violence and fraud, and to that end has repealed the Federal Election laws. A revenue policy which remits to foreigners the amounts they have been compelled to pay for the privilege of selling in our markets, and purposes to balance the resulting deficiency by picking the pockets of every man, woman and child who has a dollar invested in corporations, instituting an inquisition into the private affairs of all who are suspected of successful industry and skill, and seizing 2 per cent of their income in excess of $4,000, and by laying an onerous and hateful tax upon an article of such prime necessity and universal use as sugar. A tariff policy which strips legitimate industry of protection, and forces home producers into competition with the pauper labor of the Old World; which binds all classes of consumers that they may be constantly plundered by insatiable trusts and merciless monopolies, which the President, by whose assent it has become the law, denounces as party perfidy and party dishonor, outrageous discrimination, and the spoliation of the producer for the benefit of corporations and capitalists; which no Congressman attempts to defend, and which is hated and abominated by all parties and all sections; which has paralyzed business, annihilated values, destroyed the purchasing power of the people, driven capital into disuse, robbed a million and a half of workers of employment, and reduced the earnings of many millions more; which has swept away from capitalists the accumulations of years, and pauperized the poor, turned back the wheels of progress, put privation and want in the place of plenty, spread distress and desperation among all classes, developed Coxeyism, and let loose the horrors of Anarchy. These are the harvest which has been reaped from the sowing of 1892. NATIONAL PLATFORM.-Reaffirms the principles adopted by the National Convention in 1892. TARIFF.-Emphatically protests against any further change in the tariff laws until it can be made by sincere friends of protection, and they insist that there shall be no proscription of any man, or abridgment of his legal rights because of his color, social condition, or religious or political beliefs. NEW-HAMPSHIRE DEMOCRATIC September 6, 1894. TARIFF.-"Already its beneficial effects are seen in the revival of business, and when it shall have been perfected in accordance with the recommendations of President Cleveland, the people will be relieved of the oppressive burdens of taxation imposed upon them by the McKinley law. We unqualifiedly indorse President Cleveland and the National House of Representait ves in their efforts to fully redeem the pledges of the party to the people, and we especially approve of the wise, patriotic and statesmanlike course of the President through the great difficulties he has encountered." PENSIONS.-"The pension roll should LIQUOR.-"We demand the prohibition of the manufacture, importation, exportation, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors as beverages, by both National and State legislation, and the exercise of the full powers of Government to obtain this result." SUFFRAGE.-"While we do not advocate unconditional nor universal suffrage, we see no good reason why it should be conditioned on sex. The great mass of our women are far more intelligent and patriotic than thousands of our male voters." SCHOOLS.-"We stand for our public school system, and against any appropriation of public moneys for sectarian schools. Denominational schools should be sustained by private beneficence." TARIFF.-"We believe the tariff, under a fair general law, should be intrusted to a commission of fair-minded business men, and that such a commission can deal more wisely and safely than Congress with complex questions that arise." LABOR.-"We sympathize with the desires of laboring men to better their condition, and favor wise arbitration when disputes arise between employers and employes; but we believe that no permanent improvement of the labor class is possible until the liquor power is overthrown." NEW-JERSEY REPUBLICAN, September 13, 1892. TARIFF.-Reaffirms belief in protcetion, opposes pernicious doctrine of free trade, whether presented in its own true name or disguised as tariff reform, and repudiates Democratic doctrine as enunciated in the platform of that party that "the Federal Government has no constitutional power to impose and collect tariff duties, except for the purpose of revenue only." TRUSTS.-"We denounce as utterly vicious, scandalous and contrary to public policy the passage by the last Democratic Legislature, under the direction of the Democratic Executive, with the co-operation of the the members of Democratic State Executive Committee, of a bill to legalize an unconstitutional and pernicious ecmbination of corporations engaged in the production and carrying of coal, as the result of which the prices of this necessary commodity have been increased and the burdens of consumers have been vastly augmented." STATE DEMOCRACY. "We arraign the Democratic party of the State for the atrocious crimes against the rights and liberties of the people. Belves to the thorough reform of these We pledge ourevils, and we appeal to all patriotic voters In the State to aid us in the re-establishment of a government of which Jersey-, men need not be ashamed. posed to an administration of the State We are opgovernment for personal uses, the subserviency of the Legislature