The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-06-28
IRE PLATFoRM.
Fun Text of the Prlnerpies Of the Demo-
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ne PLATFORM
Full Text the PrIreiples OF the Demo-
cratic Party.
! SECTION The representatives of the
! Democratic party OF the United States in
national con senrion assembled do reafIirrn
tnelr allegiance TO the principles of the
party as formulated by Jefferson and e.
empliiied by the long illustrious line of
his successors in Democratic LEADERSHIP
from Madison to Cleveland. we believe tie
public welfare demands that these princi-
pies be applied to the conduct of the federal
government through accession to power
OF the party,thnt advocates them; and we
soiemnly declare that the need of a return
70 these fundamental principles of the pop
uiar government based ON home rule and
lndiylduai liberty was never more urgeIst
IMAM now, when the tendency to centralize
all power at the federal Capitol has become
menace TO the reserved rights of the
states that strikes at the very roots of our
government, and under the constitution as
framed by the fathers of the republic
SEC. I've warn the people OF our com
mon country, jealous of the preservation of
their free institutions that the policy of
the federal control of elections to which
the Republican party has committed itself
is haught with the grayest dangers
scarcely less momentous than would result
from a revolution practically establishing
monarchy ON the ruins of the republic It
strikes at the north well as the south
and injuries the colored citizen even mors
than the white 1t means a hoard of deputy
EftAl POAAAAtB pttCes armed
with federal power, returning boards
appointed and controlled by federal
authority, the outrage of the cleo
toral rights OF the people in the several
states, the subJugation of the colored peo-
pie to the control of the party in power
and the reyiyi1g of race antagonisms now
happily abated: OF the utmost peril to the
safety and happiness of all:a measure Il q
hbeI7ltely and justly described by a leading
Republican senator ~ ssthe most infamous
bill that ever crossed the threshold of the
SENATE Such a policy, If sanctioned by
law, would mean the dominance of q self
perpetnating oligarchy OF Office hold
ers, and the party first entrusted with its
machinery could be dislolged from power
only By an appeal to the reserved right of
the people TO resist oppression, which is in
nercnt IN All seif-governing communities
INyo years ago this revolutionary policy
was emphatically condemned by the peo-
pie at the POLLS; but in contempt of that
S s1a Ine republican party has defiantly
uecIarea IN ITS latest authoritative utter
ances that its success in the coming cleo
tions Will mean the enactment of the
force bin and the usurpation OF despotic
heving that the preservation of rentibli-
can government in the United States is de-
pendent upon the defeat of this policy of
i leg forSe aud fraud, we invite the
support ct all citizens who desire to see
the nStitution maintained in its integrity
with the laws pursuant thereto which
nave given our country n hundred years of
Democratic rsrty, IL it be entrusted witt,
power not only TO the defeat of the force
bill, but also 10 tie relentless Opposition to
nne aepnnii.ssii. policy of profigate expend-
years has squandered an enormous sur
plus and enptied an overlooking treasury
after piling new burdens of taxation upon
tne already overtaxed labor of the country
SIC. 3.-We reiterate the oft repeated
doctrines OF tic Democratic party that the
necessity OF the government is the only
lustihcation for taxation, and whenever 4,
tax IS unnecessary it is unjustifiable: that
when custom house taxation is levied iupon
articles of any Kind produced in this coun-
W tue dtIterence between the cost of labor
mere and labor abroad, when such differ
ence exists, fully measures any possible
benefits to labor, and the enormous addi-
tlonal lmposltions of the existing tariff fall
with crushing force upon our farmers and
workinginen, and for the mere adyantac,e
OF the fcw whom it enriches, exact from
labor grossly unjust share of the expense
Oh Ine government, and we demand such a
revision OF the tariff laws as will remove
tneir iniquitous inequalities tighten their
expressions and put them on n constifrI-
tional and equable basis. But in making
reductions in taxes, it is not proposed 10
injure any domestic industries, but 10 nro-
mote their healthy growth. From tho
foundation OF this government the taxes
t3a 49, az the custom house have been
they must continue to be- Moreover many
industries have come to rely 1ron leoisia-
ton Tor successful continuance, so that
any change of law must be at every stem
regnrdful of the labor and capital thus in
vowed Inc process OF reform must be
srbJect in the execution to this plain die
tate Of justice.
We denounce the Mckinley tariff law
enacted by the Fifty-first congress as the
eliminating atrocity, of class legislation.
we endorse the efforts made by the Demo-
Gratis OF the present congress to modify its
most oppressive features in the direction az
Tree raw material and cheaper Inanufac-
tured goods that enter into general CON
~ tIIa anu we promise its repeal one
OF tine penencent results that will follow
tne actlon OF the people in entrusting
power TO the Democratic party Since fbe
mckinley tarth went into operation there
have been ten reductions of wages of Labor
TO one increase. We deny that there has
been any increase of prosperity Ia fba
country since that tariff went into opera
tfess, the wage reduction and strikes in
tne IRON traeie as the best possible evidence
that no such prosperity has resulted from
s se 4i hlchiniey act We call the attention
AFTER the thirty years of restrictive taxa
ton against importationz of foreiorn
s Metlln IN exchange for our agricultural
products, the homes and FARMS of fbe
country have become burdened with a real
estate mortgage OF over two thousand five
hundred million dollars, exclusive of All
~ si. l9rLns OF indebtedness; that in one
OF tine chief agricultural states of the west
There appears a real estate mortgage debt
averaging S165 per capita Of fbe
total population, and that similar
conditions are shown to exist in other 40,
r1euituraI states We denounca n roIis5Sv
Whlcn fosters no industry so much AZ r.
does that of the sheriff. - ~
SEC 4-trade Interchange on the tas;.
OF reciprocal advantage to this countr-7
Participating Is ume-honored doctrine n
the 1elnocratlc faith. but we denouoce TIE
snam reciprocity which juegles with fhe
peoples desire for ENLARGED foreion
markets and freer exchange bv r,ref MI
ing TO establish trade relations for y cof,,,
Wy whose articles of export are almost sT
ciusiveiy agricultural with other con ,s,;s,s
tnaI are also agricultural, while erecting :.
teseoin nous barrier OF prohibftfve tariff
taAes against the richest Countries Of fI,e
world that stand ready to take our entire
surplus OF products and TO exchange ther,s
lor commodities which are necesslrv and
are are comforts OF life among our own PEG,
exc: a-We recognize In trusts and mo-
nopoiies, which are designed by capital IL,
secure more than their Just share Of the
JOINT product of capital and labor =
natural consequences of prohfbitive tares
Mnich prevent the free Competition which
~ tne NE OF honest trade. but we beIieve
tnelr worst evils can be abated tv law and
we demand the rigid enforcement Of Laws
maae 70 prevent and control them -
getner With such further legislation IL -
stfalnf 81 their abuses as experience NAV
sho@ TO be necessary - = 80 may
SIC. 1.-THE Republican marty xvb;Ia
processing policy of reservincr rho. r,,,ISfs>s