with the poorest paid pauper labor of the world under English control, by changing through this crime against American producers and laborers the pricing instrument for all products and wages to the single standard of gold only."

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

U. S. SENATORS.-"We favor the election of United States Senators and all postmasters by direct vote of the people." INDIANA PROHIBITIONIST.

March 15, 1894.

The platform, as adopted, declared that the manufacture, importation, exportation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages should be suppressed by law, and that the Government should have absolute control of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors for all other purposes. CURRENCY.-"We favor a National currency of gold, silver and Treasury notes, issued only by the United States Government, which shall be a legal-tender for the payments of all debts, public and private."

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TARIFF.-"Realizing how detrimental to the business interests of the country are the frequent changes made in tarift legislation by the Republican and Democratic parties for partisan purposes, we demand that the tariff question be raised above party politics and placed in the hands of a non-partisan tariff commission, and the tariff regulated according to the needs of the whole people." A Free Trade substitute was offered but was laid on the table.

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a "judiciously conducted" income tax; the establishment of Government savings banks; reduction of official salaries.

IOWA REPUBLICAN.

July 25, 1894.

TARIFF.-"We again declare for a sys. tem of protective duties so adjusted that every American resource can be developed by American labor, receiving American wages, and we insist upon a tariff that will accomplish these ends. We have but to mention the disastrous results which have followed the mere menace of FreeTrade as conclusive evidence of the wisdom of the Republican policy in the past upon this subject."

SILVER"We favor the largest possible use of silver as money that is consistent with the permanent maintenance of equal values of all dollars in circulation. We do not want monometallism either of gold or silver, and we pledge ourselves to continue to work for bimetallism to be brought about by all means within the power of the Government."

IMMIGRATION.-"We favor the amendment and more stringent enforcement of the Immigration laws, so as to exclude criminal, pauper and all other undesirable classes, whose presence tends to degrade American labor and incites disorder."

PENSIONS.-"We favor the granting of pensions to all honorably discharged Un

ion soldiers and sailors whose disabilities or necessities justly entitle them thereto." IOWA DEMOCRATIC.

August 1, 1894.

FINANCE.-"We hold to the use of both gold and silver as a standard 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 or coinage of both metals must be equal in intrinsic and exchangeable value, and we demand that all paper currency shall be kept at par with and redeemable in such coin. And we favor such legislation as will faithfully carry out these pledges to the people."

U. S. SENATORS.-"We demand such change in National legislation as will authorize the election of United States Senators by a direct vote of the people, and we commend the House of Representatives in Congress for the passage of a bill for that purpose."

PENSIONS.-"We favor just and liberal pensions to deserving veterans and congratulate the Democratic Congress and the President upon the passage of a law declaring the pension to be a vested right." MISCELLANEOUS.-Condemns the present liquor law, and demands its repeal, and declares that in the interest of true temperance, license with local option in townships, incorporated towns and cities is the best solution of the liquor question; denounces any organization pledged to deprive any citizen of his right to vote or hold office on account of his nationality or religious belief.

The minority report favored bimetallism and such legislation as would increase the coinage of silver and maintain it equal in the value of gold. It was defeated by a vote of 697 to 329.

IOWA POPULIST.
September 5, 1894.

SILVER.-"For the immediate free and unlimited coinage of silver at the rate of 16 to 1."

U. S. BONDS.-"We oppose the issue of the United States bonds under any pretext whatever."

RAILROADS.-"In the midst of a monetary contraction and a panic we are opposed to an increase of railroad rates in Iowa, and demand a maximum two-cent passenger rate, and a mileage book good on all roads."

PENSIONS.-"In the payment of pensions to disabled Union veterans, there should be no discrimination on account of rank.'

A resolution proposing to abolish the Constitution of the United States laid on the table.

KANSAS REPUBLICAN.
June 7, 1894.

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PENSIONS.-"That the constant patriotism of our party is in itself a guarantee to the Nation that the interest of its defenders, their widows and orphans will be liberally cared for, and we denounce their cruel and deliberate betrayal by the present Democratic Administration.

