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PENNSYLVANIA PROHIBITION.

June 6, 1894.

Demands that the time for naturalization be extended, and that time be given naturalized citizens to study the laws before being allowed to vote.

Demands the prohibition or suppression of trusts and monopolies.

Favors the adjustment of labor disputes by arbitration.

Favors the election of the President, Vice-President and United States Senators by direct vote of the people.

Demands the adjustment of the tariff through a non-partisan commission. Favors just pensions to the soldiers and sailors who suffered from service, and those dependent on them.

Demands no discrimination in the enjoyment of civil rights on account of sex; suffrage based on a qualification of intelligence; maintenance of the non-sectarian character of the public schools, and that public money be refused to them; the enforcement of the Sunday laws, and proportional representation.

PENNSYLVANIA POPULISTS.

May 1, 1894.

Demands the referendum system of submitting important National and State legislation to a vote of the people; that the President, Vice-President, United States Senators and the postmasters shall be elected by a direct vote of the people; that there be a graduated income and inheritance tax for raising State, county and municipal revenue; also that service pensions be allowed to all men who contributed to the restoration of the Union by Army and Navy services, payable in additional issues of full legal-tender paper money direct from the United States Treasury to pensioners.

RHODE ISLAND REPUBLICAN. March 15, 1894.

TARIFF.-"In the light of recent events and surrounded by existing conditions, we emphatically reassert that it is the first duty of the Federal Government to protect the rights and promote the interests of the American people. To this end the protection system must be preserved. It has created and stimulated our diversified industries; it has opened the broadest avenues to labor and capital; it has made America the leading nation of the world in mining, in agriculture and in manufacturing; it has placed the American laborer far above the wage-earners of any other country, and it has achieved for us a success in material development the most illustrious of modern or ancient times. We denounce as unwise and unpatriotic the proposed tariff legislation of the Democratic party, and the contemplated repeal of the McKinley Tariff law. The danger of the passage of the Wilson bill; its cowardly compromise between protection to favored industries and the principles of a revenue tariff as enunciated in the last Democratic platform; its pronounced antagonism to the business interests of the industrial North, and its subserviency to sectional demands have already produced the most disastrous re

sults. The wheels of business have ceased to move; wages have been reduced: thousands upon thousands of wage-earners are without employment, and charity now supplies what honest labor earned until the Democratic party assumed control."

FINANCE.-"We call attention to the attitude of the Democratic majority in Congress on the questions of finance and sound currency, and to their self-confessed inability to legislate intelligently upon them. Unable to comprehend the aims of honest bimetallism, the Democratic policy is seeking to increase the number of dollars, regardless of their value. We believe that every dollar should be of equal purchasing power, and that the money of the greatest commercial nation of the world should not be inferior to that of other commercial nations. We favor the system of National banks, and are unalterably opposed to the Democratic policy of the re-establishment of State banks."

PENSIONS,-"We denounce the hostile attitude of the present Administration toward the veteran soldiers of the last war. Their pensions are a sacred debt of the Nation."

FOREIGN AFFAIRS.-"The conduct of foreign affairs by the present Administration has been inefficient and disgraceful. The Hawaiian treaty has been withdrawn from the Senate-a policy of duplicity and infamy has been inaugurated, and, while professing friendship to the existing Hawaiian Government, the Administration has secretly plotted for its overthrow. In its attempt to destroy an existing Government of civilized and Christian men, in order to restore a throne to a barbarian queen, the only credit to which the Administration is entitled is that it has been ashamed to make public its acts of infamy and folly."

ELECTIONS.-"We denounce the outrages committed on the colored people of the Southern States, and we favor such just and conservative change in cur organic law as will enable the Federal Government, in case of long-continued unpunished violations of the criminal laws in any State of the Union, to bring criminals to justice, in order that every citizen of our great Republic may be protected in his life and property."

IMMIGRATION.-"While welcoming to our country the honest, intelligent, industrious and self-supporting people of every land, we favor such amendment to the Federal laws as will more effectually prevent the immigration of the idle, ignorant, pauper and criminal classes that flood our shores."

EDUCATION.-"We favor the generous appropriation of public funds for the maintenance of the public schools; we oppose any appropriation of the public funds for the support of any sectarian schools."'

RHODE ISLAND DEMOCRATIC. March 20, 1894.

