by victory at the polls and prosperity in our fields, workshops and mines, the following declaration of principles: PROTECTION.-"We reaffirm the American doctrine of protection. We tion to its growth abroad. We maintain that the prosperous condition of o is largely due to the wise revenue legislation of the Republican Congress. that all articles which cannot be produced in the United States, except luxur be admitted free of duty, and that on all imports coming into competition with ucts of American labor there should be levied duties equal to the difference wages abroad and at home. We assert that the prices of manufactured articles consumption have been reduced under the operations of the tariff act of 1890 nounce the efforts of the Democratic majority of the House of Representati stroy our tariff laws piecemeal, as is manifested by their attacks upon wool, lead ores, the chief products of a number of States, and we ask the people judgment thereon.

RECIPROCITY.-"We point to the success of the Republican policy of 1 under which our export trade has vastly increased, and new and enlarged ma been opened for the products of our farms and workshops. We remind the the bitter opposition of the Democratic party to this practical business mea claim that, executed by a Republican Administration, our present laws will give us control of the trade of the world.

SILVER-"The American people, from tradition and interest, favor bimeta the Republican party demands the use of both gold and silver as standar with such restrictions and under such provisions, to be determined Ly legi will secure the maintenance of the parity of values of the two metals, so tha chasing and debt-paying power of the dollar, whether of silver, gold or paper at all times equal. The interests of the producers of the country, its farme workingmen, demand that every dollar, paper or coin, issued by the G shall be as good as any other. We commend the wise and patriotic steps alre by our Government to secure an international conference to adopt such measur insure a parity of value between gold and silver for use us money throughout FREE BALLOT AND FAIR COUNT.-"We demand that every citiz United States shall be allowed to cast one free and unrestricted ballot in elections, and that such ballot shall be counted and returned as cast; that shall be enacted and enforced as will secure to every citizen, be he rich or tive or foreign born, white or black, this sovereign right guaranteed by the tion. The free and honest popular ballot, the just and equal representation people, as well as their just and equal protection under the laws, are the fou our Republican institutions, and the party will never relax its efforts until t rity of the ballot and the purity of elections shall be fully guaranteed and pro every State.

SOUTHERN OUTRAGES.-"We denounce the continued inhuman outrag trated upon American citizens for political reasons in certain Southern States Union.

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FOREIGN RELATIONS.-"We favor the extension of ou foreign commerce toration of our mercantile marine by home-built ships and the creation of a the protection of our National interests and the honor of our flag; the maint the most friendly relations with all foreign Powers, entangling alliances and the protection of the rights of our fishermen. We reaffirm our approve Monroe Doctrine, and believe in the achievement of the manifest destiny of public in its broadest sense. We favor the enactment of more stringent regulations for the restriction of criminal, pauper and contract immigration. MISCELLANEOUS.-"We favor efficient legislation by Congress to protec and limbs of employes of transportation companies engaged in carrying on commerce, and recommend legislation by the respective States that will pr ployes engaged in State commerce, and in mining and manufacturing.

"The Republican party has always been the champion of the oppressed, a nizes the dignity of manhood, irrespective of faith, color or nationality; it sy with the cause of Home Rule in Ireland, and protests against the persecuti Jews in Russia.

"The ultimate reliance of free popular government is the intelligence of t and the maintenance of freedom among men. We therefore declare anew our to liberty of thought and conscience, of speech and press, and approve all and instrumentalities which contribute to the education of the children of but, while insisting upon the fullest measure of religious liberty, we are oppos union of Church and State.

TRUSTS.-"We reaffirm our opposition, declared in the Republican platform to all combinations of capital organized in trust or otherwise, to control arbit condition of trade among our citizens. We heartily indorse the action alread upon this subject, and ask for such further legislation as nay be required to re defects in existing laws and to render their enforcement more complete and eff

POSTOFFICE REFORMS.-"We approve the policy of extending to towns, and rural communities the advantages of the free delivery service now enjoyed larger cities of the country, and reaffirm the declaration contained in the Republ form of 1888, pledging the reduction of letter postage to one cent at the earlies moment consistent with the maintenance of the Postoffice Department and the class of postal service.

CIVIL SERVICE.-"We commend the spirit and evilence of reform in the Civil Service, and he wise and consistent enforcement by the Republican party of the laws regulating the same.

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, and it should be controlled by the United States Government.

TERRITORIES.-"We favor the admission of the remaining Territories at the earli est practicable date, having due regard to the interests of the people of the Territories and of the United States. All the Federal officers appointed for the Territories should be selected from bona fide residents thereof, and the right of self-government should be accorded as far as practicable.

