Democratic Campaign Book: Presidential Election of 1896 |
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The Democratic party believes in home rule and that all public lands of the United
States should be appropriated to the establishment of free homes for American
citizens . We recommend that the Territory of Alaska be granted a delegate in ...
The Democratic party believes in home rule and that all public lands of the United
States should be appropriated to the establishment of free homes for American
citizens . We recommend that the Territory of Alaska be granted a delegate in ...
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We say in our platform that we believe that the right to coin and issue money is a
function of government . We believe it . We believe that it is a part of sovereignty ,
and can no more with safety be delegated to private individuals than we could ...
We say in our platform that we believe that the right to coin and issue money is a
function of government . We believe it . We believe that it is a part of sovereignty ,
and can no more with safety be delegated to private individuals than we could ...
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We reply that when we advocate a policy which we believe will be successful we
are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by suggesting what we
shall do if we fail . I ask him , if he would apply his logic to us , why he does not ...
We reply that when we advocate a policy which we believe will be successful we
are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by suggesting what we
shall do if we fail . I ask him , if he would apply his logic to us , why he does not ...
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who believe in the gold standard would frame our platform and nominate cur
candidates , even the advocates of the gold standard did not think that we could
elect a president . And they had good reason for their doubt , be . cause there is ...
who believe in the gold standard would frame our platform and nominate cur
candidates , even the advocates of the gold standard did not think that we could
elect a president . And they had good reason for their doubt , be . cause there is ...
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There are those who believe that , if you will only legislate to make the well - to -
do prosperous , their prosperity will leak through on those below . The
Democratic idea , however , has been that if you legislate to make the masses
prosperous ...
There are those who believe that , if you will only legislate to make the well - to -
do prosperous , their prosperity will leak through on those below . The
Democratic idea , however , has been that if you legislate to make the masses
prosperous ...
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Page 228 - Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 244 - SEC. 4. The several circuit courts of the United States are hereby invested with jurisdiction to prevent and restrain violations of this act; and it shall be the duty of the several district attorneys of the United States, in their respective districts, under the direction of the attorney-general, to institute proceedings in equity to prevent and restrain such violations.
Page 48 - ... the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Page 48 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political ; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none...
Page 228 - Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Page 228 - No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty ; none less inclined to take or touch aught which they have not honestly earned. Let them beware of surrendering a political power which they already possess, and which, if surrendered, will surely be used to close the door of advancement against such as they, and to fix new disabilities and burdens upon them, till all of liberty shall be lost.
Page 49 - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened; the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith...
Page 245 - State to another, or to a foreign country, shall be forfeited to the United States, and may be seized and condemned by like proceedings as those provided by law for the forfeiture, seizure, and condemnation of property Imported into the United States contrary to law.
Page 181 - ... aggression upon its rights and interests, the appropriation by Great Britain of any lands or the exercise of governmental jurisdiction over any territory which after investigation we have determined of right belongs to Venezuela. "In making these recommendations I am fully alive to the responsibility incurred, and keenly realize all the consequences that may follow.
Page 180 - When such report is made and accepted it will, in my opinion, be the duty of the United States to resist by every means in its power,, as a willful aggression upon its rights and interests, the appropriation by Great Britain of any lands or the exercise of governmental jurisdiction over any territory which after investigation we have determined of right belongs to Venezuela.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Democratic Campaign Book: Presidential Election of 1896 |
| Author | Democratic National Committee (U.S.) |
| Contributor | Democratic Congressional Committee, 1896 |
| Publisher | Hartman & Cadick, 1896 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 22 Aug 2006 |
| Length | 383 pages |
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