Daily Texarkana Democrat. (Texarkana, Ark.) 1890-1894, 1892-07-22
National Democratic Platform
Adopted by the National Democratic
Convention at Chicago, June
21St, 1892.

National Convention assembled, 90 reallrnl
their allegiance to the principles of the par
ty as formulate by jefferson aud ezempli-
fled by long sBd iitastro0s ine Of his sue
cessors in Democratic leadership from Mad
ison to Cleveland. We believe that the pub
lie welfare demands that these principles DO
applied TO the conduct OF the Federal Gov
ernment through the accession TO power q
the party that advocates them; and We col
EMMY declare that the need Of 9 return TO
these fundamental principles Of q free pop
ular government based on home rule ard
individual liberty was never more than now,
when the tendency to centralizo all power
at the Federal Capital has beccma menace
TO the reserved rights oftbe States that strike
at the very roots of our Government under
the Constitution as framed by the Republic.
AZ 70 THE FORCE BEL.
Sec. 2. We worn the people Of our con-
mon country, jealous for the preservation OF
their free institutions, thatthe policy ct Fed
eral control Of elections, to which The Re-
publican party has committed Itself, Is
fraught with the gravest dangers, scarcely
less momentous that would result from 4
revolution, practically establishing monar-
chy en- the ruins Of the Republic,
IL SbfshtS Nv b4lt ANOt vi ~ NOlA % plJ Ot~s'
and Injuries the colored citizens even more
than the whites. 1t means horde Of dep
uty marshals ut every polling place, armed
with Federal power, returning boards APP
rojnted and controlled by Federal author
ity, the outrage OF the electoral rights OF the
people in the several States, the subjUgation
of the colored people to The control Of the
parsy in power and the reyiving of race an.
ho,orilr- hatol nj t1a
peril to the safety and happiness OF all; q
measure deliberately and justly described by
leading Republican Senator "ss the most
infamous bill that ever crossed the thresh
old of the Senate" Such policy, if sane
of sell perpetuating olig2rchy Of office
holders, and the party first entrusted with
its machinery could be dlslodged from pow
er only by an appeal to the reserved right
OF the people to resist oppression which is
inherent in all Safeguarding communities.
Two years ago this revolutionary power
was emphatically condemed 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
succe SIN the coming election will mean
the enactment of the force bill and the usW-
DdJlO!l VI tGGiJtliS IOAltLCA WV Ni-JEiDAAS III
all the States.
Believing that the preser stlon OF repub-
Iican government in the United States is
dependent upon the defeat OF this policy of
localized force ana fraud, We invite the
support of III citizens who desire to see the
Constitution maintained IN its integrity with
the laws pursuant thereto which have given
our country hundred years OF uneXampled
,t,, ,,ladpa ib,, ln11oNarutia
party, if il be init listed with power, not
only to the defeat OF the force bill hut also
to resembles opposition to the Republican
policy Of pro1;gato expenditure, which in
the short space OF two years has squandered
an enormous surp US and empued an over
flowing treasury after piIing new burdens OF
taxation upon the already oYertazed labor
of the country
TARIFF TAXATION.
Sec. 3. We denounce Republican pro-
lection rs q fraud. The robbery Of the great
majority OF the American people for the
benefit of the few. We declare it to be a
fundamental principle OF the Democratic par
ty that the Federal Governm9nt has no con-
stitutional power to impose and collect tariff
duties, except tor the purposes of revenue
only, and We demand that the collection Of
such taxes snail be limited to the necessities
of the Government when honestly and econ
omlcslly administered.
We denounce the Mckinley tariff law en-
acted by tbs Fitty-arst Congress rs the cul-
minating atrocity OF class legislation; we in
dorse the efforts made By the Democrats of
the present Congress to modify its most OPP
presslve Gestures in the direction OF free raw
materials and cheaper manufactured good,
that enter into general consumption, md we
promise It's repeal rs one Ct the beGChccnt
results thst Will lol9H the action Of the
people il ntlrIst'ng power TO the Democrat
ic party. Since the Mckinley taLif went
into operat on there have been ten roduc-
tions Of the wages of laboring men TO one
increase We deny that there has been any
increase Of property to the country since
that tariff went into operation; we point to
the dullness and distress which wage reduc-
tions and strikes in the iron trade as the
best possible evidence that no such pros
perity has resulted from the Mckinley act.
we call the attention Of thoughtful Amer
leans to the fact that after thirty years of
restrictive taxes against the importation OF
fereign wealth in exchange for our agricul-
tural surplus the homes and farms Of tho
country have become burdened with real
estate mortgage debt of over " 500000,0O0
exclusive OF all other forms Of indebted
ness; that in ono Of the chief agricultural
States Of the West there appears real es-
tate mortgage debt averaging $l55 per cap
its OF the total population; and that similar
conditions and tenderness are shown to exist
in the other agricultural exporting States,
We denounce policy when fosters no in
dustry 80 much rs il does that Of the sheriff.
ALLEGED RECIPROCITY.
Sec A. Trade exchange on the basis OF
reciprocal advantages TO the countries par
ticipating is a time-honorod doctrine Of tho
Democratic faith, but we donounce the sham
reciprocity which jugglos with the peoples
desire for ENLARGED foreign markets and
freer exchange by pretending 10 establish
closer trade relations with q country whose
articles of export are almost exclusively ag-
ricultural products with other countries that
are also agricultural, while erecting q Gus
tom house barrier Of probibitve tariff taxes
against the richest G, untries Of Ito world
that stand ready TO take our ontirO surplus
OF products and to exchange therefor COM
modities vince are necessarles and comforts
Of life among our own people
AGAINST TRUSTS.
Sec. 8. We recognize in the trusts and
combinations which are designed TO enable
capital to secure more than It's just share OF
the Joint product Of capital and labor and
natural consequence Of the prohibtve taxes
which prevent the ireo competition, which
is tho lite Of honest trade; but we believe
their worst evils can be abatad by law, and
we demand the rigid enforcement Of the laws
made TO control and prevent them, together
with such further legislation in 70 traiut Of
their abuses rs experience may show TO be
necessary.