The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-07-15
DEMOCRATIC DoorRINE.
Fourth of July Celebration Held in
Washing ton CITY,

ADNe'AA "a OeA'y otAOoTathOn hCtu HI |
Washington City.
Extracts from Resolutions.
The Democratic clubs and citizens,
in mass meeting assembled, at the
capital of the United States of !,
America, to honor the birthday of |
the republic and the living principles
embodied in the Declaration of indie
pendence, deem the occasion fitting |
to recur to the uniform Endorsement |
of those immortal truths by every
Democratic National Convention
from the first at Baltimore to the
last at Chicago in 1896.
In the very words of the Baltimore
convention we declare, "That the
American Democracy place their
trust in the intelligence, the patriot
ism and discriminating prartice of
the American people. That we re-
gard this as a destructive feature of
+, a political creed, which we are proud
| to maintain before the world as the
| great moral element in a form OF
| government springiDg from and up
| held by the popular will, and con-
| trast it with the creed and practice OF
| Federalism, under whatever name or
, form, which seeks to palsy the will OF
nc imposture too monstrous for the
popular credulity.
In the very words of the Chicago
Convention, "we do reaffirm our
| allegiance to those great essential
principles of justice and liberty, upon
which our institutions are founded,
and which the Democratic party has
advocated from Jefferson's time to
our own-freedom of speech, freedom.
of the press, freedom of conscience,
the preservation of personal rights,
the equality of all citizens before the
law and the faithful observance of
constitutional limitations"
We indorse the time-honort d Dem
ocratic doctrine that taxes should be
laid for revenue only, and limited to
the wants of a simple government
honestly administered, and we dt-
nounce the scheme of the Dingley bill
and the various amendments thereto
made ln secret caucus, as q more
fragrant robbery of the masses than
the Republican law known as the
Mckinley bill. twice repudiated by
the people. Dictated by trusts and
mOnopolies, in part payment for
moneys advanced to corrupt the
suffrage, it's main effects are to enrich
the few at the expense of the many,
and to release accumulated capital
from all taxation, while restricting
our trade, and depressing the Ameri-
can producers of free access to the
markets of the world.
We reaffirm the Democratic doc
trine that the legal tender money of
the people should be issued by their
government, and we demand that all
paper representatives of money shall
be redeemable in coin, the silver and
gold of the Constitution. "And We
demand the free and unlimited coin
age of both gold and silver at the
, present legal ratio of 16 to 1, with
, out waiting for the consent of any
, other nation" As our fOrefathers,
121 years ago, declared that their
people were and of right ought to be
tree from all foreign domination and
!, control, so now we do demand that
this people make it's own national
laws, all of them, without asking the
advice or consent of any foreign
government.
We call the sober attention of the
people to the condition of the coun
. try, where labor is tax ID, though
not always employed, while capital
refuses to pay its sh ire of the cost OF
!, its own projections; to the rapid con-
, ! centration of wealth, personal and
, | real, in the hands of the few; to the
consolidation and pooling of the cor
porations controlling the great arti
fetal commercial ways, and to the
, menacing increase of trusts, eli com
: bined to dictate the vicious iegisla
| ton of the Republican party fol- the
. pecuniary benefit of those alien OF
domestic syndicates and corpora
p tions, at the expense OF the toiiing
masses Aud we declare that true
liberty, in person or in property, enG
the pursuit of happiness, can only bt
, restored by a return to the practices
! and principles enunciated in the
!, Declaration of Independence, and en-
, forced by Jefferson and Jackson anG
a long line of Democratic statesmen