The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-08-01
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.

We publish to-day the Platform
adopted by the Democratic National
Convention which assembled in New
York, July 4, 1868. 1t will be very
readily seer that it is very different
fromthe synopsis heretofore published,
manipulated and emasculated as it
was by Radical telegraph operators,
almost all of whom are in the interest
of Radicalism. The phrase "heresy
of secession" docs not occur in the
platform, but was inserted by these
telegraphic operators. We sometimes
feel that it would be a good thing to
wipe out the telegraph entirely, be-
cause it is so terribly prone to misrep-
resentation aud lying. For the last
seven or eight years it has been a
strictly partizan affair, lying about
the Democratic party as only the faith
or of lies himself can lie. It ought
either to be abolished or else a law
passed making it a penal offence to
conduct it in the manner it has been.
For u part VIC would be glad to see
some of these lying ~tclegraphic oper-
ators in the pcnitentiary, with a chain
and ball attached to their legs, peck
ing stone. This might possibly cor
rect the evil. If it should fail we
would advocate hanging as a remedy.
We have not time nor is it necessa-
ry now to dwell lengthily on the sew
etal planks in the Platform. 1t is all
we wanted, expressed in terse and
vigorous language. 1t Is u%nambigu-
Gus. 1t is so plain that he who runs
may read, and that the wayfaring
man, though a fool, need not err
therein. Every Democrat should COM
nit it to memory. 1t declares that
the Reconstruction acts of Congress
are usurpations, and unconstitutional,
and void hence it is against Negro
Suffrage, and the Social Negro Equal
ity which inevitably follows in its
train. 1t is for the immediate resto-
ration OF the Southern States to their
rights in the Union. 1t declares that
the elective franchise should be rcgu-
lated by the States instead ofby Con-
gress. 1t declares that the public
debt must be paid in greenbacks, ex-
cept the 1910 bonds and that all
Government bonds and other public
securities, should be taxed according
to their value. 1t declares that the
standing army and navy should be
reduced; that the niger burca II
should be abolished, as well as all other
instrumcntalities designed to secure
negro supremacy. 1t declares in fav-
or of q tariff for c upon foreign
imports. 1t declares in favor of the
restoration of rightful authority TO,
and the independence of, the cxecu.
tive and judicial departments of the
government, and the subordinatior
of the military to the civil power, to
the end that the usurpations of Con
gress and the despotism of the sword
may cease. 1t declares our soldiers
and sailors must ever be gratefully
remembered, and all the guarantees
given in their favor must be faith
fully carried into execution. And
then it arraigns the the Radical par
ty. 1t charges that that party, in
stead of restoring the Union, has dis
solved it, and subjected ten States, il
time of profound peace, to military
~despotism and negro supremacy that
it has nulllied there the right of triaI
by jury /; abolished the hdbeds corpus,
overthrow the freedom of speech and
the press 4; substituted arbitrary sciz
ures, and arrests, and military trials
and secrets hamberinquisition fol
the constitutional tribunals /; convert
ed the American Capitol into a bas
tile +; and stripped the President 0
much of his Constitutional power
It's corruption and extravaganza have
exceeded anything known in histor,
and by its frauds and monopolies i
has nearly doubled the burden of tn,
debt created by the war.
These are some of the principle
embodied in this most admirabl
Platform. Read it, ponder over i
and next November vote for the mel
who stand upon it-Scymour anc
Blair-the Democratic standard bear
ers.
A GOOD CAMPAIGN PAPER.