St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-16
THE PLATFORM,
A Document That All RefOrmers
Can Stand On

Can Stand On.
The Democrats of Minnesota con-
graduate the taxpayers of this state
and the nation upon the unanimous
nomination and the assured election of
Grover Cleveland as president, and of
Allen G. Thurman as vice president of
the United States. The long public
record of these nominees, the rare
courage and ability shown by each of
them in the discharge of the official
duties repeatedly entrusted to them,
their indomitable antagOniSm to corrupt
schemes of corporate monopoly and
partisan plumber, their conscientious
adherence to the principle that 'spublic
office is public trust" and their stall
wart honesty and fearless devotion to
sound political principles, in spite of
popular clamor and regardless of per
sonal popularity, are the best guaran-
tees that the executive administration
of this government can be safely
committed to their care. The national
Democracy invites the country to no
experiment with untried men; it offers
the tested fidelity and craftsmanship of
its candidates as the best argument for
their election. NOsuspicion of jobbery,
timidity or official dereliction taints the
administration of Grover Cleveland,
To him we owe it that the great cues
ton of the abolition of a Superauous
revenue by a reduction of the excessive
taxes upon neceSSarieS is made the
prominent issue of this campaign. This
issue, as declared in the national Dem
ocratic platform, meets our unqualified
approval. At the same time we reiter-
ate the more advanced principles set
forth in the platform adopted by the
lact nnmnprattc StafQ POnUantinn DC
explicit statement of that policy of
revenue reform which we believe
should be adopted gradually, but as
rapidly as practicable until the
entire system of taxing the MANY
for the Substituting of the few
shall be forever abandoned. We hope
that the slight reduction of AZ per cent
in the existing AZ per cent tariff AS pro-
posed by the so-called Mills bill, will.
when put into practical operation, fully
satisfy the people that a greater and
more thorough reduction in the same
system of taxation can safely be made
with permanent benefit to our indus
trial interests, to the workingmen en-
ployed therein, and to all the people of
our whole country.
But it is not alone the field of national
politics that demands the attention of
the voters of Minnesota. The same in
HuenceS That nave created extravaganza,
profiigacy and corruption in the national
Republican party have worked out their
inevitable results in the administration
by that party of the affairs of this state
For years last past the Republican
party has held undisputed control
of all branches of the state govern
ment, resulting in the rapid de-
velopment in its legislation of the Re-
publican conception of government as
the surest fountain of easily-acquired
wealth. The complaints of the people
have been either unheeded or, under
the pretense of giving relief, have been
met with remedial laws which, through
ignorance or design, have but aggravated
the evils complained of, while the legis-
lature, dominated by the party, has de-
parted from the legitimate functions of
state and has perverted its powers to
unusal and unwise purposes.
Grain 1nspectiOn-The farmers of the
state complained that they were suffer-
ing from the extortionS Of the elevators:
that these, by perverSion of the pow
ers and duties of the railroads, were,
though built and owned by the roads,
given into the exclusive control of indi-
viduals, who operated them i'm their own
interests, thus creating monopoly Of
grain buying with the usual concOmitants
of such power in dockage of weight
and systematic undergrading of grain: