The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-09-29
PLATFORM.
Adopted by the Ohio Democratic
State Convention, July z, 1869.

Ehundred 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.
2. RESOLVED, 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 peoplethe question of repuz
diation.
8. RssouJsd, THAT we denouaee the
high-protective tariff; which was de-
| signed only, il, the interests of New
England manufacturers. That said
tariff is Also, by its enormous imposi-
tons on salt, sugar, tea, coffee, and
| other ne~cessaries, 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. lJdsut
+ 4. Resozued, 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 limit
ed number of hours in all manufac-
turing Neutrality-suspicious. dictated BY
the physical and mental well-being OF
the laborer. That they favor the
most liberal laws in regard to house
hold and 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.
/ 5. ResoLred, 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.
8. ResoAred, That the late General
Assembly were called upon to make
large and extraordinary appropriations
to rebuild the burned Lunatic Asylum,
to provide a Reform School for girls,
construct a new blind Asylum, to
make appropriations to pay over $50,
900 of a judgment obtained in the SUI
prone Court of the State in favor Of
the Life Insurance and Trust Com
pany, and to meet a deficiency of over
$500, 900 OF the preceding Republican
Legislature, all of which, together with
the extra compensation paid to mem
bers under a law passed by a Repub-
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 100000 from the relief
fund for the MANNED and disabled SOL
diers and their families.
Z. RESOLVED, That we hereby return
our thanks to the 5Sth General As
sembly, for their enconmical eXpendi-
lures in the administration of the State
Government, and for the exposure OF
the wholesale frauds in the erection of
Estate 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-I,s,5
8. Resozred, That it is the right of
each State to decide for itself who
'Fshall possess the elective franchis e
within it that blythe attempt to reg
ulate suffrage in Ohio, by the means
of the so-called 18th constitutional
amendment, ncis subversiyeD Of the
principles Of the Federal Constitution.
9. RESOLVED, That tho policy and
legislation of the Radical party direct
ly tend to- destroy all the reserved
rights of tho Statessand convert the
Republic into aconsolidated despotism.
That, whether 1such despotism be. ex-
ercised by an Emperor, a President,
or a Congress, the result would be ia
tai to liberty and good government.
'fThat consolidation in this country
means the absolute dominion of mono
. poly and aggregate capital over the
lives, the liberty and the property OF
the toiling masses.
10. Resolued, 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 o.
annually, and that we demand
; its immediate repeal.
Is IL. ResOkved, That the trial and sen
tenee 10 death by military commission
: of a citizen of Texas, not in the mill
tiary or naval service, when the civil
courts were in the unobstructed ex
t ercise of their functions in that State
and in the time of profoundpeace, ani
the approval of that sentence by Pre-
sident Grant, are violations of tn
most sacred rights of American citi
I zens, guarnteedby their Constitution
; Estate and Federal, and deserve ant
t should receive the severest dondem
/ nation of every lover of liberty ant
| Constitutional Government.
II. ResoEeed, That the numerou
) palpable and high-handed usurpationt
the party in power, their many publ,
and private acts oftyranny, tramplinl
f under foot the OWL law and the guar
q antees of the Constitution, their con
/ tinuing to deprive sovereign States o