Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-09-21

er political issues before the country,
it stated an untruth.' -
y
'sAnd when, in the second resolu
tion, the convention undertook to say
that the Democratic party pledges it.
self to the full, faithful and absolute
enforcement of the Constitution as it
now is, SO as to secure equal rights to
all people under it, without distinction
of race, color or condition, it exceeded
its authority, and simply asserted what
it knows to be falsehood."
Do not the Democrats Of Ohio now
believe in the doctrine set forth in AR.
Frank HurPs resolution, offered in
their convention az a substitute for the
second and third resolutions as adopt
ed, namely:
Resolced, That the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Amendments have been
made part of the Federal Constitution
by fraud and violence, and are revOlu
tionary and void"
Do the Democratic wire pullers in
tend anything more than thts,- that
they are willing to stultify themselves,
to swallow their own oft repeated
words, to deny the faith they have kept
consistently for so long, to impose
upon their friends and followers pal
! try swindle and a sickening sham, in
order that they may get into political
power? / have not seen an intelligent
Democrat who could look me in the
face and seriously say that the plat.
! form adopted at Columbus represented
his own opinions and sentiments. But
1t was hoped that by certain guarded
expressions about ''strict construc-
tons" gentle compliment to State
sovereignty, denunciation Of the Ku-
Kluk Bill, and abuse of the pres
ent Administration, to satisfy the old
line party men, who care more for
principle than they do for office, while
the more ambitious and less scrupu-
lous secured their own personal prefer
ment. think may be permitted to
say that more awkard blunder and d
more transparent fraud have rarely
been perpetrated by any political party.
1t deceives nobody, while it mortifies
and humiliates large portion of those
whom it falsely pretends to represent.
If this platform were not so at va
rience with all the past records Of its
authors, and If it did embOdy such in
hercnt evidences of insincerity, its
adoption would be regarded by myself
as one Of the hopeful signs of the age
1t would then be a gratifying, though
somewhat tardy recognition OF the
good things VIC have been doing for the
last ten years But if the platform is
a sincere and honest expression ot
opinion,-if it really means what Col
J McCook and Gen. Ewing seem to think
and say it does, then what need l:
there of the party whose creed 1t is Z
would suggest, therefore, that the Dem
ocrats disband and join us for once
as our record is of longer standing
and as we have been tried in the faith
) Let us have an election in which there
Shall be hearty co operation, and
J UNANIMOUS vote. 1t would go far to
ward securing the forgetfulness ant
: oblivion which our Democratic friend:
are now so persistently counting.
While the platform, so far rs it con
Germs the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
: Amendments, is a palpable falsehood
e it must be remembered that more thai
t one-third of the convention, packed t.
adopt it, voted against it, and on
hundred and twenty-nine voted TO
l. Frank Hurd's resolution. The Demo
e cratic papers in this and other State
e have not been at all unanimous in SUI
S port of the New Departure; but man
i editors feel and say about what the DE-
: mocracy of Ohio county, Indiana. ar
o reported to have resolved: -"The
e when we descend so low as to bal
# ter our principles to partake of tn
It loaves and fishes, we will be, and ougt
to he damned"