The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-09-08

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The following is the platform
adopted by the Demacratic party
at its State ConyentioM a. Park
ersbulk. July nth. 1891:
TIE Democracy Or the State u
West Virginia. IN convention 81
sembled, extends IFS congratula-
tons to the party and to the peo-
pie Of the Slate in view Of the
magnificent material d development
Of the vast resources of the State
under the influence of Democrat
ic principles which have CONTROL
ed its administration during the
last twenty years.
We approve and ratify the
platform and principles promul-
gated by the National Democratic
Convention at its meeting in
Chicago, and heartily endorse the
nomination of Grover Cleveland
for President OF the United States.
We congratulate the people OF
the STATE af West Virginia upon
Iii rapid growth lin increase of
II gis*n stYss AnG material interests.
With the completion of railroads
now under construction and those
projected, we may look forward
to the time when there will be
even more rapid development and
increase in the values of its prop
erty. &C.
The finances of the State were
never in more healthy or salts
factory condition than under, the
policy pursued by the Democratic
administration in strictly enf0rc-
ing the law relating to the collec-
ton OF levies and of prohibiting
the release of bonded officers.
Sherifi's have been prompt in col
lecting and turning over the pub
lie moneys, which have been suf-
ficient to meet all of the govern
mental expenditures. With an
increased valuation, made in pur-
suance Of law, of twenty-six mil
lions Of dollars, the revenue will
be more than sufficient 10 meet all
proper and economical charges,
having a surplus in the treasury,
We, therefore, would recommend
to the Legislature a reduction in
the rate of taxation.
We appeal to the patriotic sent
iments and State pllde of the cit
liens of West Virginia, regard
less of party, to express at the
polls their indignant condemna-
ton Of the conspiracy entered in
to in 1890, by j. N. Huston, Chair
man of NE Indiana State Repub-
lican Committee, then Treasurer
of the United States and officers
Of the National Republican Com
mittee, IN cooperation with GER
tain leaders of the Republican
party in West Virginia to colonize
the State by the introduction of
an ignorant, thriftless and debas-
ed class of North Carolina ne
groes to lower the wages of our
honest, intelligent workmen by
their competition; to debauch
the ballot and corrupt the suf-
frage of our people, for the pur-
pose of placing Republican mis-
rule upon and placing portions of
it under. negro domination.
We congratulate the people
upon the economy and wisdom Of
the Democratic party since it has
had control of the State, and we
refer with pride to the fact that
when it was transferred from Re-
publican control to the guardian
ship of the Democratic party, lit
tie had been done in the erection
of those public institutions essen
tial in the development and pros
perity of a State. Within the
brief period of its control by the
Democracy it has completed our
University and Penitentiary, en-
larged over two-fold the Weston
Lunatic Asylum, almost complet-
ed the Spencer Asylum, establish
ed and equipped with every con-
venience the Deaf and Blind As
YUM, and established and erect
ed the first distinctive colored ag-
ricultural college,, tripled the ca
pacity of the Normal Schools and
erected handsome and comme<
dious State Capitol, and has en-
larged, perfected and systematic
ed free school system that has
encouraged enrolment and in
creased the State and local reve-
nues from a nominal sum to near
million dollars a year; and all
this without any increasesof taxa
ton, when the special taxes FREE
quently levied in addition TO the
ordinary State taxes by Republi-
can Legislatures is taken into
consideration.
We pledge the Democracy of
the State Of West Virginia to in
sist that the next session of the
Legislature shall pass a law max
ing it a penal offense for a citizen
or corporation doing business in
this State to import an armed
body of citizens from other States
to guard property or to act as a
part of the posse comitatus and
prescribe severe penalties to be
imposed upon citizens of. other
States who come within the State
of West Virginia for the purpose
Of acting in such capacity, be-
lieving that in the laws of the
State of West Virginia and in the
LOYALTY of its citizens. rests the