given the County Treasury for the purpose of making and improving county roads, and the municipality may, in addition, "fix" such other sum as the Mayor and Council may decide.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Continued opposition to all paternalism in Government, State and National affairs, in consonance with personal and political freedom.

We deplore the tendency manifested by the preacher politicians who pose as leaders of the Republican party in this State to make religious belief the test of eligibility for political preferment.

We express sympathy with labor in its struggle with the insatiate money power, whether in factory or farm.

KANSAS REPUBLICAN RESUBMISSIONIST, September 9.

The platform renews the pledges of unwavering loyalty to the principles of the National Republican party; favors reciprocity; demands free coinage of silver; such modification of the tarif laws as will give equal protection to agriculture and manufactures; an equitable bankrupt law; liberal appropriation for a deep-water harbor on the Gulf of Mexico, and liberal pension laws.

On the question of Prohibition the platform says:

We arraign the party managers in this State as disloyal to the principles and unfaithful to the interests of the Republican party. We charge that they have put the party in Kansas out of harmony with the National Republican party, and thereby absolved us all from all obligations to longer acknowledge their leadership; lured by the seductive wiles of impractical visionaries, they have committed the party to extravagances and follies which, unless promptly checked, will bankrupt and depopulate the State. These things impel us, as the only method which promises success, to sink party preferences in State politics for the time and unite with such of our fellow-citizens of the State as share our convictions, without regard to party, for the purpose of correcting the follies into which we have been betrayed, and thus preserve the good name and insure the future prosperity of the State.

We are opposed to Prohibition: ten years' trial has demonstrated its total inefficiency as a temperance measure; it is a revival of the obsolete form of paternal government and entirely opposed to the genius and spirit of the age; that it is at enmity with the fundamental principles of our civilization and destroys that inalienable right of the citizen to determine for himself by what method he will preserve his own happiness without interference with the rights of others, which principle is the basis of our liberties and the hope of our institutions; that it is un-American, un-Republican and un-Democratic, and not in harmony with the purposes and spirit of our Institutions and laws; that the existence of the prohibitory law is a perpetual menace to the material interests of the State; that it burdens us with taxation; that it deprives us of all control of the liquor traffic and revenue therefrom that it drives away population; that it prevents immigration; that it makes the building of large cities within the State impossible: that it encourges perjury; that it makes more hypocrites than all other agencies combined; that it does not lessen crime or pauperism; that it does not empty jails, penitentiaries, lunatic asylums, or almshouses, and, believing that any public measure in the hands of an enlightened people is absolutely safe, we demand that the question of the repeal of the prohibitory amendment to the Constitution be submitted to the people at as early a date as possible.

The platform further declares in favor of high license and strict laws for the regulation of the liquor traffic. They agreed to support the Democratic State ticket if they would be allowed to name the candidate for Lieutenant-Governor. This was granted, and Hon, D. A. Banta, of Great Bend, was nominated.

KANSAS FARMERS' ALLIANCE.
CURRENCY.

We demand the abolition of national banks and the substitution of legai-tender Treasury notes in lieu of national bank notes, issued in sufficient volume to do the business of the country on a cash system, regulating the amount needed on a per capita basis as the business interests of the country expand; and that all money issued by the Govcrnment shall be legal-tender in payment of all debts, both public and private. We demand the free and unlimited coinage of silver.

We demand that Congress provide for the issue of a sufficient amount of fractional paper currency to facilitate exchange through the medium of the United States mail.

COMMERCIAL INTERESTS.

We demand that Congress shall pass such laws as shall effectually prevent the dealing in futures in all agricultural and mechanical productions, preserving such a stringent system of piceedure in trials as shall secure prompt conviction and imposing such penalties as shall secure the most perfect compliance with the law.

We demand that the means of communication and transportation shall be owned by and operated in the interests of the people, as is the United States postal system.

THE LAND QUESTION.

