"The Republican party in its National platform of 1888 bid for and received the support of the silver interests by denouncing the Democratic Administration as untriendly to silver. In accordance with the bargain then made, that party has since passed an act increasing the monthly purchases of silver by the Treasury from about 2,000,000 ounces to 4,500,000 ounces.

"This measure, dictated by the advocates of inflation and by the silver mine owners, who demanded a Government bounty on their product, was an abandonment of the cause of honest money, and could not have become a law without the votes of the Republican members of Congress from Massachusetts.

"This act, increasing two and a half times the coinage of eighty cents worth of silver into a dollar, compelling the Treasury to become the purchaser every day of seven tons of bullion, or more than the whole American product, adding upward of $54,000,000 a year to the volume of currency based upon silver, is a menace to the maintenance of a sound and stable currency, and threatens, if not repealed, to derange values, impair the obligation of contracts and bring the currency of the country to a purely silver basis. "We therefore denounce the claim of the Republican leaders of this State that they are the friends of a sound currency as false and hypocritical, and charge them with the sole and direct responsibility for the present dangerous condition of the currency."

MASSACHUSETTS PEOPLE'S, August 24, 1891.

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Indorses action of conference at Cincinnati on May 19 and 20, demands that importation, manufacture and sale of all spirituous liquors be conducted by Government State; demands that all public employes be subject to Civil Service rules; favors an eight-hour day; demands industrial training in connection with public schools, equal pay for equal work, and that employment of private armed bodies be made a penal offence; demands restricted immigration; declares against conviet labor; favors woman suffrage, annual State elections and insurance by States; and protests against legislation tending to bring medical practice under control of particular schools of medicine.

MASSACHUSETTS SOCIALIST, July 19, 1891.

Demands that eight-hour law shall apply to all Government employes, that Government shall own all interstate railroads, canals, telegraph and telephones, and direct issue of money by U. S. without intervention of banks; inventions to be free to all; uniform civil and criminal laws; a constitutional convention for Massachusetts; compulsory education of all children to age of fourteen; legal incorporation by the State of all legal trades unions, and final union of all industries under National organization; repeal of all pauper, tramp and conspiracy laws; right of combination; the people to have the right to propose laws, and on all measures of importance according to referendum principles; their representatives to be subject to imperative mandate from the people and to recall by their constituencies. For cities it demands election by people of all municipal officers, boards and commissions, with minority representation; repeal of all charters granting municipal franchises and property; ownership and operation by city of all such property and franchises, including élévated and surface railroads, telephones, wharves, ferries, gasworks, electric plants, etc.; municipal ownership of all vacant land within city boundaries, and the building thereon of homes for the people, to be rented to them by the city at cost, thereby doing away with tenement-house system.

MICHIGAN REPUBLICAN, August 28, 1890.*

Commends Harrison Administration, Speaker Reed and Republican majority in Congress, urges enactment of free election laws, commends McKinley bill, action of Congress on silver, favors unlimited use of gold and silver as a basis for legal-tender paper currency, and approves Republican pension policy.

MICHIGAN DEMOCRATIC, September 10, 1890.*

Denounces Harrison Administration, Elections bill, subsidies, opposition to free coinage and McKinley bill, favors liberal pension policy, restoration of unearned lands and secret ballot.

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MINNESOTA REPUBLICAN, July 23, 1890.*

TARIFF.-Approves reciprocity policy recommended by Mr. Blaine; denounces all monopolies, whether under name of trust or not; demands laws for placing on free list any commodity under control of a monopoly, and opposes Federal legislation designed to restrict competition of Canadian with domestic common carriers.

INTOXICATING LIQUORS.-Considers Republican high-license policy best and most efficient method yet devised, and pledges party to a continuance of this policy and a vigilant enforcement of the laws.

TRANSPORTATION.-Favors regulation of tolls of common carriers by Interstate Commerce laws, or if solely within the State by Legislature of State in such a manner as to prevent watering of stock.

MISCELLANEOUS.-Favors wise and discriminating legislation on emigration, reduction of legal rate of interest permitted by written contract, and vigilant enforcement of usury laws; indorses introduction of binding-twine industry into State's prison, approves Australian system of voting, and recommends its adoption by next Legislature; indorses Disability Pension bill.

