River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-07-14
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 9.-When the demo-
cratic national convention was called to
order Friday evening, Senator Deniel,
chairman of the committee On resolu-
tons, was at once recognized by the
chair, and read the resolutions as adopt
ed by the committee. When he had
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 essential
principles of the democratic faith Whlcn
brings together in party communion.
Under them, local self-government, and
rational unity and prosperity were alike
established. They underlaid our indie
pendence, the structure of our free re-
public and every democratic extension
from Louisiana to California and Texas
to Oregon, which preserved faithfully
n all the states the tie between taxation
and representation. They yet inspire the
masses of our people. guarding jealousy
their rights and liberties, and cherishing
their fraternity, peace and orderly oeVeA-
opment. They remind us or our dutles
and responsibilities as citizens and I'M
press upon US, particularly at this time.
the necessity of reform and the rescue OF
the administration or government from
the headstrong, arbitrary and spaSmoolc
methods which distract business by UNI
certainty and pervade the public mind
with dread, distrust and perturbation.
The application of these fundamental
principles to the living issues of the day
fc fire etc fot ard ia a
safety and progress of our nation. Free
dom of the press, of conscience, and OF
speech equality before the law OF all
citizens; right of trial by jury; freedom
of the person defended by the writ OF ma
beas corpus; liberty of personal contract
untrammeled by sumptuary laws; SUI
premacy of the civil over military author
tty; a well disciplined militia; the sepa-
ration of church and state; economy in
expenditures; low taxes, that labor may
be lightly burdeaed; prompt and sacred
fulhllment of public and private obliga-
lions; fidelity to treaties; peace and
friendship with all nations; entangling
alliances with nonei 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 "unalienable" than the rights of cap
ital.
Constitutional guarantees are violated
whenever any citizen is denied the right
to labor, acquire and enjoy property or
reside where interest or inclination may
dot Anu nfaI NV fT11i
Viduals, organization, or governments,
should be summarily rebuked and pun
ished.
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
and the official.
The military should be used only to sup
port and to maintain the law. We I'M
qualitedly condemn its employment for
the summary Punishment of citizens
without trial, or for the control of cleo
tions.
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
like the Mississippi river, is of sufficient
Importance to demand special aid of the
government, such aid should be extend
ed with a definite plan of continuous
work until permanent improvement is Sc
cured
we oppose the republican policy Of
starving home development in order to
feed the greed for conquest and the ap-
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 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. that end q thorough leg
isative investigation of those executive
departments of the government already
known to TEEN with corruption as well )
other departments suspected of harboring
corruption, and the punishment of ascer-
tanned corruptonistS without fear or ia
Vor or regard to persons The persistent
and deliberate refusal of both the senate
and the house of presentatives to permit
such investigation to be made demon
strates that only by change in the ex-
ecutive and in the legislative departments
can complete exposure, punishment and
correction be obtained.
0o@eruulShI SohIfdeC Win IFuSCS.
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
publje service is to have public officials
from one occupant of the white house down
to the lowest of them, returned as nearly
as M 4y be, to Jeffersonian simplicity of Iiv-
ing.
Executive Usurpation.
We favor the nomination and election of
a president imbued with the principles of
the constitution, who will set his face
steraly against executive usurpation of
legislative and Judicial functions. whether
that usurpation be yelled under the gulse