Daily Texarkana Democrat. (Texarkana, Ark.) 1890-1894, 1892-08-27
National Democratic Platform
sdoptca ny The National Democratic
Convention at Chicago, June
2lsi. 1892.

,bair allegiance 10 the prlnclpies OF the par
20 as formulate by Jefferson aud ezenlpli.
Sed by long and illustrious line of his sue
n no in Democratic leadership from Mad
;son IN Cleveland. We believe that the pub
liz welfare demands that these prinmples be-
annled 10 the conduct OF the Federal Gov
eminent through the accession to power OF
The marty that advocates them; and We sol.
a,nnly declare that the need of return to
,hosc fundamental principles of free pop
rlsr government based on homo rule and
individual liberty was never more than now,
when the tendency to cen.ralze all power
at the Federal Capital has become a menace
70 the reserved rights ofthe States that strike
at the very roots OF our Government under
the Constitution as framed by the Republic.
A. 10 THE FORCE BILL.
Soc 2. We warn the people of our com
mon country, Jealous tor The preservation Of
their free institutions, tnatthe pollcy OF FED
s.si control of elections, to which the Be-
publican party has committed Itself, is
fraught with the gravest dangers, scarcely
less momentous that would result from a
revolution, practically establishing monar-
cbv on the ruins of the Republic.
It strikes at the North as well as tie South
and INJURIES the COlOltQ NltihtHo ON6A UlOlt
han the whites. 1t means horde of dep
uty marshsls ut every polling place, armed
with Federal power, returning boards ap-
nointed and controlled by Federal author
;ty. the outrage OF the electoral rights OF the
neople in the several States, the subjugation
Of the colored people to toe control OF the
marty in power AID the reviving OF race an
taoonism, now happily absted, OF the utmost
neril to the safety and happiness OF all; a
measure deliberately and justly described by
a lesding Republican Senator SOS the most
Infamous bill that ever crossed the thresh
old of the Senate" such policy. if sane
toned by law, would mean the dominance
of a eli-perpetusting oligarchy OF office
holders, and the party first entrusted with
lis 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 Safeguarding communities.
Two years ago this revolutionary power
WA e,nphatically coademed by the people
at the polls; but IN contempt OF that verdict
the Republican party has doiantly declared
in its latest authoritative utterance that its
ucce S In the coming election will mean
the enactment of tie force bill and theusur-
nation of despotic control over elections in
all the States.
Believing that tho preser atom CT repub
licah 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 SEQ the
Constitution maintained IN its integrity with
the laws pursuant thereto which have given
our country hundred years Of uneXampled
prosperity; and W pledge tbs Democratic
party, if il be intiu ted with power, not
only to the defeat Of the force blu, but also
TO resembles opposition to the Repubncan
policy of prohigate expenditure, which in
the short space OF two ars has squsnderei
an enormous surp us and empted 40 over
lowing treasury after piling new burdens o.
taxation upon the already oYertaxed labor
Of the country
TARIFF TAXATION.
Sec 3. We denounce republican pro-
lection us fraud The robbery Of the great
majority OF the American people Tor the
benefit of The lew We declare it to be
fundamental principle OF the Democratic par
ty that the Federal Government has DO con-
stitutional power to impose and collect tariff
duties, except tor 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 administered
We denounce the Mckinley tariff Inv en-
acted by the Fifty-Grst Congress US th> cul
minating atrocity of class legislation; wo in
dorse the efforts made b, the Democrats OF
the present Congress 10 modify its most OPP
pressiye features in the direction Of free raw
materials and cheaper manufactured goods
hat Tar int, f,a,,orul and
promise It's repesl as one Of the benefcent
results that will follow the action OF the
people in intrusting powerto the Democrat
ic party Since the Mckinley taIitf went
into operation there have been ten ieduc-
tons Of the wages OF laboripg men TO one
increase. We deny that hele has been any
increase of property to the country since
that tariff went into operation; we point TO
the dullness and distress which wage reduc-
tons and strikes in tue iron trade as the
best possible evidence that no such pros
perity has resulted from the Mckinley act.
We call the attention OF thoughtful Amer
leans to the fact thai after thirty years of
restrictive taxes against tho importation OF
fereign wealth in exchange for our ugrlcul-
tural surplus the homes aud farms OF the
country have become burdcned with real
estate mortgage debt of over 81 500,0o0,00O
exclusive of all other forms Of indebted
ness; that in one Of the chof agricultural
States of the West there appears real es-
tate mortgage debt averaging $3.50 per cap
lta OF the total population; and that similar
conditions and Tenderness are shown to e,lst
N the other agricultural exporting States
We denounce policy which fosters no in
Iusary SO much as it does that OF the sheriff.
ALLEoED RECIPROCITY.
Sec 4. Trade exchange on tho basis OF
reciprocal advantages to The countries PAR
ticpating is tme-honored doctrine of the
Democratic faith, but we denounce tho sham