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J. W. Aniersoh, Edit or.
Covington, Ga., July 14, 1896.
THE CHICAGO CONVENTION
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The national democratic conven- >
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tion met in Chicago, July 7 1896,j
adopted a tree coinage of silver
platform and nominated Hon.
William J. Bryan, of Nebraska, ior j
president, and Hon. Arthur Sew
all, of Maine, ior vice president.
We publish the platform i in full
today, which is a plain concise,
and unequivocal declaration of
principles, and clear 1
democratic a
1
demand for the free and unlimited
coinage of silver.
The ticket nominated is a strong
one, and we predict that it will be
elected in November by a clear
and decisive majority.
Hon William Jennings Bryan,
the nominee for president, is the
youngest man ever chosen as a
candidate for the high office of
president of the United States, the
next youngest . being ■ Grant, Bierce
and Garfield. In all cases hereto
fore, when young men have been
nominated, they have been elected
by strikingly large majorities.
And this will be the result in
Mr. Bryan’s case, next November.
He is one of the ablest and most
brilliant young lawyers in this
country, and as the “Silver Knight
of the Platte, >» he will lead the
democratic party to victory in the
coming campaign.
William Jennings Bryan, of Ne¬
braska, was born in Salem, Marion
county, Illinois, Mareb i 9 > 1860 ;
attended public school until fifteen
years of age, spending his vacations
on the farm ; in the fall of 1875611
tered Whipple Academy at Jack¬
sonville, Illinois ; entered Illinois
college, Jacksonville, in 1877 ! com¬
pleted a classical course and was
graduated with the highest honors
i/t 1881 : attended Union college of
law, Chicago, Illinois, fortwoyears,
during which time he was con¬
nected with the office of ex-Senator
Lyman Trumbull; began the prac¬
tice of his profession at Jackson¬
ville ; removed to Lincoln, Ne¬
braska, October 1, 1887, and be¬
came a mi m’ter of the firm of Tal
bot & Bryan ; never held an elect¬
ive office prior to his election to
congress ; was elected to the fifty
second congress as a democrat, re¬
ceiving 32,376 votes, against 25,-
663 votes for William J Connell,
republican, 13,066 votes for Allen
Root, independent, 1,670 votes for
E. H. Chapin, prohibitionist, and
8 votes scattering.
Mr. Bryan’s great speech in the
convention electrified the whole
country, and won him the presi¬
dential nomination.
His name was presented to the
convention, as a candidate for pres¬
ident, by Hon. Hal. Lewis, of the
Georgia delegation, without his
knowledge, and it swept the great
convention with a perfect cyclone
of enthusiasm.
Hon. Arthur Sewall, of Maine,
the nominee for vice president, is
a wealthy ship builder and business
man, and has never been in poli
tics. He has been a member of
the national democratic committee
for eight years, and is a very
strong man. He has long been an
advocate of free silver, and says
he will carry his stale for the de¬
mocracy in the coming election.
The adoption of a silver plat
form, and the nomination of a pres¬
idential candidate so able and bril¬
liant, and so eminently fitted to 1;
as the peerless young Nebraskan
gives general satisfaction to tin
people oi tins ->e m, aud .ve fee
safe in a-i^rling that it will win ;
great victory over the money power
of the east in the coining election.
A. +
Lei us do vour job primiru ,
THE PLATFORM 1
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by the Democratic National
Convention
PREAMBLE— We, the democrats of the United States in national conven¬
tion assembled, do reaffirm our allegiance to the essential principles of justice and
liberty upon which our institutions are founded, and which the democratic party
j l;l8 advocated from Jefferson’s time to our own—freedom of speech, freedom of
tfie press, freedom of conscience, the preservation of personal rights, the equal
ity of all citizens before the law, and the faithful observances of the eonstitu
tional limitations. During all these years the democratic party has resisted tin
tendency of selfish Interests to the centralization of government power,
steadfastly maintained the integrity of the dual scheme of government estab¬
lished by the founders of this republic of republics. Under Its guidance and
teachings the great principle of local self-government has found Its best expres
slon In the maintenance of rights of the states and in its assertion of the neces
sity of confining the general government to the exercise of the powers granted
by the constitution of the United States. The constitution of the United States
guarantees to every citizen the rights of civil and religious liberty. The demo
cratic party has always been the exponent of political liberty and religion:
freedom, and it renews its obligations and reaffirms its devotion to these fun
damental principles of the constitution.
