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IMMIGRATION.-"We believe in protecting American wage-earners and the peace and prosperity of this Nation against the evil effects of indiscriminate emigration from the pauper and criminal classes of Europe by wise laws that shall properly restrict and regulate emigration. We believe in the protection and elevation of the standard of American citizenship, and that the safety of this Republic depends upon the intelligence and loyalty of its supporters, that it should be sustained for the welfare and happiness of its people, and that for the preservation thereof the right of suffrage should be limited to those who have fully acquired American citizenship."

ELECTION LAWS.-"We denounce the action of the Democratic party in the repeal of the election laws, whereby the courts of the United States are rendered powerless in the protection of honest voters or the punishment of fraud, and such action is an invitation to falsify by fraud and violence the will of the people, and we demand the enactment and enforcement of laws that shall protect the citizens of the Republic at home as well as abroad."

HAWAII.-Sends hearty greeting and welcome to the people of the new Republic, and assurances of earnest sympathy and best wishes for her glorious future.

MICHIGAN DEMOCRATIC.

June 28, 1894.

TARIFF.-"We denounce as un-Democratic and opposed to the Constitution of the United States the system of taxation upon consumption, as advocated by the Republican party, by which the money of the poor is wrested from them to enrich private individuals and corporations, thereby benefitting one class at the expense of another. We therefore reaffirm the principles upon tariff taxation that were adopted by the Democratic National Convention at Chicago in 1892, and repudiate any departure therefrom. We declare in favor of the free, unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio that will permit the debtors to pay their debts upon the same basis in which they were contracted."

FINANCE.-"We demand that, henceforth, the issuing of all circulating medium be made under the acts of Congress, through the National Treasury in such amounts as the business wants of the Country may require, and it shall be full legal-tender."

AMERICAN PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION. "We declare in favor of the timehonored principle of Democracy, in favor of religious liberty, and oppose any effort on the part of any one that would make a man's religion a test to hold office in this country."

PUBLIC LANDS.-"Whereas, It is charged that certain corporations in the Upper Peninsula dominated by English and eastern capital have maintained possession of many thousands of acres of valuable timber and mineral lands, the equitable title whereto is in the United States:

"Resolved, We deem it incumbent upon the Democratic party to denounce the lav

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FRAUDS.-"New

ELECTION laws should be passed by the next Legislature of the State of Michigan providing better safeguards against such fraudulent election returns."'

CANALS. "We of the Northwest demand an open waterway for shipment to the ocean. The highest estimate of such cost is $400,000,000, and that work of necessary public improvement will give work to an army of unemployed. In this position we reaffirm the principles of that great Democrat, DeWitt Clinton, when he successfully carried through the most popular and beneficial enterprise of his age, the Erie Canal."

PENSIONS.-"We declare in favor of liberal pensions to soldiers of the United States Army, and believe the per diem pension bill before Congress will fully cover all claims."

MICHIGAN POPULIST.

July 4, 1894.

Reaffirms its allegiance to the Omaha platform. Following a long preamble of "repeated wrongs, injuries and usurpations on the part of plutocracy," it denounces both the Republican and Democratic parties, and declares that lines must be drawn and all men must get on one side or the other; that there must be no masters and no serfs in America, and that oppression and outrage must cease.

MICHIGAN PROHIBITIONIST.

August 8, 1894.

THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.-"Insist upon the complete outlawry of the whole business of manufacturing, transporting and vending alcoholic beverages in municipality, State and Nation, by statutes suitably framed and faithfully enforced through the legitimate channels of Government; declares all legal methods of treating this monstrous public evil, which are not strictly prohibitory, to be erroneous, vicious in principle, evasive, misleading, powerless for good, and to merit the unqualified condemnation of all candid citizens."

THE CURRENCY.-"The money of the country should be issued by the United States Government only, and should be a full legal-tender for the payment of all debts, public and private. It should consist of gold and silver, with free and unlimited coinage of each at the ratio of 16 to 1, supplemented by a full legaltender greenback and fractional currency in sufficient amount to maintain a uniform circulation of $50 per capita."

TARIFF-Declares for the elimination of the tariff as a party question, demand

its divorcement from politics, and its permanent reference to a non-party commission for gradual adjustment from time to time as the changing conditions of trade and of revenue may require.

