Daily Texarkana Democrat. (Texarkana, Ark.) 1890-1894, 1892-10-01
National Democratic Platform
Adopted by the National Democratic
Convention at Chicago, June
21St, 1892.

D 'NHNASh At OulCuSU, June
21St, 1892.
Section l. The representatives of tn;
| Democraiic party Of the United States, il
/ National Convention assembled, do reaffirn
their allegiance to the principles of the par,
{ ty as formulate by Jefferson 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 demands 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 return to
these fundamental principles of free pop
uiar government based on home rule and
individual liberty was never more than now
when the tendency to centralize all power
at The FEDERAL Capital has become menace
10 the reserved rights ofthe States that strike
al the very roots of our Government under
the Constitution as framed by the Republic
AS 70 THE FORCE BILL.
See ,. We warn the people of our com.
mon country, jealous for the preservation Of
their free institutions, that the policy OF Fed.
ertl control OF elections, to which the Re-
p'hlcan party bias committed itself, is
fraught with the grsvest dangers, scarcely
less momeGtous that would result from a
revolution, practically establishing monar-
chy en- the ruins of the Republic.
1t strikes at the North as well as the South
and injuries the colored citizens even more
lhau the whites. 1t means horde of dep
uty marshals at every polling place, armed
with Federal power, returning boards APP
pointed and controlled by Federal author
ity, the outrage OF the electoral rights OF the
people in the several States, the subiugation
Vi The colored people to the control Of the
parry in power and the reviving of race an.
Mgomsm, now happily abated, of the 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 "a :eh-perpetuating oligarchy of office
holders, and The party first entrusted with
its machinery could be dlslodged from pow
ar only by an appeal TO the reserved right
Of tie people to resist oppression which is
inherent in al selt-governing communities.
Two years ago this revolutionary power
was eI0phatically CONDEMNED by the people
1t The polls; butIn contempt Of that verdici
lie Republican party has defautly declared
q its la. st aptnoFlt&tlVe utterance that Its
uccc So the coming election will mean
the enao nent Of the force bill and theusur-
opt Oh o. 'es 2otle control over elections ID
al the Ststes.
relieving that lne preser alton OF repu6-
can government IN the United States Is
erendent upon inc deleat OF TINS pohcy O.
raaized force and fraud, We invite The
yrrort Of Il citizens who desire to see tn
Constitution maintained III It's integrity VIII
be laws pursuant thereto which have given
pur county n handred years OF lneXampIeo
}rspcrlr5and We pledge the Democrats
Jufty, II " be- int! listed with power, MOI
My TO The celeal OF the torce bll, hui also
@ lcacutels opposition TO the kepu0ncai
l"!'cy OF pTo1ilgate expenditure, which IL
he short space ot two y ars has squmdereo
Al enormous surp Us und cmpued an over
loving treasury HfGcr piing new buidens o
.aXation upon tna ALREADY oTertaXed labor
Of the country
TARIFF TAXATION
$40 = W. donorroo Panpbhcan nro.
90 % - ~, r,b wv Of 10 no,
&C., 90 ,,.ro - ,I',ri, for tbo
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,.o tiIS'-s , i; ,bo dirontion "a free raw
p'ras.i ',d ,%oaor ,,,'rnfacf,,ad oood.
ul",'aItt' ';,,I omara, non,nmntion md wo
WA. oi,so. i,,U G'lo s ono of t6o honofoont
r~srits thaL viii follow the action of the
people in mtrusting power to the Democrat
ic party. Since the Mckinley talltf went
into operation there have been ten Ioduc-
tons of the wages OF laborlng men to one
increase We deny that there has been any
increase ot property to the country since
that tariff went into operation; we point to
The dullness and distress which wage ieduc-
tons and strikes in the iron trade as the
best possible evidence that no such pros
perity has resulted from the McKinloy act.
we call the attention of thoughtful Amer
leans to the fact thai after thirty years OF
restrictive taxes against the importation OF