The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-08-17
Fer Judse--1Sth Judicial District,
j. A. Suider.
Fer District Attorney--1Sth Judicial District
Chas. e. Mcdonald.
Democratic Conservative Platform
ADOPTED AT BATON ROUGE,

We, the representatives of the Democratic
Conservative party of the State of Louisiana
in convention assembled, do hereby declare ad
ministrative and political reform to be the
paramount issue in the coming general cleo
ton, and we earnestly appeal to our fellow
citizens Of every former political association
OF white or cOlOred, to zealously cooperate
with Us our pronounced effort to affect such
We Sgn the Radical party for marked
and fret ent violations of the letter and spirit
of the Institution, for the assumption of
illicit p prs for the benefit of party, and to
the gre injury and almost total ruin of the
State "a fementing dissensions between the
races and deliberately exciting strife and tur-
MOL, thereby cruelty sacrafcing the lives of
cofereo and white citizens, with the intent of
procuring unwarranted and unconstitutional
interfe1ance in our State affairs,
We denounce the usurpative and had gov.
eminent which Louisiana has suffered for the
last four years. usurpation under which the
ofacers elected by the people have been dis
placed, the government arbitrarily overthrown
3y Federal power, the Legislature invaded and
dispersed by bayonets in time of profound
peace, and such violent and unlawful inter
ference adds but another to the long list of
crimes for which the Republican party should
be held to account in November next
We hereby proclaim that it is our desire and
nxed purpose under any and every proyOca-
ton to have fair and peaceablc election Int
We demand and will insist that there shall he
no violence or intimidation exercised towards
such OF our colOred fellow citizens as NAV wish
to cooperate with US for the redemption of the
State from misrule -0
We fully recognize the binding effect of the
three recent articles of amendment to the CON
stitution of the United States, and accent the
same as final settlement Of the controversies
tnat engendered civil war, and we pledge our.
selves to protect every citizen in the exercise
OF the rights acquired and guaranteed by said
amendments, whatever be his race color or
previous condition ~
=, We hereby pledge our party to the satisfac
ZION OF @! the legal obligations issued by the
ctaoe OF LOUISIANA; to the most strenuous eff.
forts IN the direction of reform and an econo,n.
lcaL administration of the government. and
especially 70 the abolition Of all unnecessary
P1Dnc omces TO the reduction of the fees and
salaries Of officers; to the standard Of fair ~
munerat1on and the consequent reduction If
taxation to the lowest possible limit comr,s =.
surate with the necessary expenses of the GOV.
ernment and the preservation of the nnhl;o
ialtn. ana to the curtailment of the dangerously
sSa .g patronage OF the Chief Executive Of the
We declare ourselves in favor of the passape
OF the Texas Pacific railroad bill, now pending
before Congress, and recommend our members
OF Congress to advocate its passage at an early
We advocate the fostering Of tho rnhl;c
SCHOOLS Tor the benefit of all the educable chill
dren OF the State, and that equal advantage
be given to all children, colored as we'll -
white. "oAA %
we cordially approve of and endorse tbe
platform Of the National Democratic nartv re-.
Gently assembled in convention at st. Louis.
aeei Ss t Eta the Sn hope Of
Of Reform is brought before the people of the
whole country BY great national party, and
we pledge ourselves to use our utmost efforts
to secure the success Of those great exponenfs
Of National Reform, Samuel j. Tilden and
Thomas A. Hendricks. A