FINANCE.-"The repeal of the Sherman Coinage act, to which the Democratic party was pledged by its last National platform, has already restored publio confidence that debasement of eur rency will not be permitted, and the near

approach of tariff reform is stimulating industrial activity in every direction."

TARIFF.-"We reiterate the demand for free raw materials for our manufactures and removal of all legislative obstructions to the freest development of our industries."

FEDERAL ELECTION LAWS.-"The country is to be congratulated upon the repeal of the laws by virtue of which Federal officials were permitted to interfere in the elections of the several States."

AMERICAN PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION.-"In the language of the Democratic National platform of 1856, we declare that the foundation of this Union of States having been laid in, and its prosperity, expansion, and pre-eminent example in free government built upon, entire freedom, in matters of religious concernment, and no respect of person in regard to rank or place of birth, no party can justly be deemed National, constitutional, or in accordance with American principles which bases its exclusive organization upon religious opinions and accidental birthplace."

SOUTH CAROLINA DEMOCRATIC

(TILLMANITES).

September 19, 1894.

MONEY.-"We demand the free and unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, and insist upon its immediate enactment without waiting for international agreement. We insist upon it for the protection of our farmers and laboring classes, the first and most defenceless victims of unstable and fluctuating currency."

DISPENSARY LAW.-"Recognizing the great evils of intemperance and the curse of barrooms and their corrupting influences, we heartily indorse the Dispensary law as the happiest and best solution of the vexed whiskey problem, and we call upon the Christian men and women of the State to see that the law is fairly tested and assist in its enforcement." SOUTH CAROLINA REFORM DEMOCRATIC.

August 16, 1894.

The platform of May, 1892, was practically adopted. It reaffirms faith in Democratic simplicity, pledges anew allegiance to the principles enunciated by Jefferson,

etc.

ANTI-OPTION.-Demands that Congress shall pass such laws as will effectually prevent the dealing in futures of all agricultural and mechanical productions, providing such stringent system of procedure in trials as will secure prompt conviction and imposing such penalties as shall secure the most perfect compliance with the law.

SILVER.-Demands the free and unlimited coinage of silver on the ratio of 16 to 1.

LAND-OWNING.-Demands laws to prohibit alien ownership of land, also passage of laws to reclaim all lands owned by aliens and foreign syndicates, and of all lands owned by railroads and corporations in excess of such as is actually

used by them, such to be held for actual settlers only.

TRUSTS.-Demands laws to prevent the forming of combinations or trusts.

TARIFF.-Demands repeal of the McKinley Tariff bill.

INCOME TAX.-Demands a just and equitable system of graduated tax on in

comes.

RAILROADS, etc.-Demands State and Federal Government control and supervision of the means of public communication and transportation, and if this system does not remove existing abuses, then that the Government establish ownership of such means of communication and transportation.

U. S. SENATORS.-Demands an amendment to the Constitution providing for the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people. SOUTH DAKOTA REPUBLICAN. August 23, 1894.

TARIFF.-"In the interest of the country at large, and particularly in the interest of the people of this great agricultural Northwest, it affirms its conviction that this Nation owes to its own citizens and their industries all reasonable protection against competition with foreign labor, and it believes that this can be best and most certainly afforded by the friends of protection, rather than by those who declare. as did the last Democratic National Convention, that protection is unconstitutional and fraudulent, and which declaration has smitten this whole country with a blight that has withered its manufacturing industries, shrivelled its commerce and dried up the fountains of its finances. The policy of a Democratic Congress, which levies upon this country the tribute of millions in behalf of the Sugar Trust and robs this country's wool growers of millions in behalf of Australian flock owners, has been fitly characterized by a Democratic president as perfidy and dishonor, and we declare our preference for that reciprocity policy of the Republican party which got something for the country at large in exchange for whatever advantage was accorded foreign nations and their commercial interests."

MONEY.-"We favor the use of both silver and gold as money at a ratio of 16 to 1, confining the coinage of silver to the American product at the net cost of the actual expense of coinage, and we demand that silver as well as gold shall be a legal-tender for the payment of all just debts, both public and private."

PENSIONS.-"An overwhelming majority of the old soldiers of the Union know upon which party to depend for due recognition of their patriotic sacrifices and valorous services in crushing rebellion, and the Republicans of South Dakota only need assure them of the same justice and liberality in their behalf that have been declared heretofore and which have been so industriously promoted by South Dakota's Representatives of that party in Congress.'

