The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-05-15
IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
That Is Where the Kentucky Demo
Gratis Want to Place Mr..
Speaker Carlisle.
Kentucky Democrats.

Hon. Boyd Winchester, of Louisville,
presided over the Kentucky Democntic
Convention, which met at Frankfort.
Henry watterson, j. Stoddard Johnsey,
James A. Mckenzie, and Thomas L.
Jones were elected delegates-at-l large to the
National Democratic Convention at Chi
cago. Henry Watterson was made Chair
man of the Committee on Resolutions, and
reported the following platform, which was.
unanimously adopted amid great applause:
The Democracy OF Kentucky. ia convention
assembled. declare:
tional doctrines and traditions Of the Demo
cratic party as illustrated by the teachings and
example OF long line Of Democratic statesmen
and patriots as embodied In the platforms OF the
National Democratic Conventions Of 1876 and
1880.
2. We do especially renew our declarations Of
hostility to Capitalization, as That dangerous
spirit OF encroachment which tends TO oonsoi-
idate the powers of government and thus TO
with al, snbsjdies TO corporations and grants
without consideration of the puhhc property,
and we again express our conviction or the
urgent necessity of the general and thorough
reform of the civil service; and
.. We do especially deny the right OF the
Government TO surrender its taxing power 10
corporations individuals, which n the result
of both the theory and practice OF the Republl-
can party: and we denOunce the present tarln,
which burdens the people Win excessive war
taxes in time of peace, as q masterpiece or in
Justice, inequality, and false pretenses- We
arraign the Republican party as the creator and
defender of a system which has Impoverished
many industries to subsidize few; which has
prohibited imports that might purchase the prod
ucts of American labor, aud degraded Ameri-
can commerce from the first TO an inferior
rank on the high seas; which has cut down
the sales of American manufactures at home
and abroad and depleted the returns or Amer1-
can agriculture, an industry followed by half
our people. 1t costs the taxpayers f1ve times
more than 10 yields to the Treasury; IT promotes
fraud, fosters smuggling, corrupts oftclals, en-
riches the few by forcing bounties from the
many, and favors the dishonest to bankrupt
honest merchants. We assert the doctrine OF
the Constitution that all taxation shall be ex-
cusively for revenue, and demand that no more
revenue shall be collected than IL required TO
meet the expenses and obligations or the Gov
eminent economically administered.
ResOtUea, That believing that no geographical
line should exist in this country as a test 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 to
the Democracy of the Union for The Presidency
Of the United States him whose ELEVATION to the
third office in the nation the first step TO
the oblteration of the seam left by the late civil
war, who was the first to lead his party back TO
its own national platform OF steady approach
toward the removal of distractions to {: ade, the
foremost exponent of all the living Democ ratio
principles OF to-day, the Hon. John q. Carlisle