Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1904-06-30
DEMOCRATIC STATE PLATFORM

DEMOCRATIC STATE PLATFORM
The Platform Endorses the Admins.
tration OF State government by the
0emocrats-Declarations on Nation
al Questions.
The following is the full text of the
State Democratic Platform adopted BY
the Greensboro convention,
THE PLATFORM.
The Democratic party of North Caro-
lima, in convention assembled, de-
claring anew it's allegiance to the fun
damental principles of government as
expressed in former platforms, con-
graduates the people of the state that
Democratic administration has again
established throughout their borders
the reign of law and liberty and the
reign of peace and progress. Radical
rule with its nightmare of horrors, has
passed away. Our people are no longer
employed in guarding their homes and
protecting their lives, liberty, and
property as they were under Republi-
can rule; but safe in the protection of
the law, breathing the air of liberty,
and enjoying the freedom which comes
from security, our men and our women
are devoting their energies to the
peaceful pursuits of honest industry, to
the education of their children, and to
the care of the hopeless and unfortu-
nate. Agriculture, manufacturing, and
commerce are bounding forward in
helpful rivalry, neither receiving nor
desiring susibies or protection except
that afforded by stable and honest
government. Nowhere in North Caro-
lima is there riot or disorder; nowhere
is there suffering or destitution. Such
are the fruits of peace and order, of
honesty and efficiency, of intelligence
and patriotism, of Democratic admin
istration under the leadership of the
peerless orator, statesman, and educa-
| tor, Charles Brantly Aycock, and the
| other honest and efficient public Off
cials associated with him in the State
| administration in all three depart
ments of government.
| North Carolina has again come intp
her own. She stands in the forefront
Of Southern States, leading all in edu-
cational and industrial progress. Hey
sons are looked to at home and abroad
for educational, industrial, and COM
| mercial leadership. What a contrast
| to conditions existing recently when
| the delegation of our educational
charitable, and penal institutions
through the vices, incompetency, ex.
| travagance, and corruption of Repub-
lican boards of management caused
the State to hang her head in shame
and stand an object of pity among he,
sister States.
RACE PROBLEM SETTLED.
The Democratic party points witt
pride to its settlement of the race prob
lem in North .Carolina-a settlement
that depends upon Democratic supre
macy for it's permanency. The consti
tutional amendment furnishes to al
the people of the State safeguards o
peace and order, of life, liberty, ant
happiness, and guarantees educational
religious, and social progress as vel
| az industrial prosperity and develop
ment
EDUCATION.
We re-affirm our constitutional dec
laration that religion" morality, an
knowledge being necessary to goo
government and the happiness of man
kind, schools, and the means of edu
cation shall forever be encouraged,
and that the people have a right t
the privilege of education, and tha
IT, is the duty of the State to guar
and maintain that right and we ez
press our hearty approval of the edu
cational work of the present admins
tTation, and our qualification at tn
great Improvement made in our edr
! catiOnal conditions under the preseI
Democratic administration, and woul
; cell attention to the fulfillment of th
! former promise of the party to pro
! | vide at least four months school teri
for al the children of the State. An
, we further express our cordial con
| E!oa1ldClOu Ol Luo WOTk OIL the CeaCQ1u
profession for the mental, moral, an
material advancement of the peopl
and pledge for the future out best Ell
/: deavors to, strengthen and increas
the usefulness and efficiency of o,
: whole public education system
TEMPERANCE.
l We approve the general principl,
v Of the Watts law regarding the mai
I ufacture and sale of liquors, and lin
!. iting the same to localities in whil
+ there may be adequate police prote
+ tion. The principle that no saloon
+ still shall operate except under p
y lice protection is as sound as TIL
!, whiskey shall not be sold to minor
9 ! TO drunkards, or on Sundays, or ne,
: the schools and churches. The Gel
eral Assembly has the power, al
when controlled by the Democrat
d party. can be trusted to make q
e amendments that experience and CO.
h ditions may demonstrate to be Wi
: !: ana ''e42aBFSttfESS 44b 5flt4faS PRISON,
q The contrast between the prese