LABOR.-Denounces labor troubles, and the use of private armed forces to settle them, and favors arbitration for the adjustment of all disagreements.

IMMIGRATION.-Urges such modifica- | tion of the immigration laws as will fully protect the United States against the importation of pauper and criminal immigrants.

TRUSTS.-Declares in favor of legislation against the dangers of accumulations of capital and of trusts and combines. SOUTH DAKOTA DEMOCRATIC. September 5, 1894.

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TARIFF.-"We declare ourselves favor of free trade, believing that as long as we have any tariff legislation, so long shall we have the heads of trusts, their attorneys and witnesses at Washington, and so long shall we have men in official positions who are too weak to rise above a handful of their constituents and vote for the great mass of the people and for their country's good."

TRUSTS.-"We demand the enactment and enforcement of laws which will curb their extension and their power."

CURRENCY.-"We demand the coinage of both silver and gold under such conditions and at such a ratio as will maintain the parity of the two metals."

INCOME TAX.-"We congratulate the people on the establishment of the income tax by the Democratic party."

PENSIONS.-"We demand that the Gov. ernment treat with liberality and with full appreciation of their heroism the old soldiers who offered their lives in the Nation's defence."

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

MISCELLANEOUS.-Favors a law that will "prohibit the holding of the office of Congressman, U. S. Senator, or any Cabinet position by one who shall be the owner of any stocks, shares or interests of any kind whatever, either in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, in any corporation, trust or combination to be affected by National legislation, or who

shall hold any official position in such bodies." Favors a law that will prohibit any National or State official from accepting any railway or sleeping-car pass. TENNESSEE REPUBLICAN. August 22, 1894.

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BUSINESS DEPRESSION.-"The publicans of Tennessee, in convention assembled, view with indignation and alarm the deplorable condition of the State and Nation into which they have been precipitated by eighteen months' of Democratic supremacy and misrule, and for a way of escape we point with becoming pride to the matchless prosperity and abiding confidence of the whole people that attended Republican administration for thirty years prior to 1892, and we invite the voters of the country to unite with us in hurling from power the Democratic party and again to place the control of the Government in the hands of the great Republican party."

TARIFF.-"We 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 bill that will

accomplish this end, and hereby reaffirm our devotion to the doctrines of the Republican party and its policies as set forth in the National platform of 1892.”

MONEY.-The American people, from tradition and interest, favor bimetallism, and the Republican party demands the use of both gold and silver as standard money, with such restrictions and such provisions, to be determined by legislation, as will secure the maintenance of the parity of values of the two metals, so that the purchasing and debt-paying power of the dollar, whether silver, gold or paper, shall be at all times equal, and we are in favor of a circulating medium of volume sufficient to meet the demands of business and commerce."

PENSIONS.-"That the Republicans of Tennessee, ever mindful of the patriotic and loyal services of the veteran soldiers of the Republic, reaffirm their unswerving devotion to them and unreservedly condemn the present Administration for its illiberal, unjust and unpatriotic crusade against the Nation's defenders in the matter of pensions."

MISCELLANEOUS.-Opposes the repeal of the State Bank Tax law; favors a law restricting immigration; favors arbitration of differences between labor and capital.

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August 15, 1894. TARIFF.-Favors a "tariff for revenue only, and commends all legislation ducing protective taxes as a step toward the consummation of the Jeffersonian polcy, of 'free commerce with all nations.' "' TRUSTS.-Regards the growth of trusts and combinations to arbitrarily control the production and prices of the necessaries of life as one of the worst evils of the protective system.

IMMIGRATION.-Favors

such legislation as will exclude criminals, paupers, Anarchists and others of the scum of European population; also favors the rigid enforcement of the laws against the importation of foreign workmen under contracts to degrade American workmen and to lessen wages.

FEDERAL ELECTION LAWS.-Commends the repeal of the Federal Election laws.

NICARAGUA CANAL.-Favors its early construction and such action on the part of Congress as may be necessary to promote it and keep it under American control.

INCOME TAX.-Favors a "Federal tax upon incomes as a fair, just and equitable method of raising revenue."

