Daily Texarkana Democrat. (Texarkana, Ark.) 1890-1894, 1892-08-30
DEMOCRATIC STATE PLATFORM
Adopted blythe Nempcratlc slate Con-
Ycnti0n ri .liiie Rock,
Jane 1llh, 1872.
THE PLArFoRM,

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administration OF the Government; and that
the people can safely trust the parry founded
by jefferson. and whose principles were en-
phasized 10 the splendid, patriotic and non
sectional administration Of Grover eve
land.
We denounce the Republican party FOL
it, fagrart abus and prostitution Of power
during the last four Yeas. Coming into tull
control of all branches CT the { government
in 1888 by The use Of unprecedent' ccrrup'
ton fund; largely Wed upon Govenment
fayorites by those before and since, close
personally and officially, 10 he chict bene-
Heiary, that party Immediately enter d upo
crusade of tyany, fraud snd preAigate
extravaganza never beio'e venture upon by
any party IN times of peace.
1t found the treasury With a large hnd
daily increasing surplus, and in times Of
great depression. accompanied by the uni
versal demand for relief from the burdens
Of taxation, it dlssi pated the surplus by
masking annual appropriations # S50O,000,-
000 largely for unnecessary and utterly in
d,feLsble purposes, and thereby failed to
meet and discharge the maturing bonded in
debted 9ss Of the Government, and now find;
itself confronted with an imminent deician-
cy. Moreover, it made many of its appro-
priations permanent, for 70 other purpose,
than to prevent the people from correcting
tie evils done, so long as the Republican
party retained control of either the Senate
or Chief Magistracy of the nation.
1t transcribed all precedents in vicious
class legislation, in the enactment Of the Nc.
kinney bill, and finally, frightened by the
extremities to which it had gone, sought to
appcase the pubic discomfort by reciprocity
fraud, the adoption Of which was a confess
sion of the iniquity it had perpetrated
1t deprived States Of their just representa-
ton by ia Sc census
1t deprived, in the most insolcnt and ar
bitra,y manner, and practically without an
opportunity to be heard, representatives OF
| the people Of their seats in the lower House
| Of Congress.
And, finally drunk with its own excuses,
it ought TO perpetuate the wrongs it had
done by depriving the people of the right TO
hold their own ections and choose their
own servants BY the enactment of the in
lannon's and execiable force bill.
1t treated WITH utter contempt all iteas OF
economy and honesty, both in it, pension
legislation and in its administration Of that
| bureau
1t rejected Democratic territories ard ad.
mitted Republican territories in order to re-
tain party supremacy.
This regime of tyranny, extravaganza and
wrong doing, conlrasted with the can,
honest, prudent and wle administration Of
Grover Cleveland, brought upon the Rel ub.
ican purity The most stupendous defeat that
ever beiell any party in this country, and
inspired anew with confidence and hope all
The feopie in the possibility Of preserving
| tree government for mankind.
We declare cur abiding fidelity to the
| Constitution of the United States in It's let
ter and spi it.
We declare our fsith in the capacit, OF
the people for selt-govornment, and ia Their
inherent right to enjoy it, free from all Fed
| erul interference,
We denounce the Republican party be-
cause it turned its back upon the interests
Of the great mas es Of society, and sound,
Stable government for all, and allied its for
tunes With corporate We lth sQuander ng
millions ct the public domain upon raj roads
fostering Legislation, the legitimate offspring
which has been combinations and trusts,
expressing the labor it professed 70 protect
and fastening ever increasing burdens on
agrculture, until the homes CT the people in
great sections of the country are covered
With mortgages, aud the markets Of the
world closed TO the fruits of honest toll.
We denounce the Mckinley tariff as a
crime against honest government and free
pc pie, not only because it levies an unnoc-
essary tax and thereby imposes wanton and
cruel burdens on the people, but because it
destroys the markets icr their Surplus pro-
| ducts.
We denounCe it because it is class leglsa-
zion, enacted in the interest of the favored
few, who are wealthy, and at the expense
and for The oppression Of the greet mass of
the people.
We denounce il because it does not in
crease wsges, but sulrenders the taxing pow
or of the Government TO the manufacture rs,
and leaves il TO the employers to determine
whether they will divide the immense boun-
ty it yields With those they employ.
We denounce it because it is an sbuse
and perversion Of the taxing power of the
Constitution, which was intended to be
used to raise necessary revenue for the sup
port OF tn Government, into the means of
plundering all for the benefit Of class.
We donounce it because it lnaugurated
for the first time in free Government, the
practice OF taking from the public treasury
the oney collected for public purposes
| from ali the people, and with 1t, pay boun-
ties to select industries.
We denounce it because it destroys the in
dependence and self-reance of the people,
which is National Characteristic, and
and teaches them TO iolY upon government
tai favoritsm.
We denounce it because the inevitable
tendency OF this system is the destruction Of
popular government in the debauchment OF
the ballot, by tribute extorted from favored
Glasses, whose enormous bounties depend
upon tho continuance Of the system Itself
We declare that the mission Of tho Demo-
cratic party is 10 so reform the tariff by a
reduction Of taxation as to limit the revenues
of the Government to its absolute neeessi.
ties when economically administered, and to
so frame its tariff schedules as to place the
burdens OF government upon the luxuries
and not npon tho necessrries Of lite.
We favor salo and sufficient currency,
composed OF gold and silver and legal tender
paper, convertible into coin on demand, and
maintained nj par with each other.
v O declare II to be the duty Of the Demo-
cratic party to preserve the parity E value
OF gold and silver, and TO provide The means
by tho equal and fair treatment Of both met
ais.
We denounco tho Sherman Silver bill as
an obstruction to the fair treatment Of silver
and as a sham ana pretense, intended to
postpone honest honest legislation and to
appease the silver producers while giving no
relief to The people.
We declare our purpose to continue to
maintain, support and develop our public
schools in the interest Of general intelligence
and sound and stable government.
\ We declare it to be the sense Of this con-
| We ton that the Penelentiary lease system
should be abolished, and n system adopted
| for tho treatment Of convicts moro consistent
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