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tion of the Government should be raised by levying a burden on what the people possess, instead of upon what they con

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CORPORATIONS.-"6. Railroad, telegraph and other public corporations should be controlled by the Government in the interest of the people, and no higher charges allowed than necessary to give the right of trial by constitutional tribunals.

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AND NATURALIZATION.-7. Foreign immigration has become a burden upon industry, one of the factors in depressing wages and causing discontent; there.ore our immigration laws should be revised and strictly enforced. The time of residence for naturalization should be extended, and no naturalized person should be allowed to vote until one year after he becomes a citizen.

LAND.-S. Non-resident aliens should not be allowed to acquire land in this country, and we favor the limitation of individual and corporate ownership of land. All unearned grants of lands to railroad companies or other corporations should be reclaimed.

MOB LAW. —'9. Years of inaction and treachery on the part of the Republican and Democratic parties have resulted in the present reign of mob law, and we demand that every citizen be protected in the right of trial by constitutional tribunals.

MISCELLANEOUS.-"10. All men should be protected by law in their right to one day of rest in seven.

"11. Arbitration is the wisest and most economical and humane method of settling National differences.

12. Speculations in margins, the cornering of grain, money and products, and the formation of pools, trusts and combinations for the arbitrary advancement of prices should be suppressed.

13. We pledge that the Prohibition party if elected to power will ever grant just pensions to disabled veterans of the Union Army and Navy, their widows and orphans.

14. We stand unequivocally for the American public school, and opposed to any appropriation of public moneys for sectarian schools. We declare that only by united support of such common schools, taught in the English language, can hope to become and remain a homogeneous and harmonious people.

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REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS."15. We arraign the Republican and Democratic parties as false to the standards reared by their founders; as faithless to the principles of the illustrious leaders of the past to whom they do homage with the lips; as recreant to the higher law,' which is as inflexible in political affairs as in personal life, and as no longer embodying the aspirations of the American people, or inviting the confidence of enlightened, progressive patriotism. Their protest against the admission of 'moral issues' into politics is a confession of their own moral degeneracy. The declaration of an eminent authority that municipal misrule is 'the one conspicuous failure of American politics follows as a natural consequence of such degeneracy, and it is true alike of cities under Republican and

Democratic control.

Each accuses the other of extravagance in Congressional appropriations, and both are alike guilty; each protests when out of power against infraction of the civil service laws, and each when in power violates those laws in letter and in spirit; each professes fealty to the interests of the toiling masses, but both covertly truckle to the money power in their administration of public affairs. Even the tariff issue, as represented in the Democratic Mills bill and the Republican McKinley bill, is no longer treated by them as an issue between great and divergent principles of government, but is a mere catering to different sectional and class interests. The attempt in many States to wrest the Australian ballot system from its true purpose, and to so deform it as to render it extremely difficult for new parties to exercise the rights of suffrage, is an outrage upon popular government. The competition of both these parties for the vote of the slums, and their assiduous courting of the liquor power and subserviency to the money power, have resulted in placing those powers in the position of practical arbiters of the destinies of the Nation. We renew our protest against these perilous tendencies, and invite all citizens to join us in the upbuilding of a party that has shown in five National campaigns that it prefers temporary defeat to an abandonment of the claims of justice, sobriety, personal rights and the protection of American homes.

PROHIBITION.-"16. Recognizing and declaring that prohibition of the liquor traffic has become the dominant issue in National politics, we invite to full party fellowship all those who on this one dominant issue are with us agreed in the full belief that this party can and will remove sectional differences, promote National unity, and insure the best welfare of our entire land."

For the third resolution a minority report favored "the issue of legal-tender Treasury notes, exchangeable in gold or silver bullion, on a plan similar to that which now floats $340,000,000 of greenbacks on $100,000,000 of gold reserve and make them more acceptable and convenient than either gold or silver coin." This was defeated on a rising vote-yeas 316, nays 337.

For the fifth resolution, the minority reported a substitute declaring that the tariff should be so levied as to furnish revenue for the needs of the Government economically administered, relieving necessities used by the mass of the people, and for the benefit of labor, protecting American productions and manufactures against the competition of foreign nations, and suggesting the appointment of a tariff commission. This was defeated by a large vote.

