Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1880 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Na ional Democratic PlatformThe Democrats of the United States in Convention assembled declare: 1. We pledge ourselves anew to the constitutional doctrines and traditions of the DeiriocnuL party as illustrated by the teaching and e:.a:n; .e of a’long line of the DeniocroUc statesman :’i?d 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: co sumptuary laws; separation of eturch and te for the good of each; common schools fostered and pro.ected. 3. Home rule, honest money, consisting of gold and silver and paper convertible into coin on demand: -he strict maintenance of the ; vie 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 re*'. :n of the civil service. The right to a tree .i.'.-t a right preservative of alt rights, and itr:.--’ .ml shall be maintained in even* part, of the States. 5. The exiStingadministration is the representative of conspiracy only, and r.s claim <'. r ,ht to surround the ballot-boxes with tn ops i id Deputy Marshals to intimidate att-’ou-’.. ■ e electors, and the unprecedented use of the ••••to to maintain its corrupt and despotic ■■■ > . limit»the people and imperils their instil nt ie:is. t>. We execrate the course oi this administration in making places*in the civil service r. ■ d for political crime, and demand a reform bystatute, which shall make it forever impo -.hie 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 y blow at our system of representative government. The Democratic partv. to pre ■ve the country from the hor'.oi- of civil v..r, so bnii: ted lor the time in ihe lirin n:: ! : :: i ic belief that tee people would punish tlii- ■ •■in ISBThis is<ne preced"s and >: ■. a: fs e > . er. Jr imposes a more sacred du,;. tin- ■ ■of the Union than e vet addres.-e.l tno cun-A .•>■< of a Nation of freemen. 8. The resolution of Samuel J. '[ 1; >n not again to be a candidate for the exalt ■ • p'ace to which he was elea.ed by a majority o l ' i '-corn trymen. and from which he was excluded by he leaders of rite Republican pit. .-, is rec oi ’ oy the Democrats of the Uniled states w:.!t d Cp sensibi!•>y. and the'* declare t'leirconikh-.ic? j n his wisdom, patriotism arid lu.egrity ui.■ ir\.-n by tim assaults of the common enemy; ami ; o yfurther assure him that he is followed i,:e retirement he has chosen for himself by tite sympathy and respect of ids leliow citizen-■- who regard him as one who. b - elevating the standard of the public morality and .lorning and purifying the public service, mtft-iis ine lasting gratitude of his country and his party. 4 pt. Free ships and n Jiving chance for American commerce upon the seas, on t he land ; nodiserdni nation in favor of i ranspm inti th lines, corporations or monopolies. 10. Amendment of the Burlingame treaty: no more Chinese immigration except for travel, education n-td foreign commerce, and therein carefully mirded. 11. Public money and public ciedit for nlpic purposes solely, and public lam, for actual set tiers.

DMffiUlAhiHi -■ MONDAY NEXT. Ext ion rates fro ,i Rensselaer.

Reduced Rates to Hunting Parties - —Dogs and G i n to re Carried Free.— Tite eye 3 of sportsmen are now turned to the Kankakee IU ver, as the region whore may be found an abtißdauce of game and fish in the greatest variety. English Luke, an the Chicago Division of thePauHandleßouto, is the point where sportsmen leave trains for the haunts of the game. This year huniing uarti»s of five or mors persons can procure excursion tick *ts to English Luke and return, by calling on nearest agent of P. C. & St. L. R’y, Pan-Handle Route, or addressingW. L. O’Brien, General Passenger Agent, Columbus, Ohio. Dogs and guns will be carried free, at owner’s risk.

The Way It Stands. In the course of his remaks, at a Democratic meeting, Indianapolis, Hon. C. H. Winfield, of N. J., read from the following tal.de, showing the total Republican vote in 1860, and also the number of soldiers in the Union army from States in which Republican votes were cast, as taken from the records of the War Department; Republi- No. of Name of State. can vote. Soldiers Cali for uia, 39.173 15,725 Connecticut, 43,692 57,379 Delaware, 3,815 13,670 Illinois, 172,161 259,147 Indiana, 139,033 * 197,147 lowa,' 70,409 76,309 Kentucky, 1,364 79,025 Maine, 62,811 72,114 Maryland, 2.294 50,316 Massachusetts, 106,533 152,048 Michigan, 88,489 89,372 Minnesota, 22,069 25,052 Missouri, 17,028 199,111 New Hampshire, 37,519 36,629 New Jersey, 58,324 81,01-0 New York, 362,846 4.67,047 Ohio, . 231,610 319,659 Oregon, 5,270 1,810 Pennsylvania, 268,030 366,107 Rhods Island, 12,244 23,609 Vermont, 33,808 32.262 Virginia, 1,929 32,068 Wisconsin, 86,1.10 86,424

Totals, 1,866,3c2 2,678,967 More solders than Republicans, 812,615 *Tho 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, Maryland, 2,294 50,316 Missouri, 17,028 199,111 Virginia, 1,929 31,068 Tothl, 26J43Q 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 Rhode Island, altho these States cast 296,607 Republican votes,