Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1880 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Na ional Democratic Platform- ■ The Democrats of the United States in Con_ vent ion assembled declare: 1. We pledge ourselves anew to the constitutional doctrines and traditions of the Democratic partv 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; ao sumptuary laws; separation of ehurch and state for the good of caeh; common schools fostered and protected. 3. Home rule, honest money, consisting of gold and silver and paper convertible into coin du demand; the strict maintenance of the public faith, State and National, and a tariff lor revenue only. i The subordination of the military to the civil power, and a genuine and thorough reform of the civil service. The right to a iree '•m'iiot is a right preservative of all rights, and must and shall be maintained in every part'd th-.- Unit'd States. 5. The existingadministrntion is ihe representative of conspiracy only, ami its claim of right to surround the ballot-boxes with troop- and Deputy Marshals to intimidate and ob-irc . the alectors, and the unprecedented use of ike veto to maintain its corrupt and despotic er, insults the people and imperils their instil ;itio'.is. G. We execrate the course oi this admi nisi ration in making places in the civil service a reward for political crime, and 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 .«. c-mt.y blo'4 at our system of representative g-iv -nine . •. The Democratic party, to preserve the country from the liorrois of a civil w.ir, submitted for the time in ih - firm and pm . h.die belief that the people would pnn'sli this .. rime in 1880. This issue precedes and dwarfs every o’ i.er. It imposes a more sacred duty upon the i rnplc of the Union than ever addressed the cousci mci s of a Nation of freemen. 8. The resolution of Samuel J. TH ien not again to be a candidate tor i.ln- exalt,- : vdao- to wiiicii i.e w::-elected by a nmmrity of i.i- . o: try end from which lie was excluded 1.-y he . 1-■■'!■ ■■■ of th? Republic?:'. is rec i.-'-i y th? Democrat.' of the I . I tales with d'■ p s. i. iie-.iy. and they'l l ':: : mir ro.nfi.h-i ■ -i I his wisdom, patriotism -. ::-• -grity u ■ .. ,t 1.-Aults of thecome:--: -iietny; :::rltm-y furthe -;s :;trc him that 1.-- m fallowed e retn nn-iit !:■■ has cho- .-:i 1 ■: himscl ■ .- sympathy and respect of lit t-imwcitiz : wo i■ •-. .Hi l:-i;n as one who. by ; ing the ml.- <1 of the public morality and .-' i. ning and ] -eying tiie public service, merit ■ ■■- '. - linggri; 'i-id-of hi- country atrd his party. t .. . Free ships and a livin'.' ch; ace for American ci ... i;:- rec upon t iie sea -. . the laud; no disc. rim i nation in favor of t raiisfio;:alinn lines, corparations or monopolies. 10. Amendment of the Burlingame treaty: no more Chinese immigration except for travel, education and foreign. commerce, and therein car -fully guarded. 11. J'sbiic. money and public, credit for üblic purposes solely, and public land for actual settlers.

Fw W Hon. Noah iV. Parker at the at the Coe rt House, Tuesday afternoon. tJome all. t

Reduced Rates to Hunting Parties —Dogs and Gi n to b?: ( arried Free.— The eyej of sportsmen i.it now tinned to the Kankakee Hivi’-r, ns the region where may be ion nl nn abundance of game and lisir in the greatest ' -variety. English L an tlie China j go Division of the I’. n. Handle Route, is the point where sportsmen leave' trains for li e it;.nuts of thogaiae. —i liiis year Lntuing m.rttvs of rive Ta-i more persons-’-an procure excursion j tick -Is to English Lake and rutin n,by calling on m. arest agent <-f P. C. <k i St. L. li’y, Pan Handle li-mtu. or nd j dressing W. L. O'Brien, Geiiciui Passenger Agent, Columbus, Ohio Dogs and guns will be carried free, at own" er's risk. The Way It Stands. In i he course of i.is remaps,, at ;i . Democratic meeting, Indiuuapoli: , Hon. H. Winlh Id, of N. J., read from tiie following table, showing the total Republican a ole in 18C0, and also the number of soldiers in the Union army from States in which Republican votes wore cast, as taken from tiie records oi the Avar D<-part-m nt; Rcpuidi- No, of Naim- of State. can \ -to. Soldiers Ch 1 ■ ornia, di). 173 13,725 Connecticut, 51,379 ID-lawn re, ■“<.■'• I 5 13.670 Illinois, 172,161 259,147 Indiana, J 39.033 * 19’7,147 lowa. 7o,l<rj 76,309 K-atilckv, 1,3(51 79,025 Maine, " 02,811 72,114 Maryland, 2.294 50,310 Ma.-saehiisetts, 10i5,533 152,048 Michigan, 88,480 89,372 Minnesota, 22,0(59 25,052 Missouri, 17,028 199,111 New Hump-shire, 37.519 30,(529 New Jersey, 58.324 81,010 New I'ork, 5(5-,84(5 401,047 Ohio, 231,010 819,(559 Oregop, 5,270 I,:810 Pennsylvania, 208,030 ' 306,107 Rhode Island, 12,244 23, (<99 Vermont, 3.3.808 32,262 Virginia, 1,92!) 32,068 Wisconsin, 86,110 86,424 Totals, 1,866,3c2 2,678,967 More solders than Republicans, 812,615 *The records of the Adjutant General’s office of the State shows the number to be 208,367.

If we take the strong Democratic States of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland. Missouri and Virginia we re capitulate the Republican vote and number of Union soldiers: Union Vote Soldiers. Delaware, 3,815 13,670 Kentucky, 1,364 79,025 Maryland, 2,294 50,316 Missouri, 17,028 199,111 Virginia, 1,929 31,068 Total, 26,430 374,190 This shows that a fraction over fourteen soldiers to every Republican vote were in the army of the Union from these States. These five States did not cast as many votes for the “truly loyal” as little Vermont by more than 7,000 votes; yet they sent to the war for the Union nearly as many soldiers as all tne New England States, including Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts. Vermont, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, altho these States cast 296,607 Republican votes,