The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1892-06-25
rhe Majority I,epprt

The representatives of the democratic
party Of the United States, in nationaI
convention assembled, do rcaflirm their
allegiance TO the principles Of the party as
formulated by Jefferson and cxclnpitied
by IL long, illustriou. line of SUCCESSORS in
democratic leadership from Madison to
Cleveland. We believe that the public
welfare demands that these principles be
applied to the conduct of the federal gov
crnment through the accession to power of
the party that advocates them; and we do
solemnly declare that the need of IL return
to these fundamental principles OF free
popular government, based on home rt,le
md individual liberty, was never MO
urgent than now, when the tendency to
centrnlizc all over at the federal capital
has become n menace to the reserved
rights of the states that strikes Mt the
root of out government under the constit,i-
ton as framed by the fathers of tho re-
public.
We warn the people of oar common
country, Jealous for the preservation of
their free Institutions, that the policy of
the federal control Of elections TO which
the republican party has committed itself
is fraught, with the gravest dangers.
result from a revolution practic
ally establishing II monarchy on
the ruins Of the republic 1t
strikes at the north as we'll as the south
and Injuries the colored citizen more than
the white: 1t means deputy marsha at
every polling plncc armed with federal
power, returning boards appointed to con-
troll federal authority, the outrage of the
electoral rights of the people in the states,
the subingntion OF the colored people to
the control of the party in power and re-
viving race antagonisms, now happily
abnted, of the utmost peril to the safety
and happiness OF nll--a lnensu e dclibcr-
ately aud justly described by n leading re-
publican senator ns the most infamous
bill that ever crossed the threshold of the
senate.
Such policy, If sanctioned by law,
would mean the dominance of n self-per-
petunting oligarchy of office holders, and
the party first entrusted with the ma
chinery could be disiodged from power
only by an appeal to the reserved right of
the people to resist oppression, which is
inherent In all self-governing communi.
ties Two years ago this revolutionary
measure was condemned by the people Mt
the polls, but in contempt Of that verdict
the republican party has deinntly de-
clnred in an authoritative uttcrnncc that
its success MT the coming g cctions will
mean the enactment of n force bill and
the usurpntion of lespotic control over the
elections in all stntcs
Believing that the preservation OF re-
publican government is dependent upon
the defeat of policy of legaiized force
and fraud, we invite the support of all
citizens who desire to see the constitution
maintnincdin its integrity with tho laws
pursuant thereto which have given our
country. u hundred years of unexamplcd
prosperity.
W. pledge tho democratic party not
only to defeat tho force bill, but also 70
relentless opposition at the republican
policy OF protiiga.e expenditure whicli In
the abort space Of two years hns squau-
dcred the enormous surplus and emptled
the overaowing treasury, after piling new