The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-07-23
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
Adopted July Z, 1869, at Co
lumbus.


|. Rcsolvcd, That the exemption
from taxation Of twenty-five hundred
million dollars in Government bonds and
securities is unjust to the people, aad
ought not TO be tolerated and that we
arc opposed to any appropriation f'r
the payment of interest on the fedora
bonds until they are made subject TO
federal taxation.
2. Rcsoire,i, That the calm Of the
bondholders that bonds bought with
greenhacks, and the principal of which
is by law payable in currency, should
neverthe ess be paid in gold, is unjust
and oxtortionate, and If persisted in
will inevitably force upon the people
the question Of reputation.
3. Rcsoioed, That we denounce the
national anking system as one of the
worst outgrOwths of the bonded deb, in
that il unnecessarily increases the
burden of the people thirty million of
dollars annually, and we demand its
immediate repeal.
4. Resolved, That we denounce the
present high protective tariff enacted in
the interests of the New England man.
ufacturers f''r its enormous imp sition
Of duties, on salt, sugar, tea, coffee and
other necessaries as oppressive, especi
ally upon the people Of the West, and
that we demand its repeal, and the sub
stitution Of another based upon revenue
principles aOne, approximating free
trade as closely rs possible.
5. Resolved, That the Democratic
party of the United States has Always
reen pre-eminently friendly to the
rights and interests of the laboring man
that it is in favor Of limited number
Of hours of labor in all Government
workshops, hours dictated by the phys
ical and mental wcll-bcing of the labor
ers that it is in favor of the most lib
eral laws in regard 10 household and
homesiea! exemptions from sale anC
execution; that it is also in favor of lib
eral grants Of land frnm the public do
main to actual set lers without cost
and opposed tn donating these lands tc
swindling railroad corp'rations, and j,
generally friendly to the measurers al
v"cated hy the labor and Industrial Con
gress, and as party it pledges, if re
stored IN power, its influence to give
them practical application.
6. ReSolved, That it is the right o
each State to decide for itself who shall
posses the elective franchise within it
and that the attempt tn regulate sui
frage in Ohio by means of the sO-calIe,
Fifteenth Constitutional Amendment
is subversive of the principles OF th'
Federal constitutions
7. Resolged, That the policy anl Leg
islation of the Radical party tend to de
stroy all the reserved rights of tn,
States, and to convert the Republic int,
cons lidated despotism; that sucl
despotism, whether exercised by
President. Emperor, or q Congress, i
fatal To liberty and good government
that consolidation in this country mean
the absolute dominion ufmonopOly ant
aggregated capital over the lives, tn
liberty and the property of the t'ilinI
masse s.
8 ResolOcd, That the numerous pal
pable and high handed usurpations .
the party in power, and their many put
lie and private acts of tyranny, tramp
ling under foot the civil law and tn
guarantees nf the Constitution, an
their continuing to deprive sovereign
States of representation in Congress
and governing them by military rul
prove them to he the party of despotisr
and unworthy the confidence and SUI
port of free people.
Q. ResoiUed, That the trial and ser
tence to death by military commisslo
of u citizen Of Texas, MT in the militar
service, while the civil courts were /
the unobstructed exercise Of their fun
tions in that State, and in time OF pre-
found peace, and the approval I
that sentence by President Gran
are in violation of the IN st sacrt
rights of American citizens guarai
teed by their Constitutions, bot
State and Federal, and deserve an
should receive the severest condemn
tion eff every lover of liberty and Gel
stitutional government.
10. Resolved, That the attacks
Governor Hayes and Lee upon the d
ings Of the late General Assembly q
false in statement malicious in spir
, and unworthy of their high position,
IL. Resolved, That the Fifty-eight
General Assembly was called upon
make large and extraordinary apr
{ priations to rebuild the burned Lun
, tic Asylum, TO provide ReformsScho
for girls, to construct u new blind As
lum, 10 make an appropriation to me
; ajudgment against the State Of mo
, than eighty thousand dol ars, for be
! rOwed money, in favor of the Life al
Trust Company, and to supply q detie
cy Of more than five hundred thousal
dollars of the preceding Republics
Legislature---all Of which, together wi
Ihe extra compensation paid to mel
bers under law passed by Repnh
can Legislature, was accnmplisht
3 without an increase of the State lev
Notwithstanding all these things, d
!. appropriations are much less than tho
) OF the preceding Republican Legis
r ture. and that, ton, without ahstraetii
eight hundred thousand dollars fro
o the relief fund for the MANNED and d
ahled soldiers and their families.
l2. Resolved, That we hereby !
turn our thanks TO the late Genol