Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-08-28
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.

After a quarter OF a century of misrule anG
extravaganza by successive Republican admins
~tratious, the Democratic party has sgain beer
elevated to power.
1t has been assailed and its progress obstructe6
by a Republican Senate for partisan purposes.
Affirm and unyielding resistance, however, by
the Executive upon his constitutional right,
finally triumphed, so that it is only a question O
time when the administration will be purged o.
inefficient officials, and their places filed by
competent persons in sympathy with it. Until
then, the full fruition Of its hopes cannot be re.
allied. The Democracy of Montana in conyen
ton assembled, resolve,
we re-afirm our faith in the principles
laid down in the Democratic national platform
at Chicago, and congratulate the country upon
the initiation and progress Of legislation for thu
ameli0ratlOn of the condition of the laboring
classes, and find ample cause for renewing oui
feaity to the national Democratic party.
ton of President Cleveland for its ability, in.
tegrity and economy in the management OF
national Affairs, an recognize in the President
and members Of tn Cabinet faithful and patriotic
servants.
That we applaud the action of a Democratic
House of Representatives in the passage of bills
Of paramount importance to- Montana as follows:
To tax the land grant of the Northern Pacific
Railroad in Montana, whereby the entire grant
Of more than 10000, 600 acres of the land in this
Territory will become taxable as rapidly as it is
surveyed; to prohibit special legislation In the
Territories, whereby large and powerful corpo-
rations will nc longer find an incentive to cap
ure and control our legislat We assemblies; to
provide for the arbitration Of labor troubles be.
tween railroad. companies ann their employees;
to legalize the incorporation of national trades'
unions; to protect mechanics, laborers and ser
wants In their wages; to ascertain the extent and
effect of convict labor upon the industries of the
country; to prohibit any officer. agent or servant
of the Government from hiring the labor of
prisoners incarcerated for violating the laws of
the United States; to prevent the employment of
convict labor and alien labor upon public build
1ings and public works; to amend the law re!at-
ing to the importation and immigration of
foreigners and aliens I'LL der contract to perform
labor in the United States.
1t has re organized and increased the Judiciary
ties for the enforcement of our rights and re.
dress OF wrongs through the courts.
has passed bill to regulate interstate COM
nerce, and to give relief to the people against
for years.
For the first time in the history of the Terri
tory the public offices in Montana have in the
main been filled by our own citizens,
The timber troubles, precipitated by the ex-
reports Of a Republican special land
agent, haye been fully investigated and ~satisfac-
We favor a financial policy in which gold and
silver coin and paper money, readily convert
lble into coin, including the volume of United |
states notes now provided for by law, shall be |
he circulating medium; We insist that the
promptly applied in the payment of the ma
;ional public debt and that taxation shall be Re-
1uced to that end; that large accumulation in |
treasury beyond the proper necessities of the
ouDllc service shall not occur, thus assuring
lonest and economical government, and rellev.
We demand further and continued efforts IN
he part of our delegate In Congress to secure
rec and unlimited coinage of silver; to reduce
no open Indian reservations to settlement and
equation, and to secure the right Of way for
allroads through the same; to improve the nav
cation of the Upper Missouri and Yellowstone
lvers; to procure the annexation Of the Idaho
an-handle to Montana, and to secure our ad-
Mission as q State into the Union,
We hail with delight the approach of all COM
lines Of railroad within our borders, and
ondemn with our unqualified disapproval thel
o. any railroad company to dominate
We recognize labor as the source of all wealth. y
demand for the working classes such remu
Grafton for their services as will enable them
TN economy and sobriety tn improve their So
and financial condition.; further, we con
m the policy of the Republican party in
11ldlng up. monopolies and classes BY special 6
hostile to the best interests Of the !
We seize with pleasure the opportunity ofex- !
'essing our sympathy with Ireland in her long s
Id patriotic struggle for Home Rule, and trust :
the day Is not far distant when her heroic I
forts to attain that just end will be crowned 7
it'll success. Z
That the firm stand taken by the Administra- \
In demanding the release of A. K. Cutting, ]
American citizen. unlawfully deprived of his s
oerty by Mexican officials in the Republic of z
exico, Is a sure Guaranty that our foreign pol 8
= will protect the humblest citizen In all his \
institutional rights. =
That we heartily endorse and approve the =
st course and action of our Delegate in Con- q
ess, Hon. Joseph X. Toole, and cordially i
commend him to the people of Montana for s
election, =