The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-15
DEMOCRATS AGREE
ON THE PLATFORM
DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES
PROMULGATED AT ST. LOUIS.
SILENT ON MONEY QUESTION
Tariff for Revenue Only Is Favored
Stringent Antitrust Laws
Demanded-Party's Posi-
ton on Other Issues.


ton on Other Issues.
st. Louis, July e.-When the demo-
cratic national convention was called %
order Friday evening, Senator Deniel,
chairman of the committee on resolu-
tions, was at once recognized by the
chair, and read the resolutions as adopt
ed by the committee When he a
finished the reading Senator Daniel
moved the previous question, which was
carried, and the platform was adopted
without debate. 1t is as follows:
The democratic party of the United
States, in national convention assembled
declares its devotion to the essentlai
principles of the democratic faith when
brings together in party communion.
Under them, local self-government, ana
national unity and prosperity were alike
established. They underlaid our lnoe-
pendence, the structure of our free re-
public and every democratic extension
from Louisiana to California and Texas
to Oregon, which preserved faltn1ully
in all the states the tie between taxation
and representation They yet inspire the
masses of our people, guarding jealousy
their rights and liberties, and cherishlng
their fraternity, peace and orderly deVei-
opment. They remind us OF our dutles
and responsibilities as citizens ana iii
press upon us, particularly at this time.
the necessity of reform and the rescue Oh
the administration or government from
the headstrong, arbitrary and spasmoolc
methods which distract business by UNI
certainty, and pervade the pubic mlnu
with dread, distrust and perturbation.
The application of these fundamental
principles to the living issues of the day
is the first step toward the assured peace.
safety and progress of our nation. Free
dom of the press, of conscience, and OF
speech equality before the law or all
citizens; right of trial by jury; freedom
of the person defended by the writ OF ha-
beas corpus; liberty of personal contract
untrammeled by sumptuary laws; su-
premacy of the civil over military author
ity; a well disciplined militia; the sepa-
ration of church and state; economy in
expenditures; low taxes, that labor may
be lightly burdeled: prompt and sacred
fulfllment of public and private obliga-
tons; fidelity to treaties; peace ana
friendship with all nations; ~entangling
alliances with none; absolute acquies-
cence in the will of the majority, the
vital principle of republics-theSe are
doctrines which democracy has estab-
lished, approved by the nation, and they
should be constantly invoked and en-
forced.
Capital and Labor.
We favor enactment and administration
of laws, giving labor and capital impair
tally their just rights: capital and labor
ought not to be enemies. Each is neces-
sary to the other. Each has its rights,
but the rights of labor are certainly no
less vested no less sacred and no
less unbelievable" than the rights OF cap
ital,
Constitutional guarantees are violated
whenever any citizen is denied the right
- laIar ne,tf and n1nU nn0r or
reside where interest or inclination may
determine. Any denial thereof by indi-
viduals, organization, or governments
should be summarily rebuked and pun
she'd.
We deny the right of any executive to
disregard or suspend any constitutional
privilege or limitation. Obedience to the
laws and respect for their requirements
are alike the supreme duty of the citizen
and the official.
The military should be used only to sup
port and to maintain the law. We un-
qualifiedly condemn its employment for
the Punishment of citizens
without trial, or for the control of cleo
tons.
We approve the measure which passed
the United States senate in 1896, but
which a republican congress has ever
since refused to enact, relating to con-
tempts IN federal courts, and providing
for trial by jury IN cases of indirect con-
tempt.
Waterways.
We favor liberal appropriations for the
care and Improvement OF the waterways
of the country. When any waterway
like the Mississippi river, is of sufficient
Importance to demand special aid of the
ed with a definite plan of continuous
work until permanent Improvement is Sc
cured.
starving home development in order to
feed the greed for conquest and the APP
petite for national 'prestage' and dis
play of strength.
Economy of Administration.
Large reductions can easily be made in
the annual expenditures of the govern
ment without impairing the efficiency of
any branch of the public service, and we
shall insist upon the strictest economy and
frugality compatible with vigorous and eff
ficient civil, military and naval administra-
ton as a right of the people, too clear to
be denied or withheld
We favor honesty in the public service.
The enforcement of honesty in the public
service, and to hat end a thorough leg
islative investigation of those executive
departments of the government already
known to TEEN with corruption, as well as
other departments suspected of harboring
corruption, and the punishment of ascer-
tanned corruptionists without fear or IA
yor or regard to persons. The persistent
and deliberate refusal Of both the senate
and the house of rep representatives. to permit
such investigation to be made demon
strates that only by a change in the ex-
ecutive and in the legislative departments
can complete exposure, punishment and
correction be obtained
Government Contract with Trusts.
We condemn the action of the repub-
lican party in congress in refusing to pro-
hibit an executive department from en-
tering into contracts with convicted trusts
or unlawful combinations in restraint of
interstate trade.
We believe that one of the best methods
of procuring economy and honesty in the
public service is to have public officials,
from one occupant of the white house down
to the lowest of them, returned as nearly
as NAV be, to Jeffersonian simplicity of liv-
Executive Usurpation.
We favor the nomination and election OF
q president imbued with the principles of
the constitution, who will set his face
sternly against executive usurpation OF
legislative and judicial functions. Whetner
that usurpation be yelled under the gulse