Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-10
A Great Democratic Gathering
At Nashville.
The Platform Upon Which Judge Turney
Goes Before the People of His
State.

1t is hardly necessary 10 STATE that
Judge Peter Turney was nominated
by reclamation. There were 1,5553
votes cast in the convention and
Judge Turney received ,497 of them.
Buchanan received 153; Jno. M.
Taylor s; j. w. Sparks (Rutherford
county, %; Benton McMillen 10.
Judge Turney accepted the nomi-
nation in a we'll rounded speech, tell
ing his friends that they had hard
fight before them, but with proper
attention and due diligence they
would carry the State by overwhelm-
ing odds.
Ringing speeches were made by
Senator Harris, Senator Bate, Con-
gresham Washington, Congressman
Patterson and other distinguished
gentlemen.
THE PLATFORM.
The platform adopted is herewith
presented:
The Democracy of Tennessee, in State
convention assembled, reaffirming an
abiding faith in the great truths OF hu'
man liberty and constitutional govern
ment announced by the author of the
declaration of American independence,
illustrated by him in his administra-
| tion of the Federal Government, and
inculcated by his State papers and by
| his wise teachings, and since, in the
VARYING conditions of our national life,
promulgated and enforced in national
Democratic platforms and administra-
tions, hereby indorse the latest utter
ances of the national Democracy as
embraced in the platform adopted at
Chicago.
Embodying therein the funda-
m, ntal and unchanging truths of con-
stitutional representative freedom the
national Democracy placed thereon as
candidates for President and Vice
President, Grover Cleveland and Adlal
r. Stevenson, men worthy OF the 1alth
of the party; fully qualified to be It's
exponents before a free people, ana
thoroughly equipped to exercise the
sacred functions of the high offices Tor
which they have been nominated.
|
mocracy heartily and ungrudgingly
indOrse their nomination and candl'
dacy, because free men can trust men
who believe that Public office Is
public trust" that constitutional gov
eminent is an agency of the people;
that taxation in whatever form OF
guise, beyond the plain needs of gov
eminent economically administered,
is robbery of the people; That the ter
ror of bayonets and the infamy of force
bills around the ballot boxes OF free
men are not the safeguards of honest
: elections and Independent States ina
class legislation, however framed, anc
, paternalism, however yelled, are the
source of monopoly, and it, entrench
ed fortress, whence, either boldly o.
. secretly, come the menace to pure
government and the corrupting polsol
that emasculates individual manhood
} and who, believing these eterna
!, truths, will exemplify their virtues il
: the performance of their administra
tive duties and in the exercise of thei
> official powers. ;,
h With respect to State affairs, tn
s Democracy has no wish or purpose IL
4 consistent with the rights OF the pee
pie and the highest welfare of GU
G State. 1t has no secrets and will con
h ceal no aim in vague words or benin
@ indirect methods. We, therefore, de
- clare for an economical State govern
ment, and that economy shall rule /
O so far as our party can secure 1t, IN a
:. departments and subdivisions OF on
- State government, so that the produt
l. of labor may remain for those VIII
'e made it.
~ |. Labor in its various forms is tn
source of individual wealth and tn
II basis of vigorous statehood, and TIL;
t. labor may receive its own 1t must n'
be under duress from convict labor an
its corporate organization. We, ther
fore, favor the abolition of the pen
w Tertiary lease system at the earlie'
date legally permissible, and the ere
ton, at proper place, of a prison
10 sufficient dimensions to hold our col
- yicts, and constructed with referent
g to their classification, so that youth
st and those convicted of the lesser c
il. lenses shall not be subjected to the
II ISOLATION and influences of the aban'
oned and hardened criminals. Whi
" our penal institutions and their maj
agement should be founded in huma
T. ity and prompted by the aim of
= formation, still their support shou
II, come from the labor of those legal
'ir confined in them, and not from Il
"a upon the honest people and industri
4 of the State.
~ .. Taxation, to be just and in 8
q. cordance with the constitution, shou
ISIS be equal and uniform. We thereto
,;r demand that our revenue system sb'
" be regulated in conformity to u
H. plain dictate of justice and equal
ed provision of the Constitute
AZ Double taxation is obnoxious to souI
~, principle, and the valuation of pro
nc erty should not determine the emol
id ments of its assessors. We pledge o
in party to the reduction of the rate
,,o taxation and the retrenchment OF Sta
NV expenses rather than to exercise I
es, powers of Government in searchil
nd ont new and unfounded sources of Ia
of alton upon the people to meet extraN
CANT expenditures.
RS 4. All public and quasi-public age
as cies and corporations owe duties to t
od public, and plain one is that tn
shall render equal service and acco
w. modations for equal pay to all perso
IRE and sections alike. We therefore CO
me denim all unjust Determinations
,.o such agencies or corporations.
'oe 5. The Democratic party is t
friend of all classes, because it Is of
re. people. 1t has no grievance agail
,od any class except the enemies of in
'0' viiual liberty and constitutional g
IN. eminent. No man has any just gri,