lican party and manufacturers and others profiting by the protective tariff.

SHIP SUBSIDY BILL.-Denounces it as a species of vicious and unjust class legislation, and denies the right of Congress to tax whole people to raise money to pay a subsidy or bounty to any private enterprise.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS.-"The Democratic party heartily indorses the public school system of the State of Illinois, and it declares that the parental right to direct and control the education of the child should forever remain inviolate, and that the provisions of the Law of 1889, commonly known as the Compulsory Education Statute, impairing that inalienable right should be at once repealed. "a Favors laws for compelling parents to educate their children, for disciplining incorrigible truants and prohibiting child labor.

MISCELLANEOUS.-Favors eight-hour workday, removal of all unnecessary restrictions on coinage of silver, Australian ballot system, election of U. S. Senators and Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners by direct vote, pledges Democratic party to deposit State funds in Illinois banks, denounces Republicans for not equalizing taxes, and demands of State Board of Equalization honest enforcement of the law.

INDIANA REPUBLICAN, September 10, 1890.*

THE ADMINISTRATION.-"We indorse the Administration of Benjamin Harrison and the able statesmen elected as his colaborers and advisers, as being wise, vigorous and patriotic. It has kept the pledges made to the people, has carefully guarded and zealously promoted their welfare, and elevated the condition of the public service."

CONGRESS.-Heartily approves the action of Republicans under brilliant and fearless leadership of Thomas B. Reed.

PENSIONS.-Urges Service Pension bill and approves generous Republican pension legislation.

TARIFF.-Reaffirms, belief in protection, condemns Democratic doctrine of free trade, and commends reciprocity.

LAND.-"We believe that the soil of the United States should be reserved for its own citizens and such as may become citizens, and favor such legislation by Congress and the State Legislatures as will prevent aliens becoming the owners of the land needed for homes for independent American farmers."

LABOR AND TRUSTS.-Favors protection against convict or servile labor, prohibition of employment of young children in factories and mines, adoption of a uniform railroad car-coupler, protection of employes in factories and mines, arbitration between emproyes and employer, and legislation to facilitate organization of farmers and wage laborers for proner and lawful promotion of their mutual interests; condemns Democrats, who have failed to enact valid and efficient laws on these subjects; denounces all trusts and combinations tending hurtfully to affect price of commodities, and favors State legislation looking to their suppression.

MISCELLANEOUS.-Commends Republican action in Congress as to silver coinage, repeats demand for legislation to secure fair elections, favors improvement of rivers and harbors, and legislation to promote sale of pure food under proper names.

INDIANA DEMOCRATIC, August 28, 1890.*

THE ADMINISTRATION.-"We denounce the Administration of Benjamin Harrison for its deliberate abandonment of Civil Service reform; for its use of Cabinet positions and other high stations in payment of financial campaign debts; for treating the public patronage as a family appendage instead of a public trust, and quartering a host of relatives, by blood and by marriage, upon the National Treasury; for dismissing honest and competent public servants, in violation of solemn pledges, because of their political opinions, and filling their places with men devoid of character or capacity, and whose only title to preferment rested upon disreputable partisan work; for its dalliance with questionable gift enterprises, for its complete subservience to Wall Street and the money power and its undisguised hostility or indifference to the rights and interests of the producing and laboring masses."

TARIFF. "We denounce the McKinley Tariff bill as the most outrageous measure of taxation ever proposed in the American Congress. We are in favor of that wide measure of commercial freedom proposed by Grover Cleveland, which would benefit the farmers and laborers of the entire country, instead of that limited measure of so-called reciprocity offered by Mr. Blaine, which would benefit only a few Eastern manufacturers. So long as the Government depends for support in any degree upon a tariff, we demand that it be levied for revenue only, and, so far as possible, upon the luxuries of the rich."

SILVER.-Denounces Silver bill and demands the free and unrestricted coinage of silver on basis existing prior to 1873.

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MISCELLANEOUS.-Favors just and liberal pension system, election of U. S. Senators by people; denounces Elections bill as "revolutionary and unconstitutional," majority rule in Congress, demands alien land laws and forfeiture of public land now held by aliens, and condemns Republicans for seating Montana Senators and for reducing surplus.

IOWA REPUBLICAN, July 1, 1891.

