Litchfield enquirer., 1876-03-09
The Platforms.
We reprint below the platforms adopt ea@k their recent conventions by the two great parties in Connecticut:
TER DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.

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 1" DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
 ThsdenOcratic-liberal party of Connecti- cuk, Tn convention assembled on this 23d day of February. 1876. pledge themselYes anew to the principles which they have re- peasealy adopted, and which the people oE thix aEaEe have approved. ~ sas.fE
 l. The eonssitution and and the Union sAAn be maintained. with the Supremacy of the civil over the military authority and va demand for the individual the largest liberty consistent with public ord- aw. for the states self-government; for the federal administration a return to the methods of peace and the constitutional EmiEzkions of power. -
 q The civil service of the government has b@eome alarmingly corrupt. It is an Imzzxu@eak of personal ambition and an ohlec4 of selfish greed It has become a rgpro@rh to free institutions. We there fore regard thorough reform of the civil aexvSce as oLe Uf the most pressing neces- s1kSes of the hour; and believing that hon@sgs c@Paclky, and fidelity colatitute th& aea1w valid claim to public employment we demand that public station shall be- cone again a post of purity and honor.
 [ Tbe publIe credit of the Union must be wmintaiDed Federal taxation should px0TSae means necessary to pay the ex- p@a~s& of the government, economically I7minixteFed, and for steady reduction of the rational debt; while the tariff laws sAOaid be adjusted for the purpose of re- vsaae only. @
 f. The public lands must be preserved for sctad settlers; and subsidies of money or lands to corporations and speculators sh0uld oease entirelys
 5. 1ke democratic majority in the house q representatives are especially deserving of PoPalxr support in their policy of re- daeIng the expenditures of the federal Sarernmeut to the actual needs of the PahRie service, thus cutting of the SUD- plies which have for eleven years invited corruption and fed an army of plunders.
 6 That the only currency known to the cnnzkikntlon of the United States is gold and silver; and coin forms the only stable b@sSs for the commercial necessities of she world The democratic party of the Uai0n has never failed to recognize and support this essential principle. But fol- h0wlng a great and costly war. we find an irrsd@%zaable currency at our doors. It Is therefore the duty of congress to adopt saeh measures as shall lead to an early r~<ampEiOn of specie payments, while guarding its acts by that prudence which the interests of commercial. manufactur- ing. and industrial pursuits imperatively demand
 z. That the act of the last congress. passed by the republican majority. declar- iRg thai there shall be specie payments ca the 6rst day Of January. 1879, was a scheme of mere party expsdiency. Sup ported by no measure tendency to secuIe resumption, 1t Was a deception and a frand Its kesults have been injurious. as the business interests of the country c0ad not be shaped and conducted to haRmonEZe with an ineffective and decep- tive act. We respectfully ask congress to substitute for it well defined and practical leglaIatiOa, tending to an accumulation of coin as c basis for resumption, or the funding and cancellation of portion of the gFeenback circulation in a convertible bond hearings a low rate of interest.
 6 That thls convention. have confidence i'm Che ability and integrity of the senators and representatives an congress, from this state. and rely upon such action at their hands as will aid in placing the finances of the country upon the constitutional bass&-
 ResoGrcd, That the democratic legisla- saFes and administrations in this state have been economical: prudent. and in the interests of the people; and this policy we dS~and at the hands of the future leg lgiaEnres and executive offers.
 ResetUed-, That in our present execu- tive, Governor Charles R. Ingersoll, we rccoenTxe public officer of commanding ability and purity of character Rising above the level of partisan conflicts, he is guided by iast principles, and the vel. fare of the people, whose interests he ssrves ~Ith unfaltering fidelity. And MnasES. Sill. Sanger, Raymond and Good rsch are faithful public officers, who are deserving the continued confidence of the people Y z.