We demand the passage of laws prohibiting alien ownership of land, and that Congress take carly steps to devise some plan to obtain all lands now owned by allens and

fereign syndicates; and that all lands now held by railroads and other corporations in excess of such as are actually used and needed by them be reclaimed by the Government and held for actual settlers only.

TAXATION.

Believing in the doctrine of "equal rights to all and special privileges to none," we demand that taxation, National or State, shall not be used to build up one interest or class at the expense of another. We believe that the money of the country should be kept as much as possible in the hands of the people, and hence we demand that all revenues, National, State or county, shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the government economically and honestly administered.

TRUSTS.

We demand such legislation as will effectually prevent the organization or maintenance of trusts and combines for purposes of speculation in any of the products of labor or necessaries of life, or the transportation of the same.

BALLOT REFORM.

We demand the adoption of the Australian system of voting and the Crawford system of primaries.

MISCELLANEOUS.

We demand such legislation as shall effectually prevent the extortion of usurious interest by any form of evasion of statutory provisions.

We demand such legislation as will provide for a reasonab'e stay of execution in all cases of foreclosure of mortgages on real estate, and a reasonable extension of time before the confirmation of Sheriff's sales.

We demand the adjustment of salaries of public officials to correspond with existing financial conditions, the wages paid to other forms of labor, and the prevailing prices of the products of labor.

MAINE REPUBLICAN, June 12.

THE LABOR QUESTION.

It favors the enactment of such laws as may be necessary for the protection of labor. It regards the improvement of the "commercial-industrial" education and sanitary condition of the laboring people as a matter of the highest consideration, and in the future, as in the past, it will favor the adoption of just and equitable legislation calcu lated to advance the interest and perpetuate the prosperity of labor and laboring men.

THE ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR QUESTION.

It recognizes the evils of intemperance and sympathizes with all honest and well directed efforts to eradicate them. It unreservedly renews its adhesion to the principle of the prohibition of the liquor traffic, and insists upon the thorough and effective enforcement of the prohibitory law. It demands of Congress the enactment of such legislation as shall enable each State to exercise full control within its borders of the traffic in all liquors, whether imported in original packages or otherwise.

BALLOT REFORM.

It favors an elective system, free from corruption and fraud, and it approves of legislation that may be required to secure that end.

THE TARIFF.

It favors the policy which protects American labor against foreign competition, aids agriculture, builds up American industry, and creates an adequate home market for domestic production.

THE PENSION QUESTION.

It favors liberal pensions for service rendered in the War of the Rebellion.

FAIR AND FREE ELECTIONS.

It favors a free ballot and a fair count in National elections in all the States.

THE ADMINISTRATION.

It unreservedly commends the Administration of President Harrison as wise, fi m and upright. Every department has been conducted with a careful regard to the rights and interests of the people. The public service has been exceptionally pure and free from dishonesty and scandal. No combinations nor "rings" have controlled the policy or the patronage of the Government. The Republicans of Maine pledge to the Administration their earnest and faithful support.

RULES OF THE HOUSE.

It recognizes the magnificent and successful contest made by the Republicans in the House of Representatives for the rights of the majority to transact the business of the country, under the leadership of Speaker Reed, who has by the courageous discharge of his duty done honor to the State and a great public service to the country.

MISCELLANEOUS.

It favors the regulation of immigration so as to prevent the introduction of conviet and pauper labor and the criminal classes.

It favors all measures for the national defence and the revival of American commerce.

MAINE DEMOCRATIC, June 4.

THE TARIFF.

We maintain, with Grover Cleveland, that unnecessary taxation is unjust taxation; that taxation shall be reduced to the needs of an economical operation of the Government; that such reduction shall be made on the necessaries of life in common use by the people, and that this shall be done in direct reference to the best interests of American labor as well as the preservation of our manufacturing interests. We adhere to these principles because they are in the interests of the great mass of the people and are in marked opposition to the policy that fosters monopolies, cramps commerce, cripples agriculture by narrowing its market, imposes unequal and unjust burdens upon the necessaries of the laborer, and concentrates an unjust share of the savings of the earnings of the whole into the hands of the millionaires.