*Printed at length in Tribune Almanac for 1891.

MINNESOTA DEMOCRATIC,

September 8, 1890.*

TARIFF.-Demands tariff for revenue only; congratulates Republicans on recent con. cessions to Democratic policy involved in advocacy of reciprocity; stigmatizes principal features of McKinley bill as unjust and unnecessary.

CONGRESS.-Denounces Speaker Reed and Republican majority.

PENSIONS.-Censures pension legislation which has led to lavish waste of public treasure in granting pensions to undeserving applicants.

LABOR.-Pledges party to efforts at reforms necessary to promote well-being of all laborers.

MISCELLANEOUS.-Advocates restoration of the merchant marine by repeal of legislation under which Republican party has accomplished its serious impairment; favors all laws practically adapted to furthering of temperance, but denounces sumptu. ary legislation and demands revision of laws governing common carriers and management of public warehouses.

MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, August 28, 1890.*

THE ADMINISTRATION.-Indorses National Administration as "wise, patriotio and faithful to the party and to the people."

CURRENCY, FARMING INTERESTS, TRUSTS, TARIFF AND RECIPROCITY." Resolved that we heartily indorse the wise and business-like course of the LIst Congress in its great work of crystallizing into law those principles of the party enunciated in 1888 on the currency question, and that we regard the farming interests of the country as lying at the foundation of all business prosperity and declare it to be the primary duty of our Legislatures, National and State, to foster those interests so far as can be done by legislation, and that we are opposed to monopolies, combines or trusts which prevent or interfere with the just rewards of honest labor, and we are certain in the faith that the Republican Congress now in session at Washington, keeping the pledge made in our National platform, will pass a tariff measure that will meet the conditions of all classes of industry and labor and will enable us, by adopting the suggestion of the eminent statesman, the Hon. James G. Blaine, to obtain among our sister republics that reciprocity in trade and international good feeling that must in a short while make the western hemisphere the market of the world."

PENSIONS.-Pledges Missouri Republicans "to stand by every measure which Congress may pass that has for its object a liberal and generous recognition of the patriotism and heroism of the soldiers who saved the Union."

RULES OF THE HOUSE.-" We unhesitatingly and heartily indorse the action of Speaker Reed in refusing to permit a minority to obstruct legislation by being present in their seats and refusing to vote."

MISCELLANEOUS.-Reaffirms National platform of 1888, and indorses action of Congress looking to improvement of Missouri River navigation.

MISSOURI DEMOCRATIC, June 12, 1890.* TARIFF.-Condemns Republican tariff, describes trusts as its legitimate result and demands tariff for revenue only.

ELECTIONS.-Resents interference of Federal Government in Congressional elections as unconstitutional.

MISCELLANEOUS.-Declares unfaltering faith in principles of party as to State rights, opposition to class legislation, equal taxation; arraigns Administration for reckless prostitution of the Civil Service; denounces Republican minority in Congress; favors free coinage, forfeiture of unearned land, extension of Australian ballot system to all counties in State, denounces schoolbook trusts, points with pleasure to record of Senator Vest and Governor Francis.

NEBRASKA REPUBLICAN, September 24, 1891.

REPUBLICAN RECORD IN NEBRASKA.-Indorses National platform, congrat ulates people on the marvellous prosperity attending the development and growth of the State of Nebraska during its twenty-four years of Statehood under Republican administration, and asserts that no State which has been controlled by Democratic power during any considerable time of the same period can compare with it in economical management of public affairs, or in the rapid ratio of increase in population, wealth and general prosperity.

PRESIDENT HARRISON.-Congratulates President Harrison on his eminently wise, loyal and courageous Administration, declares absolute confidence in his integrity, ability and patriotism, and pledges him cordial support.

SILVER COINAGE.-"We approve of the silver coinage act of the present Administration, by which the entire product of the silver mines of the U. S. is added to the currency of the people, but we denounce the Democratic doctrine of the free and unlimited coinage of silver as a financial policy liable to precipitate the people of every city

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and every State in the Union in a prolonged and disastrous depression, and delay the revival of business enterprise and prosperity so ardently desired, and now so apparently near. The free and unlimited coinage of silver would tend to the hoarding of gold and to force the use of cheap money in the payment of wages in every workshop, mill, factory, store and form, and tend to the scaling down of wages of the toilers already depressed, and weakening the purchasing power of the dollar which would be used to purchase the products of the farmers. We are in favor of having every dollar as good as any other dollar.

