The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-02
BOLIVAR, TENN.
STERN, UNFOLDING RESOLU.
TONS BY THE DEMOCRATS
or Hardeman County, Who Are OPP
posed TO Protective Tariff and
TO the Blair Educational Bill.
lcoRREsPoEDEScE OF rHE APPEAL. /

/ Democrats OF Hardeman county, after
appointing delegates 10 t Cub rna
tOrial convention at Nashyil e. and
| the Democrats to select a Democratic
candidate for Chancellor at Jackson,
June IA, 1856, adopted the following
| resolutions.
The Democracy of Hardeman c unity
in convention assembled declare:
First We believe in tho ouy h party
organization as the best aud only
means of Enforcing party principles
We regret the chronic lack OF unity in
Democratic party councils at Nash
vile and Washington, and earnestly
! desire our nominees for represr nta-
tives in the legislature and in con-
gress, to favor a party caucus, and
abide by and support the action OF he
majority therein.
SecOnd.-We believe in the lowest
measu of taxation consistent with
the public necessities. Whether the
method of taxation be direct or in
direct, its limit should always be The
amount Of revenue requisite for such
expenditures only as are necessary
for government purposes, in the inter
est OF the whole people alike, without
favor TO any individual, corporation or
class. We oppose any and all taxes
indirectly imposed, under our tariff
laws, for the purpose OF pro.
tecting or slbsidiziug any interest
whatsoever, believing that any tariff
designed for protection makes the
central government both guarantor
and insurer TO very small portion of
its people at he expense of their
neighbors Its purpose and result is
| simply guarantee against loss to va
rious individuals and corporations
who voluntarily enter into what they
claim would be a losing bus ness
without government aid, through tax
alton OF their neighbors; and, also,
in an j surfing, as well, by the gov
eminent of profit to the few peo-
| pie so engaged, taken from the pock-
cts Of the many. We desire no de-
velopment of infant or overgrown in
dustries, either in our own State or
elsewhere, at the expense of the tax
payers of the whole country, through
the medium of a protective tariff
which only aggregates the wealth re-
sui ant thersfrom in the hands of the
few owners of the Interests protected
II development is sought through
government aid we favor such devel.
opment IS tends to the distribution
OF wealth, even though ii be slower
in reaching MS, and less in its aggre-
gate value.
Thid.-We adhere to the prime pie
OF railroad regulation enunciated in
all Democratic platforms in this State
for msny years past. We desire the
utmost moderation and fairness, in
the exercise OF the power, and would
welcome the honest and earnest co.
operation of the railroad corporations
with our Legislature in securing fair
legislation to that end, at the same
time entering our protest against any
surrender of this principle at the die
tation of the railroads in combination
with the Republican party at our last
general election.
Fourth We declare against the use
| OF proxies in any of our conventions,
and instruct our delegation to the
! NuDtTHhJOTlhl CON NeuLlOH Ill August
to advocate the plan of party organi-
zation proposed by the State ExeCu
tive Committee ID the convention OF
1884,
FVth.-Whi'e we favor public edu-
cation, and urge its cause upon our
represen atives, State and Federal, we
earnestly oppose any and all meas
ures which tend to introduce the
strong hand of Federal power into the
local and domestic affairs of the States,
and especially into the nursery and
the school.room, such as the measure
knewn as the Blair educational bill,
which wears the mask of generosity,
and assumes to be a gift to the people,
when in fact it represents so much
money taken from them.
We do not approve the m'ndicant
attitude of the States, which propose
to sell the birth-right of family and
local self-government for the pott'ge
mess of Congressional supervision,
under a measure introduced in the
interest of perpetual national debt,
and plu oyraCy of drones support d
by tariff taxation and by coup ms on
bonds never desired by the holders to
be paid.