Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1880 — Na fonal Democratfc Platform [ARTICLE]

Na fonal Democratfc Platform

The Democrat* of the United States in Convention assembled declare: 1. We pledge ourselves anew to the constitutional doctrines and traditions of the Democratic Party “a illustrated by tho teaching ami example of a Joflg liQi* of the Democrativ nud patriots, and embodied in the platform of the last Rational Convention of the pro tv. 2. Opposition .to centraH ; :tion, aid to that dangerous spirit of encroachm nt which tends to consolidate in one. and Ui>is to create whatever the form of government a r ';tl despotism: no sumptuary laws; separation of church and state for the good of each; common schools fostered ana protected. Home rule, honest money, consisting of gold and si ver and paper convertible into coin on demand, the strict maintenance of the public faitn, State and fSarional and a tariff for revenue only. 4 The subor ' nation of the niilit.irv to t’ - civil power, and a g-uuim- • m thoio.igh retinal of the eivil servi rite rh :■> a i.e • .alio; :. rignt jpreservati'e of ait : V .an -; r.n;s; and shall be maintained it, we, » -„i he United States. 5. Thecxistii .:. :ioa ;i,<• renresontaUve of consp, acy onh. ;• claim of -i-mi to surround tl: ballot-no vs : , ronps and Deputy Marshal-; to jutimid a-. ’ <>> nivi the alertors, ai:rt the unpriced.- ted of the veto to maintain its : or: opt an d ; power, instilts the People :uid imperil- ti.elr itutioas. (i. We execrate the course oi this aclir.int.-tra-tion mi making places in the civil service a reward for political crime, and demand a reform . statute, which shall make it forev.-r impossible foi a defeated candidate to brine his wav to th ■ seal of a usurper by billeting villains upon the people. * 7. The great fraud of 187 ii 7. by which, upon a false count of the electoral vote of two States, the candidate defeated at the polls was declared ip he i resident, and for tho tirst time in American ht-dor. the will of the people Mas s -t s-dde under {* threat of military violence, struck a doud.v Id-ou at our system of representative * r ovcrnnieiii. Hie Demo.- rati • party. to preserve the country lv-mi the horrors of a civil . snhn.ilted the timo in the -inn and patriot; p- c people would punish this crimei:: ImjJ. a i:ts issue precedes a: .; dwarfs every other. “ tmppsew a more sacred duty upon the people of tiic . i:ion than ever the consciences of UNlitloU of IV S' Tho resolution of Samuel J. Tlldeu no* artMu io be : candidate for th exalte-! placd'to wlll.- a h W's elected by a nirtioritv of iiis i-ouii trymeu. and from which he was excluded by th<leauars ..f tin- Kepublicau pat-tv, is received h, the Democrats of the United States with deep s-n inlay, and they dee life their confidence in his wis -i-m. patriotism and integrity un..taken ■ -au!:.- of the common enemy; ami ti er 1 !' ' -ur him that he is followed iir.o :h'e r-i vniu-ot lie has chosen for himself l>v the s/mp.jtuy am. respect of his fellow citizens who ivyarn aim as one who. by elevating the standard ot Lie public morality and adorning and pilrilvin"sue public service, merits the lasting gratitude of his country and his party. - | pi. Free ships and a living chance for American commerce upon the seas, on the land; no discrimi nation in favor of transportation lines, corparations or monopolies. 10. Amendment ol the Ilurliugame treaty: no more Chinese immigration except lor travel, education and foreign commerce, and therein carefully guarded. , 11- Public money and public credit for nhlic purposes solely, and public land for actual settlers.

12. The Democratic party Is the friend of labor and the laboring man, ami pledges Itself to protect him, alike against the. cormorants and the Com. nutne. IS. We congratulate the country upon the honest; nnd thrift of a Democratic Congress, which has reduced the public expenditure $10,000,. 000 a year; upon the continuance of prosperity at home and the National honor abroad, ana,- above alj. upon the promise of auch a change in flic administration of the go, -eminent as shall iiifnre a gen nine and lasting reform in every department of the public service.