The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-18

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was voted down. The platform was then
| adopted as whole. A resolution to ap-
| point a Committee on Platform to have
it ready sixty days before the State Con-
vention met was voted down. The prop
| osition to allow defeated Democratic can
| didates to vote in the Democratic caucus
| for Senator was renewed but was tabled
on motion of j. NJ. Julian, of Rowan.
At a quarter past four o'clock the con-
vention adjourned. The platform adopted
| is as follows:
We congratulate the people of
| North Carolina upon the adop-
| tion of the suffrage amendment
to our State Constitution and upon
| the benefits that have resulted therefrom
and we pledge the Democratic party to
| faithfully maintain it by every legitimate
| means and we demand that the Repub-
| lcan party shall declare it's purpose
either to accept or reject it and until it
is accepted as a finality by all parties
we declare it to be the duty of the white
people to stand together for all's pro-
lection.
The Democratic party, representing the
Intelligence, the virtue, and the man
hood of the people of the State recalls
scandals during it's administration of
public affairs and the gratifying advance
ment which has been made amongst us
in all industrial lines. We have fos-
tered agriculture and promoted manufac-
turing and have given to capital full Sc
curity and have protected the rights of
labor.
We pledge the party to a fair and just
system of taxation, and we demand that
all subjects of taxation shall bear their
just and equal proportion of the bur
6ens of government.
SCHOOLS AND ROADS.
We renew our pledges for the exten-
sion and Improvement of the public
school system of the State, so that it
may keep pace with the needs and condi-
lions of our people and point with pride
to the great impetus and progress in
this great work during the last two
years. and call attention to the fact that
this year for the first time in the ms
tory of the State, every school district
has been able to maintain public free
school fer four months as required by the
Constitution.
We believe that the permanent pros
perity of the people of this State de-
ponds largely upon the construction ana
maintenance of good roads, and we
pledge the party to the hearty support
of all wise measures to that end.
OFFICIALS COMMENDED.
We heartily commend and endorse the
administrator of Governor Chas. B.
Aycock and other State officials for their
faithful execution of the party's prom
Uses in so far as the same has been pos
sible thus early in their terms of office.
We likewise extend our appreciation and
endorsement to United States Senator f.
NJ. Simmons, and to our Democratic Rep
resentatives in Congress and congratu-
late them and the people of the State
for their faithful and official services to
| the State in the councils of the nation
We reaffirn our allegiance to the Dem
ocratic party and its policy as enuncat-
ed in its national platform. We denounce
the policy of imperialism inaugural
ed by the Republican national admins
tration, and declare it to be obnoxious to
our forms of government and fraught
with danger to the very existence of the
Republic.
TRUSTS AND TARIFFS.
We denounce as oppressive and illegal
those combinations of capital known as
trusts and monopolies that stifie compe-
tition, throttle individual effort and de-
stroy the generous spirit of rivalry that
should exist in the commercial world.
We denounce the deceptive and illusory
course of the Republican party in Con-
gress, in furthering the existence of the
trusts by it's refusal to enact legislation
restraining them and to enforce in good
faith the existing laws against them,
that party being in full control of all
branches of the government. We de-
nounce the present Ubiquitous. unjust
and trust-creating protective tariff, i'm
posed upon the people by the Republi-
can party and demand it's immediate re-
vision to the end that all unjust burdens
shall be removed, and especially those
upon necessaries of life. Its provisions
enable the trusts to eXtort from the peo
pie unreasonable profits and to sell their
products to consumers at home at great
err prices than are charged for the same
goods to the foreign consumer. We de-
mand, therefore, that all such trust
made goods be placed on the free list.
APPALACHIAN PARK.
We favor the establishment of the APP
palachian Park and urge that our Sena-
tors and Representatives in Congress use
their best efforts to secure it's establish
ment. We again appeal to the people
with confidence that it is only from the
Democratic party that there can be ex-
pected an honest, capable and efficient
administration of the government of the
State and point with pride to it's past
history in the administration of the af-
fairs of State, and challenge COMPARE
son with the iniquities of Fusion and
Republican rule.
We promise the people of the State a
continuance of that honest, safe, conser-
vative and economical government which
has always characterized Democratic rule
| and pledge our best efforts for the adj
/ vanement of the material prosperity and
| happiness of the whole people.
THE PRIMARY FAVORED.
We favor making all nominations by
our party for State and district offices