Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-06-24

Uul dlSO ~ Iu6luldIll lut ulSu otoao-
ard of living Of the wage earners of
this country, who are the most direct
beneficiaries of the protective system.
Between the United States and the
Philippines we believe in a free in
ter-change of products with such lin
itations as to sugar and tobacco as
will avoid injury to domestic in
terests." /"
Injunctions.
"The Republican party will up
hold at all times the authority and
integrity Of the courts, State and
Federal, and will ever insist that
their powers to enforce their process
and to protect life, liberty and prop
erty shall be inviolatc. We believe,
however, that the procedure in the
Federal courts with respect to the is
suance of the writ of injunction
should be- moro accurately defined by
statute and that no injunction OF
temporary restraining order should
be issued without notice, except ir-
reparable injury would result from
delay, in which case speedy hearing
thereafter should be granted. I"
The currency plank contains this
language:
."The Republican party approves
the Aldrich-Vreeland currency bill
but only as an emergency measure.
We declare for thorough and new
system Of currency laws that will be
in accord with the needs of the time
and which would be more adaptable
to the demands Of business and more
elastic in its character as circulat-
ing medium"
On the subjects of merchants ma
rine, the army and navy, agriculture,
our relations with foreign powers and
other details Of governmental poll
cies the platform advocates q liberal
conservatism. The emergency cur
rency legislation of the last congress
is endorsed, as are all the policies OF
The present administration. On the
subject Of civil service the platform
says:
Among the fnew features injected
by the committee on resolutions is a
| declaration that native citizens OF
Porto Rico should be collectively
made citizens Of the United States
It also favors admission of New Mex
leo and Arizona as separate States.
It declares with respect to the negro
without reservation for enforcement
Of the thirteenth, fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments to the consti-
tuition.
In the plank favoring conserva-
ton of natural resources the speci-
fe mention made in the tentative
draft favoring the White Mountain
and Appalachian forest reserves is
eliminated. Protection to American
eitizens is urged.
One important change made by the
committee on resolutions in the ten
tative platform was the omission
from the paragraph declaring for the
amendment of the Sherman anti
trust act of that portion which ex-
empts fro mthe operations of the law
"such associations among business
men, farmers and wage earners as
result III positive benefit to the pub
lie."
The Negro Question.
The Republican party has been for
more than so Years the consistent
| friend of the American negro. 1t gave
him freedom and citizenship. 1t
wrote into the organic law of the
land the declarations that proclaim
his civil and political rights and it
believes today that his noteworthy
progress in intelligence, industry and
good citizenship has earned the re-
spect and encouragement of the ma
tion. We demand equal justice fol-
all men, without regard to race OF
color.
The contrast between the parties is
the closing paragraph, and is as fol
lows:
In principle, the difference between
Democracy and Republicanism is
that one stands for vacillation and
timidity in government, the other for
strength and purpose, one stands for
obstl uction, the other for construc-
ton; one promises, the other per-
forms; one finds fault, the other finos;
work.
The present tendencies of the two
parties are even more marked by in
herent differences. The trend of lem
onrncy is toward socialism, while the
Republican party stands for wise
| and regulated lndividualism. Social
ism would give to each an equal
right to take. Republicanism would
give to each an equal right to earn.
Socialism would offer equality of pos
session which would soon leave no
one anything to possess; Republican
| ism would give equality of opportun-
| lty, WCWio asouic W eaen hAS 9n"ie
of the constantly increasing store
of possessions. In line with this ten
dency the Democratic party believes
in government ownership, while the
Republican party believes in govern
ment regulation. Ultimately Demo
cracy would have the nation own the
people, while Republicanism would
! have the people own the nation.
Upon this platform of princi-
pies and purposes, reaffirming our ad-
herence to every Republican doctrine
proclaimed since the birth of the par
ty, we go before the country, asking
the support not only of those who
have acted with us heretofore but Of
all our fellow citizens, who, regard
less of past political differences, un-
ite in the desire to maintain the pol
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