The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-07-01

| ocratic State Convention comes 10 De
xnalyzed il is found 10 eoasls, ,iu,-
ply oftw old time Demosr.tic slo-
gans: Free Whisky and State
Rights" and. in all other essential
declarations, OF principles borrowed
FROM the platforms OF the Republican
party. Let the shrewdest politician
Of the anonymous party analyze it
who will, and see if he can find that
it contains anything else-that is to
say, aside from the stump speech in
dictment Of the Republican party
with which it so lamely closes.
/ Summarized, the platform is only
this:
| Presmble-We Democrats, Liberal Repub-
licans, and Anti-monopolists 20 TO bed to-
gether, until further notice. Anything to
beat the Republican party; ANYTHING to get
the Offices.
First Observation-Disclosures and Madison
are the only men Of this country that we
can think Of who are at all like Us.
| Second Resolution-9tate Rights.
| Third Resolution-State Rights repeated.
| Fourth Resolution-Stste Rig hts re repeat
Fifth Resolution-Honssty of eur kind in
ment in New York City.
Sixth Resolution-All official defaulters
and thieves to be punished.-Sample: The
way we Democrats punished our Democratic
Eads for stealing $4,000 Of the Iowa School
Fund.
Seventh Resolution-Equal Rights. A
proposition fought into the laws by the Re
publican party. the Democracy opposing 1t
stubbornly Ut every step.
Eighth esolution-Reservation OF public
lands for settlers and no more land grants
for corporations. Stolen from Republican
platforms.
Ninth Resolu.ion-Eo third term Stolen
from the Pennsylvania Republicans.
Tenth Resolution-We are in favor Of spe-
Gle resumption, and we are not in favor Of
It More National Bank currency bat no
National Banks. Eggs without the interyen-
ton OF hens.
Eleventh Resolution-Tarif for revenue
only. Stolen from Republican platforms.
! 80 maintained in them for several years
| against the idiomatic Democratic doctrine
Of free trade and direct taxation.
Twelfth Resolutiou-Let's take Q drink.
Whisky straight.
Thirteenth-Let's take another drink.
Fourteenth-An indictment of the Repub.
| lican party for the evils it has inflicted up
| on the country. but no remedy or PROPOSE
ton proposed wherewith to curb the evil or
| cure the disease.
BY this it will be seen that the
Convention endeav pred to trick its
bastard baby out in old Republican
clothes. hoping thus to leave it on the
door step Of the public and pass it of
for an infant Of decent parentage and
good dress. Take out Of the platform
the borrowed plank Of Equal Rights,
the borrowed plank Of public land,
reserved for settlers and held here
after sacred from the rapacity OF cor.
pora,ions, the borrowed plank ofan,i.
third term spook--and what is there
left but Free Whisky and State
Rights? And, when you anslyze fur.
ther, aud find that the borrowed
principles are reaklessly made mean
inglsss and absurd!y contradictory
the good Republican ointms.t they
have stolen being poisoned and spoil
by the Democratic Aies which they
have put in it-you snalyze to ths
result Of finding that Free Rum ane
the war cry Of the conquered rebel
lion are al that there really is of tn,
platform which is at oil positive, ex
plicit, frank or honest. Take tn
platform and draw it from anythin,
else il YOU can. It 10 the weakes
piece Of political carpentering whiol
has ever been presented to the peo
pie OF Iowa.
Weak in all that it says aside iron
its Free Grog and JEFF Davis ideas
it is still weaker in what it does no
say. 1t pretends to be . platform o
the ti-Monoplists, and yet has no
a word against Monopolies. 1t call
itself the party and the platform o
those who put FIRST and last in thei
political principles the Legislative
control Of railroads and other corpor'
alton, and yet does not lisp word OF
give hint or make sign in favor o.
such control! it makes absolutely
NO expression whatever on this a.
most paramount question in the poll
tics Of this State, while the PROPOSE.
ton for the Governmental control Of
railroads, . proposition OF which
nine.tenths of the people of Iowa
are heartily in favor, it strikes down
with the iron hand of its explicitly
itersted and almost savagely rciter-
ated doctrines Of State Rights, and
NO Federal Interference. A pretty
farmers party for . prairie country.
and fine special champion of the
agricultural interests il this last
abortion Of > party!
| Another thing very conspicuous
by its absence 10, that while the plat.
form takes up the rebel cry of States
Rights on the note where the con.
quered rebels left it OF 1t Appomat-
tox, and while it has sympathy for
the dear Southern people and the
dearsr Southern Democrats, it has
neither word of reception nor 70.
J uenerancs Tor the soldiers Of the