Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1880 — Na ional Democratfc Platform. [ARTICLE]

Na ional Democratfc Platform.

The Democrats of the United-States in Con-' vent ion assembled declare: .1- We pledge ourselves anew to the constitutional doctrines ai'dtrauitio: - of the Democratic party as illustrated by the teaching and example of a long line of the Democrat u: statesman and patriots, and embodied in the platform of the last National Convention of the party. 2- Opposition ;o centralization, ami to that dangerous spirit of encroach me;., which tends to consolidate iaoje, and thus to create whatever the form of government .> real despotism; no sumptuary laws; separation of church and state tor the good of each; common school fostered aud protected. :t. Home rule, honest luon.-v, consisting of gold and stiver aim paper convertible into coin on demand: the strict maintenance of the public |;, t It, Mate ud National, ami a ta:itl for revenue only. 4 The subordination of the militate to -the e ‘,V' P°. w « r a, ul a genuine ami thorough reform ot the civil service, ihe tight t-i a iree ialiot is a right preservative of up right--, and must and States m!lln,uinc ' (t in every part of the United 5. The cxistiiigalministrat i,.u i- Ilio representative ol conspiracy otov. and its claim of right to surround the ballot-boxes wit., troops and Deputy Marshals to intimidate amt oh-trnci the uleotors, 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 ot this adiiiiuisti ation ;n making places in the civil service a reward lor political crime, and demand a reform bv statu,e, winch shall make it forever impossible for a defeated candidate to bribe his wav to the * usur * Jel ky billeting villains upon the i. the great fraud of lfU6 r. ltv 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 \ merit an history the will of the peepm was set :;-ido d-r a threat ot military violence, - it;, ;.- a i v blow at our system o’s represent: ,i\ , • i■ ■-, ; rue Democratic parrv. to pre-.-iv ”e count PV fso in the horrors of ~ oil w.w, submitted for the .'on in ' belief that - o m..-'.voi ’.i , or' / ; , This-issue precedes an,l dv. rfs ov.-i'v o It in. OSes ■> ni ■ sc-red d- .n the . ~f tio_: l-uion i•'■ al l ever address, ,; . ; K! e nisei-ncosd a . .at'.u iot l; ‘men. \ ! lle , '• <>iti.i,..tt of Smaue' J. Tilde n not 11 - l|: ' j° >' ; 1 >*dat<* for !>■ ■ . valt- ! place to wine.,, be wr ele tod by a major!.y of bis eon . try me, and willed tie w: ■ ■ ;c;'rtid<-d 1-v I o h •••»! ■ t-i public,-..i ),- r. \ . j- re- iv '.i : v the Dem.tc • ot r. • f,|- • 1 vvi - do, i s,; - I'l’.iuy. a., 1 . i,oy di'dar- l . . n '• -■; •ti 11, and ; a „ k- • •• -■ o. tile common . o;av: a-.,,, lit v h .liter as.-iire !r n that lie i f. lowed inl ■ i; run no -lit !i- ii ,s chosen for himself hv tho e . iy ;,a;’. respect of his fellow citir.eas. who r< . * ;l I!, 'b one -who. by eh rating the standard g: ud I'HDiic iriorajitv .-miii .’Hloißn:!'.: and purilying , --a oli c vervice, merits th ■la -; ing gratitude of ii. country and it is party. S • ri!<s siiil’s and a living eltnncc for American commerce upon the seas,o:l the land;nodiscrimi ti coil in favor of trensportatiun lines, corparatioii- or monopolies. if. Amendment of the Burlingame treaty; no nto.c Clt'uese immigration except for travel, e-ii ition and furei :t commerce, and therein card ally gna: .led. 11. IVblk: money mid public credit for üblic purposes solely, atidp.ibiie. land for actual settlers.

12. The Democratic parry it- the friend of labor and tlu- laburiugmuii, and pledges itself to protect him. alike against the cormorants and the Com. mane. . 18. We congratulate the country npon the honest* and thrill of a Democratic Congress, which has red need the public expenditure $40,000.. <XV) a y ar; upon the continuance of prosperity at home and the National honor abroad, and, above ail, upon the promise of auch a change in the admini-iration-of the government as shall insure a genuine and lasting reform in every department of the public service.