MISCELLANEOUS.-Favors an income tax. Declares that the President, VicePresident and United States Senators should be elected by direct Vote of the people, and that methods of legislation known as the initiative and referendum should be adopted. Opposes trusts, artificial monopolies and other combinations to raise prices on articles of necessity; declares that the telegraphs, telephones, railroads and other institutions and industries of public character and necessity, when they become monopolies to the exclusion of competition, should be controlled by the Government.

MINNESOTA REPUBLICAN,

July 11, 1894.

The platform deplores the "depressed condition of American industries under Democratic misrule by theorists and reckless and dishonest experimenters in statesmanship. Discredited in foreign diplomaсу, our home industries prostrate and our people idle, there is no aspect of public affairs which the patriot can contemplate with satisfaction." It pledges that the Republican party will, in the future as in the past, give such care for the interests and rights of all classes, that law and order shall be maintained; that labor will be assured of its just reward, unrobbed by monopolies and trusts, and industry be again free to resume its activity beneficent alike to employer and

wage-earner.

TARIF.-"We favor a protective tariff under which, upon imports competing with the products of American labor, duties are levied equal to the differences between the wages and labor at home and abroad. And as to imports, other than luxuries not SO competing, we believe that the same should be admitted free of duty, so far as the requirements of the Government may permit. But the principles of reciprocity should be so incorporated in our tariff laws as to give new and enlarged markets for the products of the country."

FINANCE.-"The Republican party believes in the use of both gold and silver as money, maintaining the substantial parity of value of every dollar in circulation with that of every other dollar. It believes in bimetallism and that the restoration of silver as ultimate money to the currency of the world is absolutely necessary for business prosperity, proper rates of wages, and the welfare of the people. Holding these views, we believe it should be the policy of the United States to do everything in its power to promote the restoration of silver to the world's currency."

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ELECTION LAWS.-"We demand a free ballot and fair count, and for every citizen the right, unmolested, to cast one ballot in any election, and to have that ballot honestly counted as cast. The mission of the Republican party will not be ended until in every State of the Union all citizens, black or white, native

or foreign born, shall be equal in the courts and at the ballot-box.

TRUSTS.-"'We are opposed to all trusts and combinations seeking to control or unduly enhance the prices of commodities, and we are in favor of eradicating or repressing the same by suitable and effective laws."

LABOR.-"We are, and have been, in favor of the following laws: (1) to protect the health, the life and limb of all employes of transportation, mining and manufacturing companies; (2) to establish and maintain boards or tribunals of conciliation or arbitration, whereby the differences between employers and employed may be settled and adjusted by peaceful means without strikes or lockouts; (3) to reclaim and to preserve the public domain for actual settlers under homestead laws." IMMIGRATION.-"All proper and necessary measures should be adopted and enforced to exclude from our shores all paupers, criminals and other dangerous and undesirable classes of immigrants."

CORPORATION CONTROL.-"Telegraph, telephone, railroad and all other transportation companies and all corporations or individuals performing any public service or employment are amenable and subject to public control; and we favor the enactment and enforcement of such laws as will compel them to render efficient and approved service at fair and reasonable rates, without favor or discrimination as to persons or places."

PENSIONS.-"The pensions awarded by a generous nation to the disabled and unfortunate veterans of the late war, their widows and orphans, should be given them with a fair and generous hand and not grudgingly and with restraint. We deprecate the parsimonious, super-critical and harassing attitude of the present Democratic Administration in its treatment of the present beneficiaries of our pension laws."

MINNESOTA DEMOCRATIC.

September 6, 1894.

The platform commends the President, favors popular elections of United States Senators, denounces the American Protective Association, and urges arbitration in labor troubles.

MINNESOTA POPULIST.

1894.

TRUSTS.-"We demand such legislation as will break up the great combinations which plundered the farmers for twentyfive years past, and secure to the agricultural population an absolutely free market for their cattle, wheat and other products."

THE REFERENDUM.-"We demand that the people shall have the right to initiate needed measures of legislative reform, and that they shall have the right, by referendum, to veto, at the ballotbox, any law inimical to their interests."

