Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-05-18
PLATFORM OF 1900.

0ouo VI VIC lSSuoS Oh WHICH Gu0
platform of the national democra-
tic party will be based in 1900 were
given out last week by Hon. j. G..
johnson, the temporary head of
the national democratic committee,
during the absence Of Senator
Jones in Europe. tits his opinion
that committees do not make plat
forms, neither do politicians, but
the people, and from his late OBJ
servations he states that he has
yet to see tho man who helped
make the the Chicago platform of
'96 who has thought of regret for
the act. In Mr.. Johnson's opinion
the campaign will be necessarily
fought out upon the following lead
ing planks that were first brought
before the people in the campaign
of four years ago:
CHE platform of 1900 will be
one on which every man who is a
real democrat can stand. Events
since SO have but emphasized the
distinction between democracy
and republicanism. There will
be no more democratic platforms
which have to be labeled to dis
tinguish them from republican
platforms. Whenever the time
comes in this country when the
dollar threatens the man, the demo-
cratic party is for the man before
the dollar, and the republican
party is for the dollar before the
man. That time has come. Since
1896 the republicans have openly
espoused the cause Of the gold
standard and the money trust.
The democrats are now, as IN 1896,
opposed to both, Since 1896 S5,-
O0O,O00,000 of corporate capital
have been combined in industrial
trusts. The democrats have al
ways fought this principle when
it was called protection, and will
continue to fight it under its new
name, and in it's new form.
"Since 1896 the republicans have
discovered the need Of standing
army of 100000 men. The demo-
Gratis now, as ever, think that in a
nation dedicated to freedom, an
army is only needed to repel ill.,
vasion, never to subjugate peace
able people. Since 1896 the re-
publicans have developed a So
called colonial policy, which will
precipitate upon us race problems
and international alliances, and
complications heretofore undream-
ed Of. The democrats think we
have race problems enough to
solve at home, and are against any
scheme of European alliance or
Asiatic ENHANCEMENT, which can
only disturb the friendly relations,
always our policy with all nations.
Since 1896 the republicans have
purchased the right to subjugate
a people who have fought longer
for their freedom than we did for
ours. The democrats insist that
this nation can have no business
in the Philippines except to make
both them aud their people free,
and protect them in their freedom.
'rlhe republicans are nov, as
ever, for government by the dol
Lar. Of the dollar, and for the
dollar; have the same old Hamil-
tonian contempt for the common
people, and love for centralized
government backed by bayonets,
and the same old Tory subservien-
cy to England to the exclusion of
the rest Of the world. The demo-
Gratis are for government of, for
and by the people, for the observ-
ance of the spirit Of the Monroe
doctrine by ourselves AS we'll as for
its enforcement against others, for
the extension of our principles by
example, and not by bayonets, and
for continuation of our govern
ment on the lines laid down by
Washington, Jefferson and Jack
son. These are living, burning