The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-08-12

freuTd, July IL.
Democratic Platform, Adopted
July Z, 1869.
Resolved, That the exemption from
taxation of twenty five hundred nil
mions of dollars in government bonds
and securities is unjust to the people
and ought not to be tolerated, and that
we are opposed to any appropriation
+ for the payment, of interest on the
Federal bonds until they are made
subject to Federal taxation
Resolved, That the claims of the
bondholders that. bonds 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 reputation. ri r2.tia1f
Resolved That we denounce the
national banking system as one of the
worst outgrowths of the bonded debt
in that it unnecessarily increases the
burden of the people thirty millions
of dollars annually, and we demand its
immediate repeal. fa7is--sE szfai ~
Resolved, That we denounce the
present high protective tariff enacted
in the Interests of the New England
manufacturers for its enormous impo-.
sition, of duties on salt, sugar, tea and
coffee and other necessaries as oppres-
sive, especially upon the people of the
West, and that we demand its repeal,
and the substitution of another based
upon revenue principles alone, ap-
proximating free trade as closely as
possible.
Z Resolved, That the Dem ocratic par
ty of the United States has always
been pre-eminently friendly to the
rights and interests of the laboring
man; that it Is in favor of a limited
number of hours of labor in all Gov
ernment workshops--hours dictated
by the physical and mental well being
of the laborers; that it is in favor of
the most liberal laws in regard to
household and homestead exemption
from execution ;; that it is also in favor
of liberal grants of land from the pub
lie domain without cost, and opposed
to donating these lands to swindling
railroad corporations, and is generally
faiendly to the measures advocated
by the Labor and Industrial Congress,
and as party, it, pledges, if restored
to power, its influence to give them
practical application. ----
Resolved, That it is the right of each
State to decide for itself who shall pos
sess the elective franchise within it !;
and that Che attempt to regulate
suffrage in Ohio by means of the so
called Fifteenth constitutional amend
ment is subversive to the principles of
the Federal Constitution. e-l
Resolved, That-the policy and legis-
latien of the Radical party tend to, des-
troy all the, reserved rights of-the
States and convert the Republic into
consolidated despotism that such
despotism, whether exercised by
President, Emperor, ora Congress, is
fatal to liberty and good government !;
that consolidation ain this country
means the absolute dominion of mo-
nepoly and aggregated capital over
the lives the liberty and the the prop
erty of the toiling masses.
Resolved, That the numerous pal
pable and high-handed usurpations of
the party in power, md their many
public and sprivate acts sof tyranny,
IrdIlAliNlS NHuSES1OOe sLlc EStAat law
and The guarantees of the Constitution
and their eontiuuing to deprive the
SOVEREIGN States of representation in
Congress-geEefning States by mill
tary rule, prove them to be the party
of despetism and unworthy, of the
confidence and support of a free peo-
pie.
Resolved, That the trial and sentence
to death, by a military commission, of
citizen of Texas not in the military
or naval service, while the civil courts
are in the unobstructed exercise of
their functions in that State, and in
time of profound peace, and the ap-
proval of that sentence by President
Grant, are IN violation of the most sa-
cred rights of American citizens, guar
aiteed by their Constitution, both
State aud Federal and deserve and
should receive, the severest condem-
nation of every lover of liberty and
constitutional government.
Resolved, That the attacks of Gov
ernors Hayes aud Lee upon the doings
of the late General Assembly are
false in statement, malicious in spirit,
and unworthy OF their ehigh position.
Resolved, That TIM Fifty-eighth
General Assembly was called upohlto
make large and extraordinary appro-
priations to- rebuild the burnt Lunatie
Asylum, to provide Reform School
for girls, to construct q new Blind
Asylum, to make an appropriation to
meet judgement of more than $780,
600, recovered in the Supreme Court
in. favor of the Life and Trust 4Gompa-
ny, and to supply a deficiency of more
than $5O0,000 of the preceding Legis-
plature, all of which, together with the
extra compensation paid to members
under a law passed by a Republican
Legislature, without an increase of
| the State levy; notwithstanding all
of these things, the appropriations are
much less than those of the preceding
Republican Legislature-and that, too
without abstracting 100000 from the
relief fund ofthe MANNED and disabled
soldiers and their families.
Resolved, That we hereby return
our thanks to the late General Assem-
! bly, for their economical expenditures
| in the administration Tof5the- State
Government, and the exposure Of the
wholesale frauds in the erection of the
State buildings, whereby the people
were defrauded out of half million
of dollars by the negligence and COR
t'uption of Republican, State officials
and the dishonesty Of their appointees
and shboriiinates, - n
Resolved, That we extend the right
hand of fellowship, and recognize as
brethren in a common cause, all con-
servative men not heretofore Demo-
Gratis who will unite withgus lin 1easu-
| ling the government from the univ or
thy hands into which it has fallen, and
we pledge the united and cordial sup
port of the 250,O00 Democrats in Ohio