Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-09-05
STATE PLATFORM.
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The democratic party of the state OF Kansas,
In convention assembled on this one hundred
and twelfth anniversary of American indie
pendence solemnly impressed with the glOri-
Gus memories and traditions connected with IL
and that have made and sanctitted the Fourth
day of July as political Sabbath and proud
of its history and labor I'm connection with the
establishment and maintenance of our federal
union hereby declares:
First, That we reaffirm and endorse the
declaration of principles set forth in the natl
onal democratic platform adopted at Chicago,
ILL., in 1884 and in st. Louis, Mo-, in June, 1888.
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 q
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. and adopted by the
st. Louis convention az 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'
republican party Of Kansas i'm passing the law
for the establishment of a metropolitan police
system in certain cities in this state and for its
1
ment of the same for purely political reasons
We denounce the system as being partial un
| just and undemocratic. 1t is a substantial de
! NAL 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-governmenta and we demand
| a repeal of the law.
| Fifth, We now are rs we always have been
unalterably opposed to wrong. injustice and
/ tyranny, i'm whatever form IL may exist, wheth
| er political or civil, and we therefore deeply
| sympathize with the gallant people of ireland
/ in their righteous and glorious struggle fol
/ self-government on their native soil, and We
| extend to- them our hearty sympathy and bic
| them godspeed in their grand contest for LID
| erty; and we likewise extend to the suffering
| and oppressed labOring men of this country
| our earnest sympathy in their contest with the
| soulless and unjust monopOlies, corporations
| and trusts, created or operated for the pur
pose or with the effect of reducing to a condi
| ton of seryitude the laboring men and womeT
| of this country and we pledge them the sup
port of the democratic party in the passage and
enforcement of all just measures that may be-
| necessary and proper for the protection ant
promotion of their rights. And we oppose any
| system of state policy which permits compe.
| 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 useless and unnecessary
measure which adds greatly to the burdens o.
a tax ridden people, and we demand it's repeal
/ as expensive and inQIisitiOnal legal machinery