The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-06-08

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by the adoption of the following
platform of principles:
STATE QUESTIONS.
:. We believe in honesty, effic-
jiency and economy in every branch
of public service, and we are OPP
posed both to the creation and re.
tention of useless offices.
2 We advocate an improved road
system with the view of construct
ing Id maintaining our public
highways so as to increase the fa-
cilities of travel and add to the
wealth and comfort of the people.
3. We favor general diffusion
of education among the people, and
to this end such an extension and
development of our public school
system as will bring education with.
IN the reach of all, believing that
education is the surest guarantee
and the chief security of develop
ment and good government.
We commend legislation IN the
past on this subject instituted and
carried out by the Democratic party,
and pledge ourselves to increased
effort in the cause of popular edu-
cation.
We recognize the need for techni-
cal and scientific training of our
young men in mining, manufacture
ing, agricultural and horticultural
pursuits, and the great work our
State University is doing and the
greater work that it can do, if pro-
vided with the necessary means in
this matter, and in ascertaining the
needs, capabilities and resources,
mineral, industrial and agricultu-
raj OF the various counties in the
State, we favor liberal policy on
the part Of our Legislature to-
wards the institution and such fair
and re o able appropriations,
commensurate with our financial
resources and conditions as will
promote this great work, and es-
pecially such as will enable the uni.
versity to proceed with its work of
organizing the farmers, planters
and horticulturists, so that their
needs may be ascertained and made
known and their energies united in
common effort to build up these
great interests and bring prosper
ity to this great class, and we like
wise favor the passage of law to
authorize coun t les to esta olish
scholarships in the university to be
filled by deserving young men, and
also such law, or laws, as will
enable counties at their discretion
to cooperate with the State Uni
versity authorities in esta blishing
County Experimental Stations in
connection with the poor farms and
otherwise, and to authorize coun.
ties in their discretion to elect agri-
cultural chemists and mineralogists
to co. operate with the university
authorities.
TEMPERANCE PLANK.
4. We expressly indorse the Ad-
ans law and other temperance legis-
lation now on the statute books of |
the State as having decreased |
drunkenness, vice and crime, and |
oppose any change, alteration or
repeal of same. We favor an ex-
tension of these laws to portions of
the State not now embraced in
their operation, provided such ex-
tension is with the consent of the
people to be affected thereby, be-
lieving that the people OF any local
ity have the right to determine this
question for themselves.
5. We favor greater certainty
and uniformity in our tax laws so
as to simplify the assessment and
of taxes, and to give such
to those laws as will pre-
vent the necessity of back assess
ment and reassessment of property
and the uncertainties and vexations
attendant thereon.
g. We are in favor of retaining
The system of Commissioners of
but we are also in favor
The enactment of law which will
take the power Of their appoint
nent out of the hands OF the Gov.
srnor, and that some other plan be
devised by the Legislature for the
selection of the Commissioners.
And we favor the enactment of such
avs as will protect the purity of
he ballot throughout the State in
III elections, both regular and pri-
narv