Daily Texarkana Democrat. (Texarkana, Ark.) 1890-1894, 1892-11-02
National Democratic Platform
,doptea by the National Democratic
convention at Chicago, June
21st, 1892.

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suo tormulatel by jefferson and ezempli.
a. bv a long and illustrious line Of his sue.
nou IN Democratic leadership from Mad.
.a 20 Cleveland. We believe that the pub
i;O wallace demands that these principles be
NJ ,Iiod TO the conduct OF the Federal Gov.
ePp,,ont through the accession to power OF
w. ,,srtv that advocates them; and we sol.
VIZ declare that the need of a return to
H., G fundamental principles of free pop
L. government based on home rule and
; u'5i liberty was never more than now,
H., the tendency to cen.rslize all power
y" %T the Federal Capital has become menace
az tbo reserved rights ofthe States that strike
al the very roots OF our government under
the Constitution as framed by tho Republic
AZ 70 THE FORCE BILL.
Soc .. We warn the people of our COM
IN country, Jealous for the preservation Of
tboir free institutions, that the policy OF Fed
orsl control of elections, to which the Re-
~nb,ican party bias committed itself, is
frauobt with the gravest dangers, scarcely
loss momentous that would result from a
royolution, practically establishing monsr-
cbv en- the ruins of the Republic.
II strikes at the North as well as the South
and Injuries tho colored citizens even more
Than the whites. 1t means horde of dep
utv uarshals at every polling place, armed
with Federal power, returning boards sp-
nointed and controlled by Federal author
tv. the outrage OF the electoral rights OF the
neople in the several States, the subjugatioD
Of the colored people to tbe control of the
Marty in power and the reviving of race an
taoonism, now happily absted, of the utmost
npril to the safety and happiness OF all; a
measure deliberately aud Justly described by
= leading Republican Senator "as the most
infamous bill that ever crossed the thresh
old of the Senate" such policy, if sane
toned bv law, would mean the dominance
of a sell perpetuating oligarchy of office
holders, and the party first entrusted with
It's machinery could be dlslodged from pow
or only by an appeal to the reserved right
of the people to resist oppression which is
Inherent in all sell-governing communities.
Two wears ago this revolutionary power
was emphatically CONDEMNED by the people
at the polls; but in contempt of that verdict
the Repuhlcan party has detiantly declared
in its latest authoritative utterance that its
:ucce SIN the coming election will mean
the enactment of the force bill and the usur-
nation Of DIES otto control over elections in
all the States.
Believing that the preser alton Of repub-
Tcan government in the United States is
dependent upon the defeat of this policy OF
legslized force and fraud, We invite the
support Of Il citizens who desire TO see the
Constitution maintained IN its integrity with
the 1Sws pursuant thereto which have given
our country hundred years of unexampled
prcspority;and we pledge the Democratic
party, il it be int usted with power, not
pYIy to the defeat of the force bill, but also
IN resembles opposition to the Republican
policy of prohgate expenditure, which in
the short space OF two years has squandered
an enormous surp us and emptled an over
lowing treasury after piIing new burdens OF
taxation upon the already overtaxed labor
Of the country
TARIFF TAXATION.
Sec. 3. We denounce Republican pro-
lection AS q fraud. The robbery of the great
majority OF the American people for the
benefit of the few. We declare it to be a
fundamental principle OF the Democratic par
tv that the Federal Government has no con-
sttutonal power to impose and collect tariff
duties, except for the purposes of revenue
only, and we demand that the collection Of
such taxes shall be limited to the necessities
of the Government when honestly and econ
omically admlnistereu' ;a,
acted by the Fitty-6rst Congress as the cul
minating atrocity of class legislation; we in.
dorse the efforts made by the Democrats Of
the present Congress to modify its most OPP
presslve features in the direction of free raw
materials and cheaper manufactured goods
ra 49, ts oesI ss one of tbe henefcent
results that will follow the ACTON OF the
people in lntrust'ng powerto tne democrat
iC party. Since the Mckinley tallH went
into operation there have been ten reduc'
tons of the wages OF laborlng men 10 one
increase. We deny that there has been any
increase OF property to the country since
that tariff went into operation; we pont 10
the dullness and distress which wage reduc'
tions and strikes in the IRON trade as the
best possible evidence that no SUCH pros
perty has resulted from the Men inley sct
We call the attention OF thoughtful Amer
leans to the tact that after thirty years oil
restrictive taxes against the importation OF
fereign wealth in exchange for our agrlcul'
turaI surplus the homes ana Farms OF tne
country nave oocoius oulueneS 90 T zoo 900 600
exclusive Of all other forms of indebted
ness; that in one of the chief agricultural
States of the West there appears real es-
tate mortgage debt averaging $155 per cap
tia OF the total population; and that similar
conditions and Tenderness are shown to exist
in the other agricultural exporting States
We donounce policy which fosters no in
lustry so much as il does that of the sheriff
,rrropn prcrpRoorry.
ALL Nv wa '''''''
Sec 4. Trade exchange on The basis OF
reciprocal advantages to the countries par
tcipating is q time-honored doctrine OF the
Democratic ialth, put we oen1u . 'ne snai
reciprocity Whlch Juggles WIN 1ne peop,e
desire Tor ENLARGED foreign UlhTheJs anu