Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-09-13
National Democratic Platform
Adnp'ea ~ lhe National cmecra l..
to.fcn'.sn at hj'sge, June
2isI. 1872.

Section The representatives of The
lleMoers'ie party % he United >lates, in
National CanyMtiOn n sembl.d, do reafiiin,
their alleglance to the principcs Of the par.
ty as formulate by Jefferson an. azeninii-
fed by long and illus,rious linc of bis sue
eessors n democratic esdership from Mad
ison TO Cleveland. We bclicy, that the pub
lie welfare dunanis that tnesa princlrles be
applied TO he conduct ol ths Federal Gov
ernment through the accession to power of
the party that advocates them; aud we sci.
emHly declare that the need of u return TO
these fundamental principles of a free pop-
ular government based on lone rule and
individual liberty was never more than now,
when the tendency to cen.ralze all power
at thc Federal Capital has becom menace
TO the reserved rights ofthe States that strike
al the very roots of our Government under
the Constitution as framed by the Republic
as TO 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
ert control OF elections, to which the Re-
publican party bas committed itself, is
frsught with the gravest dangers, scarcely
less momentous that would result from a
revolution, practically establishing monar-
chy en- the ruins Of the Republic.
1t strikes at the North as well as the South
and iniues thu colored citizens even more
than the whites. 1t means horde of dep
uty nlarshals 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 subiugaton
oi the c0lored people to the control Of the
parry in power and TIE reviying of race an
agomsm, now happily abated, Of the utmost
peril TO the safety and happiness OF all;
measure deliberately and Justly described by
a leading Republican Senator "as the most
infamous bin that ever crossed the thresh
old of the Senate" such policy, if sane
toned by law, would mean the dominance
Of u self perpetuatng oligarchy of office
holders, and the party first entrusted with
its machinery could be dlslodged from pow
er only by an appeal to tho reserved right
Of the people to resist oppression which is
inherent in all sell-goyerning communities.
Two years ago this revolutionary power
wss emphaticslly CONDEMNED by the people
at the polls; but in contempt Of that verdict
the Republican party has defantly declared
in its latest authoritative utterance that its
sueee IN the coming election will mean
the enac ment of the force bill and theusur-
patton Of oespotic control over elections in
all the States.
Believing that the preser alton of repub-
licsn government in the United States is
dependent upon the defeat of this policy Of
legslzed force and fraud, We invite the
support Of Il citizens who desire to see the
Constitution maintained IN its integrity with
the laus pursuant thereto which have given
our country hundred years of unexampled
orcsperity;a and We pledge the Democratic
oarty, il il be intl lusted with power, not
,niy to the defeat OF the force bill, hut also
20 resembles opposition to the Republican
oolicy cf profigate expenditure, which in
the short space Of two y ars has squandered
an enormous surp Us and empued an over
lowing treasury after piling new burdens OF
taxation upon tho already oyertSxed labor
OF the country