The Daily Texarkanian., 1900-07-05
ARKANSAS DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM

Chairman IhoS. Z. MCRae or the
committee on platform, reported
the following to the convention and
same was adopted:
The Democratic party of Arkan-
.sas in convention assembled, renews
its allegiance to the time, honored
principles of the party and declares
as follows:
We endorse the national plat
form of the Democratic party adopt
ed at Chicago, in its national con-
ventiou of 1896, and reafirm the
principals therein euunciated.
We recognize the Monroe Doc
triue as a cardinal tenet of the
Democratic party and prior to the
present Republican administration
was a part of the public policy OF
the national government, and we
favor its strict observance, and we
are opposed to any agreement, Sc
cret or otherwise, with any foreign
powers, by which the principle of
this doctrine might be surrendered
or abridged.
We are in favor of the United
States government building and
Constructing the Nicaraguan canal,
and that it shall own, control and
manage the same.
Regarding with pride and salts
faction the successful development
of our public-sChool system, we
pledge the Democratic party to its
perpetual support and maintain
ance, and we recommend that the
state continue to provide for the
payment of the interest on the
state bonds now belonging to the
school fund.
We are opposed to the donation
of the public lands of the United
States or of the state of Arkansas
to private corporations.
! We denouuce the trusts and all
illegal combinations in restraint of
trade, or that have for their pur-
pose the control of the markets or
Of the country, and we endorse the
action of the last legislature in
passing laws for the purpose of re!
straining their operations in this
state, and pledge the Democratic
party to the passage of such laws
as will effectually prohibit the oper-
alton of all such combinations in
the state of Arkansas.
| We charge that inherent rights
under our constitution have been
assaiIed by the president of the
United States by his denial of self
government to the Fillipinos and
| his refusal to treat with them.
We maintain that governments
derive their just powers from the
consent of the governed. We there
fore, insist that the subiugation of
any people is a crime and contempt
uous disloyalty to the distinctive
principles of our government. Lib
erty is common heritage to all
men in alllands and will therefore
resolutely condemn the death-deal-
ing policy of the Republican admin
istration in the Philippines.
We are opposed to the annexa-
ton by the United States of any
country by force, because we be-
lieve the right of local self-govern-
ment to be the basic principle of
this republic.
We are opposed to war of con-
quest, and insist that the pledges
made the people of Cuba by CON
gress be carried out at the earliest
practical moment, and we demand
that the same rights promised by
congress to the people of Cuba be
accorded to the people of the Phil
ippine Islands.
And with a full appreciation of
what such things mean by our own
sad experience at the hands of the
Republican party, we denounce the
carpetbag government foisted on
the people of Porto Rico and Cuba
by the present Republican admins
tration,
We demand Of the congress Of the
United States the passage of such
laws as will aid the various state
laws in an effectual destruction of
all trusts throughout the United
States.
While we are in favor of the pas.
sage of such laws by congress as
will eiIectually destroy the trusts
and place such restrictions around
corporations as may be Necessary to
protect the public welfare, yet we
maintain that corporations are Gre
lures of the law, and have no rights
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