The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 23, 1908, Image 2
DEMOCRATIC PARTY PLATFORM
Statement of Principles Drawn Up by
Committee on Resolutions.
(Continued from last week.)
PUBLICITY OF CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS.
We demand federal legislation for
?? terminatincr fhp narfwprshin
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which has existed between corporations
of the country and the Republican
party under the expressed and
implied agreement that in return for
the contributions of great sums ol
money wherewith to purchase elections
they should be allowed to continue
substantially unmolested in
their efforts to encroach upon the
rights of the people.
Any reasonable doubt as to the existence
of this relation has been forever
dispelled by the sworn testimony
of witnesses examined 111 the insurance
investigation in Xew York and
the open admission, unchallenged by
the Republican uatioual committee,
of a single individual that he himself
ihp nersnnal reouest of the Re- I
publican caudidate for the presidency
raised over a quarter of a million
dollars to be used in a single State
during the closing hours of the last
campaign. In order that this practice
shall be stopped for all time we
demand the enactment of a statute
punishing with iniprisoument any
officer of a corporation who shall
either contribute on behalf of or
consent to the contribution by a corporation
of any money or thing of
value to be used in furthering the i
election of a president and vice-1
president of the United States or of
any member of the congress thereof.
We denounce the action of the
Republican party, having complete
control of the federal government,
for its failure to pass the bill, introduced
in the last congress, to compel
the publication of the names of
contributors and the amounts contributed
toward campaign funds and
' point to the evidence cf their iucon- .
gistency, when they set out by an
absolutely irrelevant and impossible
amendment to defeat the passage of (
the bill. For evidence of their in- ,
tention to conduct their camnaitm
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in the coming contest with vast sums
of money wrested from favor-seeking
corporations, we call attention to the
fact that the recent Republican
national convention at Chicago re- ,
fused, when the plank was presented
to it, to declare against such practices.
We pledge the Democratic party
to the enactmeut of a law preventing
any corporation contributing to a
campaigu fund and any individual
from contributing an amount above
a reabonaoie maximum anu prowuing
for the publication before election
of all such contributions above
a reasonable minimum.
PANAMA CANAL.
We believe the Panama canal will
prove of great value to our country
and favor its speedy completion.
THE RIGHTS OF STATES.
Believing with Jefferson 111 "the
6upport of the State governments in
all their rights as the most competent
administration for our domestic
concerns and the surest bulwark
against anti-republican tendencies,"
and in "the preservation of the general
government in its whole constitutional
vigor, as the sheet anchor
of our peace at home and the safety
abroad," we are opposed to the centralization
implied in those suggestions,
now frequently made, that the
powers of the general government
should be extended by judicial construction,
There is 110 twilight zone
betweeu the nation and the State in
which exploiting interests can take
refuge from both ; and it is as ueces
sary that the federal government
shall exercise the powers delegated
to it as it is that the State governments
shall use the authority reserved
to them ; but we insist that federal
remedies for the regulation of interstate
commerce and for the prevention
of private monopoly shall be
added to?not substituted tor?State
remedies.
ECONOMY IX ADMINISTRATION.
The Kepublicau congress in session
just ended has made appropriations
amounting to SI.008,000.000, exceeding
the total expenditures of the
past fiscal year by $090,000,000 and
leaving a deficit of more than $60,- I
000,000 for the fiscal year. We de- I
uouuee the needless waste of the <
people's money, which has resulted i
in tnis appalling increase, as a shame-1
f:?l violation of al! prudent conditions
of government, as 110 less than a (
crime against the millions cf work- ,
ing men and women fiom whose .
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earniuffs the trreat nronortion of these ,
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colossal sums must be extorted j
through excessive tariff exactious (
and other indirect methods. It is ^
not surprising that, in the face of (
mis shocking record, the Republi
ran platform contains no reference
to economical administration or
promise thereof iu the future. We
demand that a stop be put to this *
frightful extravagance and insist j
upon the strictest economy in every
department compatible with frugal
and efficient administration.
NATURAL RESOURCES.
We repeat the demand for internal (
development and fcr the conversation
of our natural resources contained in
s
previous platforms, the enforcement ^
of which Mr. Roosevelt has vainly
sought from a reluctant party, and ^
| to that end we insist -oqii the pre- c
serration, protection . "Vv'-i.,
ment of needed forests, t.
tion of the public domaii
seekers, the protection of t.
resources in timber, coal,
oil against monopolistic conti
development of our waterwa)
navigation and every other u
purpose, including the inigati'
arid lauds, the reclamation of s\
lands, the clarification of strei.
the development of water power a
the preservation of electric powe.
generated by this natural force from ; a
the control of monopoly, and to such
end we urge the exercise of all pow-!
ers, national, State aud municipal, 11
both separately and in co-operation.
