The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-06-03
TENNESSEE DEMOCRACY.
Eun Text Of the Platform as Adopted b.
state uernacratic Convention.

NASHVILLE. May 26.-Eollowing Is
the platform adopted by the Democratic
eve, the Democratic party of Ten.
nessee in convention assembled, believe
that the powers delegated by the people
should be strictly construed; that the
autonomy of the States and tho rights
of local self-government and home rule
should be jealously guarded; that no
money should be taken from the people
under any pretext for other than public
purposes; that the strictest economy
should be exercised in all governmental
expenditures, whether local, State or
NATIONAL; that legislation should be
confined to the legitimate objects of the
government; that public Office Is q sol
eml public trust.
'We are uncompromisingly opposed
to the ell irgement and concentration OF
Federal powers; to the usurpation by
central government of the functions of
thu States; to bounties and subsidies in
every form, to every species of class
legislation and government partnership
with private enterprises; to the whole
theory and practice of paternalism.
"The Democratic party is the fast
friend of the farmer and the laboring
man. We recognize the fact that they
are unjustly burthened, and We sJmpa-
thize with them in all proper attempts
at relief; but we regard as il1usory, i'm
practicable and unconstitu tional all
such measures as the subtreasury and
land loan schemes and governmental
ownership of railroad 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 prosperity of the country by
legitimate means. The Democratic
party is alone able and willing to adopt
and pursue a course of Legislation til a.
would secure 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.
eve condemn its wasteful and cor
rupt expenditure of public money by
reason of which the appropriations have
not only reached the unparalleled sum
of 81, 900, 900, 900, or about $5 per annum
for every man, woman and child In the
country, but laws have been enacted
making satisfactory reduction of ex'
penditures impossible except by re.
peal of those laws, which cannot be done
until the Democratic party comes in full
control of the government.
"We condemn the passage of the Nc
Kinley act as a base surrender to the
greed of tariff-built trusts. We con-
denim it's reciprocity policy as temper
izing scheme intended to soothe the
people with a measure of partial free
trade, delay the downfall of monopoly
and throw sop to New England.
1--WE condemn the attempt to pass
that monstrous and infamous measure
known as the force bill, by which it was
sought to rule the people of the South
by the bayonets of Federal power,
rather than by the ballots of It's own
citizens.
1--WE condemn the policy of building
up private industries and private for
tunes by means of takirgs from the
public treasury. While we favor liberal
expenditures for pensions, we utterly
condemn the reckless granting OF PEN
sions to sixty-day suffers, camp fol.
lowers add bounty jumpers, and the
making of the whole pension system a
huge machine for the distribution OF
party spoils. We condemn it as part
of the general policy of the government
under the Republican rule to drain the
South of its wealth and carry 1t to more
favored sections.
1--WE favor the enactment OF law
levying a graduated tax upon the
swollen incomes of the rich to be held
and used as trust fund for the pay
ment of pensions.
1--WE favor 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 neces-
stiles of internal trade and commerce
among the people; and we further favor
a parity of the two metals as CONNER
cial unit of value, and as legal tender
for the payment of all debts, public and
private, as existed under the laws of the
United States down TO the infamous and
surreptitious demonstration of silver
in 1873 by the Republican party; and
we further favor gold bullion in such
manner as that every dollar so coined
shall be equal to every other dollar.
''The Democratic party believes that
the Federal Government alone has the
right and power under the constitution
to coin and issue its money circulation;
that the national banking system is q
monopoly, comforting unequal and un-
precedented privileges upon the rich
and land holding classes, enabling them
to draw interest from the government
and from the people, both upon their
debts at the same time.
THE Democratic party is opposed tc
secret political organizations as sub
versive of good government.
1--WE endorse the wise and patriotic
administration of Grover Cleveland as
president of the United States and re-
cognize him as the great leader of tarifl
reform, and express our continued con-
fidence in him, and hereby instruct the
delegates from Tennessee to vote as a
unit for his nomination at the Chicago
convention, which assemblies June 2lst.
prox., so long as his name shall be be-
fore the convention"
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