Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1884 — IN THE WHITE HOUSE [ARTICLE]

IN THE WHITE HOUSE

That Is Where the Kentucky Demo crats Want to Place Ms. Speaker Carlisle. Kentucky Democrat*. Hon. Boyd Winchester, of Lomsvflh presided over the Kentucky Democrat! Convention, which met at Frankfort Henry Wattereon, J. Stoddard Johnsej James A. McKenzie, and Thomas I Jones were elected delegates-at-large to tfa National Democratic Convention at Chi cago. Henry Watterson was made Chan man of the Committee on Resolutions, an reported the following platform, which wa unanimously adopted amid great applausi The Democracy of Kentucky, in oonveatt* assembled, declare: 1. We pledge ourselves anew to the oonstttu tional doctrines and traditions of the Demt cratic party as illustrated by the teachings as example of a long line es Democratic 8 tales me aud patriots as embodied In the, platforms of til National Democratic Conventions of 187$ an 1880. 2. We do especially renew our declarations « hostility to centralization, as that dangerou spirit of encroachment whic-i teuds to oonso idate the powers of government and thus t create, whatever the form, a real despotism with all subsidies to corporations and grant without consideration of the publtc property and we again express our conviction of tn urgent necessity of the general aud thoroug reform of the civil service; and 3. We do especially deny the right of tl Government to surrender its taxing power t corporations or individuals, which is the resu of both the theory and practice oi the Republ can party; and we denounce the present tarli which burdens the peqple with excessive w* taxes in time of peace, as a masterpiece of fJ justioe, inequality, and false pretenses. .5 arraign the Republican party as the creator an defender of a system which has impoverish* many industries to subsidize a few; hi prohibited imports that might purchase the pro< nets of American labor, and degrade! Amex can commerce from the first to an inferi< rank on the high Begs; which has cut dow the sales of athon and abroad and depleted the returns of Amet can agriculture, an industry followed by ha onr people. It costs the taxpayers five tim< more than it yields to the Treasury; it promote fraud, fosters smuggling, corrupts officials, el riches the few by forcing bounties from tl many, and favors the dishonest to banknt] honest merchants. We assert the doctrine the Constitution that all taxation shall be e clusively for revenue, and demand that no mo revenue shall be collected than 'is required xpeet the expenses and obligations of the Got ernment economically administered. Resolved, That believing that no geographic line should exist in this country as a test < eligibility to any office in the gift of the who people, but that the standard of honesty, com pefency, fidelity, and constitutional citizenshl alone should prevail, Kentucky recommends the Democracy of the Union for the President! of the United States him whose elevation to tl third office in the nation was the first step the obliteration of the seam left by the late civ war, who was the first to lead his party back 1 its own national platform of steady approat toward the removal of obstructions to t ade, tl foremost exponent of all the living Democrat principles of to-day, the Hon. John G. Carlisl