ARID LANDS.-"We favor cession, subject to the Homestead laws, of the arid public lands to the States and Territories in which they lie, under such Congressional restrictions as to disposition, reclamation and occupancy by settlers as will secure the maximum benefits to the people.

COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION.-"The World's Columbian Exposition is a great National undertaking, and Congress should promptly enact such reasonable legisla tion in aid thereof as will insure a discharge of the expenses and obligations incident thereto, and the attainment of results commensurate with the dignity and progres of the Nation.

INTEMPERANCE.-"We sympathize with all wise and legitimate efforts to lessen and prevent the evils of intemperance and promote morality.

PENSIONS.-"Ever mindful of the services and sacrifices of the men who saved the life of the Nation, we pledge anew to the veteran soldiers of tht Republic a watchful care and recognition of their just claims upon a grateful people.

HARRISON'S ADMINISTRATION.-"We commend the able, patriotic and thoroughly American Administration of President Harrison. Under it the country has enjoyed remarkable prosperity, and the dignity and honor of the Nation at home and abroad have been faithfully maintained, and we offer the record of pledges kept as a guarantee of faithful performance in the future."

THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.

On June 11 Senator E. O. Wolcott, of Colorado, nominated for President James G. Blaine. R. W. Thompson, of Indiana, ex-Secretary of the Navy, nominated Benjamin Harrison. On the first ballot President Harrison was chosen for re-election. The vote by States was as follows:

At the evening session State Senator Edmund O'Connor, of New-York, nominated Whitelaw Reid, of New-York, for Vice-President. The nomination was made unani

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THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION.

This body met in Chicago on June 21, 1892. William C. Owens, of Kentucky, was made temporary chairman, and William L. Wilson, of West Virginia, permanent chairman.

DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM, ADOPTED AT CHICAGO, JUNE 22, 1892. "The representatives of the Democratic party of the United States, in National convention assembled, do reaffirm their allegiance to the principles of the party as formulated by Jefferson and exemplified by the long and illustrious line of his successors in Democratic leadership from Madison to Cleveland; we believe the public welfare demands that these principles be applied to the conduct of the Federal Government through the accession to power of the party that advocates them, and we solemnly deCare at the need of a return to these fundamental principles of a free popular gov ernment based on home rule and individual liberty was never more urgent than now, when the tendency to centralize all power at the Federal Capital has become a menace to the reserved rights of the States that strikes at the very roots of our Government under the Constitution as framed by the fathers of the Republic.

ELECTIONS BILL.-"We warn the people of our common country, jealous for the preservation of their free institutions, that the policy of Federal control of elections, to which the Republican party has committed itself, is fraught with the gravest dan gers, scarcely less momentous than would result from a revolution practically establishing monarchy on the ruins of the Republic. It strikes at the North as well as the South, and injures the colored citizens even more than the white; it means a horde of deputy marshals at every polling place armed with Federal power, returning boards appointed and controlled by Federal authority, the outrage of the electoral rights of the people in the several States, subjugation of the colored people to the control of the party in power and the reviving of race antagonisms now happily abated, of the utmost peril to the safety and happiness of all, a measure deliberately and justly described by a leading Republican Senator as 'the most infamous bill that ever crossed the threshold of the Senate.' Such a policy, if sanction .d by law, would mean the dominance of a self-perpetuating oligarchy of office-holders, and the party first intrusted with its machinery could be dislodged from power only by an appeal to the reserved rights of the people to resist oppression which is inherent in all self-governing communities. Two years ago this revolutionary policy was emphatically condemned by the people at the poils, but in contempt of that verdict the Republican party has defiantly declared in its latest authoritative utterance that its success in the coming elections will mean the enactment of the Force bill, and the usurpation of despotic control over elections in all the States. Believing that the preservation of republican government in the United States is dependent upon the defeat of this policy of legal ized force and fraud, we invite the support of all citizens who desire to see the Consti-Sution maintained in its integrity with the laws pursuant thereto which have given our country a hundred years of unexampled prosperity; and we pledge the Democratic party, if it be intrusted with power, not only to the defeat of the Force bill, but also to relentless opposition to the Republican policy of profligate expenditure which, in the short space of two years, has squandered an enormous surplus, emptied an overflow. ing Treasury, after piling new burdens of taxation upon the already overtaxed labor of the country.

