Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-09-23
The Platform.


which Grover Cleveland was elected it
can now declare its renewed faith in
those principles and most heartily in
dorse the firm and conscientious man
ner in which President Cleveland has
given to the country wise and patri-
otto administration, reforming the glar-
ing abuses that had crept into the ad-
ministration of the public service under
his Republican predecessors. We in
dorse the wise and economical admin
istration of Governor Marmaduke, and
we refer with pride to the fact that in
this State, which has been introduced
for political purposes by its enemies as
the Robber State" that nowhere
are the rights Of a citizen more sacredly
guarded as the best refutation of such
ISLANDERS. And if additional evidence
is needed it is furnished by the fact
that our bonds bearing IL per cent.
interest command in the money mark
cts a premium of 8 per cent. we, there
fore, with confidence present the fol-
lowing declartion of principles:
In accordance with the time honored
principles of the Democratic party we
declare that the Federal Government
is one oflimited power; that the powers
not delegated by the constitution to
the United States nor prohibited by it
to the States are reserved to the States
respectively for the people; that the
maintenance of the just equilibrium as
to the powers delegated, and those re-
served is essential to the prepetuity of
our dual from of State and Federal
Governments, and that Congress in the
exercise of its functions should confine
ITSELF strictly within the limits of the
constitutional grant; that the author
ity to levy and collect taxes and duties
on imports was intended to vest in the
general Government the power of rails
ing the money necessary to meet its
expenses, and IS by the express terms
of the constitution limited to the pur-
pose of paying the expenses and obi
cations of the Government. We there
fore deprecate tie prostitution of the
taxing power under any pretext or
guise whatever, to objects and purposes
other than the raising of the revenue
or to the purpose of efecting indirectly
legislation as to subjects over which
Congress has no control, as such legis-
lation tends inevitably to consolida.
ton and destruction of the reserved
rights of the States, and that the build
ing up of one industry by taxation OF
at the expense of another is foregoing
to the true aims of a free government
in which all the people as to their leg.
al rights stand on an absolutely equal
footing. .
Second - We believe in honest
money, the gold and silver coinage OF
| the constitution, and a circulating med.
ium convertible into such money with.
out loss, aud we demand at the hands
of Congress the free and unlimited
coinage of both gold and silver.
Third-We demand that all the sur
plus money in the treasury shall be
applied to the payment of the interest
bearing debt.
Fourth-We approve the action OF
the Democratic House of Congress in
FORGETTING and restoring to the public
domain for homesteads for actual set
tiers nearly 100, 900, 600 acres of unearn-
ed land heretofore granted by Reputli-
can Congress to railroad corporations,
and we also approve the act preventing
alien ownership in large, tracts ofpub-
lie lands in the United States.
Fifth-It is the deliberate judgment
of the Democratic party of Missouri,
that in their very nature as we'll as by
the provisions of our State constitution
the railroads of this State are public
highways, many of which were built
by public taxation: that both the right
and duty of the State to regulate and
control the highways is clear and can
never be abrogated; that the wise pro-
visions of our constitution as to dis
examinations in freight and passenger
rates by railroads, against competing
lines being under one management,
against the giving of passes or reduced
rates to public officers, against such
corporations engaging in other business
and their officers furnishing supplies
to such railroads, together with the
other requirements of our constitution
should be supplemented by stringent
laws to carry them into effect, and we
demand of the next General Assembly
the passage of all such necessary laws,
with such penalties as will insure their
due observance. We further declare
that rates should be SO adjusted on
lTolgnIS as 10 give the rallr ;dQS TaIf
and just remuneration for tee service
performed and TIE money actually in
vested, exclusive of watered or fictiti-
GUS stock; that our Board of Railroad
Commissioners should reduce all pres
ent rates to such a standard, and if the
powers of the board are inadequate to
that end, that such further authority
be given to it; that we demand that
our present laws be SO amended as to
give the board the power to enforce
such rates when fixed, and the shipper
a clear remedy for all wrongs. We
further favor necessary legislation for
the speedy and equitable settlement of
all disputes and differences that may
rise between railroad companies and
their employees.
Sixth-The Democratic party, which
originated the public school system of
Missouri, stands pledged to maintain
popular educa ton in the State.
Seventh-We heartily sympathise
with the Irish people in their heroic
efforts against oppression and to secure
to themselves local government free
from the oppression of landlordism-a
relic of feudalism.
WANTED-A Girl to cook and help in
kitchen. MRS. E. C. TUAL,
81 1t Arcadia, Mo.