The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-11-04

for the correction of frauds against the |
suffrage. It is important to know
whether the opposition to such measures
is really vested in particular features
supposed to be Objectionable, or includes
any proposition to give the election laws !
OF the United States adequacy to the |
correction of grave and acknowledged |
evils | must yet entertain the hope |
that 1t is possible to secure calm,
patriotic consideration Of such constitu
tionsl or statutory changes as may be
necessary to secure the choice Of the
officers of the government to the people
by fair appointments and free cleo
tions."
Section of the Republican Platform Adopted
at the Minneapolis Convention.
Force Bill.
We demand that every citizen Of the
United States shall be allowed to cast
one free and Unrestricted ballot in all
public elections, and that such ballot
shall be counted and returned SIS cast;
that such laws shall be enacted and in
forced as will secure to every citizen, be
he rich or poor, native, Or foreign, guar
arteed by the constitution. The free
| and honest popular ballot, the just and
euual representation of all the people, as
well as their just and equal protection
under the laws, are the foundation of the
Republican institutions, and the party
will never relent it's efforts until that in.
tegrity of the ballot and the purity of
elections shall be fully guaranteed aud
protected in every state.
| We denounce the continued inhuman
outrages perpetrated upon American cit
liens for political reasons in certain
southern states of the Union.
Section of the Democratic Platform Adopted
| at the Chicago Covention.
Against Policy of Force and FRAUD
Sec. 2. We warn the people OF our
common country, jealous for the pre-
servatlon OF the free institutions, that
the policy Of Federal control of elections
to which the republican party has com
mitted itself, is fraught with the gravest
dangers, scarcely less mOmentous than
would result from revolution practi-
cally establishing monarchy on the ruins
of the republic. 1t strikes at the north
as we'll as the south. aud injures the col
ored citizens even more than the white.
1t means horde Of deputy marshals at
every polling place, armed with Federal
power, returning boards appointed and
colrolled by Federal authority the out
rage of the electoral right of the people
IN the several states, subjugation of the
colored people to the control of the par
ty in power, and the reviving of race
antagOnism, now happily abated, of the
, utmost peril to the safety and happiness
of ala measure deliberately and Justly
described by leading republican sena
tnr SStbo irfa l., hot
crossed the threshold of the senate ,
, Such a policy, if sanctioned by law,
, would mean the dominance of the self
perpetuating oligarcby of officeholders
. and the party first entrusted with it,
, machinery could be dislodged from
power only Dy an appeal to the reserved
Q right of the people to resist oppression
: which is inherent in all self governing
: communities. Two years ago this revo
lutionary policy was emphatically con
. demned by the people at the polls, bu
a in contempt of that verdict the republi
can party has defnantly declared in il
. latest authoritative utterance that Ii
a success in the coming elections wi
!. mean the enactment of the force bill, AM
q the usurpation of despotic control owe
= elections in all the states
Believing that the preservation of re
# publican government in the Unite
!. States is dependent upon the defeat G
,e this policy of legaIized force and fraud
q we invite the support of all citizens VIII
N desire to see tue cousti tuition maintaiae
is in its integrity, with the laws pursuar
,. thereto, which have given our country
hundred years Of uaexampled property
al and We pledge the democratic party,
it be entrusted with power, not only
less opposition to the republican polloo
of profligate expenditure. which, !
in the short space of two years, has squa
j. derpd an enormous surplus, emptied {
Of oveff1owing treasury, after piling ne
e burdens Of taxation upon the aireac
IT overtaxed labor of the country.