We insist upon a policy of administration
of our forest reserve which in
shall relieve it of the abuses which j in
have'arisen and w hich shall, as far J ei
us practicable, conform to the police ui
regulations of the several States (th
where they are located, which shall ( w
enable homesteaders as of light to ,'pc
occupy and acquire title to all por- j us
tions thereof which are especially [ vc
adapted to agriculture anu which w
shall furuish a system of timber sales
available as well to the private citizen
as to laiger manufacturer and
consumer. n.
BANKING. (j(
The panic of 1907, coming without n(
any legitimate excuse, when the He- jf
publican party for a decade had been at
in complete control of the federal er
government, furnishes additional evi- jj,
cence that it is either unwilling or hi
incompetent to protect the interest bt
of the general public. It has linked b'
the country to Wall street so that U(
the sins of the speculators are visited d
upon the whole people. While re- f(
fusing to rescue wealth producers tl
from spoilation at the hands of the tl
stock gamblers and speculators in tl
farm products, it has deposited the
treasury funds, without inteiest and C;
without competition, in favorite tl
hanks. It has used an emergency tl
for which it is largely responsible to t<
force through congress a bill chang a
ing the basis of bank cuirency and si
inviting market manipulation, and s
has failed to give to the 15,000,000 s<
depositors of the country protection a
in their savings. a
We believe that in so far as the p
needs of commerce require an emer- a
gency currency, such currency should a
be issued, controlled by the federal t
government and loaned on adequate t
security to national and State banks c
We pledge ourselves to legislation t
under which the national banks shall \
be required to establish a guarantee t
fund for the prompt payment of the j
depositors of any insolvent national 1
bauk* under an equitable system t
which shall be available to all State t
banking institutions wishing to use <
it. ?
We favor a postal saving bank if j
the guaranteed bank can not be se- {
cured aud that it be constituted so as i j
to keep the deposited money in the ,
community where it is established. <
Hut we condemn the policy of the j
Republican party in prosposing pos- j
tal saviugs banks under a plan of ]
conduct by which they will aggregate
the deposits of rural communi- .
ties and redeposil the same while
under government charge in the
banks of Wall street, thus depleting;
the circulation medium of the proJucing
regions and unjustly favoring
the speculative markets.
INCOME TAX.
We favor an income tax as part of |
)ur revenue system, and we urge the 1
submission of a constitutional amend-,
nent specifically authorizing con-;
jress to levy and collect a tax upon
individual aud corporate incomes to
:he end that wealth may bear its
iroportionate share of the burdens
)f tile federal government.
POPULAR ELECTION OF SENATORS |
We favor the election of United
Stages senators by direct vote of the
leople and regaid this reform as the,
gateway to the other national re-<
'orms.
PAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS. |
The Democratic party recognizes
he importance and advantage of
leveloping closer ties of pan-Amerilan
friendship and commerce be-1
ween the United States and her i
ister nations of Latin-America and
avors the taking of such steps con- j
isfent with Democratic policies for .
tetter acquaintance, greater mutual
onfidence, and larger exchange of;
rade, a3 will bring lasting benefit
^only to the United States but to j
group of American republics I
ing constitutions, forms of gov- j
ambitions and interests
j
WY.
?1 ?n)ri8ion that,
V 1 main,
y and
)t this |
u rved by j ]
living a iictvy su.. .ent o defend *
le coasts of this couutn and pro- I'
M
ct American citizens whe >ver their
ghts be in jeopard ]
ASIATIC IMMK
We favor full protection by both
itionaland State governments wi*
their respective spheres of all
gners residing in the Uni
ider treaty, but we are opA .a to ,
ie admission of Asiatic immigrants
ho can not amalgamate witb our
ipulatiou, or whose presence among
i would raise a race issue and iu?1
ve us in diplomatic controversies
ith Oriential powers.
MINOR ISSUES.