The sixteenth resolution was reported by a minority of the Committee on Resolutions. After animated debate it was defeated, its friends being unable to rally the 200 votes necessary to order a vote by States. Subsequently it was taken from the table, and by a rising vote added to the platform; which, with the fourth paragraph out, was then adopted, as reported by James Black, chairman of the committee.

ALABAMA DEMOCRATIC.

May 24, 1894.

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ARKANSAS REPUBLICAN.

July 24, 1894.

PRINCIPLES.-"The Republicans of of Alabama, in convention assembled, re- Arkansas in State Convention assembled affirm the principles of the Democratic reaffirm the platform of principles by the party as declared in its platform adopted Republican National Convention of 1892." at Chicago in 1892, and congratulates the TARIFF.-"We recognize the tariff legcountry upon the success of those prin-islation of the Republican party and the ciples in the triumphant election of Grov-policy upon which such legislation was er Cleveland, who, by his generous treatment of our people, has shown that he is the President of the whole country, knowing no North, no South, no East, no West. We recognize the wisdom and patriotism of the President, and believe in his fealty to the principles of our party, and indorse his Administration of the Federal Government; while some of us differ with him in matters of policy, we are agreed in the belief that he is actuated by motives of the highest patriotism and by an unselfish devotion to the greatest good of the whole people."

SILVER.-"While there are differences of opinion among us in matters of detail, we all believe in the free coinage of silver whenever it can be done consistently with the maintenance of a sound and safe currency."

STATE BANK TAX.-"We earnestly urge upon our Senators and Representatives in Congress the speedy reform of the tariff and the prompt repeal of the 10 per cent tax on the issue of State banks."

NICARAGUA CANAL.-Favors the construction and operation of the Nicaragua Canal.

MISCELLANEOUS.-Pledges the maintenance of a system of free public schools. ALABAMA JEFFERSONIAN DEM

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SILVER AND CURRENCY.-"We demand the free coinage of gold and silver on the basis of 16 to 1; we denounce the demonetization of silver by the Democratic Congress as destructive of the prosperity of the industrial masses; we demand the expansion of the circulating medium to $50 per capita; we protest against the control of the circulating medium by corporate enterprises."

TARIFF.-"We demand a tariff for revenue, and that the revenue necessary to meet the expenses of the Government be raised, so far as possible, by a tariff on importations; and that this tariff be so levied as to protect the laborer in the mines, the mills, the shops and on the farms, and their products, against the labor of foreign countries."

INCOME TAX.-"We demand a National graduated income tax on salaries or incomes in excess of reasonable expenditures for the comforts and necessaries of life."

'LABOR.-Demands that the convicts shall be removed from the mines, and that the present lien laws be so amended as to give miners the same benefits accorded to other laborers, and the enactment of such laws as will secure to them payment of wages in lawful money and semi-monthly.

founded as being the ablest expression of patriotic principle relating to that subject ever enacted by an American Congress, and denounce any attempt to repeal or amend it which does not recognize protection to American labor and industries. The Republican party by its policy of protection to American industries has enabled the laboring man to demand and receive living wages for his labor, and we sympathize with the deplorable condition of the laboring masses caused by the success of the Democratic free trade party, and the rights of labor should be protected by an enlightened liberal policy."

CURRENCY.-"The American people from tradition and interest favor bimetallism, and the Republican party demands the use of both gold and silver as a standard money, with such restrictions and under such provisions to be determined by legislation as will secure and maintain the parity of values of the two metals, so that the purchasing and debt-paying power of a dollar, whether of silver, gold or paper, shall be at all times equal."

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PENSIONS.-"We denounce the present Democratic National Administration notoriously incompetent to properly conduct the affairs of the Government in any of its departments, and as unpatriotic in the illiberal policy toward the Union soldiers of the late war, and especially in its wholly unjustifiable attempt to cast discredit and dishonor upon that meritorious class of our fellow-citizens."

ARKANSAS DEMOCRATIC.
June 27, 1894.

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TARIFF.-"We insist upon a compliance with the repeated declarations of the party in favor of a tariff for revenue only, to the end that the protection gathered by the Republican party and crystallized in the infamous discriminations of the McKinley tariff bill shall be annulled and a fair competition in the markets of the world shall be opened to the producers of all classes in the United States, and fair exchange for our surplus products thereby secured."

INCOME TAX.-"To the end that taxation may be distributed on an equitable basis and accumulated property pay its fair share of the expenses of the Government which have for so long a time been borne by the consumption of the people, we favor an income tax."

