Political Party Platforms: In Presidential Campaigns 1840 to 1904Globe printing Company, 1904 - 184 pages |
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Page 6
... reform of Executive usurpations ; and generally such an administration of the affairs of the country as shall impart to every branch of the public service the greatest practical efficiency , controlled by a well - regulated and wise ...
... reform of Executive usurpations ; and generally such an administration of the affairs of the country as shall impart to every branch of the public service the greatest practical efficiency , controlled by a well - regulated and wise ...
Page 12
... reforms have been achieved , and risk them in the hands of their own adversaries , with whatever delusive appeals they may solicit our surrender of that vigilance which is the only safeguard of liberty . 22. Resolved , That the ...
... reforms have been achieved , and risk them in the hands of their own adversaries , with whatever delusive appeals they may solicit our surrender of that vigilance which is the only safeguard of liberty . 22. Resolved , That the ...
Page 65
... reform ; do hereby enjoin upon the nominees of this Convention , and of the Democratic party in each State , a zealous effort and co - operation to this end ; and do hereby ap- peal to our fellow - citizens of every former political ...
... reform ; do hereby enjoin upon the nominees of this Convention , and of the Democratic party in each State , a zealous effort and co - operation to this end ; and do hereby ap- peal to our fellow - citizens of every former political ...
Page 66
... REFORM . Reform is necessary to establish a sound currency , restore the public credit , and maintain the national honor . We denounce the failure , for all these eleven years of peace , to make good the promise of the legal - tender ...
... REFORM . Reform is necessary to establish a sound currency , restore the public credit , and maintain the national honor . We denounce the failure , for all these eleven years of peace , to make good the promise of the legal - tender ...
Page 67
... Reform is necessary in the sum and modes of Federal taxation , to the end that capital may be set free from distrust , and labor lightly burdened . TARIFF REFORM . We denounce the present tariff , levied upon nearly 4,000 articles , as ...
... Reform is necessary in the sum and modes of Federal taxation , to the end that capital may be set free from distrust , and labor lightly burdened . TARIFF REFORM . We denounce the present tariff , levied upon nearly 4,000 articles , as ...
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Popular passages
Page 19 - That as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that " no person should be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law...
Page 117 - We have witnessed for more than a quarter of a century the struggles of the two great political parties for power and plunder, while grievous wrongs have been inflicted upon the suffering people. We charge that the controlling influences dominating both these parties have permitted the existing dreadful conditions to develop without serious effort to prevent or restrain them.
Page 32 - Resolved, That we, the delegated representatives of the Republican electors of the United States, in Convention assembled, in discharge of the duty we owe to our constituents and our country, unite in the following declarations : 1. That the history of the nation, during the last four years, has fully established the propriety and necessity of the organization and perpetuation of the Republican party, and that the canses which called it into existence are permanent in their nature, and now, more...
Page 89 - That the liberal principles embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, and sanctioned in the Constitution, which makes ours the land of Liberty, and the asylum of the oppressed of every nation, have ever been cardinal principles in the democratic faith...
Page 10 - That the proceeds of the public lands ought to be sacredly applied to the national objects specified in the Constitution ; and that we are opposed to any law for the distribution of such proceeds among the States, as alike inexpedient in policy and repugnant to the Constitution.
Page 32 - That to the union of the States this nation owes its unprecedented increase in population, its surprising development of material resources, its rapid augmentation of wealth, its happiness at home, and its honor abroad; and we hold in abhorrence all schemes for disunion, come from whatever source they may...
Page 96 - In a Republic like ours, where the citizen is the sovereign and the official the servant, where no power is exercised except by the will of the people, it is important that the sovereign— the people— should possess intelligence. The free school is the promoter of that intelligence which is to preserve us a free Nation...
Page 66 - For the Democracy of the whole country we do here reaffirm our faitli in the permanence of the Federal Union, our 3 devotion to the Constitution of the United States, with its amendments universally accepted as a final settlement of the controversies that engendered civil war, and do here record our steadfast confidence in the perpetuity of republican self-government.
Page 25 - That justice and sound policy forbid the federal government to foster one branch of industry to the detriment of another, or to cherish the interests of one portion to the injury of another portion of our common country...
Page 118 - ... agreed together to ignore, in the coming campaign, every issue but one. They propose to drown the outcries of a plundered people with the uproar of a sham battle over the tariff, so that capitalists, corporations, national banks, rings, trusts, watered stock, the demonetization of silver and the oppressions of the usurers may all be lost sight of. They propose to sacrifice our homes, lives, and children on the altar of mammon ; to destroy the multitude in order to secure corruption funds from...