TARIFF.-"We adhere to the Republican doctrine of protection, and believe that tariff laws should protect the products of the farm as well as of the factory."

SILVER.-"The American people favor bimetallism, and the Republican party demands the use of both gold and silver as standard money, with such restrictions and under such provisions, to be determined by legislation, as will secure the maintenance of the parity of values of the two metals, and that the purchasing and debt-paying power of the dollar, whether of gold, silver or paper, shall be at all times equal. The interests of the producers of the country, its farmers and its workingmen, demand that the mints be opened to the coinage of silver of the mines of the United States, and that Congress should enact a law levying a tax on importation of foreign silver sufficient to fully protect the products of our own mines."

KANSAS DEMOCRATIC.

July 3, 1894.

TARIFF.-"We denounce Republican protection as a fraud, a robbery of a great majority of the American people for the benefit of the few. We declare it to be a fundamental principle of the party that the Federal Government has no constitutional rights to impose and collect tariff duties except for the purpose of revenue only, and demand that the collection of such taxes shall be limited to the necessities of the Government when honestly and economically administered; and we demand such speedy legislation along the lines of tariff reduction as expressed in the Wilson bill and the last National Democratic platform as will lift the load now burdening the industries of the land, lend new life to business, and open new avenues to labor."

INCOME TAX.-"We favor an income tax as opposed to the indirect burdens of tariff taxation, and hail with delight the action of a Democratic Congress in adopting that feature as a part of our system of taxation."

MONEY.-"We again declare in favor of a bi-metallic currency and the free coinage of both gold and silver upon equal terms at a fair ratio and without discrimination, to the end that the growth of the currency may keep pace with the growth of business, and that the debtor may not be met with constantly reducing values for the products of labor. We favor, however, a ratio of 16 to 1, and that all currency be kept at a parity and of equal value."

KANSAS POPULIST.

June 13, 1894.

SILVER.-"We demand the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, and denounce any party that is so completely under the control of the goldbugs that it dare not take a stand for the people on this all important question, which means so much to the wage earners and producers of our country.'

BONDS.-Opposes "issues of Government interest-bearing bonds, and demands instead the issue of full legal tender Treasury notes and the payment of the same, together with silver money to meet the needs of the Government."

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TARIFF.-Condemns "the policy of all governing parties in this Nation whose legislation has favored capital and oppressed labor, and we hereby declare our sympathy with all toilers in their efforts to improve their conditions, and demand such legislation as will result in removing some of the burdens of toil by shortening the hours of labor without lessening their daily wage."

ARBITRATION. Demands National and State Boards of Arbitration to settle and adjust the differences between the employers and the employes.

PENSIONS.-Demands "service pension graduated so that the man who carried the musket shall be entitled to the same consideration as the man who wore the epaulet, and said law to be so framed that it will place it forever beyond the power of any official who is unfriendly toward the Union soldiers and sailors to change, suspend or in any way deprive the soldier of his just dues, which this Government owes him for defending with his life our country and flag."

KENTUCKY DEMOCRATIC,

May 25, 1892.

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Condemns Republican party for McKinley act, Elections bill, extravagant pension laws, and waste of public funds; demands sound and stable currency posed of or redeemable in gold and silver coin, and free coinage of silver without detriment to any business interest. Declares that intelligent and patriotic legislation upon this subject can be expected only from the Democratic party.

LOUISIANA REPUBLICAN,

January 19, 1892.

Pledges unswerving devotion to Republican principles; favors an honest ballot and a fair count; declares it essential to the continuance of the Government that the XVth Amendment should be enforced; denounces the Democratic party, which has maintained itself by violence and fraud; protests against political intimidation and the murders which have so long disgraced the State; favors liberal appropriations for free public schools; in. dorses the present levee system and the sugar bounty; commends the wise and statesmanlike Administration of Benjamin Harrison; recommends the delegates from this State to support the renomination of Harrison; denounces trusts and monopolies and opposes the Louisiana Lottery and the revenue amendment, and

FINANCE.-A financial policy not in favor of monometallism, either of gold or silver, as the basis of a financial system, but international bimetallism to be secured by strenuous efforts of the National power. Now, and in the future, all dollars should be of equal value to the end that a suitable currency, abundant for all wants, shall secure to all the people the full results of their labor.

