tion of municipal and county from State NORTH CAROLINA REPUBLICAN. SILVER. "We favor a financial policy now agreement, we TARIFF.-"We favor a tariff for the protection of American labor against the underpaid and pauper labor of foreign countries, the Blaine system of reciprocity, and opposition to the Democratic policy which attempts its abandonment and repeal. We denounce the Tariff bill recently passed by the Democrats in Congress (which is country without the signature, but the the law of the condemnation of the President) American in principle and vicious in its operations, destructive of the prosperity of labor, and beneficial only to and combinations of capital. nounce the attempts of the Democratic party and its President to place the raw materials of the South on the free list." as un trusts We de LABOR.-Pledges its word to employ every means to promote all just demands of workingmen, and to support whatever practical measures can be devised for the amelioration of their condition. MISCELLANEOUS.-Favors the repeal of the Internal Revenue taxes on whiskey, brandy and tobacco; demands such guarantee each qualified vote. and have counted as cast, and demands that the Vote farmer and householder be allowed the same exemption of taxes as is given to the bondholder and capitalist. that NORTH CAROLINA DEMO- August 8, 1894. held in the United States." STATE BANK TAX.-"That we urge upon the said law-making department of the Government the abolition of the unconstitutional and prohibitive tax of 10 per cent upon the issue of State banks.' MISCELLANEOUS.-Demands the en 71 The platform denounces the old parties and demands the issue of greenbacks and free coinage of silver, but omits the SubTreasury bill. NORTH DAKOTA REPUBLICAN. standard of Great Britain; demands ad- tween foreign and American SO With the exception of articles of luxury, RECIPROCITY.-"By adherence to the Republican principle of reciprocity, new and larger markets can be and ought to be secured." pro FINANCIAL.-Opposes the fiat money doctrine of the People's party, and demands the use of both gold and silver as standard money. Also demands that the mints be opened to the coinage of silver mined in the United States, with such restrictions and under such visions, to be determined by legislation, as will maintain the parity of values of the two metals. should levy a tax on silver imports sufUrges that Congress ficient to protect the American mines. STATE BANK TAX.-Opposes the repeal of the State Bank tax, because a return to wildeat money issue lower the country's credit, flood the land would with worthless currency, and bring confusion, loss of confidence and National disaster. LABOR DISPUTES.-Recommends that Congress provide an amendment to the Interstate Commerce law for the orderly settlement of all disputes between capital and labor on railroads. FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION.-"We condemn the present Democratic Administration for opposing the clause of the Act of 1890; we condemn Reciprocity it for placing wool and other of our farm products on the free list; we consider it a disgraceful surrender to the rapacious Sugar Trust, the Coal Trust, the Lead Trust, and other monopolies; demn it for its unpatriotic interpretation of the pension laws, and for the hardships which it persists in imposing on the enfeebled veteran; we condemn it for the lowering of the Stars and Stripes at Hawaii, and for its attempts to replace a republican government by a rejected monarchy." we con NORTH DAKOTA DEMOCRATIC. July 26. 1894. TARIFF.-"We are in favor of tariff for revenue only and urge the prompt enactment of a tariff bill. MONEY.-"We demand the free bimetallic coinage of both gold and silver and the restoration of the bimetallic standard as it existed for eighty years prior to the demonetization of the standard silver dollar 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 fallen; and whether there should be a change of a gold or silver dollar, or both, to the end that whatever ratio is adopted the rights of both debtor and creditor should be preserved. Having in view the demands 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 in such a 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 be maintained by the Government." We TARIFF.