The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-08-12
FALSE PRETENSES.

ThcfDcmoCratic Convention in Mary
land has adopted a platform which says;
"Ffrst-Wc do hereby declare our un-
faltcrin% devotion to those cardinal prIn!
ciplcs OF republican government cnunciat-
ed by Thomas Jefferson in language so
Clear that it can not be improved, to-wit:
Equal and exact justice to all men, of
whatever state or persuasion, religious or
Isrlitical; the support of the State gov
trnments in ell their rights AS the most
competent administrations for our do
nestle concerns, and the surcst hulwarks
against anii-reI ublican tendencies; tho
preservation of the general government
in its whole constitutional vigor us the
-hert-anchor of our peace ut home and
safety abroad; the supremacy OF the civil
override military authority; economy in
The p,,)ic expenses, that labor may be
lightly burdcncd; the he nest payment of
uFf,lichtS, and the sacred preservation OF
HE liublic faith; The diffusion of informa-
ton. and The arrangement of all abuses at
Tile lar of public reason; freedom of re-
lirion. freedom of the press, freedom of
the person under he protection of the
Eabrrs corpus, and trial by jury impair
TALLY selected
These are most exc, llcnt sentiments.
T4lcy arc truths which the Republican
party has profcsscd and practiccd for
many years, and by stcadfast adherence
to them that party has for fifteen years
beaten the Democratic party. These are
The Republican principles and purpose
s,ut what has;hc Democratic party TO do
wiHh chem? That party is led to-day by
nnany.of its leaders of fifteen, ten, and
five years ago. Its membership is chief
" what i. was during the war. 1t has
been nowhere rcor"anizcd. In the light
of truth and experience the Maryland
Democratic platform is very comcal.-
The Democratic party has steadily denied
equal and exact justice TO all men; and
the Only organizations that now exist in
the country to maintain that denial are
Democratic The Democratic party held
and proclaimed Il doctrine of the rights of
the State governments that amounted to
State sovereignty, and ended in bloody
rebellion. The Democratic party, active
" in one part of the country and passirciy
in another, sought the violent overthrow
OF the general government. The Demo
cratic party superseded the civil by the
MILITARY power whenever it was necessary
to Sustain slavery. The Democratic party
by prostituting the civil service to parti-
sanship, fostered administrative fraud,
carclcssness, and extravaganza, of which
Swartwout and Price were the firSt-fruits.
The Democratic party proposed in its
National Convention virtual breach of
the public faith. The Democratic is al
lied with the only sect in this country
that threatens religious freedom, as it has
else where always destroyed it when it
could The Democratic party has been
always the tool of the interest that hated
freedom of the press and the person.
Thus the Democratic party has been
the steady and recognized foe of what the
Maryland Convention calls "thc cardinal
principles of republican government
cnunciat,d by Thomas Jefferson" to
whiei, it pledges its 'unfaltering dcvo-
ton" Undoubtedly it has often made
the same professions before, bnt the an
swcr is written on every page of our 70
litical history. While it held four mil
lions of men and women deprived of ev-
cry right and in the most loa,lsomc
slavery, il still called itself the party of
the pco;,lc, and especially of the poor
l,io Is, ;-isap, and Of equal rights. Mr..
Allen, who is now, as Democratic candl-
date for Governor of Ohio, asking labor
ing-mcn if they viii submit to the ere
morseless yoke" imposed By IA moneyed
lristocracy," was, whe in Congress, the
supply tool of the aristocracy of slavery,
which degraded labor, denounced the
free nottingham as mud-sill, aud
made the slaves, whom it reduced as
ucarlT as il could to mere cattle, lthe riv
ais. in The States which 1t controlled and
The territory that II sought to control, of
The intelligent mechchiea and farmers of
Ohio and every other Free State. And it
$ Mr.. Aliens beast that he is upchangca. |
The Boston Ieratd, in a temperate
,r,iele SAYS that in stating snch facts rs
lese we forget that few Northern Dem
,crats favored slavery, and that, in any
use, slavery is gone, III Hera'd, how