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DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM Adopted By National Convention Assembled In Kansas City. Following are the essentiil features of tho Democratic platform as agreed upon by the committee on resolutions end adopted at the Kansas City con vention: “We, the representatives of the Democratic party of the United States, assembled in national convention on the anniveisary of the declaration of independence, do reaffirm our faith in that immortal proclamation of the in alienable rights of man and our alle giance to the constitution framed in harmony therewith by the fathers of the republic. We declare again that all governments instituted among men derive their just, powers from the con sent of the governed; that a iy govern ment not based tipou the consent of the governed is a tyranny; aud that to impose upon any people a government of force is to substitute the methods of imperialism for those of a republic. We hold that the constitution follows the flag and denounce the doctrine that an executive or oongress deriving their existence and their powers from the constitution can exercise lawful authority beyond ii, or in violation of it. We assert that no nation can long endure half republic and half empire, and we warn the American people tbit imperialism abroad will lead quickly and inevitably to despotism at home. Believing in these principles, we de nounce the Porto Rico law, enacted by a Republican congress against the pro test and opposition of the Democratic minority, as a bold and open violation of the nation’s organic law and a fla grant breach of good faith. “We demand the prompt and honest fulfillment of our pledges to the Cuban peop'e and the world that the United States has no disposition nor intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction or control over the island of Cuba, except for its pacification. “We condemn aud denounce the Philippines policy of the present ad ministration. It has involved the re public unnecessarily in war, sacrificed the lives of many of our noblest sons aud placed the United States, previ ously known and applauded through out the world as the champion of free dom, in the false and un-American position of crushing, with military force, the efforts of our former allies to achieve liberty and self government. THE PARAMOUNT ISSUE. ‘ We are not opposed to territorial expansion when it takes in desirable territory which can be erected into states in the union and whose peoplo are willing and fit to become American citizens. We favor trade expansion by every peaceful and legitimate means, but we are unalterably oppos ed to the seizing or purchasing of dis tant islands to be governed outside the constitution and whose people can never become citizens. The impor tance of other questions now pending before the American people is in no wise diminished and the Democratic party takes no backward step from its position on them, but the burning is sue of imperialism, growing out of the Spanish war, involves the very exist ence of the republic and the destruc tion of our free institutions. We re gard it as the paramount issue of the campaign. “We insist on the strict maintenance of the Monroe doctrine and in all its integrity, both in letter aud in spirit. OPPOSE LARGE STANDING ARMY. “We oppose militarism. It means conquest abroad and intimidation at home. WARFARE ON TBU3TS. “Private monopolies are indefensi ble and intolerable. They destroy competition, control the price of all materials and of the finished product, thus robbiug both producer aud con eumer. They lessen the employment of labor and arbitrarily fix the terms and conditions thereof and deprive individual energy and small capital of their opportunity for-betterment. “We pledge the Democratic party to an unceasing warfare, in nation, state and city, against private monop dies in any form. Existing laws against trusts mast be enforced and more stringeut ones must be enacted. “The failure of the present Repub lican administration, with an absolute control of all the branches of the na tional government, to enact any legis lation designed to prevent or even cur tail the absorbing power of trusts and illegal combines, or to enforce the anti-trust laws already on the statute books, prove the insincerity of the high-sounding phrases of the Republi can platform. Corporations should be protected in all their rights aud their legitimate interests should be respect ed, but any attempt by corporations to interfere with the public affairs of the people, or to control the sovereign ty which creates them, should be for bidden under such penalties as will make such attempts impossible. “We condemu