WOMAN SUFFRAGE.-"We demand that there be no limitation upon suffrage dependent upon sex, believing in the doctrines of 1776, that representation should accompany taxation."

THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.-"We demand the nationalization of the liquor traffic

and its management by the State without profit.

LABOR AND THE ARREST OF DEBS. -"We therefore recommend to our suffering countrymen, especially those of the laboring classes, that peaceful and effective remedy for the wrongs which, in this country, the ballot gives to free men, and which destroys no property except watered stock, and injures no values except those of fiction and fraud."

SECTARIANISM.-"We affirm that we are opposed to the use of public revenue or funds for sectarian purposes of any kind whatever."

MISSISSIPPI DEMOCRATIC.

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TARIFF.-"We again declare for a system of protective duties, adjusted so 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 that have followed the mere menace of free trade as conclusive evidence of the wisdom of the Republican policy in the past upon the subject. We favor the enactment of laws that will prohibit the immigration of Anarchists, and demand the strict enforcement of the immigration laws."

HAWAII.-"We extend to the people of Hawaii, in their struggle to establish and maintain liberal and free institutions for the Government, our hearty sympathy, and we assure them that the conduct of the present Administration in its endeavors to force upon them by hostile menace a corrupt and semi-barbarous monarchy, does not meet with the approval of the American people."

MONEY. "We favor the largest possible coinage of silver that is consistent with the permanent maintenance of equal purchasing and debt-paying power of all dollars in circulation. We do not want monometallism of either 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."

PENSIONS.-"The Republican party, ever mindful of the patriotic services and sacrifices of the veteran soldiers of the Republic, reaffirms its position in favor of liberality to the Nation's defenders. We favor the granting of pensions to all honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors whose disabilities or necessities justly entitle them thereto. And we unqualifiedly condemn the illegal action of the Pension Department of the party in power."

MISSOURI DEMOCRATIC.

May 16, 1894.

There were two platforms presented, one a majority and the other a minority report. The former practically favored the free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, and contained a fierce attack upon the American Protective Association. The minority report contained this on silver: "We hereby reaffirm the declaration of the Democratic principles placed before the country by the last Democratic National Convention assembled at Chicago on June 22, 1892, and ratified by the State Democratic platform adopted at Jefferson City, July 30, 1892." The majority, or Bland report, as adopted, contained this silver plank: "We therefore demand the free bimetallic coinage of both gold and silver, and the restoration of the bimetallic standard as it existed under our laws for over eighty years prior to the demonetization of standard silver dollars in 1873, and should it become necessary in order to maintain the two metals in circulation, to readjust the ratio, it should be determined whether gold has risen or silver has fallen, and whether there should be a change of the gold dollar or the silver dollar, or both, to the end that whatever ratio is adopted the rights of both creditor and debtor shall be preserved alike, having in view the demand of the people for an adequate circulating medium. We declare that we are not in favor of gold monometallism or silver monometallism, but that both should be coined at such ratio as will maintain the two metals in circulation. We insist upon the Democratic doctrine of Jackson and Benton, that all money issued by the authority of Congress shall be issued and its value maintained by the Government. That we are opposed to farming out to National banks the right to issue circulating notes. That we are opposed to further increase of the interest-bearing debt of the Government."

TARIFF.-The majority report de-1 nounces the McKinley bill and disapproves of the action of every Democratic Senator and Representative in Congress who opposes and delays the passage of a bill decreasing the import duties imposed by that law. It favors an income tax. and demands the free bimetallic coinage of both gold and silver, and the restoration of the bimetallic standard. It opposes farming out to National banks the right to issue circulating notes, and also any further increase of the interest-bearing debt of the Government.

MISSOURI POPULIST.
March 27, 1894.

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MONTANA REPUBLICAN,

May 9, 1892.

