Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-09-19
THE DEMOCRATS.
THE PLATFORM AND NOMINEES
OF THE STATE CONVEN ZION.
Winans Will Run For Governor of
The State.
General Details of the Convention
at Grand Rapids.

down TO work was addressed by Congress-
man Chapman on the course of recent legis-
lation in congress. When MIR. Chapman
concluded his address the convention took
a recess.
On reassembling the names of candidates
| for governor were presented and before a
ballot was taken Frank Nj. Dean addr ssed
the convention Withdrawing his name and
moving that the nomination OF Hon. Edwin
! B. Winans be made unanimous, which was
done with enthusiasm.
For lieutenant governor John Strong of
Monroe received an unanimous nominal
tion. There were three candidates for
state treasurer, Frederick Marvin, Fred
erick Braastad and Arthur Meigs, and a
ballot resulted as follows:
Braastad. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 40
Marvin .................. .ool
This result, though not officially an
nounced, was known by many tallies. /.
! M. Weston of Kent at once withdrew the
name of Mr.. Meigs, and gave the "a votes
Of that county TO Braastad. This gave
the upper peninsula candidate Az. OF
tawa followed with the next change of 16
to Braastad, which gave him majority of
the convention. The changes thereafter
followed thick and fast, the last being
I Wayne, which, through Chairman S. Dow
Elwood, moved that the nomination Of
Frederick Braastad be lnanimos, which
was done with acclamation.
AT the evening session the committee
on platform reported.
THE PLATFORM.
When the people are asked to Judge or to
choose between principles and politics of
opposing political parties, whether those of
one or the other be for the good or the i'll
of the nation, whether those of the one or
the other will bring the greatest good to
the greatest number, al comparison of in
! fluences and results following the practical
application in government Of their rcspec-
tive principles and policies affords the best
means for judgment and choice. We, the
democrats of Michigan, in convention as
| sembled, claiming for ourselves motives
and purposes Of the highest patriotism and
without rejecting upon the motives and
! purposes of the great mass of those who
have hitherto voted with our opponents,
| invite such comparison, and solicit the sup
| port of all good citizens OF Michigan in the
! coming election.
/. We reafirm the declaration of princi-
| pies in the platform adopted by the
|
?. With "a just pride we point to the
prudent, wise and statesmanlke admins
tration of Grover Cleveland.
3. We condemn the administration OF
Benjamin Harrison for the utter disre-
| gard of its solemn pledges made to the
people before election. We denounce it
for its unparalleled extravagorce watch has
in the first IS months of its life dissipated
the greater part Of the vast surplus left in
the treasury by the preceding frugal demo-
cratic administration, and brought the
country to confront the possibility of an
early deficiency and higher taxation as the
result of such extravaganza. We condemn
it for it's deliberate abandonment of civil
service reform; for its use of cabinet posi-
tons and other high stations in payment of
financial campaign debts; for using the pub
lie patronage as a family appendage instead
| of public trust; for its complete subscr-
viency TO Wall street and the money power
and its undisguised hostility or indifference
TO the rights and interests Of the produc-
ing and laboring classes.
4. Ne reafirm the obligation of the
people to the soldiers and sailors of the
war for the preservation OF the union and
favor policy of liberal pensions to their
! disabled survivors and dependent families.
5. The power to tax is wholly a prerog-
alive of sovereignty, and should be dele
gated to congress by the people for these
purposes only: To pay the public debt, to
provide for the common defense and TO
provide for the general welfare. The en-
actment of a system Of taxation avowedly
for different ends and under which the
national treasury may be congested by an
enormous surplus collected from the peo-
pie in taxes on the necessaries of life, but
also under which the provocative TO tax is
actually redelegated by congress to favored
classes Mo for their own enrichment
may levy tariff upon such necessaries in
addition TO fair cost and fair profits, would
be a radical perversion of the power to tax
conferred upon congress by the people.
6. We denouncc and condemn the high
tariff policy of the present administration,
and demand that our tariff and internal
revenue taxes shall not be higher than re-
quired to maintain the government eco
nomically administered. We especially
conder2.i the Mckinley tariff bill, which
still further restricts the markets for
American products, while it increases the
burden of taxation. We dcnounee it be-
cause it has not section or u line that will
open a new market for single bushel OF
| NnedJ OF SinHle DdTTcl VI pork,
and also because it still further restricts
our markets and limits our trade with the
world, policy that must more and more
depress American agriculture, and lessen
the value Of American farms and increase
the cost Of living to the American people.
z. We believe in free and unlimited coin
age of gold and silver, unhaTpered by con-
ditions as TO the legal teufor qualities OF
either, and unhampered by the proviso sus-
pending coinage of silver after July 1,
1891. We condemn the republican policy
because it has demonetized silver and still
resists the demand of the people for a re-
storation Of silver to a complete equality
with gold. We condemn republican mem.
bers Of congress from the state of Michigan
who voted against the complete remonetiz-
alton of silver.
8. We demand that henceforth the issu.
ing of all circulating medium be made
under acts Of congress through the nationa
treasury in such amounts as the bushes:
wants Of the country require.
9. We denounce the Lodge force election
bill. which has passed the house and ha.
the active support Of the administration, a.
revolutionary and unconstitutional i
strikes down home rule and local self-gov
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