, 1869-07-12

nR1n nrMocRAr1c PLA1FuRM.

called upon to fran4e political platform
which SHOULD express their views Is to the
righteousness Of the diyi9ion Of the vaters,
The sate passage Of the 1srnelites and the
return Of tie waves in time to engun their
own host, they would hare found themselves
in pretty deep water. The Ohio Democracy
have attempted the sa1ns task, however, in
very Ri1uilAt circumstances, and we nre
E-uh amused at the riev their "chariots
end ho1semen take Of the situation.
Their frst point is that the government
Ought to rcpadato part Of tho interest on
whst they owe by co]1..sing it back from
their creditors in the form OF ta1, and
unless this can be done the government
ought to repudinte the whole debt. It is
absu,d thus u complicate the resolution BY
presenting The two alternatives of partial
and total rep1diation, md declaring that Il
we cannot hare half loaf We will insist on
the whole bread Why not make the reso-
lntiou square one, without ifs CT butts, as
follows: 1--WE are for the national repu-
diation Of the debt incurred to saye the
= eovernnent- Our interest fo1bids us to
-ay the principal, md our principles forbid
70 phy the interest,"" This is what
y111andighamuers mean, and what
say. Why not say it plainly?
1.ue second resolution is that sooner than
pny the rational debt in gold the Ohio De-
mooney viii rcpudiate it. Il these are the
kind Of measles that are under the Demo
CRITIC skin in Ohio, it is well to bring than,
out, We Ike to see the trash" take to the
xn h. t4n1o
such feculent stomnchs it must haye mado
the Ohio Democracy deadly sick to zee
$500. .oO0, 600 Of Indebtedness (inciuding the
uon-funded debt, a1Tearages, bounties, way
clains, etc. paid off within FIVE yea1s, and
about fony-six millions Of debt wiped out
within tie past gear, nearly all Of it during
'.s fr-. quarter. The second resosu-
>uplete, in that the Democracy
10 tell Us that they would be
g the national debt paid in
gold. The third resoln-
protective tariff, but its
ycry large number af the
>- in the last National Demo-
~- -uonvenuon, endorsed protective
tariff. Il the Democracj Of Ohio denounce
rrctective tariff in their Stnte platform,
md endorse it in their national platform,
which shall we accept RS their sincere and
honest utterhnce?
Ii their fourth resolution the Ohio De-
mocrnrr endorse '.limited hours Of labor
in manufacturing workshops" and the Home
stead act, measures which, whatever thelt
or have been enacted into lsw By Re-
-ans, md are not, we beliere, opposed
bodS-
--l~ ffth. sixth and seventh resolutions
=. ure devoted to triple-coAsed vlitewashing
cf the Late General Assembly of Ohio,
business which seems to require double
sized brush and good deal Of lime. We
can tel better how it looks when the lot
-5e eighth opposes negro suffrage IN
!, though for five years the Ohio De-
y s.ase snecred ut the Republican
for imposing impartial suffrage OF
Ind not On Ohio.
riath observes that the Radicals
- rights" SO high thai
-, Of them left to hold nr
aur tuneru1 over, hut that sc
<sa grense spot remains Of this ole
secession doctri2e of the sovereignty Of hs
State over tie Nation, the Democracy a
Ohiu VIII weep oEez the diseulozatlon, ind
when the list stain is wiped out, will cree
monument to its memory.
The concluding resolutions denoznce the
:. Rational Banking system with an esiden
preference for the :. wildcat banl1s>, and
In sx7pa.hF for the unpleasantncss Il
IA thes- fellow Democrat, yergeE, o.
ississirzi, a.a. ,rrn subjected Tor Filling Z
pet-baoger from Ohio, they denounc'
:, military tribunals as illegal and voil
-5oEdemn the reconstruction Of the South
j, by inference, the suppression Of th'
-lEoa, Us a series Of high-handed nsurpa
std t2ally invite Republicans t.
NJ, "'s. the Democratic ticket.
IEt -, reduced to nutshell
:! IT, T. IT, =, Anarchy, Hypocrisy
+ 3. the first for ogr Guances
g.. - he South the ul;rd for ths
and the fourth fo- the negro
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