SILVER. "We still consider the act of 1873, whereby silver was demonetized, as the greatest legislative crime of the century, and demand the free and unlimited coinage of both gold and silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, as then existed."

BOND ISSUE.-"We believe the constitutional power to borrow money should

be exercised by Congress only in the event of great emergencies when the power to levy and collect taxes commensurate with the requirements of the occasion can not be enforced without manifest oppression of the people. Therefore, we are opposed to the issue of bonds in time of peace."

FEDERAL ELECTIONS.-"We congratulate the Democratic party and the people upon the repeal of the odious Federal election law."

LIQUOR QUESTION.-"Believing that home rule and local self-government are cardinal principles in a Republican Govern.nent, we therefore indorse and approve the action of the Legislature of Arkansas in enacting laws relegating to the people the right of settling the liquor question for themselves in accordance with the wishes and sentiments of the country affected."

ARKANSAS POPULIST.
July 20, 1894.

Declares "the leaders of the Democratic party are incompetent and untrustworthy"; that "millions of our citizens are looking starvation in the face"; that "business from ocean to ocean, and from the great lakes to the greatest gulf is prostrate and paralyzed"; that "the Democratic Administration has increased the public debt by issuing $50,000,000 interestbearing non-taxable gold bonds without authority, and refuses to use the idle millions of silver stored in the vaults of the Treasury to meet the needs of the Government.'

Declares in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the co-operation of any other Government; favors a single-term only for President and VicePresident, and the election of United

States Senators by direct vote of the people; demands the restriction of immigration; denounces the repeal of the "purchasing clause of the silver act of 1890, at the dictation of Grover Cleveland, John Sherman and Wall Street"; favors an efficient public school system, and demands a uniform series of text books for public schools to be furnished to all pupils, at cost, by the State; favors the arbitration of all differences between employers and employes; favors the consolidation of the State and National elections, also the employment of convicts on the public roads and on farms to the extent of producing supplies to support all.

CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN.

June 20, 1894.

Reaffirms devotion to and belief in the principles enunciated in the Republican National Platform of 1892, and again pronounces in favor of protection and reciprocity as expressed in the McKinley Tariff bill.

TARIFF.-"We favor the protection of American industry and American labor, and demand the continuance of the tariff system, which, under the administration of the Republican party, brought prosperity to the country, good wages to the laborer, happiness to the people, and glory to the nation. We denounce the

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Democratic attempt to imitate the English free-trade system, and hold it responsible for the widespread depression, which has resulted in throwing hundreds of thousands of American workmen out of employment, stopping the wheels of many factories, scattering ruim and desolation throughout the land, frightening capital and starving labor. We oppose the passage of the so-called 'Wilson bill,' with all its amendments, as being sectional attempt to injure the producers, manufacturers and laborers of the nation, and a corrupt surrender to trusts, which will result in raising the price of the necessaries of life, while at the same time it will constantly increase the deficiency in the National revenue, which deficiency will be met by such odious war measures as an income tax and increased internal duties." Demands that the wool industry shall be guarded by appropriate legislation from unfair competition with foreign countries; also that the seedless raisin of the State, corresponding to the Zante product, and other raisins, shall be protected by the imposition of a protective duty on the "Zante currants,' and all other dried grapes and fruits.

PENSIONS.-Denounces the "treatment accorded the veterans of the Civil War regarding their pensions, by the Interior Department of the present Democratic National Administration, as an insult to the honored Union soldier and sailor.

FEDERAL ELECTION LAWS.-Denounces the "action of the Democratic Congress and the Democratic President in repealing the Federal Election laws.

HAWAII.-Declares that the Democratic Administration, in its policy toward the Hawaiian Islands, has "violated the settled policy of the Republic, caused the President of the United States to go beyond his constitutional authority, disregarded the amity that should exist between nations at peace, and has thus brought unnecessary reproach upon the American Nation."

SILVER.-Favors the free and unlimited coinage of silver, at the ratio of 16 to 1, and the making of silver, as well as gold, a legal tender in payment of all debts, both public and private. IMMIGRATION.-Demands

the enactment and strict enforcement of such laws as will absolutely and effectually prohibit the immigration of all foreign laborers, both skilled and unskilled, into this country.

NICARAGUA CANAL.-Demands from the general Government that it aid in the immediate construction of the Nicaragua Canal, and that it manage and control the same after its completion.

