The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-07-01

For the real workings of the Repub-
lican party the practical affirmations
of their policy, we have but to look to
the negations of their Ohio platform.
They declare for policy of finance
which, without unnecessary shock"
TO business or trade will ultimately
equalize the purchasing capacity Of the
coin and paper doilar-when by un-
just and unwise legislation they have
convulsed the country into financial
disaster, unsettled ell values, and par
alyzed business and trade. They pass
ed last winter, a specie resumption act,
which ultimately withdraws the whole
of the legal-tender issue, authorizes
bonds instead, and adds at least fifteen
millions per annum to the burdens of
taxation; and, in the meantime, the
premium on gold has gone-not down,
but up-from 10 to II per cent. They
profess to oppose monopoly, when
they favor tariff with incidental pro-
lection, enriching few at The expense
of the masses. They deprecatc a di-
vision of the CommOn-School Fund,
aud any union of Church and State,
when the prohibitions of the State
Constitution have put both questions
at rest, and, taking them out of the
range Of all legitimate, partisan. con-
troversy. The. Republicans demand a
revision of the Patent laws, when, for
fifteen years they have maintained si-
lence in the legislative halls of the
Nation upen this measure, thus press
ing an all-important subject. They
declare That liberality and generosity
should obtain in the adjustment OF pas
and ,bounties, when The President
whom they applaud has recently ye-
toea the most liberal measure ever en-
acted for. the benefit of the soldier.
They demand that.the public domain
shall be scrupulously reserved for ec-
cupancy by actual settlers whenI "a
IsepublicanC Congress has granted a way
10 railroad corporations the fairest and
richest portions of this heritage of the
peOpIs--lands broad enough for a
realm, and capable of sustaining thirty
millions of population. They demand
a reduction of taxation, when at the
Last Congress they passed an act fast
ening upon the people $4,000, 900 "a
year additional taxation, 9 They APP
prove of the determination of the
Government to collect the revenues
and prevent and punish frauds, when
their Civil Service Commission report
one-fourth of the revenues lost in the
collection, and the most notorious
sco1ndrels go unwhipped of Justice
They profess to worship at the shrine
of official integrity, when Credit Mo-
bilier, Pacific Mail subsidy, Indian
rings, Post-ofilce rings, Custom house
rings. and District of Columbia rings
stand as dark and enduring monu-
ments of the fraud and corruption that
have been practiced, shocking the
moral sense of all honest men, and
furnishing the fair fame of our Nation
in the eyes Of the " orId. hs4u+a-
And the party guilty of all these
wrongs and outrages think by contiA-
uing their cry of cOpperheads,
"traitors," secession sympathizers,r
and all that sort Of miserable bosh ten
years after the war has closed to ST.
lence the demand which comes up
from all sections for reform of the
abuses that have grown up in the gov
ernmeut under the management OF the
rotten, reckless, revolutionary, Re
publican party. a5I