Year: 1872

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PLATFORMS OF THE s. G. REPUBLICANS.


PLATFORM OF THE "REGULARs."


The Republican party of South Carolina,
in Convention assembled, hereby declares to
the country that it stands, in the coming cam
paign, upon the following platform, and will
demand of all its representatives in the State
government the the faithful maintenance and
practical enforcement Of the policy and prin-
ciples herein enunciated:


PLATFORM.


1st. We affirm our earnest adhesion to the
platform of principles adopted by the Nation
al Republican Convention at Philadelphia on
the 9Th day of June, 1872, as embodying the
true ideas of American progress, impelled by
the spirit of the American Union.


I'd. We supp IT, for President and Vice
President of the United States, U. s. Grant
and Henry Wilson, knowing that the safety
of the nation and the rights of all American
citizens will be secure under their administra-
ton. ....a.


Sd. We pledge ourselves to effect instantly
financial reform in the State government,
by suspending the payment of the interest on
every bond of the State to which there can be
attached the shadow Of suspicion, and pro-
viding for the punctual payment Of the prin-
cipal and interest of the unquestionably valid
debt; and that the members of the legislature
elected by the Republican party shall be
pledged to carry into effect the meaning and
intent of this plank.


9TH. In the interest Of financial reform and
good government, we pledge ourselves to
throw around the State Treasury every safe
guard necessary to ensure the faithful appli'
cation of the public funds solely to the public
SERVICE pursuant to just laws, enacted in the
interest of the whole people Of South Caro-
lima.


9Th. AS essential to the reform herein guar
anteed and imperatively demanded by the
people as the vital necessity of the State, we
shall require that the public expenses shall be
reduced within the public revenues to be de-
rived from a moderate system Of taxation,
based upon fair and equitable assessment of
all property liable to taxation under the con-
stitution. To effect this needed reduction in
expenditures, we insist that there shall be an
immediate reduction in the salaries of all pub
lie officers, from the highest to the lowest, in
the State and counties, and that there shall be
judicious reduction in the number of the
public Offices themselves.


9Th. Experience having proved that the
general license law, although honestly de-
signed by the legislature to relieve the bur-
dens of taxation on real estate, is, in its prac'
tical operations, odious and oppressive, we
pledge ourselves to its instant repeal.


9TH. Believing, from said experience, that it
is necessary safeguard to the public treasu-
ry, that all its transactions should be constant
ly open to public inspection, and always un-
der the eye of the people, we pledge ourselves
to secure the enactment of a law providing
that no moneys shall be paid out Of the treas
ury, except in pursuance of an appropriation
specifying the amount to be paid, and such
payment shall be made only upon the warrant
of the Comptroller-G General, duly counter
signed by the Governor and State Auditor,
and requiring the Comptroller-General and
Treasurer to publish daily statement Of the
transactions of their respective Offices, show.
ing what warrants have been drawn, and the
receipts and disbursements during the past
twenty.four hours.


9th. We pledge ourselves that the govern
ment of the State shall henceforth be so ad-
minstered in all its departments, that neither
the public schools nor asylums of charity
shall be closed for want Of proper mainten-
ance by the State.


9th. We maintain the authority of the gen.
eral government to interfere for the preserva'
ton of domestic tranquility in the several
States and we acknowledge with gratitude
such interposition in this State, and with the
hope that the example lately presented to the
civilized world from within our borders, will
avail to assure to our people the enjoyment of
free speech and human rights, we invoke for
such as were ignorant and undesigning viola
tors of the enforcement act, the merciful ex-
ercise of executive clemency.


10th. We shall demand the due enforce
ment of law and order in every section Of the
State; and here assert that we believe that
these can be best secured, and an enduring
peace established in South Carolina, by the
cooperation of all classes Of citizens, in mu-
tual respect for all rights of property and
person guaranteed by the constitution and
laws, and considerate and just liberation of
all differences of political opinion, each citi-
zen being free to assert his own rights and
privileges, while solemnly bound by the laws
of our common country to scrupulously re-
spect the rights and privileges of Others


18th. We pledge ourselves for the enact
ment and enforcement of proper laws for the
liberal encouragement of immigration to our
State from all quarters Of the world, to the