Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-06-18
PLATFoRM OF. DEMOCRATIC
PARTY IN N. CAROLINA
Sounds Note of ProgressiYeness and
Promises Confined support to
Needed State Measures.

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party Of North Carolina as adopted BIZ
the Democratic State convention,
recently met in Raleigh, is as follows:
we, representative of the Dem-
ocratic party, assembled in convention
under conditions of Democratic re.
sponsibility in State and Nation, re-
ioice in the large measure of success.
with which Democratic promises have
been enacted into law, and with which
Democratic principles have been APP
piled in restoring equal opportunities
to all sections and all classes. We
reaffirm our allegiance to the cardinal
principles of Democratic government,
and we again present our cause to the
people in the full confidence that a
continuation of Democratic control
will result in complete restoration
of the high ideals of constitutional
government as established by the
fathers of the Republic, and interpret
ed to meet the needs of the progress
of the times.
We endorse the administration OF
Woodrow Wilson, and the broad
craftsmanship, high ideals, earnest
ness and application with which. he is
administering his high Office. The
Democratic party under brave and
wise leadership has merited the con-
fidence and the support of the Amer
lean people. 1t has restored the gov
eminent to the people and rested the
government from the hands of the
favored classes, under which the Re-
publicans had placed it. The tariff
has been revised downward, and the
power to tax the people rested from
the favored few. 1t has destroyed
monopoly of credit and enacted sys-
tenn which will insure equal banking
facilities for all of the people without
regard to section or class
We especially commend the just
and patriotic foreign policy of the
President of the United States. In
dealing with other nations our coun-
try, under the guidance of President
Wilson's great intelligence and sim
cere love of justice, has acknowledged
no standard of conduct beneath that
demanded by Christian nations.
We heartily endorse the record Of
achievements and leadership in the
National Congress of our United
States Senators and representatives
and take pride in the opportunity that
came to our State to furnish their
wise and seasoned leadership in the
successful working out of the great
problems of national Democratic a6-
ministration.
We endorse the administration of
Governor Locke Craig, and the other
State officials, and especially commend
the successful efforts of the General
Assembly, the Governor and the Cor
poration Commission for the readjust-
ment of our Interstate freight rates,
and we express the confidence that
their zeal in this cause will be pro-
ductive of further fruitful results I'M
til determinations in freight rates
will be entirely removed, and we
pledge a continuation of our effort
to remove all such discrimination.
We rejoice in the progress our
State is making in the cause of the
education of all the children under
Democratic rule, and we pledge t.
the people of the State the continued
support ~of the party until six
months school in every district
throughout North Carolina shall be
realization that the resources of the
Stst9 Under Democratic rule will b.
used to promote this end as rapidly
AS economical conditions permit, ard
to this end we urge the adoption of
the amendment to the Constitution
providing for the establishment of a
six months school. We urge taat the
effort of those men and institutions
engaged in the splendid work of con-
serving the health Of our people in
Aradicating disease and preventing in
fect.cn be seconded with enthusiastic
and unstinted support both by State.
and local governments.
We stand for the strict upholuing
of the laws prohibiting the sale anti
manufacture of intoxicating liquors,
in the enforcement of which great
progress has been made. We are
made glad by the EVIDENCE that both
and drunkenness and the
crime that they bring are rapidly de-
We endorse the principle of a legal
led Statewide primary for all Ma
sional, State and Judicial officers. and
we pledge the party TO the enactment
IF Sueh laws as will mo 1ya~ sffoi,. y,rir 4