Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-05-26
State Democratic Platform.

Resolved /. We, the OemOcraCS OF
| Georgia, in convention assembled, reaf-
firm our devotion to the time honored
principles of our historic party. We
believe that the powers delegated by the
people should be strictly construed; that
the autonomy of States and the right Of
local self-government and hor Nrnle
should be jealousy guarded; lsAl9 nt
money should be taken from Che people
5ner than public
puIo :ctest economy
shouk. governmental
e~xpen& local, State OF
n~ationaS- IN should ne con
fined to G.c.amate objects OF the
government; that public Office is sol
emn public trust.
2. We believe that the same care and
caution should be used by the govern
ment. both State and nation, in the
expenditure of public money as is used
by prudent men in their own private
affairs.
3. We believe that .he right of taxa
ton was delegated to the government,
both State and national, to be used only
for absolute necessities, and any other
use of this power is dishonest and tyran-
meal.
4. A surplus revenue in the treasury is
a glittering prize to be sought after by
political thieves and plunderers.
5. We are uncompromisingly opposed
to the enlargement and concentration of
Federal powers; to the usurpation by the
central government of the functions of
State; to bouLties and subsidies in every
form; to every species Of class legisla-
ton and government partnership with
private enterprises; to the whole theory
and practice of paternalism.
G. We. who have within a generation
seen elections opened by the tap of a
drum, and the judicial powers Of the
State usurped by Courts Martial, and a
Legislature seized by a Military Clerk,
and the legally elected Representatives
of Re people turned out of Office to make
by force a subservient majority, have no
desire to take any chances on the politi-
cal future.
:. We consider the government control
of post offices as necessary and proper,
because the seal of the letter protects
the private affairs of the citizen from
governmental espionage, but we protest
against extending this control over tele-
graphs and telephones, and placing in
our midst a horde of ofice-holders who
will only be amenable to national laws
and may at any time, by the will of the
majority, or as often happens in our
Federal affairs. by the will of a minority,
be turned into spies and informers.
While we oppose governmental owner
ship of railroads, we endorse our State
Railroad Commission laws, and demand
that the powers of the Interstate Rail
road Commission be enlarged so as to
provide "a rigid, honest and just control
of railroad transportation.
s. We demand the free and unlimited
coinage of both silver and gold on a
parity with each other to the end that
the money of the PEOPLE shall be such
in quantity and quality as was originally
contemplated by thesConstitution.
9. We demand that the prohibitory ten
per cent tax on State bank issues be
stricken out of the national bank law,
and when this is done, we desire that a
uniform system of banking be provided
for by the Legislature of Georgia, with
a flexible expansive State BAN .drrency.
We further demand,that the prohibition
in the national bank law against accept
ing real estate as security for loans shall
be stricken therefrom.
10. We demand that the amount of the
circulating medium be speedily increased
on a sound basis sufficient to meet the
demands Of the country
II. We demand that Congress shall
pass such laws as win effectuany prevent
the dealing IN futures of all agricultural
and mechanical productions providing
d stringent system Of procedure in trials
that viii secure lzompt conyiction,and
imposing such penalties aszshan SECURE
Che most perfect compliance with the
11&ss "a S!
u. Believing inthe doctrine equal
rights to all and special prisiIee
1one, we de
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