THE NATIONAL PARTY AND ITS ADMINISTRATION.-"The Republican party of Iowa in convention assembled gives renewed expression of devotion to the principles of the National Republican party, and declares acceptance of those principles to be the bond of union with the Republican party of Iowa. We commend the patriotic, wise and courageous Administration of President Harrison."

LIst CONGRESS.-"We commend the Republican party in the last Congress for its redemption of pledges made the people as to a revision of the tariff in the interest of home industry, and of its work in behalf of liberal provisions for the old soldiers in accordance with the pledges of the Nation."

COINAGE. "We approve the Coinage act, by which the great product of the silver mines of the United States is added to the currency of the people, and out of which experiment may come a wise adjustment of financial questions liberal toward Western interests."

RECIPROCITY.-"We commend most heartily the policy that has been inaugurated looking to reciprocal trade relations with other peoples of the American contínents and the administrative efforts now making for the enlargement of foreign markets for American beef and pork."

PURITY OF ELECTIONS.-"We assert that the Republican arty stands on record in every State in this Union in favor of elections based upon a freedom of individual conscience, and that the Republican party may be trusted in Iowa or in any State to promote any plan of reform, Australian and other, calculated to extend this liberty and further to protect the purity of the ballot."

IMMIGRATION.-"While inviting to our shores the worthy poor of all nations, we earnestly recommend the laws that will protect our country and our people against the influx of the vicious and criminal classes of foreign nations, and the importation of laborers under contract to compete with our own citizens, and earnestly approve the rigid enforcement of these laws and of such further legislation as may be neces

sary.

EQUALITY OF TAXATION.-"We favor such legislation as will impose upon all classes of property corporate and individual equally the burdens of taxation."

ADDITIONAL LEGISLATION.-Favors passage of Conger Lard bill, State legislation to promote farmers' institutes, and enlarging powers of Dairy Commissioner, and World's Fair appropriation.

REPUBLICAN RECORD IN IOWA.-"We point to the record of the State under Republican administration for justification of the declaration that we favor economy and honesty in the administration of public affairs. To that record also for judg ment that the Republican party has kept faith with the people of this State in the obligations of the past and upon that record we invite continued support and confidence."

SALOONS."We have no apologies to offer to the people nor to the Democratic party for the Republican record in the conspicuous issue in the State campaign this year. In the interests of true temperance and under the laws of Iowa enacted by the representatives of its sovereign people the saloon was made an outlaw in this State. We charge that the outlaw has had the patronage of the Democratic party, that the Democratic party, as it has won power, has nullified the law, defied the authority of the State and the expressed will of its people and that now appeal is made to the electors of the whole State for approval of the lawless work. We recognize that the issue is law against defiance of law, subordination against insubordination, the State of Iowa against the Democratic party. We recognize that the issue of it is between the interests of true temperance and the freedom and rule of an indiscriminate traffic. We renew our allegiance to the people of Iowa and submit to them the determination of the issue, recognizing that the control of the next Legislature by the Democratic party means State-wide license, and that the control of the next Legislature by the Republicans means continued opposition to the behests of the saloon power through the maintenance and enforcement of the law. We denounce the Democratic party of Iowa as insincere in its dealings with the saloon issue. We charge that party with service to the saloon and with purpose to strengthen the saloon grasp upon the homes and politics of the State. We cite in proof of this its surrender this year of the local option feature of the plank of 1889. We charge that this abandonment of local option is the forerunner of further premeditated betrayal, and that trust in the Democratic party will end in complete breaking down of the temperance legislation of the State, and complete turning over of the State, in every township thereof, to the pollution and fester of the saloon against whatever protest of communities now free."

