The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-30
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC
PLATFORM,

I'd States in national convention as
,embleo do reafifrn their alleg ance
to the principles OF the party a. for
? nulated by Jefferson and axempll-
led py the long and IiIustrious line
, % nIs successors 10 Democratic lead
ershiU from Msdlson 10 Cleveland &.
, He celeve the public welfare de-
snauds that these principles be sp>
.ulis d to the conduct OF the Federal
i Government through the accession
to lower OF the Party that advocates
= tbem: and VT solemnIy declare that
, the need of a return 10 those fuuda>
mental principles Of fre1, popular
= government, based on home rule and
Individual i'll etty, vas never more
ARGENT than now, when the tenfe"ct
: to centralize all power st the FEEDER
al capital has become q menace to
| tie reserved rights Of the States that
: strikes at the very roots Of our gov~
eminent under the Constitution as
framed by the fathers Of the republic
FEDERAL CONTROL OF ELECTIONS.
Section 2. We warn the people
, OF our common country, jealous for
the preservation of their free institu
tions, that the policy of Federal con
trol of elections, to which the Repub
. lican party has committed itself, is
, fraught with the graveeC dangers,
| scarcely less mOmentous THAI would
: result from q REVOLUTION practically
establishing monarchy on tie RUNS
, Of tie republic. 1t strikes at the
North as we'll as the South, and in>
5 lures the colored citizens even more
3 than the whites; 1t means a horde Of
, deputy marshals at every poliing>
; place, armed with Federal power, re-
g turning boards appointed and con-
: trolIed by Federal authority, the out
: roge of the electoral rights of the
9 people in the several States, the sab
. jugation Of the colored people to the
g contlol Of the party in power, and
: the reyiving Of rare antagonisms,
!, now happily abated, of the utmost
peril to the safety and happiness OF
all; q measure deliberately and justly
described by leading Republican
- Senator az the most Infamous DILL
, that ever crossed the threshold of the
o Senate. Such policy, if sanctioned
e by law, would mean the dominance e
% Of a self-perpetuating oligarchy oil
j holders, and the party first en-
Is trusted with its machinery could be
p dlslodged from power only by an ap
" peal to the reserved right Of the PEG
9 pie to resist oppression, which is in
r herent in all selfgoyerning commu
If mites. Two years ago this reyolu
E. tionary policy was emphatically con
u demned by the people at the polls
a but IN contempt Of that verdict thu
d Republican party has defantlg de
;e clared that its success In the coming
% elections will mean the enaCtment o
u force bill, and the usurpation o
tespotic control over elections in al
the States.
AGAINST TIE FORCE BILL AND EX-
TRAVAGANCE.
al Believing that the preservation
rs OF republican government Ia th'
le United States is dependent upon th'
le defeat of this policy of Iegaiize(
II force and fraud, we invite the sup
Ie port of all citizens who desire to SEE
e the Constitution maintained in it,
1. integrity, with the laws pursuan
thereto which have given our coun
70 try hundred years Of unexampleC
IS prosperity, and we pledge the Demo
g cratic party, if it be entrusted will
s, power, not Only TO the defeat of thu
rs force bill, but also to the RELENTLESS:
ID opposition to the Republican policy
re Of prodigate expenditure, which, il
d the short space of two years, has
l. squandered an enormous surplus
g. and emptled an overlooking treasury
ID after plling new burdens Of taxation
upon the already overtaxed labor o
r. the country.
l. Section 8 We reiterate the oft
Is peated doctrine of the Democrat,
~ party that the necessity Of the gov
u eminent is the only Justification 70
Is taxation, and whenever tax is an
81 necessary it is iustifable; tina
i when custom-house taxation IS lev
4 led upon articles Of any kind pro
d. duCed in this country the differences
IL between the cost Of labor here anC
II abroad, when such a difference exists
fully measures any possible benefit.
LII to labor, aud the enormous addition
> al impositions Of tAe existing TART