Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-25
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.

After a quarter of a century of misrule anG
extravaganza by successive Republican admins
~trations. the Democratic party has again beer
elevated to power.
It has been assailed and its progress obstructed
by a Republican Senate for partisan purposes.
A firm and uny;elding resistance, however. by
the Executive upon his constitutional rights
finally triumphed, so that it is only a question o.
time when the administration will be purged OF
inefficient officials, and their places filled by
then, the full fruition Of its hopes cannot be re-.
allied. The Democracy Of Montana in conven-
ton assembled, resolve,
That we re-aitrm our faith in the principles
ut Chicago, and congratulate the country upon
the initiation and progress of legi.lation for the
ameliOratlOn of the condition of the laboring
classes, and find ample cause for renewing our
fealty to the national Democratic party.
That We CORDIALLY approve of the administra.
ton of President Cleveland for its ability, in.
tegrity and economy in the management OF
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 $1,000, 900 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 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 Omitted States; to prevent the employment OF
convict labor and alien labor upon public build-
ings and public works; to amend the law relat.
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 thejudiciary
Of our Territory, thereby afarding ample facili-
ties TOR the enforcement of our rights and re-
dress of wrongs through the courts.
has passed a bill to regulate interstate com.
the oppression under which they have groaned
for years.
For the first time In the history of the Terri.
tory the public offices In Montana have in the
main been filed by our own citizens.
The timber troubles, p~recipitated by the ex:
aggerated reports of a Republican special land
agent, have been fully investigated and ~satisfac'
torily settled.
silver coin and paper money, readily convert;
ible into coin, including the volume OF United
States notes now provided for by law, shall be
the circulating medium. We insist that the
u LA Al ~ Aok1OldA lCdSu1H ua4k VIC
promptly applied in the payment of the ma
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
public 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 Oh
the part Of our delegate in Congress to secure
free and unlimited coinage of silver; to reduce
and open Indian reservations to settlement and
occupation. and to secure the right Of way for
igation Of the Upper Missouri and Yellowstone
rivers; to procure the annexation Of the Idaho
panhandle to Montana, and to secure our ad
mission 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,
and demand for the working classes such remu'
neration for their services as will enable them
with economy and sobriety to improve their So
denim the policy Of the Republican party In
building up monopolies and glasses by special
legislation, hostile to the best interests Of the
masses.
pressing .:our sympathy with ireland in her long
and patriotic struggle for HONS Rule, and trust
that the day is not far distant when her heroic
efforts to attain that just end will be crowned
With SlCCesB,
That the firm stand taken by the Administra
ton in demanding the release Of A. X. Cutting,
an American citizen. u%nlawfully deprived Of his
liberty by Mexican officials In the Republic OF
Mexico, is a sure guaranty that our foreign pol
icy will protect the humblest citizen in all his
constitutional rights.
That we heartily endorse and approve the
gress, Hon. Joseph X. Toole, and cordially
recommend him to the people of Montana fol-
reelection.