The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-06-28
THE PLATFORM.
Protection Boldly Dsnounced-The silver
and Other Pianks.


The platform in full is rs follows:
Section / The representatives of
the Democratic party of the United
States, in national convention as
sembled. do reatfirm their allegiance
to the principles of the party as formu-
lated by jefferson and exemplified
by long and illustrious line
of his successors in Democratic
leadership from Madison To Cleveland;
we believe the public welfare demands
that these principles be applied To the
conduct of the federal government
through the accession to power of the
party that advocates them: and we
solemnly declare that the need of a
return to these fundamental
principles of 4 free popular gov
eminent. based on home rule and in
dividual liberty was never more urg-
ent than now, when the tendency to
centralize all power at the federal
capital has become a menace to the
reserved rights of states that strikes
at the very roots of our government
under the constitution Is framed by
the republic.
Federal; Control of Elections
Section = We warn the people of
our country. jealous for the preserva-
ton of our free institutions, that the
policy of federal control of elections.
To which the Republican party has
committed Itself, is fraught with the
gravest dangers, scarcely less mo-
mentous than would result from a
revolution practically establishing
monarchy on the ruins of the republic.
1t strikes at the North as well as the
South. and Injuries the colored citizen
even more than the white: it means a
horde of deputy marshals ut 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 revival of race antagonisms, now
happily abated, of the utmost peril to
the safety and happiness of all; 4
measure deliberately and justly
described by a leading Republican
senator as 1.-THE most infamous
bill that ever crossed the thresh-
hold of the senate" Such
policy, if sanctioned by law, would
mean the dominance of a self-perpetu-
ating oligarchy of Off .e holders. and
the party first intrusted with its ma
chincry could be dislodged from power
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
policy was emphatically condemned
by the people at the polls; but in con-
tempt of that verdict the Republican
party has defiantly declared in its
latest authoritative utterance that its
success in the coming election will
mean the enactment of the force bill
and the usurpation of despotic control
over elections in all the states.
believing that the preservation of
Republican government in the United
States is dependent upon the defeat of
the policy of legalized force and fraud.
we invite the support of all citizens
who desire to see the constitution main
tanned in its integrity with the laws
pursuant thereto, which have given
our country 100 years of unexampled
prosperity; and we pledge the Dem
ocratic party, il it be intrusted with
power, not only to the defeat of the
force bill. but also to relentless oppo-
sition to the Republican policy of prof
ligate expenditure, which in the short
space Of two years, has squandered an
enormous surplus and emptied an over
flowing treasury, after piling new bur-
dens of taxation upon the already
overtaxed labor Of tho country.
Against Protsctios.