Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-15
The Platform.


resolutions, then read the following plat
platform in the nature of resolutions:
a. In Republican form of govern
ment political parties are necessity for
the establishment and maintenance of any
principles or policy of such government
(2D No policy can obtain
in such government without the efficient
backing of political party pledged to its
support.
(3.) The policy of the government is the
policy of the party in power and vice
vera.
a. Bearing in mind these indisputable
facts we declare ourselves unalterably op-
posed to the policy of the government on
the question of the liquor traffic which is
license and protection for the same, for
revenue purposes, and thus maintaining
itself by a tax on the sin, shame, sorrow
and crimes of the people.
(5.) AS the parties that have
been in power for many years
have supported and do now support the
liquor traffic and feeling it hopeless to Sc
cure through either of these parties ade-
quate laws to suppress and prohibit said
traffic, we do declare that we believe it our
privilege and imperative duty to main
tain our party organization as the enver-
vator of our just cause and to nominate
men for Office who are with us in principle
and practice.
That the public declaration of these
parties concerning the policy of prohibi-
ton warrant the above conclusions the
following quotations from their platforms
will sufficiently sustain.
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
''The Republican party proposes to re-
spect the rights reserved by the people to
themselves, as carefully as the powers
delegated by them to the state and to the
federal government. 1t disapproves of
resort to unconstitutional laws for the
purpose of removing evils by interference
with the rights not surrendered by the
people to either state or national govern
ment.''
Herman Raster of Chicago, who drew
the resolution, when questioned concern
ing its meaning, said:
ut was adopted by the platform COM
mittee with the full and explicit under
standing that its purpose was the discon-
tinuancing of all so-called temperance
and Sunday laws. This purpose was
meant to be expressed by reference to
these rights of the people which had not
been delegated to either national Or state
governments, it being assumed that the
right to drink what one pleases, and the
right to look upon the day in which Christ
ians have their prayer meetings as any
other day, were among the rights not dele
gated by the people, but reserved to them
selves"
STATE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
s'Resolved, That the habits and customs
of the people cannot be abridged by pro-
hibitory or sumptuary laws, and that the
its and customs without transcending the
legitimate sphere Of legislative power"
DEMOCRAT PLATFORM.
"For the Democracy of the whole coun-
| try we X X do hereby record our steadfast
confidence in the equality of all citizens
before just laws of their own enactment;
| in the liberty of individual conduct unvexed
by sumptuary laws"
The total of wrong done by party can
| not be greater except in quantity than that
of the individual voter !; therefore, no man
can be consistent Prohibitionist and
| vote with either of these parties to license
| and perpetuate the dramshops.
As American citizens and lovers of our
homes and our country, we deeply deplore
| the "love of party" which leads 80 many
! opposers of the evils of license to con-
| stantly east their whole influence in favor
of their maintenance by the government
| with their ballots.
While making prohibition the leading
issue, we are, nevertheless, opposed to all
political corruption, corporate monoplies
and political extortions by which the arti-
san, farmer or laborer is robbed of their
| just reward, and the rich made richer by
the seizure of the public land through sub
sidized land grants to individuals and cor
porations, and we hereby earnestly invite
the hearty cooperation of the working
men of all classes in putting away the
evils of which they so justly complain.
In the matter of the nomination of a
candidate for congress from this district
we claim it advisable and necessary, from
the fact that neither of the candidates al
ready in the field are either total abstinence
men or Prohibitionists, and we have little
reason to doubt but that the charges which
they make against each other are true
that one represents the 'bummer' element
and the other the political corruption
by which the people are be-
IuS OelIduueu anu widespread pOl1t1ca
Generalization produced. And further
as the question of a prohibitory amend
ment to the constitution of the United
States is now pending in congress, we
cannot be consistent and refuse to vote
for state legislators who are wrong on thi
: question, and yet send men to congress
who are opposed to the same measure.
. The action of the Fourth District Con
gressional Republican convention in re
fusing to favor the question of the sub
mission of a prohibitory amendment t.
. the people, is only continuation of tn
acts of that party, which has for year
denied the people any effective Legislation
on the temperance question.
We commend the Temperance Rerie,c q
[ staunch Prohibition paper, and reques
our friends to make thorough canvas
. for it.
. We commend the work Of the G. A. A.
of this State, and advise that this yes
: their plan concerning the nominatio
of members of the legislature be carrie
out by our Prohibition party.
REGULATING RAILROADS.
Mr.. Gallagher offered the following re
O1ufion.