ARRAIGNMENT OF THE DEMOCRACY.-Protests against re-election of Boies to Governorship, charging that he did most outrageously misrepresent the honest, industrious, frugal and prosperous people of Iowa in his effort at a banquet speech in

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New-York on Dec. 23, 1890. Denounces as purposely misleading which the Governor assumed to sustain the indictment against the State. denounce the Ottumwa (Democratic) platform of this year as framed with deliberate purpose to mislead and deceive, wherein sympathy is expressed where none is felt, wherein help is proposed where none will be rendered, wherein purposes are avowed which are not entertained. In support of this indictment, we point to the pretended friendship for the soldier and to the arraignment at the same time of the Republican party for having appropriated money for the payment of pensions; to the free silver plank, intended to deceive the supporters of free and unlimited coinage of silver; to the plank assuming to reaffirm the doctrine of control and regulation of railroads, a policy implanted in this State under the administration of the last Republican Governor, against the opposition, secret and open, of the Democratic party, extending to an alliance with corporate power in the first election of Railroad Commissioners under the law in 1888." Denounces the Democratic party for misrepresentation of McKinley bill, for opposition to ballot reform in Iowa, and arraigns it as an enemy of labor, scheming to break down the defences of protective laws, to block the wheels of home industry, and to degrade the masses of the people-a party controlled by aristocratic and reactionary tendencies, the legacy of slavery.

IOWA DEMOCRATIC, June 24, 1891.

GOVERNOR BOIES.-Congratulates the people of Iowa on the true, able and fearless administration of Horace P. Boies.

SALOONS.-"We demand the repeal of the prohibitory liquor law, and in the interests of true temperance we favor the passage of a carefully guarded license law which will provide for the issuance of licenses in towns, townships and municipal corporations, and which shall provide that for each license an annual tax of $500 be paid into the county treasury, and such further tax as the town, township or municipal corporation shall provide, the proceeds thereof to go to the use of such municipalities."

EQUALITY OF TAXATION.-"We favor such changes in our laws as will insure, under stringent penalties, full and equal taxation of every species of property, after allowing the present exemptions as fixed by law, and we demand strict economy and honesty in the expenditure of all public moneys taken from the substance of the people under any form or guise of taxation,"

BALLOT.-"We favor the Australian system of voting, to the end that we may have an honest ballot uncontrolled by bribery or employers. We denounce the Republican party for the defeat of this salutary reform in the XXIIId General Assembly, in defiance of the popular vote in its favor and in the face of its adoption by so many of our sister States, with the undeniable result of securing a pure and untrammelled ballot."

RAILROADS AND CORPORATIONS.-"We reaffirm our adherence to the doctrine of the control and regulation of railroads as now enacted into law, and we favor such changes as experience may show to be necessary to protect the people from the evasion of law, from encroachments and extortions through imperfections of law, and as will es tablish just and equitable relations between the people and the railroad corporations in all travel and traffic over the railway lines. We call for statutes which provide stringent safeguards in the organization of all corporations, to protect the people from fraudulent and bubble concerns, to provide that when any such artificial creature of law is found to be engaged in harmful practices, the law shall promptly put an end to its existence."

TRUSTS.-Denounces all trusts, pools and combines, and favors such action as will forfeit to the public all franchises and property made use of by corporations or others to form trusts, and will insure the punishment criminally of conspirators.

LABOR.-Favors all fair and lawful methods by which labor may secure laws establishing free public employment agencies and adequate compensation, and condemns Importing of contract labor for work in mines or elsewhere.

ELECTION OF U. S. SENATORS.-Favors election of U. S. Senators by direct vote of the people, and, until an amendment to the National Constitution can be secured requiring their election by such direct vote, their nomination by State conventions or individual preference.

COINAGE.-"We reiterate our demand of one year ago for the free coinage of silver and that it be made a full legal-tender for all debts, public and private, and denounce as unjust and dishonest the provision of law recently enacted allowing parties to stipulate against payment in silver and silver certificates, thus setting up one standard for the creditor and another for the debtor-one for the poor man and another for the rich man."

PENSIONS.-Favors "just, liberal and equitable pension laws for all invalid and dependent soldiers and sailors, their widows and orphans."

TARIFF.-"We denounce the McKinley bill, the motives, its authors and the defenders and theory under which it is submitted for the approval of the American people. Such legislation increases the cost of the necessaries of life, promotes dishonest manufactures, trusts and combines, creates sectional envy, despoils more for the benefit of the few, threatens the country with an aristocracy based on fl-gotten gain, and, above all, corrupts the policies of the country so as to seriously endanger the perpetuity of personal government. We demand equal opportunities for every section of our country, and for every citizen, and we insist that every oppressive feature of the tariff be eliminated, to the end that our merchant marine may be re

stored to the sea and the markets of the world opened to the producing classes. The sugar bounty is no tariff. It is a spoliation of treasury for special classes and interests, which are no more entitled to be aided by the Government than the farmers of Iowa in raising hogs and corn. or the pioneer settlers of the frontier in their hardships and sufferings as the vanguard of civilization."

