Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-10-19
Democratic Platform.

RESOLVED, That the unity of the nation and
the permanence of republican institutions
depend upon the subordination of the govern
ment to the popular will, upon the cheerful and
implicit obedience of rulers and people TO law,
upon the reservation 10 the several states Of
the sacred and imperishable right of local self
government, upon the unaienable right of the
citizen to life and liberty, upon freedom of
speech and the press, and upon rigidly hon.
est and economical application of the public
revenues, and that we soemnly protest
against those acts of the republican party by
which these fundamental conditions of nation
al freedom and prosperity have been repeated
ly and ruthlessy violated.
RESOLVED, That we entertain the most CRATE
full remembrance of those true and noble men
who laid down their lives in defense of the in
tegrity of the union, and that we will ever
cherish the highest admiration of the living
who survived the shock of arms
RESOLVED, That the financial disorder ard de-
preston apparent to all business men, the cor
ruption which confessedly attends the admin
istration of the law, the ingenious and burden
some system of taxation by which enterprise
is paralyzed and the vast surplus wealth of the
state is fruitessly squandered and consumed;
are evils which demand less of partzanship,
more of craftsmanship, purer morality in our
rulers and a radical reform in the administra-
ton of the state and federal governments
RESOLVED, That the continued and persistent
imposition upon the people OF tariff laws avow-
eddy designed to tax the masses of the people
for the benefit of the accumulated ca pital of the
eastern states, whereby millions of dollars are
annually distracted from Wisconsin without
any corresponding gain to the common govern
ment, Is wanton an intolerable abuse of fed
era power, for which the only effective rene
dy is the complete union of the friends of free
labor and our domestic industry at the BALLOT
box.
RESOLVED, That we lament that chronic in
FIRMLY of the dominant party which the ex-
ercise of its long continued and abundant
power TO "adjust the burdens of taxation by
revisons and notifications from time TO time
of the tariff and other revenue layvs'' is limited
to pretentious confessions of the conse-
quences of its own misrule, and to periodical
resolutions deploring the evils which it per-
sistently refuses to abolish.
RESOLVED, That we believe that the honor
and welfare of the nation alike require the rap
i'd and complete extinction of the national
debt by the full payment of the principal and
interest thereof in exact accordance with the
terms of the contract between the government
and its creditors, but we oppose with all the
influence at GUYS command, the ill-disgused
efforts OF the party in power to convert the
debt into permanent burden for the aggrand-
lZement of special classes, by discriminating
legislation against the people and lesser cred
itors of the government in behalf Of lncorpo-
rated capital.
RESOLVED, That the public avenues en- which
move the commercial product of the states.
are the highways TO wealth and the general
prosperity of the people; that kindred with
the numerous improvements that have received
Of fha
the work of enlargIng the Fox and Wisconsin
rivers, in order to secure permanent channel
OF water communication between the great
lakes and the Mississippi that we ask the aid
OF the general government for this purpose, and
IN addition will unite with our sister states of
the west equally TO be benefited with Wiscon-
SIN In securing the completion of the same as
matter of state enterprise, should the gener-
al government fail to aid US therein and that
the continuous failure of the party in power
after many years Of ample opportunity to con-
tribute effective Legislative aid to this enter
prize, leads US to doubt the sincerity of its
professions,
REsoLvEn, That We protest against the mar
row partizanship and pervading greed for
spoil which characteristics all influences sur
rounding our state government against the
exaction of exorbitant fees in the state depart
ments, and against that Indifference to the bur-
dens of the people which compels the tax-pay-
ers to contribute the enormous sum of nearly
one million OF dollars per annum for support
of the state government and its partizan de-
pendents.
RESOLVED, That the democratic party of
Wisconsin reioices in the extinction of slavery;
in the prompt and and general acquiescencs of
he southern people in the results of the war;
in every well directed effort tor the enlighten-
ment and elevation of oppressed humanity at
home and abroad, and in every measure com-
patible with good government and public or
der, to broaden the basis of suffrage and ex=
tend the blessing of free institutions to all
classes of people, and that in strict fidelity to