Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1869 — Ohio Democratic Platform. [ARTICLE]

Ohio Democratic Platform.

If the Egyptians un'er Pharaoh had been called upon to frame a political platterm which should express their views as to the righteousness of the division of the waters, the safe passage of the Israt-1-ires-a-tld- till-, rel ll -n nt Dip myra tirr|P trT engulf their owp host, .they would have found themselves in pretty deep water. The Ohio Democracy have attempted tbe same task, however, in very similar cirumstances, and we tire much amused at_ the view their “chariots and horsemen” take of the situation. . ' L_ Their first point is that the Government ought to repudiate a part of tiie interest ou what they owe by collecting it back from their creditors in the form of a tax, and unless this can be done the Governin'nt ought to repudiate the whole debt. It is absurd thus to complicate the resolution by presentingUie two alternatives of partial and toal repudiation, and declaring that if weeaunothave half a loaf we w: 1 insist on the whole bread. Why Hot make the resolution a square one, wi h'outifs or huts, as -follows: *■ We-are f. c the national repudiation of the debt incurred

to save the Government. Our invest forbids us to pay the principal, apd our principles forbid us to pay ti>c interest." This is whs. the Vsilaodtehattjtners meau, and what they say, Why not say it plainly ? „ The second resolution is that sooner than pay the national debt in .gold the Ohio Democracy will repudiate it. If these arc the kind of measles that are under the Democratic skin in Ohio, it is well to bring them out.. We like to see the rash ” take to the surface rather than to the vitals. With Mteh feculent stomachs it must have made the Ohio Democracy deathly sick to see $800,000,000 of ihdet.t * edness (including the non-funded debt. »r rearagea, bounties, war claims, etc,) paid off within five years, and about forty-six mfflinus nf debt wiped out within the past, year, nearly all of it ’during Grant’s first quarter. The second resolution is incomplete, in that the Democracy of Oiiio forgot to tell us that they would be just aa

loth to see the national debt paid ns greenbacks as in gold. The third resolution denounces- a protective tariff, but its authors include a very’large the same men who, in the National oeratio Convention, endorsed a protec.tm: tariff. If the Democrats of Ohio 'denounce a protective tariff in their'State platform, and endorse jt in their national platform, which shall we accept as their" sincere and honest utterance ? In their fourth resolution the Ohio Democracy endorse “.limited hours of labor in manufacturing’ workshops" and the Homestead act, mea-ures which, whatever j their worth, have been enacted into law ! ,by Republicans, and are not, we believe, opposed by anybody. The fifth, sixth and seventh resolutions are devoted to a triple-coated whitewashing of the late General Assembly of Ohio, a business which seems to require a dou ble-sized brush and a good deal of lime. | We tell better how it looks when the ! job h&e had time to dry, - J I

The eljjhth opposes negro suffrage in Obi t, though for five years the Ohio Den o jnqr have sneered at the Republltmn pa ly for imposing impartial suffrage on Vi’glnia and not on Ohio. The ninth observes that the Radicals have blown “ Slates righls ” so high that there isn’t enough of them left to hold an inquest on or a funeral over, but that so long a* a grease spot remains of this old scre«aion doctrine of the sovereignty of i he State over the Nation, the Democracy of Ohio will weep over the discoloration, and, when the last stain is wiped out, will creet-fi monument to its memory. The concluding resolutions denounce the National Bauking system (with an evident preference for the “wild-cat" lianks), -and, In sympathy for the “ unpleasantness" to which their fellow-Dem-oerat, ’yerger, of Mississippi, has been subjected for killing a carpet-bagger from <Hi o they denounce the military tribunals ns illegal and void, condemn the recon- ■ i >n of the South, and, by inference, tbe mrppr&sion of the rebellion, as a series of high handed usurpations, and finally invite lie publicans to freely vote the Democratic ticket. The platform, reduced to a nutshell, means R ipudiation, Anarchy, Hypocrisy, and Oppression—the first for our finance-i; the second for the South ; the third for the working men, and the fourth for the negro.— VhicagiT Tribune, July 10.