The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-07-10
The Platform of the Ohio Democracy
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RcSbtUed, That the exemption from tax Of
over $500, 100000 Goytrnitient bonds and
securities is unjust to the people, and
ought not to be tolerated, and that we are
opposed to any appropriation for the pay
ment of the interest OH the public bonds
until they are made subject to taxation.
hcS0lUed, That The claims Of the bond
holders that the bonds which were tUtght
with greenbackS. and the principal of which
Is by law payable in currency, should never
thcless be paid in gold, is unjust and ex-
tortionate; and if persisted in will inevita-
bly, force upon the people the question of
reputation.
RcSolced, That we denouncc the high pro-
tective tariff, which was designed only in
the interests of the New England manufac-
turers that said tariff is also, by its enor-
motls il1positions on salt, sugar, tea, coffee,
and the necessarieS Of life, titeiidlrable and
oppressive, especially upon the people of
the West, and that we demand its repeal
and the substitution of another, based upon
revenue principles alone, upon the closest
possible approximation to absolute free
trade
Resolred, That the Democratic party Of
the United States have always been pre-
eminently friendly to the rights and inte-
rests Of the laboring man; that they are in
favor of limited number of hours in all
manufacturing workshops, the hours die
tated by the physical and mental well-being
ofthe laborer; that they tarorthe most liberal
laws in regard to household attd homestead
exemption from sale and execution that
they are also in favor Of liberal grants of
land from the public domain to actual set
tiers without any cost, and are opposed 10
the donation of them to sTindIing railroad
corporations: and that they are generally
friendly to Il system of measures advocated
10y the Labor and Industrial Congresses !;
and we pledge the Democratic party: if re-
stored TO power, to exercise their influence
in giving them practical application.
RtSolued, That it is the right of each
State to decide for itself who shall possess
the elective franchise within it, that the at
tempt to regulate suffrage in Ohio by means
of the so-callcd fifteenth constitutional
amendment is Subversivc of the principles
Of the Federal Constitution,
ReS0lCed, That the policy and legislation
of the Radical party directly tend to de-
stroy all the reserved rights OF the States,
and convert the republic into Il consolidated
deSpotism; that whether such deSpotism be
exercised by IN Emperor, President. or Il
Congress. the result would he fatal to liberty
and good government; that consolidation
i'm this country means tile absolute do
miuion of monopoly and aggregate capital
over the lives, the liberty, and the property,
OF the tOllng masses.
RcSolrcd, That we denounce the national
banking system aS one of the worst out
@rowthS of the bonded debt, which unneces-
Sarily increases the burden of the people
$50. 600. 600 annually, and that we demand
its immediate repeal.
ResOlued. That the trial and sentence to
death by military commission OF citizens OF
Texas not in the military or naval service
when the civil courts were i'll nobStructed
exercise of their functions in that State, and
in the time Of profound peace, and the APP
proval Of that sentence by President Grant.
are violations of the most sacred rights Of
American citizens guaranteed them by the
Constitution. State and Federal, and de-
serve, and should receive, the earnest con-
dcmnalion of every lover of liberty and
constitutional government.
RcsotUed, That the numerous palpable
and high-handed uSurpatonS OF the party
in power, their many public and private
acts of tyranny, trampling under 1907 the
civil law and the guarantees OF the Constr
tuition; their continuing to deprive soVe-
reign States of representation IN Congress,
and to govern said States by military rule,
show them to be the party OF despotlSm,
and unworthy the confidence and support
of II free people.
ReSOlced, That we extend the right hand
of fellowship, and recognize as brethren Ill
a common cause, all conservative men not
heretofore Democrats who will unite with
lis in rescuinw the Government from the
unworthy hands into which 1t has fallen
and we pledge the united and cordial sup
port of the go, 900 Democrats i'll ONO, whom
we represent, to the ticket nominated by
this Convention, and presented by us to the
sutfra"cs of the people OF Ohio.