Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-09-22
The Democratic Congressional Platform.

Resolged, BY the Democratic ConYention
of the First Congress District of New Jer-
sey, That as the honor and the interests of
our district are alike the concern of its peo-
pie Of all parties, we confidently believe
that this election will defeat and very en-
phatically rebuke the brand of machine
politics which regards personal honesty and
honest dealing of man with man as no longer
essential to public trust, and which sezes
the honors and rewards of the republic as
things to be bestowed merely as best serves
the interests of corporations or of Office
brokers. We believe, therefore, that the
candidate we nominate to-day is to be our
next Representative in Congress. We shall
rely upon his reputation as man and his
record as citizen to assure his fidelity to
this high trust, and we pledge him to
honest and diligent service of all the i'm
portant common interests of his constitu-
ency.
Resolued, That the Democracy VIII ch this
Convention represents is of kii d which
has held fast to its principles Thou gh gen.
GRAFTON after generation of almost Incessant
defeat. We believe them to he the pure
principles of Thomas Jefferson's teaching
and exemplificatIon, applicable 10 ali times
and TO all the vicissitudes of the American
governmental system, and guaranteeing to
all its pc pie the highest degree of happi-
ness and prosperity by putting on them the
least possible burdens of government, and
by just and equal laws Econom, in the
public expenditure, no taY0rs to any few at
the cost of the many. These form the
essence of Jeffersonian Democracy, and it
is needed both in the legislation of the
Of
Convention at Chicago declared the old and
never-changed principles of the party OF
Jefferson and Jackson. A sound aud steady
currency, on the broad base of the money
metals which the Constitution placed side
by side, giving by natural balance that
unvaiyiDg safeguard to labor aud enter
prise which is at once the incentive and
the assurance of honest industry as against
the stealthy schemes of avarice and the
spirit of speculation. This is one of the
points of Democratic doctrine which has
never changed since Jefferson wrote, with
so clear forethought for his country and
the rights OF man, THE American money
unit must stand on both metals"
ResolUed, That we believe most search
ing investigation into the charges made by
officers aud men of the army against the
War Department is a just duty of the
Congress, whatever may be done by the
Executive 1t is due TO the honor OF the
country. 1t is due to her brave defenders.
whose suffsrings in camp have been vastly
worse than in their victorious battles That
investigation will never be accepted by the
country as complete if conducted by a
Congress controlled by the fellow partisans
of the Secretary of War The Republican
President should have a Democratic Con-
gress to take part in that investiga ion or
to conduct one of its own. More important
than present party power is the clear vim
dicatIon of the country's good name now
and an assurance for her future that when
again she calls her citizens to volunteer by
the hundred thousand the humane care of
her soldiery shall be the chief administra
tive pnnnern