as always, the party of honest money, and opposed to any debasement of the people's currency, holds that American silver as well as American gold should be used as a standard money under such international agreements as will insure the maintenarce of a parity of values, so that the purchasing and debt-paying power of every dollar issued by the Government, whether of gold, silver or paper, shall be at all times the same."

PENSIONS.-"The Republicans of Connecticut, ever holding in grateful remembrance their debt to the men who fought on land and sea in the war for the Union, share the just resentment of the veterans at the manner and spirit in which the pension laws have been administered by this Democratic Administration."

CONNECTICUT DEMOCRATIC.
September 25, 1894.

Commends the Administration of President Cleveland and pledges him continued support; congratulates the country upon the successful efforts of the President to "restore the currency of the country to a better condition than it has enjoyed for more than thirty years."

TARIFF.-"We congratulate our fellowcitizens on the recent revision of the revenue law, by which many of the raw materials used by our manufacturers and mechanics are entirely relieved of taxation and unreasonable duties upon others are reduced. The revival of all business, following immediately upon the passage of the law, is the best evidence of the wisdom of its provisions. We believe the free coal and iron bills now pending in the Senate would be beneficial to the interests of the whole country if promptly passed. We demand the prompt passage of a law which will abolish the differential duties on refined sugar now maintained in the Senate by the Republican and sugar trust combination."

CONNECTICUT PEOPLE'S.
July 3, 1894.

The main features of the platform declare for an American system of finance entirely independent of Wall Street and London bankers, in which paper money, silver and gold shall be on an equality; an increase of currency circulation equal to the amount paid out for pensions, until there shall be $50 per capita; the election of State Judges and United States Senators by direct vote of the people; that all land held for speculative purposes shall be taxed on its full market value; that there shall be municipal ownership of all natural monopolies, such as water works, gas and electric lighting. surface and elevated railroads; a new State Constitution, in which shall be included the right of initiative and referendum. CONNECTICUT PROHIBITIONIST. August 22, 1894.

LIQUOR.-Demands a policy prohibiting the traffic in alcoholic liquors as a beverage, and that their manufacture and sale for medicinal and mechanical purposes shall be solely under the control of the National Government, handled entirely by qualified and reliable Government agents

on stated salary and without individual profit.

TARIFF.-Favors the "creation of a tariff commission whose duty it shall be to frame and commend to Congress a general tariff policy, and to make suggestions of such incidental changes as the general welfare demands."'

MISCELLANEOUS.-Favors woman suffrage, laws for the restriction of immigration, the supervision and control of railways and telegraph by the Government, also a change in the State Constitution so that a plurality vote shall elect State officers.

DELAWARE REPUBLICAN.

August 21, 1894.

TARIFF.-"We reaffirm our belief in the American doctrine of protection to home industries. While we believe that all articles which cannot be produced in the United States-luxuries exceptedshould be admitted free of duty, we hold that duties should be levied on all other imports; and we favor the speedy enactment and enforcement of stringent laws for the protection of American institutions and American labor from the evils of unrestricted immigration. We denounce the revenue bill passed by the present Democratic Congress as a cowardly makeshift that will reduce the wages of labor, cripple our agriculture, manufactures and shipping, and continue in the future that feeling of uncertainty and distrust which has attended Democratic ascendency in the General Government. We hold that the provisions of the bill in favor of the interests of the Sugar Trust framed in pursuance of a corrupt bargain made by Democratic leaders imposing a duty on raw sugar as well as discriminating in favor of refined sugar is an outrage upon the American people, imposing an unnecessary burden upon them, and that such legislation must be corrected as soon as possible. We denounce the income tax, provided for in the bill, as unequal, unjust, inquisitorial and contrary to the spirit of American institutions, and we demand its repeal. We denounce the futile efforts of the popular branch of the present Congress and of the executives to open to the world the American markets for coal and iron as absolutely ruinous to our mining industries. We maintain that the Republican policy of reciprocity has largely increased our foreign trade and should be fostered and extended for the benefit of our farmers, workshops, manufactures and shipping.' MONEY.-"We favor bimetallism and demand the use of both gold and silver as standard money at such ratio and under such conditions as shall be fixed by international agreement; and we urge such a policy upon the part of the United States as will finally bring about this most desirable end."

