Daily Texarkana Democrat. (Texarkana, Ark.) 1890-1894, 1892-07-19
National Democratic Platform
AdOnted by The National Democratic
Convention at Chicago, June
21st, 1892.

National Convention a assembled, do reatirm
their allegiance to the principles of the par
ty as formulate by Jetfe -sOn and ezempli-
fed by long and illustrious line of his sue
cessors in Democratic leadership from Mad
ison to Cleveland. We believe that the pub
lie welfare demand; that these principles be
applied to the conduct OF the Federal Gov
eminent through the accession to power OF
the party that advocates them; and we sol
EMMY declare that the need of a return TO
these fundamental principles of free pop
ular government based on home rule ard
individual liberty was never more than now,
when the tendency to centralize all power
at the Federal Capital has become a menace
10 the reserved rights ofthe States that strike
at the very roots of our Government under
the Constitution as framed by the Republic.
AsTo1HE FORCE ByLL.
Sec. 2, We warn the people Of our com
mon country, jealous for the preservation OF
their free institutions, that the policy OF Fed
eral control OF elections, to which the Re-
publican party has committed itself, is
fraught with the gravest dangers, scarcely
less momeuLous that would result from d
revolution, practically establishing monar-
chy en- the ru 5 OF the Republic.
1t strikes at u. North as well as the Soutt
and Injuries th3 Colored citizens even more
than the whites. 1t means a horde Of dep
uty marshal8 ut every polling place, armed
with Federal power, returning boards APP
pointed and controlled by Federal author
ity, the outrage OF the electoral right Of the
people in the several States, the subjugation
Of the coored people to the control of the
parry in power and TIE reviving Of race an
taeonlsm, now happily abated, ofthe utmost
peril to the safety and happiness OF all; a
measure deliberately and justly described by
a leading Republican Senator ''as the most
infamous bill that ever crossed the thresh
old of the Senate" such policy, if sane
toned BY law, would mean the dominance
of u sell -perpetusting oligarchy of ctlico-
holders, and the party first entrusted with
its machinery could be dlslodged from pow
er only by M appeal to the reserved right
OF the people to resist oppression which is
inherent in all selt-governing communities.
Two years ago this revolutionary power
was emphatically coademed by the people
at the polb; but in contempt of that verdict
the Republican party has defantly declared
in its latest authoritative uttefance that its
succc IN the coming election will mean
the enactment of the force bill and theusur-
potion Of desPotic control over elections in
all the States.
Believing that the preser alton Of Tepub-
lican government in the United States is
dependent upon the defeat OF this policy Of
legaiz9d force and fraud, We invite the
support Of Ii citizens who desire to see the
Constitution maintained IN its integrity with
the laws pursuant thereto which have given
our country hundred years OF uneXampled
prosperity; and we pledge the Democratic
sparty, ii it be intTusted with power not
only to the defeat OF the force bill, but also
TO resembles opposition to the Republican
policy of prcfllgate expenditure which in
the short space OF two vars has squandered
an enormous surp us and empted an over
flowing treasury after piling new burdens OF
taxation upon the already oYertaXed labor
of the country
TARIFF TAXATION.
Sec. 3. We donounce Il publican pro-
lection as fraud. The robbery of the great
msiority OF the American people for the
benefit of Tho few. We declare it to be
Fundamental principle OF the Democratic par
ty that the Federal Government has no con-
sttutionAl power to impose and collect tariff
duties, except for the purposes Of revenue
only, and we demand that the collection Of
such taxes shall be limited to the necessities
of the Government when honestly and econ
omlcally administered.
We denounca the Mckinley tariff law en-
acted by the Filty-frst Congress as thu cul
minating atrocty of class legislation; We in
dorse the efforts made by the Democrats OF
the present Congress to modify its most Cp-
h., & f.oo
materials and cheaper manufactured goods
that enter into general consumption, End we
promise It's repeal as one Of the beneiicent
results that will follow the action Of the
people in ntrust'ng powerto the Democrat
ic party. Since the Mckinley tariff went
into operation there have been ten Ieduc-
tions of the wages OF laboring men TO one
increase. We deny that there has been any
increase of property to the country since
that tariff went into operation we point to
th0 dullnsss and distress which wage reduc-
tons and strikes in the iron trade as the
best possible evidence that no such pros.
perty has resulted from the Mckinley act.
we call the attention Of thoughtful Amer
leans to the fact that after thirty years OF
restrictive taxes against the importation OF
fereign wealth in exchange for our agricul-
tural surplus the homes and farms of the
country have become burdened with real
estate mortgage debt OF over So 800, 100000
exclusive Of all other forms Of indebted
ness; that in one of the chief agricultural
States Of the West there appears real es-
tate mortgage debt averaging SlG5 per cap
ita Of the total population; and that similar
conditions and Tenderness are shown to eist
in the other agricultural exporting States.
We dencunce policy when fosters no in
dustry so much as ii does that Of the sheriff.
ALLEdED RECIPROCITY,
Sec. 4. Trade exchange on tho basis OF
reciprocal advantages TO tho countries par
t!clpating is timc-honored doctrine Of the
Democratic faith, but we denouncythe sham
reciprocity which jugges with the peoples
desire for enlarl cd foreign markets aud
freer exchange by pretending TO establish
closer trade relations with country whose
articles Of export are almost exclusively ag-
ncultural products with other countries that
are also agricultural, while erecting u Gus
tom house barrier ofprohibitiVe tariff taxes
against the richest c, u1!res Of tue world
that stand ready to take our entire surplus
OF products and to exchange therefor M
modities vince are neces' aries and comforts
oE lie among our own people.
Az MINT TRUsT!.
Sec, 5. We recognize in tho trusts and
combinations which arc designed to enable
capital TO secure more than It's Just share OF
the joint product Of capital and labor and
natural Consequence of the prohibitlye taxes
which prevent the lres competition, which
is the lite Of honest trade; out VIC believe
their worst evils can be absted by law, and
we demand the rigid enforcement Of the laws
made to control and prevent thcm, together
with such further legislation in restraint OF
their abuses as experience may show to be
necessary.
REPUBLICAN, LAND STEALs