LABOR.-The enactment and enforcement of all laws required for the proper recognition and protection of labor.

IMMIGRATION.-Favors the passage of such restrictive legislation as will admit to our shores only those immigrants who have the capacity and the desire to become good American citizens,

FOREIGN POLICY.-The party sustains the course of President Harrison and exMinister John L. Stevens toward the people of the Hawaiian Islands, and wholly disapproves the un-American policy of the Cleveland Administration in relation thereto.

PENSIONS.-Legislation for the benefit of the Union soldiers of the war of the rebellion, their widows and children, and disapproval of the present policy of the Pension Bureau in making such laws, to a degree, a nullity.

LIQUOR.-Full recognition of the benefits to all the people of the State which have come from temperance and prohibition.

TARIFF.-A tariff for the protection of American labor against the underpaid and pauper labor of foreign countries. The Republican party calls upon all the voters of the State to express at the polls their disapproval of the Wilson Tariff bill, the main vicious features of which are maintained and added to in the bill now before the Senate, which surrenders the interests of Northern labor, while it protects those of the South, and delivers nearly every industry of Maine into the hands of our nearest and most hostile rival, the Dominion of Canada. The Blaine system of reciprocity and opposition to the Democratic policy which attempts its abandonment and repeal. Cordial approval of the course of the Maine delegation, in the Senate and in the House of Representatives, in fighting the Democratic tariff bill at every stage, and continued support in every further effort to obstruct and defeat the bill.

MAINE DEMOCRATIC.
June 26, 1894,

TARIFF.-"We deplore the condition to which the country has been brought by a long course of class legislation, persisted in by the Republican party, at the dictation of favored interests. It has enabled the few, comparatively, to gather into their hands the wealth of the country, and thereby to control its industries and to dictate terms to those dependent on those industries. It confers on some special privileges at the expense of others. It tends to divide our people into two

classes, the very rich and the very poor, making a nation of millionaires and tramps. It denies to American skill and enterprise opportunity to compete for supremacy in the markets of the world. It has destroyed our commerce, injured our agriculture, depopulated our farms, glutted our markets, closed our workshops, and deprived many of our people of the means of support. The Democratic party has not failed to give the word of warning, though it came into power too late to avert the catastrophe engendered by a long course of vicious legislation, for which the Republican party stands condemned; self-condemned, in its financial policy, by hastening to favor repeal of measures which itself had adopted, and condemned in its tariff policy, not only by overwhelming defeat at the polls, but by the wretched disaster that its false system has brought upon the country."

U. S. SENATORS.-"That it is the sentiment of the convention that the election of National and State Senators be by a direct vote of the people."

PENSIONS.-"We believe in liberal pension provisions for the soldiers and sailors of the late war, but that the bounty of the Government should be so distributed that the pension roll shall be a roll of honor."

TEMPERANCE.-"Favor

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sion to the people of the constitutional provision touching this question, to the end that, if it shall be sustained by the people, the law may be impartially enforced; if not, that such reasonable law may be enacted as shall meet with popular approval, and obedience to its provisions be required by all."

MISCELLANEOUS.-Disapproves of the immigration of degraded, lawless and pauper classes of the Old World," as it tends to degrade the American laborers and place them upon the plane of the pauper labor of Europe. Advocates the limitation of labor to fifty-eight hours per week for women and minors.

MARYLAND REPUBLICAN.

September 6, 1893.

NATIONAL PLATFORM AND HARRISON ADMINISTRATION. - "We unwaveringly reaffirm our adhesion to the platform of principles adopted by the National Republican Convention of 1892, and solemnly pledge our support to these principles. We commend the Administration of Benjamin Harrison while President of the United States as pre-eminently patriotic, pure, wise and just, and worthy of imitation, and we indorse his Administration, and assure him of our esteem and confidence."

PROTECTION.-"We favor the full and adequate policy of protection to American labor and the great industries of the country, and we aver that the best exemplification of the principles of protec tion and reciprocity that has anywhere found expression in the statutes is embodied in the McKinley tariff law 1890."

