The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-06-28
poIrT1cAL PLATFORMS.
A Series of Interesting Documents.
1F;zestores in the Development OF POt1tt-
cal Parties Since the OrgGnaz@-
tion of the GOUer1 ment.
1S4S.
DEMOCRATIC. BALTIMORE, MAY 22D.

1T1ETIGe OIL Ll4S III 4CAh POORAS" |
9. Thatw we regard this as a distinctive
feature of our political creed, which we
are nrOud to maintain before the world, |
as the great moral element in a form OF
government springing from and upheld
bv the popular will; and contrast lG
with the creed and practice OF federal
ism, under whatever name or form,
which seeks to palsy the Will OF the
constituent, and which cOncelves no
imposture too mOnStrOus for the pOpu-
lar cTeduit~.
3, Therefore, that entertaining these
views the Democratic party of this
Union through the delegates assembled
in general convention of the States,
coming together in a spirit Of concord,
of devotion to the doctrines and faith
of a free representative government,
and appealing to their fellow citizens
for the rectitude of their intentions,
renew and re-assert before the Ameri-
can people the declaration of principles
avOwed by them on a former occasion,
when in general convention, they pre-
scented their candidates for the popular
suffrage.
Resolutions 1, 2, 3 and 4, Of the plat
form Of 1910, were re affirmed.
s That it is the duty of every branch
of the government to enfore and prac-
tice the most rigid economy in conduct
ing our public affairs, and that no more
revenue ought to be raised than is re-
quired to defray the necessary expenses
of the government, and for the gradual
but certain extinction Of the debt
created by the prosecution of a just
and necessary war, after peaceful rela-
tions shall have been restored.
Resolution 5, of the platform of 1910,
was enlarged by the following:
And that the results of Democratic
legislation, in this and all other finan-
cial measures, upon which issues have
been made between the two political
parties of the country, have demon
strated to careful and practical men of
all parties, their soundness, safety and
and utility in all business pursuits.
Resolutions Z, s and 9, of the plat
form of 1910, we're here inserted.
13. That the proceeds of the public
lands ought to be sacredly applied to
the national objects specified IN the
Constitution; and that we are opposed
to n law for the distribution of such
proceeds among the States as alike in
expedient in policy and repugnant to
the Constitution.
1913.
BUFFALO PLATFORM, UTICA, JUNE 22D.
WHEREAS, We have assembled in
convention, as a union of freemen, for
the sake of freedom, forgetting all
past political difference, in a common
resolve to maintain the rights of free
labor against the aggression of theslave
power, and to secure free soil to a free
people; and whereas, the political con
ventiOns recently assembled at Balti
more and Philadelphia-the one sitting
the voice of a great constituency en-
titled to be heard in It's deliberations,
and the other abandoningit its distinctive
principles for mere avallability-have
dissolved the national party organiza
ton heretofore existing, by nominating
for the chief magistraCy of the United
States, under the slavehOlding dictiOn,
candidates, neither of whom can be
supported by the opponents of slavery
extension, without a sacrifice of con
sistency, duty and self-respeCt; and
whereas, these nominations so made,
furnish the occasion and demonstrate
the necessity of the union of the people
under the banner of free Democracy,
in a formal declaration of their indie
pendence Of the slave power, and of
their fixed determination to rescue the
Federal Government from its control.
Resolved, therefore, That we, the
people here assembled, remembering
the example of cur fathers in the DAYS
of the first Declaration of independence,
putting our trust in God for the triumph
ofOur cause, and invoking His guidance
in e~ndeavors to advance it, do now
plant ourselves upon the national plat
form Of freedom, in opposition to the
sectional platform of slavery.
2. That slavery in the several States
of this Union which recognize It's exist
ence, depends upon State laws alone,
which cannot be repealed or modified
by the Federal Government, and for
which laws that government is not re
sponsible, we therefore propose no in
reference by Congress with slavery
within the limits of any State.
3. That the prOviso of Jefferson, to
prohibit the existence of slavery after
1900, in all the territories of the United
States, Southern and Northern; the
vote of six States and sixteen delegates,
in the Congress of 1884, for the proviso,
to three States and seven delegates
against it; the actual exclusion of
slavery from the Northwestern Terri
tory, by the ordinance of 1887, unani-
mously adopted by the States in Con-
gress; and the entire history of that
period, clearly shows that it was the
settled policy of the nation not to ex-
tend, natiOnalize, or encourage, but to
limit, lOcalize and discourage slavery
and to this policy which should never
have been departed from, the govern
ment ought to return.
4. That our fathers ordained the Con
stitution of the United States, in order,
among other great national objects, to
establish justice, promote the general
welfare, and secure the blessings of
liberty; but expressly denied to the
Federal Government, which they
created, all constitutional power to de
prlve any anv nerann of life liberty Or