The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-09-03
ne Democratic Platform.

o sents rthing new, but like all late
DemocRtie declarations aims to be al
things all men:
! Tnatthe Democratic party of Ohio
> adhere to its ancient principles O
. securing equal rights and exact justice
TO all Den, and TO all the States and
communities of the American people
!, maintaining the independence of the
: coordinate departments of the Gov
: ernmen, the Legislative, the Execu-
tive, and the Judicial condemning
all enetments of either upon the
functions of the others, and resisting
o every ;ttempt to usurp any of the
: poweD reserved by the Constitution
. 10 theStates respectively and to the
g people Therefore,
n ResRred, That . sound currency is
:. indispensable to the welfare of cOun-
o try, that its volume should be regu-
n lated y the necessities of business,
and that all laws that interfere with
: such Rtural regulation are vicious in
principle and detrimental in their ef-
o fects. We are in favor of such an in
creaseof the circulating medium as
the buiiness interests of the country
b may fpm time to time require.
: 2. Tat sound policy and justice re-
J. quire Nat not less than one-half of
] the cutoms duties should be payable
in the legal tender notes of the United
States, commonly called greenbacks.
3. Ghat the power of the national
tbanks to issue and loan their notes
upon interest is power to draw in-
! terest on their debts, while the peo-
pie Iay interest on what they owe.
rhatthis special and unequal privi-
lege Dught not to exist unless il is
manifest that in no other way can a
sounl paper currency be supplied.
Believing that better system can be
J devied, and one that will be free from
unjust privileges, we are in favor of
: abolBhing the franchise of the ma
tiond banks to issue paper currency
as som as the same can safely and
prudently be done, and that the notes
so withdrawn by the banks be re-
placd by the Government with legal
ten0er currency.
4. The Democracy of Ohio, reiterate
thei. declaration that the $40 bonds,
by tie letter and the spirit of the law
and The general understanding of the
community, were payable in legal
tender notes, and the act of March,
1869 which pledged the faith of the
nati,n to their payment in coin, was
an unnecessary and wicked sacrifice
Of the interests Of the tsx-paying
laborsrs for the benefit of the nom
tax-pying bond-holders.
5. That, without equality of taxa
tion, there can not be equality of
rights, and the exemption OF the pub
lie bonds from bearing their due pro-
portion in supporting the Federal
Government and maintaining the law
is unwise and unjust.
6. That we are the friends of ali the
industries of the country, whether
agricultural, mechanical or CONNER
cial, and believing that these indus
tries thrive best when no unequal
privilege is conferred by law upon
one over another, we are therefore
opposed to the unjust and oppressive
features of the existing tariff law, and
insist on their repeal, or modification
that revenue tariff shall be substitu-
ted for them.
Z. We are opposed to all combina-
tiOns and devices of whatever charac-
ter that tend to increase the cost of
transportation beyond fair remuner-
alton to the carrier, and we demand
the exercise of all constitutional pow
ers to remedy existing evils in this
respect, and to prevent their appear
ance in the future.
s. We are opposed to excessive tax
alton, the deadly foe as all experience
proves, to every industry, and we in
sist upon the strictest economy in
every department of the Govern
ment, Federal or State, county or mu-
nicipal.
8. We are opposed to grants of the
public domain in railroad corpora
tions, and we rejoice at the fact that
the determined oppositition of Demo-
cratic Senators and Representativ yes
in.Congress, and the unequivocal con-
stop to "a scfethe BfoR1ers haxa tssSsn chat
but lately threatened to bestow upon
great corporations, comparatively
few in number, the whole body of the
public lands. We favor the policy
that looks to the ownership Of these
lands by actual settlers, and therefore,
approve the principle of the home
stead settlement law.
10. That freedom of the press is es-
sential to the preservation of public
liberty, and we denounce the attempt
made by Radicals at the last session
of Congress, to subject the proprietors
of the principal newspapers of the
United States to indictment and trial
in Washington City for alleged libel
as efforts to revive and embody in
legislation the spirit of the gag and
sedition laws OF the elder Adams
Administration, which was over
thrown, as it was hoped, forever, by
tue election of Thomas Jefferson.
IL. That while we admit the equal
ity of all persons before the law, we
protest against the attempt that is
being made by the Radicals in Con-
gress to enforce social equality by un-
constitutional pains and penalties,
and we call the attention of the voters
of Ohio to the fact that, although our
Supreme Court unanimously decided
that our statute, which provides for
separate schools for white and colored
children, is a constitutional law, and
this judgment is supported by recent
judgments of the Supreme Court of
the United States, yet the civil rights
bill, so called, which passed the
Senate at its last session, and Is. now
pending in the House of Representa-
tives, seeks to overthrow our statute,
and in disregard and defense of it, to
compel mixed schools in Ohio, by
the infliction OF severe criminal
punishment and civil penalties upon
all who resist that unconstitutional
attempt.
II. That we have seen with alarm
and regret the advocacy in influential
quarters of the election of the Presid-
ent of the United States for a period
beyond that to which the traditions
and usages of the country have al
most given the sanction of a funda-
mental law that such election would
be long stride on the road TO prac-
tical monarchy and personal despo-
tism, and we are decidedly in favor of
establishing the one term principle
by an amendment to the Constitu-
ton.
13. We favor the submission to the
people, by the General Assembly, OF
an amendment to the Constitution
authorizing the passage of a license
law.
IA. That with this declaration of
our principles and policy, we arraigD
the leaders of the republican party for
their extravagant expenditures and
prohigate waste of the peoples money,
for their oppressive, unjust, and de-
fective system of taxation, finance,
and currency; for their continued
tyranny and cruelty to the Southern
States Of the Union /; for their squan-
dering of the public bonds, for their
continuance of incompetent and cor
rupt men in Office, at home and abroad,
and for their general mismanagement
of the Government, and we cordially
invite all men, without regard to past
party associations, to cooperate with
US in expelling them from power,
and in securing such an administra-
ton of public affairs as characterized
the purer and better days of the re-
public.
Aboriginal Surgery.
In paper read before the Canadian
Medical Association lately, DR.. Hing
ston argued that the aborigines of
America had their surgery-simple
but effective-and to which even their
usurpers were sometimes forced to re-