Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-25

The platform was prepared by q
subcommittee consisting OF Senator
Tillmen, Maj. J. @. Hemphill, Col.
j. A. Hoyt, Jas. K. Tindal and Ed
ward MoIver.
The expressions of all of the dele
gates present were favorable to
Judge Parker, but with the reserva-
tion that they would vote for the
most available man when the vote
occurred.
Senator Tillman was reelected as
National Committeeman.
The Convention adopted hearty
resolutions endorsing Leader j.
Sharp Williams for his marked
ability and leadership.
ID. s. Henderson, who presided,
did so with ability and fairness.
The platform as reported and
adopted reads as follows:
THE PLATFORM.
The Democrats of the State of
South Carolina, in convention as
sembled, by their constituted repre-
sentatives, hereby renew their pledge
of fidelity to the fundamental prin-
ciples of Jeffersonian Democracy as
heretofore. repeatedly announced in
our State and National platforms.
We heartily approve the admins
tration of our State Government as
wise, conservative and patriotic.
Each of the Departments Of the
Government, executive, judicial and
legislative, has faithfully performed
it's functions within the limitations.
prescribed by the Constitution, and
we congratulate our fellow.citizens
that the affairs of our State have
been 80 satisfactorily conducted that
the prosperity and welfare of the
people have been promoted, and
there have been peace and good or
der within our borders.
We commend the services of our
Senators and Representatives in the
Congress of the United States as
faithful and efficient.
We>commend the services which
resulted in the adjustment of the ac-
counts of long standing between the
State and the National Government,
whereby the payment of large sum
OF money, long since due the State,
was secured.
We especially commend the con-
duct of our Senators in their de-
termined and 80 far successful pro-
test against che persistent and perni-
cious purpose of the President to in
fiot upon our State Collector of
Customs at Charleston, who is not
only unacceptable to the patrons of
the Office, but is unified by training
and experience to perform its impor-
tant duties. And we declare that
more racial antagonism HIS been
aroused by the policy and language
of Mr.. Roosevelt than by all other
administrations during the last quar-
ter of century.
We believe that the President, in
his repeated appointment of the me-
gro Crum, as Collector of the Port
of Charleston, without the advice
and consent of the Senate, has been
influenced more by purpose to ad-
vance his political aspirations than
by desire to promote the efficiency
of the public service.
We affirm that our treatment
of our colored fellow-citizens does
not justify the purpose and en-
deavor of the President to pro-
duce friction between them and
ourselves.
We make generous provision for
the education of their children. In
their efforts to acquire property, to
secure homes, 10 enjoy liberty andf
to elevate their race, we accord to
them the full protection of the law.
But we believe it to be indispen-
sable to the permanency of peace in
the State, and essential to the well
fare of our people, white and colored
alike, that in matters political the
will of the white people shall be gu
preme, and we avow our purpose to
maintain white supremacy.
Concerning national issues, we
make these further declarations We
believe that the executive, judicial
and Legislative departments of the
National Government should be for
ever separate and distinct from each
other, without the right of either to
userp, or encroach upon the fun ctions
of another. We view with alarm
the assumption of power by the
President and the surrender of that
power by the Congress.
We believe that the rights of the
State, should be maintained at all
hazards, and that every tendency to
Capitalization of power in the Ma
tional Government to the detriment
OF the sacred right of home rule,
should be obstruoted and arrested.
We believe that honesty in the
public service and economy in the
expenditure of public funds are
essential to good government; no
taxes should be levied, nor tariffs i'm.
posed upon the people beyond the
actual requirements of the Govern
ment, economically administered.
We, therefore, urge such reasonable
revision Of the existing tariff that
manufacturers shall not obtain a
higher price for their products at
home than they demand for such
products abroad, and such further
revision 80 will admit free of duty
products that ere manufactured
within the United States bv trusts