The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-06-25

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corrupt, disgraeeful and dishonest.
Section Il. The federal government should
care for and improve the Mississippi river
and other great waterways of the Republic,
so as to secure for the interior states easy and
cheap transportation to the tldewater. When
any waterway of the public is of sufficient
importance to demand the aid of the govern
ment, that such aid should be extended-a
definite plan of continuous work until per-
manent improvement is secured.
| Section Is. For purposes of national de-
| tense, and the promotion of commerce be-
| tween the states, we recognize the early con-
struction of the Nicaragua Canal, and its
| protection against foreign control, as of great
| importance to the United States.
| Section 16. Recognizing the Worlds Co
lumbar Exposition as a national undertaking
of vast importance, in which the general
government has invited the cooperation of
| all the powers of the world, and appreciatlng
the acceptance by many of such powers of
the invitation extended, and the broadcast
liberal efforts being made by them to con-
tribute to the grandeur of the undertaking,
we are of the opinion that Congress should
make such necessary financial provision as
shall be requisite to the maintenance of the
national honor and public faith.
| Section H. Popular education being the
only safe basis of popular suffrage, we recon-
mend to the several states most liberal appro-
priations for the public schools. Free COM
mon schools are the nursery OF good govern
ment. and they have always received the
fostering care of the Democratic party, which
| favors every means of increasing intelligence.
Freedom of education being an essential of
| civil and religious liberty as well as a neces-
sity for the development of intelligence, must
not be interfered with under any prelext
whatever. We are opposed to state interior
ence with parental rights and rights OF con-
science in the education of children, as an
| infringement of the fundamental Democratic
doctrine that the largest individual liberty
consistent with the rights of others insures the
I highest type of American citizenship and the
best government.
4 Section Is. We approve the action of the
present House of Representatives in passing
bills for the admission into the Union as
states of the territories Of New Mexico and
Arizona, and we favor the early admission of
all the territories having the necessary popu
| lation and resources to admit them to state
hood, and while they remain territories we
hold that the officials appointed to administer
the government of any territory, together with
the District of Columbia and Alaska should
be bona-fide residents of the territory or dis
trict in which their duties are to be performed.
The Democratic party believes in home rule
and the control of their own affairs by the
people of the vicinage.
Section 49, We favor legislation by Con-
gress and state legislatures to protect the
lives and limbs of railway employees and those
of other hazardous transportation companies,
and denounce the inactivity of the Republican
party, and particularly the Republican Senate,
for causing the defeat of measures beneficial
and protective to this class of wage workers.
Section 20. We are in favor Of the enact
ment by the states of laws for abolishing the
notorious sweating system, for abolishing
contract convict labor, and for prohibiting
the employment in factories ofchidren under
fifteen years of age.
Section 81 We are opposed to all sump-
tuary laws as an interference with the individ
ual rights of the citizen.
ciples and policies, the Democratic party asks
the intelligent judgment of the American
people. 1t asks a change of administration
and change of party, in order that there
may be change of system and a change of
methods, thus assuring the maintenance I'M
impaired of institutions under which the re.
public has grown great and powerful.
NOMINATIONS.
Nominations being in order, Gov. Leon
Albeit, of New Jersey. placed the name of
Grover Cleveland before the convention,
speaking as follows:
have sublime faith in the expression of
the people when it is clear and decisive.
When the question before them is one that
has excited discussion and debate; when it
appeals to their interests and their feelings
and calls for the exercise of their Judgment,
and they then say we want this man and we
can elect him, we, their representatives, must
not disobey nor disappoint them. 1t is in
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concur in their Judgment, then having given
them the candidates of their choice, they will
give us their best, their most energetic efforts
to secure success. Cheers.
The question has been asked why it is that
the masses of the party demand the nomi-
nation of Grover Cleveland? Why is it that
this man who has no offices to distribute, no
wealth to command, should have stirred the
spontaneous support of the great body of
Democracy? Why is it that with all that has
been urged against him the people still cry,
give us Cleveland? Why is it, though he has
pronounced in honest, clear and able Ian
guage his views upon questions upon which
some of his party may differ with him that he
is still near and dear to the masses?
1t is because he has crystalizel into a living
issue the great principle upon which this
battle is to be fought out. If he did not
create tariff reform he made it presidential
issue. He vitalized it and presented it to our
party as the issue for which we could fight
and continne to battle until upon it victory is
now assured. There are few men, in his
position, who would have the courage to
boldly make the issue and present it so clearly
and forcibly as he did in his great message
of 1887. believe that his policy then was to
farce national issue which would appeal to
the judgment OF the people. We must honor
man who is honest enough and bold enough
under such circumstances to proclaim that
the success of the party upon principle is
better than evasion or Sinking of true ma
tional issues for temporary success. When
victory is obtained upon principle it forms
the solid foundation Of party success in the
future. 1t is no longer question of a battle
to be won on the mistakes of our foes, but it
is victory to be accomplished by charge
along the whole line under the banner Of
principle There is another reason why the
people demand his nomination, They feel
that the tariff reform views OF President Cleve-
land and the principles laid down in his great
message, whatever its temporary effect may
have been, gives us a live and vital issue
to fight for, which has made the great victo'
res since 1888 possible. 1t consolidated in
one solid phalanx the Democracy OF the ma
ton. In every State of this Union that policy
has been placed in Democratic platforms and
our battles have been fought upon it, and
this great body of representative Democrats
have seen its good results. Every man in
this convention recognizes the policy of the
party. IN Massachusetts it gave rs Rnsselli
in Iowa il gave us a RoIesi in Wisconsin it
gave US n Peck for Governor and Villas for
Senator; in Michigan it gave us Winans for
Governor and gave us Democratic Legisla-
ture, and will give us eight electoral votes
for President In 1889 in Ohio it gave us
James Campbell for Governor, and in 1891
to defeat him itrequired the power, the wealth
and the machinery of the entire Republican
party. in Pennsylvania it gave us Robert L,
Pattison. In Connecticut it gave us Demo-
cratic Governor who was kept out of Office by
the Infamous conduct of the Republican party.
In New Hampshire it gave Legislature
of which we were defrauded. In Illinois it
gave us Palmer for Senator and in Nebraska
it gave us Boyd for Governor. In the great
Southern States it has continued in power