reform of the civil service and we call for news the expression of appreciation of the the honest enforcement of all laws regula- patriotism of the soldiers and sailors of the ting the same. The nomination of a Pres- Union in the war for its preservation, and ident, as in the recent Republican conven- we favor just and liberal pensions for all tion, by delegations composed largely of disabled Union soldiers, their widows and his appointees, holding office at his pleas- dependents, but we demand that the work ure, is a scandalous satire upon free popu- of the Pension Office shall be done induslar institutions and a startling illustration triously, impartially and honestly. We of the methods by which a President may denounce the present administration of that gratify his ambition. We denounce a office as incompetent, corrupt, disgraceful policy under which federal office-holders and dishonest.

usurp control of party conventions in the SEC 14. The federal government should States, and we pledge the Democratic care for and improve the Mississippi River party to the reform of these and all other and other great waterways of the Republic abuses which threaten individual liberty so as to secure for the interior States easy and local self-government. and cheap transportation to the tidewater.

SEC. 10.-The Democratic party is the When any waterway of the Republic is only party that has ever given the country of sufficient importance to demand the aid a foreign policy consistent and vigorous, of the government, that such aid should be compelling respect abroad and inspiring extended, a definite plan of continuous confidence at home. While avoiding work until permanent improvement is seentangling alliances it has aimed to culti-cured.

vate friendly relations with other nations SEC. 15.-For purposes of national deand especially with our neighbors on the fence and the promotion of commerce American continent whose destiny is between the States we recognize the early closely linked with our own, and we view construction of the Nicaragua Canal and its with alarm the tendency to a policy of protection against foreign control as of irritation and bluster, which is liable at great importance to the United States. any time to confront us with the alternative SEC. 16.-Recognizing the World's of humiliation or war. Columbian Exposition as a national underWe favor the maintenance of a navy taking of vast importance, in which the strong enough for all purposes of national general government has invited the codefence and to properly maintain the operation of all the Powers of the world, honor and dignity of the country abroad. and appreciating the acceptance by many SEC. 11.-The country has always been of such Powers of the invitation for exthe refuge of the oppressed from every tended and the broadest liberal efforts land-exiles for conscience sake-and in being made by them to contribute to the the spirit of the founders of our govern- grandeur of the undertaking, we are of the ment we condemn the oppression practised opinion that Congress should make such by the Russian government upon its Lu- necessary financial provision as shall be theran and Jewish subjects, and we call requisite to the maintenance of the national upon our national government, in the in- honor and public faith. terest of justice and humanity, by all just SEC. 17.-Popular education being the and proper means, to use its prompt and only safe basis of popular suffrage, we best efforts to bring about a cessation of recommend to the several States most these cruel persecutions in the dominions liberal appropriations for the public of the Czar and to secure to the oppressed schools. Free common schools are the equal rights. nursery of good government and they have We tender our profound and earnest always received the fostering care of the sympathy to those lovers of freedom who Democratic party, which favors every are struggling for home rule and the great means of increasing intelligence. Freedom cause of local self government in Ireland. of education being an essential of civil and SEC. 12. We heartily approve all legi- religious liberty as well as a necessity for timate efforts to prevent the United States the development of intelligence, must not from being used as the dumping ground be interfered with under any pretext whatfor the known criminals and professional ever. We are opposed to State interferpaupers of Europe, and we demand the ence with parental rights and rights of rigid enforcement of the laws against conscience in the education of children as Chinese immigration or the importation of an infringement of the fundamental demforeign workmen under contract to degrade ocratic doctrine that the largest individual American labor and lessen its wages, but liberty consistent with the rights of others we condemn and denounce any and all insures the highest type of American citiattempts to restrict the immigration of zenship and the best government. the industrious and worthy of foreign SEC. 18.-We approve the action of the lands. present House of Representatives in pasSEC. 13. This Convention hereby re-sing bills for the admission into the Union

as States of the Territories of New Mexico REPUBLICAN.
and Arizona, and we favor the early ad- coming into compe-
mission of all the Territories having nec- tition with the pro-
essary population and resources to admit ducts of American
them to Statehood, and while they remain labor there should
Territories we hold that the officials ap: be levied duties
pointed to administer the government of equal to the differ-
any Territory, together with the Districts ence between wages
of Columbia and Alaska, should be bona abroad and at home.
fide residents of the Territory or District We assert that the
in which their duties are to be performed. prices of manu-
The Democratic party believes in home rule factured articles of
and the control of their own affairs by the general consump-
people of the vicinage.
tion have been re-
SEC. 19.-We favor legislation by Con- duced under the
gress and State Legislatures to protect the operation of the
lives and limbs of railway employés and tariff act of 1890.
those of other hazardous transportation We denounce the
companies and denounce the inactivity of efforts of the Demo-
the Republican party and particularly the cratic majority of
Republican Senate for causing the defeat of the House of Re-
measures beneficial and protective to this presentatives to de-
class of wageworkers.
stroy our tariff laws,
SEC. 20.-We are in favor of the enact- as is manifested by
ment by the States of laws for abolishing their attacks upon
the notorious sweating system, for abolish- wool, lead and lead
ing contract convict labor and for prohib- ores, the chief pro-
iting the employment in factories of chil- duct of a number of
dren under fifteen years of age.
States, and we ask

