The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-08-24
The White Mans Platform {!
Adopted by the Ohio De-
mocracy. as Columbus, yuly Z.
1863,

htSNLN EHr u"I the SAti'ipIlDD from tax
alton of twenty-five hundred ,aillion of dol
lars in Government bonds and securities is un
just to the people,and ought not be- tolerated.
and that We are opposed to any arprorria-
tion for the payment Of interest on the Fel-
eral bonds until they are made subject to
Federal taxation.
9, REsoLvED, That the claims of the bond
holders that ho-dS bought with greenbacks.
and the principal of which is hy law payable
in currency, should nevertheless be paid in
gold, is unjust and extortionate, and # persis-
ted in will inevitably force upon the people
the question of repudiation.
3. RESOLVED. That we depounce the ma
tional banking system as one of the worst
outgrowths of the bonded debt, in that it
unnecessarily increases the burden of the
people thirty millions of dollars annually,
and We demand its immediate repeal.
4. RESOLVED, That We denounce The pres
ent high protective tariff enacted in the in
terests of the New England manufactures for
its enormous imposition of duties on salt,
sugar, tea, coffee, and other necessaries as
are oppressive, especially upon the people OF
the West, and that we demand its repeal,an
the substitution of another based upon reve-
rue principles alone, approximat.rg free
trade as closely as possible.
5. RESOLVED, That the Democratic party of
the United States has always been pre-emi-
neutly friendly to the rights and interests of
the laboring man; that it is in favor of
limited number of hours of labor in all Gov
eminent workshops, hours dictated by the
physical and mental well being of the labor
ers; that 1t is in favor of the most liberal
laws in regard to household and homestead
exemptions from sale and execution; that it
is also in favor of liberal grants of land from
the public domain to actual settlers without
cost, and opposed to donating these lands to
swindling railroad corporations, and is gene
rally friendly to the measures advocated by
the Labor and Industrial Congress, and as a
party, pledges, if restored to power; its in
fuencs to give them practical application.
6. RESOLVED That it is the right of each
State to decide for itself who shall possess
the elective franchise within it. and that the
attempt 10 regulate suffrage in Ohio by means
of the so-caIled Fifteenth Constitutional
Amendment, is subversive of the principles
of the Federal Constitution.
I. RESOLVED, That the policy and legisla-
tion of the Radical party tend to destroy all
the reserved rights of the States, and con-
verts the Republic into consolidated despot-
ism; that such despotism, whether exercised
by a President Emperor, or Congress. is
fatal to liberty and good government; that
consolidation in this country means the alb
solute dominion of monopoly and aggregated
capital over the lives, the liberty and the
property of the toiling masses.
s. RESOLVED, Thst the numerous palpable
and high handed usurpations of the party in
mower, and their many public and private
acts of tyranny, trampling under foot the
civil law and the guarantees of the Consti-
tuition, and their continuing to deprive the
Southern States of representation in Congress
-royerning States by military rule, prove
them to be the party of despotism and un-
worthy the confidence and support of free
people.
8, RESOLVED, That the trial and sentence
of death by military commission of citi-
en- of Texas, not in the military service,
while the civil courts are in the unobstructed
exercise Of their functions In that State. and
in time of profound peace, and the approval
of that sentence by President Grant, are in
violation of the most sacred rights of Amer
lean citizens guaranteed by their Constitution,
both State and Federal, and deserve and
should receive the severest condemnation OF
every, lover of liberty and constitutional gov
ernment.
10. Resolved, That the attacks of Cover
nors HAYES and Lee upon the doiDgs of the
late General Assembly are false in statement,
malicious in spirit, and unworthy of their
high position.
II. RESOLVED, That the Fifty eighth General
Assembly was called upon to make large and
extraordinary appropriations to rebuild the
burned Lunatic Asylum, to provide Reform
School for girls, to construct new Blind
Asylum, to make an appropriation to meet
Judgment of more than eighty thousand dol
lars. recovered in the Supreme Court of the
State,in savor of the Life and Trust Company
and to supply deficiency of more than five
hundred thousand dollars of the preceding
Republican Iegislet ture-all of which, together
with the extra compensation paid to mem
bers under a law passed by Republican
Legislature, Tithout an increase OF the State
levy: notwithstanding all these things, the
aporepriations are much less than those o.
the preceding Republican Legislature-and
that. too, without abstraoting eight hundred
thousand dollars from the relief fund for the
manned and disabled soldiers and their fam
lilies.
IL. Resolved, That we hereby return oui
thanks tn the late General Assembly for thei
economical expenditures in the administra
ton Of the State Government, and for th'
exposure of the wholesale frauds in the erec-
tion of State buildings, whereby the people
were defrauded out of half million OF dollar
by the negligence and corruption of Republican
State officials, and the dishonesty OF their ap
pointees and subordinates
ID. RESOLVED, That We extend the righ
hand of fellowship and recognize as brethrel
in common cause, all conservative men no
heretofore Democrats, who viii unite with us Il
rescuing the Government nom the unworth.
hands into which it has fallen; and we pledg
the united and cordial support of the two hun
dred and fifty thousand Democrats in OH
whom we represent, to the ticket nominated b
this Convention, and presented by us to the sui
frages of the people of Ohio.