The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-06-14
[Ohicial Copy.l
The Democratic and Conservative
Platform Of West Virginia.
Upon these Principles we March 10
Victory.


aid in preserving free government and
in promoting the best interests of the
State and country, present to the voters
of the State the following declaration OF
principles and invite their cooperation
in giving them effect.
LIST. That the Federal Government
has no right to deny to States of this
Union the privilege Of equal participa-
ton in its affairs and thara distinctions
against the equal representation OF
States in Congress, and all Federal in
reference in the purely domestic con-
cerus of the States are unwarranted by
the Federal Constitution and ought to
cease.
2nd. That the present system OF
national taxation, raising as it does the
bulk of the Federal revenue from the
labor rather than from the wealth of
the country, isunfair and oppressive and
that this system should be so reformed
as to relieve the industry of the country
from its unjust burdens, abolish the nm
necessary and vexatious features of
stamps, licenses and income taxes, dis
pense with the swarms Of Federal spies
that pry into the private business of the
people, eating out their substance, and
provide for the collection of the Federal
revenue by State and county officers.
Sd. That the Republican party, by
voting to ratify the Fifteenth amend
ment to the Constitution, has shameful
ly violated its pledge, that the question
of suffrage should he retained within
the control of the people of the States.
Calling to political power an alien and
inferior class, it has declared the white
man incapable of selfgUernment. In
opposition to this monstrous doctrine,
we invite all intelligent white men to
unite with us in asserting the principle
that the white race is the ruling race Of
this republic.
4th. That the bill to enforce the Eff
teenth amendment, lately passed 10y
Congress, is contrary to public morals
in that it offers premiums on perjury,
subversive of the States in that 1t
gives Federal authority control of State
affairs, and destructive of the peace OF
the country in that it invests the ne
grocs with exclusive and peculiar priv
ilcgeS, lifting them to power and digni-
ty through the degradation OF the
whites
9TH. That We are unaltcrably opposed
to the bill lately introduced into the
United States Senate 10y Senator Sum
ner for enforcing the social equality OF
the races, placing negroes upon jurics
and abolishing all distinctions between
the races.
9th. That for the advancement of
West Virginia in all her interests and
especially to secure good government to
her people, we demand;
Thorough reform i'll our system of
local offices and the greatest reduction
i'm the number OF such offices that may
be consistent with the public interests.
Prompt collection Ofthe large balances
in favor of the State which through Re
publican incompetence have accumu-
lated in the hands of delinquent sherlffs,
such faithful management of the State
finances as will prevent further de
ficcncies in the revenue, and such
economy in appropriations as Will
secure the administration of the govern
mcmt at the least cost to the tax payers
Of the State.
4 public policy that will invite immi-
grafton, capital and enterprise into onr
State, in lieu of the measures of the
dominant party for driving these ele-
ments of growth and greatness from our
midst.
The continued exclusion of negroes
from the public schools attended by
white children, in opposition to the
Radical policy of mingllng the races IN
those institutions.
Full protection to the people against
the outrages provided for 10y the regis.
tration law and constantly committed
hv registration officers.
The prompt abolition of every test
oath upon the statute books Of the
State.
And finally, to wipe out the injustice
and the disgrace incident to the dis
reimbursement in our midst of twenty
five thousand men of our own race
while negroes exercise the elective fran
chise without hindrance or condition,
we demand free ballot for white men
and the immediate enactment of such
measures as will secure it.
We cordially invite all good citizens,
whether Democrats, Conservatives OF
Republicans, to unite with us in carry
ING ont the policy here advocated