The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-09-16
THE Plato kM
OF THE
National Democratic Party


We. the delegates of the Democratic
party of the United States in National
convention assembled, do hereby declare
the administration Of the Federal Gov
eminent to be in urgent need of imme-
diste Reform; do hereby enjoin upon the
nominees of this Convention, and OF the
Democratic party In each State, Jealous
effort and cooperation TO this end; and
do hereby appeal to our fellow citizens
of every former political connection, to
undertake with us this first and most
pressing patriotic duty.
THE UNION AND CONSTITUTION.
For the Democracy of the whole coun-
try. we do here reatfrm our faith In the
permsnence OF the Federal Union, our de-
vo.iOn to the Constitution of the United
States with its amendments universally
accented as a final settlement of the con-
troyersies that engendered civil war, and
do here record our steadfast confidence IN
the perpetmty of Republican Self-Gov-
eminent.
NOZZLE PRODUCTS or A HUNDRED YEARS
In absolute acQuiescence in the will of
the msjority-the vital principal of Re-
pubhcs;
In the supremacy of the civil over the
military authority;
In the total separation of Church and
State for the sake alike of civil and relig-
ious freedom;
In the equality of all citizens before
lust laws OF their own enactment;
In the liberty OF individual conduct,
unvexed by sumptuary laws;
In the faithful education of the rising
generation. that they may preserve, en-
ioy, and transmit these best conditions OF
hannah happiness and hope;
We behold the noblest products of a
hundred years of changeful history.
But while upholding the bond of our
Union and great Charter of these onr
rights, it behooves a free people to prac-
tlce also that eternal vigilance which is
the price OF Liberty.
MIsRULE AND HARD TINES
Reform IS necessary to rebuild and es-
tablish in the hearts of the whole people,
the Union, eleven years ago happily res
cued from the danger of Secession of
States; but new to be saved from cor
rupt Centralism, which, after inflicting
upon ten States the rspacity of carpet bag
tyrannies, has honeycombed the offices OF
the Federal Government itself with in
capacity, waste and fraud; infected States
and municipalities with the contagion of
misrule and locked fast the prosperity of
An industrious people in the paralysis OF
Hard Times"
SOUND CURRENCY.
Reform, Is necessary to establish sound
currency, restore the public credit and
maintain the national honor.
We denounce the failure for all these
eleven years of peace TO make good the
promise of the legsltender notes, which
are changing standard of value IN the
bands of the people, and the noa.pay.
ment of which is disregard of the plight
ed faith of the nation.
CONCLUDED
We denounce the imProvldence which,
in eleven years of peace, has taken FROM
the people in Federal taxes, thirteen
times the whole amount of the legal-ten-
der notes, and squandered four times their
sum in useless expense, without accumu-
lsting any reserve for their redemption.
INFRINGEMENT AND RESUMPTION.
We denounce the financial imbecility
and immortality of that party which, dur
ing eleven years OF peace, has made no