PROTECTION TO AMERICAN INDUSTRIES AND LABOR.-"We demand the maintenance of the American system of protection of American industries and labor, the policy that has been identified with every period of our national prosperity, and we admire the genius of that heroic statesman, William McKinley, jr., whom the people of Ohio will make their next Governor as a recognition of his magnificent services to the country.

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INTERSTATE COMMERCE.-"We are heartily in favor of the general provisions of the Interstate Commerce act, and we demand the regulation of all railway and transportation lines in such a manner as to insure fair and reasonable rates to producers and consumers of the country. We favor such legislation as will prevent all illegal combinations and unjust exactions by aggregated capital and corporate powers. We insist upon the suppression of all trusts, combines and schemes designed to artificially increase the price of the necessaries of life."

WORLD'S FAIR.-Favors additional World's Fair appropriations by next Legis

lature.

DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM AND PARTY.-Denounces Grand Island platform of the Democratic party as framed with deliberate purpose to mislead and deceive; to the pretended friendship for the soldier, while at the same time the Democratic party has always proclaimed against the granting of liberal pensions; to the free silver plank, intended to deceive the supporters of free and unlimited coinage of silver, when it is known that many of the leaders of the party are opposed to this doctrine; to the failure to give the people relief from exorbitant freight rates, while it was afraid either to approve or censure the action. Denounces Democratic party for its insinuations against the integrity of the State, its double dealing with the civil and political rights of the people wherein it appears to favor free and untrammelled elections in the State of Nebraska, but never raises its voice against Southern political outrages, and arraigns it as the enemy of labor.

MISCELLANEOUS.-Commends and indorses recipro city and Mr. Blaine's foreign

policy.

NEBRASKA DEMOCRATIC, September 11, 1891.

TARIFF.-"We condemn the McKinley bill as a bold and shameless attempt to repay out of the pockets of the people to the protected industries the amount contributed by them for the purpose of wholesale corruption at the last Presidential election. We direct public attention to the fact that while the bill pretends to help the farmer by useless additions to the agricultural products, it in fact multiplies the people's burdens, and increases their taxes, lessens the price of their products and decreases the purchasing power of their income. We demand a tariff for revenue, limited to the necessities of the government, returning from the special to constitutional taxation; we favor placing raw materials on the free list, greatly reducing the burdens of the necessaries of life, and of imposing the heaviest duties upon luxuries."

RECIPROCITY.-"We denounce the one-sided reciprocity as proposed by the present Administration, which invites commercial intercourse only with nations which buy our manufacturing products and denies freedom of exchange with those nations which purchase our surplus agricultural products, as an attempt to continue to favor manufacturing industries, in another form, the advantage which they have had under the system of protection, and we demand that all legislation on this subject shall give to the farmer equal consideration with the other classes of society."

SUBSIDIES.-"We condemn the giving of subsidies and bounties of every kind as a perversion of the taxing power. We are in favor of the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people. We denounce all trusts, pools and combines, and we favor such action, State and National, as will forfeit to the public all franchises and property owned or used by corporations or other concerns to form trusts in manufactures, trade or commerce, to the injury and spoliation of the people, and also to insure the punishment criminally of individuals conspiring against the public welfare. On behalf of the laboring classes and producing masses we renew that devotion to their interests and rights which has always been the fundamental doctrine and practice of the Democratic party."

SILVER. "We favor the free coinage of silver, and that it may be made a full and legal tender for all debts, private or public, and denounce as unjust and dishonest the provision of the law recently enacted allowing parties to stipulate against payment in silver and silver certificates, thus setting up one standard for the rich and another for the

poor."

MISCELLANEOUS.-Congratulates people on defeat of Prohibition amendment and National Elections bill, favors protection of labor, liberal pensions, denounces ousting of James E. Boyd from Governorship, arraigns Republican State Board of Transportation for failing to reduce freight rates, and favors protection of labor, liberal pensions, creation of elective office of railroad commissioner, and law governing freight charges.

NEBRASKA ndependENT, August 18, 1891.

