The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-05-15
CARLISLE FOR PRESIDENT.
Kentucky Democrats Express . Pref.
erence for the Speaker Of
the House.
State Convention Of the Prohibition
Party in Massachu-
seffS.
Kentucky Democrats.

Kentucky Democrats.
Hon. Boyd Winchester, Of Louisville,
presided over the Kentucky Democratic
Convention, which met at Frankfort.
Henry Watterson, J. Stoddard Johnsey,
James A. Mckenzie, and Thomas L.
Jones were elected delegates -at large to the
National Democratic Convention at Chi
cago. Henry Watterson was made Chair
man Of tho Committee on Resolutions, and
| reported the following platform, which was
| unanimously adopted amid great applause:
The Democracy OF Kentucky, in convention
assembled. declare.
|. We pledge ourselves anew to the constitu-
| tional doctrines and traditions Of the Demo-
cratic party as illustrated by the teachings and
example Of a long line OF Democratic statesmen
| and patriots embodied In the platforms Of tho
| National Democratic Conventions OF 1876 and
| 1880
.. We do especially renew our declarations Of
| hostility to Capitalization. a. that dangerous
/ spirit OF encroachmcnt which tends to ConsOl-
| idate the powers OF government and thus to
create, whatever the form, real desp0tism,
| without consideration OF the public property,
| and We again express our conviction OF the
| urgent necessity Of the general and thorough
reform OF the civil service: and
>. We do especially deny the right OF tho
| Government to surrender its taxing power to
corporations or individuals. which Is the result
can party: and we denounce the present tarif.
| which burdens the people with excessive war
taxes in time OF peace. as q masterpiece OF IN
| justice, inequality, and false prctenses. We
/ arraign the Republican party as the creator and
| defender of system which has impoverished
many industries to subsdize few; which has
prohibited imports that might purchase the prod
| ucts of American labo., and degraded Amer-
/ can commerce from the first to an inferior
/ rank on the high seas; which has cut down
/ the sales OF American manu- acturcs at home
| and abroad and depleted tho returns OF Ameri-
can agriculture, an industry followed by hall
onr people. Ii costs the taxpayers ftve times
/ more than it yields to the Treasury; II promotes
| fraud, fosters smuggling. corrupts officials, en-
1 riches the few by forcing bOunties from the
many, and favors the dishonest to bankrupt
honest merchants. We assert the doctrine Ol
| the Constitution that all taxation shall be cx-
/ Clusivey for revenue, and demand that no more
/ revenue shall be collected than is required to
meet the expenses and obligations OF the Gov
| ernment economi mically administered.
i Resoired, That believing that no geographical
/ line should exist in thf. country as q tcst Of
eligibility to any office in the gift of the whole
people, but that the standard OF honesty, COM
/ potency, fidelity, and constitutional citizenship
/ alone should prevail, Kentucky recommends "a
/ the Democracy of the Union for the Presidency
4 Of the United States him whose elevation to the
third Office in the nation was the first step to
the oblteration of the sam left by the late civil
| war, who was the first to leal his party back "a
| Its own national platform of steady approach
toward the removal of distractions to trade. the
foremost exponent Of all the living Democ rattle
principles OF to-day, the Hon. John Il. Carlisle