STATE BANK TAX.-Denounces the action of the Democratic House of Representatives in passing the bill to repeal the State Bank Tax law.

ADMINISTRATION.- Denounces the Democratic Administration as utterly incompetent to conduct the affairs of the Nation; also for its un-American treat

ment of Hawaii, and for its responsibility for the financial distress.

PENSIONS.-Renews Το the soldier veterans a generous recognition of their just claims upon a grateful people, and condemns the unfriendly and unjust policy of the Democratic Administration toward them.

MISCELLANEOUS.-Favors the extension of the American transatlantic trade, the restoration of the American merchant marine, the further increase of the Navy, and the maintenance of friendly relations with all foreign Powers.

DELAWARE DEMOCRATIC.

August 28, 1894.

TARIFF.-"Commending and indorsing the President of the United States, and the great majority of the Democratic members of the House of Representatives, and of the Senate of the United States, for their patient, able, determined and statesmanlike efforts to secure the complete enforcement of the principles of the Chicago platform, and relieve the country from the business depression and suffering, brought on by iniquitous Republican legislation culminating in the McKinley bill; and for their practical statesmanship in finally repealing that bill, notwithstanding apparently insurmountable obstacles, thereby checking and reversing the ruinous tariff policy of the Republican party; and for passing a tariff bill freeing from import taxes many of the necessities and comforts of life, and securing great reduction of duties on others."

TRUSTS.-Demands the rigid enforcement of all laws enacted to control combinations of capital, together with such further legislation in restraint of their abuses as experience has shown to be necessary.

MONEY.-"We hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country, and to the coinage of both gold and silver without discriminating against either metal; and we demand that all paper currency shall be kept at par with and redeemable in such coin."

DELAWARE PROHIBITION,

June 14, 1894.

LIQUOR.-Reaffirms allegiance to the National Prohibition party and its principles; believes that "the liquor traffic is a public nuisance and the greatest foe to civilization, that its legalization is vicious in principle and powerless as a remedy, and that what is morally wrong can never be legally right; we believe that while there are many reforms that urgently demand attention, but few of them can be brought to a successful issue until the saloon is removed from its position of control in political affairs. We demand, therefore, the absolute prohibition of the liquor traffic in State and Nation, and call on all who sincerely desire political and social reforms to vote with us the ticket pledged to this object."

TARIFF.-Advocates the entire elimination of the tariff question from partisan politics, and its reference to a non-partisan commission which shall adjust the

schedule to the changing conditions of trade.

woman

MISCELLANEOUS.-Advocates suffrage; that the money of the country, whether gold, silver or paper, should be of full legal-tender and sufficient in quantity for the business of the country; that immigration shall be restricted to actual settlers who come to be real Americans; that no appropriations of public money shall be made for sectarian purposes.

DELAWARE POPULIST.

September 4, 1894.

The platform declared in favor of Government control of railroads and telegraph lines, and for the free coinage of gold and silver at a ratio of 16 to 1.

FLORIDA DEMOCRATIC.

August 1, 1894.

TARIFF.-"The principles on which the great Democratic victory of 1892 was won should not be sacrificed at the instance of a few Democratic Senators. We approve the course of the Democratic House of Representatives of the United States in its efforts to relieve the people of all unjust taxations and burdens.'

TRUSTS.-"We are opposed to all legislation for the benefit of trusts and combines."

U. S. SENATORS.-"We approve an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the election of Senators by the direct vote of the people of the several States."

NICARAGUA CANAL "That, believing that the Nicaragua Canal would stimulate the trade of the United States, and particularly that of Florida, we do hereby request our Senators and Representatives in Congress to do their utmost to secure the construction of said canal."

GEORGIA REPUBLICAN,

of

August 29, 1894. PRINCIPLES.-"The Republicans Georgia, in convention assembled, do hereby reaffirm our devotion to the principles of the National Republican party of the United States as announced in the platform of 1892 at Minneapolis, as the only true and tried party of human liberty, human rights, National and State progress, prosperity and happiness."

