The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-06-04
STATE DEMOCRATIC EOTVITFI0T.
THE PLATFORM ADOPTED.
JANUARY Sth, 4. d. 1907.



/ l. Resolved, That the Democracy ofObio
steadfastly adhere % the principles of the
party rs expoundcd by the fathers, and an
proved by experience that In accordance
with these principles we declare that the
4 Federal Government is a government OF
limited powers, aud that Il possesses no
powers but such as are expressly or by
necessary implication delegated TO Ii I'm the
Federal Constitution that all other powers
are reserved to the states or the people I:
that strict construction of the Censtltu-
tion Is indispensable to the preservation of
the reserved rights Of the States and the
/ people that all grants of power to Govern
ment whether StateyOr Federal, should be
strictly construed, because all snch grants
abridge the natural rights ofmen that the
preservation of the equality and rights of
the states and the rights Of the people Is
necessary to the preservation of the Union;
that the Federal Government Is unified TO
legislate for or administer the local concerns
OF the states that IL would be monstrous
that the local affairs ofOhiO should be repu-
lated by "a Federal Congressin which she has
but two senators, and the New England
States, with but little greater population,
hayetwelye; that the tendency of the Fed
eral Government Is to usurp the reserved
rights of the States and of the people and
that therefore, Capitalization OF power in
/ It's hands Is an ever pending danger. That
such an abs Irption OF power would, while
| IL lasted, be destructive of the liberties and
interests of the people, and would end
either In despotism or destruction of the
| Union; that National debt, besides i'm
! pOverishing the people, fosters an undue
| increase OF the powers of the Federal Gov
ernment; that high protective tariffs have
a like effect sacrificing the interests of the
many for the emoluments of the few, and
| plainly violating the equity and spirit of
the Constitution; that the collection and
disbursement of enormous revenues by the
Federal Government have the same ten
dency, beside corTupting the Government,
and that therefore, economy Is essential
not only to the prosperity, but also to the
liberties OF the people; that unequal tax
alton is plain violation of justice, of
which no Government can safely be guilty.
That to each State belongs the right To
determine the qualification of its electors,
and all attempts to impair this right, either
| by Congressional legislation or Constitu-
tional amendment, are unwise and despot-
ic; that the tendency of power is to steal
from the many to the few, and that, there
fore, "eternal vigilance Is the price of lib
erty; )" that the tendency of government Is
to enlarge its authority by usurpation, and
therefore government needs to be watched
that another of its tendencies Is to govern
too much-unnecessarily and vexatiously
interfering with the business and habits of
the people; that the freedom of speech and
of the press is essential to the existence of
| liberty: that no person not In the military
or naval service. or in the bounds where
martial law legitimately prevails, can law
fully be deprived Of life, liberty or proper
| ty, without due process of civil law; that
the courts should always be open for the
redress of grievances; that no en post Jdcto
law should be made; that the right Of the
people to peaceably assemble and consult
| 80, {, aI,h A..
military should be held in due subjection
to the civil power; that while the major
ity, rs prescribed by the Constitution, have
| the right to govern, the minority have in
defeasible rights; and that a frequent re-
eurrence to first principles is essential to
the welfare of the State and the people.
| 2. ReSOiUed, That the States lately in re-
bellion are States in the Union, and have
been recognized as such by every depart
ment of the Government, and by Presi-
dent Lincoln, who, in the midst of the war,
invited them to electmembers Of Congress /;
by President johnson, in various procla-
nations and official acts; by Congress,
which permitted Andrew johnson to sit in
the Senate as a Senator from Tennessee
and members from Virginia, Tennessee
and Louisiana to sit in the House of Repre-
sentatives after these States had Receded,
and while the war was being carried on,
and which further recognized them as
States in the Union by the Congressional
apportionment act providing for their due
representation in Congress; by various
tax laws, and especially by the direct tax
by the resolutions submitting amendments
TO the Constitution for their approval, and
by various other acts and resolutions i'm
parting the same recognition; all of which
were passed since the attempted secession
of those States, by the Judiciary of the
United States, which holds Federal Courts
in all-those States. and especially by the
Supreme Court, which entertains iurisdic-
tion of cases coming from them, which it
could not do were they not in the Union.
That being thus in the Union, they stand
on an equal footing with their sister States
States with unequal rights being a thing
unknown to the Constitution; that, by the
express terms of the Constitution, each
State Is entitled to have two Senators and a
due proportion of Representatives in the
Congress, and to vote in all elections OF
. President and Vice-president; that, though
these rights are subject to interruption by
a state Of civil war, they can not, in time OF
peace, be suspended, much less DESTROYED,
without plain violation of the Constitu-
tion ;Nthat Congress has no power to de-
prive State of its reserved rights, and
reduce it to Territorial condition; that
therefore the exclusion, by the so-called
Congress, of all representation from ten
, States, the proposed exclusion of those
= States, from all voice in the next Presiden-
tial election, the threatened overthrow OF
: their State Governments and the reduction
. OF their States to the condition of territor-
les, are each and every one of them uncon-
stitutiona, revolutionary and dcspOtic
, measures, destructive not merely of the
rights of those States, but also of the rights
of every other State in the Union. That
, those measures are parts of plan to nullify
the Constitution, virtually overthrow the
State Governments, to erect consolidated
, despotism on their ruins; and TO establish
. and perpetuate tyrannical rule of minor
lty over majority of the American peo-
, pie. That the people cannot, without d
i loss of their liberties, prosperity and honor
n submit to such result; and we, therefore
in the hope that the warning will be
needed, and the danger to our situations be
peaceably aVerted, do solemnly warn the
} advocates of the plan, that 1t will moi
be submitted to.
5. RESOLVED, That Congress Is not al
omnipOtent law-making power. That tn
Constitution provides that no bill shall be-
{ come law without the approval of the
President, unless IL be passed by o-thirds
of each House of Congress. That one OF
p. the objects of the present sO-called Con-
10 0raeS Ia ayplu1inp States frnm ranrasanto