Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-07-17
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM

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The following are the resolutions passed by
the late conventien at Columbus, and consti-
tute the VII Of principles upon which that par
" propose to come before the people and ask
for their trust and confidence;
Reaolued, That exemption ffom tax of over
two thousand five hundred million donars IN
Government bonds and securities Is unjust to
the people and ought not be tolerated, and
that we are opposed tOlany appropriation for
payment of interest on publte bOrids until they
are made subject to taxatIon.
ReeoIted That the claims Of bOndholders
that the bonds which were bought with green
backe, and the principle of which ls by law
payable In currency, should, nevertheless, be
paid In gold, 10 unjust and extortionate, and if
persisted tn will inevitably force upon the peO-
pie the question of repudiation,
Resotued, Thatwe denounce the bigh protec-
tive tariff which was designed to aid the inter
ests Of the New England manufacturers. That
said tariff Is also by its enormous impCsitions
on salt, sugar, tea, coffee and necessaries unen-
durable &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 ap-
proximation to absolute free trade. .'.rt
Resolred, That tho Democratic party of the
United States have always been permantly
friendly 10 the rights and the interests Of the
labOring man, that they are In favor of q limit
ed number Of hours in all manufacturing work
shops, hours dictated by the physical and men
tai well being of the laborer. That they favor
the most liberal laws in regard to household
exemption from sale and execution That they
are also In favor of liberal grants Of law from
the public domain to the actual settler, and are
opposed to the donation of them TO swindling
railroad corporations and that they are gener-
ally friendly to the system Of measures advo-
Iot,0 Nf fnd
and we pledge the Democratic party, If restor-
ed TO power, TO exercise them In giving them
practical application.
Resolped, That the attacks of Governors Hayes
and Lee upon the dOings Of the late general as
sembly are false in fact malicious In spirit, and
unworthy of gentlemen occupying their ele-
waited positions. .r. -...
Resolved, That the late General Assembly
were called upon to make large and extraor-
dinary appropriations; TO rebuild the burned
Lunatic Asylum, TO provide a reform school
for girls, construct new Blind Asylum, to
make appropriations to pay over $4,000 Of a
| Judgment, obtaining In the Supreme Court of
the State in favor Of the Life Insurance and
Trust Company, and to meet a deficiency of
over 960000O of the preceding Republican
Legislature, all of which, together with the ex-
| ira compensation paid to members under law
passed by Republican Legislature, were pro-
vided for without an increase of the State levy,
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much less than that of the preceding Repub-
lican Legislature. without subtracting $500, 900
| from the relief fund for the MANNED and dis
abled soldiers and their families.
Resolped, That we hereby return our thanks
TO the 5Sth General Assembly for their econo-
mical expenditures in the administration Of
| the State Government, and the exposal OF the
wholesale frauds, in the erection Of State build.
| ings, whereby the people were swindled out of
half million of dollars by the negligence of
| Republican State officials and the dishonesty
of contractors. I
RAsolped, That it is the right of each State
| to decide for itself who shall possess the elec-
tive franchise within il, that the attempt to
regulate suffrage in Ohio by means of the so
| called fifteenth constitutional amendment is
subversiye of the principals of the federal con-
| stitution. i|'t
Resotped, That the policy and legislation of
| the radical party directly tend to destroy all
| the reserved rights of the States anil convert
| the republic into consolidated despotsm that
whether such despotism be exercised by an
Emperor, q President, or q Congress, the result
would be fatal to liberty and good government,
that consolidation In this country means the
absolute dominion OF. monopoly and an aggre-
gate capital over the lives, the liberty and the
properly of the toiling masses ~
ResolCed That we denounce the National
banking system as one of the worst outgrowths
of the bonded debt, which unnecessarily in
creases the burden of the people thirty mill
ions of dollars annually, and that we demand its
| immediate repeal.
Resoi5ed, That the trial and sentence to
death by military commission, of citizen
| of Texas, not in the military or naval service,
when the CiyilCourts were in the unobstructed
exercise of their functions In that state, and in
| the time Of profound peace, and the approval
of that sentence by Accident Grant, are viola
| tions of the most sacred rights of American
citizens, guaranteed by their constitutions state
and federal, and deserve and should receive
| the severest condemnation of every lover Of
liberty and constitutional government
| hssoLued, That the numerous palpable and
high-handed usurpations of the party In power,
their many public and private acts of tyranny,
| trampling under foot the civil law and the
| guarantees of the Constitution, their continu-
Ing to deprive sovereign States of represents
tion in Congress, and to govern said States by
mere military rule, show them TO be the party
of despotism, and unworthy the confidence and
support OF q free people
| Resotoed, That we extend the right hand Of
fellowship aud recognize as brethren In q COM
mon cause all conservative men, not hereto
fore Democrats, who will unite with US in SO.
curing the government from the unworthy
hands into which II has fallen, and we pledge
the united and cordial support Of the two humid
red and fifty thousand Democrats In Ohio
whom we represent to the ticket nominated by
this convention, and presented by us to the
| suffrages of the people of Ohio.