Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1908-07-09
PARTY PLATFORM.
Charlotte News.

coventlon, pledges the party toa
continuation of the great work it
has undertaken during yeas!past.
The Democratic party has be-
come famous in North Carolina
for it's contribution to the old
soldier, and since it has been in
authority it has each year in
creased appropriations to the
aid of the men who fought in the
war, until todav most of their
wants are provided for. The plat
form promises that this same
care shall be taken OF the vet
Grams so long as the party
holds sway.
The insane, blind, deaf and
dumb and other classes OF those
upon whom affection has fallen.
are also literally provided for,
During the past year the facili.
ties for caring for the insane have
been greatly extended, and to
this end the last legislature set
aside a large sum of money to
prosecute the work. The present
institutions for the care of the in
sane will be enlarged, and new
homes are to be built for the in
digent and the epileptics and 9th
er classes of the helpless. The
platform pledges continued and
eytended care OF these unfortu-
nate classes.
Since the party assumed con-
| troll of the state a state reforma.
tory has been provided for, and
we rejoice to note that this new
institution is coming on well.
The helpless and the afflicted will
not suffer at the hands OF t h e
dominant party, and the plat.
form just adopted places the par
ty on record clearly on t h s c
points.
II North Carolina has made
more rapid strides in popular ed
ucation than any state in the un.
|ion-and this fact cannot begair
said-the factis due to the untir.
ling efforts of such leaders as c
B. Aycock and Others.
Since the party cameinto pow.
err an average OF almost one new
school house has been built dai'
ly in this state; terms of school
have been heightened; teachers
salaries increased; hundreds o
new libraries established and il
other ways the great cause o.
education has flOurished under
the party rule. The platform just
adopted pledges the party tc
continued activity in education
al work.
Sine the party came into con
troll oyer nine tenths of the state
has voted out whiskey by loca
l option, and in thesmall remnant
: where it was still lawful to dis:
pense lntoxicants the majority
has stopped the traffic, and afte1
January the first it will be un
lawful to deal in spirituous Ii
, quors in any part OF the state
: This moral consummation wa'
!: brought about under the rule o
! the party. and to the pursuance
! of morality and good govern
t ment the party is pledged.
The party gave the state whit
supremacy.
The party gave the state re
duced passenger rates.
1t is bending every energy to
wards q reduction of freigh
: rates, and it is only a matter c
time until the large roads opera
ting in this state will be forre
R to put North Carolina on a pal
|ity with her sister states in th
e matter Of freight charges. Tb
d platform pledges the party t
d further service in this respect.
,. These area few of the service
rendered by the democratic pa
g ty in North Carolina. Is itstrang
r when viewing the work alread
accomplished, that Democrac
stands more firmly fixed to-da
than ever before? Is 1T straDg
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