Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-09-14
National Democratic PIatfOrl.
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2lst, 1852.

Section The representatives os lt
Democra'ie psrty o. the United States. in
National Convention sembled, do reatirn
! their allegiance to the principles Of the par.
ty IS formulate by Jelle-son and ezenipli.
fed by q long and illustyious ii,c If his sue.
cessors in democratic Leadership from Mad.
ison to Cleveland We hclicy, that the pub-
lie welfare demands that tne,e princltle he
applied 30 he conduct OF the Feaerrl Gov
ernment through the accession to poyer OF
the party that advocates them; and We sol.
emnly declare that the need of ii return to
these fundamental principles Of free pop
ular government based on kome rule and
individual liberty was never more than now
when the tendency to cen.raize all power
at the Federal Capital has bcc0m a menace
to the reserved rights ofthe States that strike
at the very roots Of our Government Under
the Constitution as framed by the Republic
AS 10 THE FORCE BILL.
Sec. 2, We warn he people Of our com
mon country, jealous for the preservation OF
their free Institutions, that tbs policy of Fed.
eral control OF elections, TO which the Re.
pphiican party has committed itself, is
fraught with the gravest dangers, scarcely
less momentous that would result from d
revolution, practically establishing monar-
chy en- the ruins Of the Republic.
1t strikes at the North as well as the South
and injuries the colored citizens even more
than the whites. 1t means horde of dep
uty marshals at 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 subjugaton
Of the coored people to the control Of the
parry in power and 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 self perpetuating oligsrchy of office
holders, and the party first entrusted with
its machinery could be dlslodged from pow
er only by an appeal to the reserved right
OF the people to resist oppression which is
inherent in all sell-governing communities.
Two years ago this revolutionary power
was emphatieally cordemed by the people
at the polls; but in contempt of that verdict
the Republican party has defanty declared
in its latest authoritative utterance that its
succe IN the coming election will mean
the enac ment of the force bill and theusur-
patton Of despotic 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 unexampled
prosperity; and W. plfdge the Democratic
party, ifil be int! listed with power, not
only to tie defest of the force bill, but also
to resembles opposition TO the Republican
policy of prohigate expenditure, which in
the short space of two years has squandered
an enormous surp Us and emptled an over
lowing treasury after piling new burdens OF
taxation upon the already oyertaxed labor
Of the country