Bisbee daily review., 1904-07-09
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM ADOPTED LAST NIGHT.

The Democratic platform adopted last night in the Democratic National Convention is one of the most lucid documents of the kind any National convention has adopted in years. Its words are clear and ringing with pure Democracy. true to the nation, sincere in tone, commendatory in all that the words thereof imply There is not paragraph therein to which every good and loyal Democrat can not conscien tiously subscribe. It was adopted unanimously. and stands as the princi- ples of the party, a living issue Of to- day instead of dream of the past.
 It declares for freedom of Jhe press, of conscience and of speech; equality of the law for all citizens, right of trial by jury, and freedom of person, de fended by writ of habeas corpus, su' premacy of civil over military law, and well disciplined militia.
 Economy in expenditures. and low taxes. that labor may be lightly bur dened: prompt and sacred tulhlmen' of all public and private obligations, fidelity to treaties. peace and friend ship with all nations and entanglins alliances with none; absolute acquiesc- ence in the will of the majority are the vital principles of the Republic, are declarations so broad yet simple, thae the blind may read. and those of light est minds may follow with confidence in the party which advances them.
 The right of any executive to dis regard or suspend any constitutional privilege is denied, and the party ia viors the enactment and enforcement of laws giving labor and capital inn partially aud equally their rights, will be endorsed by employer and employe.
 Punishment of citizens without trial or for the control of elections is con demned, with the statement that the military should be used only to main tain the Jaw, and is essentially clause of good government.
 A demand is made that every off, cial, from the occupant of the White House down to the lowest of them, re- turn to Jeifersonian simplicity, and Q strong plank is inserted in the demand that We have a president who will set himself sternly against the usurpa- ton of the legislative power and judi cial function. whether ittakes place in the tyranJs' plans of necessity or su- perior wisdom.
 The convention affirms the good old Democratic doctrine that this govern ment shall have a set of laws for home" and a different set of laws for "our colonies" and is in keeping with that of the doctrine of Jefferson and Jackson. Insistence is made that We do for the Filipinos precisely what we have done for the Cubans, and that We set the Filipinos upon theil feet, free and independent, to work out their own destiny.
 Strong is the plank on the subject oi class tariff legislation, by which cer tain interests have been permitted tc draw heavy tribute from the American people" g monstrous perversion Oi those equal opportunities which oul political institutions were established to secure.
 Protection is denounced as robbery 10 enrich the few, and tariff is favor ed limited to the needs of theg overn nent economically administered, ant So levied as not to discriminate agains and industry, class or section, to thu end that the burdens of taxation ma! be equally distributed as nearly a! possible, and that the tariff be revised and gradually reduced by friends O the masses, and for thee ommonweal and not for its abuses. it's extortion and it's determinations, are plank upon which not only the candidate may stand with unanimity, but t which the people of this country ma. unqualifedly subscribe.
 Taking the platform as the guidini signboard of the people of the countr. to follow. it is. one of the stronges documents ever promulgated by an. Democratic Convention. Its wordi are simple. There are no incongrui ties of expression. no meaningless sentences, but plain, simple facts