The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-05-10
PLATOON OF TIVE NEW YORK
DEMOCRACY
Adopted Ia COnventiOp, April
~ " 99ah, 1879.

The platform renews It's fidelity to the
principles set forth in the platforms OF 1874
| IS. The Democratic party OF New York
readopt also tiieiE resolutions adopted in the
State Conventions of 1874, SO, ~, to wit;
| [From che New York Democratic platform,
| September Is 1874
/ First-GOll and silver the only legal ten
DEF. No currency ineonverFitIe with coin.
Second-Steady steps toward specie pay
ments. No step backward.
Third-HOneSt payment of the public
debt In coin. Sacred preservation of the
public faith.
FOurth-ReYenue reform. Federal taxa
ton tor revenue only. No government
| partnership with protected monopolies.
Fifth-Home rule; to limit aud localiZe
public servants, municipal, State and Fed
cral no Capitalization.
Sixth-EQual and exact justice to all no
partial legislation; no partial taxation.
Seventh-A free press; no gag law.
Eighth-Frae men uniform excise law !;
no sumptuary law.
Ninth-Oficial accountability. enforced
by better civil and criminal remedies no
private use OF public funds by public
officers.
State always supervisable by the State ia
the Interest OF the people.
Eieventh-The party in power response
BILE for all legislation when in power.
Twelfth-The Presidency a public trust,
not a private perquisite. No third term.
Thirteenth-EcoHomy in the public ex-
pensc that labor may be lightly burdened.
THE PLATFORM or 1875. 80
The Democratic party OF New York re-
new their pledge nf fidelity to the E,rinci Piles
adopted and affirmed unanimously by the
delegates of all the United States together
assembled in their latest National Conven-
ton, and since approved and Endorsed by
the Demo cratic majorities in fifteen States,
com Kissing more than half the total popu-
lation of the Union.
From the National Democratic Platform,
Baltimore. July 10, 1871
Scventh-Tne public credit must be sa-
ercdly maintained, and we denounce repu-
datiOu in every form and yuise.
Eighth-A SPECIFY return to specie pay
rnent is demanded alike by the highest con-
sideration of commercial morality and hon
est government.
To these authentic declarations of Demo-
cratic principles and policy time gives
proof The present depression of business
is caused by a reaction from the unhealthy
stimulus of An excessive, deprecated and.
irrcdeemable currency, by enormous and i'll
adjusted municipal, State and Federal taxa
ton and by extravaganza, vase and pecu-
latioA in the administration of public af-
fairs.
The remedy for th. evil is not to he found
in the renewal OF any o! its causes. In the
currency is greater than can be absorbed by
business; in tina face OF the fact that the re-
cent fall OF prices has followed repeated III
tiations, any att~mptto Increase the ourrcn-
ey would he worse than Intellectual to revive
prosperity, for 1t would interrupt th- 1aaI
ing process Of industry. !: would be worse
than futile to restore contide ice, for il would
create distrust and new uncertainties In
business, paralyZe the beginnings OF enter
prise, rob labor Of its too scanty employ
.Ment, and whiie stifting the progress of
administrative reforms, would inflict last
ing dishonor upoa the credit, intelligence
and character of the country.
The Democratic party of New York also
re-atfirm the principles set forth in their
platform, adopted last year at Syracuse, in
dorsed by 80 600 majority at the election
following, in poll of nearly 100000 votes,
and vindicated before all the people of this
Republic by the ilustriOus ad ADMINISTRATION
Of Governor Samuel j. Tilden.
EXTRACT FROM REsoLUFIoNs OF AUGUST
~, 1876.
The Democratic party OF New York,
while com hitting to the delegates the duty
OF joining with the delegates of their fellow
Democrats OF all the States Ina the momen-
tous deliberations OF the National Couyen-
ton, declare their settled principles-the
frugal expenditure and the administrative
palicy of the founders of the Republic, as
the first and most i'm pprious necessity OF
the times. The comm andlag issue now be-
fore the people is the Union, and they sug-
ges-, with respectful Difference, to their
brethren of other States, and with a cordial
appreciation or other renowned Democratic
statesmen, faithful, like him, to their pol:t-
ical principles aud public trusts, that the
nomination of Samuel J. Tilden to the office
OF President would insure the vote of New
York, and would be approved throughout
the Union A. the recognition of this supreme
necessity, the incarnation of this vital issue,
the pledge of our high purpose and tho
guarantee of a successful achievement of
this arduous work of national regeneration
and reform.