Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-06-24
THR CLNCINNATI rLATFORM,
A Very Rotten Structure.


ward by the Republicans last week at
Cincinnati, as the programme of their
canvass in the coming election. We
have studied it carefully for the pur-
pose of enlightening them; it is very
long and we found it rather dreary read
ing but we will try to give the results
Of our studies to the readers of our pa
per without imposing upon them the
WEAKNESS which it inflicted upon as.
Let not our readers suppose that this
platform is new structure, it is just
the old ricketty worn out affair, totter-
ing to its fall, with dry rot sapping its
foundations and loathesome fungi crop
ping out from every crevice, which has
endangered the existence of the nation
for ten years; and the pressing coun-
sci Of every well wisher to the nation
invited to stand there must be, to jump
off and beware of standing within reach
of its fnal catastrophe. 1t commences
with melancholy travesty of the de-
claration OF independence.
when in the economy of Provi-
dence, this land was to be purged of hu-
man slavery &c. and proceeds to ap-
propriate to itself the merits of the ear
ly abolitionists, who we're honest men,
but these Radicals have no community
of feeling or anything else with them,
they are imposters who crept into the
place of the original emancipationists
and set up in the place of their prin-
ciples a system of national plumber and
corruption, from which the Garrisons,
Stewards, Greeley's and Summers
shrank with disgust and loathing.
/. "The United States is a nation
and not league" And they would
doubtlessly have liked to sweep away
all the vestiges that have been left of
State Rights, but the small New Eng
land States after all would not exactly
like that, so they go on to admit that
WI. have to get along with "the COM
bined working of the National and
State governments, which nobody can
deny.
2. "Allmen are equal" John
Chinaman.
3. Duty of Congress to provide for
the enforcement of the principles en-
bodied in the recent constitutional
amendments, which means standing
army in the South and the bloody
shirt-long may she wave. (QuO Is
not that bloody shirt wanted in Cali
fornia ?
4. Redemption of U. s. notes in
coin !" that is at some future time
when the cows come home, for instance;
on this head both parties are neces-
sarily non-committal, for neither of
them can show solid front one way
or another.
5. "Ofice holding" Senate and Re-
representatives. must not dictate to the
President, but only impeach after
wards if anything is done wrong. The
President alone must appoint on his
own discretion, and his rules of selec-
ton must be-exactly the reverse Of
what they have been under the present
regime, but no means of compelling
him to adopt such rules are suggested.
6. I'VE rejoice in the quickened con-
science of the people, &c." in the
matter of public corruption; but
nothing is said of the conscience of
the ofice-holders, probably because
there was none to talk about.
z. Opposes sectarian control of the
public schools" True but not new.
8. "Revenue-mainly from duties on
importation-to be adjusted So" as
to build up Eastern manufactures at
the expense of Western agricultural
labor. We are to be compelled to
purchase trashy Yankee goods at high
prices when we could get better goods
at half the cost. Neither new nor
just.
8. 1--WE reaffirn our opposiOn to fur
Their grants of the public lands to cor
pOrations and monopolies, and demand
that the national domain be devoted
to free homes for the people"
This means we have got our north
ern road to the Pacific with enormous
public grants, and delightful stealings
thereunto appended, and find it USE
less all winter; but we are opposed to
Southern competing road for various
reasons-it would benefit the cursed
rebels and-and in short we have ia
ken stock in the Northern road and
want no competition.
10. Protection to immigrants and
adopted citizens, but that does not
mean the Heather Chinee.
IL. THE Heather Chinee"-a color
line proposed by Radical cOnven-
ton. See the speech of California
delegate before the convention, who
discovers that the Chinee has yellow
skin, thick lips and slantendicular
eyes, and other disqualifcations for
citizenship.
II. "Woman's rights, respectful con-
sideration, &c"
ID. mo polygamy in the Terrific
ries" Pity, it has been currently re-
ported that the Mahommedan portion
of the Turkish nobility now so uncom-
Portable in European Turkey, were
about to bring their harems over and
hitch horses with Brigham Young
Can't be did however.
IA. Pay the Federal soldiers"
Is. mo sectional line, but we don't
mean it, see next section.
16. A general indictment of the
Democratic party as "recreant, IN
worthy and incapable" and the first
count in the indictment is that they
have put a few Southern soldiers into
office as door-keepers and messengers,
while the whole patronage of govern
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