Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-09-01
PLATFORM
ADOPTED By THE DEMOCRATS IN
STATE CONVENTION
At Boise City, August 10th. lit has the
Ring Of the Pure Metal-R Read it.

The representatives of the Demo
cratic party of the state of Idaho, in
convention assembled, renew the
pledge of their fidelity to the prihci-
plies of the Democratic party as for
mulated by Jefferson and exemplifed
by the long and illustrious line of his
successors in Democratic leadership
from Madison To Cleveland, and re-
affirm the platform adopted by its
representatives in the national con-
vention held at Chicago in 1892.
We denounce the Republican reve-
nue., financial and other legislation of
the past 80 years, which has main
tanned in time of peace taxes higher
than the war tariff. enacted for the
sole benefit of monopolies; given boun-
ties and subsidies to favored interest;
oppressed the country with the ex-
penditures of billion dollar con
gress; attempted the enactment of an
infamous federal force law for cleo
tious; surreptitiously demonetized sill.
yer IN 1873; by extravaganza and a
high protective tariff depleted the
national treasury until there is not
sufficient money to pay the current
expenses of the government; prostrat-
ed our commerce; quenched the fires
under the furnaces and closed the
workshops and factories; paralyzed
business; compelled agriculture to sell
its products for barely more than the
actual cost of production, and sent
honest mechanics and laborers, stag
gering under the burdens of unequal
led and unnecessary protective tariff
taxation, tramping through the coun-
try, begging that they may be EN-
ployed.
We hereby express our sincere adj
miration for the honesty, courage.
purity and patriotism of Grover
Cleveland, president of the United
States, in his efforts to restore to the
American people the high, pure and
economical government our fathers
established; and we pledge ourselves
to uphold and support him in his pur-
poses to maintain, keep, inviolate and
perpetuate Democratic principles and
promises as enunciated in the national
Democratic platform Of 1892. Is
pecially do we endorse and commend
his manly and patriotic letter to Hon.
William L. Wilson on the tariff bill.
We favor a reduction Of all tariff
duties to a strict revenue basis, and
we demand such revenue shall be
| limited to the necessities of govern
ment, honestly and economically al.
minIstered.
We demand the action of those
Democratic senators who opposed the
enactment of the Wilson tariff bill. a
Democratic measure that decreased
the import duties imposed by law,
and provided for just and equitable
income tax.
We commend the patriotic efforts of
Hon. William l.. Wilson and his
Democratic associates in the house OF
representatives for their faithful and
honest efforts to secure a genuine
Democratic tariff reform; and especial.
ly do we commend the Democratic
house of representatives for placing
sugar, coal, iron and barbed wire on
the free list, and we demand that the
senate specially approve this patriotic
action of Democratic representatives.
We demand the free and unlimited
coinage of silver at a ratio Of lG to /.
and we demand the complete restora-
ton Of silver TO the functions given it
by the constitution as money, without
qualification, limitation or hesitation.
and regardless of international agree
ment. And we call attention to the
insincerity of the Republican party in
the states west Of the Mississippi
river on the question of free coinage
of silver as indorsed by their accept
ance, without protest or attempt at
amendment Of the silver plank recent
~ adopted at Denver By the Republi- |
can National league.
We demand the election Of United
States senators by direct popular
vote as provided BY the proposed
amendment to the constitution of the
United States passed by the present
Democratic house Of representatives..
We commend the course of the |
Democratic party in reference to the
public lands Of the United States.
That the Democratic party is the
Jealous guardian Of the public lands
is attested by the restoration of eighty
million acres Of unearned railroad
grants restored to the public domain.
during the former administration of
President Cleveland; and also by the
late action OF the present Democratic
house of representatives in passing
bill restoring fifty.four millions oil
acres of the same class of land to the
public domain.