nounce the present Governor of Ohio for having converted the benevolent institutions into political machines, making political merchandise of the sufferings and calamities of the helpless wards of the State, and we point with pride to the more patriotic and wise management of State affairs under the Admin stration of Governor J. B. Foraker. We denounce Governor Campbell and the LXIXth General Assembly for violating their party pledges and the rights of local self-government by legislative reorganization of numerous towns and cities for solely partisan purposes. We denounce the late "Ripper" Legislature for having sanctioned and encouraged the increase of local taxation and for increasing the expenditures of the State more than a half million of dollars in excess of the appropriations of any preceding two years, thus bringing the State to the verge of Lankruptcy in spite of the generous appropriation made by a Republican Congress in the act refunding the direct tax. We denounce the late "Ripper'' Senate of Ohio for unseating the legally elected Lieutenant-Governor, thus robbing the people of their right under the Constitution to select an important public officer, and we appeal to all intelligent and patriotic people of Ohio to unite with us in the recovery of the State from the hands of the party that for two years past has disgraced it."

OHIO DEMOCRATIC, July 15, 1891.

THE STATE ADMINISTRATION.-"The Democracy of Ohio, in convention as sembled, hereby resolve that we most heartily indorse the honesty and economy of the Administration of Governor James E. Campbell, and commend the LXIXth General Assembly for its business qualifications, economy and reform, and especially for having provided for a secret ballot, by which every voter in Ohio can cast his ballot in secret as he desires, and have his vote counted as cast; and we invite attention to the fact that the Republican party, through hypocritically professing to favor a free ballot and a fair count,' yet opposed and voted against the bill providing for a free and secret ballot, thus demonstrating its professions to be insincere and for political effect only; and we cordially indorse and approve the act of the Legislature regulating the compensation of county officers by providing for a fixed salary."

TARIFF.-"We are opposed to all class legislation, and believe in a tariff levied for the sole purpose of procuring a revenue sufficient to defray the legitimate expenses of the Government economically administered. We accept the issue tendered to us by the Republican party on the subject of the tariff as represented by the so-called MeKinley Tariff act, confident that the verdict of the people of Ohio will be recorded against the iniquitous policy of so-called protection, championed by the Republican party in the interest of favored classes against the masses."

COINAGE.-"We denounce the demonetization of silver in 1873 by the party then in power as an iniquitous alteration of the money standard in favor of creditors and against debtors, taxpayers and producers, and which, by shutting off one of the sources of supply of primary money, operates continually to increase the value of gold, depress prices, hamper industry and discourage enterprise; and we demand the reinstatement of the Constitutional standard of both gold and silver, with the equal right of each to free and unlimited coinage."

LIst CONGRESS.-"We denounce the Republican billion-dollar Congress which by extravagant expenditures exhausted a surplus in the National Treasury, left there by a Democratic Administration, and created a deficit; which substituted despotic rule for free discussion in the House of Representatives; and we congratulate the people on the defeat of the odious Force bill, demanded by a Republican President and championed by the Republican party for the purpose of perpetuating its rule by perverting the constitutional powers of the Government, destroying free elections and placing the ballot-box in the hands of unscrupulous partisans in order, as declared by Speaker Reed, to register the voters, supervise the elections, count the ballots and declare the result.'

"PERSONAL LIBERTY" LEGISLATION.-"We are opposed to the enactment of all laws which unnecessarily interfere with the habits and customs of any of our people which are not offensive to the moral sentiments of the civilized world, and we believe that the personal rights of the individual should be curtailed only when it is essential to the maintenance of the peace, good order and welfare of the community."

MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT.-Favors laws giving uniform system of municipal gov ernment, in which executive and legislative power shall be separated, former to be lodged in a Mayor and latter in a Council, both to be elected by the people.

COMMERCIAL RELATIONS WITH CANADA.-"We favor closer commercial relations with our Canadian neighbors and the removal of the embarrassing and annoying restrictions which only vex our people without yielding any substantial revenue to the Government."

PENSIONS.-"We favor liberal and just pensions to deserving and honest soldiers and sailors who fought for the maintenance of the Government, and like pensions to their widows and orphan children."

MISCELLANEOUS.-Favors

a graduated income tax and believes Government

should act to alleviate wrongs of Russian Jews.

The minority of Committee on Resolutions recommended that the resolution for a graduated income tax be stricken out, and that it be amended so as to read: "We believe in honest money, the coinage of gold and silver as a circulating medium convertible into such money without loss; and we oppose all legislation which tends to drive either gold or silver out of circulation; and we believe in maintaining the coinage of both

metals on a parity."

