The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1888-08-09
Democratic Platform.

We were M: bic, for want Of rom, to
give The platform adopted by The Demo.
cratic Convention for The 10th Congress
last issue. We publish it in full below. as
it is our purpose to dissect it during this
clpva s. For bald impotence, reckless,
in,infenSiE le auG hr"zen assumption, and
we ere donb fll whether ever its equal has
been seen. Charging the Republicans
with ''fweniy years of misrnle." when
during he four years of Democratic con.
troll Of the government there has not been
an impnf ant law changed. which the
Re pubicans enacted. an official delinquen
cy alsclos. d, or exposure made that
wanld ietl CT upon the honesty and in
tegrity of the Republican .parly during its
loIg adfnlnistfat ion of the governments
is a piece OF cheek that none other than
Democratic Convention could show.
TO endorse the administration of Cleve-
land and the platform adopted at st. Louis
in 1888, and then demand the repeal of
the internal revenue tax on tobacco. is
assuming that the people are as ignorant
as the Convention was preSumpti0us.-
There was not member of the commit
tee on resolutions who was not aware that
clared against any such repeal and that the
platform approves that message. There
was not member of that committee who
did not know that the whole policy of the
Democratic party, as it relates to revenue.
is predlcated upon the retention of
the internal revenue tax, in great meas
ure. and an assault upon the protective
| feature of the tariff laws, under which our
vast industrial system has been built up.
There was not member of the COM
mittee, who, in denouneing trusts, did
net know that the Sugar Trust, the
Whisky Trust and the Coal Oil Trust and
the Telegraph Monopoly were expected to
be the main campaign support of the Demo
cratic party. and that the Whiskey Trust,
especially, was one of the most important
faetors in the control of the party and its
policy.
Here is the platform. however, in full,
and to it we shall take pleasure in direct
ing attention hereafter, exposing its glar-
ing assumptions and untruthful assertions
Resolved 1st, That we the Democrats OF
the 10Th Congressional District of Virgin
, Ia, in convention assembled. congratulate
the party and the people, on after twenty
years of Republican misr9le. having en-
u, 70, x.rtna Of
) premacy under President, who, by hi,
, honest able and fearless administration o.
the great office recalls the best days of oul
republic. He has shown that public Office
, is a public trust" aid that the govern
i ment is of the people and for the people
t With a Judgment not to be sWerved b.
. Oh ejudice a VIII as firm as adamant. ant
a falthfulness to Democratic principles ant
official trust not to be shaken. Grove
e Cleveland has been President and we here
e by heartily endorse his administration ant
n pledge ourselves as party and as indi
: viduals. to do all i'll our power to secur
II his re election.
s End That the Democrats of the lot
It district are in full sympathy on all Ia
tlonal questions with the National Demo
cratic party, and desire to stand wit
J them in their fight for honest methods j
ii administration. We therefore endorse th
d plat form Of the party adopted by tine con
. Vention held at St. Lons
- 3rd We heartily endorse the action OF OF
= Democratic representatives in Compress
IS th-ir attemps to repeal The internal revenu
i taxes On obaeco and pledge ourselves to III
f, thing Efforts III this direction until all I'll
p just and Ubiquitous taxes on this. one OF Oh
IL principal staples. is abolished. We denOunc
S all trusts and combinations of whatev'
A. kind that tend place fictitious value upt
&c goods necessary for the purpose OF our PEI
pie and insist that it is the duty Of our la
~ makers to devise some plan by which ii
- la,r t,au not ha al
IL And Mr.. Tucker, the nominee for Coz
l. gress. endorsed the platform in his spec
IN OF acceptance. To it we mean to hol
III him with relentless severity, and let tt
We voters of this district know precisely VII;
Or he has endorsed, and how he is pledged I
re vote should the improbable result q h
a election take place. No man can tan
- before the voters of the 10th district an
~ successfully defend the announcements .
G. this platform, however gifted he may b
i; in IN king the worse appearing the lette
t: cause.