The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-10-07
CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATIC PLAT.
FORM
Adopted at Alliance; Ohio, September 80
1894

Adopted at Alliance, Ohio, September 80,
1886.
WHEREAS. The whole tendency of the
legislation of this country, under Re
publican management for more than
twenty years past, has been to aggre-
gate the m0nie1 capital of the country
In the hands of the few, and to create
and foster monster monOpOlies; AMI
WHEREAS, This class legislation has,
as 1t always does, tended TO the degra-
datiOn and enslav cement Of labor on the
farm and In the mine, In the workshop
and in the factory; and
WHEREAS, The Democratic party rec.
ognizes, as 1t always has done, the rights
OF labor to an equal repr presentation with
capital In all legislation, including the
right to organize, as capital has done,
for selt-pr0tectiOn and against the un-
just encrOachment of the money power,
and to demand and receive just and
legalized arbitration of differences; and
WHEREAS, The candidate of the Repub-
lican party in this Congressional dis
trict, Major VIM. Mckinley, while pre-
tending to be the especial friend and
champion OF the labor class, has, by his
whole course In Congress and elsewh here,
| shown c0nclusiVely that he is really the
willing tool Of monopolies and great
corporations; and
WHEREAS, The defeat Of Major Nc
Kinley for re election, to prevent his
longer misTepresenting the true inter-
ests Of the people, is imperatiVely de-
manded at the hands of all friends of a
true and equal free government; there
fore, the Democratic Congressional Con-
ventiOn of the 18th district, reaffirming
the principles of the old Jeffersonisn
| Democracy as declared by the last State
and National Conventions, it Is hereby
| further
RESOLVED, That while the Republi-
can party In its National platform
pledged 'itself to correct the Inequalities
OF the tariff" thus admitting their own
wrong; and ito reduce the surplus In
the treasury" the same party has uni
fOrmly opposed all attemps to remove or
investigate the same, Mr.. Mckinley be-
Ing prominent figure In all this bUsi-
ness.
RESOLVED, That general prosperity be-
| Ing best for all, is, as rule, the result
of just laws that equalize burdens, with
no unnecessary taxation" and that
take not from the mouth Of labor the
bread 1t has earned.
RESOLVED, That the Republican party
of Ohio should receive the cOndemna-
tiOn OF all good citizens In their at
tempts to inaugurate campaign Of
slander, and to sustain the same by the
sworn statements of penitentiary con-
Victs, no doubt got under the prospect
Of pardon at the hands Of Governor
Foraker.
RESOLVED, That the Dow law Is a
model Republican affair, tax law to
collect much revenue 1t allows of prohi-
bitiOn, In name, which cuts off all reVe-
nue.; moral law 1t yet allows of enact
ments to keen saloons open on Sunday;
q statute Of Ohio that allows prohibition
In corporations and In no other lOcali-
ties; a tax law In name, but a license
law in fact when license is expressly
forbidden by the constitution Of the
State; crooked In every respect, 1t Ia an
act only worthy of a crooked PARTY.
RESOLVED, That all Democrats and
other friends of reform be invited to
combine In the support Of the Democratic
Candidate nominated to-day by this
convention.