Historical political party platforms, 1840-2008

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

It's a interesting historical link that is relevant enough to this forum that I've decided to sticky this thread until we've got enough sticky topics to make having a summary topic containing such links useful.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

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?

The Bourbon label was one generally applied to conservatives by their enemies and not a self-embraced label.  Since he Parker wasn't an enemy in 1904, they wouldn't call him a Bourbon, but they certainly could brand the Republicans with that label.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I didn't see it here, but I've both heard and read that the early Republican Party actually addressed "wage slavery" - can anyone confirm that?

yes, they basically denied the concept existed in that those who earned wages with the ability to do so were free to rise to level of their ability.  From the very beginnings of the party, the Republicans espoused a strong belief in upward mobility.  Arguably that was easier to achieve in the 19th century than in the 21st century.  It was Southern Democrats who most strongly tried to equate wage earning with an imperfect form of slavery in which the old and disabled were left to fend for themselves once they were no longer useful to their masters while in the South old and infirm slaves were looked after by their masters in a glorious form of Christian socialism.