Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-09-07

LIE DEMUCkAlfL
PLATFORM
e. the democratic party OF the United
states In national convention assembled,
oeeare oislan It's devotion to the essential prin-
ciples OF the democratic faith which
brlnes us together in party communion.
Under them local self-government and
established. They underlaid our independ-
ence, the structure of our free republic
and every democratic extension from
Louisiana to California ana Texas to Ore
son, which preserved faithfully In all the
states the tie between taxation and rep
resentation. They yet inspire the masses
rights and liberties. and and cherishing their iei1
fraternity, peace and orderly develop
ment They remind US Of our duties and
upon Us, particularly at this time. the
necessity ] ct reform and the rescue Of tho
Of from thc
methods which distract business BY un-
certainty and peryade the public mind
:sThe appneation a' Of Tn these ser fundamental
principles to the living issues of the day
constitutes the first step toward the as
sured peace. safety and progress Of our
science and of speech: equality before
the law Of all citizens; the right of trial
by the writ OF habeas corpus; liberty of
personal contract untrammeled by sump--
tIary laws: the supremacy of the civil
over military authority; a well-disciplined
state; economy in expenditures: low
taxes, that labor may be lightly bur-
09NGQ. the nrOnlDf and sacred f,if}lIrnant
OF public and private obligations; fidelity
to treaties; peace and friendship with all
absolute acquiescence in the will Of the
majority, the vital principle of republics
these are doctrines which democracy has
established as proverbs Of the. nation.
and they should be constantly invoked,
preached. resorted to and enforced.
Controlling Expenses.
Il: Large reductions can readily be
made in the annual expenditures, Of the
cheney of any branch of the public service,
and we shall insist upon the strictest
economy and frugality compatible with
vigorous and efficient civil. military and
naval administration as q right of the
people. too clear to be denied or with
20. The enforcement of honesty In the
public service, and to that end thorough
legislative investigation of those execu-
ready known to TEEN with corruption, as
well as other departments suspected Of
hsarboring s corruption. and the punishment
sistent and deliberate refusal Of both the
permit such nvestgation to be made made by BY
either branch of congress demonstrates
that only by change in the executive
rection be obtained.
I'm broader furtheranoe OF that end the
self to be robbed by entering into con-
tracts with convicted trusts or unlawful
eombinations in restraint Of interstate
believe that one Of the best methods of
procuring economy and honesty In the
the s It 81 81 Wits Maa
nearly as may BE-. to Jeffersonian aim
Dlicity Of living.
Presidential Recommendations.
-. We favor the nomination and elec-
tion OF president trained in tho ways OF
the constitution, who shall get his face
sternly against executive usurpation OF
that usurpation be ruled under the guise
Of executive construction of existing
laws or .,dn whether ef it take refuge in the
a. The democratic party has been,
and VIII continue to be: the consistent
by which certain interests have been per-
mitted, through congressional favor, to
OCdW d uedVy tFlDuL0 from the american
people. This monstrous perversion of
those equal opportunities, which our po-
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
methods, been converted into monopolies,
thus bringing to an end domestic COM
petition. which was the only check upon
the extravagant 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.
eve favor wise, conservative and
businesslike revision and a gradual re-
masses and for the common veal. and
not by the friends of it's abuses, it's ex-
tortions and it's determinations, keeping
burdens and equality of opportunities
and the constitutional purpose of raising
of the BY }yoas aa1to III the
integrity and virility, but in simplicity;
and keeping also in view, as men Of com
however wrongfully. mistakenly or un-
Justly brought about. and the danger to
the cause of tariff reform itself of abrupt
and revolutionary reversal OF policy
1--WE should bear in mind, in short these
two things: % The general principle that
the sole derivation of the, power Of tax
ernemnt Dn e eff effectiVely sas' suS and
constitutionally administered; and (2).
the equal truth that in the assertion of
any general principle and in reaching
any ultimate end, however sacred and
logically unavoidable. due regard. but
only due regard, must and should be paid
to actual existing conditions.
1--WE favor the reduction Of tariff tax
alton upon trust-produced articles to the
points where foreign competition may en-
ter the American market whenever trusts
and combines, seeking monopoly raise
their prices to the American consumer
above a reasonable and just profit by
such reduction depriving trusts and mo-
nopolies of the. power to extort from the
American people, undeS shelter of Amer
lean law, prices higher than those charged
foreigners for identical articles
The IsthmlMM Canal.
"Our party having long and earnestly
advocated the construction OF intereceanic
canal for the purpose of national defense
and commerce between the states and
with foreign nations, we favor the early
completion Of the isthmian canal.
'But while making this declaration and
accepting the results as an accomplished
and irreversibie fact, we can not too
forcihlY express our disapproYal Of the