The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-08-10
The White Mans Platform !!
Adopted by the Ohio De-
ssos %csraaes. al Columbus, July q,

l. RESOLVED, That the exemption from tax
alton of tweuiv-ivs hundred million of dol
lars in Government bonds and securities is un
Just to the people, aud onght not be tolerated,
and that we are opposed to any appropria-
tion for the pa,ni-nt of Interest on the Fed
eral bonds until they are made subject to
Federal taxation.
9. RESOLVED, That the claims OF the bond
holders that hoT.ds bought with greenhacks
and the principal of which is hy law payable
in currency, should nevertheless he paid in
gold. isnninst and extortiouats, aud { pefsis-
ted inswill Inevitably force upon the people
the questiou Of reputation. # 4
5. RESOLVED. That wedenounce the na-I
tionaf1 banking system as one esof 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.
4. RESOLVED, That we denounce the pres
ent high protective tariff enacted in the in
terests of the New England manufactures for
its enormous imposition of duties on salt,
sugar, tea, coffee, and other necessares as
are oppressive, especially upon the people of
the West, and that we demand its repeal and
the substitution of another based upon reve-
nue. principles alone, aapproximating free
trade as clio sely as possible.
s5. Resolved Thatthe Democratic party of
the United States has always been pre-emi-
nently friendly to the rights and interests of
the laboring man; that It is in favor of a
limited number of hours Of labor III all Gov
ernment workshops, hours dictated by the
physical and mental well being of the labor
ers; that it'iB in faver sof the most liberal
laws in regard to household and homestead
exemptions frontsalesand executions that it
is also in favor of liberal grants Of land from
the pubic domain to actnal settlers without
cost, and opposed to donating these lands to
swindling railroad corporations, and is gene
rally friendly to the measures advocated by
the Labor and Industrial Congress, and as
party, pledges, if restored to power its in
iluence to give them practical application.
G. RESOLVED, That il is the right of each
State to decide for itself who shall possess
the elective franchise within it, and that the
attempt to regulate suffrage in Ohio by means
of the so-caled Fifteenth Constitutional
Amendment, is subversiye Of the principles
Of the Federal Constitution.
I. RESOLVED, That the policy and legisla-
ton of the Radical party tend to destroy all
the reserved rights of the States, and con-
verts the Republic into a consolidated despot-
ism; that such despotism, whether exercised
by President, Emperor, or 3 Congress. is
fatal to liberty and good government; that
consolidation in this country means the alb
solute dominion of monopoly and aggregated
capital over the lives, the liberty and the
property of the toiling masses.
S. RESOLVED. That the numerous palpable
and high handed usurpations of the party in
power, and their many public and private
acts of tyranny, tfampling under foot the
civil law and the guarantees Of the Consti-
tuition, and their continuing to deprive the
Southern States of representation in Congress
governing States by military rule, prove
them to be the party of despotism and un-
worthy, the confidence and support Of free
people.
8, RESOLVED, That the trial and sentence
Of death by military commission of citi-
en- of Texas, not in the military service,
while the civil courts are in the unobstruoted
exercise Of their functions In that State. and
in time Of profound peace and the approval
Of that sentence by President Grant, are in
violation of the most sacred rights of Amer
ican citizens guaranteed by their Constitution,
both State and Federal and deserve and
should receive the severest condemnation of
every lover of liberty and constitutional gov
ernment.
10. RESOLVED, That the attacks of Cover
nors Hayes and Lee upon the doings of the
late General Assembly are false in statement,
malicious in spirit, and unworthy of their
high position. st -f5- s5i5 s.4sy
IL. RESOLVED, That the Fifty-eighth General
vas called upon to make large and
,extr4ordinary appropriations to rebuild the
burned Lunatic Asylum, to provide Reform
School, for girls TO construct new Blind
Asylum, to make an appropriation to meet
judgment of more than eighty thousand dol
lars, recovered in the Supreme Court of the
Statein .avor of the Life and Trust Company,
and to supply deficiency of more than five
hundred thousand dollars of the preceding
Republican Legislature all of which, together
with the extra compensation paid to MEM
bers under law passed by a Republican
Legislature, without an increase of the State
levy; notwithstanding all these things, the
appropriations are much less than those Of
the preceding Republican Legislature-and
that, too, without abstracting eight hundred
thousand dollars from the relief fund for the
manned and disabled soldiers and their fam
lilies.
IL. RESOLVED, That We hereby return our
thanksto ihe late General Assembly for their
economical expenditures in the administra-
ton of the, State Government, and for the
exposure Of the wholesale frauds in the erec-
tion of State buildings, whereby the people
were defrauded out of half million OF dollars
by the negligence and corruption of Republican
State officials, and the dishonesty of their ap-
pointees and suberdinates.
ID. RESOLVED, That we extend the right
hand Of fellowship, and recognize as brethren
in common cause, all conservative men not
heretofore Democrats, who will unite with us in
rcscuing the Government from the unworthy
hands into which it has fallen; and We pledge
tho united and cordial support of the two hun
dred and fifty thousand Democrats in Ohio
whom we represent, to the ticket nominated 10y
this Csnyentions and presented by us to the sui
frages of the, people of Ohio. i, efe-ssgr ~