The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-08-19
TENNESSEE DEMOCRACY.

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Democratic convention:
"The Democracy of Tennessee, in
State convention assembled, reafffrming
an abiding faith in the great truths OF
human liberty and constitutional gov
ernment announced by the author OF
the Declaration of Independence, illus
trated by him in his administration OF
the Federal government and inculcated
by his state papers and by his teach
ings, and sincere in the various condi-
tions of our national life promulgated
and enforced In national Democratic
platforms and administrations, hereby
indorse the latest utterances of the ma
tional Democracy as embraced in the
platform adopted at Chicago. Embody-
ing therein the fundamental and indy
ing truths of constitutional freedom,
the national Democracy placed thereon
as candidates for President and Vice
President Grover Cleveland and Adlai
E. Stevenson, men who in the faith OF
the party are fully equipped to be its
exponents before free people and to
thoroughly exercise the functions of
the high offices for which they have
been nominated.
"This convention of Tennessee. De-
mocracy heartily indorses their nomin-
alton and candidacy, because freemen
can trust men who believe that labor in
it's various forms is the source of indi-
vidual wealth and the basis of vigor-
Gus statehood, and that labor may re-
ceive it's own it must not be under
duress from convict labor and it's cor
porate organization.
1--WE therefore favor the abolition OF
the penitentiary lease system at the
earliest date legally permissible, and
the erection at the proper place OF
prison of sufficient Dimensions to hold
our convicts and constructed with refer
ence to their classification, so that
youths and those convicted of lesser
offenses shall not be subjected to the
association and influences of the aban-
doned and hardened criminals. While
our penal institutions and their man
agemeut should be founded in humanity
and prompted by the aim of reforma-
tion, still their support should come
from the labor of those legally confined
therein, and not from tax upon the
honest people and industries of the
State.
rehabilitation, to be just and in
accordance with the constitution, should
be equal and uniform. We therefore
demand that our revenue system shall
be regulated in conformity to this plan.
We declare that double taxation is OBJ
noxious; public Office is a public trust;
that constitutional government is an
agency of the people; that taxation in
whatever form or guise beyond the plain
need of the government economically y
administered is robbery Of the people;
that the terror of bayonets and the in
fanny of force bills around the ballot
boxes of freemen are dangerous to the
safeguards of honest elections and inde-
pendent States; that class legislation,
however framed, and paternalism, how
ever veiled, are the source of monopoly
and its intrenched partners, which
either boldly or secretly come to menace
free government, and are the corrupting
poison that emasculate individual man.
hood, and those who, believing these
eternal truths, exemplify their virtues
in the performance of administrative
duties, and in the exercise of the official
powers. With respect to State affairs,
the Democracy has no wish or purpose
inconsistent with the rights of the peo-
pie and the highest welfare of our
State. It has no secrets and will con-
ceal no aim in vague words or behind
indirect methods. We therefore declare
for economical State government, and
that economy shall rule, in SO far as our
party can secure it, in all departments
and subdivisions of our State govern
ment, SO that the product of labor may
remain for those who made it. Princi-
pie and valuation of property should
assessors. We pledge our party to the
reduction of the rate of taxation and
the retrenchueent in State expenses.
"Fourth-Public and quasi public
agencies and corporations owe duties
to the public, and a plain one is that
we shall render equal justice and ac-
commodations for equality to all per-
sons. We therefore condemn all unjust
determinations by such agencies or
corporations.
"Fifth-The Democratic party is the
friend of all classes, because it is of
the people. 1t has no grievance against
any except the enemies of individual
liberty and constitutional government.
No man has any just grievance against
it, and no one believing in its faith and
governmental purposes, and acting with
it because of belief, can rightfully COM
plain of its action with respect to him
self. It owes no one of its members
any Office. It's whole duty to the whole
people is to see that the government is
kept in constitutional limits and that
the public veal be served by the equal
enforcement of just laws, leaving free
men to work out their own destiny.
The Democracy OF this State has held
sacredly to the solemn trust amidst
many temptations aud vicissitudes. 1t
will do so in the future.
''In this confident faith we cordially
invite all classes and avocations 70
unite with US to preserve the autonomy
of the States, the purity and perpetuity
of our institutions, and in the South,
our present social life and civilization