and the courts to executive dictation; to the abolition by the Legislature under executive orders of local home government; to the multiplication of public offices and the increase of salaries for the furtherance of personal and political ends; to the appointment of public officers for a stated consideration to be paid to the party campaign fund; to the pardon of convicts in the State Prison; to the unheard of extravagance of the present State administration in the expenditure of public money; to clothing the Governor with dictatorial powers by acts of a Legislature obsequiously subject to executive control; to the creation of unnecessary boards and commissions for partisan purposes, investing them with arbitrary powers, and placing them beyond the control of the people, making their terms of office subject to the will of the Governor; to evasions and misconstructions of the Constitution by the chief executive to secure political and personal support; to the countenance and support by State officials and party leaders of racetrack gambling, with all its attendant evils; to the destruction of the right of suffrage by false registry, stuffing and fraudulent count of votes, ballot-box and to the general maladministration of public affairs, which during the present current administration have brought shame and disgrace upon the State." NEW-JERSEY DEMOCRATIC. May 25, 1892. SILVER.-"We condemn the policy of free coinage of depreciated legal-tender silver and also further purchases of silver bullion under the Republican legislation of 1890, and we believe that the whole matter of the use of silver as a money metal should be relegated to the further concerted action of the commercial nations." NEW-JERSEY DEMOCRATIC, September 14, 1892. frauds FRAUDS.-"We denounce all perpetrated upon the elective franchise, and we call the attention of the people to the fact that prosecution and punishment of those crimes have been the work of a Democratic court and prosecutor and Democratic jurors. We ask from fairminded citizens a comparison of this fact with the action of a Republican Senate, which voted to seat a Senator from Hudson, a man who every one knows was not entitled to the office. Senate was protected by a constitutional The action of that privilege, but it none the less a crime." was capacity 67 the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives nounced that the war against the prohave antected industries of the country has but just begun, and that it is to be prosecuted to the bitter end. On behalf of the wage-earner, the agriculturist, the business man, and of every sacred interest in the Empire State of the Union, the Republican party of the State of New-York, in convention assembled, accepts this challenge and pledges its faith against all assault the rights of the workto defend ingman and his employer, both wantonly invaded by reckless demagogues. We invite the people to of the Democratic party with the percompare the pledges formances of a Democratic tion. The fitness and AdministraDemocracy to govern must be judged by of the its record. Its most important achievement thus far has been fitly characterized by the Chief Executive of its choice as one of 'perfidy and dishonor.' nouncing political corruption, it has reDewarded the largest contributors campaign fund by the bestowal of foreign to its missions; denouncing trusts, it permitted one of them to formulate its Tariff bill; promising a continuance of the vigorous foreign policy established by the lamented James G. Blaine, it substituted a 'policy of infamy' when Hawaii was freely offered us; denouncing the Sherman act as a cowardly makeshift, it was enabled to repeal the silver-purchasing clause that act only by the help of Republican Senators; arraigning protection fraud upon labor,' it passed a mongrel protective measure, so tainted with scandal that it barely escaped the veto of a Democratic President; advocating of as 'a raw materials and an extension of our free foreign trade, it destroyed all the profitable reciprocal agreements made by President Harrison; pledging itself to the payment of 'just and liberal pensions,' it treats the Union soldier as if the Grand Army badge were the badge of beggary and brigandage; pledging retrenchment, it exceeded at the last session of Congress the expenditures of the corresponding session of the last Republican Congress by $27,000,000 in the face of decreasing reve nues, and after it had added $50,000,000 to the public debt; while pretending to be in favor of individual hastened to enact an odious income tax freedom, it force bill. empowering deputy collectors to enter the homes of citizens and compel them, by threats of official summons and heavy penalties, to disclose their private affairs.' STATE ADMINISTRATION.-"In this State, as in the Nation, Democratic pledges are made to be broken. Democratic party made its solemn pledge The to economize State expenditures, abolish useless State commissions, reduce the tax rate, perfect ballot reform, electoral safeguards and establish home strengthen rule. Every one of these Democratic pledges has been disgracefully disregarded, while the Republican pledges have been honestly kept, especially those for the repeal of the anti-home rule legislation and a reduction of public expenditures and a diminished tax legislative appropriations for the last year rate. The were nearly $2,224,000 less than those of the preceding Democratic Legislature, and the tax rate was reduced from 2.58 in 1893 to 2.18 in 1894, or nearly 16 per cent. Much more would have been accomplished by the Republican Legislature last winter but for the persistent interference of the Executive." TARIFF.