Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-04
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.

After a quarter of a century of misrule an
extravaganza by successive Republican admins
~trations, the Democratic party has again beef
elevated to power.
1t has been assailed and its progress obstructet
by a Republican Senate for partisan purposes.
A firm and unyielding resistance, however, b,
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 filled b,
competent persons In sympathy with it. Unit
then, the full fruition of its hopes cannot be re
allied. The Democracy of Montana in conven
ton assembled, resolve,
we re-afirm our faith in the principles
laid down in the Democratic national platform
the initiation and progress of legitlation for III.
ameliOratlOn of the condition Of the laborine
classes, and find ample cause for renewing ouI
fealty to the national Democratic party.
ton of President Cleveland for its ability, in.
tegrity and economy in the management O.
national Affairs, and recognize in the President
and members of the 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 2O,0OO, 600 acres of the land in this
Territory will become taxable as rapidly as it il
surveyed; TO prohibit special legislation in the
Territories, whereby large and powerful corpo.
rations will no 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 and 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
ings and public works; to amend the law re!at-
ing to the importation and immigration OF
foreigners and aliens under contract to perform
labor in the United States.
1t has re organized and increased the judiciary
Of our Territory, thereby atfording ample facili-
dress of wrongs through the courts.
has passed a bill to regulate interstate COM
merce, and to give relief to the people against
the oppression under which they have groaned
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.
aggerated reports of a Republican special land
agent, have been fully Investigated and satisfac-
torily settled.
We favor a financial policy in which gold and
ible into coin, including the volume of United
States notes now provided for by law, shall be
the circulating medium. We insist that the
surplus in the national treasury shall be
promptly applied in the payment of the na-
tional public debt and that taxation shall be re-
duced to that end; that large accumulation in
the treasury beyond the proper necessities of the
Puolic service shall not occur, thus assuring
honest and economical government, and rellev-
ing the people from unnecessary and oppressive
taxation.
We demand further and continued efforts on
the part of our delegate in Congress to secure
free and unlimited oOinapo .Of Si1vor. fo ro1noo
and open Indian reservations to settlement and
occupation, and to secure the right Of way for
railroads through the same; to improve the nav
1gation of the Upper Missouri and Yellowstone
rivers; to procure the annexation of the Idaho
to Montana, and to secure our ad-
as a State into the Union.
We hail with delight the approach of all com
peting lines Of railroad within our borders. and
condemn with our unqualified disapproval the
attempt of any railroad company to dominate
the politics of Montana.
We recognize labor as the source of all wealth,
demand for the working classes such remu
neratlOn for their services as will enable them
With economy and sObriety to improve their So
;ial and financial condition; further, we con
up. monopolies and classes by special
hostile to the best interests Of the
masses.
We seize with pleasure the opportunity of x
our sympathy with Ireland in her long /
nd patriotic struggle for Home Rule, and trust |
hat the day is not far distant when her heroic
forts to attain that just end will be crowned |
success.
That the firm stand taken by the Administra- |
ion in demanding the release of A. X. Cutting, |
n American citizen, unlawfully deprived of his |
liberty by Mexican officials in the Republic of
is a sure guaranty that our foreign pol |
cy will protect the humblest citizen in all his
institutional rights.
That we heartily endorse and approve the
asst course and action of our Delegate in Con
ress, Hon. Joseph X. Toole, and cordially
him to the people of Montana for
e-election.