Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-13
WHOLE NO. 2,3O7.
Resolutions of the Democratic Con
VenEiOn of New York, October
4th, 1877.

/
. venEiOn of New York, October
r 4th, 1877.
The people having i'm the las
Presidential contest elected, by al
, overwhelming popular and cleal
! ! electoral majority, the Democratic
| candidates for President and Vice
President, and the will of the nation
: thus cOnstitutiOnally declared, haV-
ing been wickedly and boldly nulli-
fed by means of the grOssest usurpa-
tionS and frauds of returning boards,
protected and adopted, if not insti-
gated, by the party In possession of
the Government, and rendered prac-
ticable by the threatening array of
military force,
Resolved, That at this, the first
convention of the Democrats of this
State held since the consummation
of this great crime, it is not only
just and fit, but ii is plain duty in
the interest of constitutional gov
ernment and in vindicatiOn and
preservation of the sacred right of
the majority to choose their rulers,
to denOunce with the warmest in
dignation this stupendous wrong,
and we do hereby denounce, con-
denim, and hold it up to universal
eXecratiOn.
Resolved, That this duty of set
ting a mark of infamy upon this
transaction and preventing any
quick forgetfulneSs or easy cOndona-
ton of it from raising IA tempting
precedent for future outrages, rests
especially and peculiarly upon the
Democratic party of this State, one
of whose most illustrious leaders was
the President actually chosen by the
| nation.
Resolved, That the late House Of
| Representatives deserve the thanks
of all patriots and lovers of liberty
! for their Just refusal in the exercise
of most ancient and valuable priv
ilege belonging to the representative
of the people in all constitutional
governments, to appropriate money
for the support of soldiers to be used !
in an illegal and despotic oppression
of citizens in any portion of the re-
public.
Resolved, That the present ma
tiOnal administration, by its with
drawal of troops from the South and |
its cessation from mischievous, un-
constitutional and oppressive inter-
ference with the internal affairs of |
the States, has in that respect re- |
versed the vicious precedents of the /
Republican party and followed the |
course marked out by the Federal /
Constitution, to which the Demo- |
Gratis stand pledged, and it is there |
fore entitled in that particular to the
approval of all good citizens.
The Democratic party of New
York reatfirm the following princi-
piles set forth in their platform,
adopted in 1874, now thrice endorsed
by large majorities of the voters of
this State:
Gold and silver the only legal ten
der.
No currency inconvertible with
coin.
Steady steps toward specie pay
ments.
No steps backward.
Honest payment of the public debt
in coin.
Sacred preservation of the public
faith.
Revenue reform.
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No Government partnership with
protected mOnopOlies.
Home rule.
To limit and lOcaliZe most zeal
ously the few powers entrusted to
public servants, municipal, State
and Federal.
No Capitalization.
Equal and exact justice to all men.
No partial legislation.
No partial taxation.
Official accountability enforced by
better civil and criminal remedies.
No private use of public funds by
public officers.
Corporations chartered by the
State always superVisable by the
State in the interest of the people.
The party in power responsible
for all legislation while in power.
Economy in public expense, that
labor may be lightly burdened.
Resolved, That we are opposed TO
the granting of subsidies by the
to corporations or indi-
Viduals for the construction of rail
roads or other internal improve
ments, beyond the scope of Federal
power and inevitably producing cor
ruptiOn.
Resolved, That we congratulate
the whole people of this State that,
which the laboring classes have been
for years subjected, in spite Of their
failure to obtain remunerative en-
and the bitter privations
which have been imposed on them
thereby, they have endured these
for the most part with pa /
tience and without disorder or ViO- ,
lation of the public peace that it is
the beneticient operation of {
equal and just laws, favOring no one /
class at the expense of another, a
stern refusal on the part Of legisla- /
tive bodies to yield to the schemes /
of grasping monOpOlies and the de- i
crease of public expenditures and
taxation to the lowest practical point, /
that the labOring classes of the cOun- ,
try, with whom the Democratic par !
ty has always strongly and intelli- ,
gently sympathized, are mainly to
find etfectual and permanent relief.
Resolved, That we faVOra uniform
and equitable excise law having re-
gard for, and a protection of, the ]
rights of all people, accompanied by !
stringent provisions furnishing its '
q
Resolved, That we demand more |
protection for the savings !
Of the industrial classes by stricter i
and control of savings ]
hanks, insurance companies and &
other institutions in which the peo- 1
ple's money may be invested, and {
the enactment Of laws providing the {
sure and certain punishment of all I
official neglect, extravaganza or |
fraud by which the peoples earn
lngs may be endangered or lost. 9
TIE late John Fanner, whose Q