-"We denounce Northern Democratic Congressmen for permitting Southern members to protect the chief products of their section while removing or largely reducing protective duties on the products of the North; thus permitting the South, by legal enactment in time of peace, to destroy our prosperity and accomplish what it failed to do by illegal enactment in time of war. And we especially denounce the Democratic Representatives from this, the greatest manufacturing State in the Union, whose annual manufacturing product exceeds that of the entire South by $500,000,000, for their treachery and cowardice in aiding the passage of a sectional Tariff bill, that has crippled the industries and reduced the wages of workingmen, and that levies a tax on incomes which is a tax on prosperity. We ask all who favor a discontinuance of tariff agitation, or who believe in the restoration of Republican protection, to elect Republican members of the House of Representatives in every district, so that our industrial interests may be properly represented in the councils of the Nation, and not, as at present, left utterly unrepresented in the leading committees, upon which the framing of tariff and financial legislation largely depends. On behalf of the farmers of New-York, we protest against free wool, which means the destruction of our sheep husbandry, and which has brought the price of wool to the lowest figure recorded. We denounce the Federal Administration for surrendering an annual revenue of $8,000,000 on wool and imposing a burden nearly ten times greater by levying a tax on sugar, the commonest household necessity. We protest against the removal of the protective barrier to the importation of Canadian agricultural products. The farm products of NewYork deserve protection equally with the rice of South Carolina and the sugar of Louisiana. We denounce the Administration for striking out the agricultural schedule of the McKinley bill and substituting an agricultural free list fraught with ruin to the farmers." GOVERNOR FLOWER.-"We arraign the Administration of Governor Flower for its glaring sins of omission and commission. The Executive of this State was the accomplice of the odious Democratic machine which stole the Legislature. He rewarded the chief partisan in that great political crime with a place in the highest court of the State, an insult that the people resented last fall, and will hasten again to resent; he indorsed the shameless legislative gerrymander by the stolen Legislature; he put the canals in the hands of party workers and made a highway of politics of a highway of commerce; he blocked the path of ballot reform and of home rule, in violation of his solemn pledges; he vetoed the bill to provide funds for the police investigation in New-York, and thus attempted to prevent the disclosure of the unspeakable infamies of Tammany's Police Department by the Lexow Committee; he made a mockery of Civil Service reform, and in every emergency was the ready tool of machine bosses instead of being the Governor of the State; posing as the friend of workingmen, he refused to give them a hearing when they appealed to him in the panic, and publicly declared that the charities of New-York were abundantly able to furnish them relief; proclaiming his desire for a pure ballot, he expelled from the Executive Chamber, with threats of arrest, a non-partisan delegation of eminent citizens from Troy, who appealed to him to prevent election crimes that subsequently stained that city with the blood of a Republican martyr." CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION."We recognize the wisdom of the Constitutional Convention in dealing in important and needed revision and amendment of the Constitution of the State, and commend the action thus far taken by that convention to the favorable consiaeration of the people." CANALS.-"We favor wise and jud cious improvement of the canal system of the State, to meet the needs of the people and to promote the facilities of transportation." LABOR.-"We recognize the right of labor to organize for its advancement and protection, and favor any plan of arbitration that will open the practical way for the settlement of difficulties between employer and employed, with recognition of the rights of both." MONEY.-"We favor an honest dollar, and oppose any effort, whether by the removal of the tax on State bank issues or the free coinage of silver, to lower our currency standard; and we favor an international agreement which shall result in the use of both gold and silver as a circulating medium." STATE COMMISSIONS.-"We favor the abolition of all useless State commissions and the consolidation of others, wherever this can be effected in the interests of economy and the improvement of the public service. Since the Administration of the last Republican Governor, the annual cost of these commissions has increased from $67,000 to more than $1,000,000; and, though Governor Flower promised a reduction of State commissions, he subsequently advocated their extension and increase, and during his Administration their expenditures rose to the highest aggregate. the PLEDGES.