I All the Platforms of All Parties .~ Price 25 Cents
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AND I All the Platforms of All Parties .~ Price 25 Cents VINCENT PUBLISHING CO. 1812 Chicago Street, OMAHA, NEB. 1 JOHNP. “1001NS.PRINT. 80 278 MONROESTREET. CHCAOO The Platform v Text Book CONTAINING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, . AlvD . All the Platforms of All Parties, PRICE 25 CENTS. Entered as Second Class Matter at Post-Office, Omaha, Neb. VINCENT PUBLISHING CO., I 812 Chicago Street, OMAHA, NEB. OOPYRIGHT, 1900 @. WANT. PREFACE. 7 This compilation is presented at this time because, for severA years last past, the trend of political events has been toward an abandon- ment of the traditions and simplicity and purity, and even of the form of government that was bequeathed to us at such a cost of blood and treasure, and has shown a tendency to react from those high ideals to a . closer pattern after and sympathy with old world models. It is believed that a perusal of all party platforms, in the light of the Declaration of Indepeudellce and the Constitution of our Country, will show clearly the point of divergence from a safe political course, and the point to which we must retrace our steps. Such a perusal will also show at least two complete changes or reversals in the principles of the parties dominant at the time of those changes, and will enable the young voters more clearly to discern the truth touching the claims of political parties to the support of the people. It is hoped that persons perusing these pages will put every party pledge and utterance to the test suggested in the ‘6 Preamble ta the Constitution,” and note whether the party pledges are Calculated to subserve the ends therein expressed. Omaha, July 6. 1900. THE COMPILEB, . TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE. Declaration of Independence. ............................................ 7 Oonstitution of the United States ........................................... Washington Elected ........................................................ f i Virginia Resolutious.....................................................~ . 24 First Republican Platform .................................................. 26 First Federalist Platform ................................................... 28 Hartford Resolution ....................................................... 29 Manufacturers’ Resolutions ................................................ 32 Democratic Platforms. ............ .1832-34; 1536-35; 1840-37; 1844-39; 1848-43; 1852-48; 185657; 1860-64; 1864-68; 1868-71; 1872-72; 1876-86; 1880-92; 1884-100 Republican Platforms. ................. .1800-26; 1856-54; 1860-61; 1864-66, 6’7; ............................................ 1868-69; 1872-78; 1876-83; 1880-89. Radical Republican Platform .............................................. 1864-66 Free Soil Platforms. ....................................................... 46-51 Liberty Party Platform6 .................................................. 39 American Party Platform. ............................................... 56-63 American National Platform. .............................................. 81 “Greenback” Platform ..................................................... El-93 Prohibition Party Platforms ........................ ..-.....................75-8 2 Liberal Republican Platforms. ............................................ 76 Whig Platforms ....................................................... .36-39-42-50 Prohibition Platform of 1880 ............................................. 90 Resultof Electionof 1880 .................................................. 97 Campaign of 1884. ......................................................... 98 Democratic Platform of 1884. .............................................. 100 ProhibitiouPlatformof 1884 ............................................... 164 National (Greenback) Platform of 1884 ...................................... 107 American Platform. ...................................................... 108 Equal Rights Platform ..................................................... 109 Result of Election of 1884 ................................................. 111 Campaign of l&65 .......................................................... 111 Republican Platform of 1888 ............................................... 111 Democratic Platform of 1888 ............................................... 115 Prohibition Platform of 1888 . ............................................. 117 Union Labor Platform of 1888 .............................................. 118 Industrial ReformPlatformOf 1888 ......................................... 1lQ Result of Election of 1888 ................................................. 120 People’s Party Organized. ................................................. 120 People’s Party Platform. ................................................... 120 Resolution of St. Louis Conference ......................................... 122 Campaign of 1892 .......................................................... 123 Republican Platform of 1892 ................................................ 124 4 COSTESTS. 3 _____ PAGE. Democratic Platform of 1892.. 126 Prohibition Platform of 1892 . 130 OmahaPlatform............................................................ 131 UnionofthePeople........................................................ 133 QuestionofFinance........................................................ 133 Controlof Transportation............................... 134 Reclaiming the Land.. 134 SocialisticPlatf0rmofl892................................................. 134 PoliticalDemands.......................................................... 135 ResultofElectionof1892................................................... 135 Campaign of 1896. .._ 136 ProhibitionPlatform of 1896.................................... 136 NationalParty Platform................................................... 136 Republican Platform of 1896 ..C.“........_.. 137 Allegiance to Protection Renewed . ..#.......... 138 Declaration on Reciprocity.. 138 Against Free Coinage. 139 Armenian Massacresandcuba......... 139 Foreign Immigration.. ..-............ 140 Temperance and Woman’s Rights.. .,................................... 140 DemocraticPlatformofl696........................................... 141 Silver Party Platform.. 144 People’s Party Platform of 1896.. _ . , . , . ,. 145 Finance.......................................................... 145 #I!rnyportatioa . 146 . 146 DirectLegislation.......................................................... 146 GeneralPropositions....................................................... 147 Socialist Labor Platform of 1896 . ..L................................. 147 Resolutions . 148 The Indianapolis Platform. 149 Resultof ElectionNov. 3,1896.............................................. 151 President McKinley’s Cabinet.. , . _ . 152 Campaignof1900........................................................... 152 People’s Party Platform of 1900. 153 DemocraticPlatformofl900................................................ 155 Republican PlatformoflSOO................................................ 159 SilverRepublicanPlatform.............................. 163 Middle-of-the-Road Populist Platform . 166 ProhibitionPlatformfor lgoo.............................................. 167 Socialist Labor Platform for 1900 . 170 Socialist Platform of 1904.. 172 Republican Platform of 1904. .: . 175 Democratic Platform of 1904. 180 Prohibition Platform of 1904............................................... IS4 Socialist Platform of 1908................................................ 1S6 ‘&p~~b]jcan Platform of 1905.. lS9 ])elnocratic Pltxtform of 1908.. 196 proljjl,jtinj~ Platforlll Of 1908.. 202 Indepei~dencv Platform of 1905.. f 203 I c THE DECLARATIONOF INDEPENDENCE, On June 7th, 1776, in the ColoniaI “A DECLARATION BY THE REP- RESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED (Congress, Richard Henry Lee, of Vir- STATES OF AMERICA, IN CON- ginia, offered a resolution that, GRESS ASSEMBLED. “THESE UNITED COLONIES ARE, When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one AND OF RIGHT OUGHT ‘I’C BE, people to dissolve the political bands FREE AND INDEPENDENT which have connected them with an- STATES.” other, and to assume among the pow- ers of the earth, the separate and A committee was appointed to draft equal station to which the laws of a suitable declaration. The members nature and of nature’s God entitle of that committee were Thomas Jeffer- them, a decent respect to the opinions son, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, of mankind requires that they should Roger Sherman and Robert R. Living- declare the causes which impel them stone. Lee’s resolution having been to the separation. submitted to the several colonies was We hold these truths to be self-evi- favorably passed by twelve, New York dent, that all men are created equal; alone failing to unite in the action, that they are endowed by their Crea- and on July 2nd, the Congress having tor with certain inalienable rights; official notice of the action of the sev- that among these are life, liberty and eral colonies proceeded to discuss the the pursuit of happiness. That to se- declaration and on July 4th adopted cure these rights, governments are in- the same, which transaction is thus re- stituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the corded in the journal for that day. governed; that, whenever any form of “Agreeably to the order of the day, government becomes