Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-07-20
THE PLATFORM AS ADOPTED.
Text Of Report Of Committee on Resolution
Of the Democratic Convention.

VI
Democratic faith which bring us together
In party communion.
Under them local self government and
national unity and prosperity were alike
established They underlaid our indie
pendence, the structure of our free Re.
public, and every Democratic extension
from Louisiana TO California, and Texas
to Oregon, which preserved faithfully in
all the States the tie between taxation
and Representations. They yet inspire
the masses of our people, guarding zeal.
ously their rights and liberties, and cher
ishing their fraternity, peace and orderly
development. They remind us of our
duties and responsibilities rs citizens,
ana impress upon us, particularly at this
time, the necessity of reform aud the
rescue of the administration of govern.
ment from the hcadstrong, arbitrary
and spasmodic methods which distract
business by uncertainty and pervade the
public, mind with dread, distrust and
perturbation.
1. The application of these funda.
mental principles to the living issues of
the day is the first step toward the as
sured peace safety and progress of our
nation. Freedom of the press, of con-
science, of speech; equality before the
law of all citizens; right of trial by Jury
freedom of tho person defended by the
writ of haboas corpus; liberty of per-
ary laws; supremacy of the civil over
military authority; well disciplined
militia; the separation of Church and
State; economy in expenditures; low
taxes, that labor may be lightly bur-
dened; prompt and sacred fulfilment of
public and private obligations; fidelity
to treaties; peace and friendship with all
nations; entangling alliances with none;
absolute acquiescencel the will of the
majority; the vital principle of republics
these are doctrines which Democracy
has established, approved by the nation,
and they should be constantly invoked
and enforced.
We favor enactment aud administers
ton of laws, giving labor and capital
| impartially their just rights. Capital
and labor ought not to be enemies. Each
| is necessary to the other. Each has it's
rights, but the rights of labor are cer-
tainly no less "vested," no less "sacred"
and no less 'inalienable" than the rights
of capital.
| CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEES.
Constitutional guarantees are violated
whenever any citizen is denied the right
to labor, acquire and enjoy property, or
reside whore interests or inclination NAV
determine. ANY denial thereof by indi-
| Viduals, organizations, or governments
should be summarily rebuked and pun
| ished.
We deny the right of any executive to
disregard or suspend any constitutional
privilege or limitation. Obedience to
tho laws and respect for their require
ments are alike the supreme duty of the
citizen and the official
The military should be authorized only
to support aud maintain the law. We
| nnqualifedly condemn it's employment
for the summary banishment of citizens
without trial at or for the control of cleo
tions.
We approve tho measure which passed
the United States Senate in 1896, but
which Republican Congress has ever
since refused to enact, relating to con-
tempts in Federal Courts, and providing
for trial by jury in cases of indirect con-
tempt.
WATERWAYS.
We favor liberal appropriations for the
| care and Improvement of the WATERWAYS
of the country. When any waterway,
| like The Mississippi river is of sufficient
Importance to demand special aid of the
Government, such aid should be ex-
tended with definite plan OF continuous
w"k until permanent improvement is
secured.
| We oppose the Republican policy of
starving home development in order to
feed the greed for conquest and the
| appetite for national prestige" and dis
play of strength.
| ECONOMY OF ADMINISTRATION
Large reductions can easily be made in
| the annual expenditures of the govern
ment without impairing the efficiency of
any branch of the public service, and we
| shall insist upon the strictest economy
| and frugaity compatible with efficient
| civil, military and naval administration
as right of the people too clear to be
denied or withheld.
We favor honesty in the public service,
the enforcement of honesty in the public
service, and to that end a thoroughly
| Legislative investigation of those execn-
tive departments of the government al
ready known to TEEN with corruption.
| and the punishment of ascertained cor.
| ruptionists without fear or favor or re-
gard to persons. The persistent and
deliberate refusal of both tho Senate and
House of Represeh Satives to permit such
| investigation to be made demonstrates
that only by change in tho executive
and in the legislative departments can
complete exposure, punishment and cor
rection be obtained.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONTRACT
WITH TRUSTS.
We condemn the action of the Repub
can party in Congress in refusing to pro-
hibit an executive department from en-
teriDg into contracts with convicted
trusts or unlawful combinations in re-
straint of Interstate trade. We believe
that one of the best ethods of procur
ing economy and honesty in the public
service is to have public officials, from
one occupant of the White House down
to the lowest of them, returned as nearly
as may, to Jeffersonian simplicity OF
living.
EXECUTIVE USURPATIONs.
We favor the nomination and election
OF a President imbued with the principles
of the Constitution, who will set his face
sternly against executive usurpation of
Legislative aud judicial functions, whether
of existing laws, or whether it take
refuge in the tyrants pleas of necessity
or superior wisdom.
IMPERIALISM.
We favor the preservation, so far as we
can, of open door for the worlds com.
merce in the Orient, without an unneces-
sary entanglement in Oriental and
European affairs, and without arbitrary,
Unlimited, irresponsible and absolute
government anywhere within our juris-
diction. We oppose, as fervently as did
George Washington himself, indefinite.
irresponsible, discretionary and vague
absolutefsm and policy of colonial ex-
ploitation, no matter where or by whom
invoked or exercised; we believe with
Jefferson and John Adams that no gov
ernment has a right to make one set of
laws for those Eat home" and another
and different set of laws absolute i'm
their character for those "in the colo
MES" All men under the American fl g
are entitled to the protection of the in.
stitntiOns whose emblem the flag is; if
they are Inherently unfit for these insti-
tutioDs, then they are adherently unfit
to be members OF the American polite.
Wherever there may exist people inca
pable of being governed under American
Constitution, that people ought not to
be part of the American domain.
We insist that we do for the Filipinos
what we have done already for the Gu.
bans, and 1t is our duty to make that
promise now, and upon snitahle Rparan-