Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-07-02
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
1t is Long, But Will Repay Uni
versal Study
The Convention Changed Platform
Committees Report-As Reported
the Tariff Plank Was the Same as
Voted Down in 1884.


convention assembled. do reafirm their allegi
ance to the principles of the party as formu.
lated by jefferson and exempliied by long
and ilustrious line of his SUCCESSORS in the dem
ocratic leadership from Madison to Cleveland
We believe the public welfare demands that
these principles be applied to the conduct of the
federal government through the accession to
power of the party that advocates them; and
We solemnly declare that the need of a return to
these fundamental principles OF free, popular
government, based on home rule and individual
liberty. was never more urgent than nov when
the tendency to centralize all power at the fed
eral capital has become a menace to the re-
served rights of states that strike at the very
roots of our government under the constitution
as framed by the republic.
Section 2. We warn the people of our common
country, jealous for the preservation of their
free institutions that the policy Of federal con-
has committed itself is fiaught with the gravest
dangers, scarcely less momentous than would
result from revolution practically establishing
strikes at the north well as the south, and in
3ures colored citizens even more than white; it
means horde of deputy marshals at every poll
boards appointed and controlled by federal au-
thority; outrages upon the electoral rights OF
the people in several states; the subiugation of
power, and the reviving of race antagonism,
<now happily abated) of the utmost peril to the
safety and happiness to all; measure deliber-
can senator as "the most infamous bill that ever
crossed the Threshold of the senate" Such a
policy, If sanctioned by law, would mean the
stockholders, and the party first entrusted with its
machinery could be dislodged from power only by
IN appeal to the reserved right of the people to
governing communities. Two years ago this
I6e eops at Ss
in rnnfa mint nf hot dict q o
republican party has de6antly declared
IN its latest authoritative utterances that its
success in the coming elections will mean the
eeepotic control over elections in all the states.
Believing that the preservation of republican
upon the defeat Of this policy Of leeaiisei force
md fraud, we invite the support or all citizens
who desire to see the constitution maintained
q its integrity, with laws pursuant thei etc,
which haye given our country a hundred years
democratic party if It be entrusted with power,
not Only to the defeat OF the force b1 but also
Of profigate expenditure. which in the short
space Of two years has squandered an enormous
surplus and emptied an oyerfowing treasury.
after putting new burdens OF taxation upon the
Already overtaxed labor of the country.
Section 3. las adopted, being substitute for
the section reported by the platform commit
fraud upon the labor of the great majority of
the American people for the benefit of the few.
We declare it to be the fundamental principle
OF the democratic party that the federal govern
ment has no constitutional power to impose and
collect tariff duties except tor purposes of reve-
nue. only and we demand that the collection Of
such taxes shall be limited to the necessities of
government,. when honestly and economically
administered.
Section 4. Trade interchange, on the basis of
reciprocal advantage to the country is time
honored doctrine of the democratic faith, but |
We denounce the sham reciprocity which juggles |
with the peoples desires for enlarged foreign |
ss ssoss
whose articles of export are almost exclusively /
agricultural products with other countries that |
are also agricultural, while ERECTING custom
the richest countries of the world that stand !
ready to take our entire surplus of products and
10 exchange therefor commodities which are |
and comforts of life among our own i
people.
Section 5. We recognize no trusts and combi- |
nations, which are designed to enable capital
product of capital and labor, q natural |
consequence of prohibitive taxes which prevent |
free competition, which is the life Of honest |
abated by law, and we demand a rigid enforce
ment of the laws made to prevent and control
them, together with such further legislation in
restraint of their abuses as experience may
Section 6-The republican party, while pro-
Tossing policy Of reserving public lands for |
small holdings by actual settlers, has given |
away the peoples heritage till now a few rail-
roads and nonresident aliens, individual and
corporate possess larger area than that of all
ocratic administration reversed the IMPROVE
dent and unwise policy of the'republican party
touching the public domain and reclaimed from
tic, and restored to the people nearly ioo.ooooeo
acres of valuable land, to be sacredly held as
homesteads for our citizens; and we pledge |
Of land so unlawfully held shall be reclaimed |
and restored to the people.
Section Z. We denouncS khe republican legis-
cowardly makeshift, fraught with possibilities |
of danger in the future which should make all |
of its supporters, as well as Its author anxious |
gold and silver as the standard money of the |
country, and to the coinage of both gold and |
silver without discriminating against either /
unit of the coinage of both metals must be of |
equal intrinsic and exchangeable value, or be |
adjusted through international agreement, or
sure the maintenance of the parity Of the two |
metals, and the equal power of every dollar at |
all times in the market and in payments of |
shan be kept at par with and reasonable in |
such coin; we insist upon this policy especial
~ necessary for the protection of farmers and |
less victims of unstable money and fuctuating |
Section eight demands that the prohibitory
pvblic trust, and demands the enforcement Of
The civil service Law.
Secfion ten views with alarm the tendency of4he |
present administration to policy OF irritation
and buster, rs liable to confront us with the
alternative OF humiliation or war. 1t fayors q
consistent, vigorous foreign policy and favors
the maintenance of an efficient navy.
Section eleven condemns oppression by the
Russian government of its Jewish and Austrian
subjects, and tenders profound sympathy to
those struggling for home rule and self govern
ment in Ireland.
Section twelve approves the rigid enforcement
Of immigration laws but invites immigration of
the industrious and worthy OF all foreign lands.
Section thirteen favors just and liberal pom
sions and denounces the present administration
bureau az incompetent corrupt disgraceful,
dishonest.
Section fourteen declares IN favor of the per.
manent improvement of the Mississippi and
other great waterways.
Section fifteen favors the early construction OF
the Nicaragua canal and its protection against
foreign control.
Section sixteen declares that congress should
make such necessary financial provisions as
shOuid be requisite to the maintenance OF the
national honor and public faith.
Section seventeen fayors liberal appropria-
lions BY the various states in support Of public
schools and declares the opposition of the party
30 state interference with parental rights and