The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-10-07

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Embodying therein the fundamental
and unchanging truths Of constitutional
representative freedom, the national De-
mocracy placed thereon MS candidates for
President and Vice President Grover
Cleveland and Adlai r. Stevenson, men
worthy OF the faith OF the party; fully
qualified to be its opponents before a free
people, and thoroughly equipped to exer-
else the sacred functions of the high Off
ces for which they have been nominated
This convention Of Tennessee Democ-
racy heartily and ungrudgingly indorse
their nomination and candidacy, because
ireemen can trust men who believe that
'Public office is public trust" that con
stitutoral government is an agency Of
the people; that taxation in whatever
form or guise, beyond the plain needs Of
government economically administered,
is robbery of the people; that the terror
Of bayonets and the infamy Of force bills
ground the ballot boxes OF ireemeu are
: not the Safeguards Of honest elections
and Independent States; that class legis-
lation, however framed, and paternalsm,
however yelled, are the source of monop-
oily, and its entrenched fortress, whence
either boldly or secretly, come the mem
ace to pure government and the corrupt
ing poison that emasculates individual
manhood and who, believing these eter-
nal truths, will exemplify their virtues in
the performance of their administrative
duties and in the exercise OF their official
powers.
With respect to State affairs, the De.
mocracy has no wish or purpose incon-
sistcnt with the rights Of the people and
the highest welfare of our State. 1t has
no secrets and will conceal 10 aim in
vague words or behind indirect methods.
We, therefore, declare for an economical
State Government, and that economy
shall rule in so lar us our party can Sc
cure it, in all departments and subdivis-
ions OF our State government, so that the
product OF labor may remain for those
who made it.
ID Labor in its various forms is the
source of individual wealth and the basis
of vigorous Statehood and that labor
may receive its own it must not be under
duress from convict labor and its corpor-
ate organization We, therefore, favor
the abolition Of the penitentiary lease
system at the earliest date legally per-
missible, and the erection, at proper
place, of a prison of surncient dimensions
to hold our conylcts, and constructed with
reference to their classification, so that
youths and those convicted of the lesser
ohenses shall not be subjected to the as
sociation and influences of the abandoned
/ and hardened criminals. While our penal
institutions and their management should
} be founded in humanity and prompted by
} the aim Of reformation, still their support
should come from the labor of those le-
} gally confined in them, and not from a
} tax upon the honest people and industries
} of the State
~ Taxation, to be just and in accord
ance with the Constitution, should be
D equal and uniform. We therefore demand
D that our revenue system shallbere gulated
6 in conformity to this plain dictate of JUS
0 tice and equally plain provision of the
6 Constitution Double taxation is obnoX-
0 ious to sound principle, and the valuation
5 of property should not determine the
emoluments. OF its assessors. We pledge
5 our party TO the reduction of the rate Of
0 taxation and the retrenchment Of State
0 expenses rather than to exercise the pow
U ers of government in searching out new
and unlounded sources Of taxation upon
. the people to meet extrayagant expendi-
lures.
(3) Anpublic and quasi-public agencies
aud corporations owe duties tothe public,
and plain one is that they shall render
equal service and accommodations fU
equal pay to lIpersons and sections alike,
We therefore condemn all unjust discrim.
nations ty such agencies or corporations.
a The Democratic party is the friend
OF all classes, because it is oi the people.
1t has no grievance against any class esS-
cept the enemies OF individual liberty and
constitutional government No man has
any just grievance against it, and no one
believing in its faith and governmental
? purposes, and acting with it because o.
. his belief, can rightfully complain OF its
action with respect to himself. 1t owes
no one Of its members an office, It's wholt
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