DEMOCRATIC PARTY.-"We arraign the Democratic party, now in control of the Federal Government, for its many deceitful practices and artful means whereby it obtained control; for its duplicity and hypocrisy; for its vacillating attitude on questions of the greatest importance to all the people of the country; for its broken pledges; for its legislation by which silver has been made an outlaw in our currency; for its tariff legislation, and its long continued trial of the same, the result of which has been to precipitate upon us industrial paralysis, a financial panic unprecedented in our history, the loss to our commerce of the confidence so necessary to its life and vigor, and the enormous shrinkage in value of more than a thousand millions of dollars-a sum much larger than the present interestbearing debt of the United States; for its

promotion of trusts and other conspiracies against the toiling and tax-paying masses of our people; for the repeal of laws intended to secure fair elections; for the undeniable and wicked responsibility for closed factories and shops; for industrial strikes and for the hundreds and thousands of men turned out of employment who now, with families to support, are left penniless and helpless without the means of living, and many without homes and without bread, clothing or credit, and without hope of improvement in the existing condition as long as the party of deceit and fraud control the people's Government.'

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TARIFF. Declares "adherence to the policy of a protective tariff essentially Republican in all its features, fostering and stimulating manufactures, agriculture, the arts and sciences, guarding American labor and the products of American industry, the sanctity, the prosperity, the independence and happiness of American homes as against foreign competition and monopoly, as well as against the trusts, combines and corporations now proposed by the Democratic party in this country; that while we do not regard the tariff as a local question, but rather as applicable to all sections and to all interests of this great country, we denounce the reduction of the duty on foreign marble, lumber, wool, rice and other products of our State."

SILVER AND CURRENCY.-Favors such increase in the volume of currency as shall meet the growing demands of trade and prevent financial stringency and congestion; favors the coinage of all the available silver product of American mines, and that the parity of silver and gold and the paper currency of the Government shall be maintained; denounces the Democratic party for its hostility to silver, and the violation of its pledges to favor its coinage.

PENSIONS.-Favors the payment of pensions to honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors, or their dependents, and denounces the Democratic Administration for striking from the rolls the names of thousands of maimed and diseased defenders of the Nation in order to show a saving of $20,000,000.

IMMIGRATION.-Opposes indiscriminate alien immigration, and demands such restrictions as will protect the people's interests against this menace of law and order.

NICARAGUA CANAL.-Favors its construction, and under the auspices and control of the United States. No nominations officers.

lation, whether coin or paper, the same debt-paying and purchasing power." INCOME TAX.-Demands a just and equitable tax on incomes.

FEDERAL ELECTIONS.-Congratulates the entire country upon the repeal of the Federal elections law.

TARIFF.-Urges upon Congress the necessity for the speedy enactment of the tariff bill "in such form as will insure for it the united support of all Democrats in both branches of Congress and its approval by a Democratic Executive. We especially commend the President and the House of Representatives and the Senators from Georgia for their patriotic endeavors to have enacted, as near as possible, a tariff for revenue only."

Opposes ownership of railroads by the Government, and pledges to favor and enforce laws providing for rigid and just control.

GEORGIA POPULIST.

May 24, 1894.

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ISSUE OF BONDS.-"We oppose, Jefferson did, the perpetuation of the public debt and the policy of issuing nontaxable interest-bearing bonds, whereby a large portion of the concentrated wealth of the land reaps a harvest from the taxes of the unprivileged."

NATIONAL BANKS.-"We oppose, as Jefferson did, the National banks as being of deadly hostility to the spirit of our republican institutions. We oppose, as he did, the extravagant expenditure of the public money, and we declare that at no time in our history have the poor been so heavily taxed or their taxes more shamefully wasted."

FREE COINAGE OF SILVER.-"We believe, as he did, in the free and unlimited coinage of silver and the issue of Treasury notes to increase the volume of currency when the necessities of business demand more money."

INCOME TAX.-"Like him, we believe in a progressive income tax to discourage the extensive concentration of wealth and to compel our selfish millionaires to contribute to support of the Government, which protects them."

FAIR ELECTIONS.-"Like him, we believe that the life of this Republic depends upon the purity of elections and in obedience to the will of the majority.' CONVICT LABOR.-"We favor the abolition of the present convict lease system."

DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION AND the party at present in control of our National affairs, for that in addition to the impotent and imbecile policy which has been pursued during the present session of Congress concerning every question which has been before that body for consideration and disposition, they have passed such laws on the one hand and failed to pass such laws on the other hand as have accomplished the crowning outrage of the century in the final completion of the crime of 1873, whereby silver has fallen from its high estate as a money metal and is now hawked about the markets of the world as a mere commodity."

