The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-05
LILY WHITES
IN WEST VIRGINIA.
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stopped by the previous question being
ordered. The amendment was defeated.
years, 81; nays 9l5.
Many of those voting announced,
We favor the amendment, but vote
nay The platform as offered was
then adopted.
The platform as adopted reads in
part:
First. We indorse the platform adopt
ed by our National Convention at st.
Louis, and pledge our devoted support
to the candidates of that convention,
Judge Alton B. Parker, a safe guardian
OF our property and political rights
and Henry G. Davis, our honored fell
low-citizen and trusted counsellor.
Extravagant Republican Party.
Second. We arraign the Republican
party IN this state for it's wasteful
extravaganza in appropriations and for
ITS corrupt and fraudulent use of the
machinery of elections, to the end that
II might be perpetuated in power at
the taxpayers expense. 1t has an
nounced the burdens of government
ana, through the acts of it's Venal
placemen, has corrupted the ballot and
lessened respect for our constitutions.
we demand the correction of these
practices and the restoration of our
politics to a decent plane to the end
that neither ourselves nor our posterity
snail be deprived of the blessings of
honest, popular government.
Debauchery of Ballot.
Third. We believe that efficient and
honest government can only be Sc
cured and maintained by combining the
right of suffrage strictly to the legal
and bona fide citizens of the state, ard
we believe that the strictest legisla-
ton should be enacted to confine the
right of suffrage to this class. And
we especially denounce the action of
the States Republican executive and
its legislative majority in disregard
ing the mandatory and clearly ex-
pressed will of the people announced
by the adoption almost two years ago
of constitutional amendment re-
curing the Legislature to enact
registration law which would prevent
illegal voting.
our state and the greatest menace to
our civic veal is the debauchery of the
ballot by means of repeating and il
legal voting, which is, and has been,
systematically carried on in MANY
counties of the state by a ring of cor
rupt Republican officials state and
federal, and which is rendered possible
by the systematic Importation of IL
legal voters into the state and by the
Republican party's refusal to enact a
registration law, as required by the
constitutional amendment.
Condemn Republican Methods,
Fourth. We further condemn the
Republican majority in the pres
ent Legislature for having de-
feated the submission of a
constitutional amendment, making
the payment of poll tax a prerequis-
lite to the right to vote.
Fifth. We condemn the present spe-
cial and extraordinary session of the
Legislature, called by a Republican
Governor. upon hollow pretense of
tax reform. and designed for the pur-
pose of enacting into laws, hybrid bills
concocted beyond the limits of the
state, with the intent not to relieve,
but to deceive the people. We con-
denim the same as hypocritical, futile
and extravaganza.
Uniform System of Taxation.
Sixth. We declare that the Demo-
cratic party now, as it always has
been is in favor of a uniform system
OF taxation, so arranged as that it
Will bear equally upon all persons and
property alike, So that equal and ex-
act justice may be done to all, with
special privileges and exemptions from
such burdens to none. and that equal
ity of right with equality to burden
may prevail.
Seventh. We recognize that capital
and labor are dependent upon each
other, and that each has sacred rights
which are entitled to and must have
equal protection before the law.
At the evening session William G
Peterkin was nominated for Secretary
nf Snh L
Lawrence A. Reyman for attorney GEN
eral, and NJ. D. Helmick for sup
erintendent of schools.
On motion of Col. McGraw, the
chairman OF the convention was di-
rected to telegraph greetings to Judge
Parker, and pledge him the electoral
vote of West Virginia.