The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-07-02

requisite number, 400. A second ballot was
was taken, with this result:
Tilden .<67
HsnSGioks.
Thurman. .......... 3
Before the result was announced, however, o
number of delegates changed their votes from
other candidates to Tilden, and amidst the
greatest enthusiasm, his nomination was made
unanimous
The Convention then adjourned to Thursday
morning, when Thos A. Hendricks, the present
Governor of Indiana and the one among the
unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency who
received the greatest number of votes, was
unanimously nominated for Vice President.
The platform, which was adopted by q vote
Of e5l to a, 10 as follows:
PLATFORM.
We the delegates of the Democratic party of
She United States, in National Convention as
semhled, do here declare the administration of
:. the Federal Government to be in urgent need
of immediate reform, do hereby epjoin upon
the nominees of this Convention and of the
Democratic party in each State, o jealous ef
fort and cooperation TO this end, and do hereby
appeal to our fellow-citizens of every former
political connection to undertake with us this
frat and most pressing patriotic duty. For the
Democracy of the whole country we do here
reafiirm our faith in the permanepcy of the
Federal Union our devotion to the Constitu-
tion of the United States with it's amendments
universally accepted as final settlement of the
controversies that engendered civil war, and
do here record our steadfast confidence in the
perpOtuity of republican self-government; in
absolute acquieacence in the will of the major
lily, the vital principle of republics; in the su-
preDacy of the civil over the military author
ity; in the total separation of Church and
state for the sake alike OF civil and religious
freedom in the equality of all citizens before
Just laws of their own enactment; in the lib
erty of individual conduct invoked by sump
tuary laws in the faithful education of the
rising generation, that they may preserve, en-
Joy and transmit these best conditions of hu-
man Happiness and hope; we behold the no blest
produets of q hundred years of chaugeful his
rerF, but while ppholding the bond of our
Union and great charter of these our rights, it
'6ehooves q free people TO practice also that
eternal vigilance which is the price of liberty
Reform Is necessary to rebuild and establish
in the hearts OF the whole people of the Union
eleven years ago happily rescued from the
danger of o corrupt centralism, which, after in
bag tyrannies, has honeyoombed the Offices of
the Federal Government itself with incspacity,
waste and fraud, infected States and munich
palities with the contagion of misrule, and
locked fast the prosperity of an Industrious
people in the paralysis of hard timee. Reform
is necessary to establish a sound currency, re-
store the public credit, and maintain the ma.
tional homer. We denounce the failure for all
these eleven years to make good the promise
fOY the legal tender notes which are Q chang
ing standard of valae in the hands of the PEG.
ple, aud the non.psyment of which is q disre-
gard of the plighted faith of the nation.
We denOunce the improvidence which in
eleven years of peace has taken from the peO-
pie in Federal taxes thirteen times the whole
amount of the legal tender notes, and squan-
dered four times this sum in useless expense
without accommodating any reserve for their
redemption.
immortality Of that party which, during eleven
years of peace, has made no advance toward
resumption; that instead has DISTRACTED re-
hAusting all our surplus income, and while an.
nuAlly processing to intend speedy return ia
specie paymentS, has annually enacted fresh
kSndrRnces thereto. As Huch hindrance, We
denounce the resumption clause of the act o.
1875, and We here demand its repeal. We de
m9nd q judicious system of preparation by
pablo economies, by official retrenchments
and by wise finance, which shall enable the
nation to assure the whole world of its perfeo
ability, and its perfect readiness to meet any
Of lite promises at the call Of the creditor en-
veil devised, and above all entrusted to com
potent hands for execution, creating at no TIM
an artificial scarcity of currency, and at nj
tino alarming the public mind into with
-dEew9l OF that vastec machinery of credit b,
which ninety-hve per cent of all business trans
actions are performed, "a system open, publ
from che day of its adoption bring healing OF
its Wingg TO all our hArassed industry, and &c
IN motion the Wheele OF commerce, manufao
tuges and the mechanical artS, restore employ
. ment to labor, and renew in all its natione
source the prosperity Of she people.
Reform is necessary in the oum aud mode O
Federal taxation to the end that capital ma
be set free from distress and labor lightly hui
doned. We denounce the present tariff, lai
upon nearly four thousand articles, 90 . master
piece of injustice, inequality and false prstens,
Is yields q dwindlinR, not . yearly rising revt
nne; IL has impoverished many industries
,subsidiEe q few /; IL prohibits imports that migt
purchase the prOduDts of American labor;
Z has doFraded American commerce from the fir
20 "A Garior position upon the high seAs; IL hi
onT down she sales Of American manufaotur'
at homo and abroad, and depleted the return
of American agriculture or industry folloWe
~ half our people I; " costa the people az
4frnes moro than it produces to the tEeasur.
ebasR1ots the proooosea Of production an
HnatQa the fEnlfa 0f la30gi 10 promoted 9eAu