The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1892-06-30

that stand ready to take olr entire
surplus Of products and to exchange
therefor commodities which are neces-
saries aud comforts Of life among our
own people.
SEC. 5-We recognize IN the trusts
and combinations, which are desigred
to enable capita to secure more than
its just share of the joint product of
capital and labor, u natural conse-
quence Of the prohibitive taxer which
prevent the free competition which is
the life OF honest trade, but we believe
their worst evils can be abated by law,
and we demand the rigid enforcement
Of the laws made to prevent and con-
troll them, together with such fur her
legislation ia restraint Of their abuses
as experience may show to be neces-
sary.
SEC 6.-The republican party while
protesting a policy of reserving the
public land for small holdings by ac-
tual, has given away the peoples heri-
tage till now a few railroad and nom
resident aliens, individual and corpo-
rate, posses a larger area than that of
all our farms between the two seas.
The last democratic administration re-
versed the iMprovident and unwise
policy OF the republican party touch
ing the public domain, and reclaimed
from corporations and syndicates,
alien and domestic,and restored to the
people nearly one hundred million
acres Of valuable land to be sacredly
held as hnmeste, DIS tor u citizens,
and we pledge ourselves " continue
this policy until every acre OF land so
unlawfully held shall. be reclaimed and
restored to the people.
DENoUNCEs THE SHERMAN ACT.
Sec. We denounce the repubIi.
can legislation known as the Sherman
act OF 1890 as cowaIdly makeshift
fraught with possibilities OF danger in
the future which should make all OIL
its supporters, as well as its author
anxious for its speedy repeal. We
hold to the use of both gold and silver
as the standard money of the
country, and to the coinage of boil
gold and silver without dlscriminat
ing against either metal or change fol
mintage, but a dollar unit of coinage
of both metals must be equal intrinsic
and exbhangeable value, or be adjusted
through international agreement or b,
such safeguards OF legislation as sha
insure the maintenance Of the part,
Of the two metals, and the equal p0we
of every dollar at all times in til
markets and in the payment of debt
and we demand that all paper Curren
cy shall be kept at par with and re
deenlable in such coin. We insist W
on this policy as especially ~nece.sar.
for protection OF the farmers and la
boring classes, the first and most de
~fenceless victims of unstable IN ne.
and t%luctuating currency.
SEC 8.-We recommend that In
prohibitory ten per cent tax IN Stat
bank issues be repealed
SEC. 0-Public Office is a publ
trust. w reaffirm the declaration {
the national convention of 1876 fc
/ the reform of the civil service and W
! call for the honest enforce nent OF tn
laws regulating the same. The non
nation of a President, as in the recer
Republican conventions, by delegi
! tons composed largely of his appoiI
9 tees, holding office at his pleasure, is
scandalons satire IN free popular il
, stitltti0ns and a startling illustrate
of the methods by which a Presider
= may crafty his ambition. We d
nounce a policy under which FEEDER
officers usurp control of party CONVEX
q tons in the States, and We pledge II
Democratic party to the reform
= these and all other abuses whic
threaten individual liberty and loct
self government.
FOREIGN POLICY.
Sec. 10.-The Democratic party
the only party that has ever given
l. the country a foreign policy consis
e ent and vigorous, compelling respe
abroad and inspiring confidence
home. While avoiding entanglit
alliances it has aimed to cultiva
/ friendly relations with other nation
IL and especially with our neighbors {
le the American continent, whose destir
ie is closely linked with II own, and
view with alarm the tendency to a pt
O. icy of irritation and buster, which
n likely at anV time to confront us wi