The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-08-25

surplus there wss a deficit OF $41, ,000,-
900. From the 1st Of July, 1904, to
August 10. or for about month and
third Of the present fiscal year, the
expenditures OF the government have
exceeded the receipts by 900.
There could be no stronger evidence
Of the extravaganza into which the
Republican party has fallen, and no
more potent argument in behalf Of
change to the party whose tenets have
always embraced prudence and econ
cny in administering the peoples af-
fairs.
Our Republican friends are prone
to refer to the great commercial
growth of the country under their
rule, and yet the census reports shows
that from 1850 to 1860, under Demo-
cratic rule and the Walker tarif, :ae
percentage of increase was greater IN
population, wealth, manufactures and
railroad mileage, the factors which af-
feet most largely the prosperity or the
country, than in any decade since.
line cost Of government has largely
increased under Republican rule. The
expenditures per capita for the last
year respectively of the administra-
tons given, taken from the reports OF
the Secretary of the Treasury, were as
follows:
"In 1860 under Buchanan, s2.01.
"In 1893 under Harrison, $5.77.
"In 1897 under Cleveland, $50.
"In 1901 under Mckinley, S6.56.
In 1904 under Roosevelt, $40.
"The Republicans Eow tlaiG great
consistency in their attituce upon the
currency question, and the President
in his recent speech Of acceptance,
said, that they know what they mean
when they speak Of a stable currency,
the same thing from year to year,
and yet in the platforms Of their party
in 1884. 1888 and 1892, they favored
the double standard of value. In the
platform of 1888 they said The Repub-
lican party is in favor Of the use OF
both gold and silver as money, and
condemns the policy Of the Democratic
administration in its efforts to demone-
tie silver
"Dire predictions were made
by our political opponents Of what
would happen at the St Louis
convention, but they misjudged
the temper Of the party and
the people. While there had been
differences in preceding campaigns, yet
at St. Louis they were all harmonized
and a common ground was found upon
which all could stand and do battle for
Democratic principles. A platform was
adopted by unanimous vote, embrac-
ing the issues of the day, and present.
ing to the people declaration OF prin-
ciples which, in the language Of the
times. Is sane, safe and sound.
with a candidate whose personality
appeals to the good sense and sound
Judgment OF the American people, a
platform whose principles are for the
greatest good to the greatest number,
and reunited party earnest for the
restoration Of good and economical
government, we should succeed and the
principles of democracy again triumph.
'"I beg my countrymen, as they
value their liberty, to guard with
great care the sacred right Of local
lf-government, and to watch with a
jealous eye the tendency Of the times
to centralize power in the hands OF
the few.
"Mr. Chairman, it is an added pleas
ure to receive this notification at your
hands. You have been conservative and
courageous as leader of our party in
the House Of Representatives, posi-
tion which few men have filled with
the signal ability that you have display
ed.
1T will be my pleasure and duty, at
a time not far hence, to accept more
formally In writing, the nomination
which you have rendered in such grace
full and complimentary terms, and to
give my views upon some of the i'm
portant questions now commanding the
attention Of the country