St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-10
NO STRADDLE HERE.
A Platform for Every Good Citizen
to Stand Upon.

to Stand Upon.
Chairman Wilkinson, of the commit
tee on resolutions, read the report of
the deliberations of that body. which is
as follows:
The Democracy of the state of Minnesota,
in convention assembled express anew their
appreciation and approval of the broad
craftsmanship, the steadfast. answering de-
votion to right principle. and the heroic self
vital question of tariff reform. He
forced the Republican party to remove the
mask behind which its leaders had hidden
their purpose 10 use the taxing power of the
government to build up wealthy classes upon
which they could rely for the money where
with to corrupt voters and retain their con-
troll of the government. We send to him, in
his honorable retirement as simple citizen
of the great republic, assurance of our pro-
found respect and esteem.
We declare our uncom promising opposi-
ton to the policy of a protective tariff, and
we deny that the federal government has
any right, legal or moral, touse its taxing
power for any other purpose than to provide
a revenue for the actual needs of the govern
ment when administered with strict econ
as wrong IN principle, false in promise and
prolific in corruption. 1t is un-Ameri-
eau. 1t contravenes the fundamental
principal upon which the nation, rests that
industries 10 be favored at the expense of all.
1t puts the American manufacturer before
the world in the attitude of a weakling, I'M
able to hold his own in the worlds indus
trial contest, while it leaves the farmer and
the laborer to a worldwide competition. It
promised q home competition, and 1t gives
US trusts and combines. 1t promised
protection to labor, and it confronts
its organizations with PinkertonS Winches-
ters 1t promised home market for our
products, and the margin of surplus keeps
pace with the growth of consumption. 1t
corrupts and demoralizes by its teachings
that the government, and not individual
effort is the source of wealth. Ii takes from
the earnings of all and centers wealth in the
hands of few, from whom it can be fried
for use in corruptng the voters at the polls.
We denounce the Mckinley tariff bill as
nothing less than a deed of conveyance by
the Republican party of the enormous power
of federal taxation. to a combination of
manufacturers and trusts in consideration of
money advanced by them with which the
election of Benjamin Harrison was pur-
chased. 1t is not designed to protect Amer
lean labor or infant industries, nor to raise
goyernm ent revenue, but to enable prosper
Gus manufacturing concerns to increase
their profits at the expense OF the farming
and laboring interest, and to furnish future
corruption funds to the Republican party.
We charge upon each of the representa-
tives in congress from this state the sole and
individual responsibility for the increase of
40 per cent in the tax on tin plate and its
manufactures When the Mckinley bib was
on its final passage in the house, the amend
ment making this increase was voted upon
as distinct proposition, apart from the bill,
and was adopted by majority of one. Each
representative from this state voted for that
amendment thus assuming the sole RESPONSE
bility of fastening on the people this most
useless, defenSeless and Ubiquitous tax on an
article of universal and necessitous use.
We denounce the recent attempt of the Re-
publican majority in the federal congress to
usurp power. to impose unjust taxation, to
stifie proper discussion of public measures
and to substitute the dictatorship Of the
speaker of the house of representatives for
the considerate action of deliberative as
sembly. We condemn the attempt to enact
into law monstrouS proposals for overturn-
ing the election laws of the several states
and substituting for the local supervisors of
election the mercenary and INSCRIPTIONS
agents of the Republican party. and in the
language of Speaker Reed to enable them to
do their own registering. their own counting
and their own certifying"
We regret that the zeal which the Republi-
cans now profess for purity of elections in
the South was not sufficient to secure for
elections in this state the safeguards of the
Australian ballot law for more than five of
its cities, and we demand that its protection
be extended to every precinct in this state
We demand further that that law be sup
| plemented and strengthened by limiting the
| use of money in elections aud compelling
| candidates to make, verify and file for pub
TIC 1nSpecJlOn 1le1nlZeu statements OF all
| money so spent by or for him directly or in
| directly.
| Grave as are the questions affecting the ma
| ton which the voters of the state must solve
| in the congressional districts, there are 9TH
| ers equally important. concerning the man.
| agement of the affairs of the state, which it
| is their duty to decide at the polls. Chief of
| these is the marked growth of corruption
| i'll our legislature. We instance the infa-
| nous blouse File 157," which, under the
deceitful pretense of relieving settlers
'and Others" RENTED to a Immigrant
| railroad company the taxes on its land
amounting to nearly million dollars. We
instance the debauchery of legislators in the
| election of senators, which, in the latest, was
so widespread that the investigation was
| quickly Withdrawn and the testimony taken
| was suppressed Ito save the party from the
| disgrace which would follow its publica-
| there has grown up in the legislature q
| gang of professional strikers who intro
duce measures injurious to legitimate private