The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-08-18
PLATFORM.
Adopted by the Ohio Democratic
! State Convention, July ?, 1869.

from tax of over two thousand five
hundred million dollars in govern
ment bonds and securities, is unjust to
the people and ought not to be tolerat-
ed, and that we are opposed to any
appropriation for the payment of in.
terest on public bonds until they are
made subject to taxation. 10
2. ResoEued, That the claims of the
bond holders, that the bonds which
were bought with greenbacks and the
principal of which is by law payable
in currency, should nevertheless be
paid in gold, is unjust and extortionate
and if persisted in will inevitably force
upon the people the question of repu-
diation. .-,..-
3. ResOlUcd, Thatwe denounce the
high-protective tariff, which was de-
signed only in the interests of New
England manufacturers. That said
tariff is also, by its enormous imposi-
tons on salt, sugar, tea, coffee, and
other nccessaries, uncomfortable /; OPP
pressive especially upon the people of
the West ; and that we demand its
repeal, and the substitution of another
based upon revenue principles alone,
upon the closest possible approxima-
ton to absolute free trade.
A. Resozred, That the Democratic
party of the Uuited States have always
been permanently friendly to the
rights and the interests of the laboring
man /; that they are in favor of a limit
ed number of hours in all manufac-
turing neutrality-suspicious. dictated by
the physical and mental we'll being OF
the laborer. That they favor the
most liberal laws in regard to house
hold ard homestead exemption from
sale and execution. That they also are
in favor of liberal grants of land from
the public domain to the actual settler
without any cost, and are opposed to
the douation ofthem to swindling
railroad corporations, and that they
are generally friendly to the system OF
meaures advocated by the labor and
industrial congresses, and We pledge
the Democratic party, if restored to
power, to exercise their influence in
giving them practical application. q.
5! ResOIued, That the attacks of
Governors Hayes and Lee upon the
doings of the late General Assembly,
are false in fact, malicious IN spirit,
and unworthy of gentlemen occupy
ing their elevated positions.
=. 6. Resolred, That the late General
Assembly were called upon to make
large and extraordinary appropriations
to rebuild the burned Lunatic Asylum,
provide a Reform School for girls,
construct a new Blind Asylum, to
make appropriations to pay over $50,
900 of Judgment obtained in the Su-
preme Court of the State in favor of
the Life Insurance and Trust Com
pany, and to meet a deficiency of over
$500, 600 of the preceding Republican
Legislature, all of which, together with
the extra compensation paid to mem
bers under a law passed by a RepuE-
lican Legislature, were provided for
without an increase of the State levy, |
and the appropriations in the aggregate
are much less than that of, the preced-
ing Republican Legislature, without
.abstracting $500, 900 from the relief
fund for the MANNED and disabled SOL
diers and their families.
z. ResOIUed, That we hereby return
our thanks to the 5Sth General AS
for their enconmical expendi-
lures insthe administration of the State
Government, and for the expo sure of
the wholesaleIfrahds in the erection of
State buildings, whereby the people
were swindled out of half a million Of
dollars, by the negligence: of Repub-
lican State officials and the dishonesty
of contractors.
g.. Resohed, That it is the right of
each State to decide for itself who
shall possess the. elective franchise
within. it that by the attempt to reg
ulate suffrage in Ohio, by the means
of the so-called 18th constitutional
amendment, is subversive of the
principles of the Federal Constitution.
8. RESOLVED, That the policy and
legislation of the Radical party direct
ly tend to destroy all the reserved
rights of the States and convert the
Republic into a consolidated despotism.
That, whether such despotism be ex-
ercised by ar Emperor, a President,
a Congress, the result would be ia
tai to liberty and good government
That consolidation in this country
means the absolute dominion of mono
poly and aggregate capital over the
the liberty and the property of
the toiling masses.