1 MONEY QUESTION—Recognizing that the money question is paramount to
all others at this time, we invite attention to the fact that the federal const!
tution names silver and gold together as the money metals of the United
States, and that the first coinage law passed by congress under the constitution
made the silver dollar the monetary unit and admitted gold to free coinage at
a ratio based upon the silver dollar unit.
We declare that the act of 1873, demonetizing silver without the knowledge
or the approval of the American people, has resulted In the appreciation of gold
an( j a corresponding fall in the prices of commodities produced by the people:
a heavy increase in the burden of taxation and of all debts, public and private:
the enrichment of the money-lending class at home and abroad; the prostration
; of industry and impoverishment of the people.
■ OPPOSED TO THE GOLD STANDARD-We are unalterably opposed tc
monometalllsm wUeh }, as locked fast the prosperity of an Industrial people in
the para ij. sl8 0 f hard times. Gold monometallism is a British policy, and Its
adoption has brought other nations into financial servitude to London, lt Is
! only un-American but anti-American, and it can be fastened on the United
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States only by the stifling of that spirit and love of liberty which proclaimed our
political independence in 1776 and won it in the war of the revolution.
COINAGE OF BOTH SILVER AND GOLD—We demand the free and unlim
lted co i nage 0 f t>oth silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, without
waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation. We demand that the
standard silver dollar shall be a full legal tender, equally with gold, for all
debts, public and private, and we favor such legislation as will prevent for the
future the demonetization of any kind of legal tender money by private con
tract
We are opposed to the policy and practice of surrendering to the holders of
the obligations of the United States the option reserved by law to the govern¬
ment of redeeming such obligations in either silver coin or gold coin.
AGAINST BOND ISSUES IN TIME OF PEACE—We are opposed to the
issuing of Interest-bearing bonds of the United States In time of peace and con¬
demn the trafficking with banking syndicates which, in exchange for bonds and
at an enormous profit to themselves, supply the federal treasury with gold tfl
maintain the policy of gold monometallism.
Congress alone has the power to coin and issue money, and President Jack
son declared that this power could not be dcicg-atcd to ^oii-iorauons or Individ
no Is. We, therefore, denounce the issuance of notes intended to circulate as
money by national banks as in derogation of the constitution; and we demand
that all paper which Is made a legal tender for public and private debts, 01
which is receivable for dues to the United States shall be issued by the govern¬
ment of the United States and shall be redeemable In coin.
A REVENUE TARIFF—We hold that tariff duties should be levied for pur
poses of revenue, such duties to be so adjusted as to operate equally through¬
out the country and not discriminate between class or section, and that taxation
should be limited by the needs of the government, honestly and economically
administered. We denounce as disturbing to business the republican threat to
restore the McKinley law, which has twice been condemned by the people in
national elections and which, enacted under the false plea of protection to home
industries, proved a prolific breeder of trusts and monopolies, enriched the few
at the expense of the many, restricted trade and deprived the producers of the
great American staples of access to their natural markets.