SEC. 21.-We are opposed to all sump- the people for their tuary laws as an interference with the judgment thereon. individual rights of the citizen.

SEC. 22. Upon this statement of principles and policies the Democratic party asks the intelligent judgment of the American people. It asks a change of administration and a change of party in order that there may be a change of system and a change of methods, thus assuring the maintenance, unimpaired, of institutions under which the Republic has grown great and powerful.

DEMOCRATIC.

the government when only honestly and economically administered.

pro

[The above paragraph was adopted by a vote of 504 to 342 as a substitute for the following, reported from the majority of the committee: "We reiterate the oft-repeated doctrines of the Democratic party that the necessity of the government is the only justification for taxations, and whenever a tax is unnecessary it is unjustifiable; that when Custom House taxation is levied upon articles of any kind duced in this country, the difference between the cost of labor here and labor abroad, when such a difference exists, fully measures any possible benefits to Jabor, and the enormous additional impositions of the existing tariff fall with crushing force upon our farmers and workingmen, and, for the mere advantage of the few whom it enriches, exact from labor a grossly unjust share of the expenses of the government, and we demand such a revision of the tariff laws as will remove their iniquitous inequalities, lighten their oppressions and put them on a constitutional and equitable basis. But in making reduction in taxes, it is not proposed to injure any domestic industries, but rather to promote their healthy growth. From the founda

REPUBLICAN.

DEMOCRATIC.

The Silver Issue, 1892,
REPUBLICAN.
The American

tion of this govern-
ment, taxes collected
at the Custom people, from tradi-
House have been tion and interest,
the chief source of favor bi-metallism,
Federal revenue, and the Republican
Such they must con-party demands the
tinue to be. More- use of both gold and
over, many indus- silver as standard
tries have come to money, with such
rely upon legislation restrictions and
for successful con- under such provi-
tinuance, so that sions, to be deter-
any change of law mined by legislation,
must be at every as will secure the
step regardful of the maintenance of the
labor and capital parity values of the
thus involved. The two metals, so that
process of reform the purchasing and
must be subject in debt-paying power
the execution of this of the dollar,
plain dictate of jus- whether of silver,
tice."]

The Reciprocity Issue, 1892. REPUBLICAN.

We point to the success of the Republican policy of reciprocity, under which our export trade has vastly increased and new and enlarged markets have been opened for the products of our farms and workshops.

We remind the people of the bitter opposition of the Democratic party to this practical business measure, and claim that, executed by a Republican administration, our present laws will eventually give us control of the trade of the world.

gold or paper, shall
be at all times
equal. The interests
DEMOCRATIC. of the producers of
Trade interchange the country, its
on the basis of reci- farmers and its
procal advantages to working men, de-
the countries parti-mand that every
cipating is a time- dollar, paper or
honored doctrine of coin, issued by the
the Democratic government, shall be
faith, but we de- as good as any
nounce the sham other. We
com-
reciprocity which mend the wise and
juggles with the patriotic steps
people's desire for already taken by our
enlarged foreign government to
markets and frees secure an interna-
exchanges by pre- tional conference, to
tending to establish adopt such meast
closer trade relations ures as will insure a
for a country whose parity of value be-
articles of export are tween gold and
almost exclusively silver for use as
agricultural pro- money throughout
ducts with other the world.
countries that are
also agricultural,
while erecting a
Custom House bar-
rier of prohibitive
tariff taxes against
the richest countries
of the world that
stand ready to take
our entire surplus of
products and to ex-
change therefor
commodities which
are necessaries and
comforts of life
among our own
people.

DEMOCRATIC.

We denounce the Republican legislation known as the Sherman act of 1890 as a cowardly makeshift, fraught with possibilities of danger in the future. which should make all its supporters, as well as its author, anxious for its speedy repeal. We hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country, and to the coinage of both gold and silver, without discriminating against either metal or charge for mintage, 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 the parity of the two metals, and the equal power of every dollar at all times in the markets and in the 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 specially necessary for the protection of the farmers and laboring classes the first and most defenceless victims of unstable money and a fluctuating cur

rency.

