Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-09

beautifying of our towns, oul
cities and our homes and in the
elevation of our daily life.
"This Is true also of our insti.
tutlons of charity, particularly the
provision made for the blind, the
deaf and the insane, for the eff.
hclency with which any commu.
nifty ministers to such unfortu.
nate human beings sa measure o1
its civilization. It Is equally true
of our Confederate veterans who
have not the means of self-sup.
port; the State loves and honors
them, and they must not be per-
mitted to suffer want. We de-
nounce the Democratic party for
not keeping its repeated pledges to
provide our Confederate soldiers
and their widows with suitable
pensions commensurate with their
services to the State, and we pledge
ourselves to double the pension
now given by the State.
"We demand a fair election law,
which will permit an elector to
cast ballot privately, without in
reference or dictation.
"We favor, as we have ever fa-
vored, local self-government, and
demand the right to elect, by di-
rect vote of the people, all men,
! bers Of the county board of educa-
ton, county superintendent of
public instruction, county COM
missioners and tax collectors and
justices of the peace.
1--WE favor an, extension and I'M
provement Of the public roads of
the State, and believe that the en-
ployment of the States convicts
Oh such work is the best use that
can be made of criminals convicted
of crimes; we further favor law
prohibiting the use of striped uni
forms upon all persons convicted
of misdemeanors in the courts of
North Carolina.
"We favor the abllshment of
one or more reformatories tor the
correction Of youthful criminals
convicted of minor offenses, and
we favor a separate reformatory
for females convicted of similar
offenses.
"We pledge ourselves to liber.
al appropriation for the care and
support of our charitable institu.
tions.
"We favor the exemption from
taxation of 5000 worth of personal
property owned by one household
or in the State of North Carolina
"We believe in the dignity OF
labor and the elevation of the
wage-earner and pledge our party
to the enactment of such laws as
will best promote this end; we be.
lieve that labor and capital are
coordinate branches of our indus
trial l1fe-each necessary to the
other-that neither can prosper
without the other, and looking tc
this end we pledge our party tc
the enactment of such laws as will
SO far as possible, create the kind.
liest feeling between labor and
capital, remove all caused for con.
fict between the two. and pro
mote the upbuilding of both
classes.
"We favor restricting immigra
tion rigidly, admitting none but
the better class to our shores, anC
protecting American labor against
foreign cheap labor.
"We bf lieve that the SoutI
should no longer hold itself politi
cally separate and apart from the
rest Of the country. We believe the
time has come when no interest q
principle any longer demands suct
isolation We ask the beopie O.
North Carolina to give US theil
suffrages, not merely because th'
Democratic party, under it's pres
ent leadership, both in the Stat'
and in the nation, is unfit TO:
power; not merely because thu
candidates we here nominate, ane
the policies we recommend, ar
worthy of acceptance, but because
every Republican vote cast in thu
South is vote for freedom, {
vote for the right of our children
to enter fully into the life of th'
great republic which our father
labored and fought and suffered
} to establish.