LIst CONGRESS.-Denounces wasteful and lavish appropriations of last Congress, which expended an amount equal to one-third the total public debt incurred in four years of war.

LAND.-"While

we concede the right of the relations of our naturalized citizens to inherit the lands and the right of foreign investors and creditors to hold for a reasonable period lands acquired in the collection of debt, and while we welcome the actual settler as an owner upon his filing a declaration of his intention to become a citizen, we are nevertheless unalterably opposed to the non-resident alien ownership of lands and of foreign syndicate ownership of our industries; and we also demand that all unearned railroad grants be reclaimed by the General Government and held for actual settlement."

SYMPATHY WITH IRISH AND JEWS.-Tenders to Irish people sympathy in their struggle for Home Rule, which the Force bill attempt d to take from the American people in the Congressional e.ections, and declares that al civilized nations should protest against persecution of Jews in Russia.

WORLD'S FAIR.-Expresses hearty sympathy with efforts to make a creditable exhibition of Iowa's resources at the World's Fair and favors a liberal appropriation by the next General Assembly.

A GENERAL APPEAL.-Appeals to voters, irrespective of party, for indorsement of these principles and election of State officers and a Legislature in support of them.

TARIFF AND RECIPROCITY.-Favors Mr. Blaine's theory of protection, demands same protection for farmers that is extended to other interests, and advocates reciprocity.

INTOXICATING LIQUORS.-Expresses determined opposition to any changes in State prohibitory legislation, except such as will make the laws stronger and more efficient, and increase good order, sobriety, and welfare of the people.

RAILROADS.-Favors more stringent legislation to compel corporations to keep their general offices and all their books, records and papers within the State of Kansas, opposes system of free passes on railroads, and favors the suppression of this practice by proper legislation. Recommends election of Railroad Commissioners by people and asks Legislature to confer on Commissioners power to regulate passenger and freight rates.

KANSAS DEMOCRATIC, September 9, 1890.*

LIQUOR.-Opposes all sumptuary legislation and demands earliest resubmission of prohibitory amendment to the people and immediate repeal of prohibition laws, declares unequivocally for high license and local option and recommends a law providing that for each license issued for sale of liquor $500 shall be given to the county treasury for making and improving county roads, the municipality, in addition, to fix such other sum as the Mayor and Council may decide.

MISCELLANEOUS.-Denounces Federal Elections bill, McKinley bill, favors liberal pension laws, free coinage, and leaving circulating medium wholly in hands of Government, sympathizes with struggle of labor against capital, opposes all paternalism and proclaims against "preacher politicians."

KANSAS FARMERS' ALLIANCE, 1890.*

CURRENCY.-Demands abolition of National bank notes and substitution of Treasury notes for National bank notes, regulating amcunt needed on a per capita basis; that all Government money shall be legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private; free coinage of silver and fractional paper currency.

COMMERCIAL.-Demands laws to prevent dealing in futures" and that "means of communication and transportation shall be owned and operated in the interest of the people."

LAND.-Demands laws prohibiting alien ownership and requiring reclamation of lands now owned by aliens, and that railroads shall forfeit all lands except what they actually need. MISCELLANEOUS.-Demands tariff for revenue only, anti-trust legislation, Australian ballot system, and Crawford system of primaries, more effective laws against usury, stay of execution in foreclosure suits and readjustment of public salaries.

KENTUCKY REPUBLICAN, May 21, 1891.

