The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-10-28
STATE DEMOCRATIC pLArFRom.
sdoehd 40 the GubernatoriaI Convention
August o, 1892.


liberty and constitutional governmentan-
nounced by the author of the declaration
ofAmeaican independence, illustrated by
him in his administration of the Federal
Government, and incnlcated by his State
papers and by his wise teachings, and
since, in the varying conditions Of our ma
tional life, promulgated and enforced in
national Democratic platforms and adj
ninistrabions, hereby mdorse the latest
utterances of the national Democracy as
embraced in the,pfatiorm adopted at Chi
Gago.
lGmbodying theHeiD the fundamental
and unchanging truths of constitutional
representative freedom, the national De
mocracy placed thereon rs candidates for
President and VcePresident Grover
Cleveland and Adlai i. Stevenson, men
worthy of the faith of the party; fully
qualified. to be its opponents before free
people, and thoroughly equipped to eXer-
oise the sacred functions of the high Off
aes for which they have been nominated
This convention of Tennessee Democ-
racy heartily and ungrudgingly indorse
their nomination and candidacy, because
fTeemen can trust men who believe that
"Public office is a public trust )" thatcon-
sttutional government is an agency of
the people,. that taxation in whatever
form or guise, beyond the plain needs of
government economically administered,
is robbery of the people; that the terror
of bayonets and the infamy of force bills
around the ballot boxes Of freemen are
not the Safeguards OF honest elections
and independent States; that class legis-
lhtiOn, however framed, and paternalism,
however yelled, are the source OF monop-
oily, and its entTenched fortress. whence
either boldly or secretly, come the men
ace to pure government and the corrupt
ing poison that emasculates individual
manhood and who, believing these eter-
nal truths, will exemplfy their virtues il
the performance of their administrative
duties and in the exercise OF their official
powers.
With respect TO State afiaiEs, the De-
moeraoy has no wish or purpose incon'
sistent with the rights Of the people anC
the highest welfare of our State. 1t has
no secrets and will conceal no aim il
vague words or behind indirect methods
We, therefore, declare for an economical
State Government, and that economy
shall rule in SO far as our party can Sc
cure it, in all departments and subdivis
ions Of our State government, so that the
product Of labor may remain for those
who made it,
(1) Labor in its various forms is thu
source of individual wealth and the basis
Of vigorous Statehood, and that labo
may receive its own it must not be unde
duress from convict labor and its corpor
ate organization We, therefore, favo
the abolition Of the penitentiary lease
system at the earliest date legally per
missible, and the erection, at a prope
place, Ola prison OF SUFFICIENT dimension
to hold our convlcts. and constructed will
reference to their classification, so tina
youths and those convicted of the Jesse
ofenses shall not be subjected to The as
soeiation and influences of the abandonet
and hardened criminals. While our pena
institutions and their management houlC
BE founded in humanity and prompted b,
the aim of reformation, still their supper
should come from the labor of those lie
gally confined in them, and not from
tax upon the honest people and industrie
OF the State
t2)i Taxation, to be just and in accord
ance with the Constitution, should b
aaual and uniform. We therefore deman
that our revenue system shall beregulate
in conformity to this plain dictate OF jus
ice and equally plain provision OF tn
Constitution. Double taxation is obnoz
ious to sound principle and the valuatio
of property should not determine tn
amouments,o OF its assessors. We pledg
our party to the reduction, OF the rate {
mxation and the retrenchment of Stat
expenses rather than to exercise the pow
ers of government in searching out ne
and unlounded sources of taxation upo
the people to meet extravagant expend
tTes.
go All public and quasi-publicagen
aud corporations owe duties tothe publ
and plain one is that they shall rend
equal service and accommodations 4
equal pay to all persons and sections alik
We therefor condemn all unjust discern
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