The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-23
THE PLATFORM.
A Bid for Votes by Profuse Promises
Denunciation of Republicans.

"A Bid for Votes by Profuse Promises-
Decentralization of Republicans.
CHICAGO, June 22.-Foilowing is the text
of the platform read to the convention.
The tariff plank was changed as noted
elsewhere:
The representatives of the Democratic party
OF the United states, in national convention as
semblec, to reaffirm their allegiance to the prin-
clpies OF the party as formulated by Jefferson
and exemplifed by long and illustrious line
of successors in Democratic leadership from
Madison to Cleveland We believe the public
welfare demands that these principles be an
piled to the conduct of the federal government
through the accession to power Of the party tina.
advocates them: and we soemnly declare that
need OF return TO these fundamental PRINCIPLES
of free popular government, based on hor,e rule
ana individual liberty was never more urgent
than now, when the tendency to centraltze all
power at the federal capital has become a
menace to the reserved rights of the states that
strikes ut the roots of our government under
the constitution as framed by the fathers of the
republic.
FEDERAL ELECTIONS.
Newarn the people of our common country
Jealous for the preservation of their free instf.
buttons, that the policy of federal control of
elections. to which the Republican party has
committed itself, is frauyht with the q, avess
danger, scarcely less momentous tia would re-
suit from revolution practically establishing
monarchy on the ruins OF the republic It
strikes at the North rs well IS the south and
injuries the colored citizen more thar the white:
II means hordes of armed deputy narshals at
every polling place. returning boards appointed
aud controlled By federal authorities, outrage OF
the electoral rights of the people in the states.
sub!ugation Of the colored people to the control
OF the party in power and reviving race sntapo.
nism, now happily abated, of the utmost
danger to the safety and happiness
OF ali: measure deliberately and
justly described by leading Republicans
a the most infamous bill that ever crossed the
threshold OF the Senate. Such poIiev. If
sanctioned by law. would mean the don,Iuapce
OF self-perpetuating oiigsrchy OF Office
holders, and the party first iutrusted with tina
machinery could be disio1ged from power only
by an appeal TO the reserved rights of the peo-
pie to resist oppression, which ts Inherent in all
seli-goFcrning communities Two wears sro
this revolutionary policy was emnh.tfeafIv
condemned by the people at the polls: but i,
contempt of that verdict the Republican marty
has denantly dee ared in its latest AUTHORITATIVE
utterauces that its success in the coming cleo
uons viii mean the enactment of & lore. bin
ana usurpation OF despotic control over cleo
tons in all states. Believing that the preserva-
ton OF republican government is densnaa,.
upon the defeat OF & policy O. Iegalized force
ana fraud, we invite the support OF all citizens
VINO desire to see the constitution nsint.i,aa
in is Integrity, with tho laws pursuant taereto-
when have given our country hundred VANS
OF unexampled prosperity.
THE TARIFF
And we pledge the Democratic partv M. o,rv
TO defeat force bill, but also to offer -a1ap.r,s
opposition TO the Republican policy of rro1i.
gaze expenditure, which in the short snaca Of
two years he's squandered an enormous .rrr1ns
ana eEn2t-ed an overlooking treasury after nj
lng new burdens Of taxation upon the alr~a5r
oyertaxed labor OF the country. We reita-ata
the oit-repes1ed doctrine of the Democratic
party that the necessity OF the government ia
the only justification for taxation and that
whenever tax Is Unnecessary II
Is uulustihsb.e, aud that when crs-
ton-house taxation is levied upon a..
ucles o. any kind produced in This
country the difference between the COS. ~ 1sho-
here and labor abroad, when such dissre,c.
exists, fully measures any possible bana4-s ~
lapoF, anu that the enormous additional ir,,nsi
tons OF the existing tariff fall with crnxh3,x
toTre upon our farmers and woEkiusrDe, Sc
Tiealng one class and exscting from 49,
grossly unjust share % the EXPENSE. OF ~. 60
eEnInent and We demand such revision of tha
tar!0 avs as Will remove the ir5ors-o,,z g.,
eqHslIGes, tighten taxation snd roe TIE ~ea-Ia
on constitutional and ecuitsbe bsss. hr,'3n
making reduction Of taxes i Ia not ,-on,s.s
% in!Gre any domestic industries bur rztbe- n
promote s. healthy growth From rhs for,a.
hon Of The government. the taxes collected 1T
the euston-house have been the chief saprce of
federal revenue such they must con,fnua 70
DC. Moreover, many industries have come to