LANDS AND RAILROADS.-Demands Government ownership of all means of public communication and transportation, and, until such ownership can be effected, that Legislature enact a freight rate law for railroad service, which shall fix rates no higher than those in force in Iowa; demands that corporations enjoying public franchises shall assume public burdens and be compelled to answer in damages for injuries Bustained by employes while in the line of duty; demands passage of laws prohibiting allen ownership of land, and discouraging speculating in land; that Congress obtain all land now owned by alien and foreign syndicates, that all lands held by railroads and other corporations not actually needed be reclaimed, and held for actual settlers. Denounces veto of maximum freight rate bill as an outrage perpetrated on people of Nebraska in interest of railroads; heartily commends independent members of Legisla ture, except Taylor, Collins and Gale, for honestly endeavoring to enact their platform into law.

EIGHT-HOUR LAW.-Expresses heartiest sympathy with wage earners of the State who are engaged in effort to enforce eight-hour law, and condemns in unmeasured terms action of all individuals and corporations who refuse to obey it.

PENSION QUESTION.-Declares in favor of a service pension bill, a bill equalizing soldiers' bounties and pensioning prisoners of war, and agrees to stand by and maintain the soldiers' and sailors' home in order that no soldier may become inmate of almshouse or be buried as a pauper.

CONVICT LABOR.-"We denounce the present system of convict labor as maintained and fostered by the Republican party in this State; that we believe the contract was fraudulently obtained, and that the contract conditions have not been complied with and that its perpetration at each session of the Legislature is a source of constant corrup tion, and that it maintains and supports a gang of boodlers who in every way at the last session of the Legislature sought to reverse the will of the people, abducted a State Senator, and ran a free bar in the room of the State Auditor in the Capitol Building, and by blackmail, bribery and shameless conduct generally disgraced the State.

THIRD PARTY IN 1892.-"We commend the action of our delegates in the Cincinnati conference in recommending National independent political action for 1892.

POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS.-"We ask our representative in Congress to demand the establishment of postal savings banks, with a money order system So extended as to replace the banking exchange of the entire country.

A resolution was adopted favoring abolition of U. S. histories from the schools which do not include the fireside history of the country, and another favoring appointment of a State Board of Arbitration, with power to enforce its findings.

NEBRASKA PROHIBITIONIST, August 28, 1890.*

Avows adherence to principles of National Prohibition platform of 1888, declaring for Australian ballot, favoring reduction in hours of labor, condemning trusts, inviting laboring men to join in the suppression of liquor traffic, declaring for woman suffrage, demanding State ownership of railways and transportation at cost, favoring just pensions, and election of President, Vice-President and U. S. Senators by popular vote. Supplementary resolutions approve plan of canvass inaugurated by W. C. T. U. for National constitutional prohibition, recognizing W. C. T. U. as powerful ally, recommending gen. eral temperance revival in churches of Nebraska, urging upon State Central Committeo inauguration of a school-district campaign, and asking Directors of World's Fair to pro hibit sale of liquor on Fair grounds. A resolution asking Fair Directors to close Exposition on Sundays was tabled by vote of 108 to 103.

NEBRASKA LABOR, July 29, 1890.*

CURRENCY.-"Our financial system should be reformed by the restcration of silver to its old-time place in currency, and its free and unlimited coinage on an equality with gold, and by the increase of our money circulation until it reaches the sum of $50 per capita, and all paper issues to secure that amount should be made by the Government alone, and be a full legal-tender for all debts, public and private."

LAND.-Advocates limitation of ownership or graded taxation of excessive holdings and prohibition of alien ownership.

RAILROADS.-"That the general Government should own and operate the railways and telegraphs and furnish transportation at cost, the same as mail facilities are now furnished, and that our Legislature shall enact a freight aw which shall fix rates no higher than those now in force in Iowa."

MISCELLANEOUS.-Demands readjustment of tariff and taxation, Australian ballot law, liberal service pensions, eight-hour work-day, and denounces political machinery of State.

NEW-HAMPSHIRE REPUBLICAN, 1890.* TARIFF.-Approves, as a whole, McKinley Bill, strongly advocates reciprocity, favors shipping subsidies and improvement of Navy.

ELECTIONS.-Demands speedy passage of Federal Elections bill, "a mild, just and most necessary measure."

*Printed at length in Tribune Almanac for 1891.

