- tive policies of the republican party con- tinue to give vim and vitality to Ameri- can institutions and raised this country to the first station among nations of the earth; therefore b. it
 Resolved, That We sincerely deplore his untimely death. and in common with every state in the union we deprecate the base act of anarchy which caused his death.
 We hei eby express our confidence il, the administration of his successor, Presi- dent Theodore Roosevelt and our faith in his thoroughly American and patriotic ideas, and we believe that his leadership establishes confidence both in the success of republican principles and the contln- ued prosperity and Irogress of the coun- try: and we therefore favor his renomI- nation to the great cffiee he fills with ability snd patriotism.
 Be it resolved, That the county execu- tive committeee elected by the county conventions, or mass meetings. whose delegates were seated in this convention be and they are hereby declared the regular and legal county organizations of the republican party in their respec- tive counties.
 Resolved. That the permanent chair man of this convention appoint a com mittee of five to prepare an address to the people of Alabama, setting forth the well konwn doctrines and principles of the republican party as against the rank partisanship and injustice of the new constitution of our state.
 Resolved further, That the chairman of the state executive committee be directed to issue and circulate copies of