Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-14

every species of property according to It's
real value. including Government bonds and
other public secufitiesr 7 - a
This Is pronounced by the Eastern Re-
publican papers, and it will be echoed by
the Republican press all over the country.
as Repudtdtion. Is there anything wrong
in the proposition to subject all property,
according to its real value, whether that
property be lands, houses or Government
bonds, to equal taxation? Does this gepu
diate the rights and the interests of the
people? Not much were the Bondholders
triumphant herein and If the defeat of Mr..
Pendleton is the triumph of the Bondhold-
er, why this effort to make it appear that
the Democratic platform, because it de-
clares that the Bonds shall be paid only in
accordance with the law creating them and
the demand on their face; that they shall
come in for their rightful share of taxa
ton that in the language of the fifth reso-
luton, there shall be but "one currency
for the Government and the people, the la
borer and the officeholder, the pensioner
and the soldier, the producer and the Bond
holder;" is a Reputation Platform?
The sixth resolution shows how retrench-
ment may be made and the currency in
creased in value. 1t is by reducing the
army and navy, by abolishing Freedmen's
signed to establish the supremacy of the
Negro. This is aproposition that will find
favor in your eyes, undoubtedly. % orr
The seventh resolution calls for reform
of abuses In the administration, the driv-
ing of useless and corrupt officers out of
place and the discontinuance of all need
less offices, and the subordination of the
military to the civil power ss31A mod
The eighth resolution puts the native
born and adopted citizen on the same foot
ing at home and abroad. s-,,.r....,. ~
A demand is made that the public / DIS
as far as possible shall be distributed among
the people, and that they should not in any
event be given to railroads or any other
corporations. I'd S
Such, in brief, is the Democratic plat
form. 1t is a pledge to the people, that If
the party shall have confided to its custo-
dy the administration of the Federal Gov
ernment, that their rights and interests
will be particularly looked after.
Horatio Seymour has testified his appro-
baton OF this platform, and announced his
Willingness to stand or fall by it. 1t Is in
effect Mr.. Pendleton's platform.
Mr.. Seymour is not the nominee of the
New York Democrats. He is the nominee
Of Ohio. He is the designated choice of
Mr.. Pendleton, who, In letter to WASH
ingtoni Mclean, Esq, on the 25th of June,
eulogized Mr. Seymour as the ablest
statesman in the party-as man in whom
he reposed implicit confidence, and in
whose hands he would sooner trust the adj
ministration of the Government the ensu-
ing four years than in his own. Ohio
presented his name and pressed it
to nomination when they were
given to understand that Pennsylvania
and Indiana had entered into an arrange
ment by which the nomination of Hem
bricks for President and Hancock for Vice
President was to be assured. Unantici-
pated and to the surprise of everybody in
Convention, Ohio, with admirable tact and
q vehemence that carried everything be-
fore it, after her own favorite had been de-
MED the nomination, triumphed in the
unanimous nomination of Horatio Sey-
mour, just as they had secured the unani.
nous Endorsement of Mr.. Pendleton's finan-
cial policy. -9
Ohio has cause to feel proud at the sue
cessful termination of the labors of the
Convention; and the people have cause for
gratitude that their rights and interests
were not ignored by the Democratic Con-
vention, as they were in the Chicago Con-
ventiOn. The Platform and candidates are3
such that all men can heartily support
them, who feel that there is the utmost
necessity tor change of parties in the
Federal Government-for reduction of
taxation, and for the rightful supremacy
Of the White race in this country.
The meeting then adjourned with three
rousing cheers for the Platform and the
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