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Section 1. The representatives of the
democratic party of the United States,
in national convention assembled, do
reaffirm their allegiance to the princi
ples of the party as formulated by Jef
ferson and exemplified- by a long and
illustrious lino of his successors in
democratic leadership from Madison to
Cleveland. We believe the public wel
fare demands that these principles be
applied to the conduct of the federal
government, through the accession of
power of the. party that advocates
them, and we solemnly .declare that the
need of a return to these fundamental
principles of free and popular govern
ment, based on home rule and individ
ual liberty, was never more urgent
than now when the tendency to cen
tralize all the power at the federal cap
ital has become a menace to the re
served rights of states, th strikes at
the very root of our government’s con
stitution as framed by the fathers of
the republic.
Sec. 2. We warn the weople of a
common country, jealous for the pre
servation of their free Institutions,
that the policy of federal control of
elections, to which the republican party
has committed itself, is fraught with
the greatest dangers, scarcely less
momentous than would result from a
revolution practically establishing mon
archy on the ruins of the republic. It
strikes at the north as well as at the
south, and injures the colored citizens
even more than the whites. It means
a horde of deputy marshals at every
polling place, armed with federal pow
er; returning boards appointed and
controlled by federal authority; out
rage of the electoral rights of the peo
ple in the several stales; the subjuga
tion of the colored people to the control
of the party in power, and the reviving
of the race antagonisms, now happily
abated, of the utmost peril to the safety
and happiness of all; a measure delib
erately and justly described by a lead
ing republican senator as “the most
infamous bill that ever crossed the
threshold of the senate.” Such a pol
icy, if sanctioned by law, weuld mean
the dominance of a self-perpetuating
oligarchy of office holders, and the
party first entrusted with its machin
ery could be dislodged from power
only by ar a ’peal to the reserved
rights of the jM>pie to resist oppress
ion,
erning communities. Two years ago
this revolutionary policy was emphati
cally condemned by the people at the
polls, but in contempt of that verdict
the republican party has defiantly de
clared, in its authoritative utterance,
that its success in the coming elections
will mean the enactment of a force
bill and the usurpation of despotic con
trol over elections in all the states.
Believing that the preservation of
republican government in the United
States is dependent opon the defeat of
this policy of legalized force and fraud,
we invite tho support of all citizens
who desire to see the constitution
maintained in its integrity, with the
laws pursuant thereto, which have
given our country' a hundred years of
unexampled prosperity. We pledge
the democratic party, if it be entrusted
with the power, not only to defeat the
force bill, but also the relentless oppo
sition to the republican policy of profli
gate expenditure which, in the short
space as two years, has squandered an
enormous surplus—emptied an over
flowing treasury after piling new bur
dens of taxation upon the already over
taxed labor of tho country.
Sec. 3. We denounce republican pro
tection as a fraud on the labor of the
great majority of American people for
the benefit of a few. We declare it to
be a fundamental principle of the dem
ocratic party that the federal govern
ment has no constitutional power to
impose and collect tariff duties except
for the purpose of revenues only (ap
plause and cheers) and we demand
that the collection of such taxes shall
be limited to the necessaries of govern
ment when honestly and economically
administered.
We denounce the McKinley tariff law
enacted by the fifty-first congress as the
culminating atrocity of class legislation;
we endorse tho efforts made by the
democrats of the present congress to
modify its most oppressive features in
the direction of free raw materials and
cheaper manufactured goods that enter
into general consumption; and we
promise its repeal as one of the benefi
cent results that will follow tho action
of the people in entrusting power to
the democratic party. Since the Mc-
Kinley tariff went into operation there
have been ten reductions of wages of
laboring men to one increase of pros
perity to the country since that tariff
went into opperation and we point to
the dullness and distress, wage reduc
tions and strikes in the iron trade, as
the best possible evidence that no such
prosperity has resulted from the McKin
ley act. We call the attention of
thoughtful Americans to the fact that
after thirty years of restrictive taxes
against the importation of foreign
wealth, in exchange for our agricultur
al surplus, the homes and farms of the
country have become burdened with a
real estate mortgage debt of over two
thousand five hundred million dollars,
exclusive of all other forms of indebt
edness; that in one of the chief agri
cultural states of the west there appears
a real estate mortgage debt averaging
$165 per capita of the total population,
and that'similar conditions and tenden
cies are shown to exist in other agri
cultural exporting states. We denounce
a policy which fosters no industry so
much as it does that of the sheriff.
