Daily Texarkana Democrat. (Texarkana, Ark.) 1890-1894, 1892-09-23
National Democratic Platform
Adopted by tie National Democratic
Convention at Chicago, June
21st, 1892.

Section l. The representatives of the
llemocraiio psr,y Of the United States, in
National Convention assembled, do reaffirm
their allegiance to the principles of the par.
~ as formulated by Jefferson and ezempli-
fed by long and illustrious line of his sue
eeSsors in Democratic leadership from Mad
ison to Cleveland. We believe that the pub
lie welfare demands that these principles be
spilled 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
ular govern ment based on home rule and
Individual liberty was never more than now,
when the tendency to centrslize sill power
at the Federal Capital has become menace
10 the reserved rights ofthe States that .rike
at the very roots Of our Government under
the Constitution as framed by the Republic.
As TO THE FORCE BILL.
Sec. ?, We warn tho people of our com
IA IN country, jealous for the preservation OF
their free institutions, that the policy of Fed
eral control OF elections, to which the Re-
Du5iican party has committed itself, is
fraught with the gravest dangers, scarcely
less momentous that would result from
revolution, practically establishing monar-
chy en- the ruins Of the Republic.
1t strikes at the North as well as the South
and Injuries this colored citizens even more
Lhan the whites. It means horde of dep
uty marshals ut 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
OF the coiored people to the control Of the
uar.y in power and the reviving of race an.
m9onmm, 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
bill that ever crossed the thresh
old Of the Senate" Such policy, if sane
toned by law, would mean the dominance
Of sell perpetuating oligarchy Of office
holders, and the party first entrusted with
its machinery could be dlslodged from pow
or only by an appeal to the reserved right
Of the people to resist oppression which is
inherent in all self-governing communities.
Two years ago this revolutionary power
was emphatieally CONDEMNED by the people
at the polls; but in contempt of that verdict
The Republican party has defantly declared
in its latest authoritative utterance that its
succe SIN the coming election will mean
The enac ment Of the force bill and theusur-
patton Of despotic control over elections in
al the States.
Believing that the preserT alton Of repub-
ioan government in the United States is
dependent upon Tie defeat OF this policy OF
egalized force and fraud, We invite the
support of IL citizens who desire to see the
Constitution maintained In its integrity with
,he laws pursuant thereto which have given
)ur country hundred years Of unexampled
and We pledge the Democratic
)arty, il il be int. usted with power, mol
N y TO tho defeat Of the force blu, hut also
% Ioseutless opposition to the Republican
policy Of pIotjgste expenditure, which in
he short space Of t~o y ars has squaadered
N enormous surp US and empNed IN over
lowing treasury after piliDg new Burdens OF
AVIATION upon tue already overturned labor
)t lie country