Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1884 — IN THE WHITE HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

That I* Where the Kentucky Democrats Want to Place Mr. ■’ 1 Speaker Carlisle. • ii, ■ i , . Kentucky Democrats. Hon. Boyd Winchester, of Louisville, presided over the Kentucky Democratic Convention, which met *at Frankfort. Henry Watterson, J. Stoddard John&ey, James A. McKenzie, and Thomas L. Jones were elect ed delegatee-at-large to tlte National Democratic Convention at Chi- ■ engo. Henry Watterson was made Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, and reported the following platform, which was unanimously adopted amid great applause: The Democracy of Kentucky, in convention assembled, declare: 1. We pledge ourselves anew to the constitutional doctrines and traditions of the Democratic party as illustrated by the teachings and example of a long line of Democratic statesmen and patriots as embodied in the platforms of the National Democratic Conventions of 1876 and 1889. 2. We do especially renew onr declarations of hostility to centralization, as that dangerous spirit of encroachment which tends to consolidate the powers of government and thus to create, whatever the form, a real despotism, with all subsidies to corporations and grants without consideration of the public property, and we again express our conviction of the urgent necessity of the general and thorough reform of the civil service; and 3. We do especially deny the right of the Government to surrender its taxing power to corporations "or individuals, which is the result of both the theory and practice of tho Republican party; and we denounce the present tariff, which burdens the people with excessive war taxes in time of peace, as a masterpiece of injustice, inequality, and false pretenses. We arraign the Republican party as the creator and defender of a system which has impoverished many industries to subsidize a few; which has prohibited imports that might purchase the products of American labor, and degraded American commerce from the first ip an inferior rank on the high seas; which has cut down the sales of American manufactures at home and abroad and depleted the returns of American agriculture, an industry followed by half our people. It costs the taxpayers five times more than it yields to the Treasury; It promotes fraud, fosters smuggling, corrupts officials, enriches the few by forcing bounties from the many, and favors the dishonest to bankrupt 1 honest merchants. We assert the doctrine of the Constitution that all taxation shall he exclusively for revenue, and demand that no more revenue shall be collected than is required to meet the expenses and obligations of the Government economically administered. Resolved, That believing that no geographical line should exist iii this country as a test of eligibility to any office in the gift of the whole people, but that the standard of honesty, competency, fidelity, and constitutional citizenship alone should prevail, Kentucky recommends to the Democracy of the Union for the Presidency of the United States him whose elevation to the third office in the nation was the first step to the obliteration of the seam left by the late civil war, who was the first to lead his party back to its own national platform of steady approach toward the removal of obstructions to Lade, the foremost exponent of all the living Democratic principles of to-day, the Hon. John G. Carlisle.