Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-09-10
National DsmOeratIc Platform
Adopted ny liir National pemurrs:ic
'o-'eniion at iiaao, june
2lst, 1852.

Adopted ny iiir faticnaI pcmucrs: ic
to-Yeniion ut hl,aao, june
2lst, 1852.
Section l, The represent tives of Tie
Democratic party of the United States, in
National Convention a-sembled do reafiirm
their allegIanca to the principles of the par
ty as formulate by Jefferson aud ezempli-
fed by a long and illustrious line If his sue
eessors in Democratic leadership from Mad
ison to Cleveland. We belieyo tbat the pub
lie welfare demands that these principles be
applied to tho conduct OF the Federal Gov.
ernment through the accession to power OF
the party that advocates them; and we sol
EMMY declare that the need of return to
these fundamental principles of free pop
ular government based on home rule and
individual liberty was never more than now,
when the tendency to cen.raize all power
at the Federal Capital has become menace
to the reserved rights ofthe States tLat strike
at the very roots of our Government under
the Constitution as framed by the Republic.
As 70 THE FORCE BILL.
Sec. 2. We warn the people of our com
mon country, jealous for the preservation OF
their free institutions, that the policy OF Fed
eral control Of elections, to which the Re-
publican party has committed itself, is
fraught with the grayest dangers, scarcely
less momentous that would result from a
revolution, practically establishing monar-
ehy en- the ruins of the Republic.
1t strikes at the North as well rs the South
and iniuies tho colored citizens even more
than the whites. 1t means horde of dep
uty marshals ut every polling place, armed
with Federal power, returning boards ap-
pointed and controlled by Federal author
ity, the outrage OF the electoral rights OF the
people in the several States, the subjugation
Of the colored people to the control Of the
parry in power aud tie reviving Of race an
tagonlsm, now happily abated, of the utmost
peril to the safety and happiness OF all; a
measure deliberately and justly described By
a leading Republican Senator "as 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 sell perpetuating oligarchy of office
holders, and the party first entrusted with
its machinery could be dislodged from pow
er only by an appeal to the reserved right
of the people to resist oppression which is
inherent in all self-governing communities.
Two years ago this revolutionary power
WAS emphatically condemed by the people
at the polls; butin contempt Of that verdict
the Republican party has defantly declared
in its latest authoritative utteTance that its
succe STA the coming election will mean
81 q 4 ba 4 h.,
patton of des potic control over elections in
all the States.
Believing that the preser alton OF repub-
lican government in the United States is
dependent upon the defeat OF this policy OF
legalized force and fraud, We invite the
support Of Il citizens who desire to see the
Constitution maintained In its integrity with
the laws pursuant thereto which have given
our country hundred years Of unexamped
prosperity; and We pledge the Democratic
party, il il be int usted with power, not
only to the defeat of the force bill, but also
to resembles opposition to the Republican
policy cf profigate expenditure, which in
the short space OF two y ars has squandered
an enormous surp us aud emptled an over
lowing treasury after piling new bul deDs OF
taxation upon the already oyertaxed labor
OF the country
TARIFF TAXATION.
Sec. 3. We denounce Republican pro-
lection as fraud. The robbery of the great
minority OF the American people for the
benefit of the few. We declare it to be a
fundamental principle OF the Democratic par
ty that the Federal Government has no con-
stitutionsl 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 wien honestly and econ
omcally administered.
We denounce the Mckinley tariff law en-
acted by the Fifty-irst Congress as the cul
minating atroeity of class legislation; we in
dorse the efforts made by the Democrats OF
the present Congress to modify It's most OPP
presslve features in the direction Of free raw
materials and cheaper manufactured goods
that enter into general consumption, snd we
promise its repeal as ono of the bcnefcent
results that will follow the action of the
people il lntrusting powerto the Democrat
ic party. Since the Mckinley tariff went
into operation there have been ten reduc-
tions of the wages OF laboring men TO one
increase. We deny that there 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-
tions and strikes in the 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 that after thirty years OF
restrictive taxes against the importation OF
fereign wealth in exchange for our agrlcul-
tural surplus the homes and farms of the
country have become burdened with real
estate mortgage debt of over $2 6O0,0O0,O0O
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 $l55 per cap
ta Of the total population; and that similar
conditions and Tenderness are shown to exist
in the other agricultural exporting States.
We denounce policy which fosters no in
iustry SO much as it does that Of the sheriff.
ALLEGED RECIPROCITY.
Sec. 4. Trade exchange on the basis OF
reciprocal advantages to the countries par
ticipating is time-honored doctrine OF the
Democrats faith, but we denouncs the sham
reciprocity which juggles with the peoples
desire for erlareed foreign markets and
freer exchange by pretending to establish
closer trade relations with country whose
articles Of export arc almost exclusively ag-
ricultural products with other countries that
are also agricultural, while erecting q Gus
tom m.house barrier ofprohibitlve tariff taxes
against the richest countries Of the world
that stand ready to take our entire surplus
of products and to exchange therefor COM
modities whlce are necessaries and comforts
of life among our own people.