Other planks in the platform call
fan immediate declaration of the,
ition's purpose to lecognize the in- j
?pendence of the Philippines ; de-,
lunce the growing increase of j
Kce-holders under the Republican ,
lnnnistratiou as indicating a delibate
purpose to continue the Repub
J J
cans in power ; uemaiiu mat me
Dtise of representatives shall again
?come a deliberate body, controlled
v a majority of the members and
ot by the speaker ; favor an immeiate,
liberal and comprehensive plan 1
>r improving every water course in j
ae Union; condemn the action of ;
le present chief executive in using!
le patronage of his high office to
?cure the nomination of one of his
abiuet officers; pledge the party to
ae enactment of a law to regulate
be rates and suits of telegraph and ,
dephone companies; call for honest
nd rigid enforcement of the civil
ervice laws; favor immediate admisiou
of Arizona and New Mexico as
eparate States; declare that rules !
nd regulations in relation to free
razing lands should be left to the
icople of the States where the lands
re situated: favor the extension of
gricultural, mechanical and indusrial
education: declare belief 111 the
ipbuilding of the American mer:hant
marine without new or addiional
burdens upon the people and
vithout bounties from the public
reasury; favor the application of
principles of the land laws of the
United States to Hawaii, in the in:erest
of homesteaders; demaud for
;he people of Puerto Rico the full
njoyment of rights aud provisions
jf a territorial form of government;
Favor fedeial aid in the construction
irwl nf nrwf mark1 dp.
preerate the use of the navy for the
collection of private debts and advocate
the organization of all existing
national public health agencies
into a national bureau of public
health: insist upon the lull protection
of our citizens at home and
abroad and demand that all over the
world a duly authorized passport
issued by the government of the i
United States to an American citi? |
zen shall be proof of the fact that'
he is an American citizen and shall
entitle him to treatment due him as
such.
PENSIONS.
We favor a generous pension policy,
both :ls a matter of justice to the
surviving veterans and their dependents
and because it tends to relieve
the country of the necessity of maintaining
a large standing army.
BRYAN* PLEASED WITH Pl.A^ORM
Fairview, Lincoln, Neb^- <?cial
?4,I am very much pleased the
platform. It is clear, spec.
strong, and 1 am grateful i
committee for the work that t?
have done hi starting the issues. .
am sure that the platforrj^ 1
greatly strengthen us in th ght
upon which we are engaged'
Statement of W. J. Br pon
reading the platform adopt ^e
Democratic national con veil tioi onight
This is what Hon. ^Kt^More
State Warden of Ceorga, says of
Kodol for Dyspejy a: "E C
DeWitt & Co., Chica o. III.?Dear
Sir?I have suffered miore than
twenty years from indigestion
About eighteen months ago I had
grown so much worse that I could'nt
digest a crust of corn bread and could
onrltiinnr nil mil
IlUh I LI mil I1I1J tiling V/II ill J V bvi.mvi.
I lost 25 lbs; in fact I made up my
mind that I could not live but a
short time,when a friend of mine
recommended Kodol. I consented to
try it to please him and was better
in one day. I now weigh more than
I ever did in my life and am in
better health than for many years
Kodol did it. I keep a bottle conitantly,
and write this hoping that
humanity mav be benefitted. Yours
rery truly, Jake C. Moore, Atlanta,
\ug. 10, 1U04." Sold by iV LWalace.
FOLEY'S I
HONEY-TAR
The original
LAXATIVE cough remedy.
For coughs, colds, throat and lung
troubles. No opiates. Non-alcoholic.
Good for everybody. Sold everywhere.
The genuine
FOLEY'S HONEY and TAR is ia
aYellowpackage. Refuse substitutes.
Prepared only by
Foley Ml Company, Chicago*
W. L. Wallace.
Audible Conscience.
Bontcr?Excuse my yawning. I .
didn't get a wink of sleep last night.
Jupp?Toothache?
Bonter?Xo. A woman asked me
for some money yesterday, and I refused
her. Well, the tones of her
voice rang in my head all night. I
couldn't close an eye.
Jupp?Conscience stricken, eh?
Was it a deserving case, do tou
think?
Bonter?It was my wife.
Weak
Kidneys
Dense mora trouble than any other orfan of
the body. The (unotlon of the kidneys Is to
isparata inorganic salt and water In tne pro
cess of circulation, and to remore them and I
their attendant poisons from the body throng h
the bladder. Therefore when the kidneys
become diseased and weak they are naturally !
unable to perform their work properly, and
pains in the back, inflammation of the bladder
and urinary disorders are the resnlt. It is
Unperatlre that a prompt relief be afforded,
which la Impossible anises you remors the
cause.
DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills
promptly eliminate poisons from the system
and at tne same time make the kidneys well
and strong.
For Weak Kidneye, Backache, in
vl??n
flammaUon or ino umuu?
urinary trouble* Do Witt's Kidney
and Bladder Pills are unsurpassed.