STATE BANK TAX.-Favors a repeal of the prohibitory 10 per cent. tax on State banks of issue. FINANCIAL.-Favors the bimetallic standard, the coinage, without reference to the policy of other nations, of both gold and silver in such manner as will maintain both metals in circulation at parity.

MISCELLANEOUS.-Opposes "all sects, political organizations, and all political proscription on account of religious opinion."

TENNESSEE POPULISTS.

June 22, 1894.

Demands a National currency, safe, sound and flexible, issued by the general Government only, a full legal tender for all debts, public and private, and that without the use of banking corporations; a just, equitable and efficient means of distribution, direct to the people; free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1; that the amount of circulating medium be speedily increased to not less than $50 per capita; a graduated income tax; that all State and National revenue shall be limited to the necessary expense of the Government economically and honestly administered; the abolition of the internal revenue laws; that the Congress of the United States shall submit an amendment to the Constitution providing for the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people of each State; an abolition of the lease system and condemn the working of convicts in competition with free labor.

TEXAS REPUBLICAN.
August 6, 1894.

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TARIFF.-"Believing in America Americans, we affirm our allegiance to the National Republican platform adopted at Minneapolis in 1892. We demand a tariff for the protection of all American industries, and articles which cannot be produced in the United States, except luxuries, should be admitted free of duty; and on all imports coming into competition with American labor there should be duties levied equal to the difference between wages at home and abroad. We condemn the action of our Texas Congressmen in so voting on а tariff as to blight the lumber, wool and other industries of our State."

RECIPROCITY. — “We condemn free trade with foreign nations in any form unless by reciprocity or treaties that will open up the markets of other countries to American producers. We believe in the Republican doctrine of protection by the general government of life, liberty and property of every American citizen at home or abroad."

LABOR.-"We sympathize with the laboring classes of our country in all lawful efforts to better their condition and obtain a more equal distribution of the wealth produced by labor."

FARM PRODUCTS.-"We extend a willing hand to the farmers of the United States and demand for them the enactment of such laws as will insure fair returns for the products of their toil. We believe in the coinage of both gold and silver and the issuance of paper money so adjusted that the purchasing power of every Government dollar shall be

equal."

CONVICT LABOR.-"We condemn the leasing of convict labor of the State outside of the walls of the penitentiary." TEXAS REPUBLICAN. (“LILLYWHITE.")

August 30, 1894.

TARIFF.-"We reaffirm the American doctrine of protection, and we favor more

uniform protection to manufacturers and producers in every branch of industry which shall equal the difference between the compensation paid to American labor and the earnings of labor abroad. We denounce the attitude of the Democratic Congress in legislating against the industrial interests of the country. We denounce their flagrant discrimination against the agricultural and pastoral growth everywhere, while fostering the combinations and trusts of aggregated capital, creating and maintaining monopolies at the expense of every consumer and injury of the entire country. We point with pride to the success of the Republican policy of reciprocity, under which our interchange of trade had grown enormously, leading to free intercourse and freer commerce with every American nation, and we denounce the action of the Democratic Congress which has abrogated these trade relations to the injury of every interest and every point of the country."

MONEY.-"We are in favor of sound money-gold, silver and currency-its volume as large as practicable, so coined and issued that every dollar shall be equal in value the one to the other.'

NICARAGUA CANAL.-"We favor the indorsement of the Nicaragua Canal project by the National Government.'

TEXAS DEMOCRATIC.

August 16, 1894.

LABOR TROUBLES.-Demands the passage of such laws as may be necessary to protect every citizen in the full enjoyment of such individual liberty; views with grave apprehension the growing tendency to set at defiance the laws devised for the protection of life and property, and demands the enactment of such laws as will give the State Executive the use of all the powers of the State, when necessary, for the suppression of lawlessness and the protection of lives of the citizens and all classes of property within the State.

MONEY.-"We hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country, and the equal coinage of both metals without discrimination against either metal or charge for mintage; but the dollar unit of coinage of both metals must be of equal intrinsic and exchangeable value or be adjusted through international agreement or by such safeguards of legislation as shall insure the maintenance of parity of the two metals and the equal power of every dollar at all times in the markets and in payment of debts, and we demand that all paper currency shall be kept at par with and redeemable in such coin. We insist upon this policy as especially necessary for the protection of farmers and laboring classes, the first and most defenceless victims of unstable money and a fluctuating currency.'