-"We commend the course of our Republican Representatives in Congress and of our illustrious Senator, John Sherman, in their earnest efforts to defeat the vicious legislation an unscrupulous majority has forced upon them. recognize the Tariff act of 1890, known as the McKinley act, as the ablest expression of the patriotic principle of protection yet enacted, and condemn and denounce any attempt to repeal or amend it which does not have for its object better protection to American labor and American interests than is secured by it. denounce the unjust and inequitable tariff measure known as the Wilson bill, We and the Senate substitute therefor and amendments proposed thereto, as unpatriotic, favorable to trusts, and sectional in their provisions, and as subversive of the prosperity and happiness of the people of the United States. They have already closed thousands of factories, stores and banks; reduced to idleness 2,000,000 of working people and entailed upon the country already a greater loss in property and business than the whole. amount of the National debt at the close of the Civil War. The change from specific to ad valorem duties would promote undervaluation, fraudulent invoices and increase the importations, with a loss of revenue to the Government of many millions, and result in a constantly increasing annual deficiency, which it is proposed to meet by the needless resort to such war measures as income tax and increased internal duties. We denounce the attempt of Congress to destroy the principle of reciprocity, thereby closing a large, profitable and increasing foreign market to the products of our farmers, without detriment to our laborers or manufacturers. We denounce the oft-repeated attempts of the Democratic party, and its present determined efforts to cripple or destroy all our agricultural interests by taking from farm products the just protection that is granted them by the wise and beneficent legislation of the Republican party. We indorse the policy of the National Grange, 1. e., 'that all tariff laws shall protect the products of the farm as well as the products of the factory.' Free wool, now advocated by the Democratic party, would substantially destroy American sheep husbandry, deprive farmers of the market it affords for pasturage, hay and grain, and require the purchase of wool from foreign countries, which take nothing in return from us but gold, and hence to that extent rob the American people of a coin necessary for business, which has a tendency to cause financial panics. We demand such protection for sheep husbandry as will secure fair prices for wool, and soon thereby increase American flocks sufficiently to supply all wool and mutton needed for consumption in the United States. We denounce the treatment of American farmers and workingmen by the Democratic committee of the Senate which, in violation of every courtesy and of all legisla tive use and tradition, denied them a hearing when they desired in a proper and reasonable manner to remonstrate against destructive legislation." ADMINISTRATION.-"We denounce its unwise and un-American management of our foreign affairs. Its Hawaiian policy has been a National disgrace." PENSIONS.-"We denounce the present administration of the Pension Bureau as a deliberate betrayal of the welfare of Union soldiers and sailors; we denounce the needless persecutions, suspicions, delays and privations to which they have been heartlessly subjected in procuring their just dues. We denounce the suspension without notice or hearing of pensions once allowed as illegal; we demand that a pension once granted shall not be suspended except for fraud duly proven." IMMIGRATION.-"We demand the enactment of such legislation as will prevent the immigration of the vicious and criminal classes; of laborers under contract; of paupers and Anarchists." SILVER.-"We favor bimetallism. Silver as well as gold is one of the great products of the United States. Its coinage and use as a circulating medium should be steadily maintained and constantly encouraged by the National Government; and we advocate such a policy as will, by discriminating legislation or otherwise, most speedily restore to silver its rightful place as a money metal." STATE BANK TAX.-"We denounce the avowed purpose of the Democratic leaders to restore the era of 'wild-cat' and 'red-dog' money by repealing the prohibitory 10 per cent tax on State bank issues. All money, of whatever kind, should be under National, and not State, control." NICARAGUA CANAL.-"In view of the general good to accrue to the American people by the construction and operation of the Nicaragua Canal by the United States Government, we commend the project to our Representatives in Congress." OHIO DEMOCRATIC. September 19, 1894. TARIFF.-"We adhere to the declarations of the Democratic party in its National platform that profection is a fraud and we recognize the beneficial reduction of duties on imports just made by Congress. We favor such further reductions as can be made, holding in view the revenue necessary to be raised for the support of the Government, to the end that the injustice of purely protective duties be abolished. We congratulate the country upon the repeal of the McKinley tariff and the enactment of a tariff law in its stead under the operation of which trade and business are reviving and the country is again becoming prosperous." " SILVER. "We dissent from the President's views, construction and treatment of the silver question, and, therefore, believe that silver should be restored to the position it occupied as money prior to its demonetization by the Republican party, and to that end we favor the unlimited free coinage of silver, at the legal ratio of 16 to 1, and with equal legal-tender powers." PENSIONS.