The Placer herald., 1869-10-02
Democratic State Platform.

OCAoCtdtiC OldtC AldtAOi
WHEREAS, Upon the eve of political canvass,
| the tme-honored usageS OF our party require
| that platform of principles be announced for
| the government of those who may be elected to
| political office, and, whereas, new questions have
arisen since the meeting of the last Democratic
Convention making such action eminently prop
er, therefore,
Resoipcd. That the Democracy of California
now and always conide in the intelligence, pa
triotism and discriminating Justice of the white
people of the country TO administer and control
their Government without the aid of either ne
groes or Chinese.
Resoired, That the Democratic party view with
alarm the action of an unscrupulo lous majority in
Congress in their attempts to absorb the powers
| OF the Executive and Judicial departments OF the
| FEDERAL Government, and to anniblate the rights
| and functions reserved to the State Govern
| ments.
Resolved. That the subjecton of the white pop
ulaton Of the Southern States to the rule OF
mass OF ignorant negroes. their disfranchisement,
and the denial TO them of all those sacred rights
guaranteed to every freeman, is an outrage and
| a wr1ng for which the history of free Govern
ments in modern times may be searched in vain
| for a parallel.
Resolred, That the Democratic party is op
posed to the policy of lending the credit of the
State and squandering the State property upon
railway or other corporations to the detriment
of the public interests aud the overwhe lining in
| crease of the State debt and taxation.
! Resolved, That the Democratic party ever has
been, is now. and ever will be- the champion of
| the rights of the mechanic and workingman; that
| all the reforms having for their object the reduc
ton of the hours of his labor the enlargement of
| his privileges and the protection of his personal
| liberty. have ever been demanded. enacted and
enforced by the Democracy; that we point with
pride to the fact that in California it was the
| Democratic element in the Legislature that pass
ed, and Democratic Governor that approved
| the Eight Hour law. and that we pledge ourselves
| to use our utmost exertions to carry the provis
ions of that law into full force and effect, we'll
as to labor in other directions for the cause of
| the sons OF toll.
Resoiued, That we are opposed to the adoption
of the proposed Fifteenth Amendment OF the
| United States Constitution, believing the same to
be designed and, if adopted, certain to degrade
! the right of suffrage to ruin the tailoring white
man, by bringing untold hordes of Pagan slaves
! (iu all but name) into direct competition with
| his efforts to earn Il livelihood to build up an
aristocratic class Of oligalchs in our midst crca-
ted and maintained by Chinese votes to give
| the negro and Chinaman the right to vote and
| hold Office aud that its passage would be inim-
| ical to the best interests of our country in di-
rect opposition to the teachings of Washington,
| Adams, Jefferson. and other founders of the Re
| public in fragrant V oaton of the plaincst prn-
| ciplcs upon which the superstructure Of our lib
critics were raised; subversive of the Cearest
ri gbts of the different States, and direct step
toward anarchy and its natural sequence the
election OF an empire upon the ruins Of consti-
| tutiona liberty.
Resolved That the Democracy of California
believe that the labor of our white people should
| not be brou ght into competition with the labor
OF class OF inferior people, whose living costs
comparatively nothing to the wealth of our State,
and who care and know nothing about our
churches, schools, societies, and social political
| institutions.
Rcs0ired. that we arraign the Radical party
! for its profgacy, corruption and extravaga gance
| in pnbic expenditures; for its tyranny. eXortion
and dstranchisement for its contempt Of con-
sttutional obligations for placing Washington
| City in the hands of semcivilizcd Africans :;
and we particularly condemn the appointment OF
healthy and ablc-bodicd negroes to Office while
the land is filled with capable white citizens who
are suffering for the common nccessaries OF life.
| ResOlrcd That heartily endorse and ap-
prove of the manner in which the Democracy
have administered the State Government, and
point with pride to The Acts to protect the wa
ges of labor, to lessen public and official expen-
ses, and to the fact that during the present State
| Administration the State debt has been reduced
nearly one million dollars and taxation from 81:
l3c., on 500, to 81 cents
| The resolutions were received with great ap-
| plauso and unanimously adopted.
| Resolved, That the so-called Alabama treaty
having been rejected by the treaty king power
Of the Government. the Democratic party, true
! to its record the only political party which,
on such issues has uniformly proved i,self faith
iul to own country, will now. as heretofore,
be found ready to sustain all measures demanded
by the honor. dignity and rights of the Republic
| in its rclations with all foreign powers
| Res0iUcd, That at all the voters in the State
OF California who are opposed to the Radical
measures OF Congress, including the proposed
| Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the
United States, and who are opposed to the APP
pOintment of negroes to office. be invited to unite
with the Democracy in the coming contest.
Loud cheers were given repeatedly during the
reading of the resolutions, and at the close they
were adopted unanimously, with three cheers for
the platform.