The present oppressive war tariff should be reformed so as to lighten burdens upon labor, and not to add to their weight. The necessary expenditures of the National Government are so large that a much larger amount must ever hereafter be raised by duties upon imports than was raised before the war; and hence the issue is not between protection and free trade, but between a tariff in the interest of monopolies and a tariff in the interest of labor, the monopolists' tariff or the laborers' tariff. The farmer and other men of labor have now had a quarter of a century's experience of a tariff too largely in the interest of monopoly. Are they satisfied with the result?

THE NATIONAL ADMINISTRATION.

At the last Presidential election the Democratic candidate's majority of 100,000 was set aside by the corrupt purchase of the floaters in New-York and Indiana by the Quays and Dudleys, and Harrison is in the Presidential chair as the result of this purchase, a crime only equalled by the counting out of Tilden. Since his accession to power, he has shielded the bribers, rewarded the men who furnished the corruption funds, and muzzled the press by subsidizing its editors with large offices, and the Republican leaders in Congress propose to enact a tariff act, not for revenue, not even for protection, but as a job to procure means with which to purchase the next election. They have despotically treated the minority as having no rights which the majority were bound to respect; they have counted out members elected by the people and counted in Senators on certificates proved to be false; and to cap the climax, they now propose to take the ballot box out of the hands of the people on the plea that the people cannot be trusted, and place it in the hands of the minions of the National Administration, and thus by "doing their own registering, their own counting and their own certificating," under the manipulations of their Quays and Dudleys, to consolidate and perpetuate their ill-gotten power.

BALLOT REFORM.

We believe in a reformed ballot system, a secret official ballot, to prevent bribery, fraud and intimidation at the polls.

We renew our pledge to secure the enactment of a secret official ballot.

THE LABOR QUESTION.

We demand that the rights and interests of labor shall be sacredly guarded and fostered.

We favor the principle of arbitration in the settlement of differences between capital and labor, and call upon the next Legislature to enact laws to that end.

We pledge ourselves to support every well-considered measure by which labor seeks to improve its condition and secure its fair share in the product of co-operation with capital.

THE ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR QUESTION.

We denounce this trifling with the Constitution of the State and their shameless hypocrisy in dealing with the temperance question, p omising the unrestricted sale of intoxicating liquors throughout the State.

We recognize the evils of intemperance, and sympathize with all honest, welldirected efforts to eradicate them, and in support of this we appeal to the thoughtful men and women of Maine that all true enforcement of the prohibitory laws has been, with few exceptions, at the hands of Democratic officials.

THE PENSION QUESTION.

We recognize with gratitude the devotion of the soldiers and sailors in the war for the maintenance of the Union, and we pledge our efforts to reward them for their valor and patriotism, and that their needs and merited requests shall not be hindered or delayed or made a prerequisite for party subserviency, We point with pride to the Administration of Grover Cleveland, and gladly contrast his manly efforts, directed for the welfare of the whole people, with those of President Harrison, whose every pledge is violated in attempts to perpetuate his party in power.

MISCELLANEOUS.

We believe in an honest and impartial enforcement of all laws on the statute book and in an honest Civil Service, honestly observed, not prostituted to party, and we cordially invite all voters of Maine who believe in these just and equal principles to unite with us at the polls to make them effective in the practical administration of the Government.

A minority of the Committee on Resolutions reported in favor of resubmitting the Constitutional Amendment, touching the sale of liquors, to the people. This was defeated; yeas 176, nays 273.

MASSACHUSETTS REPUBLICAN, September 17.

THE ADMINISTRATION.