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PENSIONS.-"That the attitude of the present Democratic Administration toward the soldiers of the Union meets our disapproval, and should be condemned by every patriotic citizen."

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THE "SHERMAN BILL."-Sustains the President in his determination to secure the repeal of the Silver Purchase act of 1890, and declares "it was at best temporary expedient. It has signally failed to accomplish any good purpose. It deranges our National finances. It compels the Government to purchase bullion which it cannot use. It lowers the value of silver coin in the hands of all who hold it. It forces all wage-earners to accept payment for work done in a depreciated and depreciating money."

THE TARIFF.-"The existing tariff ought to be thoroughly revised. It hinders the development of agriculture, because it so limits the interchange of our products with foreign countries as to prevent our farmers from marketing their surplus abroad. It obstructs the enterprise of our merchants by hampering their intercourse with foreign ports. By its excessive imposition of duties upon materials it prevents the profitable building of American ships, and compels American products to be exported in foreign vessels. By its excessive tax on raw materials it impedes progress in all mechanical employments.' MARYLAND PROHIBITION. August 8, 1894.

Declares anew for the absolute suppression by law of the liquor traffic for beverage purposes, and that its sale for mechanical and other legitimate purposes should be regulated as the sale of other poisons is regulated in the interest of public welfare.

TARIFF.-"The tariff is a matter of business, involving many and conflicting interests in different parts of our country, and from its very nature is a subject for settlement by way of compromise by the Congress of the United States so as to contribute toward the revenue of the Government, give reasonable protection to American industries and workingmen and at the same time promote the interests of the people generally. We favor a commission to make an investigation of the subject and to make a report with recommendations to Congress."

CURRENCY.-"The circulating medium of the country may consist of gold, silver and paper. It should all be of full legal-tender and sufficient in quantity to meet the demands of business and give full opportunity for the employment of labor.

The principles of the Republicans of Massachusetts are as well-known as the commonwealth itself; well-known as the Republic; well-known as liberty; wellknown as justice. Chief among them are: An equal share in government for every citizen.

Best possible wages for every workman. The American market for American labor.

Every dollar paid by the Government, both the gold and silver dollars of the Constitution and their paper representatives, honest and unchanging in value, and equal to every other.

Better immigration laws.
Better naturalization laws.

No tramp, Anarchist, criminal or pauper to be let in, so that citizenship shall not be stained or polluted.

Sympathy with liberty and republican government at home and abroad. Americanism everywhere.

The flag never lowered or dishonored.
No surrender in Samoa.

No barbarous queen beheading men in Hawaii.

No lynching.

No punishment without trial.

Faith kept with the pensioner.

No deserving old soldier in the poorhouse.

The suspension of dram-drinking and dram-selling.

A school at the public charge open to all the children, and free from partisan or sectarian control.

No distinction of

birth or religious creed in the rights of American citizenship.

Devotion paramount and supreme to the country and to the flag. Clean politics.

Pure administration.

No lobby.

Reform of old abuses.

Leadership along loftier paths.

Minds ever open to the sunlight and the morning; ever open to new truth and new duty, as the new years bring their lessons.

MASSACHUSETTS DEMOCRATIC.

October 8, 1894.

TARIFF.-"We have for years advocated a thorough reform of the tariff. The House, or Wilson, bill was an honest effort to carry out the Democratic policy. Its defeat is much to be regretted. We hold those Democratic Senators who, by their inaction or resistance, prevented its passage to be traitors to their party, and we demand their retirement from party leadership. We also demand that United States Senators be elected by direct vote of the people. We recognize, however, that the new tariff is, in spite of imperfections, a great improvement in almost every schedule over the monstrous act of spoliation known as the McKinley tariff, and we hail its passage as the beginning of the end of an unconstitutional system of duties for protection only. believe it to be the immediate duty of the Democratic party to place every com

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modity which can fairly be described as raw material upon the free list; to abolish all duties which tend to create and maintain monopolies and trusts, and to reduce all duties which are still prohibitory in effect."