the Dingley tariff law as a trust-breeding measure skillfully devised to give tho few favors which they do not desire and place upon the many burdents which they should not bear. FREE COINAGE OF SILVER. “We affirm and endorse the princi ples of the national Democratic plat form adopted iu Chicago in 1896, and we reiterate the demand of that plat form for an American financial system, made by American people for them selves, which shall restore and main tain a bimetallic prioe level and as part of such system the restoration of the free and unlimited coinage of sil ver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the aid or consent of aDy other nation. “We denounce thecnrrency bill en acted in the last session of congress as a step forward in the Republican pol icy, which aims to discredit the sov ereign right of the national govern ment to issue all money, whether coin or paper, and to bestow upon national banks the power to issue and control the volume of paper money for their own benefit. We are opposed to this private corporation paper circulated as money, but without legal tender qual ities, and demand the retirement of the national bank notes as fast as gov ernment paper or silver certificates can be substituted for them. “We favor au amendment to the federal constitution providing for the election of United States senators by direct vote of tbe people, and we favor direct legislation wherever practicable. “We are opposed to government by injunction. We denounce the black list and favor arbitration as a means of settling disputes between corporations aud their employees. “Ih the interest of American labor and the uplifting of the workingmau as the cornerstone of the prosperity of our country, we recommend that con gress create a department of labor. “We are proud of the courage and fidelity of the American soldiers and sailors in all our wars; we favor liberal pensions to them and their depen dents, and we reiterate the position taken in the Chicago platform iu 1896, that the fact of eulistment and service shall be deemed conclusive evidence against disease aud disability before enlistment. “We favor the immediate construc tion, o vnership and control of the Nicaragua canal by the United States, and w r e denounce the insincerity of the plank in the national republican plat form for an isthmian canal, in the face of the failure of the Republican ma jority to pass ihe bill pending in con gress. We condemn the Hay-Paunce fote treaty as a surrender of American rights and interests not to be tolerated by tbe American people. “We denounce the failure of the Republican party to carry out ito pledges, to grant statehoods to the ter ritories of Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma, and we promise the people of those territories immediate state hood and home rule during their con dition as territories, and we favor home rule and territorial form of gov ernment for Alaska and Porto Rico. “We favor the continuance and strict enforcement of the Chinese ex clusion law and its application to thd same classes of all Asiatic races. SYMPATHY FOR BOERS. “Believing in the principles of self government and rejecting, as did our forefathers, the claim of monarchy, we view with indignation the purpose of England to overwhelm with force the South African republics. Speaking, as we do, for the entire American nation, except its Republican office holders, and for all free men everywhere, we extend our sympathies to the heroic burghers iu their unequal struggle to maintain their liberty aud independ ence. “We denounce the lavish appropri ations of recent Republican con greases, which have kept taxeB high and which threaten the perpetuation of oppressive war levies. We oppose the accumulation of a surplus to be squandered in such barefaced frauds upon the tax payers as the shipping subsidy bill, which, under the false pretence of prospering American ship building would put unearned millions into the pockets of favorite contribu tors to the Republican campaign fund. We favor the reduction and speedy re peal of the war taxes and a return to the time-honored Democratic policy of strict economy in governmental ex penditures. “Beliving that our most cherished institutions are iu great peril, that tho very existence of our constitutional re public is at stake and the decision to be rendered will determine whether or not our children are to enjoy those blessed privileges of free government which have made the United States great, prosperous and honored,we ear nestly ask for the foregoing declaration of principles, the hearty support of the liberty loving people, regardless of previous party affiliations.” S. A. L. APPOINTMENTS Announced From Headquarter* of