The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-10-19
REPUBLICAN, PLATFORM.
Adopted by the South Dakota Republican
State Convention at Yankton,
August 23, 1894.

Adopted by the South Dakota Republican
State Convention at Yankton,
August 23, 1894.
1. The republican party of the state of South
Dakota, In conventicti assembled, declares anew
It's allegiance to those great principles for which
republicanism has stood ever since its formal
organization, and which have been from time to
time declared in Its platforms.
q In the Interest OF the country at large. and
particularly In the interest of the people of this
vction that this nation owes to its own citizens
and their industries all reasonable protection
against competition with foreign labor; and it
believes that M this can be best and most certainly
by those who declare. rs did the last democratic
national convention. that protection is unconsti-
tutlonal and fraudulent. and which declaration
has smitten this whole country with blight that
has withered Its manufacturing industries shriv-
eled its commerce, and dried up the fountains of
It's furnaces
leves upon this country the tribute Of millions in
behalf OF the sugar trust, and robs this country'S
wool growers OF millions in behalf of Australian
flock owners, has been fifty characterized by a
democratic president as perfidy and dishonor;
and we declare preference for that reciprocity
policy OF the republican party, which got some
whatever advantage was accorded foreign nations
and their commercial interests.
T. Republicanism had its birth as movement
to emancipate America from the curse of slave
labor. and Its profound concern ever since has
been and is now the promotion of whatever
would guarantee to labor its due share in the
to guarantee to capital such inducements as
would inspire its investors with confidence. We
deplore the occurrenc Of any conflicts between
labor and capital; we denounce the agitation OF
demagOgues designed to fOment and intensity
these conflicts, and most earnestly disapprove the
use Of private armed forces in any attempt to
settle them. We believe that an appeal to the
law and its officers is amply sufficient to protect
property and preserve the peace, and reference
to legally created or amcably chosen boards of
arbitration the best method of adjusting all dsi-
greements out of which these conflicts have
arisen.
g. Feeling that American citizenship should be
protected against the importation of pauper and
criminal classes from abroad. we favor such mod
ification OF our immigration laws as will more
fully effect such protection,
g. We favor the use of both silver and gold as
money. at ratio of 16 to !, contning the coinage
of silver to American product, at the net cost Of
the actual expense Of coinage; and we demand
that silver as well as gold shall be a legal tender
for the payment of all debts. both public and pri-
of this convention to support the principles here
in contained
z. The abnormal development of the idea of
corporation of capital has resulted, In modern
tain classes of private enterprise, interpretations
of corporations; and we therefore declare our
the dangerous power of trusts and combines. and
prevent so far as possible the aggregation of
these tremendous accumulations of capital.
8. We consider it the duty of every patriotic
citizen to foster, patroniZe and escOurage the
home interest of our young state agriculture,
mining. manufacturing "njl commercal-and it
It e ~. Ol the >ta GOV" Emr;.l to throw
drOulu tntni aucn laws IT'S will lllsure fair and
reasonable protection. The transportation COM
panieS and these interests are so interlocked that
we demand of our legislature that the railway
commission shall be dignified with sufficient
authority to properly protect such interests
against unjust determinations by such transpOr-
tatiOn companies.
g. An overwhelming majority of the old sol
ders of the union know upon which party to de-
flee and valOrOuS service in crushing rebellion,
and the republicans of South Dakota only need
assure them OF the same justice and liberality in
their behalf that has been declared heretofore,
and which has been so industriouSly promoted by
South Dakota's representatives of that party in
congress.
10. We congratulate South Dakota upon the
admirable manner In which the present admins
tration has conducted the affairs of the state,
maintaining the public credit at all times and
conducting the affairs of the commonwealth at
an expense per capita amounting to only abo, t
One-h half that OF states surrounded by conditions
similar to ours
II. Feeling assured that the principles of the
republican party afford the best possible basis of
government; we cordially invite all good citizens
to rally to the support thereof. Gu lranteeing t.
them that 1t Is our purpose to prem )te every in
terest which is calculated to secure the greatest
good to the greatest number. and also to oppose
whatever may be detrimental to the best interests
of the people of this state and nation as whole.