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PROTECTION AND RECIPROCITY.Reiterates advocacy of Republican doctrine of protection, recognizes in the McKinley bill the most consistent and beneficent embodiment of that great principle that has ever graced the statute books of the United States; indorses reciprocity; denounces vicious attempts of Democrats in Congress to undermine protection by the insidious and dishonest method attacking the system through those industries that are not numerically strong at the polls, or in Congress, and, in particular, denounces the Free Wool bill; condemns the action of Representative W. W. Dixon in voting in favor of that repeal; also denounces efforts of Democrats in Congress to admit free of duty the lead ores of Mexico, a measure that would expose the labor of Montana to competition with that of a country where wages scarcely exceed 50 cents a day, and bring ruin and disaster upon the great mining industry which is SO large factor in affording employment to workingmen, in the creation of wealth and in promoting the prosperity of the State.

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CURRENCY AND SILVER.-"We view with pleasure the demand from all sections of the country and all classes of our people in behalf of the free coinage of silver in the ratio existing previous to the act of 1873, and that it be made a legal tender in all sums and for all debts, public and private, except when otherwise expressly provided; we believe it to be in an essential degree obligatory upon the Republicans of the silver producing sections of the country to raise their voice in unison with those who are moving forward in the Congress of the United States and in the conventions of the party to promote this just and most beneficent policy; and our delegates to the Republican National Convention are accordingly instructed to strive diligently to secure recognition for the cause of free and unlimited coinage in the platform and candidates of the party."

NEBRASKA REPUBLICAN.
August 22, 1894.

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TARIFF.-"In view of the practical results of a year and a half of Democratic rule, we reaffirm with renewed faith and fervor the platform of the National Republican Convention at Minneapolis, demand the restoration of the American policy of protection and commercial reciprocity with our sister republics of Mexico, Central and South America, and the Governments of the West Indies Islands."

MONEY.-"While we favor bimetallism and demand the use of both gold and silver standard money, we insist that the parity of the value of the two metals be maintained, so that every dollar, paper or coin, issued by the Government shall be as good as any other."

COMMERCE.-"We adhere to the doctrine that all railway lines are subject to regulation and control by the State. We are in favor of the enactment of laws

by Congress that will provide for the supervision, regulation and control of corporations engaged in interstate commerce. with a view of preventing the fictitious capitalization and excessive bonding of such corporations."

LABOR. "We recognize the rights of laborers to organize, using all honorable measures for the purpose of dignifying their condition, and placing them on an equal footing with capital, to the end that they may both fully understand that they necessary to the prosperity of the country. Arbitration should take the place of strikes and lockouts for settling labor disputes."

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IMMIGRATION.-"The extirpation of anarchy is essential to the self-preservation of the Nation, and we therefore favor the pending bill in Congress for the exclusion of Anarchists."

NEBRASKA DEMOCRATIC.

September 6, 1894.

ADMINISTRATION.-"We indorse the Administration of Grover Cleveland as wise, patriotic and statesmanlike, and we congratulate him upon his selection of that sound Democrat and economist, J. Sterling Morton, to a seat in his Cabinet."' CURRENCY.-"We indorse the principles of faith as set forth in the National Democratic platform adopted at Chicago in 1892, including the money plank, and we accept the construction placed upon that plank by Grover Cleveland as sound interpretation, and insist that every dollar issued or coined by the Government shall be as good as every other dollar."

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TARIFF.-"While the Wilson Tariff bill does not embody the full measure of tariff reform, we regard its passage as a step in the right direction, and we heartily indorse its provisions as securing cheaper and freer raw material and lower taxes."

NEVADA REPUBLICAN,
August 24, 1894.

SILVER.-"The 'silver question' is by far the most important issue before the people of this country to-day. We believe that the destruction of the true standard of value by the demonetization of silver in 1873 was a grave wrong to every silver mining State and Territory in the Union; that it increased the burden of all debts and enriched the creditor classes at the expense of everybody else; that it paralyzed the productive energies of the entire country, depressed business of every kind except that of money lending, and that there can be no permanent return of prosperity to our country until silver shall have been restored to its full use and highest position as a money metal; and as the only perfect mode of so restoring it we demand the free and unlimited coinage of both gold and silver at the ration of 16 ounces of silver to 1 ounce of gold. with full legal-tender functions accorded to each, and no discrimination against either. This action we demand by the United States acting independently and wholly regardless of what any other nation may or may not do. We hereby pledge our candidate for Congress and request our United States Senators to