tin Company at Norfolk KffBctlve July 1. A special from Norfolk, Vft., says: Important appointments of Seaboard Air Line officials, effective July 1, have been announced as follows: A. 0. McDouell, assistant general passenger agent, with headquarters at Jacksonville; J. H. Burroughs, audi tor freight receipts;Thomas H. Wright, auditor passenger receipts; J. A. Wal ton, statistician; T. W. Roby, control ler; J. H. Sharp,treasurer; J. M. Sher wood, secretary and assistant treas urer; R. L. Nutt, cashier; W. T. Rock er, paymaster; V. E. McBee, general superintendent; W, E. Reed, mechan ical superintendent; G. P. Johnston, superintendent of transportation; H. W. B. Glover, freight traffic manager; C. R. Capps, general freight agent; O. B. Bidwell, Jr., freight claim agent; L. S. Allen, general passenger agent; O. D. Ball, Jr., general purchasing agent. All of these officers, except Mr. Mac Douell, will have headquarters at Portsmouth, Va R. I. Cheatham will be assistant general freight agent, at Atlanta; W. H. Pleasants, assistant general freight agent, at Jacksonville, Fla., and A. Pope, assistant general freight agent, atSavannah; Messrs. Cheatham, Pleas auts and Pope will report to the gen eral freight agent. The five divisions of the Seaboard system and their officers are as fol lows: First Division—T. W. Whisnant, superintendent; L. A. Boyd, assist ant superintendent: Between Rich mond and Raleigh, Portsmouth and Ridgeway Junction, Boykins and Lew iston, Henderson and Durham, Frank lin and Louisburg. Second Division—J. M. Turner, su perintendent; William Moucure, as sistant superintendent: Between Ral eigh and Columbia, Wilmington and Monroe, Moncure and Pittsboro, Ham let and Gibson. Third Division—E. Berkeley, su perintendent; P. H. Sellers, train master: Between Monroe and Atlanta, Lawrenceville and Lo ganville, Ellenboro, Henrietta and Caroleen, Monroe and Rutherfordton. Fourth Division—Cecil Gabbett, su perintendent; E. E. Anderson, train master; L. B. McGuire, S. B. Ben nett, assistant trainmasters: Between Columbia and Savannah, Savannah and Jacksonville, Savannah and Mont gomery, Columbus and Albany, Abbe ville and Ocilla. Fifth Division—D. E. Maxwell, su perintendent; C. C. Howell, M. Y. Ra ley, trainmasters; W. B. Tucker, general agent: Between Feruaudina and Tampa and between Jacksonville and Chattahoochee river, including all lines in Florida except between Jack sonville and St. Mary’s river. SILVER REPUBLICANS At a Meeting In Kama* City Issue »n Address to the rarty. The Silver Republican party, by its executive committee, has issued an ad dress to the silver Republicans of the United States, saying, among other things: “The Democratic candidate for pres ident is ours, our convention named him. Upon the fundamental proposi tions above stated, we are one with the Democrats and People’s party. Our common candidate for president is enlisted, heart and soul, in this great cause. We know he has the high courage of his convictions. His tri umph is necessary if we are to hand down to our children and our chil dren’s children a government founded in the wisdom of the fathers, maintain ed in the blood and treasure of its citizens and perpetuated as a priceless heritage. “Impelled by these considerations, your national committee has deter mined that its duty in this hour is to indorse Hon. Adlai Stevenson as our candidate for vice president, in order that the opposition to the gold stand ard, trusts aud monopolies, imperial ism and all its attendant evils may concentrate all its votes at the danger points and accomplish the triumph of those principles so dear to us. “It is but simple justice to say that in taking this action, we are following the advice of our distinguished leader, Hon. Charles A. Towne. “Let us express the hope that our friends will lay aside whatever disap pointment they may feel and join in a united effort to secure the triumph of our principles at the coming election.” S0L1UEKS IN PIIIUI'INES. Strength of the United States Army Given By Adjutant General. A statement prepared by the adju tant general shows that the total strength of the United States army in the Philipines June 30th, last, was 63,426 officers aud men. Of that num ber 31,821 are regulars and 38,605 volunteers distributed among the dif ferent arms as follows: Infantry, 54,368 officers and men; cavalry, 3,492; artillery, 2,291, and staff correspon dents 3,276. The total strength given above includes 1,310 officers and men of the infantry since transferred to China. HORTICV/LTVRAL. 1 *2 W HINTi "WiEO/TcD BY I fa ^RURAUST^ Q !