SILVER AND CURRENCY.-We reaffirm our allegiance to the great financial principles which guided Jefferson, Jackson and Secretary Walker; that it is the sole function of the Federal Government in monetary matters to provide a standard of value and to coin metallic money, every dollar of which shall be of equal intrinsic value; that nothing but this coined money shall be a legal-tender, and that the Government shall not carry on a banking business. We demand that the untaxed notes of State or National banks shall be the only paper money, and that the Government shall, with the development of a banking system, adequate to the demands of trade, retire as rapidly as possible all its legal-tender paper money."

INCOME TAX.-"We approve the principle of the income tax as a return to correct theories of taxation."

AMERICAN PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION."We are not only opposed in the abstract to any 'distinction of birth or religious creed in the rights of American citizenship," but to any organization which aims to introduce any such distinction into politics, and we hold up to public condemnation any party which, like the Republican party, in this and other States, tacitly accepts an alliance with such an organization, and permits it to control the party caucuses and conventions."

MASSACHUSETTS PEOPLE'S.
July 18, 1894.

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Denounces the legislation of "all political parties that has contributed to tablish a financial system which enables private corporations, known as National banks, to regulate the purchasing power of the money tool, and thereby control the business and industries of the country." Demands the abolition of all banks of issue, and that the Government shall issue money direct to the people, made receivable for all debts, public and private, and in amount sufficient to replace bank paper now employed as the medium of exchange for labor's product. Demands the postal savings bank; favors the restoration of silver to the place it held prior to 1873; demands Government ownership of railroads, telegraphs and telephones, also that the public lands be declared inalienable except to actual settlers, and that all land grants should be revoked where the conditions have not been fulfilled; favors a graduated income tax, and that the sale of liquor shall be exclusively controlled by the State, through salaried officials in such municipalities as shall apply for such agencies. MASSACHUSETTS PROHIBITION. September 13, 1894.

PROHIBITION. — Demands that the liquor traffic be suppressed by legal enactment, and the sale of alcohol for mechanical and other legitimate purposes

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should be conducted by the State under such restriction as will prevent fraud or evasion. Declares the high-license law a failure, opposes the Norwegian or company system of liquor selling. MISCELLANEOUS.-Opposes ations for sectarian schools; demands closer restrictions upon immigration so to preclude all Anarchists, all persons over 12 years of age who are unable to read or write, and all persons over 16 years of age whose fare is paid by another under contract; favors the appointment of a non-partisan commission to revise the tariff schedule in accordance with the principle of protection to American labor; favors the restoration of silver to the position it occupied prior to 1873; favors the control and ownership by State Government of railroad, telegraph, telephone and other institutions of public necessity; also favors the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people.

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MICHIGAN REPUBLICAN,

July 31, 1894.

TARIFF.-"We reaffirm our adherence and increased devotion to the American doctrine of protection. We believe that the present unhappy industrial condition of our country is in great part due to the threat and purpose of the Democratic party to destroy the American system of protection. We believe that all articles which cannot be produced in the United States, except luxuries, should be admitted free of duty, and that on all imports coming into competition with the products of American labor there should be duties levied equal to the difference in wages abroad and wages at home."

SILVER.-"We believe in the use of gold and silver as money metals, to be maintained in circulation on a perfect equality and incontrovertibility. We recognize the so-called silver question as one of the paramount political issues of the day, and believe that the people of this State and country do look to the Republican party, the party of ability and progress, as the only party that can give a wise and adequate solution of this problem. We, therefore, pledge the Republican party of Michigan to use every effort in its power to restore silver to its historic position in the United States as a money metal. We pledge this in the belief that permanent prosperity will not be assured or justice be done until silver takes its time-honored place side by side with gold as one of the two great money metals of the world."

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RECIPROCITY.-"We believe that the doctrine of reciprocity, as advocated by that matchless statesman, James Blaine, should, under our protective system, be the policy of our Government and applied in our trade relations with other nations."

LABOR.-"We believe in arbitration as one of the means to solve labor disputes, and favor the enactment of laws by the Legislature to carry out the provisions of section 23, article 6, of the Constitution of the State of Michigan, which provides for establishing courts of conciliation, with such powers and duties as shall be prescribed by law."