Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-06-30
THE. DAILY ARGUS.
aoLDsBoRo. N. c.. JUNE 80 1892,
The national Democratic Platform

The National Democratic Platform,
The report of the Platform Com
mittee was as follow:
Sec. L. Representatives of the
Democratic party of the United
| States, in National Convention as
sembled, do rcafirm their alleg-
lance to the principles of the party
as formulated by Jefferson and ex-
empliied by a long and lflustrious
lire OF his successors in the Denl~
ocrat leadership, from Madison to
| Cleveland. We believe the public
welfare demands that these prine
cipies be applied to the conduct of
the Federal Government through
the accession to power of the party
that advocates them, and we sol
EMMY declare that the need of a
return to these fundamental princi-
Piles OF free popular government,
based on home rule and individual
liberty, was never more urgent
than now, when the tendency TO
centralize all power at the Federal
Capital has become a menace to the
reserved rights of the States, and
that strikes at the very roots Of
our Government under the consti-
tuition as framed by the fathers Of
the Republic,
Sec. 3. We warn the people q
our country, jealous for the pre-
%servation of their free institutions,
that the policy Of Federal control
OF elections to which the Republi-
can party has committed itself is
brought with the gravest dangers,
scarcely less momentous than
would result from a revolution
practically establishing monarchy
on the ruins of the republic; it
strikes at the North as well as at
the South and Injuries the colorod
citizens more that the white, I.
means a horde of deputy marsha
at every polling place armed with
Federal authority, outrage CT the
electoral right of the people ii
several States, subjugation Of Il
colored people in control CT til
party in power, and the %reviviu
Of race antagonisms now happi.g
abated. Oftbe utmost peril to tt
safety and happiness of all, it Is de-
scribed by g leading Republican
Senator as "tsle most Infamous BIZ
that ever pas .edthe threshold of til
Senate" Such policy, if sanctionec
by law, would mean the domino
ton of a self-perpetuating oligarchy
of the officeholders, and party frs
~entrusted with its machinery could
be dislodged from power only bJ
an appeal to the reserved rights o
. the people to resist oppression
which is inherent in all self-govern
ing communities. Two years ag'
this revolutionary policy was EN-
phatically condemned by the pee
pile at the polls, bat in contemp
of that verdict the Republican
party has defiantly declared in it
latest authoritative utterance tina
its success in the coming e%lectio'
will mean enactment of the Fore
bill and usurpation of despoti
control over elections in all tn
States. Believing that the pre-
seryation of a Republican for1
ofgovernment in the United State
is dependent upon the defeat
this policy of legalized force an
fraud, we invite the support of a
citizens who desire to see the Con
stitution maintained in its integ
rity with laws pursuant theret,
which have given our country a
hundred years of unexample
prosperity, and we pledge tt
Democratic party, if it be entrust
ed with power, not only to dete:
the Force bill, but also to relentle
deposition to the Republican polio
of profigate expenditure, whic
in the short space of two years b
eeuandered an enormous surpl'
l and emptied an OVERLOOKING Ire
sury, after piling new burdens
vtaxation upon the already owe
taxed labor of the country.
Gel Sec. 8. Substitute offered by Il
minority and adopted We q
zen e, nounce Republican protection as
fraud OIL the labor of the gre
It's majority of the American peopl
Nv for the benefit of the few. We d
spd clare it to be the fundament
principle of the Democratic par
THAT the Federal Government b
no constitutional power to impo
and collect tariff duties except
noe purposes of revenue ouly. Ia
st plause and cheers. And we d
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