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TARIFF.-"We believe that under any monetary system that can be adopted the protection of the American producer against the blighting and destructive competition of cheap labor abroad is also a matter of vast importance to the great body of the American people. Upon this question we are in hearty accord with the principles of the National Republican party. We believe that the woolgrower, the silver-lead miner, the sulphur miner, the borax maker and all other producers are entitled to live as befits American freemen, without being brought down to the wage level and social conditions of the poorest paid labor in the world. We arraign Senator Stewart for his failure to vote on the motion to strike out the differential duty on refined sugar, thus not only showing his disposition to favor the gigantic sugar trust, but failing to kill at a blow the obnoxious Wilson bill, which is now threatening the very existence of some of the most important industries in the State of Nevada, including that of wool production, which even now furnishes subsistence to a large number of our people.'

MISCELLANEOUS. — Urges restriction of immigration solely with a view of relieving the labor market and insuring to the American citizen, whether native or foreign born, an honest day's pay for an honest day's work; favors arbitration of differences between capital and labor; favors legislation for the adjustment of indebtedness of the Southern Pacific Railroad.

NEVADA DEMOCRATIC.
September 12, 1894.

PRINCIPLES AND CURRENCY.-"Declares and reaffirms its fealty to Democratic principles, and its unalterable devotion to bimetallism and the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, and we denounce the Republican party for its base treachery to silver by the demonetization act of 1873, and its subsequent pretended advocacy of the cause of the white metal."

TARIFF.-"We congratulate the Democratic party and the people of the United States upon the fact that notwithstanding the determined opposition of the Republican party, a beneficial measure of tariff reform has been enacted."

U. S. SENATORS.-"We favor the election of United States Senators by a direct vote of the people.'

LABOR.-Sympathizes with every lawful effort to secure to laboring men full and just compensation for their labor, and indorses the establishment of tribunals of arbitration for the settlement of disputes between capital and labor.

PACIFIC RAILROADS.-Opposes the extension of time for payment by the Pacific Railroads of their debts to the National Government, as contemplated by the Riley Funding bill, and demands the prompt foreclosure by the Government of

its mortgages upon said roads as the debts secured thereby become due, and favors the Government ownership and operation of said roads.

IMMIGRATION.-Favors restriction of immigration and the strict enforcement by the courts of the naturalization laws. NEVADA POPULIST.

September 7, 1894.

Indorses the Omaha platform of 1892, reiterates the demand of the National platform for the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the rate of 16 to 1, and demands the unconditional repeal of National bank laws, the Government issue of legal-tender notes and a system of Government loans. It declares itself unalterably opposed to the issuance of Government bonds for any purpose whatever, demands that the general Government authorize the States having arid and swamp lands to employ idle labor to reclaim them, the Government defraying the expenses and levying the cost on the land so improved; demands the prohibition of Chinese and Japanese immigration and the restriction of other immigration; condemns the lottery amendment to the State Constitution; favors the election of Senators by a direct vote of the people; requests retrenchment in State expenses; demands Government ownership of railroads. NEW-HAMPSHIRE REPUBLICAN September 5, 1894.

DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION.Eighteen months of Democratic control of the executive and legislative departments of our Government have brought upon the country only disaster, dismay and disgrace. A foreign policy which has asserted itself most conspicuously in a conspiracy to destroy a friendly republic, enthrone upon its ruins a cruel and barbarous queen and subject to her vengeance thousands of loyal and intelligent natives of the United States, which is in all respects cowardly, dishonest, undignified and unAmerican, and of which the best that can be said is that it has ignominiously failed to accomplish its purposes. A fiscal policy which has created distrust abroad and apprehension at home, dissipated the gold reserve, emptied the Treasury, compelled the new issue of bonds, and in its abject helplessness has no measure of relief to propose except the "coinage of a vacuum." A pension policy which has without hearing or investigation branded thousands of Union veterans as frauds and withheld from them the support which they earned by heroic sacrifices and to which the law entitles them. A civil service polley which, while constantly mouthing reform, sells a foreign mission for $50,000, turns over the consulates to be looted by a professional spoilsman, and places the Federal patronage in all domestic departments at the disposal of party bosses or uses it to coerce Senators and Representatives into a surrender of their convictions and a betrayal of their constituents. An election policy that purposes to overcome honest majorities by

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