Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-10-20

Ino Now 1ork UemOcratlC flatICrms
The following is the platform recent
~ adopted by the New York Democrat
ic State Convention:
The Democracy of New York, in Convention
declare: Az
L That whereas the country is again sub
the evils and abuses which af1icted it in 1874.
we reaffirm the principles of our platform OF
that year, under which the Republican party
was driven from power aud the Government
OF the State brought back for a time to the
practice of economy and honesty.
2. We arraign the Republican majority in
Congress for its culpable failure to reduce the,
amount of taxation to a sum sufficient only for
under an honest and frugal Admnistl alton.
and we favor such tariff and fiscal reforms as
shall relieve an overtaxed people from all I'M
ton of a fund to be lavished in profiigate leg
islation and in support of horde of useless
and idle placement. In particular, we pro
claim our condemnation of the River and Har-
Dor bill, in which, by the multiplication and
mutual support of obnoxious provisions, an
nuS n Of m
tons OF the Constitution and the depreciation
of public morals.
g. In the nomination of the Secretary of the
Treasury for Governor of New York. by
which, in effect, a candidate for the Chief
Magistracy of the State was appointed by the
President, we see a fresh md impressive proof
OF the dangerous power of public patronage,
and, urged by this alarming spectacle we pro-
test against Federal intervention in State
reform and purihcatiOn Of the Civil Service.
And we are further admonished by recent ex-
perience of Republican. corruption OF the
necessity of forbidding by penal enactment
the levylny of blackmail from dependent Of
hcehoiders to promote the interests of party
which finds no support in the intelligent and
independent convictions of the people.
4. We no d the present Repub lean Admin
fstration responsible for the unredressed out
RACES on our foreign-born fellow-citizens and
we demand for them, when abused, the pro-
lection to which they are entitled in return
for their voluntary allegiance, and which the
honor OF the American Government requires
shall be extended to them.
5. We charge that in this State the Repub-
lean party has lowered the standard of the
public service by its local administration and
by the representatives ii has sent to the two
houses of Congress; that it has made the State
LEGISLATURE the instrument of a lobby to rob
the public and enrich corporations, and has
refused to its Governor a denomination
which was due him by custom because he
purposes, in disregard of those who sought to
control him by the influence of the political
and moneyed power
York State National Guard to the efficiency OF
which 1t has been deprived and which made it
the representative of the soldierly spirit of the
people.
Z. In order to restore our merchant marine
to its former prosperity, we demand immedi.
ate revision and amendment of the laws relat-
freights.
8. We favor the adoption by the next Legis-
lature of the resolution of 1882 providing for
an amendment TO the Constitution for the local
self-government of cities
8. Primary elections, openly and honestly
conducted, afford the surest means for secur-
ing the most suitable candidates for public Of
nee, thus best preserving Democratic form Of
government. We therefore favor the speedy
passage of general laws providing against
fraud and intimidation at such elections
TO- The public welfare demands that various
questions relating to chartered monopolies and
fhfNfIc
decided, and we are in favor of the adoption of
measures to restrict the growing power of
such monopolies. They should be subjected
now provided by law. All unjust discrimna-
lions in the transpor ration of passengers and
merchandise should be prohibited: The
charges of corporations which have taken the
property of private citizens for public use
should be limited to the cost of service with a
exaction of ''all the traffic will bear" The
laws should be so revised that taxation may he
reduced SO far as possible, and personal and
corporate property made to severally pay their
fair proportion of taxes.
II. We approve the submission to the vote
or the people of a constitutional amendment
In FAVOR OF free canals, and we have full conf
dencc they will dispose of it i'm such a manner
US to promote all the great interests of the State
--agr1eIuitu rai, manufacturing and commercial.
L. we reaffirm the policy always maintained
Dy the Democratic party. that it is of the first
Importance that labor should be made free,
healthful, and secure of just recommendations;
that convict labor should not come i'm compe.
t1t1on with the industry of abiding citizens;
that the labor of children should be surround
ed with such safeguards as their health, their
right or eolcatiOn, ana their future as useful
members Of the community demand; that
workshops, whether large or small, should be
under such sanitary control as will insure the
health and comfort of the employed, and will
protect all against unwholesome labor and sur
round1ngs; that labor shall have the same
right as capital to combine for its own protec-
ton, and that all legi .lation which cramps in.
dustry or which enables the powerful to OBJ
press the weak should be repealed; and to pro-
mote the interests of labor we recommend the
collection of statistics and information re.
speeding improvements and the needs and
abuses of the various branches of industry
h. Whereas, the founders of the Democratic
party inculcated frequent recurrence to fun
damental principles, the Democracy of New
York again avow their fidelity to those tenets
or economy, simplicity and respect for the lib
eIty of the individual which characteriz I'd the
administration of the Government in the priu-
tive days of the Republic.