The Democracy ot North Carolina
submit to the voters of the State the
following declaration of principles,
viz :
Resolved 1, That we re-affirm the
doctrines of the party as enunciated
by the Chicago Convention of 1892 ;
and desire to signify as follows what
is the constiuction placed by us upon
the section thereof relating to silver,
viz :
We hold that it is the duty ot the
law-making department of the govern
ment, now in the hands of the Demo
cracy, to take immediate steps to re
store by legislation the equal privil
eges of silver with gold at the mints,
by the free and unlimited coinage of
both gold and silver at the ratio of 16
to 1, such being the ratio of coinage
which heretofore has held in the United
States.
Resolved 2, That we urge upon the
said law-making department of the
government the abolition of the uncon
stitutional and prohibitive tax of 10
per cent, upon the issues of State
banks.
Resolved 3, That, in view of the
depleted condition in which the late
Republican administration left the
Treasury of the United States present
ing as it did, such a lamentable con
trast to the overflowing condition in
which it was delivered by Mr. Cleve
land's first administration to its Re
publican succesor we urge upon the
said law-making department, the im
mediate enactment of an income tax.
Resolved 4, That we emphatically
approve the tariff doctrine enunciated
by the Chicago platform.
