Daily Texarkana Democrat. (Texarkana, Ark.) 1890-1894, 1892-07-20
DEMOCRATIC STATE PLATFORM
Adopted by the Democratic State Con-
YentIOn at Little Rock,
June 14th, 1892,
THE PLATFORM.

administration OF the Government; and that
the people can safely trust the party founded
| by jefferson, and whose principles were en-
/ phasized in the splendid, patriotic and nom
! sectional administration Of Grover C.eye-
! land.
We denounce the Republican party for
I its fragrant abuse and prostitution Of power
/ during the last four years. Coming into full
control of all branches of the Government
in 1888 by the use of unprecedented corrup-
ton fund; largely ! WED upon Government
| fayorites by those before aud since, close,
personally and officially, to the chief beno-
flciary, that party Immediately entered upon
crusade of tyrany, fraud and prctiigste
extravaganza never before yontured upon by
any party IN times Of peace.
1t found the treasury with a large ard
daily increasing surplus, and in times OF
great depression, accompanied by the uni
versal demand for relief from the burdens
Of taxation, it dIssip0ted the surplus by
making annual appropriations tf S5OO,0OO,-
| 600, largely for unnecessary and utterly IN
defeLsiblo purposes, and thereby failed to
meet and discharge the maturing bonded in
| debtedn9ss Of the Government, and now finds
| itself confronted with an imminent deticien-
IL
| priations permanent, for 10 other purpose,
than to prevent the people from correcting
the 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.
| Kinley bill, and finally, frightened by the
extremities to which it had gone, sought to
appcage the pubic discomfort by reciprocity
fraud, the adoption Of which was a confess
sion Of the iniquity it had perpetratcd.
1t deprived States OF their just representa-
/ tfUI by Il II Sc CELSIUS,
1t deprived, in the most insolcnt and ar
| bitrary manner, and practically without an
opportunity to be heard, representatives CT
the people Of their seats in the lower House
( Of Congress.
And, finally drunk with its own excuses,
it fought TO perpetuate the wrongs it had
done by depriying the people Of the right to
hold their own e ections ard choose their
own servants by the enactment of the in
| lannon's and execTable force bill.
It treated with utter contempt all ideas OF
economy and honesty, both in it. pension
| legislation and in its administration Of that
/ bureau.
1t rejected Democrtic territories ard ad
NIT ID Republican territories in order to re-
tain party supremacy.
| This regime Of Tyranny, extravaganza and
wrong doing, contrastcd with the ecan,
| honest, prudent and wise administration Of
/ Grove Cleveland, brought upon the ReIub-
lican party the most Stupendous defeat that
ever befell any party in this country, and
/ inspired anew with confidence and hope all
the people in the possibility Of preserving
! free goyernmonttor mankind.
We declare our abiding fidelity to the
/ Constitution Of the United States in its let
| ter and spi it.
! We declare our faith in the capacity Of
the people for selt-government, and in t,ew
inherent right to enjoy it, free from all Fed
ergl interference,
We denounce the Republican party be-
cause it turned its back upon the interests
Of the great masses Of society. and sound,
stable government for all, and allied its for
tunes With corporate Wellth, squander NJ
millions of the public domaia upon raj roads
| fostering legislation, the legitimate offspring
OF which has been combinations and trusts,
expressing the labor it professed to protect
aud fastening ever increasing burdens on
agriculture, until the homes Of the people in
great sections Of the country are covered
| with mortgages, and the markets of the
world closed to the fruits Of honest toll.
We denounce the Mckinley tariff as o
crime against honest government and flee
people, rot only because it leVies an unncc-
essary tax and thereby imposes wanton and
cruel burdens on the people, but because it
| destroys the markets fer their Surplus pro-
ducts.
We denoun &c it because it is class leglsla-
ton, enacted in the interest Of the favored
few, who arc wealthy, and at the expense
and for the oppression OF the great mass Of
the people.
We denounce it because it does not in
crease wsges but Surrendcrs the taxing pow
er Of the Government to the manufacturers.
and leaves it TO the employers to detcrmine
whether they will divide the immense boun-
| ty it yields with those they employ.
We denounce it because it is an abuse
and porversion Of the taxing power of the
Constitution, which was intended to DO
used to raise necessary revenue for the sup
port OF thu Government, into the means Of
! plundecing all for the benefit of class.
We deuounco it because it naugurated
for the first time in free Government, the
| practice Of taking from the public treasury
the uoney collected for public purposes
from all the people, and with il, pay boun-
ties to select industries.
We denounce it because it destroys the in
dependence and self.reliance Of the people,
which is a National Characteristic, and
and teaches them TO rely upon government
tai iayoritsm.
We denounce it because the inevitable
tendency OF this system is the destruction Of
popular government, in the deb0uchmont Of
the ballot, by tribute eStorted from favored
classes, whose enormous bounties depend
upon The continuance Of the system i'solf
We declare that tho mission Of the Demo-
cratic party is o so reform the tariff by a
reduction Of taxation as to limit the revenues
of the Government to its absolute necess
ties when economically administered, and to
so franc its tariff schedules rs to place the
burdens OF government upon the luXuTies
and not np0n the necessrros Of lite.
We favor n safe and sufficient currency,
composed OF gold and silver and legal tender
paper, convertible into coin on dem md, and
maintained at par with each other,
We declare It to be the duty Of the Demo-
cratic party to preserve the parity iE value
OF gold and silver, and 70 provide the means
by The equal and fair treatment Of both met
ais.
We denounce the Sherman Silver bill as
an obstruction to the fair treatment Of silver
and as a sham and pretcnse, intended to
postpone honest honest legislation and to
appoase the SILVER producers while giving no
relief to tho people.
We declare our purpose TO continue to
maintain, support and develop our public
schools in tho interest Of general intelligence
and sound and stable government.
We declare it to be the sense OF this cen
We ton that the PenotontiaTy lease system
should be abolished, ard System adopted
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