Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-02

| o clock to-day with 1903 delegates
present and the largest number of DEM
ocrats in attendance ever gathered to-
gether in the state. Ex-Governor Isaac
P. Gray was made chairman, aud held
the convention together until its work
was finished at clock this evening.
THE PLATFORM.
The platform adopted was as follows
"We, the Democracy of Indiana, in
convention assembled for the first time
| since the memorable contest IN 1888,
when we went down in defeat, but not
in dishonor, overcome by the shame
less methods of Dudleyism and the
Blocks Five, do solemnly decl are
''That the electoral vote of Indiana
was obtained for Harrison and Morton by
the most fragrant crimes sgaint the bal
lot box ever perpetrated n an American
commonwealth; that these crimes were
committed under the direct auspices of
William Wade Dudley, then and now
treasurer Of the national Republican
committee, and by the procurement and
oonnivance of Republican leaders in this
state and in the nation; that the admin
istratlon of Benjamin Harrison has made
itself an accessory after the fact to these
crimes by shielding the criminals from
punishment, and even by rewardiug
them for their knavery; and that the
braZen prostitution of the machinery of
the Federal court for the district of In
diana, by its judge and attorney, to the
protection of those conspirators against
the suffrage, constitutes the most inta-
nous chapter in the judicial annals of
the republic. The Federal court of In
diana has decided that advising and or
ganizing bribery is not a crime. We ap-
peal from this decision to the people OF
Indiana, and we demand a verdict
against William A. Woods and the mis-
creants whom he saved from legal pun
ishment.
awe denounce the administration of
Benjamin Harrison for its deliberate
abandonment of civil-service reform;
for its use of cabinet positions and other
high stations in payment of financial
campaign debts; for treating the public
patronage as family appendage, in
stead of a public trust, and quarterirg a
host of relatives, by blood and by mar
riage, upon the national treasury; for
dismissing honest and competent public
servants, and violation of solemn
pledges, because of their political opin-
ions, and filling their places with men
devoid of character or capacity, and
whose only title TO preferment rested
upon disreputable partisan work; for its
dalliance with questionable gift enter
prises; for It's complete subservience to
Wall street and the money power, and
its undisgused hostility or Indifference to
the rights and interests of the producing
and laboring masses.
THE INFAMOUS FORCE BILL.
1--WE denOunce the tariff. monopolists
for their efforts to perpetuate themselves
in power by means inconsistent with free
institutions and contrary to good morals.
We find in the force election BILL, the
bills creating rotten borough states and
the Mckinley tariff bull the open mani
festatioDs of gigantic conspiracy of the
majority to Cypress a grooming people
with additional burdens of taxation for
private benefits, and to fasten it on the
country in such way that the people
cannot free themselves from the CALLING
load.
awe condemn the Republican party
for the deliberate theft of two seats in
the senate of the United States from the
people of Montana; for degrading the
house of representatives from delibera-
tive body into one man despotism IN
der the false and hypocritical pretense OF
expediting public business; for unseating
legally elected representatives of the
people in order to strengthen partisan
majority, which was originally the pro-
duct of fraud; for trampling upon the
rights of the minority in disregard as well
of justice and decency as OF parliament
airy usage and the plain requirements of
the constitution, and for reckless prodi-
gality in appropriations which has
converted the surplus accumulated under
the wise, frugal and statesman-like All
ministration of Grover Cleveland into
deticlt of alarming dimensions, involv-
ing, in the near future, q further heavy
increase of the peoples burdens.
awe denounce the force election bill,
which has passed the house and has the
active support of the administration, as
revolutionary and unconstitutional. It
strikes down home rule and local self
government. suggests and encourages
fraudulent elections, and provides the
machinery to accomplish dishonest re-
turns and false certificates of election;
fosters sectionalism aud bsyonet rule
where every interest of the people invites
to peace, fraternity and unity; outrages
the traditions and customs of O century
by giving life tenure to partisan return
ing boards; makes the legislative and eX-
ecutive branches dependent upon the
judiciary, and converts the judiciary into
an instrument of oppression and corrup-
ton; involves the unnecessary expeudi-
ture of millions of the peoples money,
and IN Indiana nullifies the Andrews
election law, passed by the last legisla-
ture over the determined opposition of
the Republicans.
"'We declare that interference of any
kind by the Federal government with
state electi ms is a dangerous menace TO
the form OF government bequeathed us
by the trainers of the constitution, and
that the intelligence and patriotism of
the American people may safely be
trusted to remedy any evils that may
exist in their elections.
THE NJ 'KrNLEY BILL DENOUNCED.
awe denouuce the Mckinley tariff bill
as the most outrageous measure of taxa
ton ever proposed in the American con-
gress. 1t will increase taxes upon the |
necessaries of life and reduce taxes upon
the luxuries. 1t will make lite harder
for every farmer and wage Garner in |
the land In order that the profits of |
monopolies and trusts may be swelled. |
1t affords no relief whatever to the agri- |
cultural interests of the country, already |
staggering under the heavy burdens of |
projections; in the words of James G. |