Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-08-09
TIE DEMOCRATIC
PLATFORM

rsvi@te j ; @tNVtton to the essential PriH-
. biA2s Us te9ethtr II party Communitn.
hdtr them IucaI se!f-soVernmtnt and
national unity and prosperity We're alike
enCe, the structure OF our free republic
and every den9era!ic extension f!9m
Louisiana to California ano Texas to Ore
fon, which preserved faithfully in all the
states the tie between taxation and rep
rfSeni2tion. They yet inspire the fiassts
9h qrh3 our aIS pd0R1e faaFtf h oqSy their
ment IhsE, remind US of our duties and
responsibilities as citizens and impress
upon Us, particularly at this time the
necessity of reform and the rescue of the
administration of government from the
neaqhsadTong hnds :bto aretrary and spasmodic
1 with dread, dist trust and perturbation. .'''N
The application of these fundamental
principles TO the living issues of the day
constitutes the first step toward the as
sured peace safety and progress of our
nation. Freedom Of the press Of eon
by jury; freedom of the person defended
Icy the writ of habeas corpus; liberty OF
personal contract uhtrammeIed by sump-
t9ary laws; the supremacy of the civil
ever military authority; a WeI-diseipIined
militia; the separation of church and
taxes that labor may be lightly h}Ir-
dencd; the prompt and sacred futiijlmeut
q p49iie and private, ohiisations; fid9litY
10 treaties; peace and Friendship with ait
nations; entan&ling alliances With none:
absolute acqNieSceuco in The Will of the
majority. the vital principle of rcp4lblie4-
tAese arc doctrines which democracy has
e%tabf5 sfIed AZ proverbs oI The nation,
fhe taey should be constantly invoked,
preached. re@9rted to and enforced.
G"ntroiina; Ea apei>eA.
q. Large reductions cam readily be
j. made IL tns= aIIIAuai expenditures ii the
government without inipafriug the pfil-
cheney Of any branch Of The l,un.ic :, rA ice
an4 We saaI insist upon the strietest
eeQnoiaX and trug8iity conpa1tle With
j Vi&tI9U8 and efficient civil. military and
naval administration as a risht of the
people, too clear 10 be denied OF With
e. The enforcement eff honesty in tile
public service alld to that end u tHorou},h
legislative investigation Of those c&ecu-
tive departments of the government al
ready known 10 teem with coHruptlUn as
well as other departments suspected of
hafboftng corruption, and the punishment
OF aSeeltained corruptonists without fear
Or favor or regard 10 persons. Tie per
sistent and deliberate refusal ef both the
senate atlI mouse of representatives to
permit such investigation 10 be made by
either branch Of congress demonstrates
that only by a change in the executive
and in the house OF Representatives, can
complete exposure, punishment and cor
| rection be obtained.
"In broader 1urtheranee of that end the
federal government should not permit it,
i. self to be robbed by entering into con-
tracts With convicted trusts or Unlawful
combinations in restraint of interstate
trade, existing in Violation of law We
/ believe that one of the best methods of
! procuring economy and honesty in the
E, public service is to have public officials.
! from the occupant Of the White House
i Gown to the lowest of them. return, as
nearly as may be, to JeftersoniaA SIM
! Presidential Isecomme utiutions.
] "3. We favor the nomination and cleo
/ ton of Il president trained in the ways of
the constitution, who shall set his face
] sternly against executive usurpation of
legislative and judicial functions, whether
/ that usurpation be ruled under the guise
| of executive construction of existing
| laws, or whether it take refuge in The
, tyrant's pleas of necessity OF superior
! wisdom.
y. The democratic party has been,
and Will continue to be, the consistent
/ opponent of that class of tariff legislation
by which certain interests have been per
mitted, through congressional favor, to
draw, heavy tribute from the American
people. This monstrous perversion OF
! those equal opportunities, which our pu-
/ ltical Institutions We're established to Sc
/ cure, has caused what may once have
/ been infant industries to become the
! greatest combinations OF capital that the
world has ever known. These publicly
! favored enterprises have. through trust
methods been converted into monopoles,
! thus bringing to an end domestic com
petition, Which was the only check upon
| The eXtraNugant profits made possible by
the protective system. These industrial
combinations, by the financial assistance
they can give, now control the policy OF
the republican party
/ We favor a wise, conservative and
| businessiike revision and gradual re-
! ducton of the tariff by the friends of the
/ masses and for the common veal, and
not by the friends of its abuses, its eN-
tortions aud its DETERMINATIONS. keeping
in view tie ultimate end of equality OF
+, burdens and equality of opportunities,
and the constitutional purpeese OF rais}iia
; a revenue by taxation, to-Wit, the SUP
| port of the federal government. III all it's
! integrity and virility, but in simplicity
and keeping also in view, as men OF conf-
mon sense should, existing conditions
however wrongfuily, mistakenly or UNI
the cause of tariff reform itself Of abrupt
and revolutionary reversal of policy.
We should bear in mind. i'll short, these
the sole derivation OF the power Of tax.
alton is the support of the federal gov
ernemn1, economically. effectively ant
constitutionally administered: and t2j
the equal truth that in the assertion ol
/ any general principle and in reachn&
! any ultimate end however sacred anl
logically unavoidable, due regard. hu
| only due regard, must and should be paio
to actual existing conditions.
"We favor the reduction of tariff tax
alton upon trust produced articles to thu
| ter the American market whenever trust:
and combines seeking monopoly. iais'
ther ptess I" the nmerien4 ana nst ra G9nsne h1
such reduction deprivhg trusts and mo
nopolies of the power TO eXtoft from thu
American people, und,. shelter of Amer
lean law prices higher than those charged
foreigners for identical articles.
The Isthmiun Canal,
sOur party having long and earnestl.
) advocated the constructioI1 of Interoceani
canal for the purpose of national defens
and commerce between the states ant
with foreign natinus, We favor the earl
completion of the lsthmian canal
but while making this declaration an
accepting the results as an accomplishe
and rreVersible fact, we can not to
forcbly express our disapproval OF tn
methods by which, in disregard of tn
usages and ohligatio,ns Of internatlona ,,
law and treaty obligations, the cana
record our hope that this precedent ed ';ss
, against us to our humiliation and injury
Trusts and Unlawful Combinations
i 1--WE recognize that the gigantic trust
and combinations designed to enable car
: ital to secure more than it's just share Q
the joint product Of capital and labor. an
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