Sec. 4. Trade interchange on a basis
of reciprocal advantage to countries
participating is a time-honored doctrine
of democratic faith, but we denounce
the sham reciprocity which juggles
with the people’s desire for enlarged
foreign markets and freer exchanges
by pretending to establish closer trade
relations for the country whose articles
of export are almost exclusively agri
cultural products, with other countries
that are also agricultural, while erect
ing the custom house barrier of prohi
bitive tariff taxes against- the richest
countries of the world, that stands ready
to take our entire surplus of products
and to exchange therefor commodities
which are necessaries and comforts of
life among our own people.
Sec. 5. We recognize in trusts and
combinations which are designed to en
able capital to secure more than its just
share of the joint product of capital and
labor, the natural consequence of pro
hioitive taxes which prevent free com
petition, which is the life of honest
trade, but we believe their worst evils
can be abated by law, and we demand
a rigid enforcement Os laws made to
prevent and control them, together
with such further legislation in restraint
of their abuses as experience may show
. to be necessary.
See. 6. The republican party, while
professing a policy of reserving public
land for small holdings by actual set
tlers has given away the people’s her
itage till now a few railroads and non
resident alien individuals and corpora
tions possess a larger area than all our
farmers between the two seas. The
last democratic administration reversed
the improvident and and unwise policy
of the republican party touching the
public domain and reclaimed from cor
porations and syndicates, alien and
domestic, and restored to the people
nearly 100,000,000 acres of valuable
land to be so sacredly held as home
steads for our citizens and we pledge
ourselves to continue this policy till
every acre of land so unlawfully held
shall be reclaimed and restored to the
people.
Sec. 7. We denounced the republi
can party legislation known as the
Sherman act of 1890 as a cowardly
makeshift fraught with possibilities of
danger in the future which should
make all its supporters, as well as its
author, anxious for its speedy repeal.
We hold to the use of both gold aud
silver as the stanaard money of the
country and to the coinage of both gold
and silver without discriminating
against either metal or charge for
mintage but the dollar unit of coinage
of both metals must be of equal intrin
sic and exchangeable value or be ad
justed through international agreement
or by such safeguards of legislation as
shall insure the maintenance of the
parity of the two metals,an equal power
of every dollar at all times in the mar
kets and in payment of debts, and we
demand that all paper currency shall
be kept at a par with and redeemable
in such coin. We insist upon this
policy especially necessary for the pro
tection of the farmers and laboring
classes, the first and most defenseless
victims of unstable money and fluctu
ating currency.
Sec. 8. We recommend that the pro
hibitory 10 per cent, tax on state bank
issues be repealed.
Sec. 9. A public office is a public
trust. We reaffirm the declaration of
the democratic national conventional
of 1876 for the reform of
civil service, and we call for the hon
est enforcement of all laws regulating
the same. The nomination of a presi
dent as in the recent republican con
vention by delegations composed large
ly of his appointees, holding office at
his pleasure, is a scandalous satire
upon free popular institutions and a
startling illustration of the methods by
which a president may gratify his am
bition. We denounce the policy under
which federal office holders assume
control of conventions in states and we
pledge the democratic party to reform
of these and all other abuses which
threaten individual liberty and local
self-government.
Sec. 10. The democratic party is the
only party that has ever given the
country a foreign policy—consistent
and vigorous, compelling respect
abroad and inspiring confidence at
home. While avoiding entangling alli
ances it has aimed to cultivate friendly
relations with other nations and espe
cially with our neighbors on the Amer
ican continent, whose destiny is close
ly linked with our own and view with
alarm the tendency to a policy of irri
tation and bluster which is liable at
any time to confront us with the alter
native of humiliation or war. We favor
the maintenance of a navy strong
enough for all purposes of national de
fense and to properly maintain the
honor and dignity of the country
abroad.
Sec. 11. This country has always
been the refuge of the oppressed from
every land—exiles for conscience sake
—and in the spirit of the founders of
our government we condemn the op
pression practiced by the Russian gov
ernment upon its Lutheran and Jewish
subjects and we call upon our national
government in the interest of justice
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and humanity, by all just and proper
means, to use its prompt and best efforts
to bring about a cessation of these cruel
persecutions of the czar and to secure
to the oppressed equal rights. We ten
der our profound and earnest sympathy
to those lovers of freedom who are
struggling for home rule and the great
cause of self-government in Ireland.
Sec. 12. We heartily approve all
legitimate efforts to prevent the United
States from being used as the dumping
ground for know criminals and profes
sional paupers of Europe and we de
mand a rigid enforcement of the law
against Chinese immigration or the im
portation of foreign workmen under
contract to degrade American labor and
lessen its wages; but yve condemn and
denounce any and all attempts to re
strict the immigration of the industri
ous and worthy of foreign lands.
