The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-07-28
n PLATFORM. IFS
Adopted by the. Ohio Democratic
- State Convention, July 2, 1869.

mentI bonds and securities, is unjust to
the people and ought not to be t%olerat-
'cd, and that we are opposed to any
appropriation for the payment Of in.
terest on public bonds until they are
made subject to taxation.
2. ReSOtced, That the claims of the
bond holders, that the bonds which
were bought with grecnbacks and the
principal of which is by law payable
in currency, should nevertheless be
paid i'll gold, is unjust and extortiOnate
and ifpersisted in will inevitably force
upon the people the question of repu-
diation.
3. ResoIUed, That we 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.
4. Rcsohrpd, That the Democratic
party of the Uuited States have always
been permanently friendly to the
rights and the interests of the laboring
nan that they are in favor Of 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 i'll regard to house.
hold ard homestead exemption from
ale and execution. That they also are
III favor of liberal grants of land from
he public domain to the actual settler
without any cost, and are opposed to
ahe douation ofthem to swindling
abroad corporations, and that they
ire generally friendly to the system OF
ncaures advocated by the labor and
Industrial congresses, and we pledge
he Democratic party, if restored to
DoweT, to exercise their influence in
giving them practical appliction.
.. Resgzrcd, That the attacks OF
Governors Hayes and Lee upon the
longs of the late General Assembly,
Ire false in fact, malicious III spirit,
md unworthy of gentlemen occupy
ng their elevated positions.
g.. ResOlred, That the late General
assembly were called upon to make
Irarge and extraordinary appropriations
l 8 rebuildtlIe Burned Liinatic Asylum,
o provide q Reform School for girls,
onstruct Il new Blind Asylum, te
make appropriations to- pay over $50,
30 of 4 judgment obtained in the Su
RENE Court of the State III favor q
ne Lie Insurance and Trust Com
amy, and to meet a deficiency of Owe.
;500,0 20 of the preceding Republican
legislature, all Of which, together witt
he extra compensation paid to ne.
'ers under Il law passed by a RcpuI
lean Legislature, were provided fol
Without m increase Of the State levy
( md the appropriations in the aggregate
ire much less than that of the proceed
ny Republican Legislature, without
sbstracting $500, 00) from the relief
una for the MANNED and disabled sol
| Tiers and their families.
Z. RcsoIred, That we hereby return
rur thanks to the 5Sth General As
emily, for their .eneonmicaf eXpcndi
lures III the administration ofthc State
| Government, and for the exposure o!
| he Wholesale frauds in the erection o:
State buildings, whereby the people
were swindIed out of half Il million O:
l~ollars, by the negligence of Repub
| ;ican State off ;ials and the dishonesty
| IF contractors.
8. Resoted, That it is the right OF
ZACH Stltc 10 decide for itself who
| hal! possess the elective franchise
within it +; that by the attempt to reg
uiate suHragc-in Ohio, by the mem.
IF the so-callcd 18th constitutional
amendment, is sIlbvcrsiyc Of the
tPrinciplcs of the Federal Constitution.
., 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 Il consolidated dcspotism.
That, whether such dcspotism be eN
ercisod by IL Emperor, a,Prcsident,
or Il Congress, the result would be fl,
tai to liberty and good government
That consolidation in this country
| means the absolute dominion o monO
poly and aggregate capital over the
lives, the liberty and the property OF
the toiling masses.
10. ResoAeI, That we denounce the
National Banking System as one of the
worst outgrowths of the bonded debt,
which unnecessarily increases the bur
den Of the people thirty millions Ct
dollars annually, and that we demand
its immediate repeal.
II. Resolced, That the trial and sen
tencc to death, by military commission
of a citfzerf Of Texas, not in the mill
tiary or naval service, when the civil
courts were in the unobstructcd eX-
ercise of their functions in that State,
and in the time of profound peace, and
the approval of that sentence by Pre-
sidept, Grant, are violations of the
most Sacred rights Of American cit
zens, ,guarnteedby their Constitutions
State and Federal, and deserve and
should receive the severest dondem
nation of every lover of liberty and
Constitutional Government.
-. ResOzred, That the numerous
palpable and high handed usurpations
the party in power, their many public
and private acts oftyranny, trampling
under foot the OWL law and the guar
I~antees of the Constitution, their o
tinuing to deprive sovereign States OF
representation i'll Congress, and to
$50 IL C44o. l. s..o,