After debate this report was defeated, yeas 3002, nays 38912, and the platform was then adopted as a whole.

OHIO PEOPLE'S PARTY, August 6, 1891.

MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT.-Demands that Constitution be so amended that it will be impossible to change the forms of municipal government to meet changing fortunes of politicians, and that no change of forms of municipal governments be permitted without consent of the people.

DEALING IN FUTURES.-"We demand the enactment and rigid enforcement of a law for the suppression of all forms of gambling in futures on all agricultural and mechanical products."

SUNDRY SPECIAL DEMANDS.-"We demand the rigid enforcement of laws against the adulteration or counterfeiting of food; free school books for our public school system and compulsory education; the prohibition of child labor under fourteen years of age; the abolition of contract prison labor, believing in the doctrine of equal rights and special privileges to none; that taxation, National, State or municipal, shall not be used to build up one interest at the expense of another."

ABOLITION OF NATIONAL BANKS.-"The right to make and issue money is a Sovereign power to be maintained by the people for common benefit, hence we deman the abolition of National banks as banks of issue, and as a substitute for National bank notes we demand that full legal Treasury notes be issued in sufficient volume to con. duct the business of the country on a cash basis: and we favor Government loans directly to the people on real estate or other ample security at a rate of interest not exceeding 2 per cent."

COINAGE.-"We demand free and unlimited coinage of silver."

ECONOMICAL GOVERNMENT.-"We oppose extravagance that collects off the people each year $500,000,000 in a time of peace."

LAND.-"We demand the passage of laws prohibiting alien ownership of lands, and that Congress take prompt action to devise some plan to obtain all land now owned by alien and foreign syndicates, and that all lands held by railroads and other corporations in excess of such as is actually used and needed by them be reclaimed by the Government and held for actual settlers only."

TAX ON INCOMES.-"We demand a just and suitable system of graduated tax on incomes."

PENSIONS.-"We favor liberal pensions to all honorably discharged Union soldiers of the late Civil War, and generous care for their widows and orphans, and demand that the differences between the value of gold and greenbacks at the date of payment be made equal to gold, so as to place the soldier on the same footing as the bondholder has been."

MISCELLANEOUS.-Demands that right to vote should be given to everybody, irrespective of sex or color. Government ownership of all means of transportation and communication; favors election of U. S. Senators by direct vote, and demands for. feiture of Standard Oil charter.

The following resolution on the saloon question was reported by the committee: "We believe that the solution of the labor problem lies in abolishing the element of profit, which is a source of constant temptation and evil, and we therefore demand that the exclusion, importation, exportation, manufacture and sale of spirituous liquors shall be conducted by the Government or State at cost through agencies and salaried officials in such towns and cities as shall apply for such agencies." This was debated in convention and referred to the National Committee of the party. The platform was then adopted as a whole.

OHIO PROHIBITION, June 11, 1891.

Denounces liquor traffic; demands revision of immigration and naturalization laws to prevent aliens voting until one year after naturalization; declares for woman suffrage; denounces speculation in margins; recommends pensions to soldiers and sailors, their widows and orphans, according to time of service; recognizes gold, silver and currency as proper circulating medium, issued in sufficient quantity to meet demands; favors reclamation of unearned land grants and no more grants; declares tariff should be assessed on goods from such countries as tax American products; expenses of Government paid by income tax; all official fees turned into public treasury, and salaries paid to all officials.

OREGON REPUBLICAN, April 16, 1890,*

BALLOT REFORM.-Favors adoption of Australian ballot system and pledges party to enact law at next session of Legislature, substantially on line of act drafted by Oregon Reform League.

TARIFF.-Favors "continuance of that system of protection which has developed the manufacturing and agricultural interests of our country and protected American laboring men from degrading competition with the pauperized and poverty-stricken labor of the Old World, and to this end we indorse the provisions of the bill known as the McKinley Tariff bill, now pending before Congress, and on behalf of the woolgrowers and other industries of the Pacific Northwest we urge upon our representatives in Congress to do all in their power to secure the early passage of said bill.”

*Printed at length in Tribune Almanac for 1801.

SILVER. "Recognizing the fact that the United States is the greatest silver-producing 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 legislation against silver, which unduly contracted the circulating medium of the country, and rec. ognizing that the great interests of the people demand more money for use in the channels of trade and commerce; therefore, we declare ourselves in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver, and denounce any attempt to discriminate against silver as unwise and unjust."

