The Brookhaven leader., 1891-07-23
THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
Messrs. Sessions, McLaurin and Askew
Nominated for Railroad Commissioners
The PIatform-Memory of Feather
ston and Patty Commemorated.

| Nominated for Railroad Commissioners
| The Platform-Memory of Feather
ston and Patty Commemorated.
JACKSON, July 15.-The Democratic
State Convention met here today and
was called to order by the Hon. J. >.
McNeily, chairman of the State Execu-
! tive Committee.
Messrs. J. +. Sessions Of Lincoln,
Walter McLaurin of Warren and J. II.
Askew of Oktibbeha were nominated
for Railroad Commissioners, after which
the following platform was adopted:
| TUE PLATFORM.
I. We are Democrats, and as such,
without equivocation, evasion or men
tai reservation, we proclaim our stead
fast devotion to the principles Of the
Democratic party, and pledge ourselves
| to labor in season and out of season to
secure its supremacy.
| g We believe that no permanent pros
perity can be assured 10 the American
| people until this Government Is admin
| istered in accordance with the doc
trines of this great party, which demands
equal rights for all and denounces all
class legislation as hurtful and wicked.
g. We believe that the depression
now bearing so cruelty upon the agri-
| cultural interests of this country is
largely caused by unjust discrimination
against them in behalf of favored in
| dustries whereby the few have been en-
riched at the expense of the many, mo-
nopolies have been created and robbery
made lawful; and we believe that this
depression will continue until all class
legislation has been wiped out and laws
enacted that will operate equally and
| fairly upon all, and with no other pur-
pose than to raise tho revenue needed
to defray the expenses of the Govern
ment, economically and honestly ad-
ministered. We believe that individual
| prosperity can only come from iDdi-
vidual industry, intelligence and fru-
| gality, and that all schemes for the en-
richment of the people by legislation
are chimerical, and utterly incapable Of
realization. The policy of the United
States Government for the last thirty
years has been and now is especially
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of the country. The farmers have been
unduly taxed; they have been made the
bearers of the burdens imposed for the
benefit of the manufacturers, while the
prices of their chief products are fixed
by the prices in Europe. The protec-
tive system has been so arranged as to
restrict the markets and thus reduce
the prices of such products, and at the
same time enhance the prices of what
the farmer has to buy. We declare it
to be the highest duty of the Govern
ment to render due justice to the agri-
cultural and laboring classes-the real
| producers of wealth. To this end we
| favor repeal of the heavy tariff taxa
tion on the necessaries of life and the
| extension of our foreign commerce. In
1 this connection it must not be forgotten
that though the Democratic party has
not for thirty years had entire control
| of the Government, and therefore has
not been able to give relief to the peo-
| pie by repeating class legislation, and
enacting just and honest laws, yet it
! has ever manifested it's purpose to
give this relief when it shall have the
power to do SO, and it is the part Of wis
dom to hold up its hands and not con-
denim it until it has had opportunity
and failed to take advantage of it.
4. We believe that gold and silver
should be coined upon the same terms
and conditions, and that when the Gov
ment shall teas to discriminate be-
tween them, they will freely circulate
side by side and be equally useful and
acceptable to the people. We also be-
lieve that there should be an additional
issue of Treasury notes, Interchangeable
with coin, sufficient to transact the
business of the country, and to relieve
the present financial depression.
S. We believe that every legitimate
power of the Government should be ex-
erted to provide the people with cheaper
| facilities of transportation, inasmuch as
| large portion of their earnings is now
taken from them to pay the cost of mar
| keting their products; we therefore de-
mand liberal appropriations by Con-
gress for the i'm provement of our rivers
and harbors. regarding their improve
ment as an absolute essential step to-
ward the accomplishment of the desired
end.
6. We denounce as unconstitutional,
revolutionary and infamous the force
bill attempted to be passed by the Re-
publicans of the Fifty-frst Congress,
whereby they would have taken from
the States the right to hold their Con-
gressional elections through the agency
of their own officers, as they have done
since the beginning of the Government
and by subjecting the whole people of
the Southern States to the domination
or ignorant negro hoardes who would
have perpetuated their party in power.
Believing as we do, that the Demo
cratic party alone can secure us against
such disaster, wo beseech all Democrats
to stand by its colors, and to avoid all
issues which might create dissension,
and by disrupting that party place the
South at the mercy of its enemies.
Z. We extend our thanks and con-
gratulations to the Democratic Senators,
led by the able and patriotic statesman,
Senator German, aud the Republicans
who assisted them, for the defeat of the
infamous, setional and partisan force
bill, and we take special pride in the
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