Daily Texarkana Democrat. (Texarkana, Ark.) 1890-1894, 1892-10-29
National Democratic Platform
,,o,,ea Dy the NatioDal Democratic
60 ypntlou at Chicago, June
2lst, 1892.

section /. The representatives of the
na,oocrstie party of the United states, in
s1o.,onsl Convention assembled, do reatirm
.ha;r allegiance to the principles OF the par
". .no az formulate by Jefferson and ezempli-
"a by long and illustrious line OF his sue
nou IN Democratic leadership from Mad
;'on To Cleveland. We believe that the pub
Io weIfsre demands that these principles be
nv 10 the conduct OF the Federal Gov
aPpnaent through the accession to power of
en- rsrtv that advocates them; and we sol.
tno deolare that the need of return to
t eIn fundamental principles of free pop
IL Government based on home rule and
;ndividual liberty was never more than now,
i lr The tendency to centralize all power
v. he Federal Capital has become menace
ac tbe reserved rights ofthe States that strike
~ tbe very roots of our Government under
tbo Constitution as framed by the Republic.
A. 10 THE FORCE BILL.
soc >. We warn the people of our COM
~ country, Jealous for the preservation OF
,ho;r freq institutions, that the policy OF Fed
wi control OF elections, to which the Re-
',.h,ic.n psrtv has committed itself, is
t.,n,bt with the gravest dangers scarcely
- r,onentous that would result from
r,voIution. practically establishing monsr-
INV en- the ruins of the Republic.
II strikes at the North as well as the South
Nd iniures tn, colored items even more
hon the whites 1t means a horde of dep
',tv marshals ut every polling place, armed
Nth Federal power, returning boards ap-
nointed and controlled by Federal author
II, the outrage OF the electoral rights OF the
noonle in the several States, the subjugation
IF The colored people to the control of the
Marty in power and the reviving of race an
t"oon,sm, now happily abated, Of the utmost
noril to the safety and happiness of all; a
measure deliberately and Justly described by
A.. leading Republican Senator 'as the most
Infamous bill that ever crossed the thresh
lid of the Senate" such policy, if sane
Toned by law, would mean the dominance
oF q .eli -perpetusting oligarchy of office
holders. and the party first entrusted with
lie machinery could be dlslodged from pow
or only by an appeal to the reserved right
If the people to resist oppression which is
inberont in all sell-governing communities.
Two years ago this revolutionary power
wss en1phatically condemed by the people
no Republican patty has defantly declared
H. lis latest authoritative uttetance that its
.prce SIN the coming election will mean
;hp enactment Of the force bill and the usur-
n,ticll Of des otie control over elections in
al re states.
Believing that the preser alton OF repub-
l;n,r government in the United States is
,.apondeut upon the dafeat Of this policy of
.,,alizpd force ani fraud, We invite the
s.,r,;art of Il cltzans who desire to see the
i,orstltution inlint4ined IN its integrity with
= o .us pursuant thereto which have given
o,;r country hundred years of uDeXampled
prosperity; and W. plodge The Democratic
par.v. if il be int uted with power, not
ony to the defeat Of the force bill, but also
to reaeutless opposition to the Republican
policy of prodigate expenditure, which in
the short space OF two years has squsndered
an enormous surp us and emptled an over
lowing treasury after piling new burdens of
'axation upon the already overtaxed labor
ot the country
TARIFF TAXATION.
Sec. 3. We denounce Republican pro-
tecton as a fraud. The robbery of the great
majority OF the American people for the
benefit of the few We declare it to be a
fundamental principle Of the Democratic par
ty that the Federal Government has no con-
stitutional power to impose and collect tariff
duties, except tor the purposes OF revenue
only, and we demand that the collection OF
such taxes shall be limited to tho necessities
of the Government when honestly and econ
omlcally administered.
" denouuce the Mckinley tariff law en-
acted by the Fitty-6rst Congress as the cul
minating atrocity of class legislation; we in
dorse the efforts made by the DemoC rats OF
the present Congress to modify its most OPP
presslva features in the direction of free raw
materials and cheaper manufactured goods
that enter into general consumption, snd we
promise lts repeal as ono of the benefcent
r. suits that will follow the action Of the
people in lntrusting power 10 the Democrat
ic party. Since the Mckinney talif went
into operation there have been ten reduc-
tons OF the waves OF lahorng men 20 one
increase Wq deny that there has been any
Increase ot property to the country since
TINT tariff want into operation; we point to
the d,Ilness and distress which wage reduc-
tons and strikes in the iron trade MS the
best possible evidence that no such pros
pnrity has r. suited from tho Mckinley act.
We call the attention of thoughtful Amer
leans to the fact that after thirty years OF
restrictive taxes against the importation OF
feregn wealth in exchange for our agrlcul-
tursI surplus the bones and farms OF the
country have heroine burdened withra real
estate mortgage debt Of over So 500,0O0,OOO
exclusive of all other forms of indebted
ness; that in one of the chiof agricultural
States of the West there appears real es-
tate mortgage debt averaging Sl55 per cap
ita OF the total population; and that similar
conditions and Tenderness are shown to e>ist
in the other agricultural exporting States.
We denounce policy whicn fosters no in
lustry so much as it does that of the sheriff.
ALLEGED RECIPROCITY.
Sec, d. Trade exchange on The basis OF
reciprocal advantages TO the countries par
ticlpating is time-honored doctrine OF the
Democratic faith, but we denounce the sham
reciprocity which juggles with the peoples
desire for ENLARGED foreign markets and
frcer exchange by pretending to establish
closer trade relations with country whose
artlcles cfexport are almost exclusively ag-
ncutural products with other countries that
ARE also agricultural, while erecting GUS
tom house barrier of prohibitive tariff taxes
against tho richest countries Of the world
that stand resdy to take our entire surplus
Of products and to exchange therefor com
modities vince are necessares and comforts
Of life among our own people.
AGAINST TRUSTS.
Sec. s. We recognize in the trusts and
combinations which are designed TO enable
capital TO secure more than It's just share OF
the Joint product of capital and labor and
natural consequence of the prohibitlve taxes
which prevent the free competition, which
is the Tito of honest trade; but we believe
their worst evils can be abated by law, and
we demsnd the rigid enforcement of tho laws
made to control and prevent them, together