The Ballot Issue, 1892.

REPUBLICAN.
We demand that
every citizen of the
United States shall
be allowed to cast

DEMOCRATIC. We warn the people of our common country, jealous for the preserva

Civil Service, 1892.

REPUBLICAN. We commend the spirit and evidence of reform in the Civil Service and the wise and consistent enforcement by the Republican party of the laws regulating the same.

DEMOCRATIC.

support, but this was denied by what were called "the old guard," who favored the Public office is a recognition of those only who were plainly public trust. We identified with the Third party. reaffirm the declaraAt 12 o'clock the roll of States for nomition of the Demo- nation for President was hardly completed cratic National Con- and there were four candidates before the vention of 1876 for Convention-Weaver, of Iowa; Kyle, of the reform of the South Dakota; Field, of Virginia, and civil service, and we Page of Virginia. The chance seemed favorable to Weaver, but the uncertainty call for the honest enforcement of all of a nomination on the first ballot made his Gresham's laws regulating the friends still painfully anxious. same. The nomina declination had been at last reluctantly action of a President, cepted by his admirers, and the refusal of as in the recent Re: Van Wyck to allow the consideration of his publican Conven- name practically left the field to the four candidates who had been formally pretion, by delegations composed largely of sented. his appointees, holding office at his pleasure, is a scandalous satire upon

The Ballot.

The first ballot for President resulted as follows, only one ballot necessary, Weaver free popular institu- being successful:

tions and a startling, Alabama, Weaver, 43, Arkansas, Weaver illustration of the 12; Kyle, 20; California, Weaver, 25; methods by which a Colorado, Weaver, 6; Kyle, 10; ConnecPresident may ticut, Weaver, 8; Kyle, 2; Delaware, gratify his ambition. Weaver, 1; Florida, Weaver, 16; Georgia, We denounce a Weaver, 16; Kyle, 39; Idaho, Weaver, policy under which 12; Illinois, Weaver, 41; Kyle, 42; InFederal office- diana, Weaver 54; Kyle, 5; Norton, 1; holders usurp conIowa, Weaver, 52; Kansas, Weaver, trol of party con40; Kentucky, Weaver, 40; Louisiana, ventions in the Weaver, 32; Maine, Weaver, 6; Kyle, States, and we 3; Massachusetts, Weaver, 9; Kyle, 18; pledge the Demo- Page, 1; Michigan, Weaver, 56; Minne cratic party to the sota, Weaver, 27; Kyle, 9; Mississippi, reform of these and Weaver, 17; Missouri, Weaver, 61; Kyle, all other abuse s7; Montana, Kyle, 12; Nebraska, Weaver, which threaten in-23; Kyle, 3; Nevada, Kyle, 7; New dividual liberty and Jersey, Weaver, 4; New York, Weaver, local self-govern-North Dakota, Weaver, 11; Kyle, 1; 59; North Carolina, Weaver, 20; Kyle, 5; Ohio, Weaver, 30; Kyle, 22: Oregon, Weaver, 16; Pennsylvania, Weaver, 29; Stanford, 1; South Dakota, Weaver, 1; Kyle, 15; Tennessee, Weaver, 45; Texas, The political wing of the Farmers' Al-Weaver, 60; Virginia, Weaver, 48; liance and the elements favoring the enter- Washington, Weaver, 15: West Virginia, ing of the Labor organizations into poli- Weaver, 17; Wisconsin, Weaver, 7; Kyle, tics, united in a National Convention at 41; Wyoming, Weaver, 3; District of Omaha on the 4th of July, 1892. This Columbia, Weaver, 8; Oklahoma, Weaver, Convention was the outcome of several 8. Total: Weaver, 995; Kyle, 265; previous efforts on the part of these several Norton, 1; Page, 1: Stanford, 1. organizations to enter national politics. In Maryland, New Hampshire, Rhode Ismany State Conventions of the Alliance land, South Carolina, Vermont, Alaska, its sub-treasury plan divided the organiza- Arizona, Indian Territory, New Mexico tion into two factions-political and non- and Utah are blank.

ment.

The Third or People's Party.

political, and as a result the representation Norton moved to make the nomination at Omaha did not reflect the views of the unanimous, and Schilling, of Wisconsin, entire organization. Washburn, of Massachusetts, and the Judge Gresham of Indiana, was promi- delegates from South Dakota, Montana nently named as a Presidential candidate, and Massachusetts seconded the motion. It and he finally consented to the use of his was carried with a hurrah and loud cheername if it could command unanimous ing.