The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-07-19
COLORADO DEMOCRACY.
The Pueblo Convention Nomi-
mates Loveland for
Governor.
Thomas N. Patterson Renoninated fer
siss Congress. l,s.f
A Bourbon Platform Adopted.

Pueblo, Colo, July 18.-The Demo
cratic State convention to-day nomi
mated w. A. II. Loveland for governor
and renominated Thomas M. Patterson
for Congress; both by acclamation.
The platform affirrns strict con-
struction Of the Const tuition with all
the amendments; supremacy of civil
over military power; complete sever.
ance of church and state, and protection
Of the common school system. Holds
that every honest voter should approve
the investigation and exposure Of the
monstrous frauds by. which the will Of
the people was set aside and their
choice for President and President
deprived Of the high offices to which
they were elected; disclaims any pur-
pose Of interfering with the title of the
President, made valid by the order Of
Congress, to the end that such crimes
be rendered impossible in the future
and the perpetrators made infamous.
1t demands that such investigation be
fair and searching, and the author of
the crimes be held to accountability; 1t
charges that the commercial and indus
trial distress that prevails are the re-
suits Of Vicious financial legislation Of
the monied power, effected through the
agency Of the Republican party in
Congress by the monetization of silver
and repeal Of the resumption law; re-
tirement and destruction of legal ten
der notes, exchange of bonds, originally
redeemable in greenbacks, for those
which are to be redeemed in coin, and
maintenance of the national banking
system; that before trade and business
enterprises can be checked in their
downward course, an increase in the
value Of currency is imperatively re-
quired. 1t demands free and unlimited
coinage Of silver, SO the owners of bull
lion may have it coined, and without
further interference from the Govern
ment, circulate the same; denounces
the Senate amendments to the silver
bill passed by Congress, because it
enables the Secretary of the Treasury
to entirely control the coinage of silver
and to hoard the same in the Trea-
sury.
The platform demands the repeal Of
the resumption act and the substitution
of United States legal tender paper for
national bond notes, and its permanent
re-establishment, as the sole paper
money of the country; to be made re-
ceivable for all dues to the Government;
the amount Of such issues to be so reg
ulated by legislation of the organic law;
affirms the exclusive right and duty of
Congress to furnish the people of the
country their circulating medium,
whether gold, silver or paper, and it
should always mention the values of
such currency, SO as to meet the de-
mands Of the trade. The full faith and
credit of the Government should be
pledged to maintain whatever currency
It may furnish, of equal value and pow
er; no further increase in the bonded
debt and no further sale of bonds for
the purchase Of coin for resumption
purposes; a graded extinction of the
public debt by the redemption Of the
interest bearing portion thereof, in such
currency as the law will permit, in
United States notes where coin is not
demanded by the letter of the law, and
in silver equally with gold wherever