NATIONAL QUESTIONS AND NEW CONSTITUTION.-"The Republicans of Kentucky, in convention assembled, declare their adherence to the principles of the Republican party as enunciated in the platform of the National Convention of 1888; they * Printed at length in Tribune Almanac for 1891.

heartily indorse the Administration of President Harrison as pure, wise and patriotic ; they approve the action of the LIst Congress, and especially on what are known as the Silver, Tariff and Pension bills, and are opposed to the free and unrestricted coinage of silver; that it is the highest duty of a political party to have and to declare its convictions on all matters of political importance, and especially where the questions involve the very form and system of our State Government, and they now declare that they recommend the adoption of the new constitution, because it blots from our laws all provisions that authorize human slavery, secures a secret ballot and provides against frauds and corruptions in elections, subjects to regulation by law all public corporations, prohibits the abuse of special legislation, abolishes lotteries, enlarges and protects the common school fund, increases the opportunities of popular education, makes more equal the burdens of taxation, better protects the interests of agriculture and labor, and makes provision for its own ready amendment by the people."

PURE NATIONAL ELECTIONS.-"We believe that the National election laws should be so amended that every American citizen should be allowed to cast a free ballot and have it fairly counted."

STATE OPPRESSIONS.-"Finally, the Republican party appeals to the people of Kentucky to condemn the reckless, dishonest and extravagant administration of State affairs by the Democratic party, and they ask the intelligent and patriotic members of that party to join in giving relief from the grievous burdens that oppress the citizens of the Commonwealth."

KENTUCKY DEMOCRATIC, May 15, 1891,

PRINCIPLES OF JEFFERSON.-"The Democracy declare their unfaltering devotion to the principles of public policy which make the party maintaining them as national in purpose and as popular in spirit as it was when founded by Jefferson.

LAST YEAR'S ELECTIONS.-"We congratulate the country that the elections of the past year give abundant promise of the overthrow of the Republican party the final and complete restoration to the people of the control of the Federal Government."

TARIFF REFORM.-"We insist that tariff reform is the paramount issue before the American people, and denounce the McKinley bill as the most outrageous measure of taxation ever proposed in the American Congress. It has increased the burden, already too great, upon the necessaries of life and reduced taxes on luxuries which are most able to bear them. It has made existence harder for every farmer and wageearner in the land, in order that the profits of the monopolies and trusts may be increased. It robs the many to enrich the few, and does not open a market for a single bushel of wheat or a single barrel of pork. In contrast with it the policy of Grover Cleveland and John G. Carlisle would discourage unnecessary expenditures, provide all needed revenue, cheapen what we buy and open the markets of the world to the products of our own farms and factories."

SILVER.-"Recognizing the fact that the United States is the greatest silverproducing country in the world, and that both gold and silver were equally the money of the Constitution from the beginning of the Republic until the hostile and fraudulent legislation of the Republican party against silver, which unduly contracted the circu lating medium of the country, and feeling that the greatest interests of the people demand more money for use in the channels of trade and commerce, we tender our gratitude to the Democrats in the last Congress for their almost unanimous vote in both houses in favor of the free coinage of silver, and demand its restoration to the position of equality before the law given to it by our fathers."

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LIst CONGRESS.-"We present for the consideration of the people of the land the course of a Republican Congress which, by its reckless, profligate and ruinous penditure of public money, has in two years squandered the surplus of more than a hundred million dollars left in the Federal Treasury by a Democratic Administration, while it has increased in the most extraordinary and unprecedented

manner taxation that will add to the distress of the people and at the same time be inadequate to meet the demands of those who are using the Government to serve their selfish purposes."

ELECTIONS.-" We return thanks to the patriotic members of the last Senate of the United States who defeated the unjust, iniquitous and partisan measure known as the Force bill, which would have been a fearful blow at home rule and local self-gov ernment, and was intended to place in the hands of the Republican party the machinery whereby it might by force, fraud and intimidation have perpetuated its iniquitous rule and destroyed the integrity and freedom of the ballot."

THE RETIRING GOVERNOR.-Commends Governor Buckner's administration.

KENTUCKY PROHIBITION, May 20, 1891.

NEED OF PARTY.-"The necessity of this time requires a party whose dominant issue in American politics is the principle of legal prohibition of the traffic in intoxicating liquors as a beverage and all other public wrongs as the result of partisan, class and corrupt legislation. Such we believe the Prohibition party to be, whose utterances at Indianapolis in National Convention we approve.

WRONGS DENOUNCED.-"Chief among these wrongs are the licensed liquor traffic, State and National; the so-called protective tariff, the oppression of monopolies, the exorbitant demands of public transportation companies, the slaving of labor and the failure to recognize the rights of women in Kentucky to manage and control their