Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-10-02
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Democratic State Convention.

UTICA, Oct. 1.-The Democratic State Con-
vention met at 10 o'clock this morning.
UTICA, Oct. 1.-The committee on resolu-
tons submitted the platform as follows:
1--WE condemn and denounce the salary grab
and all Congressman, Democratic or Republl
can, who voted for it, or who have not re-
uouuced all share 10 plumber seized for service
already done and paid for. We condemn and
denouuce the Presidents signature to the bill
which cuched this iniquity, and which gave
$1,000 to each Congressman, while procuring
100000 for himself after Congress had just
refused to increase his salary, and we demand
its repeal; demand revenue reform so that Gus
tom house revenues shall be got from low, and,
therefore, productive duties on few articles,
not from high, and, therefore, less productive
duties on two thousand articles; demand re-
turn to specie payments; demand that the
policy Of paper initiation, protective tariff and
government subsidies shall be abandoned to
the half civilized nations and ages of which 1t IS
relic, because it plumbers the farmers of the
u. S. both in the Incomes and outgoes; 1t
hamstrings our manifold industries; it converts
our foreign commerce into an unsafe specua
ton and our domestic trade into game OF
chance 1t breeds extravaganza in our homes
and dishonesty 10 public and private trusts;
it fosters corrupt combinations Of sectional IN
terests and is tho prime cause OF the late hnan-
cial disasters. In the midst of these wide
spread calamities and this general distress,
We scout the Presidents Till for panics more
initiation, more subsidies, more balloonlng, and
We point the country to their true remedy and
cure in the tried and historic principles OF the
old democracy, applicable throughout our ia,
iional State and municipal life, which limit and
localize most zcalouSly the powers entrusted to
public servants. which enforce honesty and
frugaity in public and private affairs, which
prescribe equal taxation for all and currency
as good as gold, and we hold out to the
farmers of the United States the right
hand of hearty fellowship in their just re-
sistance to the cxactions of uIonopollSts
and their Just demands for these great reforms
ReS0'ced, That those who are vested by our
laws with the appropriation and expenditure OF
the public money should be subj actcd to the
same restraints rules and regulations that are
imposed upon the taxpayers aud collectors and
should III like manner be required TO keep such
accounts Of their business affairs as arc demand
cd Of merchants and manufacturers SO that IN
examination Of their books and transactions
will show any frauds and corruption III their
official business: that they shall take ami
subscribe to official oaths at proper periods,
that they have not in any way been unlawlully
benefited by their official action.
Res0ircd, That we recognize in the Liberal
Republicans worthy conductors and We cordial
ly invite .hcm to unite with Us in our cifnrS to
restore pure government in orr State and ttdc-
raj administrations
The resolutions were unanimously adopted
The convention then proceeded to nominate
State ticket.
After considerable discussion Of the other
candidates, Dcderich Willcrs, jr., Of Scnaca,
was nominated for Secretary of State.