The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-09-14

NE pIedgssr 70 tie nation mAdsty. t.e
RepubticGr "a Int eoDte en- n
TIE platEoCm and the letteEs a aeeep
Of their Dnminees, an besl1rEaEle. 20
/. Equal civil and political rghtS % Al
uDder or national SUth0Eity, UhetheH ma
i've BON q nEtuIali1ed, and the pCotee-
tion Of the humbBess md weakest g faith.
fully 8 NE richest and most powerful
9. The condemnation Of III forms and
pIansof direct o. indirect reputation g
tnStional crime; and The maintenance nm
furnished, in The utteEmOst good faith, 0f
national honor and nsliO ll 1CEediii1gG1 ~
CARDS car debt, the cast DION national
8. Taxa4iSa 70 Be equalned and ~
dBced Is rapidly q The RstiNl aith via
permit
4 The debt, hsTfng beeu cn1trzcted
6r the pEese5JGti0D d lie Unfm 6rG1
time 70 come, Should Be extsDded overs
fair period tor redemption, reducing the
rate II interest thereon = RooR Is 4 can
be honestly dODe
5. The Government 70 be administered
with the stEictest economy, and AtAe cor
mp1iOnS 50 kbGmefully uursed md foster
ed By Andrew johnson 10 be radically
6. The KmopeAn doctrine Of @ouee q
subject alWHys = subject" 70 be RESTED Il
eVeTy hazagd BY Tie United States, aS 81
war with oar national honor md indie
peDdence
:. The bOmtieS md pensions provided
by law for The soldiers and G8flOB who
! tmpeIiIed their HTo for their country, md
kG the Wi6gEB and orphans IT The gal
liant dad, tObe ever considered q sacred
obligations;
s. Roreign e1nigration, adding 50 large.
y TO the wealth, Development, resources,
and increase Of power ot this republic, TO
be hsteTed BIZ q policy which shan be
lust q well as liberal
9. Sympathy with al Oppressed PEG
pls throughout The BoEd, struggling for
their rights.
10. 3mDssty 10 ~, however hostile in
the pas, who frankly and honesty CO
operate n restoEing concord to The South
on the bass ofimpZtial justice and equal
800, y Tg'g1 - i7lIt. : ~ ST.
II. The great principle u the Deela-
ration Of Independence Is DE foundation
Of truly democratic government, 70 be,
made ! living reality on every inch Of
American soil .9s 5l4-
l2. "Let Is hsye pesee," beeSuse, IN
the language Of General GRIM, pelce
and universal prosperity, It's sequence,
with economy 81 administration will
Tighten the burden OftGX8tfoB. while 1t
| constantly reduces the national debt"
These were the pledges On which the
support and confidence Of the nAtim were
asked. They were written on an our ban.
nera They were proclaimed by Al c1T
speakers. They Were elaboFated By Al
our presses. lis q t1yols dnty for me 70
show yOu that they have been redeemed
more GithfalIy and literally than any
pledges eTer before made by any party in
any canvass,
THE DEMOCRATIC RECORD or The IASD
GRAFT QUESTION.
I F5oa4 SokSSRET ClIazI Sod Bad SpsteA.
The FIRST Is in regard TO the land grants
the policy Of granting alternate Sec
tons Of public lands for building rail-
roads, and TINS opening our vast interior
to settlement, doubling The price Of The
sections reserved by the government
Whether this policy IS wise Of unwiSe, It
Is q Democratic birth, and its history for
many years Is a Democratic history. It
was insugurated By = Democratic Con-
gress, under the leadership Of Stephen A
Douglass, then the acknowledged leader
OF the Democratic party, in the famous
grant for the Illinois Central Railroad.
And the records Of the last Democratic
administration (Buchanan's) are full Of
grants for railroads IN Florida, Alabama,
| louisiana. Mississippi; Wisconsin, Michi.
gan, lows and Iin1eOts: while the same
records show the veto ~ thesame Demo
cratic President, and the killing, for the
time, Of the Homestead bill, when passed
By the votes Of Republicans and Western
| Democrats, and the strange denrncialiOns
OF his Democratic Secretary Of the. In
terror against it, as calculated TO give an
undue stimulus TO emigration"
Strange as 1t may seem % those who
hear Democratic speeches Of this year,
land grants for railroads were not regard
ed as heteTodox by them up to July 4,
1903. Their very last Democratic Ma
tional Platform, then made, spoke unaDi-
mously upon this subject As follOWs:
When grants Of public lands may be
allowed necessary for the encouragement
OF important public improvements, the
proceeds Of the sale Of such lands, and
not the lands themselves, should be sp-
piled"
THIS qualification does not affect the
principle Of aid by grants in encourage.
ment Of building railroads, and instead OF
any words Of condemnation, such ZEN.
couragementT was recognized BY the
unanimous voice Ofthe Democracy Of the
| United Ststes when last assembled in