Daily Texarkana Democrat. (Texarkana, Ark.) 1890-1894, 1892-09-29
National Democratic Platform
Auop'ed by the National Democratic
Convention at Chicago, June
21st, 1892.

Section l, The representatives of the
DelAocrsfic party of the United States. in
National Convention assembled. do resfiirm
their allegiance to the principles of the par.
y as formulated by Jefferson and exempli.
ned by long and illustrious line of his sue
cessors 10 Democratic leadership from Mad.
ison to Cleveland. We believe that the pub
lie welfare demands that these principles be-
applied to the conduct OF the Federal Gov.
eminent through the accession to power OF
the party that advocates them; and we sol.
EMMY declare that the need of return to
these fundamental principles of free pop
ular government based on home rule and
Individual liberty was never more than now,
when the tendency to centralize all power
at the Federal Capital has become menace
TO the reserved rights ofthe States that strike
at the very roots of our Government under
the Constitution as framed by tho Republic.
AZ 10 THE FORCE BILL.
Sec. 2. We warn the people of our COM
mon country, jealous for the preservation OF
their free Institutions, that the policy OF Fed
eral control of elections, to which the Re-
publican party has committed itself, is
fraught with the grsvest dangers, scarcely
less momentous that would result from a
revolution, practically establishing monar-
chy en- the ruins of the Republic.
1t strikes at the North as we'll as the South
and Injuries the colored citizens even more
than the whites. 1t means horde of dep
uty marshals at every polling place, armed
with Federal power, returning boards APP
pointed and controlled by Federal author
tY, the outrage OF the electoral rights OF the
people in the several States, the subjugation
OF the colored people to the control Of the
party in power and the reviving of race an
tagonlsm, now happily abated, of the utmost
peril to the safety and happiness OF all; a
measure deliberately and Justly described by
u leading Republican Senator "as the most
infamous bill that ever crossed the thresh
old of the Senate" ouch policy, if sane
Toned BY law, would mean the dominance
Of Il sen perpetuating oligarchy of office
holders, and the party fret entrusted with
its machinery could be dislodged from pow
ar only by an appeal to the reserved right
Of the people to resist oppression which is
inherent in all selt-governing communities.
wv lNul6 hfSO AOfOiuttObhJ pOWOi
Was emphatically CONDEMNED by the people
4 the polls; but in contempt of that verdici
he Republican party has defantly declared
in its latest authoritative utterance that it,
succe n the coming election will mean
the enac ment of the force bill and the usur-
patton Of espotic control over elections in
all the States.
believing that the preser alton of repub'
lican government in the United States !,
dependent upon the defeat OF this policy OF
egalized force and fraud, We invite The
support Of II citizens who desire to sec the
Constitution maintained In its integrity witt
he laws pursuant thereto which have given
our country hundred years OF unexampled
prosperity we pledge the Democratic
1arty, if il be init listed with power, not
,nly TO the defeat of the force bill, but ais,
% resembles opposition TO the Republican
policy of profligate expenditure, which ii
The short space Of two years has squandered
All enormous surp us and emptied an over.
lowing treasury after piling new burdens
taxation upon the already overtaxed labor
Of the country
TARIFF TAXATION.
See. g. We denounce Republican pro-
lection rs fraud. The robbery of the gres,
nsjority OF the American people for tnc
benefit Of the few. We declare it to be IS
fundamental principle OF the Democratic par.
.y that the Federal Government has no con-
,titutonal power to impose and collect tariff
iuties, except for the purposes OF revenue
only, and we demand that the collection Of
such taxes shall be limited to the necessities
If the Government when honestly and econ
omlcally administered.
We denounce the Mckinley tariff law en-
acted by the Fitty-frst Congress IS tho cul
minating atrocity of class legislation; we in
dorse the efforts made by the Demoe rats Of
the present Congress to modify its most OPP
pressive features in the direction Of free raw
materials and cheaper manufactured goods
that enter into general consumption, and we
promise its repeal as one of the benefcent
results that will follow the action of the
people in intrusting powerto the Democrat
ic party. Since the Mckinley taliff went
into operation there have been ten Ieduc-
tons 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-
tons and strikes in the iron trade as the
best possible evidence that no such pros
perty has resulted from the Mckinley act.
we call the attention OF thoughtful Amer
leans to the fact thai after thirty years OF
restrictive taxes against the importation OF
fereign wealth in exchange for our agricul-
tural surplus the homes and farms of the
country have become burdened with real
estate mortgage debt of over $4,000 00,0 900
exclusive of all other forms of indebted
ness; that in one of the chief agricultural
States of the West there appears real es-
tate mortgage debt averaging $le5 pei. cap
tia 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
lustry so much as 1t does that OF the Sheriff.
ALLEGED RECIPROCITY.
Sec. a. Trade exchange on the basis OF
reciprocal advantages to the countries par
uclpating is time-honored doctrine OF the
Democratic faith, but we denounce the sham
reciprocity which juggles with the peoples
lesire for enlarged foreign markets and
rreer exchange by pretending TO establish
closer trade relations with a country whose
articles of export are almost exclusively ssg-
rcultural products with other countries that
are also agricultural, while erecting q Gus
tom house barrier ofprohibtive tariff taxes
against tho richest countries Of the world
hat stand ready to take our entire surplus
Of products and to exchange therefor COM
modties vince are necessaries and comforts
of life among our own people
AGAINST TRUSTS.
Sec. s. We recognize in the trusts ana
combinations which are designed TO enable
capital to secure more than us Us. h snare 2,
tho joint product Of capital and labor ana !,
natural consequence Of the prohibitlve taxes s,s
which prevent the tree composition wnacn
10 tho lie of honest trade; but We believe
" r.. Ill, o,p ho ahated nv law and