Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1876-07-06
The Work Completed - Soft
Democrats Eat Dirt.
The

Democrats Eat Dirt.
The National Democratic Conven-
tion completed its work at St. Louis
last week. The result is the defeat
of the Greenbackers, and the adop
tion Of hardmoney platform, and
the nomination of hard money candi
dates. Samnel j. Tilden, of New
York, received the nomination foi
President on the second ballot. We
give the balloting. Necessary to 8
choice 492.
FIRST BALLor.-Tilden 403I, Hen.
bricks, 1884, Thurman 8, Hancock
95, Bayard 50, Parker Is, Allen Sc.
SECOND BALLor-Tilden sos, Hen
drieks So, Thurman 2, Hancock CO.
Bayard Ii, Parker Is, Allen 81.
This result, it is remarked, made
the faces of the rag-baby advocates
look as though they smelled a bad
smell. The curses among this
crowd were both loud and deep. II
will be seen that the Ohio delega-
tion maintained its position of CAL
len or BUST through both ballots.
Hendricks, of Indiana, was nomi-
mated for Vice President on the first
ballot.
The platform is as hard as the
candidates. These two planks have
the true hard-money, Wall street
ring, viz:
"We denounce the Republican par
ty for it's failure for all these eleven
years to make good the promise of
the legal tender notes which are a
changing standard of value in the
hands of the people, and the non
payment of which is a disregard of
the plighted faith of the Nation.
"We denounce the improvidence
which in eleven years of peace has
taken from the people, in Federal
taxes, thirteen times the whole
amount of the legal tender notes,
and squandered four times this sum
in useless expense without 'accumu-
lating any reserve for their redemp-
tion."
These planks mean instead of
more greenbacks, the retirement of
those already in existence, for the
first plank states their non payment
to be ga disregard of the plighted
faith of the Nation," while the sec
ond denounces the Republicans for
not "accumulating any reserve for
their redemption" Gas this is now
Democratic doctrine" says the Gin
cinnati Commercial, 'iwe hope to
hear no more from professed Demo
cratic sources of the imbecile talk of
coming paper money and the con-
stitutionality of broken promises TO
pay as legal tender"
Another plank of this platform
reads as follows:
ave denounce the financial imbe-
cility and immortality of that party
which, during eleven years of peace,
has made no advance toward resump-
tion, no preparation for resumption,
but, instead, has obstructed resump-
tion by wasting our resources and
exhausting all our surplus income,
and while annually protesting to in
tend speedy return to specie pay
ment has annually enacted fresh him
drances thereto. AS such a him
drance we denounce the resumption
clause of the act of 1875, and we
here demand its repeal"
The repeal of the resumption act
is demanded because it is a him
drance to the resumption of specie
payments! Can our neighbor of the
Bulletin swallow that? If it can, its
stomach is fit for any dose that is
prescribed in the name of Democ-
racy.
Gen. Ewing did not like to swal-
low this prescription from Wall
street, so he prepared greenback
substitute, but the eastern and south
ern Democracy repudiated the Ohio
bantling, and voted it down by vote
of $50 to 219. Thus the National
Democratic Convention buried the
Ohio rag-baby. Let us weep with
the weepers.
We leave the whole subject in the
hands of the Democracy.
In the National Democratic Con-
vention, Ohio voted 25 for to Is
against Gen. EWinp's rao-babv nlank.