-"We favor liberal pensions to worthy soldiers, sailors and marines, their widows and orphans." OHIO POPULIST. The platform of the Labor Convention, held the day before, was adopted as a whole, but not without considerable adverse talk, the immigration plank and the National ownership of railroads, etc., plank meeting with strong opposition. The following planks were added: PENSIONS.-"We favor liberal pensions to all honorably discharged disabled Union soldiers." GOOD ROADS.-"Inasmuch as the people have been taught persistently for years past by the old party press that our country is suffering from overproduction, and inasmuch as the Coxey plan for good roads and non-interest bearing bonds provides for the employment of labor in such manner as will make permanent improvements without putting any of the product of their labor on the market for sale, therefore we indorse the Coxey good roads and non-interest bond plan." OHIO LABOR. August 15, 1894. A preamble declares that the time has come when the Government must cease aiding and abetting corporate capital in its encroachment upon labor and upon individual and industrial enterprises; that the interests of the general public demand the passage of such laws as will give adequate protection and relief to the oppressed industrials, whether engaged upon the farm, or the railroad, or in the mine, factory, or workshop. Declares in favor of "cutting loose from the Republican and Democratic parties and joining with the People's party as the most effective and speedy way of securing such reforms as needed." the use the The "declaration of belief" demands a National currency, safe, sound and flexible, issued by the Government only, a full legal-tender for all debts, public and private, and without of banking corporations; demands "free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to 1;" condemns the policy of issuing interest-bearing bonds in time of peace; demands the immediate Nationalization of the telegraph and telephone, to be followed by Government ownership of the railroads and mines; demands the municipal ownership of street railways, gas, water and electric light plants; condemns the laws permitting aliens to own large tracts of lands, held for speculation, and declares in favor of such taxation laws as will compel the using of land to make ownership profitable; demands restrictive immigration laws; denounces the present contract-labor law as ineffective; demands a legal eight-hour work-day, sanitary inspection of workshop, mine and home, liability of 'employers for injury to health, body and life, the abolition of the contract system on all public works, the abolition of the sweating system, and demands suffrage. PROTECTION.-"We woman a OREGON REPUBLICAN, 1894. that affirm policy of corsistent protection is necessary for advancement and conservation of our industrial interests, for assurance to labor of steady employment and adequate wages, for promotion and maintenance of prosperity, local and general. We point to the past and to the contrast furnished by the present, in support of this claim; and we censure and condemn the Democratic tariff programme, as developed in Congress, as highly injurious to the productive and industrial interests of the country, and in particular as hurtful to those of our own State. We denounce the action of the Democratic party in Congress for its discrimination against producers in our fields, forests and mines and in favor of particular classes manufacturers, chiefly of the East, and of special interests in the South." of BI-METALLISM.-"We reaffirm the doctrine of the Republican party in relation to money, as stated in its National platform of 1882, particularly as follows, to-wit: The American people from tradition and interest favor bi-metallism, 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 values of the two metals, so that the purchasing and debt-paying power of the dollar, whether of silver, gold or paper, shall be at all times equal. The interests of the producers of the country, its farmers and its workingmen, demand that every dollar, paper or coin, issued by the Government, shall be as good as any other. We commend the efforts made by our Government hitherto to secure an international conference to adopt such measures as will insure parity of value between gold and silver throughout the world, and call upon it to renew and continue such efforts." NICARAGUA CANAL-"The construction of the Nicaragua Canal is of the highest importance to the American people, both as a measure of National defence and to build up and maintain American commerce. It is, moreover, of special importance to our Pacific States, and we favor its construction as speedily as possible by the Government of the United States." IMMIGRATION.