Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-09-19
STATE PLATFORM.

The democratic party OF the state of Kansas.
in convention assembled on this one hundi ed
and twelfth anniversary of American indie
pendence, solemnly impressed with the glori-
Gus memories and traditions connected with IL
and that have made and sauctit1ed the Fourth
day OF July as a political Sabbath and proud
of its history and labor in connection with the
establishment and maintainance of our federal
union hereby declares:
First, That we reaffrm and endorse the
declaration of principles set forth in the nati-
onal democratic platform adopted at Chicago,
Ill, i'm 1884 and in st. Louis. Mo-, in june 1885.
Second, That we most heartily ratify and APP
prove the action of the national democratic
convention, held in St. Louis, Mo-, in June last,
in the nomination of that honest, capable and
fearless statesman, Grover Cleveland, for the
office of president of the United States. and
for the wisdom and prudence displayed in the
nomination of that accomplished leader, sterl-
ing patriot and stalwart democrat, Allen G..
Thurman, for the Office of vice-president.
Third, We earnestly endorse and commend
TO the voters of Kansas the presidents mes
sage to congress embodying his views on the
question of tariff reform, ana adopted by the
ST. Louis convention as being true interpreta-
ton OF the principles of the democratic plat
form on the question of tariff, which favors
taxing the luxuries and not the necessities of
life.
Fourth, We are opposed to all sumptuary
laws as being vicious in principle and unsuc-
cesstul in practice. Also the action of the
republican party of Kansas in passing the law
for the establishment of a metropolitan police
system in certain cities i'm this state and for its
inequitable and unfair application and enforce
ment of the same for purely political reasons.
We denounce the system as being partial, I'M
just and undemOcratic. 1t lisa substantial de-
nial of home rule and the right of local self
government. 1t impeaches the intelligence,
challenges the integrity and denies the patriot
ism of the people affected by it. 1t brands
them individually and collectively as being
ignorant, vicious, dishonest. corrupt and wholly
incapable of self government and we demand
Il repeal of the law.
Fifth, We now arc as we always have been
unalteTably opposed to wrong, injustice and
tyranny, in whatever form il may exist, whe tn
er political or civil, and we therefore deeply
sympathize with the gallant people of ireland
ia their righteous and glorious struggle for
self-government on their native soil, and we
extend to them our hearty sympathy ana bid
them godspeed in their grand contest for lib
erty; and we likewise extend 10 the suffering
and oppressed laboring men of this country
our earnest sympathy in their contest with the
sOuless and unjust monopOlies, corporations
and trusts, created or operated for the pur-
pose or with the effect of reducing TO a condi-
ton of servitude the laboring men and women
of this country and we pledge them the sup
port of the democratic party in the passage and
enforcement of ali just measures that may be
necessary and proper for the protection and
promotion of their rights. And we oppose any
system of state policy which permits comps-
tition between convict and Chinese labor and
the labor of the free American workman.
Sixth, We favor the abolition OF the grand
jury system as a useless and unnecessary
measure which adds greatly TO the burdens of
a tax ridden people, and we demand its repeal
as expensive and inquisitional legal nachiuery.