We desire to renew the expression of our unqualified approval of and confidence in the honest and capable administration of the President. The thanks, not only of the Republican party, but of the entire country, are due to him and the members of his Cabinet for the purity, efficiency and businesslike conduct of National affairs which have characterized every branch of the public service. In the Department of State the energy, dignity and commanding ability which have marked all the transactions of the present Administration receive a conspicuous illustration in the treatment of the Behring Sea difliculty, wherein the claims of the United States have been placed on lofty grounds of international right and duty in happy contrast with the narrow and technical contentions with which they have been met. In the Treasury Department the large increase in the internal revenue receipts under precisely the same laws in force during the preceding Administration, the diminished cost of collection, the rapid extinction of the interest-bearing public debt on favorable terms and the reduction, without unnecessary or extravagant expenditures, of the surplus, strikingly evince the benefits the country has derived from the practical sagacity and incorruptible integrity of a Republican Administration. And in the mail service, the customs administrative service, the Department of the Interior, and everywhere throughout the Civil Service of the general Government an improved spirit of enterprise and devotion to public duty, unmixed with politics. has followed the introduction of the methods and maxims of business at once vindicating Civil Service reform principles and attesting the sincere devotion of the Administration to them. ACHIEVEMENTS OF CONGRESS.

8 We specify, as an incomplete list of the achievements of our party in Congress, entitling it to the gratitude of the country, the following legislation, which has either passed both houses and become law, or is now hindered and delayed by the obstructive schemes of the Democrats: The revision of the tariff on those protective principles to which the campaign and victory of 1888 ccmmitted the party, and which, wisely applied and adapted to the existing conditions of business and supplemented by all reasonable and consistent measures for fostering and enlarging our commerce with American nations, afford the best guarantee for the continued prosperity of American industries and American labor; the passage of a disability pension law, in pursuance of that policy of liberality and justice toward the soldiers and sailors of the late war which both parties have ever loudly professed, but which the Republican party alone has manifested any sincere purpose to carry out; the adoption of measures to restore our merchant marine; to create a navy and place our coast in a proper state of defence; the Lassage of a bankrupt law, long demanded by the mercantile interests of the country; a customs administrative law, to prevent the abuses arising from the fraudulent undervaluation of imports, the good effects of which are already felt; an anti-trust law; a law to prevent the further prostitution of the postal service to the gambling schemes of the Louisiana and other lottery associations; a law restoring to the people the vast area of forfeited lands heretofore given upon condition to railroad corporations; a silver law which enlarges without unduly inflating the currency and keeps the party's pledge to preserve the use of both gold and silver as money and at a parity with each other; and a law for the prevention of fraud and force in the election of members to Congress, and to secure the citizens of all parts of the country in the sacred right to cast their ballots freely and to have the same fairly counted in National elections.

FAIR AND FREE ELECTIONS.

We demand that the repeated, distinct and unequivocal pledges of the party in its National platforms, reiterated in many State platforms, in respect to a remedy for the criminal nullification of the Constitution and laws of the United States by the unlawful suppression of the ballot of free citizens in some of the States, shall be redeemed, and we declare it to be the plain duty of every Republican Senator and Representative in Congress to labor unceasingly to place the measure known as the Federal Election bill, or some other equally effective law, upon the statute book of the Nation.

We heartily thank our entire Republican delegation in Congress for their unswerving fidelity to the principles and promises of the party upon this measure, which is clearly within the Constitutional authority of Congress, plainly demanded by existing conditions, moderate and reasonable in its provisions and dangerous only to those who meditate treason against the most vital principle of representative government.

THE CIVIL SERVICE.

We again pledge the Republican party in this State to the fullest sympathy with the Jetter and spirit of every reform which would prevent the bestowal of public offices to

secure political support, and trust that the principle of the Civil Service law will be extended throughout the Postoffice Department, and that the President, under the authority already given him, will exend it wherever practicable. And we call upon our Representatives in Congress to support the Civil Service Commission by such appropri ations as may be required for its greatest efficiency.