TRUSTS.-Approves recent legislation of Congress against illegal trusts and combinations, and asks for further appropriate legislation to the same end. Declares that wage-workers ought to have free right to organize to secure full wages, suitable hours of labor, and all other privileges and exemptions, but that neither organizations of labor nor of capital should be allowed to violate laws or practise violence or intimidation.

MISCELLANEOUS.-Approves Republican pension legislation, control of ma. jority in House, favors only efficient changes in liquor law, and favors Australian Lallot.

NEW-HAMPSHIRE DEMOCRATIC, September 2, 1890.*

THE ADMINISTRATION.-Arraigns Administration "for the profligate waste of the surplus revenue, for its degradation of the Civil Service, for the corruption is has developed in every department of the Government, and for its infirm management of our foreign affairs as in striking contrast with the prudent, firm, conservative, and statesmanlike Administration of President Cleveland,"

MCKINLEY TARIFF.-"Resolved, That we favor a tariff which, yielding a revenue adequate to support the Government, economically administered, will fully compensate for all differences between the cost of manufacturing in this and foreign countries, including the cost of labor; and we demand that the present war tariff be reformed so that the duties upon imported goods shall bear less heavily upon articles which laboring men are compelled to buy than upon luxuries, and that as far as practicable raw material for manufacturing be put upon the free list."

CONGRESS.-Denounces unseating of Representatives and charges that Senate's ac, tion in seating Montana Senators was "nothing less than grand larceny."

MISCELLANEOUS.-Denounces Elections bill, favors liberal pensions and antiA resolution declaring in favor of a judicious license law was referred.

trust legislation.

NEW-YORK REPUBLICAN, September 9, 1891.

The Republicans of the State of New-York, by their chosen representatives, appeal to the electors, and declare: They adhere to the principles on which the National victory was won in 1888, by the decisive electoral votes in this State, and they approve the legislation of the LIst Congress in the embodiment of those principles.

NATIONAL ADMINISTRATION.-They commend the wisdom and purity of the Administration of President Harrison, who has brought himself near to the hearts of the people by his ability and fidelity in the enforcement of the laws and the performance of his duties, and also by the admirable presentation of American principles which he has made in his addresses to the people. The Administration commands the confidence and respect of the American people by its intelligent, efficient and sagacious conduct of the public business in all the Departments, especially by the ability and energy displayed by a distinguished citizen of this State in building up a Navy to become adequate to the National defence; by the thorough and successful management of the vast transactions of the Treasury under the present Secretary and his lamented predecessor; and by the brilliant and conservative treatment of our foreign relations by the Secretary of State, which has raised the American name to the highest position ever attained among the nations of the globe.

TARIFF.-The revenue legislation of the LIst Congress, both in the Tariff and Administrative act, is a just and proper application of the policy of protection to American labor and the control of home markets for the industry of our own people; and the fruits of this legislation are increasing daily in the establishment of new factories, in steadier employment to wage-earners, in better prices to the farmer for the products of the soil, and in the assurance of financial independence for our country in the face of monetary distress throughout Europe and South America. By well-adjusted treaties of reciprocity, the Administration is opening the markets of the Western world to our surplus farm products and manufactures, by admitting fre of duty such articles as we do not and cannot produce in adequate quantity and securing in exchange such articles as it is profitable for our farms and factories to export. The joint operation of such reciprocity and of the protective system, with the restoration of the American flag to the ocean carrying trade, promises to develop our foreign commerce on a healthful basis advantageous to all our industries.

SILVER.-The act of July 14, 1890, provides for the purchase of the silver product of American mines, and issuing of the new Treasury notes, protected by a reserve of 100 cents worth of silver for every dollar issued. We commend this policy of maintaining gold and silver at a parity, the Treasury notes paid for silver to be kept at par with gold. The voice of New-York is emphatic against any degradation of the currency, and demands with President Harrison that "every dollar issued by the Government, whether paper or coin, shall be as good as every other dollar."

PENSIONS.-The Republican party, not forgetting the critical days when the needs of the Republic counted neither bicod nor treasure, while mindful of the dictates of economy and avoiding reaction invited by excess of appropriaticns, favors the fulfilment of the pledges given to the soldiers of the Union that the Nation which they saved would

*Printed in Tribune Almanac for 1891.