The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-07-15
TRUSTS
FLAYE
In the Platform Adopted
by the Democrats.
PROTECTION DENOUNCED.
Liberty for Filipinos, Election of
Senators by the People and
a Reduction of the
Army Imperatively
Demanded.

demanded.
The Democratic party of the United
States, in national convention assem-
bled, declares its devotion to the cs-
scntial principles Of the Democratic
faith which brings us together in party
communion.
Under them, local self-government
and national unity and prosperity were
alike established. They underla q our
independence, the structure of our free
republic, and every Democratic extern
sion from Louisiana to California, and
Texas to Oregon, which preserved
faithfully in all the States the tie be-
tween taxation and representation.
They yet inspire the masses of our
people, guarding jealously their rights
and liberties, and chershing their fra
uernity, peace and orderly develop
ment. They remind us of our duties
and responsibilities as citizens and i'm
press upon us, particularly at this
time, tiIe necessity of reform and the
rescue of the administration of govern
ment from the headStrOng, arbitrary
and SpaSmOdic methods which distract
business by uncertainty and pervade
the public mind with dread, distrust
and pertuSbatiOn.
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES.
The application of these fundamen-
tai principles to the living issues of
the day is the first step toward the
assured peace, safety and progress of
our nation. Freedom of the press, of
conscience and of speech; equality be-
fore the law of all citizens; right of
trial by jury; freedom of the person de-
tended by the writ, of habeas corpus;
liberty of personal contract untram-
mcled by sumptuary laws; supremacy
of the civil over military authority; a
well disciplined militia; the separation
of church and state: economy IL .ex-
pend dItnras; low. ta aes, that labor sn11ay,
belightly burdened; prompt and sacred
fultillment of public and private Obli-
cations; fidelity to treaties; peace and
friendship with all nations; cntangling
alliances with none, absolute acQuieS-
cence in the will of the majority, the
vital principle of republics; these are
doctrines which Democracy has estab-
lished, approved by the nation and
they should be constantly invoked and
enforced.
CAPITAL AND LABOR
We favor enactment and admins
tration of laws, giving labor aid capi-
tai lmpartially their just rights. Capt.
tai and labor ought not to be enemies.
Each is necessary to the other. Each
has its rights, but the rights of labor
are certainly no less vested" no less
sacred" and no less "unalienable"
than the rights of capital.
CoNsTITGTIoNAL GUARANTEES.
Constitutional guarantees are vio-
lated whenever any citizen is denied
the right TO labor, acquire and enjoy
property or reside where interests or
inclination may determine. ANY de-
nial thereof by individuals. organiza-
tionS, or governments should be sum
marily rcbukcd and punished.
We deny the right of any executive
to disregard or suspend any conStitu-
tional privilege or limitation. Obcdi-
ence TO the laws and respect for their
requirements are alike the supreme
duty of the citizen and tile Official.
The military should be used ONLY to
support and maintain the law. We
unqualiiicdly condemn its employment
for the summary banishment OF citi-
ZcnS without a trial at or for the con-
troll of elections.
We approve the measure which pass
ed the United States senate in 1896.
but which Il Republican congress has
ever since refused to enact, relating to
contempts in federal courts, and pro
viding for trial by jury in. cases OF indi-
rect contempt.
WATERWAYS.
We favor liberal appropriations ior
the care ana improvements Of the wa
ter ways of the country. When any
waterways like the Mississippi river is
OF sufficient importance tO demand
special aid OF the government, such
aid should be extended with 4 definite
| plan OF continuous work until perma-
ncnt improvement is secured
We oppose the Repblican policy of
starving home development i'm order
TO feed the greed for conSoQuest and
the appetite for national prestige"
and display Of strength.
ECONOMY OF ADMINISTRATIONS.
Large reductions can easily be made
in the annual expenditures of the gov
crnment without impairing the em-
cheney of any branch of the public ser
vice, and we shall insist upon the
Strictest economy and frugality com
patiblc with vigorous and efficient
civil, military and naval administers
tion rs right of the people, too clear
to be denied or withheld.
we favor honesty in the puplic SER
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the public service and to that end a
thorough legislative investigation of
those executive departments OF the
government already known to them
with corruption, and the punishment
OF ascertaincd corruptionists without
fear or favor or regard to persons. The
persistent and deliberate refusal of
both the senate and house of repre-
Scntatives to permit such invcStiga-
tion TO be made, demonstrates that
only by change in the executive and
in the legislative departments can
complete exposure. punishment and
CORE ction be obtained
FEDERAL. GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS.
We condemn the action of the Re-
publican party in congress in refusing
to prohibit an executive department
from entering into contracts with con-
victcd trusts on unlawful cOmbina-
tiOnS i'm restraint Of interstate trade.
We believe that one of the best
methods of procuring economy and
honesty in the public service is to
have public officials, from the occu-
pant Of the White House down to the
lowest of them, returned as nearly as
may be to Jeffersonian simplicity OF
living.