-"We demand the enactment of rigid restrictions on foreign immigration both for protection of our country against illiterate and vicious classes from foreign lands, and for protection of our labor and preservation to our own people of the remainder of our national domain; and to these ends we call for a suitable capitation tax upon all immigrants." OREGON DEMOCRATIC. April 18, 1894. INCOME TAX.-"We believe that all taxation should be equal and just, that unnecessary taxation is unjust taxation, and that the wealth of a nation should bear its just proportion of the burdens of the National government, and that we are in favor of an income tax." LAW. In FEDERAL ELECTION dorses its repeal by Congress. TARIFF.-Indorses the efforts of Congress in behalf of tariff reform. its NICARAGUA CANAL. - Favors speedy construction by the Government and under Government supervision and control. SILVER.-Opposes all measures of discrimination against silver; and demands free coinage to supply the demands of business, and that all money issued by the Government be made a legal-tender for all debts, both public and private. PENSIONS.-Favors liberal pensions to soldiers disabled in the service of their country. MISCELLANEOUS.-Favors the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people; favors liberal appropriations for the improvement of rivers and harbors, and the adoption of such measures as will tend most speedily to the opening of the Columbia River; opposes Chinese and all pauper immigration. OREGON POPULISTS. March 15, 1894. "Assembled on the birthday of the soldier statesman whose military genius destroyed the last attempt to subjugate this Nation by force, and whose far-sighted statesmanship afterward foiled for a time all attempts to fasten upon us the vicious financial system of Great Britain, we, the People's party of the State of Oregon, resolved to regain financial independence and to recover our industrial prosperity, lost to us by the incompetency, dishonesty, corruption and cowardice alike of the Republican and Democratic parties, do hereby make the following declaration of principles, reaffirming and giving our cordial adherence to the National platform adopted at Omaha July 4, 1892.” MISCELLANEOUS.-Denounces the issuance of United States interest-bearing gold bonds at the instigation and in the interest of the money-lenders of America and Europe. PENNSYLVANIA REPUBLICAN. January 3, 1894. "The simple anticipation of the Wilson bill has closed thousands of workshops. It has reduced to idleness 2,500,000 workers, and soup-houses now displace former hives of industry. It has reduced values to an amount greater than the National debt. It will enlarge the free list only upon productions which employ the greatest number of American workmen. It will strike with equal cruelty the farmer, the miner, the lumberman, the iron worker, the glassblower and the textile worker. It will transfer work from our own mills, mines and workshops to those of foreign countries. It is sectional in its authorship, and is all too plainly aimed at Northern industries. It strikes Southern industries only where the same blow reaches greater Northern industries. It fosters the plantation system and destroys the farm. It is an attempt upon the part of the Free Traders of the South to reduce the industries of the North to the level of those of the South. It is vicious in its change from specific to ad valorem duties. It is vicious in reducing instead of increasing revenues. It will reduce the revenues many millions of dollars, and the reductions will grow with time. It is vicious in compelling the Government to make up these deficits by means of increased internal and direct taxes. It is doubly vicious in compelling its supporters to resort to the most serious war taxes or borrow money. It is wholly erroneous in the theory that the less work there is to do in this country the higher will be the wages of the workman. We denounce the unpatriotic foreign policy of the Democratic National Administration in the Hawaiian matter." PENNSYLVANIA REPUBLICAN. May 24, 1894. FINANCE.-"We favor the expansion of the circulating medium of the country until the same shall amount to $40 per capita of our population, and approve the proposition to issue to National banks notes to the par value of the amount of bonds deposited to secure their circulation. We declare that the obligations of the Government should be discharged in money approved and current in all civilized nations, to the end that a largely increased reserve of gold should be gradually accumulated and maintained. We declare our belief to be that no legislation can make our currency meet the needs of the American people unless it conforms to the following utterances of our last National convention: "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 under such provisions to be determined by legislation as will secure and maintain the parity of values of the two metals, so that the purchasing and debt-paying power of a dollar, whether of silver, gold or paper, shall be at all times equal. The interests of the producers of the country, its farmers and workingmen, demand that every dollar, paper or coin, issued by the Government, shall be as good as any other.'" efforts TARIFF.