TARIFF.-"We demand of Congress the passage of such tariff legislation as may be in strict accordance with the principles announced in our last National platform, and denounce all attempts to secure special protection or privileges for any

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June 21, 1894. FINANCE.-Demands rency, "which shall be a full legal-tender for all debt, public and private, and that without the use of banking corporations, a just, equitable and efficient means of distribution direct to the people, at a tax not exceeding 2 per cent per annum, be provided, as set forth in the sub-treasury plan of the Farmers' Alliance, or some better system; also by payments in discharge of its obligations for public improvements"; also the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the present ratio of 16 to 1, and that the amount of circulating medium be increased to not less than $50 per capita.

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MISCELLANEOUS.-Demands graduated income tax; the establishment of postal savings banks; government ownership of railroads, telegraph and telephones; the abolition of private banks of issue, whether they be State or National. Condemns the issue of gold bonds in times of peace. Favors the completion of the Nicaragua Canal, providing it is owned and operated by the Government, in proper co-operation with Nicaragua and Costa Rica.

VERMONT REPUBLICAN.

June 20, 1894.

TARIFF.-"We denounce as especially injurious to the State the provisions of the Wilson bill. We denounce the increase of the tax on the poor man's breakfast table, which is accompanied by a decrease in the tariff on articles of luxury. We denounce the Wilson bill as sectional in its provisions, subservient to gigantic monopolies, a menace to business interests, and we predict that if it becomes a law, prosperity will not return to our land until the Republican party is again in power." ELECTIONS.-"We declare our belief that the repeal of the Federal election law was passed in the interests of the fraudulent election methods of the Democratic party."

SILVER.-"We approve the strenuous efforts of the Vermont Senators and Representatives in Congress to render as harmless as possible the prospective tariff legislation. We favor the continued and extended use of silver in our circulation within the extent of the ability of the Government to preserve the present parity between gold and silver. To this end we will hail with enthusiasm all efforts of the Government to obtain an agreement with all other commercial nations to secure the free coinage of silver on any proper ratio."

VERMONT DEMOCRATIC. June 28, 1894.

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proposed by the representatives of the Democratic party in Congress for the relief of the country from unjust and discriminating tariff taxations. We denounce and hold the Republican party responsible for the present_depressed condition of the country and do not allow their cowardly attempts at shifting their responsibility, as it was directly traced to the efforts of the McKinley Tariff act, which fostered temporarily extravagant and reckless financial business schemes to the present disastrous results. We demand a tariff which shall be a protection to American labor and keep the country in a steady and conservative condition and not a cause of such violent inflations and depressions as have occurred under the present McKinley bill."

FEDERAL ELECTIONS.-"We approve of the repeal of the Federal Election law, that insidious instrument for the destruction of the constitutional freedom of the ballot."

SILVER.-"We recognize the fact that the progress of civilization has made the large nations of the world dependent upon each other financially, and we demand a currency that shall be of its face value in every part of the globe. We believe in gold and silver as a circulating medium, and that they shall be made of equal value, as demanded in the National Democratic platform of 1892.'

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VIRGINIA DEMOCRATIC, August 18, 1893. CONFEDERATE PENSIONS. Democratic party of Virginia, remembering the unselfish services of her patriotic defenders during the Civil War, and recognizing her sacred obligations to care for her surviving sons who were disabled during that great struggle and the widows of those who sacrificed their lives, will continue to favor such liberal appropriations within the resources of the State as will tend to the accomplishment of that end."

FEDERAL ELECTION LAWS. Denounces the policy of Federal control of elections and demands the repeal of "all Congressional legislation that countenances interference with the freedom of elections by the appointment of Federal supervisors to revise the registration lists and scrutinize the ballots, and Federal marshals to overawe the people by their presence at the polls."

CURRENCY AND STATE BANK ISSUES. Reiterates the principles announced in the National Convention at Chicago, and urges the speedy enactment of such laws as will "carry out the provisions of that platform and relieve the country from the disastrous financial condition to which the unwise and reckless legislation of the Republican party has brought it'; insists upon such legislation as will provide for an expansion of the currency of the country sufficient to meet the business needs of the country without delay; indorses "the principles announced by the Chicago Convention upon the subject of tariff taxation, and urges upon

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