Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-07-22
Wyandot County Republican,
From the Chicago Tribune


Ohio Democratic Platform.
If the Egyptians under Pharaoh
had been called upon to frame po
litical platform which should express
their views as to the righteousness
of the division of the waters, the
safe passage of the Israelites and
the return of the waves in time to
engulf their own host, they would
have found themselves in pretty
deep water. The Ohio Democracy
have attempted the same task, how
ever, in very similar circumstances,
and we are very much amused at
the view their "chariots and horse
men" take of the situation. 81
The first point is that the govern
ment ought to repudiate a part of
the interest ON what they owe by
collecting it back from their credi-
tors in the form of tax, and unless
this can be done the government
ought to repudiate the whole debt.
1t is absurd thus to Complicate the
resolution by presenting the two
alternatives of partial and total re-
pudiation, and declaring that if we
cannot have half loaf we will
insist on the whole bread. Why
not make the resolution a square
without ifs or butts as follows: Nv e
are for the national reputation of
the debt incurred to save the govern
ment. Our interest forbids us to
pay the principal, and our principles
forbids us to pay the interest" "
This is what the Vallandingham
mers mean, and what they say why
not say it plainly?
The second resolution is that
sooner than pay the national debt
in gold the Ohio Democracy will
repudiate it. If these are the kind
of measels that are under the Demo-
cratic skin in Ohio, it is well to
bring them out. We like to see the
"rash" take to the surface rather
than to the vitals, With such fecu-
lent stomachs it must have made tho
Ohio Democracy deadly sick to see
SS00,00O,000 of Indebtedness (inclu-
ding the non-funded debt, arrear-
ages, bounties, war claims, etc.,
paid off within five years, and about
forty-six millions of debt wiped out
within the past year, nearly all of it
during Grants firrt quarter. The
second resolution is incomplete, in
that the Democracy of Ohio forget
to tell us that they would be just as
10th to see the national debt paid in
greenhacks as in gold. The third
resolution denounces a protective
tariff, but it's authors include very
large number of the same men who,
in the last National Democratic
Convention, indorsed protective
tariff. If the Democracy of Ohio
denounce protective tariff in their
State platform, and indorse it in
their national platform, which shall
we accept as their sincere and hon
est utterance
In their fourth resolution the
Ohio Democracy endorse ''llmited
hours of labor in manufacturing
workshops" and the homestead act,
measures which, whatever their
worth, have been enacted into law
by Republicans, and are not, we
believe, opposed by either party.
The fifth, sixth, and seventh reso
lutions are devoted to triple coat
ed white washing of the late Gen
eral Assembly of Ohio, business
which seems to require a double
sized brush and good deal of lime
We can tell better how 1T looks
when the job has had time to dry.
The eighth opposes negro suf-
frage in Ohio, though for five years
the Ohio Democracy have sneered
at the Republican party for impos-
ing impartial suffrage ON Virginia
and not on Ohio. -t'
The ninth observes that the Rad
icals have blown Estate rights" SO
high that there isn't enough of them
left to hold an inquest on or flu
neral over, but that so long as a
grease spot remains of this old Sc
cession doctrine Of the sovereignty
OA tuO OtStLC OFCI IAO INdtlOu3 CuC
Democracy of Ohio will sweep over
the discoloration, and, when the last
stain is wiped out, will erect a mon
ument to its memory.
The concluding resolutions de-
nounce the National Banking sys-
tenn with an evident preference for
the "wild-cat" banks J, and in sym
pathy for the "unpleasantness'' to
which their fellow Democrat, Yer
ger, of Mississippi, has been SUBJ
jected for killing carpet bagger
from Ohio, they denounce the mill
tary tribunals as illegal and void,
condemn the reconstruction of the
South, and, by inference, the sup
preston of the rebellion, as a Sc
ries of high-handed usurpations, and
finally invite Republicans to vote the
the Democratic ticket.
The platform reduced to a nut
shell, means Reputation, Anarchy,
Hypocrisy, and Oppression - the
first for our finances; the second for
the South; the third for the work
ingmen; and fourth for the negro.
The Railroad Vote.
The result of yesterdays vote on
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