The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-08
Republicans Sending Out
Revised State Platform.
TEMPERANCE PLANK
Discovery of Republican Double Deal
ing Made at Democratic Headquar-
tiers. This Being Shown in Pri-
vate Envelope Platform
Sent Out

Have the Republican bosses in
North Carolina become the revisers of
their party's platform? Are they play
ing Il hide and seek act. The Demo-
cratic State Executive committee made
a discovery of work of this kind yes
terday, and tell of it in the advance
sheets of the Democratic Handbook
The following article was prepared
yesterday upon discovery at Demo
cratic headquarters that the Republi-
cans are circulating a different plat
form from that published in the daily
papers of May 10Th, the day after the
Republican State convention. The
Handbook was ready for delivery, but
will be held up day or two in or
der to add this article which shows
how the Republicans are working
around on the matter of temperance
legislation. The article is as follows:
Have The Republicans Changed Their
Platform on Temperance?
BY reference to the Republican
State platform published in this book,
pages to 10, inclusive, it will be seen
that that platform upon the subject
of temperance legislation by the last
Legislature is as follows:
1--WE favor, as we have ever IA
vored, just and equal laws for
the promotion of temperance,
but we denouncc the Democratic
Legislature for the enactment of
the Watts law, for the reason that
il was conceived and enacted for
political advantage, under the
guiSe of temperance reform, and
for its unjust and unfair diScrimi-
nation in comforting rights and
privileges upon the inhabitants of
Incorporated towns and cities
which il denies to the citizens OF
the country. But in pursuance
of our time-honored policy, OF
local self-government, we favor a
law which submits to the qualified
voters of the several counties and
incorporated towns of the State,
at their request, the question of
whether they shall or shall not be
permitted to make and sell intoXi-
eating liquors, and the faithful
execution of their will as express
ed at the ballot box.
The Republican State platform, as
published in this book, containing the
above quotation, is an exact copy OF
that platform as published in the Raj
eigh Morning Post on the morning
of May 18th, 1904, the day after the
Republican State convention at
Greensboro, and in the Raleigh News
and Observer on the morning of May
goth.
The Greensboro Record of May 10Th
did not publish the platform, but con-
tanned the following reference to the
temperance plank of the platform:
-. j. Britt read the report of the
committee on platform, which was an
extensive typewriter document.
favoring a good law governing the
question of temperance. condemning
the Watts liquor law and believing
the whskey question should be left to
the voters of the districts affected.
"On notion the platform was
unanimously adopted. Before the vote
was announced, EX.Judge Robinson
was recognized and said he wanted tC
give his dissent to the clause in refer
ence to temperance. He spoke sever
al minutes, saying God forbid that the
paths to the bar-roOmS should be
made more open than now, and pro-
testing against the Impeachment OF
Governor Aycock's character.
1.-THE platform was again voted or
and adopted"
The Charlotte Daily Observer die
not publish the platform, but contain