IDAHO REPUBLICAN.

August 10, 1894.

The platform adopted reaffirms the doctrine of protection, declares for free coinage of silver at 16 to 1, and advocates the submission of an equal suffrage

amendment.

IDAHO DEMOCRATIC.

August 17, 1894.

The platform declares in favor of a revenue tariff, and demands the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. The platform particularly denounces the conservative Senators and praises the attitude of Wilson.

ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN.

July 25, 1894.

The platform reaffirms the adherence of the party in the State to the principles of civil and religious liberty, upon which the Government was founded, declares for Protection, denounces the Wilson bill, and then proceeds:

TARIFF.-"We earnestly maintain the right and justice of the American doctrine of protection to American industries. In raising the necessary revenue to maintain the Government, we are in favor of such duties on competing imports as will best tend to the development of the resources of our own country." FINANCIAL.-"We favor bimetallism and believe in the use of gold and silver as money metals upon a parity of values with complete interconvertibility, under such legislative provisions as shall make the purchasing or debt-paying power of any dollar coined or issued by the United States the absolute equivalent of that of any other dollar so coined or issued."

PENSIONS.-"We favor the payment of liberal pensions to the Union soldiers and sailors of the Civil War and to their surviving descendants, as a sacred obligation due from the entire people, and we insist that in the allotment and distribution of pension funds technical and burdensome restrictions should not be imposed."

GOV. ALTGELD.-"We arraign the present Democratic Governor of Illinois as the most conspicuous case of misfit in high official life. From the day on which he began to debase the penal, reformatory, charitable institutions and the public parks of the State into infirmaries and asylums for politicians to the present time, he has shown such wonderful aptitude in doing the wrong thing at all times that the people of the State, irrespective of party, await with undisguised impatience the expiration of his term of office.'

ILLINOIS DEMOCRATIC. June 27, 1894. ADMINISTRATION.-"We indorse the action of President Cleveland, and the public services of all Democrats in executive and legislative stations, in all things that they have done to give force and effect to the principles of the party as laid down by the Chicago convention of 1892."

TARIFF.-"We demand that Congress

shall carry out the will of the people of the United States as expressed in the last Presidential election by passing an efficient bill to reform the tariff taxation, that the country shall enjoy the beneficent results of that action without further delay."

AMERICAN PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION.-"Hostility to secret political societies is a tenet of the Democratic faith which is fundamental, and, standing by this doctrine now as in the days when their party presented an unbroken front to the cohorts of Know-Nothingism, and finally crushed that detestable organization, the Democracy of Illinois denounces as cowardly, unpatriotic and dangerous to the peace and happiness of this country the American Protective Association, which seeks to proscribe men on account of their religion or birthplace."

INCOME TAX.-They hail with pleasure the action of the Democratic House of income Representatives in advising an

tax as a step in the direction of reform 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.

SILVER.-"They demand that the Government shall spare no effort to bring about a proper ratio between the values of gold and silver so that parity may be maintained between the two metals and all mints thrown open to free coinage. They declare that this has for years been a cardinal doctrine of the Democratic party, and they denounce the Republican party for its constant and persistent efforts to demonetize silver and thus increase all public and private debts."

INDIANA REPUBLICAN.

April 25, 1894.

TARIFF.-"We believe in the Republican doctrine of protection and reciprocity, which furnishes a home market for the products of our factories and our farms, and protects the American laborer against the competition of the pauper labor of Europe. We denounce the unwise and unpatriotic action of the Democratic party in attempting to eliminate the reciprocity principle from our tariff system, thereby closing a large foreign market to the products of American farmers and depressing agricultural interests. We denounce the present attempt of a Democratic Congress to overthrow and destroy the American industrial system, a course that with the general fear of a violent readjustment of the country's business to a free trade basis has increased the National debt, has plunged the country into the most disastrous business depression of its history, has closed large numbers of banks and factories throughout the country, has thrown an unprecedented number of American citizens out of employment, has compelled thousands of able-bodied and industrious men to humiliate themselves by asking for charity. and has filled our broad land with free souphouses and food markets."

