Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-09-15
National QsnOoratlc Platform
Adopted iy 'ht National lcmocrajit
to.Nent."', at hi aeo, jane
Fist, 1892.

See;ion The representatives Of The
i!emocrs'ie party o. the United States, in
National CanvcHt;on assembled, do reaffjrm
their allegiance 70 the principl,s of the par.
ty as formulate by Jefferson snl ssenipli-
fed by loug end illustrious line Of his sue
oessors in Democratic ieadersbip Iron Mad-
ison to Cieveland, We bality, that the pub
lie welfare demands taat these primer, les he
applied TO 'hr conduct OF the Federal Gov
ernment through the accession to uoyer of
the party that advocates them; and we sol.
EMMY declare that the need Of return to
these fundamental principles of free pop
ular government based on home rule and
Individual liberty was never more tbsn now,
when the tendency to cen.rslize all power
at tie Federal Capital has becom menace
to The reserved rights ofthe States that strike
a. the very roots of our Government under
the Constitution as framed by the Republic
az 70 THE FORCE BILL.
Sec 2. We warn the people Of our com
m on country, jealous for the preservation OF
their free institutions, that the policy of Fed
eral control of elections, to which the Re-
publican party bas committed ITSELF is
fraught with the gravest dangers, scarcely
less momentous that would result from a
revolution, practically establishing monar-
chy en- the ruins of the Republic.
1t strikes st the North as well as the South
and Injuries thu colored citizens even more
than the whites 1t means horde of dep
uty marshals ut every polling place, armed
with Federal power, returning boards ap-
pointed and controlled by Federal author
ity, the outrage OF the electoral rights OF the
people in the several States, the subjugation
oi the colored people to tDe control of the
parry in power and TIE reyiving of race an
aeomsm, now happily abated, Of the utmost
peril to the safely 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
old of the Senate" such policy, if sane
toned by law, would mean the dominance
Of a sell perpetusting oligarchy of office
holders, and the party first ,ntrusted with
its machinery could be dlslodged from pow
er only by an appeal to the reserved right
Of the people to resist oppression which is
inherent il all self-governing communities
Two years ago this revolutionary power
was emphatically condemned by the people
at the polls; but in contempt of that verdict
the Republican party has defantly declared
in its latest authoritative utterance that its
succe IN the coming election will mean
the enac Sent of the force bill and theusur-
patton Of despotic control over elections in
all the States.
Believing that the presere alton of repub-
lican government in the United States is
dependent upon the defeat OF this policy of
legaized force and fraud, We invite the
support of Il citizens who desire to see the
Constitution maintained In its integrity with
the la0s pursuant thereto which have given
our country hundred years Of unexampled
prospcrily;and We pledge the Democratic
oarty, ii il be int u,ted with power, not
lnly 20 the defeat of the force bill, but also
20 lescntless opposition to the Republican
policy Of pTofigate expenditure, which in
.he short space OF two y'ars has squandered
An enormous surp us and empued an over
lowing treasury after piling new burdens of
AVIATION upon the already oyertaxed LABOR
VI the country