A Week's Treatment for 25e.
Bionsy back if thsy falL
For Sale by W L Wallace.
County Campaign ScheduleEditor
County Record: Please
publish the following schedule for
information of candidates who are
expected to address the voters of the
county:
Kingstree, August 12.
Greelyville, August 13.
Johnsonviile, August 19.
Lake City, August 50.
All pledges must be filed and dues
paid on or before noon August 11.
A. II. Williams, Co. Ch.
i June 57, 1908.
A I
Guarantee!
JOHN BRADEN,
the Handsome,, Standardbred
Stallion, is now to be
found at the stables of
J, M. TRULUCK,
iGUmiVTEE, - - S20JQ
!
Lake City Horse Go.,'
LIKE CUT, 8. C.
COTTON
?AND THE PR IN
TOBi
There will be a number of si
Fall and we are ready to serve
splendid crop prospect we are r?
enlarge our floor space, and rath
Queen Stoves and Ranges from v
price
SO
We have just received a carl
fered at a low price. Keinember
min Moore & Co's Paint. Also,
Cutlery and Razors. The Robes
preciate our friends' patronage a
tmued confidence.
Lake City h.
LAKE C]
"A dollar
is a doll.
There is no better way
dealing with
J. L. Stuckey, the ol
man.
I have a splendid line (
HUB. Willi
that in view of the hard time!
above cost.
A nice bunch of HORSE5
at prices to suit.
J. L 5tu<
BANK OFK
If inrrofi*AA. Qni
U WT k/v?
CAPITAL. 8 30,000""
== DIREIC"
Jas F Cooper
D C Scott
Collections made promptly
LOANS, large or small, ma
NEW
Of the reliable an
cock, Piedmont, D
and Carolina
-wBTJGOne
and Two-Hors
The Famous Russel
and Webber
_
McCormick Mower
A new lot of nice,
1 A U ! ^
<U1U UUUUIC.
A pretty assortmei
YOURS T
The Williamsbur:
KINGSTREE AN
I SOUTH C*
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f
\/>M''Cut"oim<ioors"with a STEVENS-H
I'M best thing for a growing boy!
pvj Learning to shoot w:ll and '
k v/ acquiring qua! i tic J A
I SELF-CONTROL, DECISION, AND
MANUNESS
I araalUoe to STEVENS FIRI"ARMS EDUCATION.
| Ask your Dealer, for Steves Hides? /
| hotguns?Pistols. Insirt on our time}
Iionorctl make. If you cannot obtain,
, c ship direct, c.vvr<-? pre* ii', upon
i receipt of Catalog Pi ne. fl
i I .very,.. .|R >o<t want t? lino* a. out l',.-St HYMNS II
, I ? foe <i in UO r-.ffe II! i. frat. tl f'ttaloff Mi le<l II
i - rfour cert* in statup* to ;?iy post cc. I>iuti- II
J. nl T- ; 0^!??r Ilaap?r?' :# <1?. oration i >r your lj
I "<Vi ? rru;l, room?m !' ?! f r c^iit* 11 -tnt'ipa.
: J. STEVENS ARMS & TOOL CC. ft
I*. 0. Lex 4097 > |
, Chicopce l:alls, Mas.-., U.S.A. |
fa nun I
Id Ainu
CE REGENT IS?
1CCO.
lbjects of both in Lake City this
j them. In anticipation of the
;pairin? our warehouse so as to
er than remove the stock of O.K.
warehouse we have [reduced the
: Cent. *
oad of Wife Fence, which, is of
we are headquarters for Benja- 9
we offer exceptional values ia 9
on Razor can't be beat. We ap- 8
nd will try to merit their con- I
hardware Co., J
[TY. S. C 1
saved
ar made"
to save your dollars than by |
Id reliable live'Stock
"in I
IS 111 DlB,
> am offering at 10 per cent
5 and MULES always on hand
?
L'kCyj Lake City, S. C.
i I
ith Carolina, 8
SURPLUS, $ 7l00 I
roRS ===== I
K H Kellahan
J A Kelley
de on approved security.
:t_ - 7. /ii
STOCK I I
id warranted Bab- J
urham, Barnesville I
G-IE I
ie Surreys. 1
' Waggons. J
s and Rakes. 1
colarf HarriPCCaa^inO'lp fl
JWIVVt 1 IMI ^ M
nt of Summer Robes. I
0 PLEASE, I
Ef Live Stock Co,, J
D GREELYVILLE, I
A TP.OT -T-NT A
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