LAND.-"We demand the immediate forfeiture by Congress of the land grant of the Northern Pacific Railroad from Wallula to Portland. We are in favor of an early survey of unsurveyed public lands in this State, that the same may be claimed and occupied and tillers speedily procured by bona-fide settlers, under the laws of the U. S. We demand liberal appropriations by Congress to secure that end." LABOR.-Favors eight-hour work day, denounces convict contract labor system and demands more effective measures for excluding Chinese.

THE ADMINISTRATION.-Congratulates country on success and prosperity of Har rison Administration; and commends it for applying surplus funds to payment of interest-paying bonds, as contrasted with Democratic policy of lending surplus to banki which retained their bonds and collected interest thereon while using the people's money.

MISCELLANEOUS.-Favors laws restricting trusts, enlarged liberality with pensions, economical government, boat railway at the Dalles of the Columbia, improvements, reasonable limitation of corporate power, and commends Speaker Reed.

OREGON DEMOCRATIC, April 24, 1890.*

TARIFF.-Favors tariff for revenue, limited to expenses of Government economically administered; condemns McKinley tariff as an aggravation of existing evils; and condemns "attempt of Republican majority in Congress to reduce the surplus in the Treasury by squandering and misappropriating the same, and we es ecially denounce the attempt to appropriate a portion of such surplus which belongs to the whole people to the payment of a bounty on (sugar, which compels the many to pay direct tribute to the few."

CURRENCY.-"We reaffirm the position which has ever been maintained by the Democratic party that gold and silver are equally the people's money; we are opposed to all measures of discrimination against silver, and demand free coinage to supply the needs of business; and that all money issued by the Government be made legal-tender for all debts, both public and private."

MISCELLANEOUS.--Demands strict enforcement of Scott Exclusion act, and stronger laws for excluding Chinese; favors immediate forfeiture of all unearned land grants, discrimination in awarding pensions, eight-hour workday, laborers' first-lien law, election of United States Senators by direct vote, regulation of acts of common carriers; denounces Speaker Reed, convict contract system, seating of Montana Senators; urges improvement of Columbia and Willamette; pledges party to advance common school system, and urges adoption of Australian ballot.

PENNSYLVANIA REPUBLICAN, August 19, 1891.

NATIONAL PLATFORM AND ADMINISTRATION.-"The Republican party of Pennsylvania, in convention assembled, reaffirming the cardinal principles of the party enunciated by the National Convention of 1888, and approving the course of the Republicans of the LIst Congress in incorporating them into the law of the land, make the following declaration: We heartily indorse the broad and statesmanlike Administration of President Harrison, which has exhibited an intelligent and inflexible purpose to execute the Federal laws, maintain the dignity of Ameri can institutions, and insure the continuance and growth of prosperity and peace in the Nation.""

POSTMASTER-GENERAL WANAMAKER.-"We view with peculiar satisfaction the direction of the affairs of the Postollice Department by one of our own citizens, the Hon. John Wanamaker, whose clean, business-like and comprehensive administration of its affairs has advanced the postal operations of the Nation to a plane never previously attained."

SECRETARY BLAINE.-"It has been with especial gratification that the Republicans of this Commonwealth have observed the brilliant administration of the State Department by one of Pennsylvania's native sons, whose superb diplomacy has electrified the hearts of all Americans, exacted from foreign peoples a degree of respect and admiration for the United States flag hitherto unequalled, and opened wide to us in other lands commercial gates heretofore barred. These magnificent achievements justify the confidence and furnish new occasion for us now to reaffirm the loyalty and devotion of the Republicans of Pennsylvania to her most distinguished son-the Hon. James G. Blaine."

TARIFF. "We cordially indorse the action of the Republican Congress in passing the McKinley bill, in conformity with the National pledge to protect the material interests of American labor. This beneficent measure has, in spite of malignant Democratic abuses and misrepresentation, already brought about, and will in the future continue to bring about, a broader and more settled prosperity to all classes, particularly to the operative, the mechanic, the miner and the farmer."

* Printed at length in Tribune Almanac for 1891.

COINAGE. "We favor bi-metallism and indorse the action of the LIst Congress in providing for the purchase and coinage of all the gold and silver produced from American mines, and we recommend such tariff duties as will protect our country and currency from the debasement which will surely follow if this Nation is made the dumping ground for the silver of the world."

PENSIONS.-"We reffirm our devotion to the welfare of those who sacrificed property, home, health and life for the Nation's honor during the late war, and we cordially approve the action of successive Congresses, particularly the LIst, in spite of malicious and unrelenting Democratic opposition, in providing proper and adequate financial aid to all deserving veterans still surviving, and to the widows and orphans of those who have entered the bivouac of the dead."