Until the money question is settled, we are opposed to any agitation for fur¬
ther changes in our tariff laws, except such as are necessary to meet the de¬
ficit in revenue caused by the adverse decision of the supreme court on the in¬
come tax. But for this decision by the supreme court, there would be no de¬
ficit In the revenue under the law passed by a democratic congress in strict
pursuance of uniform decisions of that court for nearly one hundred years, that
court having in that decision sustained constitutional objections to its enact
uieut which had previously been overruled by the ablest judges who have ever
sat on that bench. We declare that it is the duty of congress to use all the
constitutional power which remains after that decision or which may come
from its reversal by the court as it may hereafter be constituted, so that the
burdens of taxation may be equally and impartially laid, to the end that wealth
may bear its due proportion of the expenses of the government.
KEEP OUT FOREIGN PAUPERS—We hold that the most efficient way of
protecting American labor is to prevent the importation of foreign pauper labor
to compete with it in the home market, and that the value of the home market
to our American farmers and artisans is greatly reduced by a vk-ions monetary
system which depresses the prices of their products below the cost of produc¬
tion and thus deprives them of the means of purchasing the products of our
home manufactories, and as labor creates the wealth of the country, we de¬
mand the passage of such laws as may be necessary to protect it in ail Its
rights.
\\ e are in favor of the arbitration of difference* between employers engag
sd In interstate commerce and their employes and recommend such legislation as
is necessary to carry out this principle.
1 he absorption of wealth by the few, the consolidation of our leading rail¬
road systems and the formation of trusts and pools require a stricter control
by the federal government of those arteries of commerce. We demand the en
largenient of the powers of the Interstate commerce commission and such re¬
{ strictions and guarantees in the control of railroads as will protect the people
fr »m robbery and oppression.
DENOUNCE REPUBLICAN PROFLIGACY-We denounce the profligate
waste of money wrung from the people by oppressive taxation and the lavish
appropriation of recent republican congresses, which hare kept taxes high
while the lalior that pays them is unemployed and the products of the peo
pie’s toil are depressed In price till they no longer repay the cost of production
We demand a return to that simplicity and economy which benefits a dem¬
ocratic government and a reduction in the number of useless offices, the saia
ries of which drain the substance of the people.
FEDERAL INTERFERENCE UNCONSTITUTIONAL We denounce arbl
trary Interference by federal authorities iu local affairs violation of the
as a
constitution of the I nited States and a crime against free Institutions, and
especially we
object to government by Injunction as a new and highly dangerous
form of oppression by which federal Judges, in
states and rights contempt of the laws of the
of citizens, become at once legislators, Judges and executioners
and v.e approve the bill passed at the last I
and session of the United States senate
now pending In the house of representatives. relative to contempts in
federal courts, and providing trials by jury In certain
No discrimination cases of contempt,
should be Indulged by the government, of the Unlted
States In favor of Its debtors. We approve the refusal
Areas ot the fifty-third oon
to pass the Pacific railroad funding bill and denounce the
present republican efforts of the
congress to enact a similar measure.
AS TO PENSIONS—Recognizing the Just claims of deserving union soldiers,
we heartily Indorse the rule of the piesent commissioner of pensions, that no
names shall be arbitrarily dropped from the pension roll and the fact of enlist
rr.ent and service should be deemed conclusive evidence against disease and
disability before enlistment.
NEW STATES—We favor the admission of the territories of New Mexico,
Oklahoma and Arizona into the union as states, and we favor the early adrais
Jlon of all the territories having the necessary population and resources to entitle
them to statehood, and while they rema n territories we hold that the officials ap
pointed to administer the government of any territory, together with the District
of Columbia and Alaska, should be bona flde residents of the territory or dis
triet in wliich (heir duties are to be performed.
The democratic party believes in home rule, and that all public lands of the
United States should be appropriated to the establishment of free homes for
American citizens.
We recommend that the territory of Alaska be granted a delegate in con¬
gress, and that the general land and timber laws of the United States be ex¬
tended to said territory.
THE MONROE DOCTRINE—The Monroe doctrine, as originally declared and
as interpreted by succeeding presidents, is a permanent part of the foreign policy
of the United States and must at all times be maintained.
SYMPATHY FOR CUBA—We extend our sympathy to the people of Cuba
In their heroic struggle for liberty and independence.