-"We approve the conduct of the Republican Legislature of last winter, and commend the administration of the Republican State officials elected last fall. With the election of a Republican Assembly and a Republican Governor and Lieutenant-Governor, we pledge to people a free ballot and a fair count, practical ballot reform, free and fair primaries as fully protected by law as general elections, an improved Civil Service, municipal home rule, a just apportionment, reduced State expenditures, an equitable system of taxation, an acceptable Excise law, adequate protection from Democratic policy and induce them to demand its proper extension. While favoring, therefore, such wise modification and readjustment of particular schedules, by the enactment of separate bills, as future conditions and the fulfilment of Democratic pledges may require, we deprecate, pending a fair trial of the law by actual operation, any further general tariff revision, which under present of a conditions The resolutions deplore the condition of the workingmen, farmers and manufacturers of the State in consequence of the establishment of a Democratic National Administration and the election Democratic Congress; declare that the "prosperous condition of the country's affairs disappeared with amazing rapidity upon the inauguration of a Free-Trade Democratic President and Vice-President. Foreign capital in enormous masses was withdrawn from the country and a financial panic of tremendous proportions followed. Hundreds of thousands of workmen lost work, and other hundreds of thousands were compelled to submit to a serious diminution of their wages. "The Democratic President and the Democratic Congress took no effective steps to allay the country's sufferings. Upon the contrary, after pottering for a year over financial bills and a Tariff bill lowering tariff rates toward a free-trade basis, they have passed the Gorman Tariff bill, a measure which surely will intensify the distress of the workingmen and farmers and business men of every State in the Union. A gigantic trust has been permitted to dictate the terms of a tariff act, and a Democratic President has not had the courage to veto this infamous act of legislation. NEW-YORK DEMOCRATIC. NATIONAL LEGISLATION. - "We therefore rejoice that by the repeal of the Sherman law for the purchase and storage of silver bullion all fear of a depreciated currency has been allayed and faith has been restored in the ability of the Government to maintain a constant parity between its gold and silver coinage; that by the repeal of the McKinley Tariff law the inordinate taxation of the many for the benefit of the few has been notably diminished, and in the place of inequitable and monstrous customs duties which have starved some industries and overfed others, the tariff schedules have been adjusted so that, while affording ample safeguards for American they reduce the price to the people of necessities of life and encourage the promotion of industry by cheapening the cost of many raw materials used in manufactures; and that by reduction in expenditures wherever possible, and by provision for additional revenues, the legitimate demands upon the Federal Treasury will no longer exceed the Government's Income and necessitate an increase in the public debt." labor, would be likely to retard improvement in business, and thereby prolong the evils brought upon the country by Republican folly." FEDERAL com ELECTIONS.-"We mend the enactment by the Democratic Congress of other measures of public importance demanded by the people, particularly the repeal of the Federal Elections law, and the stringent legislation for the suppression of trusts." INCOME TAX.-"We commend the efforts made by the Senators and Representatives in Congress from this State to avert the imposition of the present income tax." TRUSTS.-"We recognize in the trusts and combinations which are designed to enable capital to secure more than its just share of the joint product of capital and labor a natural consequence of the prohibitive taxes which prevent the free competition which is the life of honest trade, but believe the worst evils can be abated by law; and we demand the rigid enforcement of the laws made to prevent and control them, together with such further legislation in restraint of their abuses as experience may show to be necessary." ADMINISTRATION.-"We heartily indorse the honest purpose and high ideals which have characterized the Administration of President Cleveland, and we renew to him the pledge of our earnest support in all his efforts to secure the enactment of Democratic measures and the carrying out of Democratic policies. We have confidence that the people of the State, by their expression at the polls in November, will sustain his Administration, and by the re-election of Democratic Representatives in Congress show their appreciation of faithful service and their condemnation of that Republican incompetence which was responsible for the financial panic of 1893." N.Y. INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS. October 9, 1894. Declares that the Kings County delegates were dishonestly and unfairly excluded from the Saratoga convention by the vote of a packed and interested committee, and a vote under gag law in the convention. TARIFF.