St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-22


after the immense mass of documents
and memoranda intrusted to their care.
Jones' Offering.
Immediately after the conclusion of
hearings Chairman Jones presented
platform, prepared in detail for the
consideration of the committee. 1t was
read TO the members. and Ill the main
seemed TO meet the approval OF the
committee. The preamble arraigns the
Republican party for its tendency to
the GENERALIZATION of the governing
power i'll the hands of the favored few,
and denOunceS the force bill as a means
by which it is sought to maintain the
Republican party i'll power by the sup
preston Of'the free and honest Will oil
the people as expressed at the ballot
box.
We favor a reform of the tariff, saws the
platform, and a reduction of the import du-
ties to a revenue basis with protection only
to such industries as require it tor the pro-
lection OF American workinemen.
On the financial and other important
questions the platform says:
We denounee the Sherman law of 1880 and
demand its unconditional repeal, and we
favor the free coinage of both gold and sill
yer on such a sis as will maintain the two
metals on parity with each other.
We denounce ali trusts and combinations
which have grown up and been fostered
under the pernieious and class legislation of
the Republican party, and demand their
regulation and suppression by legislation.
Whitney's Navy.
We congratulate the Democratic party for
that modern and more efficient navy which
had its birth under ihe last Democratic ad-
ministration, and we favor all appropriations
necessary for the reasonable increase ana
proper maintenance of this navy, and for the
projection CT our seaboards.
We denounce that policy of the Repub-
lican party. which by oppressive legislation
has resulted liz the gradual impoverishment
of the farmer, and we arraign The Repub-
lican party as an enemy to the agricultural
classes as well as the foe of organized labor.
Here follow statistics i'll detail show
ing the gradual depreciation of the
value of farm products, and the increase
in mortgage Indebtedness on farm
lands throughout the Union.
We reatfirrn the o1d-time Democratic doc
trine of reciprocal trade relations with for
eign powers and denounce the reciprocity
pretensions of the Republican party as sub
lerfuge designed to mislead and deceive.
The platform also denounced the
''Jing0" policy of the Republican party
and declared that the present admins
tration, III its foreign relations, to be an
ODpreSsOr of the weak and trucker to
the powerful.
The Fifty-trst congress is arraigned
for the extravaganza of its approprla-
tienS and for the enactment of that leg
iSlatiOn tor continuous appropriations,
which renders it impossible for the
Democratic house of representatives to
make the necessary radical reduction in
the expenditures of the government.
A Burning Issue.
Probably the most important plank
in the whole platform, submitted BY
Chairman Jones, related to the school
question and is destined to be burn
ing issue IN the states of Illinois and
Wisconsin. where that question is now
at issue. The plank was amended
slightly at the suggestion of Hon. Clay
ton E. Crafts, speaker of the Illinois
house of representatives and the Hill
nOiS member of the committee, and rs
subsequently recommended to the sub
committee OIL formulation, is as fol-
lows:
We commend the common school system,
which had its birth under Democratic adj
ministration, and stood the test OF many
years Of practical operation. and declare in
favor Of freedom of education and for that
right of the parent to control the teaching of
his child which is necessary to maintain civil
and religious liberty.
There seems little doubt that this
resolution will be Incorporated in the
platform either literally or in sub
stance. Its natural Interpretation as a
Quasi-denunciatiOn of past Republican
legislation in the states of Illinois and
Wisconsin is relied upon as an effective
means of attracting the Lutheran and
other sectarian votes in those states.
Favored by silver Men.
1t is quite probable that the financial
plank of Chairman Jones' platform will
be somewhat modified, and the commit
tee read with marked favor the follow
ing resolution today adopted by the
conference of the silver state delegations
and introduced in the committee by one
of their representatives:
I'VE denounce the demonstration of sill
yer by the fraudulent legislation of Repub-
lican congress i'll 1873 as crime against the
people, and one of the long line of acts by
which that party has Systematically taken
the money and the property of the country
from the producers and toilers for the benefit
of the capitalists and creditor classes. We
therefore demand the immediate repeal Of
all laws discriminating against the coinage
of silver on equality with gold, and demand
the restoration Of silver to the position and
full legal status occupied by 1t from the
foundation of the government until its de-
monetization."
On the call of members for sugges-
lions, various additional resolutions
were introduced. One of these de-
manded the repeal of the 10 per cent tax
on state banks SO as to enable state
banks to compete with national banks,
and another dISpoSeS Of the veXed QueS-
ton of liquor legislation as follows:
We denOunce the resort to unconstitutional
laws in several of the states for the purpose
of suppressing evils by interfering with the
rights Of the people which they have not sur
rendered to either the state or national gov
eminent.
The following resolution, presented
by the committee of colored mep,i quite
likely to be one of those reported by the
committee, as its adoption is generally
favored by the Southern members:
We declare in favor Of the equal rights of
all citizens to protection under the laws from
violent punishment for crimes charged.
The Hatch anti-optiOn bill was ap-
proved and its passage urged in reSo-
luton presented by Garard, of Georgia,
and another Southern member threw
out the flag of truce to the Peoples
party by congratulating the Farmers
Alliance and farmer organizations gen
orally for their victorious assaults in
several states upon the Republican
party for it's vicious class legislation,
which made the rich richer and the
poor poorer.
MIR. Fields, of New Mexico, presented
the following resolution on the financial
question. and it was referred to the
subcommittee, with instructions to con-
slider it together wish the one contained
in Chairman Jones' digest and that pre-
scented by the silver states:
We believe gold and silver to be metal
money of the constitution, and denounce the
demonstration of silver by the Republican
party and demand the re-enactment of the
law which maintained the parity of gold and
silver at all our mints for eighty years.