Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1892-06-30
rHE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.

IUt uCuiOtAooAN PesAs t>o WIZ hntAOhat
convention held last week in Chicago,
.dopted the following declaration of prin-
dples
fhe representatives of the democratic
uarty OF the United States, in national
eouyention assembled, do reaffirm their
allegiance to the principles OF the party
i formulated by jefferson and exempli-
fed BY long, illustrious line Of success
ors in the democratic leadership, from
Madison to Cleveland: we believe that
the public welfare demands that these
principles be applied to the conduct of
The federal government through the ac-
cession to power Of the party that advo-
Gates them and We solemnly declare that
The need Of return to these fundamental
principles Of free popular govern ment,
based on home rule and individual lib
ety, was never more urgent than now,
when the tendency to centralize all power
at the federal capital has become men,
ace to the reserved rights of the states
that strikes at the roots of our govern
ment under the constitution, as framed by
the fathers Of the republic. We warn
the people Of a common country, jealous
for the preservation of their free institu-
tons, thas the policy OF federal control of
electionf, to which the republican party
has committed itself, is fraught with
the gravest dangers, scarcely less mo-
mentous than would result from a revo-
luton practically establishing mon
archy on the ruins OF the republic. 1t
strikes ut the north as well as the south,
and INJURIES the colored citizen more than
the white; it means hordes of deputy
United States marshals at every polling
place, armed with the power of returning
boards appointed and controlled by the
federal authorities, outrage of the elect
oral rights Of the people in states; the
subjugation Of the colored people to the
control OF the party in power and the re-
wing Of race antagonism now happily
abated; of the utmost peril to the safety
and happiness of all. measure deliber-
atsly and justly described by leading re-
publicans as the most Infamous bill that
ever crossed the threshold OF the senate.
This policy if sanctioned by law, would
mean the dominance of a self-perpetuat-
log oliganchy of officeholdeB, and the
party first intrusted with the machinery
could be disloged from power only by an
appeal to the reserved rights of the
people to resist oppression, which is in
herent in all self-governing communities.
Two years ago this revolutionary policy
was emphatically condemned by the peo-
pie at the polls, but in contempt of that
verdict the republican party has defiantly
declared in its latest authoritive utter
ances that its success at the coming
election will mean the enactment of
force bill and the usurpation of despotic
control over the elections of all states.
Believing that preservation OF repub-
llcan government is dependent upon the
defeat of a policy of legalized force and
fraud, weinvite the support of all citizens
who desire to see the constitution main
lained in its integrity with the laws pur-
'uant thereto, which have given our
country one hundred years of unexampled
prosperity, and we pledge the democratic
party not only to defeat the force bill, but
also to offer relentless oppression to the
republican policy of profigate expendi-
lure, which in the short space of two
years, has squandered an enormous sur
plus and emptied the overlooking treas
lry, after piling new burdens OF taxation
lpon the already overtaxed labor Of the
country.
THE TARIFF PLANK.
We denounce Republican protection as
fraud on the labor Of the great majority
u the American people for the benefit OF
few. We declare it to be the funda-
mental principles of the Democratic party
hat the federal government has no con-
titutional power to impose and collect
ariff duties except for the purpose Of rev.
niue only, and we demand that the col
ection of such taxes shall be limited to
he necessities OF the government when
honestly and economically administered.
We denounce the Mckinley tariff law as
he eliminating atrocity of class legisla-
ion; we indorse the efforts of the demo-
rats of the present congress to modify it's
most oppressive features in the direction
Il free raw material and cheaper manu-
actured goods that enter into consump-
ion; and we promise to repeal as one OF
he beneficial results that will follow the
ction of the people in intrusting power
o the democratic party. Since the Nc
Finley tariff went into operation there
ave been ten reductions in the wages Ut
aboring men to one increase. We point
o the dullness and distress, wage reduc-
ions and strikes in the iron trade as the
best evidence thas prosperity has not
'esulted from the Mckinley act.
We call the attention Of thoughtful
to the fact that after thirty
Years Of restrictive taxes against the i'm
purtation Of foreign wealth, in exchange
ior agricultural surplus, the homes and
'arms Of the country have become bur-
oened with mortgages of over $500, 900,