Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-06-03
The Radical Platform.

IL Is strange JuhoIe ol JaTgou, m"uo W
to hoodwink and deceive. How far it
will succeed is hard to say
The National Republican party of the
United States assembled in National Con-
vention in the City of Chicago, on the Goth,
of May, 1868, make the following declara-
ton of principles
RECONSTRUCTION.
We congratulate the country on the as
sured reconstruction policy of Congress as
evinced by the adoption in the majority of
the States lately in rebellion, of Constitu-
tons securing equal rights to all, and it is
the duty of the Government to sustain
those institutions and to prevent the peo-
pie of such States from being remitted to
a state of anarchy. (Cheers.)
The assured reconstruction of Con-
gress" is fraud upon the spirit Of repub-
licanism, forced by the arbitrary and des-
potic power of the bayonct swiudle and
lie, and will prove greater failure, ex-
ccpt in robbery, than the impeachment.
SUFFRAGE IN THE SOUTH GOVERNED BY
CoNGREss-sUFFRAGE IN THE NORTH
GOVERNED BIZ THE STATES.
2. The guarantee by Congress of equal
suffrage to all loyal men of the South, was
demanded by considerations ofpuLlic safe
ty, of gratitude, and of justice, and must be
maintained, while the question of Suffrage
in all the loyal States properly belong to
the people of those States. (Cheers.)
Equal suffrage to the negro conisca-
ton and disfrancLisement to the whites -
mongreI gratitude to the negro, are the pet
measures Of the party.
GLITTEEING GENERALITIEs ABOUT THE
PUBLIC DEBT.
3. We denounce all forms of repudia-
ton as national crime prolonged cheers
and the national honor requires the pay
ment of the public Indebtedness, in the Mt
most good faith, to all creditors, at home
and abroad, not only according to the let
ter. but the spirit OF the laws under which
it was contracted. (Applause.)
This is good; and hits Thad Stevens
and the Impeacbers terrible whack for
repudiatlng the Constitution. AS for the
payment of the public debt, that is thund-
cr stolen from Pendleton, who is for pay
ing the debt off according to the law un-
der which it was contracted.
ABANDONMENT OF PREVIOUS RADICAL POL
ICY WITH REGARD TO TAXATION.
4. 1t is due to the labor of the nation
that taxation should be equalized and re-
duccd as rapidly as the national faith will
permit,
That is true, Messrs. Mongrcls, it IS
''due to LaJor," and the world will be graf
flied to know that you profess repentance
for your acts during the past seven years
of your oppression and robbery of labor,
and exclusive privileges to the wealthy
Taxes should be cquaized, and will be,
when power is wrcsted from your hands.
EXTEND THE DURATION OF THE DEBT-RE-
pCCE THE INTEREST.
5. The national debt, contracted as it
has been for the preservation of the Union,
for all time to come, should be extended
over fair period for redemption and it
is the duty Of Congress to reduce the rate
of interest thereon whenever it can reason
ably be done.
Yes, that is it extend the payment of
the debt to all eternity. Don't repudiate
the debt, but repudiate the interest, when
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GLITTERING GENERALITY, AND RAP AT
BUTLER.
6. That the best policy to diminish our
burden of debt is to so improve our credit
that capitalists will seek to loan us money
at lower rates of interest than We now pay
and must continue to pay, 80 long as re
pudiation, partial or total, open or covert.
is threatened or suspected.
RADICALS CRY ECONOMY AND STOP COR
RUpTIoN."
7. The Government Of the United States
should be administered with the strictest
economy, and the corruptlons, which have
been so shamefully nursed and fostered by
Andrew johnson, cali loudly for Radical
reform.
This miserable attempt to foist the sins.
of Congress on the shoulders of Andrew
johnson, is shameful in the extreme. His
hands have been so completely tied by the
fraudulent acts Of Congress, that he is al
most powerless, TO punish acts of delin-
quents. We have had Radical reform for
the past few years.
ANDREW CHMENT - HOW
TO DODGE A FIzzLE,
We profoundly deplore the untimely
and tragic death of Abraham Lincoln, and
regret the accession of Andrew Johnson
to the Presidency, who has acted treacher-
ously to the people who elected him and
the cause he was pledged to support; who
has usurped high legislative and Judicial
functions who has refused to execute the
laws; who has used his high office to
induce other officers to ignore and violate
the laws !; who has employed his executive
| powers to render insecure the property,
I tho Tpaea Ekorty onl E(a of tho pifizpn