Sec. 13. This convention hereby re
news its expression of appreciation of
the patriotism of the soldiers and sailors
of the union in the war for its preser
vation and we favor just aud liberal
pensions for all disabled union soldiers,
their widows and dependent, but we
demand that the work of the pension
office shall be (lone industriously, im
partially and honestly. We denounce
the present admin -irationof that office
as jncpjppetent. corrupt disgraceful
and dishonest.
Sec. 14. The Mderal government
should care for and improve the Mis
sissippi river and ot\ ( er great waterways
of the republic, so as to secure for the
interior states easy and cheap transpor
tation to tidewater. When any water
way of the public is of sufficient im
portance to demand the aid of the
government that such aid should be
extended to a definite plan of .contin
uous work until permanent improve
ment is secured.
Sec. 15. For purposes of national
defense the promotion of commerce
between the states, we recognize the
early construction of the Nicaragua
canal and its protection against foreign
control as of the great importance to
to the United States.
Sec. 16. Recognizing the world’s
Columbian exposition as a national un
dertaking of vast importance, in which
the general government has invited the
co-opp eration of all the powers of the
world, and appreciating the acceptance
by many of such powers of the invita
tion extended, and the broadest liberal
efforts beihg made by them to contrib
ute to the grandeur of the undertaking,
we are of the opinion that congress
should make such necessary financial
provision as shall be requisite to the
maintenance of national honor and
public faith.
Sec. 17. Popular education being the
only safe basis qf popular suffrage, we
recommend to the several states the
most liberal appropriations for public
Bchools. Free cpmnion schools are.the
nursery of good government, and they
have always received the fos
tering care of the democratic party,
which favors every means of increase
intelligence. The freedom of educa
tion, being an essential of civil and
Religious liberty as well as a necessity
for the development of intelligence,
must not be interfered with under any
pretext -whatever. We are opposed to
state interference with parental rights
and the rights of conscience in the
education of children as an infringe
ment of the fundamental democratic
doctrine that the largest indvidual lib
erty consistent with the rights of oth
ers insures the highest type of Ameri
can citizenship and best government.
Sec. 18. We approve the action of
the present house of representatives
in passing bills for the admission into
the union as states of the territories of
New Mexico and Arizona, and we fa
vor the early admission of all territo
ries having the necessary population
and resources to admit them to state
hood, and while they remain territories
we hold that officials appointed to
administer the government of any ter
ritory, together with the District of
Columbia and Alaska should be bona
fide residents of the territory or dis
trict in which their duties are to be
performed. The democratic party
believes in home rule and the control
of their own affairs by people of vicin
age.
Sec. 19, We favor legislation by con
gress and the legislatures to protect
the lives and Kmbs of railway employes
and those of other hazardous transpor
tation companies, and denounce the
inactivity of the republican party, and
particularly the republican senate, for
causing the defeat of measures benefi
cial and protective to this class of wage
earners.
Sec. 20. We are in favor of the en
actment by states of laws for abolish
ing the notorious sweating system, for
abolishing contract convict labor and
for prohibiting the employment in sac-
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Sec. 21. We are opposed to all sump
tuary laws as an interference with the
individual rights of citizens.
Sec. 22. Upon this statement of prin
ciples and policies the democratic party
asks the intelligent judgment of the
American people. It asks a change qf
administration and change party in
order that there may be a change of
system and a change of methods, thus
assuring the maintenance unimpaired
of the institution under which the re
public has grown great and powerful.
The Republican Platform.
The following is the text of the
platform as adopted by the republican
convention:
We reaffirm the American doctrine
of protection. We call attention to its
growth abroad. We maintain that the
prosperous condition of our country is
largely due to the wise revenue legisla
tion of the republican congress. We
believe that all articles which cannot
be produced in the United States, ex
cept luxuries, should be admitted free
of duty, and that on all imports coming
into competition with product of Amer
ican labor, there should be levied du
ties equal to the difference between
wages abroad and at home. We assert
that the prices of manufactured arti
cles of general consumption have been
reduced under the operations of the
tariff act of 1890. We denounce the
efforts of the democratic majority of
the house of representatives to destroy
our tariff laws as manifested by their
attacks upon wool, lead and lead ores,
the chief product of a number of states,
and we ask the people for their judg
ment thereon.
