Tombstone prospector., 1896-10-07
THE CONVENTION.
Platform and Resolutions of
 the County Democracy.

TOMBSTONE, Ariz., Oct. 6.h, 1896. To the Chairman and Members of the Democratic County Convention of Cochiss County.
 GENTLEMEN Your com nit tee here tofore appointed on Platform and Rec olutions respectfully report as follows:
 The Democratic party of Cochise county, Arizona, in convention assem- bied, now reaf6rm our belief in and allegiance to the time honored prin- ciples Of Democracy, and do unqusl- ifedly endorss the Democratic na- tionsl platform as adopted in Chicago and Democratic territorial platform ss adpted at Williams, and the na- tional and territorial ticket, and we congratulate the people that, after the many strenuous attempts to subvert those traditions and principles by those high in power and in the inter- ests of the money lenders of Europe, the Democratic party has rissn in i,s might and cast out such traitors and have forced them into the party Of plutocracy, corruptionists and assas- sins of labor headed by Mark Hanna and his gang, where they properly be- long, and where they are receiving the hearty support and co-operation of every monopoly corruptionist in our country.
 We congratulate ourselves and the whole people thai. every industrial so- ciety and all parties who sincerely believes in our government return ing to the money of our fathers and she constitution, are with us today in this mighty struggle for the emsnci- patton of sixty millions of white slaves from the corrupting influence of gold monometallism, and that there is every reason to believe. from the signs of the times, that the machinery o! this government will again seon be rlaced in the hands of the people.
 We believe that the free and unlim- tied coinage of silver is the paramount and overshadowing principle Of the present campaign and that no person should be elevated to office or position of power who does not believe in such free coinage by our government with out waiting for the consent or assist sncs of other nations; for we charge that it was the corrupting influences in Europe which forced upon iss peo- pie gold monometsllisrl and thereby reduced their wage earners to serf- doml and the same people who wrought such havoc there are attempt ing ts do the same thing here, and to eur sorrow they have already par. tisily succeeded, thereby reducing the majority of our own people to fnan. cial slavery and impoverishing every producer of wealth in the United States. The contraction of the cur rsnoy of our country, by the demoL- etization of silver was the most gigan- tic and henious cIme ever perpetrat- cd on any people in the history of the whole world: and those re- sponsible for it are traitors to free dom and Republican intitutions, and those who who would now eeek to maintain the present miserable cen- dition Of our own people by the main. tainapce of the present gold standard when the present opportunity is offered in an expansion of the cur rsncy for the salvation of the sufferings of humanity, are parties to that great crime and in sympathy with the influence which seeks to establish on the ruins of our governmsnta plutoc- rsey; or they are deceived and misled by the glittering fslsehoods circulated by the epemiss Of the peopls-;he money changers of the east.
 We pledge our party that every nominee of this convention is . free silver man who endorses every senti- ment of this platform, and we ssk the endorsement: of their candidates by the people, and ws pledge ts the people a more economical sdministrasion of territorial and county affairs than has characterized our government for the past two years, and shat ms more rev. enue shall be rsissd by taxation than is required for the maintenance of our county government economically administered, and that the revenue raised shall not be diverted for any other purpose tbsn the strict sdminis- trstion of the county government. h asking the cooperation of the people we pledge an efficient, hoasst and