Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1910-03-03
STALMART REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
ADOPTED AT HURON, TUESDAY, FEB. l..

sTALwART REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
ADOPTED AT HURON, TUESDAY, FEB. l.
We assert our allegiance to the fun
damental principles of the republican
party under the application OF which
the United States has become great
among the nations and our young state
is making rapid and permanent prog
ress We record our admiration for
the courage, wisdom and broad Ameri-
canism of President William FL. Taft
and pledge our active aud cordial sup
port of his &C ministration.
The Roosevelt-Taft policies embody
the cause of the people against the in
ordinate ambitions OF organized greed.
In this battle the South Dakota re-
pubicans are with the president and
his policies.
A protective tariff is fixed republi
can doctrine, the correct principle is
thai announced in the last republican
national platform, the difference in
cost of production at home and abroad
with lair profit added. as our in
dustries continue to grow stronger
the changes in the tariff should be
downward.
The Payne tariff act is a republican
measure, passed by republicans under
authority OF the people. Its provisions
should be thoroughly tested before
another general revision is attempted.
The tariff commission created by the
Payne tariff law and recently appointed
by the president, can perform an i'm
portant service TO congress and to the
country by gathering re liable informa
tion as to the cost of production in this
country aud elsewhere.
Railway rate regulations, insuring to
all shippers reasonable rates and
equal privileges, The regulation OF
large corporations engaging in inter-
state commerce, graduated national
I income tax, antimonopoy particularly
of the staple commodities that all must
use, the conservation Of national re-
sources as represented by our great
water powers, coal, timber, oil and
mineral lands, while at the same time
supplying TO the people of this genef-
alton the natural products at the low
| est practical cust-these are live re-
publican policies, to the promotion of
/ which the party is committed and il
lustrates the promptness and effective
ness with which the republican party
adapts itself to the ideas and demands
of intelligent progress.
The republican party stands for a
business administration of nation and
state.
/ Applying these principles to present
conditions in state affairs, the republi-
cans of South Dakota will maintain the
following propositions:
/. Economy in the business admin
istration of the state, but with ade-
quate provision for our charitable and
educational institutions.
2. The elimination OF whatever ad.
ministrative positions can be spared
without injury to public service
3. The adoption OF a financial policy
whereby the expenditures shall be KEEP
within the revenues, the present deb
gradually discharged and the burden
of taxation equitably apportioned; th'
: expenses OF the state must be KEEP
within its income obtained withou
: unjust taxation: the state debt incur
!. red by gross mismaragement durinl
:, the past three years must be paid
economical and clean business method
must prevail
4. Reductions in freight rates,
2-cent passenger fare, and still furtt
er reduction 10 express rates, promp
rigorous and efficient prosecution (
/ all railways, corporations and person
3 to compel obedience to such redu'
tions and the law; also the physics
valuation OF railway property in til
state in order that such may be q
sessed equitably and basis created ft
:. determining just freight and passel
ger rates.