We point to the success of the repub
lican policy of reciprocity, underwhich
our export trade has vastly increased
and new and enlaaged markets have
been opened for the products of our
farms and workshops. We remined
the people of the bitter opposition of
the democratic party to this practical
business measure, and claim that as
executed by the republican administra
tion our present laws will eventually
give us control of the trade of the
world.
The American people, from tradi
tion and interest favor bimetalism and
the republican party demands the use
of both gold and silver as standard
money, with restrictions and under
such provisions, to be determined by
legislation, as will secure the mainte
nance of the parity of values of the
two metals so that the purchasing and
debt paying power of a dollar, whether
of sliver gold or paper, shall be at all
times equal. The interest of the pro
ducers of the country, its farmers and
its worktngmen, demand that every
dollar, paper or coin, issued by the gov
ernment, shall be as good as any other.
We commend the Wise and patriotic
steps already taken by our government
to'secure an international conference
to adopt such measures as will insure
the parity of value between getween
gold and silver for use as money throuh
out the wold.
We'demand that every citizen of the
United States shall be allowed to cast
one fair and unrestricted ballot in all
public elections, and that such ballot
shall be counted and returned as cast;
that such laws shall be enacted and
enforced as will secure to every citizen,
be he rich or poor, native or foreigfi
born, white or black, this sovereign
right guaranteed by the constitution.
A free and unrestricted popular ballot,
just and equal representation of all peo
ple, as well as their just and equal
protection under the laws, are the
foundation of our republican institu
tions and the party will never relent in
its efforts until the integrity of the bal
lot and the purity of elections shall be
fully guaranteed and protected in every
state. We denounce the continued
inhuman outrages perpetrated upon
American citizens for political reasons
in certain southern states.
We favor an extension of our for
eign commerce, the restoration of our
mercantile marine by home-built ships
and the creation of a navy for the pro
tection of our natio'nal interests and
the honor of our flag, the maintenance
of most friendly relations with all for
eign powers, entangling alliances with
none, and protection of the rights of
our fishermen.
We reaffirm our approval of the
Monroe doctrine and believe in the
achievement of the manifest destity of
the republic in its broadest sense.
We favor the enactment of more
stringent laws and regulations for the
restriction of criminal, pauper and con
tract immigration.
We favor efficient legislation by con
gress to protect the life and limbs of
the employes of transportation com
panies engaged in the carrying of inter
state commerce and recomend legisla
tion by the respective states that will
protect employes engaged in state com
merce, in mining and manufacturing.
The- republican party has always
been the champion of the oppresd and
recognizes the dignity of manhood,
irrespective or faith color or national
ity; it sympathizes with the cause of
home rule in Ireland, and protests
against the persecution of the Jews
in Russia.
The ultimate reftance of free and
popular governments is the intelli
gence of the people and the mainte
nance of freedom among its men. We
therefore declare anew our devotion to
the liberty of thought and conscience,
of speech and the press, and approve
all agencies and instrumentalities which
contribute to the education of the chil
dren of the land; but while insisting
upon the fullest measure of religious
liberty, we are opposed to any union
of church and state.
We affirm our opposition, declared
in the republican platform of 1888, to
all combinations of capital organized
in trusts or otherwise to control arbi
trarily the condition of trade among
our citizens. We heartily endorse the
action already taken upon this subject,
and ask for such further legislation as
maj’ be required to remedy any defects
in the existing laws, and to render
their enforcement more complete and
effective.
We approve the policy of extending
to towns, villages and rural communi
ties the advantages of the free deliv
ery service, now enjoyed by the larger
cities of the country, reaffirm the
declaration contained in the republi
can platform of 1888, pledging a reduc
tion Os letter postage to 1 cent at the
earliest possible moment consistent
with the maintenance of the postoffice
department and the highest class of
service.
We commend the spirit and evidence
of reform in civil service and the wise
and consistent enforcement by the re
publican party of laws regulating the
same.
The construction of tho Nicaragua
canal is of the. highest importance to
the Americwu'peopl*, as a measure of
national defense and to build up and
maintain an American commerce, and
it should be contrdldd by the United
States government. t
We favor the admission of the re
maining territories at the earliest prac
ticable day, having due regard to the
interests of the people of the territo
ries and of the United States. All fed
eral officers appointed for the territo
ries should be selected from bona fide
residents thereof, and the right of self
government should be accorded as far
as practicable.
We favor the cession, subject to the
homestead laws, of arid public lands
to the states and territories in which
they lie, under such congressional re
strictions as to disposition, reclama
tion and occupancy by settlers as will
secure maximum benefits to the peo- j
pie.
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