Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1880 — Naional Democratic Platform. [ARTICLE]

Naional Democratic Platform.

The Democrats of the United States in Con. vention assembled declare: 1. We pledge ourselves anew to the constitutional doctrines and traditions of the Democratic party as illustrated by the teaching and example of a long line of the Democratic statesman and patriots, and embodied in the platform of the last National Convention of the party. 2. Opposition to centralization, and to that dangerous? spirit of encroachment which tends to consolidate in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government a real despotism; no sumptuary laws; separation of ehurch and state for the good of eaeh; common schools fostered and protected. 3. Home rule, honest money, consisting of gold and silver and paper convertible into coin on demand; the strict maintenance of the public faith, State and National, and a tariff for revenue only. 4. The subordination of the military to the civil power, and a genuine and thorough reform of the eivil service. The right to a iree Ballot is a «*gbt preservative of all rights, and must and shall he maintained in every part of the United States. m 5. The existingadministration is the represen. tative of conspiracy only, and its claim of right to surround the ballot.boxes with troops and Deputy Marshals to intimidate and obstruct the electors, and the unprecedented use of the veto to maintain its corrupt and despotic power, insults the people and imperils their institutions. 6. We execrate the course of this administration in making places in the civil service a reward for political crime, aud demand a reform by statute, which shall make it forever impossible for a defeated candidate to bribe his way to the seat of a usurper by billeting villains upon the people. 7. The great fraud of 1876 7, by which, upon a false count of the electoral votes of two States, the candidate defeated at the polls was declared to be President, and for the first time in American history the will of the people was set aside under a threat of military violence, struck a dead.} blow at onr system of representative government. The Democratic party, to preserve the country from the horrors of a civil war, submitted for the time in the firm and patriotic belief that the people would punish this crime in 1880. This issue precedes and dwarfs every other. It imposes a more sacred duty upon the people of the Union than ever addressed the consciences of aNationof freemen, 8. The resolution of Samuel J. Tllden not again to be a candidate for the exalted.place to which he was elected by a majority of his coun trymeu, and from which he was excluded by the leaders of the Kepublicau party, is received by the Democrats of the United States with deep sensibility, and they declare their confidence in his wisdom, patriotism and integrity unshaken by the assaults of the common ouemy; aud they further assure him that he-is followed into the retirement he has chosen for himself by the sympathy aud respect of his fellow citizens, who regard him as one who, by elevating the standard of the public morality nndadornirig and purifying the public service, merits the lusting gratitude of his country and his party. 9. Free ships and a living chance for American commerce upon the seas, on the land; nodiscrinii nation in favor of transportation lines, corparations or monopolies. 10. Amendment of the Burlingame treaty; no more Chinese immigration except for travel, education and foreign commerce, ana therein carefully guarded. 11. Public money and public credit for üblic purposes solely, and public land for actual settlers. 12. The Democratic party is the friend of labor and the laboring man, and pledges itself to protect him, alike against the cormorants and the Com. muue. 13. We congratulate the country upon the honesty and thrift of a Democratic. Congress, which has reduced the public expenditure g lO.txX).. 000 a year; upon the continuance of prosperity at home and the National honor abroad, and, above all, upon the promise of aueh a change in the administration of ihegovernment as shall inttre a genuine and lasting reform in every department of the public service.

The ladies of Rensselaer are perfecting arrangements for a grand entertainment to be given at Starr’s Hall, Tuesday evening, 24th, 1880. A call has been issued for a representation of soldiers from Benton, Jasper, Newton, and White counties to meet at this place on Saturday of next week,, to make arragements for a soldiers’ reunion. —<•»— ARC wellmines oi 1.-'i/xuas Luck A Co. are unexcelled lor elegance, parity, and reliability. Ine-ir Senllitme Soiulitz Powders, are as pleasant as Lemonade. Tlieir Soft Capsules are' world famous. Seo Advt. For sale by Emmet Kannal. Address Horace E. James, Secretary! Benss *laer, Indiana, for Premium Lists and all information relative to the Ninth Annual Fair of the Jasper County Agricultural Society; which will be held September 21st to 24th. 1880, inclusive, Take your watches, clocks and jewelry to Hamar’s. Work first class find cheap.