/ m •.Vs; ,\ When to Set Lilies. The best time to set lillies is in autumn, it is generally believed, but one florist has had quite as good suc cess with spring setting. If they are taken fresh from the nursery before they have advanced too far in growth they do nicely. The reason why so many believe that lillies should be set only in autumn is because the main supply has been from store bulbs. Few dealers keep their stock in the ground, and when stocks are not kept in beds or in the ground, un less stored in damp soil in tight boxes, by spring the bulbs become so dried and shrunken that a season is re quired for them to regain their normal strength.—Boston Cultivator. Finish the Job in the Orchard. Some fruitgrowers when trimming up the orchard cut off all the affected wood aud fix the trees up in fine shape and then, to spoil the whole business, leave the trimmings and rubbish on the ground to rot away, aud this af fords just the place the Insects are looking for. It may seem that this is rubbing it in too hard, but I have seen it done time and again. Ta such I would say always make it a point to clean up the orchard after such work is over or, so to speak, al ways finish the job. You could kill a thousand hogs and the killing of them would never fill a pork barrel. After being killed they must be cut up and salted. The job has to be finished, aud it is just as important that the job in the orchard he finished as that of filling the pork barrel.— New York Weekly Witness. Preparing the Orchard Ground. A good way to prepare the ground for an orchard is to dig large holes and fill in with loose, rich dirt, but save your back and make your horses dig the holes. Measure off the tree rows the desired distance, driving a stake at the end of each row. Start the team anil run by stakes set four f <**t to the right of where the center of the row will be; upon reaching the opposite end of the field, return by tjtAkcs set again four feet to the right of where the center row should be. Next plow ont tins eight feet of land. which wlieu finished will leave a deep “dead furrow” right where the tree row is to be. Set the plow to run ns deeply as your team eau draw it, and go one or two rounds, this will give plenty of loose dirt, and a hole sufficiently deep for the trees. If the ground is hard anil cloddy, harrow until fine, and if necessary, plow out the “dead furrow” again just before planting, so there will be plenty of moist, loose soil.—Farm, Field aud Fireside. I’racttcal Raspberry Culture. Raspberries require a moist, clay soil, not too thin. The laud must be of such character that it will not dry out readily, for if this occurs at any time while tho tne lmrrips oernts are are on on the uif vines, they will dry up. The subsoil should be clay and well drained, for the plants cannot live if the roots are ill in the me water. venter This mis mailer maun Of 01 a .1 ore- I»xv pared soil is important and is too of ten neglected by the farmer who has only a small patch of fruit. There are three types of raspber ries—red, black and purple, differing considerably in their requirements. The red berry succeeds through a wider range of soil and climate than either the black or the purple. They are commonly grown from one-year old suckers or root cuttings and are planted in rows seven feet apart, with plants two and one-l-.lf feet apart in the row. Fully one-half of the old suckers should he destroyed wioli year. | Plant either to the fall or .spring, the best time being ill early spring. Ill pruning, simply head back the canes I Of the previous year’s growth and in early spring remove all the dead wood. I do not believe as some do that the canes should be cut back wittiin eighteen indies of the ground. I leave them from three to three and one-half feet high. The Bide limbs can be cut off or not. this .being determined by the desired width of the row. There must be room enough between the rows to permit of cultivation without damage to the canes. (Janes that have fruited should be removed us soon ns the crop is taken off in summer and burned, so as to kill all insects and fungi. The blackcap or black raspberries are less popular than the red for use au the table when fresh, but afe grown considerably now for canning and evaporating. The plants are obtained from the rot tips and should be set out the same as the red, except that the plants may be set closer in th€ rows. They require similar treatment Purple raspberries nr> not very popu lar on the market.—American Agricul turist, ^ __. . __ Evidently Harmles r , Weary Willy—Oo right In! Dere’a no danger! Frayed Fa gin—No? Weary Willy—Ov course not! Didn’t yor Jes’ hear her call da dog “Percy?’' —Puck. Japan Anxious. Japan has become alarmed over the emi gration of many of her residents to this coun try. 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