The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-23
TEXT OF THE PLATFORM.
The Force Bill Issue Made the Leading
Plank.

Plank.
CHICAGO, June 22-The report OF the
majority of the platform committee was
follows:
SECTION l. The representatives of the Dem
ocratic party of the United States, in national
convention assembled do reaff1rm their ale
glance to the princi Piles OF the party as formu-
lated by Jefferson and exemplided by a Long and
Hlustr1ous line OF his successors in the demo
cratic leadership, from Madison to Cleveland.
We believe the public welfare demands that
these principles be applied to the conduct of
the federal government through the accession
TO power Of the party that advocates them; and
we soemny declare. that the need of the fuuda-
mental principle of free popular government
based on homo rule and individual liberty was
mover more urgent than now, when the tendency
to ceBtrallzo oil power at the federal capital has
become a menace to the reserved rights of the
states, that strikes at the very roots OF our gov
ernmenJ under the constitution as framed by the
fathers OF the republic.
SEC. 2. We warn the people Of our common
country, jealous for the preservation of their
free institutions, that the policy of federal con.
troll OF elections to which the Republican party
has committed itself is fraught with the greatest
dangers, scarcely less moneutous than would
result from revolution practically establish
ing q monarchy on the ruins of q republic. 10
strikes at the north as well as the south and
niures the colored citizen oven more than the
white. It means a horde of deputy marshals
at every polling place armed with federal
authority, outrage of the o ectoral rights OF the
people in the several states, subjugntion OF the
colored people in control of the party in power
AMI the revYing Of race antagouisms now hap.
PLY aoated, OF the utmost peril TO the safety
and happiness Of al, a measure deliberately and
justly described by a leading republican senator
tine most infamous bill that over crossed
the threshold of the Senate" Such a policy II
sanctioned by law, would mean the dominance
OF a self-per petuatinR olgarchY of office holders
and the party first inLrusted with its machinery
could be dislodged from power only by an ap-
10 fha UaA rltrhN ~ fba sapla
sist oppression which is inherent in all self
governing communities. Two years ago this
revolutionary policy was emphaticalIy con
demned by the people at the polls but In CON
tempt OF that verdict the Republican party has
defianty declared In its la rest authoritative ut
teranoe that its success in the coming elections
will mean the enactment Of a force bill aud
usurpation of despotic control over the elections
in all / . states. Believing that preservation OF
republican government in the United States is
dependent upon the defeat Of this policy Of
legalized force and fraud. we invite the support
of all citizens who desire to see the constitu-
tiOn maintained in its int gritty with
the laws pursuant thereto which have given
our country 100 ears Of unexampled pros Derity
and we pledge the Democratic party, II It Oe in.
trusted with power not only TO the defeat of the
force bill, but also the relentless opposition to
the republican policy Of profiigate expenditure,
which, in the short space OF two years, has
squandered en- enormous surplus. emptied an
oVerfiowing treasury after pling burdens
-ot taxation upon the already overtaxed labor
of tho country
THE TARIFF PLANK.
SEC. 3. We sreiterate the oft-repeated doc
trines OF the Democratic party that the neces-
sity Of government IS the only justification for
taxation and whenever tax is Unnecessary it
is unjustidable; that when custom house taxa
tion Is levied upon articles OF any kind produced
in this country, the differences between the cost
Of labor here and labor abroad. when such diff
fsrences exists, fully measures any possible
benefits to labor aud the enormous additional
impostions OF the existing tariff fall with
crushing force upon our farmers and
workingmen. and for the mere advantage OF q
few whom it enriches, exacts from labor a
grossly unjust share OF the expenses of the
government, and we demand such revision OF
the tariff laws as will remove their inlquitous
inequalities, tighten their expressions and put
them q constitutional and equitable basis.
But in making reduction in taxes, il Is not