The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-04-02
Republican Platform.

Republican Platform.
We believe In equal taxation that no
discrimination should be made be.
tween the home of the humble and the
banking institutions by taxing the
former IS per cent of its value, and
The latter less than 40 per cent as is
now done.
We believe in a higher valuation and
less taxation as the best advertisement:
to secure foreign capital for invest
mcnt
We believe in the assessor and col
lccior and administering the oath re-
quired by law in listing property for
.aXation, and that married women
and children owning property be re-
Quired to pay taxes.
We believe that the accounts OF al;
persons receiving and dsbursing cit'
funds should be examined and pu,
lished at least quarterly, so that thc
people may know the financial condi-
ton of the city.
We believe that all tax payers have
an equal interest in the wa,erworks
and street improvements, and We de
nounce the policy of favoring only the
streets upon which the mayor and al
dermen live.
We denounce the policy of borrow
ing money at an exorDitant rate OF
interest to run the city government,
and only maintaining a seyen-months
school, when more than fifty thousand
dollars per annum are collected by
.aXation
We denounce the policy Of keeping
a sinking fund now amounting to
more than thirty thousand dollars, in
favored banks without interest, when
the law requires that outstanding
bonds shall be purchased with same
and interest stopped, and at the same
/ time borrowing money at large rate
of interest from the same banks.
We oppose giving away the valuable
| franchises of the city to people for
/ speculation, thereby preventing capt.
talists from developing our resources
and from investments.
We favor Greater Ardmore upon
an honest and economical basis wlIh
all acts open ana free for investiga
ton by the public, and we denounce as
unwarranted tne payment OF more
than the contract price for publ2
works as was done in the construction
of the waterworks dam. Bombastic,
imaginary claims of in g,rst in publ?
welfare is always costly to the taa
payer.
council and mayo "a eyading the law
by fixing a salary for the mayor OF
$1,000 per annum upon the preteXt
that he is superintendent Of water
works as an unnecessary waste of the
peoples money.
We oppose liscening vice and I'M
morality by the collection of monthly
fines. especially because It Is the duty
Of the officers of Law to suppress such
crime, and not to wink at it.
We favor equal school facilities suf
nciont to accommodate all children
without regard TO race or color, main
tanning separate schools of efficiency
equal to the best for nine months
zach year.
We maintain that all employees OF
the city-teachers, nremen and labor
ers- should be paid cash. and not by
warrants for their work as in the past
believing that the "laborer is worthy
of his hire" without discount,
We believe that each ward should
have the street tax collected therein
expended within said ward, and that
Al officers who draw salaries should
pay street tax the same as the laborina
man. and that warrants shall be ac
cepted in payment for taxes.
We announce these principles, with
the assurance, il successful at the elec
tion, they viii be faithfully kept, anC