TARIFF "We denounce Republican protection as a fraud, a robbery of the great majority of the American people for the benefit of the few. We declare it to be a fundamental principle of the Democratic party that the Federal Government has no constitutional power to impose and collect tariff duties, except for the purpose of revenue only, and we demand that the collection of such taxes shall be limited to the necessities of the Government when honestly and economically administered. We denounce the McKinley Tariff law enacted by the LIst Congress aus the culminating atrocity of class legislation; we indorse the efforts made by the Democrats of the present Congress to modify its most oppressive feature in the direction of free raw materials and cheaper manufactured goods that enter into general consumption, and wh promise its repeal as one of the beneficent results that will follow the action of the people in intru-ting power to the Democratic party. Since the McKinley tariff went into operation there have been ten reductions of the wages of the laboring man to one increase. We deny that there has been any increase of prosperity to the country since that tariff went into operation, and we point to the dulness and distress, the wage reductions and strikes in the iron trade as the best possible evidence that no such prosperity has resulted from the McKinley act. We call the attention of thoughtful Americans to the fact that after thirty years of restrictive taxes against the importation of foreign wealth. in exchange for our agricultural surplus, the homes and farms of the country have become burdened with a real estate mortgage debt of over $500,000,000, exclusive of all other forms of indebtedness; that in one of the chief agricultural States of the West there appears a real estate mortgage debt eraging $165 per capita of the total population, and that similar conditions and dencies are shown to exist in other agricultural exporting States. We denounce a policy which fosters no industry so much as it does that of the sheriff.

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RECIPROCITY.-"Trade interchange on the basis o reciprocal advantages to the Countries participating is a time-honored doctrine of the Democratic faith, but we de nounce the sham reciprocity which juggles with the people's desire for enlarged foreign markets and freer exchanges by pretending to establish closer trade relations for country whose articles of export are almost exclusively agricultural products with other countries that are also agricultural, while erecting a custom-house barrier of prohibitive tariff taxes against the rich and the countries of the world that stand ready to take our entire surplus of products and to exchange therefor commodities which are necessaries and comforts of life among our people.

TRUSTS.-"We recognize in the trusts and con.ations 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 we believe their 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.

PUBLIC LANDS.-"The Republican party while professing a policy of reserving the public land for small holdings by actual settlers, has given away the people's herit age, till now a few railroads and non-resident aliens, individual and corporace, posse s a larger area than that of all our farms between the two seas. The last Democratic ad ministration reversed the improvident and unwise policy of the Republican party touching the public domain, and reclaimed from corporations and syndicates, alien and do mestie, and restored to the people nearly one hundred million acres of valuable land to be sacredly held as homesteads for our citizens, and we pledge ourselves to continue this policy until every acre of land so unlawfully held shall be reclaimed and restored to the people.

SILVER.-"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 of 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 coun try, and to the coinage of both gold and silver, without discriminating 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 the parity of the two metals and the equal power of every dollar at all times in the markets and in pay; ments 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 the farmers and laboring classes, the first and most defenseless victims of unstable money and a fluctuating currency.

BANKING. "We recommend that the prohibitory 10 per cent tax on State bank issues be repealed.

CIVIL SERVICE. "Public office is a public trust. We reaffirm the declaration of the Democratic National Convention of 1876 for the reform of the civil service, and we call for the honest enforcement of all laws regulating the same. The nomination of a President, as in the recent Republican Convention, by delegations composed largely of his appointees, holding office at his pleasure, is a scandalous satire upon free popular institutions and a startling illustration of the methods by which a President may gratify his ambition. We denounce a policy under which Federal office-holders usuri control of party conventions in the States, and we pledge the Democratic party to the reform of these and all other abuses which threaten individual liberty and local self government.

FOREIGN POLICY.-"The Democratic party is the only party that has ever given the country a foreign policy consistent and vigorous, compelling respect abroad, and inspiring confidence at home. While avoiding entangling alliances, it has aimed to cultivate friendly relations with other nations, and especially with our neighbors on the American continent, whose destiny is closely linked with our own, and we view with alarm the tendency to a policy of irritation and bluster which is liable at any time to confront us with the alternative of humiliation or war. We favor the maintenance of a navy strong enough for all purposes of national defence, and to properly maintain the honor and dignity of the country abroad.

FOREIGN OPPRESSION.-"This country has always been the refuge of oppressed from every land-exiles for conscience sake-and in the spirit of the founders of our Government we condemn the oppression practised by the Russian Government upon its Lutheran and Jewish subjects, and we call upon our National Government, in the interests of justice and humanity, by all just and proper means to use its prompt and best effort to bring about a cessation of these cruel persecutions in the dominions of the Czar, and to secure to the oppressed equal rights. We tender our profound and earnest sympathy to tho e lovers of freedom who are struggling for home rule and the great cause of local self-government in Ireland.

IMMIGRATION.-"We heartily approve all legitimate efforts to prevent the United States from being used as a dumping ground for the known criminals and professional paupers of Europe, and we demand the rigid enforcement of the laws against Chino e Immigration or the importation of foreign workmen under contract to degrade American labor and lessen its wages, but we condemn and denounce any and all attempts to restrict the immigration of the industrious and worthy of foreign lands.

