The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-19

| -. 4,i"u.oS o.iiy w tne discussion of
principles for the government OF the
Nation. /, therefore, could suhstsns
tlally present but one plank. the most
important of all, the protection Of the
american laborer and producer, without
| Whlch, In my Judgment, there can he
no prosperity to this country,
And this. was voted down in the CON-
Vention by vote OF 7l2lS to 97l<.
telt 1t but right to warn the conyen-
tlon, however unimportant such warning
nlght seem, of the course Of my duty
s,lch vote was passed against the
workingmen and women Of the conn
try, for whose welfare it was we'll known
l, had stood from my earliest manhood
me notice was in this emphatic lam
guage, III you refuse to stand by the
workingmen, God help yon, cannot.n
IN TINS there was no mistake, Mr.. Wat
terson, OF Kentucky, who followed me-.
look warning, saying the party would
look TO God for help, but the Scripture
satin, 1.-THE prayer Of the wicked availetb
not IL was due to myself not to adopt
and upright, and highly moral politicians
deem 1t proper to pursue, take part in
the proceedings Of q convention 10 IT'D
END, and then, without giving any no
tice to anybody, and without protostinr.
refuse to support its doings.
have thus given a succinct. as n
must be, but faithful account of INV
connection with the Chicago conven-
tion and its action on the matters which
was charged to present to it by the
National Greenback labor party, the
nnnti-Monopoiy organization and the
democracy OF Massachusetts,.
PLATFORM ONE or EXpEpIENrs.
will not omit the fact that IN the Mat
form adopted there were certain sweet
phrases used toward the foreign-born
citzen. There were certain honeved
words, over and over repeated, in order
that their repetition might seem like
earnest advocacy put in favor of labor
and upon some Of the topics OF our plat
form. But do claim, and submit to the
Just Judgment of the people, that com.
parihg the two platforms and taking the
claim of the Anti -Monopolist and
or the National Greenback and
labor men was so eontemnt,,-
ously rejected or 80 thoroughly
smothered by platitudes, which would
permit any financial theorist or any mo-
nopolist to subscribe to the majority plat-
form, that II IL most apparent on the face
OF the resolutions that theywere simply
resolutions of expedients to catch votes
by indirection, deception and Illusion,
not declarations OF those high principles
which should form the basis of the
people.
WHY AN EXPLICIT PLATFORM SHOULD ne
DEMANDED OF THE DEMOCRACY.
The country has had no experience for
nearly aquarter of a century OF what the
Democracy would do II they had the
power, so that the people are Obliged TO
require the most explicit pledges
from them Of intended action, before
we can put the Government In their
hands. But the farmer and the laboring
man do not know that Democratic
House OF Representative has lust an-
propriated more money raised by taxa
tion, than any other House OF Represen-
tatives has ever appropriated in time of
peace. We also know that the Demo-
cratic majority would have made free
trade tariff, containing all the odious
features of the present war tariff. 40 far
as regards its montrous inequalities, by
horizontal reduction of the tariff TO
break down very many rising and strug-
gllng industries, and destruction of the
homes ofour wOrkingmen and the home
markets Of the American producers.
Who does not know that the very fear
OF the action of the Democracy In Com
gress has so paralyzed American enter
prise and business, that mills ar eyery-
where closing, mines shut up, furnaces
blown out, and every kind Of employ
ment so curtailed that the mechanic and
workingmen are not earning enough to
support life in comfort; so that the
farmer even, deprived OF home
market, and crushed down by discrimi-
mating rates Of transportation, finds his
corn, wheat and wool lower than II has
been within the present generation. Can
the people, therefore, trust the machine
Democracy with power, upon q shifting.
evasive and deceptive PLATFORM
WE KNOW THR REPUBLICANS. HOW THE
MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN.
The country has had experience in
Republican party rule twenty-five wears,
and know its results. We, therefore,
have no need to look at its platform, for
"by their fruits ye shall know them.r
The Republican party in its inception
was emphatlcally the party OF the peo-
Pile. II had In ii substantially neither
monopollsts or capitalists. II was az
poor as was the convention OF delegates
who framed the Declaration of fnde-
pendence. Taking out five men, the
rest could hardly pay their board bills,
The Republican party was formed on
grand and noble idea, to do for one
class of workingmen what the Demo-
cratic party, even under jefferson and
jackson, had failed to do. Their De-
mocracy dealt only with the white man.
ty dealt with the black man, and aimed
TO give him freedom and equal rights.
For that purpose and that alone, was
that party formed. IL was the radical
party, and so radical party of the peo-
pie, that the aristocratic part of the
Whig party, the old adversaries OF the
Democracy of the days of Jackson,
merged themselves In the Democracy
without drop Of Democratic blood, AS
they hoped, in their veins, or thought
for tho people, except AZ the lower cias-
sos in their party, and such of them "a a
quarter of a century has spared, are
found with the Democracy of TODAY
largely guiding its councils In the man
ner We have seen.
now REPUBLICANS BEcAhR THE PARTY
OF M0NoPOLIsr.
The necessity for money to carry on
the war drew all the bankers and cani-
talist into the Republican party. The Inn
mense fortunes, almost necessarily
growing out of the vast expenditures OF
the war, fell into the hands Of men who
attached themselves TO the party that
fed them, as the iron Is attracted by the
magnet, andmonopolizod industries and
enterprises.
The necessity TO bind together the cas-
tern and western shores OF tho Republic
by methods of quick transportation, Civ
ing reason for immense subsidies, grant
ed to make three systems of railroads
across the continent with all their
branches and feeders, created wealth i'm
the corporations and individuals, 10 a
degree before unheard of, In this or any.
other country, and brought all those in
terosts substantially into the Republican
party. And If eny staid In the Demo-
cratic party, they were In confederation
with the same class, To so arrange poll
ties that whichever party came In pow
er, capital, in all its varied and powerful
forms, would be sure of control, and the
people be ground up as "betwoen the
upper and neither mill stone" Thus ii
viii be readily seen, and he who runs
..1 H.. a