-"We stand for tariff reform and the unshackling of American industry. Commercial crises and industrial stagration, resulting from the Sherman law and the McKinley bill, have made way for already reviving prosperity under the new tariff. Facts tell, and the people will sweep away such other taxes as fence us in from the markets of the world. We honor the Democratic House for its fight for the Wilson bill; we condemn the traitors to Democracy, agents of the trusts, in the Senate, and favor the election of Senators by the people. We ask the House to insist at the next session on free coal, free ores, and the repeal of differential duties benefiting the Sugar Trust and of all other duties favoring trusts." CURRENCY.-"We favor a sound currency and a safe banking system, which will extend throughout the country the money advantages of the cities, and which can be based only on an honest dollar of a single standard of value." DAVID B. HILL.-Criticises the apportionment plan adopted by the Constitutional Convention as dangerous to the principles of democratic government, and blames for this "danger to Democracy David B. Hill, whose political shortsightedness in forcing the nomination of Maynard threw the convention as well as the Legislature into the hands of our political opponents; and We ask fairminded Republicans, with whom we voted against Maynard, to vote with us against this unjust and partisan apportionment"; commends President Cleveland for his service in the repeal of the Sherman law, and his stanch support of true tariff reform, and denounces the "so-called Democratic Senator, again a candidate for Governor, who is a Democrat only when Democracy means himself; who, in the Senate of the United States, has opposed the Democratic President, voted against the paramount principle of the Democratic platform, excluded himself from the councils of the Democratic party, and demeaned the Democratic State of New-York; whose political career has been built upon corruption; who has prostituted an able intellect to evil ends; who planned and directed the political crime rebuked in 1893 by a majority of 100,000; who is the arch enemy of good government and real reform." TARIFF.-Hails the new tariff bill as a decided step toward genuine reform, and while recognizing that it is not a fulfilment of the promises and pledges given the people by the Democratic party, its omissions and mistakes can be readily corrected without general or widespread disturbance of existing economic conditions. Urges Democrats to stand loyally together in the effort to return a Democratic Congress to "complete the work that has been so well begun." TAMMANY.-Denounces Tammany Hall as inimical in its principles and practices to the best interests of the Democratic party, and charges it with "responsibility for the shocking maladministration of public affairs in this city, as revealed by recent investigations." the unemployed labor may be utilized; that the eight-hour labor laws be effectively enforced; that State arbitration in case of strikes be made obligatory upon public works and employing corporations, and that the Board of Arbitrators be elected directly by the people; that the so-called labor conspiracy laws be modified so that wage workers may do collectively what is lawful when done by them singly; that employers be held responsible for injuries sustained by employes, the same as in the case of nonemployes." SECTARIAN SCHOOLS.-"We oppose all grants of public moneys to any sectarian, parochial or religious schools, societies or corporations." REFERENDUM.-"The emancipation of the people from political bossism, and the opening of the Legislature to the people by means of practical initiative and referendum laws, and the provision of meeting places for the people for public consultation, without asking the permit or license of the police." NEW-YORK PROHIBITION, June 27, 1894. LIQUOR.-"The alcoholic drink traffic should be entirely suppressed by legal enactment, and the sale of alcohol for mechanical and other legitimate purposes should be regulated as the sale of other poisons is regulated in the interests of public welfare. TARIFF.-"A non-partisan tariff commission of experts should be empowered to revise the tariff schedule in accordance with the principle of protection to American labor. To this end such protection should not exceed the ascertained difference between the scale of wages actually paid by protected American manufacturers and that paid by their foreign rivals. We denounce the partisan demagogy on the tariff and other public questions carried on in halls of the National Legislature for the purpose of party supremacy as being a menace and disgrace to popular government." FINANCE.-"The currency of the country should be issued by the Federal Government alone, and should not be delegated to private individuals or corporations. Every dollar, whether of gold, silver or paper, should be legal-tender for the payment of all debts. The Government should establish postal savings banks so that small deposits can be made without risk to depositors." MISCELLANEOUS.-Declares in favor of civil and political rights to women; opposes all trusts; favors State control and ownership of railroads, telegraph, telephone and other institutions and industries of public necessity when they be come monopolies to the exclusion of competition; opposes appropriations of public money for sectarian institutions; demands the religious observance of Sunday; favors election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people; favors a separa |