Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-08-05

Made on the Third ard First Bal
lots, Respectiyely-Women Take
Part in the Demonstration.
Chicago, special.-For President
Thomas Hisgen, Of Massachusetts,.
For Vice President-John Templs
Graves, Of Georgia,
The Independence party at It's first
national convention here put a ma
tional ticket ip the field and adopted
platform of principles. Thomas
Hisgen, of Massachusetts,, was nom
mated for President on the third bal
lot, and John Temple Graves was
nominated for Vice President on the
first ballot. Hisgen's opponents were
M. W. Howard, Of Alabama; John
Temple Graves, Of Georgia. W. r.
Hearst, though not q candidate, re-
eeived complimentary vote of half
hundred.
THE PLATFORM.
We, independent American citizens
representing the Independence party
in forty-four States and two Terri
tories, have met in national conven-
ton to nominate, absolutely indepen-
dent Of all other political parties,
candidates for President and Vice
President of the United States. NOur
action IS based upon determination
to wress the conduct of public affairs
from the hands of selfish interests.
political tricksters and corrupt bosses
and make the gcTernment as the
founders intended, an agency for the
common good.
At a period of uncxampled nation
al prosperity. and promise, stag
geling blow was dealt to legitimate
business by the unmclested practice
of stock watering and dishonest f.
nanciering. Multitudes of defense
less investors, thousands Of honest
Business men and an army Of idle
working men are paying the penalty.
Year by year fostered by wasteful
and reckless governmental extrava-
gance, by the manipulation of trusts
and by privilege-creating tariff, the
cost of living mounts higher and
higher. Day by day the control of
the government drifts further away
from the people and more firmly into
the grip of machine politicians and
party bosses.
The Republican and Democratic
parties are not only responsible for
these conditions. bat are committed
to their indefinite continuance. Pro
digal of promises they are SO barren
of performance that to a new party
of independent voters the country
mast look for the establishment of a
new policy, and a return to genuine
and popular government.
Our object is not to introduce vio-
| lent innovation or startling new fea-
lures. We Of the Independence party
look back as Lincoln did to tie Decla-
ration Of INDEPENDENCE as the foun-
tain head of all political inspiration.
It is not our purpose TO attempt to
revolutionMe. the American system of
government but to restore the action
of the government to the principles
of Washington and Jefferson and
Lincoln. It is not our purpose either
to effect radical change in the
American system Of government, but
to: conserve for the citizens of the
United States their privileges and
liberties won for them bv the found
ers of this government and to per-
petuate the principles and policies
upon which the nations greatness
has been built.
The Independence party is, there
fore, a conservative force in Ameri-
can politics, devoted to the preser-
vation Of American liberty and in
dependence. to honesty in elections, to
opportunity in business and to equ-
atty before the law. Those who be-
ieve in the Independence party and
work with it are convinced that a
genuine Democracy should exist; that
true Republican, form Of govern
ment should continue; that the pow
er Of government should rest with the
majority of the people and that the
government should be conducted fol-
the benefit Of the whole citizenship
rather than for the special advantage
cf anv particular class.
We denounce the so-called labor
planks of the Republican and Demo
cratic platforms as political bun,
comb and contemplate claptrap url-
worthy of national parties claiming
to be serious and sincere. Such in
sincere and meaningless. declarations
place a low estimate upon the intel
ligence of the average American
workingman and exhibits ignorance
of or indifference to the real interests
of labor. The independence party
condemns the arbitrary use of. the
writ of injunction and contempt pro-
ceedings as a violation of the funda-
mental right of trial by jury. From
the foundation of our government
down to 1872 the Federal judiciary
act prohibited the issue of any in
junction without a reasonable notice
until after a hearing.
We assert that in all actions grow
ing out of a dispute between employ
ers and employees concerning terms
Or conditions of employment no in
junction should issue until after a