LABOR.-"The Republican party of Pennsylvania has never hesitated to pledge itself to reforms demanded by public sentiment, and has never faltered in carrying out the promises so made. In accordance with pledges given we have recently placed upon our statute-books numerous laws having for their object the amelioration and advancement of labor in this State, thereby winning the unqualified and public approval of the wage-earners of the commonwealth."

CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION AND UNRESTRICTED BALLOT.-"In ac. cordance with the promise contained in our platform of last year, and mainly in compliance with the expressed wishes of various labor organizations, we have made provision for the submission to the people in November next of the question of holding a Constitutional Convention, with a view to such changes in the organic law of the commonwealth as may be deemed expedient. Als in conformity with the promise made a year ago, we have enacted a law having in view an absolutely pure and unrestricted ballot. We pledge the party to such changes and improvements, if any, which a practical application of this law may prove to be essential to a fuller accomplishment of its purposes, and, in the event of the negative action in November next upon the question of holding a Constitutional Convention, we promise, with a view to eliminating the provision in our present Constitution compelling the numbering of ballots, to enact the necessary legislation for submitting a special constitutional amendment upon this particular subject to the people of the State at the earliest day possible." STATE TAXATION.-" Furthermore, in compliance with pledges made to the peo ple, the Republican party, having in view the equalization of taxation, has enacted meas ures whereby, mainly through an increase in taxation on corporations, the State appropriation to the public schools has been increased from $2,000,000 to $5,000,000 nually, and the personal property tax returned to the counties increased from $500,000 to $1,700,000 annually. It has further provided for the return of all the retail liquor licenses, aggregating $2,500,000, to the respective counties, cities, boroughs and townships. We pledge ourselves to renewed efforts in the same direction to the end that our revenue laws may be so revised as to treat with equality all the various industries of the Commonwealth, thus relieving the land of the farmer from the unfair dis crimination to which it has heretofore been subjected."

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THE STATE ADMINISTRATION.-"We denounce the unscrupulous partisanship of Governor Pattison in vetoing all the apportionment bills passed, in compliance with constitutional direction, by the late Republican Legislature, and in negativing other legislation, particularly the compulsory education bill, having in view the ma terial and moral interests of the people of Pennsylvania."

MALFEASANCE IN OFFICE.-"We commend the Republican Mayor, City Solici tor, County Controller and District-Attorney of Philadelphia for their discovery and prompt prosecution of those guilty of official malfeasance. Dishonesty is non-partisan. Tweeds and Bardsleys arise in all parties. The Republican party has always shown itself ready to punish official dishonesty wherever found, and we urge the before-mentioned officers to prosecute to conviction any and every guilty official without regard to his politics."

STATE REVENUE LAWS.-"We are in favor of the prompt repeal by the Legislature of all the mercantile taxes levied by the State, and of such amendments to the revenue and other laws as will effectually promote the orderly receipt, the lawful and safe custody and the prompt and proper disbursement, not only of the moneys of the Commonwealth, but of all its cities, boroughs and townships; and the law should be so improved as to absolutely prevent the use of public funds, small or great, for the personal benefit of public officials."

FEDERAL ELECTION LAW-"We reaffirm the unswerving devotion of Pennsylvania Republicans to the supreme and sovereign right of every lawful citizen, rich or poor, native or foreign born, black or white, to cast one free ballot in public elections, and to have that ballot counted as cast; and we demand effective legislation, within Constitutional limits, to secure the integrity and purity of Federal elections throughout the Union."

Pending adoption of platform, an amendment was offered to add to the third resolution: "And we earnestly express the hope that the Republican National Convention of 1892 may place him in nomination for the Presidency, believing that he will be triumphantly elected." The motion was debated, and before a final vote was taken was withdrawn by the mover. The following resolutions were adopted:

REPRESENTATION IN STATE CONVENTIONS AND DISTRICT CONFERENCES. "That representation in future State Conventions shall be based upon the vote cast for the Republican candidate for President at the preceding Presidential election, one delegate being allotted to each legislative district for every 2,000 Republican votes, and an additional delegate for a fraction exceeding 1,000 votes, each district to

have at least one delegate; that we recommend that in all Congressional, Senatorial and Judicial districts composed of more than one county, in which the custom of the party is now to nominate candidates and name delegates to National Conventions by means of the conferee system, representation in the conference shall be based upon the Republican vote in each county of said district."

PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRATIC, September 2, 1891.

