Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-27

The platform Is quite lengthy doc
ument, and is full of sound DemOcra-
cy. After pinning its faith to the
Democratic standard and urging strict
economy in the expenditure of public
money in governmental affairs, the
platform says:
"The Democratic party is the fast
| friend of the farmer and laboring
men. We recognize the fact that they
are unjustly burthened; and we SYM
pathize with them in all proper at.
tempts at relief but we regard as illu-
sorry, impracticable and unconstitu-
tional all such measures as the sub
treasury, land loan schemes and gov
ornamental ownership of railroads and
telegraph lines. We think many good
men have been misled in Tennessee
by erroneous teaching on these points,
and therefore, in utmost kindness, we
invite all classes to join with US In
persistent efforts to restore the pros
perity Of the country by legitimate
means. The Democratic party is alone
able and willing to adopt and pursue
course of legislation that would Sc
cure the equal rights of all classes.
We denounce the course of the last
Republican Congress, to whose record
we call attention, as showing the dan
gers of Republican rule. We condemn
its wasteful and corrupt expenditure
of public money by reason of which
the appropriations have not only
reached the unparalleled sum Of one
billion dollars, or about (S8) eight dol
lars per annum for every man, woman
and child in the country, but laws
have been enacted making a satisfac-
tory reduction Of expenditures impos.
sible except by repeal Of those laws,
which cannot be done until the Demo
cratic party comes into full control of
the Government. We condemn the
passage Of the Mckinley act as base
surrender to the greed of tariff built
trusts. We condemn its reciprocity
policy as a temporizing scheme inten.
ded to soothe the people with meas
ure Of partial free trade, delay the
downfall of monopoly and throw a
sop to New England. We condemn
its attempt to pass that monstrous and
infamous measure known as the force
bill, by which 1t was sought to rule the
people of the South by the bayonets
of Federal power rather than by the
ballots of its own citizens. We con-
denim its policy OF building up private
industries and private fortunes by
means of largesses from the pub
lie treasury. While we favor liberal
expenditures for pensions, we utterly
condemn the reckless granting of pen
sions to sixty day suffers, camp follow
ers and bounty Jumpers and the max
ing of the whole pension system huge
machine for the distribution of party |
spoils. We condemn it rs a part of the |
general policy Of the Government |
under the Republican rule to drain the |
South of its wealth and carry it to
more favored sections. We favor the |
enactment of law levying a gradu-
ated tax upon the swollen incomes of |
the rich to be held and used as trust |
fund for the payment of pensions.
We favor a currency of gold, silver
and Of paper convertible into coin at |
the option of the holder, and in such
amount as will meet the business me-
cessities of internal trade and COM
merce among the people; and we fur.
Their favor a parity of the two metals
as a commercial unit of value and as a
legal tender for the payment of all
debts, public and private, as existed
under the laws of the United States
down to the infamous, surreptitious de-
of silver in. 1873 by the
Republican party; and we further
favor the continued coinage of both sill
yer and gold bullion In such manner
as that every dollar so coined shall be
equal to every other dollar. |,
The Democratic party believe that
the Federal Government alone has the
right and power under the Constitu-
ton to coin and issue its money circu- I
ation that the national banking sys-
tenn is monopoly, comforting unequal
and unprecedented privileges upon the
rich and land-holding classes, enabling
hem to draw interest from the Gov ,
srnment and from the people both
Upon their capital and upon their debts
It the same time.
The Democratic party is opposed to
secret political organizations as sub |
yersive of good government.
We indorse the wise and patriotic
of Grover Cleveland as
President of the United States, and re-
,ognizing him as the great leader of
ariff reform, and express our con.
inued confidence in him and hereby
instruct the delegates from Tennessee
o vote as unit for his nomination at
he Chicago convention, which assem-
lies June Il prox., so long as his name
hall be before the convention. Re |
pectfully submitted.
w. H. JACKSON, Chairman. T,
Nashville, May %, 1892.
The report was unanimously adopt I