The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1892-06-28
THE PLATFORM.
Full Text OF the Principles of the Demo-
cratic Party.

fuil Text OF the principles OF the Demo-
cratic Party.
SECTION 1.-The representatives of the
Democratic party of the United States in
national convention assembled do reaffirm
their allegiance to the principles of the
party as formulated by Jefferson and ex-
emplified by the long illustrious line of
his successors in Democratic leadership
from Madison to Cleveland; we believe the
public welfare demands that these princi-
Piles be applied to the conduct of the federal
government through accession to power
of the party that advocates them; and we
solemnly declare that the need of return
to these fundamental principles of the pop
ular government based on home rule and
individual liberty was never more urgent
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. Awe 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 fraught with the gravest dangers,
scarcely less momentous than would result
from revolution practically establishing
monarchy on the ruins of the republic. 1t
strikes at the north as well as the south,
and Injuries the colored citizen, even more
than the white; it means hoard of deputy
marshals at. every polling place, armed
with federal power, returning boards
appointed and controlled by federal
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 reviving of race antagonisms now
happily abated, of the utmost peril to the
safety and happiness of all; measure de-
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Republican senator as "the most infamous
bill that ever crossed the threshold of the
senate" Such policy, IL sanctioned by
law, would mean the dominance of self
perpetuating oligarchy of office hold
ers, and the party first entrusted with its
machinery could be dislodged from power
only by an appeal to the reserved right of
the people 10 resist oppression which Is in
nerent IN all selsgoverning communities.
Two years ago this revolutionary policy
was emphaticnlly condemned by the peo-
pie at the polls; but in contempt Of that
verdict the Republican party has defiantly
declared in its latest authoritative utter
ances that Its success In the coming cleo
tions VIII mean the enactment Of the
force bill and the usurpation of despotic
control over elections In all the states Be
heving that the preservation of republi-
can government in the United States is de
pendent upon the defeat OF this policy of
ieBhllIeu Iorce ana fraud, we invite the
support OF all citizens who desire to see
the constitution maintained in it's integrity
with the laws pursuant thereto whiah
have given our country Il hundred years of
unexampled prosperity. and we pledge the
Democratic party, II it be entrusted with
power not only to the defeat of the force
bill, but also 10 the relentless opposition to
the Republican policy of prohigate expend-
iture, which in the short space of two
years has squandered an enormous sur
plus and ernptied an OVERLOOKING treasury,
after .piling new burdens of taxation upon
the already overtaxed labor of the country
SEC. Awe reiterate the oft repeated
doctrines of the Democratic party that the
necessity of the government is the only
justification for taxation, and whenever a
tax is unnecessary it is unjustifable; that
when custom house taxation is levied upon
articles of any kind produced in this coun-
try the difference between the cost of labor
here and labor abroad, when such differ
ence exists, fully measures any possible
benefits to labor, and the enormous addi-
tional impositions of the existing tariff fall
with crushing force upon our farmers and
workingmen, and for the mere advantage
OF the few whom it enriches, exact from
labor a grossly unjust share of the expense
OF the government, and we demand such q
revision OF the tariff laws as will remove