Daily Texarkana Democrat. (Texarkana, Ark.) 1890-1894, 1892-08-08
DEMOCRATIC STATE PLATFORM
Adopted by the Democratic State Con-
VCntIOn ut Little Rock,
Jane 14th, 1892.
THE PLATFORM.

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administration OF the Government; aud thst
the people can safely trust the party foun'e
by Jefferson, and whose principles were em
phasized in the splendid, patriotic ard non
sectional administration Of Grover eve
land.
We denounce the Republican party for
its fragrant abuse and prostitution Of power
during the last four yeats. Coming into full
control of all branc es of the Government
in 1888 by the use of unprecedentCd corrup-
ton fund; largely We'd upon Government
faYorites by those before and since, close,
personally and officially, to the chief benc-
iiciary, that party Immediately entered upo
a crusade of tyrany, fraud and prehgate
extravaganza never before ventured upon by
any party In times Of peace.
| 1t found the treasury with a large and
daily increasing surplus, and in times Of
great depression, accompanied by the uni
versal demand for relief from the burdens
of taxation, it dlssipated the surplus by
making annual appropriations # $500 OO0,-
900, largely for unnecessary and utterly IN
defeLsible purposes, and thereby failed to
meet and discharge the maturing bonded in
debtedu 9ss Of the Government, and now finds
itself confronted with an imminent defcien-
| cy. Moreover, it made many of its appro-
priations permanent, for no other purpose,
than to prevent the people from correcting
the evils done, so long as the Republican
party retained control of either the Senate
or Chief Magistracy of the nation.
1t transcribed all precedents in vicious
| class legislation, in the enactment Of the Nc.
kinney bill, and finally, frightened by the
extremites to which it had gone, sought to
appoase the pubic discomfort by reciprocity
fraud, the adoption of which WAS a confes-
sion Of the iniquity it had perpetrated.
1t deprived States of their just representa-
ton by ia Sc census.
1t deprived, in the most insolcnt and ar
btrary manner, and practically without an
opportunity to be heard, representatives OF
the people of their seats in the lower House
| of Congress.
And, finally drunk with its own excuses,
it sought TO perpetuate the wrongs it had
done by depriving the people Of the right to
hold their own ections and choose their
own servants by the enactment of the in
lannon's and execrabln force bill.
| 1t treated with utter contempt all ideas OF
economy and honesty, both in its pension
legislation and in its administration of that
| bureau.
1t rejected Democratic territories ard ad.
mitted Republican territories in order to re-
tain party supremacy.
This regime OF tyranny, extravaganza and
wrong doing, contrasted with the c'esn,
honest, prudent and wise administration of
irov,l Cleveland, brought upon the Rel ub-
| ican party the most stupendous defeat that
ever betell any party in this country, and
inspired anew with confidence and hope all
the people in the possibility of preserving
tree government for mankind.
We declare our abiding fidelity to the
Constitution of the United States in its let
ter and spirit.
We declare our faith in the capacity of
the people for sell-government, and in their
inherent right to enjoy it, free from all Fed
eral interference,
We denounce the Republican party be-
cause it turned its back upon the interests
Of the great masses Of society, and sound,
stable government for all, and allied its for
tunes with corporate We !th, squander ng
millions of the public domain upon raj roads
fostering legislation, the legitimate offspring
ol which has been combinations and trusts
expressing the labor it professed 70 protect
and fastening ever increasing burdens on
agriculture, until the homes Of the people in
great sections of the country are covered
with mortgages, and the markets Of the
world closed to the fruits of honest toll.
We denounce the Mckinley tariff as O
crime against honest government and a flee
people, not only because it leves an unncc-
essary tax and thereby imposes wantoD and
cruel burdens on the people, but because it
destroys the markets for their Surplus pro-
ducts.
We denounce it because it is class leglsla-
zion, enacted in the interest Of the favored
few who are wealthy, and at the expense
and for the oppression OF the gre mass OF
the people.
We denounce it because il does not in
crease wages, but surrenders the taxing pow
or Of the Government to the manufacture rs,
and leaves it to the employers to determine
whether they will divide the immense boun'
ty it yields with those they employ.
We denOunce it because it is an abuse
and perversion of the taxing power of the
Constitution, which was intended to be
used to raise necessary revenue for the sup
port of thJ Government, into the means OF
plundering all for the bepelit Of a class.
We denounce it because 1t naugurated
for the fist time in free Government, the
practice OF taking from the public treasury
the II oney collected for public purpose,
from ali the people, and with 1t, pay boun-
ties to select Industries.
We denounce it because it destroys the in
dependence and selfreance Of the people
which is National characteristic, and
and teaches them to rely upon government
tai tavorltsm.
We denounce it because the inevitable
tendency OF this system is the destruction OF
popular government, in the dcbauchment OF
The ballot, by tribute extorted from favored
chsscs, whose enormous 5ounties depend
upon the continual.ce of the system self
We decla that the mission Uf the Demo
cratic party is o so reform the taritl by a
reduction Of taxation as to limit the revenues
of the Government to its absolute necessi'
ties when economically administered, and to
so frame its tariff schedules as to place the
burdens OF government upon the luXurles
and not npon the necessrries Of lito.
We favor saio and sufficient currency,
composed OF gold and silver and legal tender
paper, convertible into coin On dem md, and
maintained at par with each othlr.
v 0 declare 1t TO be the duty the Demo
cratic party to preserve the parity iE value
OF gold and silver, and TO provide the means
by the equal and fair treatment OF both met
Ills.
We lenounce the Sherman Silver bill as
an obstruction to the fair treatment Of silver
and as n sham ana a pretense, intended to
postpone honest honest legislation and to
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