The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-09-30
STATE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
adopted AZ the GubernatoriaI Convention.
August Q, 1892.

liberty and constitutional government ans
nounced 10y the author of the declaration
of American independence, illustrated by
him in his administration of the Federal
Government, and inCulcated by his State
papers and by his wise teachings, and
since, in the varying conditions of our ma
tional life, promulgated and enforced in
national Democratic platforms and adj
minstrations, hereby indorsP the latest
utterances of the national Democracy as
embraced in the platform adopted at Chi.
GagQ,
Embodying therein the fundamental
and unchanging truths of constitutional
representative freedom, the national De-
mocracy placed thereon as candidates for
President and ViCe-President Grover
Cleveland and Adlai f. Stevenson, men
worthy OF the faith of the party ), fully
qualified to be its opponents before a free
people, and thoroughly equipped to exer-
else the sacred functions of the high Off
Qes for which they have been nominated.
This convention of Tennessee Democ-
racy heartily and ungrudgingly indorse
their nomination and candidacy, because
ireemen can trust men who believe that
"Public Office is public trust !" thatcon-
stitutioGal government is an. agency of
the people; that taxation III whatever
form or guise, beyond the plain needs of
government economically administered,
is robbery otthe people; that the terror
of bayonets. the infamy of force bills
around the ballot boxes of freemen are
not the Safeguards Of honest elections
andindependent States ). thatclass legis-
lation, however framed, and paternalism,
however yelled, are the source of monop-
oily, and its entrenched fortress, whence
either boldly or secretly, come the men
ace to pure government and the corrupt
ing poison that emasculates individual
manhood and who, believing these eter-
nal truths, will exemplify their virtues in
the performance OF their administrative
duties and in the exercise of,their official
powers.
With respect to State affairs, the De-
zaooracy has no wish or purpose incon
sistent with the rights of the people ant
The highest welfare of our State. It has
no SECRETS and will conceal no aim il
vague words or behind indirect methods
We, therefore, declare for an economical
State Government, and that economy
shall rule in so far as our party can Sc
cure it, in all departments and subdivis
ions OF our State government, so that The
product Of labor may remain for those
who made it.
Cd Labor i'll its various forms is the
source ofindividual wealth and the basis
Of "a vigorous Statehood, and that labol
may receive it's own it must not be under
dnress from convict labor and its cOrpor
ate organization. We, therefore, favol
5he abolition oiethe penitentiary lease
system at, the earliest date legally per
INVISIBLE, and the erection, at a~propeI
place, OF q prison Of sutncient dimension
to hold our conWcts, and constructed will
reference to their classification, so tina
youths and those convicted Of the Jesse
offenses shall not be subjected to the as
sOciation and influences of the abandoned
and hardened criminals. While our pena
institutions and their management shoult
% founded in humanity and prompted b,
the aim of reformation, still their supper
should come from the labor of'those le
eaIly confined in them, and not from
lax upon the honest people and industrie
of the State.
(2) Taxation, to be Just and in accord
ance with the Constitution, should b
equal and uniform, We therefore deman
that our revenue system shall be regulate
IN conformity to this plain dictate of jus
tiae ana,iequally plain provision OF tn
Constitution. Double taxation is obnO>
teus to,sound principle, and the valuatio
oftproperty should not determine til
emoluments Of its assessors. We pledg
our party to the reduction of the rate
taxation and the retrenchment OF Stat
expenses rather than to exercise the pot
ers Of government in searching out ne
and antounded sources of taxation upc
Che people to meet extravagant expend
lures.
81 Allpublic and quasi-public agenoi
and corporations owe duties tothe publ
and plain one is that they shall rend
equal service and accommodations +
equal pay to all persons and sections alik
We therefore condemn all unjust discern