Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1899-10-06
UNION PARTY PLATFORM.

VVsVN VubUb o"ss Sssuus
The Union Reform forces of South
Dakota in convention assembled, re-
affirm in detail the platforms of the
allied reform forces adopted at Chicago
and St. Louis in 1896 and we view with
pride the steadfast adherence to print
ple which has constantly marked the
,c&e1 II our matchless leader, w. J.
Brya1 esRhose nomination we. favor as
the presidential candidate Of the people
in 1909.
The judiciary possessing such final
power in the republic. it becomes an
imperative measure for the preserva.- :
tion Of civil liberty 10 select our judges
from men who are broadly honest and
democratic in their views and whose
mental and moral constitution. as we'll
as their association and training, will
ever make them the watchful guardians
Of the interest Of every citizen. regard
less of his power in the state and we
pledge the elected nominees of this con-
vention to uniform independence from
corporate, political or criminal interest.
We denounce the war being waged
against the Filipinos as reputation
Of the Declaration Of Independence;
an abandonment of the Monroe doc.
trine; an abrogation Of the Constitution
and an assault upon liberty everywhere
which ties the hands Of the great re-
public and stops US from Justly pro-
testing against monarchial aggression
in sqesse Africa or elsewhere 1t is q
Ess; 'oa backward from the history
tand traditions of our government and
will establish in this country an i'm
perial despotism, lnasquerading under
the forms of democracy. The censor
izing of the press in Manila and it's
suppression in Havana are but fore
runners Of an abuse which will be at
tempted here by the same power. Such
policy, subordinating the civil to the
military, may inflict upon us the
horrors of Russian militarism, per-
petual debt and increasing taxes, while
It can compensate no one but syndi-
Gates Of capital which will exploit the
islands under the protection of Amer
ican arms. We uphold the flag of our
country in it's purify, alag consecrated
to the cause of human freedom and
baptised in the blood of freeodm's
martyrs, and we exhort :he people to
rescue the emblem of our liberties
from those who have erected it over
political despotism, militarism, chattel
slavery and polygamy. We oppose an
alliance with England or any other
foreign power and we demand of the
/hos sial administration that it give
zolrz H. ainde pendence to Cuba and
ktba r. Pc 1ilipinos be assured that they
will be assisted to erect republic of
their own to be governed by them
selves
We denounce as menace to the well
being Of our country the formation of
the vast aggregation of industrial
trnsts for the control of the price and
the limit of the production of almost
every article of necessity, that these
trusts are being consumated under the
nresen, national administration and
under the very shelter and protection
of onr laws and aided by a secret en-
conragement of high republican off.
cials and are an evidence of the domin-
alton of aggregated wealth over the
renublican party and of the utter in
difference Of the present administra-
t;on to this great menace, and testities
70 that party's sympathy or inability to
cope with monopoly.
We demand of our national law