NATURALIZATION.-Favors an amend ment to the naturalization laws that will prevent one being made a citizen who is not of good repute, or who cannot read and write the English language.

WOMAN SUFFRAGE.-Favors the extension of the right of suffrage to all citizens of the United States, both men and

women.

CHINESE.-Demands the strict enforcement of the Exclusion act, and all other legislation looking toward the removal of the Chinese, and the prevention of any more coming to the United States.

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TRUSTS.-Demands the enactment of such laws as will suppress all trusts and combinations.

MONEY.-Favors the retirement of all gold coins and paper currency below the denomination of $10 in order to restore silver to its full use as a circulating medium; also the reopening of the mints of the United States to the coinage of both gold and silver without discrimination on such basis as will maintain their parity.

MISCELLANEOUS.-Favors the creation of a National Irrigation Commission; National and State aid toward the systematic improvement of the rivers of the State; the absolute control by the people of every agency of commerce created or fostered by Government means; demands that the Nicaragua Canal be constructed as speedily as possible under Government control; favors the enactment and enforcement of laws for the permanent prosperity of the mining industry, and such National and State aid as will promote hydraulic mining; opposes all unnecessary restraints upon the acquisition by citizens of title to mineral lands; favors Congressional legislation to protect American seamen from oppression and maltreatment; advocates the passage and rigid enforcement of the immigration, exclusion and deportation laws; favors the election of United States Senator by direct vote of the people; also such changes in the Constitution as may assemble Congress as soon after election as possible; demands that each nominee for Congress shall pledge himself to "oppose any attempt and vote against any bill to extend the time for the payment to the Government of the Pacific Railroad debts."

CALIFORNIA POPULIST.
May 23, 1894.

The following were declared as the principles of the party:

We indorse as our charter of National policy the Omaha platform. We approve the thirteen demands contained in the report of the Conference Committee of the Farmers' Alliance and labor unions adopted by the joint Congress held at San

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Francisco, February 22, 1894, as follows: The initiative, referendum, imperative mandate and proportional representation; municipal ownership of gas, electric lights, water works, street railways and all other public utilities requiring municipal franchise; the nationalization of telegraphs, telephones, railway and water ways; postal savings banks; school education of all children under 16 years of age to be compulsory, gratuitous, and accessible to all, by public assistance where necessary; unconditional repeal of the National Bank act, and in lieu of National Bank notes, that the Government issue Treasury notes, legal-tenders for all debts, public and private, and provide for the free coinage of gold and silver at a ratio of 16 to 1; a graduated annual tax on all lands owned by any individual or corporation above the assessed valuation of $10,000; a graduated income tax on all incomes in excess of $3,000 per annum, to the issuance of National, State or municipal bonds for any purpose whatsoever; the employment of ployed by public authorities. MISCELLANEOUS.-Declared in favor of equal suffrage and without distinction of sex, based upon an educational qualification; favors a law prohibiting any other than the American flag to be displayed over any public building; demands the enforcement of the payment of the debts of the Pacific railroads to the Government; favors Government ownership of the telegraph and telephone service, and of the Nicaragua Canal, and the prohibition of all Chinese and Japanese immigration.

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CALIFORNIA PROHIBITIONIST. May 17, 1894.

Demands that the manufacture, sale, exportation, importation and transportation of all intoxicating liquors as a beverage be forever prohibited by State and National legislation; favors an educational qualification for voters and admitting women to suffrage on an equality with men, subject only to the same limitations which apply to men; the free and unlimited coinage of silver, the product of the mines of the United States, at the present ratio; the election of President, VicePresident and Senators by direct vote of the people; the adoption of the methods of legislation known as the initiative and referendum as far as practicable, also proportional representation; the ownership and control of railroads, telegraphs, telephones and the establishment of postal savings banks by the Government, all to be administered under a strict civil service system. Declares for unsectarian public schools; for a strict cbservance of Sunday as a day of rest; in favor of immigration laws so framed as to exclude the pauper, criminal, insane and anarchist classes, and that the time of residence for naturalization should be extended to ten years, and no naturalized person should be allowed to vote until five years after he becomes a citizen. Favors the construction, ownership and management of the Nicaragua Canal by the general Government in the interest of the people, and demands that the tariff

question be taken out of the realm of party politics and placed in the hands of a non-partisan tariff commission.