We congratulate the Administration on its National Civil Service Commission, which has executed and defended the Civil Service law with courage and vigor. The very successful application of the principles of that reform to the employment of laborers in the city of Boston suggests a method of regulating the employ ment of laborers in the navy yards and other public establishments, which would prevent all charges or suspicions of abuse, and we urge the consideration of this upon the President and Congress.

RULES OF THE HOUSE.

In Congress a Republican majority has diligently addressed itself to a faithful redemption of the pledges on which the party was restored to power. Weak in numerical superiority and encountered by the most factious, unscrupulous and unpatriotic minority that ever disgraced the halls of legislation, the Republicans of the House of Representatives, led by an able and fearless Speaker, have accomplished more important legislation than any House since the war. We congratulate Speaker Reed on the distinguished ability, patience and imperturbable good nature with which he has so efficiently led in a reform in the proceedings of the House, whereby a venerable but absurd fetion has been forever displaced and the responsible majority allowed to resume the power of legislation so plainly conferred by the terms and necessary implications of the Constitution.

MISCELLANEOUS.

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We urge that Congress enact legislation calculated to abolish the vast army pension claim agents who stand between the old soldiers and the Government, by establishing better facilities for the direct presentation and investigation of pension claims, to the end that honest claimants may not suffer embarrassment and delay. The Republican party is, and ever has been, the party of progress and reform, not alone seeking to eradicate ancient and intrenched abuses, but meeting new evils as they arise with energetic and efficient measures of prevention and cure.

We renew the assertion of our fidelity to the principle of temperance and our determination, in the future as in the past, to favor, not only all moral agencies, but also the most effective legislation to suppress the dram shop and saloon, and to restrict and exterminate, so far as legal provisions faithfully enforced can possibly do it, the blighting curse of drink.

We profess unalterable devotion to the cause of public schools, which must be preserved in their integrity, and at the highest standard o efficiency, and can point to a long series of legislative acts, including the present year, evincing the sincerity of our professions.

We reaffirm the principles expressed in former platforms of the party in respect to the duty of the Government, so far as possible, to ameliorate and dignify the condition of the laboring people by a judicious abridgment of the hours of labor, and claim that the statute book of this Commonwealth will prove that the party has always manifested an honest purpose to advance in that direction with no halting or uncertain steps.

MASSACHUSETTS DEMOCRATIC, September 18.

THE MCKINLEY TARIFF BILL.

We denounce the McKinley bill, which the Republican party is about to place upon the statute book, as the most iniquitous piece of legislation ever attempted in this country. Its provisions are a fulfilment of the Democratic prophecy in the last Presidential campaign that Republican revision of the tariff would increase its burdens. Its sweeping advance in rates of duty proves that the Republican managers sccured from protected manufacturers the corruption fund required to carry the Presidential election by the promise that duties should be reduced, while they were assuring the voters that Republican revision meant reduction. The Republican party has not settled the tariff question by meeting its obligations to the manufacturers. The Democratic party will renew its assault upon the Republican system of spoliation the more vigorously when its present evils are aggravated by the passage of the pending bill, and it asks for the control of the next House in order that it may undo the work of the present Congress.

We observe with interest the recent attempt of the Secretary of State to secure the amendment of the McKinley bill by incorporating in it some provision looking toward that American policy based upon more intimate commercial relations with the sixteen sister republics of North. Central and South America which the Demo ratic party demanded in 1888. We regret the failure of this attempt and denounce the so-called reciprocity amendment adopted by the Senate as a characteristic piece of Republican deceit, unconstitutional in granting legislative power to the Executive and objectionable in its threatened imposition of tariff taxes upon hides and other articles now exempt from duty. We renew, and with the more emphasis in view of the approaching passage of the Republican Tariff bill, our demand for free raw materials, particularly wool. coal and iron ore; for lower duties on the necessities of life, and for wider markets for American products, and we emphasize the importance of reciprocal trade with Canada as a means of promoting the commercial and industrial welfare of this Common. wealth.