SILVER.-"We believe in a currency composed of gold, silver and paper, readily convertible at a fixed standard of value

PENSIONS.-"We believe in a liberal construction of our pension laws, and we condemn the unjust policy of the present Administration in depriving ex-soldiers of their pensions without hearing, a policy intended to cast odium upon loyalty and patriotism. We believe it to be the duty of the State as well as the Nation to make suitable provisions for the care and maintenance of all indigent soldiers, their wives and widows; we therefore favor the establishment by the State of a suitable soldiers' home for the reception of such soldiers, their wives and widows as may be overtaken by adversity."

IMMIGRATION.-"We demand a rigid enforcement of all existing immigration laws by the National Government, and demand such further legislation as will protect our people and institutions against the influx of criminal and vicious classes."

HAWAII.-"We denounce the unpatriotic action of the Cleveland Administration in hauling down the American flag at Hawail, and condemn the arrogant assumption of power displayed in the effort to restore a tyrannical Queen over a free people who had thrown off the yoke of despotism."

FEDERAL PATRONAGE.-"We condemn the outrageous bargain and sale of Federal patronage by the Cleveland Administration in its unblushing efforts to usurp the prerogatives of the legislative branch of the Government; to enforce favorite measures through Congress, and compel the confirmation of Presidential appointments by the Senate."

INDIANA DEMOCRATIC.

August 15, 1894.

TARIFF.-"We affirm our opposition to the vicious system of class legislation, miscalled protection, and pledge ourselves to continue the battle against it until every species of extortion and robbery fostered by the McKinley act shall be obliterated from our revenue system and people enjoy all the blessings of commercial liberty. The protective system has built up the great monopolies and trusts which control absolutely so many industries, and have done so much to debauch the politics of the country and corrupt the legislative department of the Government. We denounce tariff protection of every kind as a fraud and a robbery of the great majority of the American people for the benefit of the few. We maintain that no tariff taxes should be levied except for purposes of revenue only, and that such taxes should be limited to the necessities of the Government honestly and economically administered. We denounce the McKinley law, enacted by the LIst Congress, as the culminating atrocity of class legislation.

"We approve of the efforts of President Cleveland and his Administration, and of

the Democratic House of Representatives, and of a large majority of the Democratic Senators, to redeem the pledges made to the country by the last Democratic convention and to execute the will of the American people as expressed so emphatically at the ballot-box in November, 1892. We approve the action of the House of Representatives in following the enactment of this law with the passage of separate acts placing sugar, coal, iron ore, and barbed wire on the free list, and we demand that the Senate shall concur in these righteous measures at the earliest possible moment."

INCOME TAX.-"We especially indorse the income tax as a wise and equitable measure, designed to place a fair share of the burdens of the Government upon the property of the country for the benefit of which the expenses of the Government are so largely incurred."

FINANCE.-Indorses the repeal of the Sherman Silver act of 1890, and reaffirms belief that both gold and silver should be used as the standard of money of the country, and that both should be coined without discrimination between either metal, and without charge for mintage.

HAWAII.-Declares that "the National Administration has acted wisely and honorably in permitting the people of Hawaii, unawed by our naval and military forces, to manage their own domestic concerns, and place their country in the family of republics."

PENSIONS.-"We

therefore demand that Congress in the matter of pensions shall not only deal generously but bountifully with the aged veterans. We also reiterate the declaration of our convention in 1892, that the State should provide by liberal appropriation for a home for our disabled veterans, where they may be supported without sending them to the poorhouses."

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MISCELLANEOUS.-Favors a restrictive immigration election of United States Senators by a direct vote of the people, the "taxation of greenbacks as other money is taxed."

INDIANA POPULIST.

May 24, 1894.

FINANCE.-Demands a National currency of $50 per capita, including the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, issued by the general Government only, a full legal tender for all debts, public and private, distributed to the people direct, without the intervention of banking corporations, in payment of all obligations of the Government, and demand the issue of non-interest-bearing Treasury notes of small denominations. Declares opposition to banks of issue, State or National, and to the continued use of the Government fiat by Congress to create interest-bearing bonds.

SILVER.-Charges "that the crime of demonetizing silver in 1873 by the Republican party, further consummated, by the joint action of both the old parties at the extra session of Congress in 1893, has fully accomplished the purpose of the moneyed aristocracy of the United States and England in placing American producers of our great staple crops on a level