The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1892-06-29
HE PLATFORM.
Full Text Of the Principles Of the Demo
cratic Party.

Full Text OF the Principles of the Demo-
cratic Party.
SEcTIoN 1.-The representatives of the
Democratic party of the United States In
national convention assembled. do reaffirm
their allegiance to the principles of the
party as formulated by Jefferson and ex-
emplified by the long illustrious line of
his successors in Democratic leadership
from Madison to Cleveland: we believe the
public welfare demands that these princi-
Piles be applied to the conduct of the federal
government through accession to power
of the party that advocates them; and we
solemnly declare that the need Of return
70 these fundamental principles OF the pop
hlar government based on home rule and
individual liberty was never more urgent
than now, when the tendency TO centralize
all power at the federal Capitol has become
| a menace to the reserved rights of the
states that strikes at the very roots of our
government, and under the constitution, as
| framed by the fathers Of the republic.
SEC. Ave warn the people of our COM
mon country, Jealous of the preservation OF
| their free institutions that the policy OF
the federal control Of elections TO which
the Republican party has committed itself
Is fraught with the gravest dangers,
scarcely less momentous than would result
from revolution practically establishing
monarchy on the ruins of the republic. II
strikes Mt the north as well as the south,
and injuries the colored citizen, even more
than the white; IL means a hoard of deputy
marshals at every polling place, armed
with federal power, returning boards
appointed and controlled by federal
authority, the outrage Of the cleo
toral rights Of the people in the several
states, the subjugation OF the colored peo-
pie to the control OF the party In power
and the reviving OF race antagonisms now
happily abated, of the utmost peril to the
f.1tx ofah H..
liberhtely and justly described by leading
Republican ssnatQr Us the most infamous
bill that ever crossed the threshold of the
senate" Such policy, II sanctioned by
law, would mean the dominance of a self
perpetuating oligarchy of office hold
ers, and the party first entrusted with its
machinery could be dislodged from power
only By an appeal to the reserved right Of
the people 70 resist oppression, which Is In
Two years ago this revolutionary policy
was emphatically condemned by the peo-
pie at the polls; but In contempt OF that
verdict the Republican party has defantly
declared In Its latest authoritative utter
ances that its success In the coming cleo
tions will mean the enactment Of the
force bill and the usurpation OF despotic
control over elections in all the states Be
lieving that the preservation of republi-
can government In the United States Is de-
pendent upon the defeat OF this policy OF
legalized force and fraud, we invite the
support Of all citizens who desire 10 see
the constitution maintained In its integrity
with the laws pursuant thereto which
have given our country hundred years OF
unexanpled prosperity. and we pledge the
Democratic party, II 1t be entrusted with
power not only to the defeat Of the force
bill, but.also to the relentless opposition 10
the Republican policy of profigate expend-
iture, which In the short space Of two
years has squandered an enormous sur
plus and emptied an OVERLOOKING treasury.
after Milling new burdens Of taxation upon
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