Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-06
rsorrE,s PARrY pLATFoRM.
A Long Preamble Followed by Il Declare
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Assembled upon the ii6th anniversary OF
the declaration Of Independence, the PEG
pies Party of America. in their first ma
tional convention, invoking upon their ac-
ton the blessing of Almighty God, puts
forth, in the pane, and on behalf of the
people in this country. the following pre-
amble and Gee laration of principles:
The conditions which surround US
best justify our corporations; we meet
in the midst of a nation brought /
to the verge of moral, political /
and material ruin. Corruption dominates |
the ballot box, the legislatures, the /
congress, and touches even the ermlne 81 |
the bench. The people are demoraliZed.
Most of the states have been compelled TO /
isolate the voters at the polling places o
prevent universal intimidation or bribery.
The newspapers are largely subsidized or
muzzled; public opinion sllenced; business
FRUSTRATED: our homes covered with mort |
cages: labor impoverished; and the land !
concentrating in the hands of she capitalists
The urban workmen are denied the rlght
of organization for self-protection i'm
ported pauperized labor beats down their
wages: a hireling standing army, unrecog-
nized by our laws, is established to shoot
them down; and they are rapidly degen-
Grating into European conditions. The
fruits of the toll of millions boldly
stolen to build up colossal fortunes Tor
few. unprecedented in the history of man
kind and the possessors of these, in turn,
despiseth republic and endanger liberty.
From the same prolific womb or gov
ornamental injustice we breed the two great
classes, tramps and millionaires.
The national power to create money IS
annronriated to enrich bondholders. A
vast public debt, payable in legal-tender
currency, has been funded into gold-bear-
ing bonds, thereby adding millions to the
burdens of the people
Silver.
Silver, which has been accepted as coin
since the dawn of history, has been de-
monetized to add to the purchasing power
of gold by decreasing the value OF all
forms of property, as well as human labor,
and the supply of currency is purposely
abridged to fatten usurers, bankers by
the slave industry. A vast conspiracy
against mankind has been organized on
two continents and it is rapidly taking
possession of the world. If not oVerthroWn
at once it forebodes terrible social convul,,
sions, the destruction of civilization ana
the establishment OF an absolute despo1
ISL.
The Two Great Parties.
We have witnessed for more than
quarter of d century the struggles OF the
two great political parties for power and
plumber, while grieyous wrongs nave
been inflicted upon the suffering people.
We charge that the controlling influences
dominating both these parties nave per
mitted the existing dreadful conditions to
develop without serious effort to prevent
or restrain them. Neither do they promise
us any substantial REFORM They have
agreed together to ignore in the campaign
every issue but one. They propose to drown
the outcries OF plundered people with the
uproar of sham battle over the tariff, SO
that capitalists, corporations, national
banks, rings trusts, watered stock, tie
demonstration OF silver ard the oppression
of the usurers may all be lost sight or
They propose to sacrifice our homes, nVes
and children on the altar of Mammon; TO
destroy the multitude in order to. secure
! corruption funds from the millionaires.
Assembled on the anniversary OF the
birthday of the nation, and filled with the
spirit of the grand generation who estao-
| lished our independence, we seek to restore
! the government of the republic to the
| hands of the ''plain people," with whose
class it originated. We assert our purposes
to be identical with the purposes of the
national constitution, to form more per-
feet union, to establish justice, insure DO
nestle tranquility, provide for the common
defense, promote the general welfare ana
secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves
and our posterity.
We declare that this. republic can only
endure as a free government while built
upon the love of the whole people for each
other and for the nation; that 1t can not
pe Rliheu UoSeVnei W 10y - ~ ss;on
clvil war rs onti, az, oray ont IL r must
! die with it, and that we must be in fact, as
we are in name, one united brotherhood OF
| free men.
Our country is confronted by conditions
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great ISSUES now Pre1siS Il ii1idioi nrns
upon Whch nov oiny 90, al''i ~ foa Pnst;
perty put the very eAlstellce VI ine9 ii f,n
tuIlols ueped' ANU we "SN 'i NV we ave f.
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differ as to the conditions upon which 1t /
$ to be administered: believing that tn
= forces of reform this day organized vii