COLORADO REPUBLICAN,

September 12, 1894.

Declares that the paramount issue in the State is the suppression of the spirit of anarchy-the restoration and maintenance of law and order.

GOVERNOR WAITE. "The Populist Executive of the State of Colorado has fostered lawlessness, fomented the spirit of anarchy; usurped the functions of the courts, and assumed the power of a military dictator, all of which has been indorsed by his party. His constant violation of the fundamental principles of constitutional liberty cannot be tolerated by a free people. We call upon all good citizens to unite with us in the restoration of good government and in the loyal maintenance of the constitution and laws, and we pledge the Republican party to restore the good name, credit, and prosperity of the State."

MONEY.-Demands the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to 1, and is opposed to making the policy of the United States await, or depend upon, the action of any other country. Denounces the People's Party as the most insidious foe to the restoration of the free and unlimited coinage of silver, in that its platform demands an extensive issue of paper money, not based upon or redeemable in either gold or silver; believes that free coinage will only come from the hands of the Republicans. LABOR.-Demands further and better protection, by legislative action, to laborers against the dangers incident to their employment, and pledges to strive for such policies as will most speedily and effectually multiply the demand for labor and increase its compensation.

COLORADO DEMOCRATIC.

September 3, 1894.

MONEY.-"We advocate and demand the immediate restoration of the laws of January 18, 1873, providing for the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at a ratio of 1 to 16, without discrimination against either metal, without waiting for or inviting the co-operation of any other nation or nations. The overwhelming majority of bimetallic sentiment is in and of the Democratic party, and by and through it alone can the restoration of the monetary function to silver be accomplished. We cordially and gratefully indorse the action of those Democrats in the Senate and House of Representatives who throughout the session of this Congress have unmoved and undeterred by threat or entreaty, battled for and advocated the free and unlimited coinage of silver on equal terms with gold."

TARIFF.-"We cordially indorse the great principle of tariff reform as embodied in the Democratic National platform of 1892, commend the action of the House of Representatives in its efforts to secure its practical realization, and pledge ourselves to continue the fight for the removal of all unjust and unnecessary taxation

until we triumph not only at the polls, but in the National Congress."

INCOME TAX.-"We hail with pleasure the enactment of a law placing a tax upon incomes as a step in the direction of justice and as a blow at that infamous system which burdens the poor with the necessities of government, while monopolies, trusts and combines escape their just responsibilities."

COLORADO POPULIST.

September 5, 1894.

"Standing for equal and exact justice to all, regardless of race, sex or religious or political affiliations, the People's party of Colorado heartily indorse the principles of the Omaha platform; indorses the State Administration of Colorado and the Congressional work of John C. Bell and Lafe Pence; demands the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1; protests against the issuance of Government bonds in times of peace; insists that the National Government has exclusive control of all money issued by its authority, and demands the adoption of the methods of initiative and referendum and proportionate representation as a means of securing all reforms in harmony with the will of the people, whose will should be law."

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CONNECTICUT REPUBLICAN, September 19, 1894, PRINCIPLES.-"The representatives of the Republican party of Connecticut convention assembled renew their pledges of fidelity to the principles of the party of law, liberality and progress in this country.'

TARIFF "We declare anew our hearty adhesion to the time-honored principle of judicious tariff protection for American industries especially the great manufacturing and agricultural interests and American wages-a principle announced in every Republican party platform, embodied in Republican legislation, and vindicated by thirty years of unprecedented prosperity-and we invite the business men, manufacturers, mechanics, wageearners and farmers of Connecticut to pass judgment by their ballots upon a Democratic tariff bill conceived in sectionalism and brought forth in scandal, resting upon no discoverable principle; as unscientific as it is unpatriotic; swarming with crudities, inequalities and flagrant discriminations; borrowing its most striking and obnoxious features from the Populists and justly denounced as a monument of 'party perfidy and party dishonor.' We call attention to the later declaration of Democratic leaders that their ruinous fight for Free Trade will be renewed at the first opportunity as a further warning to the country that the unprecedented commercial distress of the past two years, with its loss of work, its reduction of wages, and its untold and immeasurable suffering will be indefinitely prolonged unless the control of the affairs of this great Nation is put back into the hands of the Republican party, which alone has proved itself equal to that great trust." MONEY.-"The Republican party, now.

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