Historical political party platforms, 1840-2008

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Here's an odd phrase from the 1904 Democratic Platform

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What does this mean? Wasn't their own nominee Alton Parker a Bourbon Democrat?

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Here's an ebook/pdf of an old book that has among other things the platforms from 19th century conventions beyond those on that site:

http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/thomas-hudson-mckee/the-national-conventions-and-platforms-of-all-political-parties-1789-to-1905-c-ala.shtml

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The 1872 platform under the Democrats is just the Liberal Republican platform from the convention in Cincinnati that they then adopted as their own along with that party's candidate.

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Other then social issues the parties basically have been the same for the past 100 years

There are some common threads, but there have been a great deal of change in many areas. Look at trade policy, or federalism.