PENSIONS.-"This convention hereby renews the expression of appreciation of the patriotism of the soldiers and sailors of the Union in the war for its preservation, and we favor just and liberal pensions for all disabled Union soldiers, their widows and dependents, but we demand that the work of the Pension Office shall be done indu triously, impartially, and honestly. We denounce the present administra. on of thet office as incompetent, corrupt, disgraceful, and dishonest.

WATERWAYS.-"The Federal Government should care for and improve the Mississippi River and other great waterways of the Republic so as to secure for the interior States easy and cheap transportation to the tidewater. When any waterway of the public is of sufficient importance to demand the aid of the Government-that such aid should be extended, a definite plan of continuous work, until permanent improvement is secured.

NICARAGUA CANAL.-"For purposes of National defence, the promotion of commerce between the States, we recognize the early construction of the Nicaragua Canal and its protection against foreign control as of great importance to the United States.

WORLD'S FAIR.-"Recognizing the World's Columbian Exposition as a National undertaking of vast importance in which the General Government has invited the cooperation of all the powers of the world, and appreciating the acceptance by many of such powers of the invitation so extended, and the broadest liberal efforts being made by them to contribute to the grandeur of the undertaking, we are of the opinion that Congress should make such necessary financial provisions as shall be requisite to the maintenance of the National honor and public faith.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS.-"Popular education being the only safe basis of popular suffrage, we recommend to the several States most liberal appropriations for the public schools. Free common schools are the nursery of good Government, and they have always received the fostering care of the Democratic party, which favors every means of increasing intelligence. Freedom of education being an essential of civil and religious liberty as well as a necessity for the development of intelligence, must not be interfered with under any pretext whatever. We are opposed to State interference with parental rights and rights of conscience in the education of children as an infringement of a fundamentai Democratic doctrine that the largest individual liberty consistent with the rights of others insures the highest type of American citizenship and the best Government.

TERRITORIES.-"We approve the action of the present House of Representatives in passing bills for the adniission into the Union as States of the Terr.tories of NewMexico and Arizona, and we favor the early admission of all the Territories having necessary population and resources to admit them to Statehood, and while they remain Territories we hold that the officials appointed to administer the Government of any Territory, together with the District of Columbia and Alaska, should be bona fide resi dents of the Territory or district in which their duties are to be performed. The Democratic party believe in home rule and the control of their own affairs by the people of the vicinage.

LABOR.-"We favor legislation by Congress and State Legislatures to protect the lives and limbs of railway employes and those of other hazardous transportation companies, and denounce the inactivity of the Republican party, particularly the Republican Senate, for causing the defeat of measures beneficial and protective to this class of wage workers. We are in favor of the enactment by the States of laws for abolishing the notorious sweating system, for abolishing contract convict labor and for prohibiting the employment in factories of children under fifteen years of age.

MISCELLANEOUS.-"We are opposed to all sumptuary law as an interference with the individual rights of the citizen. Upon this statement of principles and pol icies 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 might be a change of sy-tem and a change of methods, thus assuring the maintenance unim paired of institutions under which the Republic has grown great and powerful."

The Platform, as reported from the Committee on Resolutions, contained this declaration, as the first paragraph of Sec. 3, with the heading "Revenue Tariffs":

"We reiterate the oft-repeated doctrines of the Democratic party that the necessity of the Government is the only justification for taxation, and whenever a tax is unnecessary it is unjustifiable; that when custom-house taxation is levied upon articles of any kind produced 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 labor, and the enormous additional impositions of the existing tariff fall with crushing foree upon our farmers and workingmen, and for the mere advantage of the few whom it enriches, ex. act from labor a grossly unjust share of the expenses of the Government, and we demand such a revision of the tariff laws us 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, ut rather to promote their healthy growth. From the foundation of this Government taxes collected at the custom house have been the chief source of Federal revenue. Such they must continue to be. Moreover, many industrics have cove to rely upon legislation for successful continuance, so that any change of law must be at every step regardful of the labor and capital thus involved. The process of reform must be subject in the execution of this plain dictate of justice."

On motion of Lawrence T. Neal. of Ohio, the above paragraph was struck from the Platform and the following substituted:

"We denounce Republican Protection as a fraud, a robbery of the great majority of the American people for the benefit of the few. We declare it to be a fundamental principle of the Democratic party that the Federal Government has no constitutional wer to impose and to collect tariff duties, except for the purpose of revenue only, and we demand that the collection of such taxes shall be limited to the necessities of the Govern ment when honestly and economically administered."