Connecticut western news., 1892-06-30

GROVER CLEVELAND.
 bills in order that they may be stripped of their substance through tariff bills The
 speaker denounced federal control of cleo tions.
 The first mention of Cleveland's name in the convention was when MT. Villas in the first paragraph of the platform read "Fro.s
 Madison to Cleveland" It called out tine
 pentup enthusiasm of the delegates The Platform.
 Sec. l. The representatives of the Demo cratic party of the United States in national convention assembled do reaffirm their ale glance to the principles of the party as formu- lated by Jefferson and exemplifed by the long and inustrious line of his successors in 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 accession to power of the party that advocates them; and we solemnly declare that the need of return to these fundamental principles of free popular government, based on home rule and individual liberty, was never more urgent than now, when the tendency to centralize all power at the federal capital has become a menace to the
 reserved rights of the states that strikes at the very roots of our government and under the constitution as framed by the fathers of the re- public.
 Federal Control of Elections. Sec. 9 We warn the people of our common jealous TOT the preservation or tnelf free institutions that the policy of the federal control of elections, to which the Republican party has committed itself, is fraught with the gravest dangers scarcely less momentous than would result from revolution practically es- tablishing monarchy on the ruins of the repub- lie. It strikes at the north well at the south, and injures the colored citizen even more than the white; it means horde of depu- | ty marshals at every polling place, armed with | federal power, returning boards appointed and controlled by federal authority, the outrage of the electoral rights of the people in the several states, the subjugation of the colored people to | the control of the party in power, and the re- | viving of antagonisms now happily abated, of the utmost peril to the safety and happiness of all; a measure deliberately and | justly described by a leading Republican l tor 'the most infamous bill that ever crossed | the threshold of the senate"
 Such a policy, if sanctioned by law, would mean the dominance of a self perpetuating oli- | garchy of oficeholders and the party first in- | trusted with it's machinery could be dislodged | from power only by an appeal to the reserved right of the people to resist oppression whichis | inherent in all self governing communities. l Two years ago this revolutionary policy was emphatically condemned by the people at the | polls but in contempt of that verdict, the Re | publican party has defiantly declared in its latest authoritative utterance that its success | in the coming elections will mean the enact ment of the force bill and the usurpation of
 despotic control elections in all the states. Believing that the preservation of Republican government in the United States is dependent upon the defeat of this policy of legaized force | and fraud, we invite the assistance of all cti- | zens who desire to see the constitution main- | tained in its integrity with the laws pursuant thereto which have given our country hun l dred years of unexampled prosperity; and we | pledge the Democratic party if it be intrusted with power, not only to the defeat of the force
 bill, but also to relentless opposition to the Re publican policy of profiigate expenditure, which | in the short space of two years, has squandered an enormous surplus and emptied an overflow
 ing treasury, after piling new burdens of taxa | tion upon the already overtaxed labor of the country.
 | We denounce Republican protection as a | fraud a robbery of the great majority of the American people for the benefit of the few. We declare it to be a fundamental principle of the 1 Democratic party that the federal government has no constitutional power to enforce and col
 lect tariff duties except for the purpose of reve nue only, and demand that the collection of such | taxes shall be limited to the necessities of the government and honestly and economically ad- ministered.
 l The Mckinley Bill Denounced. We denounce the Mckinley tariff law enacted | by the Fifty first congress the eliminating
 atrocity of class legislation; we indorse the ef | forts made by the Democrats of the present | congress to modify its most oppressive features
 in the direction of free raw material and cheap CT manufactured goods that enter into home | consum ption, and we promise its repeal as one | of the benifcent results that will follow the | action of the people in entrusting power to the l Democratic party. Since the Mckinley tariff 1 went into operation there have been ten reduc- | tions of wages of laboring men to one increase | We deny that there has been any increase of prosperity to the country since that tariff went | into operation, and point to the dullness | and distress, the wage reductions and strikes | in the iron trade the best possible evidence | that no such prosperity has resulted from the 1 Mckinley act.
 1 We call the attention of thoughtful Ameri- l cans to the fact that after thirty years of re- | strictive taxation against importations of | foreign products in exchange for our agricul-
 1 sural surplus the homes and farms of the 1 country have become burdened with real l estate mortgage debt of over two thousand
 1 five hundred million dollars, exclusve of all l other forms of indebtedness; that in one of
 1 the chief agricultural states of the west 1 there appears real estate mortgage debt 1 averaging Sl65 per capita, and that similar
 conditions shown to exist in other agricul-
 l tural exporting states. We denounce policy
 which fosters no industry so much as it does
 I that of the sheriff.
 | Sec. f. Trade interchange on the basis of re-
 1 ciprocal advantage to the countries partic
 | pating is time honored doctrine of the Demo-
 l cratic faith, but we denounce the sham reef
 l procity which juggles with the peoples desire for snlArUud foratku markets sad fraef sx.