GENERAL DECLARATIONS.-"We, the representatives of the Democracy of Pennsylvania, in convention assembled, renew our pledges of devotion to the principles of our party in the country at large, as declared in the platform of the National Conventions of 1884 and 1888, and approved in the election of those years by a majority of the American people. We are, as we have always been, in favor of honest and economical administration of public affairs; of limiting expenses and reducing taxation to meet the actual necessities of government; of a sound and stable currency based on gold and silver, coined and circulated in such proportions as will keep them on a parity; of a reform and revision of the tariff; of liberal but just pension laws, and of all well-considered legislation tending to increase the rewards and lighten the burdens of labor."

NO ISSUE OF FEDERAL POLITICS.-"We realize and affirm that the State election of 1891 in Pennsylvania involves no issue of Federal politics; we appeal to honest and patriotic citizens, regardless of past party affiliations, to unite in vindicating the honor of this commonwealth and redeeming the fiscal and auditing departments of it government from official and corrupt practices."

SHORTCOMINGS OF THE REPUBLICAN LEGISLATURE.-"We arraign and condemn the Republican Legislature for having refused to enforce the Constitution by appropriate legislation, for having failed to pass honest and equitable apportionment bills as required by the Constitution, for having ignored the demands of labor for relief by law, for having denied the righteous popular demand for such laws as would distribute the burdens of public taxation equally upon all classes of property, and for having refused to reform fong-existing abuses in the mercantile appraisement laws, as recommended by the Democratic Executive in 1885. We araign and condemn the Re publican Legislature for the enactment of vexatious, oppressive and vicious legislation, against which the Executive veto was interposed for the protection of the people."

SHORTCOMINGS OF REPUBLICAN OFFICIALS.-"We arraign and condemn the Republican party of Pennsylvania for electing men to State and municipal offices by whose neglect of duty, complicity, fraud and plunder of the public treasury a million and a half dollars of the people's money have been stolen and squandered. We arraign and condemn the Republican Auditor-General for having permitted John Bardsley, the Republican Treasurer of Philadelphia city and county, to embezzle a half million dollars of State tax collected by him, which he was permitted to retain for a long period after the same was due and payable. We arraign and condemn the Republican Auditor-General for having permitted John Bardsley, the Republican treasurer of Philadelphia city and county, to embezzle more than $360,000 of State license moneys collected by him, which he was permitted to retain for a long period after the same was due and payable. We arraign and condemn the Republican Auditor-General for having conspired with John Bardsley, the Republican treasurer of Philadelphia city and county, to appoint and retain corrupt mercantile appraisers, who abused their office for their own private pecuniary advantage, robbed the State of its just revenues, and imposed upon the Commonwealth hundreds of thousands of dollars of needless costs, and we demand the dismissal of the mercantile appraisers of Philadelphia. We arraign and condemn the Republican Auditor-General for having conspired with John Bardsley, the Republican treasurer of Philadelphia city and county, to speculate in public advertising, and for having received from the publishers of the same bribes to influence their official conduct in placing such advertisements. We arraign and condemn the Republican Auditor-General for having failed to promptly collect the taxes and claims of the Commonwealth against delinquent and defaulting public and private corporations. We arraign and condemn the Republican State Treasurer for wilfully and knowingly permitting John Bardsley to retain in his possession over a million dollars of money collected for and owing to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by reason of which dereliction a large portion of the money has been lost to the people. We arraign and condemn the Republican State Treasurer for having conspired with John Bardsley, the Republican treasurer of Philadelphia, to secure to him the payment of $425,000 of the public school funds, long in advance of the usual time and when Bardsley was already known to the State Treasurer to be a defaulter for over a half million dollars, which sum thus improvidently paid to Bardsley was by him embezzled, to the loss of Philadelphia city and the shame and scandal of the State. We arraign and condemn the Republican State Treasurer and the Republican Auditor-General for having conspired to pay to John Bardsley, the Republican treasurer of Philadelphia city and county, on December 30, 1890, $150,000 out of the State Treasury, ostensibly on account of Philadelphia County's share of the personal property tax; but actually before that tax had been paid into the State Treasury, and when John Bardsley was already a defaulter and embezzler on account to the amount of $622,013 11. We arraign and condemn the Republican party of Pennsylvania for having fostered, encouraged, protected and continued a reckless system of official speculation with public moneys, whereby State and city treasurers have enriched themselves, corrupted the public morals and robbed the taxpayers. The practice of using public funds for private gain or political advantage is to be condemned and should be completely and thoroughly eradicated. We arraign and condemn the Republican State Convention, recently assembled, for its condonation and defence of faith