The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-06-08
THE PLATFORM.

The Committee or Resolutions having
completed its labors by this time, Hon.
George w. Andrews, of Licking, chairman
of the same submitted the following re-
port
The Democracy of Ohio, coming togeth-
er in the spirit of devotion to the doctrine
and faith of free representative govern
ment, and relying for success upon discus
sion and the intelligence of the people,
deem the present convention fitting oc-
.caslUn to reassert the following time-hon-
ored principles of he Democratic party
That the Federal Government is one of
limited powers, derived solely from the
Constitution; that the grants of power
made therein ought to be strictly con-
strued by all the dependents and agents
of the Government, and that it is inexpe-
dent and dangerous to exercise doubtful
power
That the Constitution of the United
States, founded on the fundamental prin-
cIples of entire and absolute equality of
all the States of the Union. 1t is not
competent for Congress to impose upon
them any conditions or restrictions in re-
spect to their internal concerns which the
Federal Constitution has not imposed.
That the liberal principles embodied by
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ence, and sanctioned in the Constitution
which makes ours the land of liberty and
an asylum of the oppressed of every nation,
have ever been cardinal principles of the
Democratic faith, and every attempt to
abridge the privileges of becoming citizens
and the owners of soil among nsy ought to
be resisted with the same spirit which
swept the alien and sedition laws from our
statute books, and in order that we may
more distinctly declare our views of the
measures and policies of the present ad
mlnistration
Resolved, That we denounee the present tariff as
wen as the substitute lately introduced in the
House Of Representatives from the Committee
Ways and Means, as a gigantic robbery Of the Ia
Dor and industry of the country; that they
solely designed TO advance the interests of few
Thousand monOPolists, and that this should be
longer submitted to- and that no candidate for Con-
gress, nor for any other Office, is worthy of SUP
port who is not in favor of low revenue tariff
which closely appro1imates to free trade; that in
the arrangement of any revenue tariff all the nee
essaries Of life should be absolutely free of duty
ResoLUed. That the internal revenue system of
the United States is unendurabie in its oppressive
exaetiOns; that it should be Immediately
nodded; that its annoyances of stamps and Ii
cenees aud taxas lpnn- sales and incomes should
be abolished; that the tax itself should be col
lected by the State and county officials and that
the ;;;ultipication of officers is wholly unneces-
saTy, except TO cat out the resources of the tax
payers, and that we pledge ourselves to effect
thorough reform in this particular.
Resolved, That we denounce the prohigacy in
the present administration of the Federal Gov
ernment' the corruption which has entered all its
official stations, the faVoritism which, overlooking
fitness for office, has appointed to positions Of
public trust the friends tools of those who con-
troll the public patronage, and the imbeeility
which directs the destinies of the Republic with
cut an apparent purpose, and manages its affairs
with such embarrassment and disaster to the ma
terial interests of the people at home and with
snch disregard of the rights and liberties of its
citizens abroad.
ReSOlUod, That land monopoly is one of the great
evils of our country and against the spirit Of our
institutions; that the whole of our public lands
ought to be held as sacred trust to secure home
steads for actual settlers. We, therefore, de-
nounce the recent action of Congress in making
grants to mammoth railroad corporations, which
are already too powerful and may become danger
Gus to free people.
Resolved, That we regard the act recently passed
by Congress to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment
as unconstitutional unjust and oppressive; as an
invasion of the rightsof the States, subyersiOn
of the best interests of the people, and, therefore,
demand an unconditional repeal.
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