-"The threats and which the Democratic party now in control of the Executive and Legislative departments of the National Government are making to destroy the system of protection to American industries have wrecked our manufacturing establishments, destroyed the value of our farm products, ruined our employers, beggared our workingmen and brought distrust upon the honesty of their proposed legislation. We denounce the Democratic attack upon the American protective system because its effect already has been to reduce to idleness 2,000,000 of workingmen, and values to an amount greater than the national debt created for the suppression of the Rebellion; because it enlarges the free list only upon products which employ the greatest number of American workmen; because it strikes with equal cruelty the farmer, the miner, the lumberman, the iron, the glass and the textile worker; because it transfers work from our own mills, mines and workshops to foreign countries; because it is sectional and aimed directly at Northern industries and fosters the plantation system and destroys the farm; because it is vicious in its changes from specific to ad valorem duties, in its reduction of the revenues of government by many millions of dollars, and it resorts to war taxes and increased internal and direct taxes to make up the deficiency it needlessly creates. We commend and approve the efforts of our Senators and members of Congess to delay and defeat the passage of legislation hostile to any American industry, and we denounce the treatment of our workingmen by the Democratic committee of the Senate, which in violation of courtesy and of all legislative tradition denied them hearing when they desired in a constitutional manner to remonstrate against this destructive legislation." a PENSIONS.-"We denounce the selection of a Southern Democrat for the Secretaryship of the Interior as a deliberate betrayal of the welfare of our soldiers and sailors, and deplore the needless persecutions, suspicions and privations to which they have been subjected under the hostile Administration." FOREIGN POLICY.-"We denounce the unpatriotic and un-American management of our foreign relations by the Democratic National Administration, which surrenders American treaty rights and vital interests in Samoa, and which has unjustifiably planned and labored to uphold and restore an odious monarchy in Hawaii and prevent the establishment of a sisterRepublic, in conflict with that principle of self-government upon which our own Republic is founded. We demand the enactment of such legislation as will prevent the immigration of paupers, criminals and persons incapable either physically or mentally of self-support." CITIZENSHIP.-"We demand such change in our naturalization system as will deny the rights of American citizenship to Anarchists and all other persons hostile to our Government, and to that liberty of law upon which it is based." PENNSYLVANIA REPUBLICAN LEAGUE. September 5, 1894. TARIFF. "We record our appreciation of the untiring efforts of the Republican minority in Congress in their endeavors to prevent the Democratic Administration and its majority, dominated by the ultra Free Traders of the South and West, in their studied determination to demolish and destroy the fabric of protection in pursuance of their declaration at Chicago that it was fraudulent and unconstitutional." The resolutions close with a condemnation of the foreign policy of the Cleveland Administration and an appeal to the citizens of Pennsylvania to "place their condemnation upon the self-confessed record of infamy, perfidy and dishonor of the present Democratic Administration by their free and untrammelled ballots at the coming election." PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRATIC. June 27, 1894. TARIFF.-"We again indorse and approve the declarations of the Democratic National platform of 1892, upon which a Democratic President and Congress were elected, and we desire and demand that the tariff laws be revised in accordance with that authoritative declaration of party principles." FINANCE.-"We declare that the consistent, courageous, and inflexible determination of a Democratic President to maintain the credit of the Government terminated a financial panic, restored confidence, and composed disturbed values. We are opposed to the reckless inflation of the currency to $40 per capita demanded by the Republican State Conventions of 1893 and 1894; and while we favor the circulation of constitutional money, gold and silver at a parity, we are unalterably opposed to any debasement of the currency or to the depreciation of any dollar issued by the Government to the people,' |