The Forrest City times., 1892-06-24
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.ir aeasr-. rrersssI oy the Ca,rsro Csnveasgob.

NafrsLD Convention.
 Cu1rAGu, iII~. June 22-The report
 of the platform committee was as fol- l5as.
 Fir.t-The representatives of the Ds n .csa.l. party of the United States. in mi sl convention assembled, do ltraulrln .itir llegiance to the priuci- pies 0i than prfty as formulated by ' i f>5s usd eNrMpliiied by long and lii.is ..rc ef Ats successors m dem lu,-sa sl,aship. from Madison to iCaas ue be.teye tue public welfare dem jiii. t.ese principles be ap- ptstg r. to fiisai af the federal gov ] lrrfs5aeits, sugis the accession tn power ftf re party that iab ecttes them, and { N,- ,t. i.'Uu.y declare that the need ialt4. L..IA t0 taase Fundamental prin- ! CiFi-S oi a free. pa,'iiar government, 7 lIssi Gu home suie and individual lib- 1 priS. WIS never more utgeut than now. | Wlicu ii'f tendency tu ceutralize all ! power tt ihc federal capital has become l d menace io ihe reserved rights of ithe states thaj strike at the very roots ' of oHr goVaTIment under the constitu- ! ti0n fIamel by the fathers of the re- | public
 1 FEDERAL CONTROL. OF ELECTIONS. | 2 We warn the people of our com mon country. jealons for the preserva- ! tion ot their free institutions, that the | policy ef federal control of elections to which the Republican party has com i mitted itself Is fraught with the gravest dangers. scarcsly less momentous than would result from Il revolution practic- | ally establishing monarchy on the ruins ] Cf the republic. It strikes at the North as well as the South, and iujures the cOlored citizens even more than the white. It means horde of deputy marsbals at every polling place armed with federal power, returning boards appointed and controlled by d federal authority, the outrage of the electoral rights of the people in the several states. the subjugatiou of the colorsd people to the control of the party in power and the reviving of race antag- 1 Ohisms. now happily abated, to the ut- most peril to the safety and happiness of ala measure deliberately and ! justly described by a leading republican senator as "the most infamous bill that ever crossed the threshold of the sen- ate" Such policy, if sanctioned by law. would mean the dominance of a self-perpetuating oligarchy of office holders. and the party with its machin- cry could be disludged from power only by an appeal to the reserved right of the people to resist oppression, which is inherent in all self-governing com munities. Two years ago this revoln- tionary policy was emphatically con demned by the people at the polls. but l in contempt of that verdict the Repub- | lican party has definitely delared in it's latest authoritative utteraUce that it's ] ..x Lx nln mean the enactment of the force bill and the usurpation of despotic control of elections in all the states. Believing that the preservation of republican government is dependent upon the de- feat of this policy of force and fraud, We invite the support of all citizens who desire to see the constitution maii- tained in its integrity with the laws pursuant thereto which have given our country d hundred years of unexam- pied prosperity; and we pledge the Democratic party, if it be entrusted ] with power, not only to the defeat of the force bill, but also to relentless op- position to the Republican policy of profligate expenditure, which, in the short space of two years, has squan- dered an enormous surplus aud emptied the overfiowing treasury, after piling new burdens of taxation upon the al- ready overtaxed labor of the country. | CONCERNING TAXATION.
 3. We reiterate the oft-repeated COG
 trnes of the Democratic party that the
 necessity of the government is the only | Justification for taxation, and when
 ever a tax is unnecessary 1t IS unJustl- | fable, and that when custom house taxation is levied on articles of any kind produced in this country the diff ference between the cost of labor here and labor abroad, when such q differ
 ence exists, fully measures any possi- ble benefits to labor, and the enormous
 additional impositions of the existing
 tariff fall with crushigg force upon our
 farmers and workingmen, and for the mere advantage of the few whom it
 enriches. exact from labor grossly unjust share of the expenses of the government, and we demand such re-
 vision of the tariff laws as will remove their iniquitous inequalities. tighten
 their expressions and put them On a constitutional and equitable basis. But in making reductions ill tariff it is not proposed to injure any domestic indus
 tries. but rather to promote their
 healthy growth. From the foundation l d the custom house have been the chief
 source of federal revenue. Such they
 must continue to te. Moreover, many
 industries have come to rely upon legiS-
 lati0n for successful continuance, so
 that any change of law must De at
 every sstep regardful of labor and capi.
 tai thus involved. The process of re-
 form must be subject to the execution
 of this plain dictate of justice. We de-
 nounce the Mckinley tariff law enacted
 by the Fifty-tirst congress as the culmi-
 mating atrocity of class legislation; we
 endorse the efforts made by the demo-
 crats of the present congress to modify
 it's most oppressive features in the
 direction of free raw materials and
 cheaper manufactured goods that enter
 into general consumption, and We
 promise it's repeal as one of the benefi-
 cient results that will follow the action
 of the people in entrusting power to
 the Democratic party. Since the Me
 Kinley tariff went into operation there
 have been ten reductions of the
 wages of laboring men to one increase.
 We deny there has been any increase
 of prosperity to the country since it
 went into operation.
 IN RELATION TO MORTGAGES.
 We epoint to the dullness and distress,
 which wage reductions and strikes in
 the iron trade have caused, as the best
 possible evidence that no such pros-
 perity has resulted from the Mckinley
 act. We call the attention of thought
 ful Americans to the fact that after