TENURE OF OFFICE—We are opposed to life tenure in the public service.
We favor appointments based upon merit, fixed terms of office and such an ad¬
ministration of the civil service laws as will afford equal opportunities to all
citizens of ascertained fitness.
We declare it to be the unwritten law of this republic, established by cus¬
tom and usage of one hundred years and sanctioned by the examples of the
greatest and wisest of those who founded and have maintained our govern¬
ment, that bo man should be eligible for a third term for the presidential of¬
fice.
IMPROVE WATERWAYS—The federal government should care for and im¬
prove the Mississippi river and other great waterways of the republic 60 as to
secure for the interior states cheap and easy transportation to tidewater. When
any waterway of the republic is of sufficient importance to need aid from
the government, such aid should be extended upon a definite plan of continuous
work until permanent Improvement is secured.
SUBMITTED—Confiding in the justice of our cause and the necessity of
ite success at the polls, we submit the foregoing declaration of principles and
purposes to the considerate judgment of the American people. We invite the i
support of all citizens who approve them and who desire to have them made ef¬
fective through legislation for the relief of the people and the restoration of
the country’s prosperity.
EMORY COLLEGE,
OXFORD, CA.
The PALL term of this old and honored institution begins Sc t 16, 185)6.
The
of the College was never so good in its his
tory. Full courses are offered in English,
Philosophy, Creek, Latin, Chemistry, Biology
Engineering, French. German, Hebiew, Po
i ideal Economy, History, Theology and Law.
The Expense
for a year in Emory College is very low—much
ower than in most Southern Colleges of like
grade. Board can be had m Helping Halls
low as $8 per month, and in private
at from -fl2 to $15.
For catalogue and further information, address
W. A . CANDLEH, President, Oxford, Ga.
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rid ol them in a hurry if a low price will carry them off. i
U hile not overloaded on other goods I have a full line of
them and want to reduce the stock somewhat, To that end
seductive prices have been put on them.
8. IX LEE, Lula TJuildinor
Covington and Oxford
Street Railroad.
Covington, Ga„ Jan. 5, 1896.
The following Schedule on the Cov¬
ington and Oxford Street Railroad will
tie run until further notice ;
Leave Covington Hotel at...... 5 40 a m
Leave Repot at..................... 6 05 a m
Leave Covington Hotel at...... 7 35 a m
Leave Depot at..................... 7 45 a m
Leave Covington Hotel at...... 8 30 a m
Leave Depot at.................... 8 45 a in
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Leave Depot at..................... 11 60 a m
Leave Covington Hotel at...... 2 30 p m
Leave Depot at».................. 2 45 p m
Leave Covington Hotel at...... 3 40 p at
Leave Depot at..................... 4 10 p ni
Leave Covington Hotel at.i.... 4 20 p ni
Leave Depot at............... 4 50 p m I
Leave Covington Hotel at 7 40 p m
Leave Depot at............... 8 05 p n
The Oxfoid car meets ail trains at the
depot.
SUNDAY SCHEDULE.
Leave Covington Hotels! 10 00 a ui
Leave Depot at......... ........ 10 15 a m
Leave Covington Hotel at..... 4 26 p 1.1
Leave Dejmt ar 4 50 p in
In addition to the above the car w ill
meet all regular passeiigertraiiis, besides
the people of Midway burnt '
church, morning and night.
T. C. SWANN, President.
J. G. Letter. Secretary.
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moral security. Saloons and other such de¬
moralizing agencies are forever excluded from
the town of Oxford by the provisions of the
charter. The society of the place is cultured
and religious. Oxford is emphatically a col¬
lege town, and students at Emory College are
not only free from the temptations to immor¬
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the distractions ol a commercial community
and the unwholesome social excitements com¬
mon in such places. It is 40 miles east of At¬
lanta, ar.d about 1 mile north of the Coving¬
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