The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-09-23

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representative freedom, the national De-
mooracy placed thereon as candidates for
President and NicePresident Grover
Cleveland and Adlai T.. Stevenson, men
worthy Of the faith of the party; fully
qualified to be its opponents before free
people, and thoroughly equipped to exer-
else the sacred functions OF the high Off
ces for which they hayebeen nominated.
This convention of Tennessee Demoo-
racy heartily and ungudgingly indorse
their nomination and candidacy, because
freemen can trust men who believe that
"Public Office lisa public trust" thatcon-
stitutioLal government is an agency Of
the people; that taxation in whatever
form or guise, beyond the plain needs Of
government economically administered,
is robbery of the people; that the terror
of bayonets and the infamy of force bills
around the ballot boxes of freemen are
not the Safeguards OF honest elections
and independent States; that class legis-
lation, however framed, and paternalisn,
however yelled, are the source Of monop-
! oily, and its entrenched fortress, whence
either boldly or secretly, come the men
ace to pure government and the corrupt
ing poison that emasculates individual
manhood and who, believing these eter-
nal truths, will eXempify their virtues in
the performance of their administrative
duties and in the exercise of their official
powers.
With respect to State affairs, the De-
mocracy has no wish or purpose incon-
sistent with the rights of the people and
the highest welfare of our State. 1t has
no secrets and will conceal no aim in
vague words or behind indirect methods.
We, therefore, declare for an economical
State Government, and that economy
shall rule in so far as our party can Sc
cure it, in all departments and subdivis-
ions OF our State government so that the
product OF labor may remain for those
who made it.
(D Labor in its various forms is the
source Of individual wealth and the basis
of vigorous Statehood, and that labor
may receive its own it must not be under
: duress from convict labor and its corpor-
: ate organization We, therefore, favor
the abolition of the penitentiary lease
system at the earliest date legally per-
Missile, and the erection, at a proper
place, of prison Of sufficient dimensions
to hold our convICts, and constructed with
reference to their classification, so that
youths and those convicted of the lesser
, oflenses shall not be subjected to the as
sociation and influences of the abandoned
and hardened criminals. While our penal
institutions and theirmanagement should
be founded in humanity and prompted by
! the aim of reformation, still their support
! should come from the labor OF those le~
/ gally confined in them, and not from a
= tax upon the honest people and industries
of the State
t (2) Taxation, to be just and in accord.
: ance with the Constitution, should be
equals and uniform. We therefore demand
l that our revenue system shall be regulated
: in conformity to this plain dictate Of JUS
tice and equally plain provision Of the
: Constitution. Double taxation is obnox-
|, ious.to sound principle, and the valuation
of property should not determine the
emoluments Of its assessors. We pledge
i, our party to the reduction of the rate Of
taxation and the retrenchment Of State
c expenses ratherthan to exercise the pow
Q ers OF government in searching out new
v and untounded sources Of taxation upon
:. the people to meet extravagant expendi-
lures.
Z (3) Allpublic and quaSi-public agencies
and corporations owe duties to the public,
r. and plain one is that they shall render
J. equal service and accommodations foT
equal payto allpersons and sections alike,
We therefore condemn all unjust discrm-
{ nations by such agencies or corporations.
a. The Democratic party is the friend
y OF all classes, because it is of the people
IS 1t has no grieveance against any class ex,
b, cept the enemies of Individual liberty and
- constitutional government No manhas
- any just grievance against,it, and no one
l.
Il believing in its faith and governments
IS purposes, and acting with it because O
d his belief, can rightGully complain OF its
action with respect to himself. 1t owes
no one ofitsimemDers an Office. ITS whole
duty is to the whole people to see that the
governments kept within the Constitu
IN ton and that the public veal be spbserve(
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