Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-12
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Platform of the Missouri Democratic Con-
rention.
The Missouri Democratic convention met
at Jefferson City on the 10th, and adopted
ringing platform. After announcing their
adherence to the time honored principles of
the party, the members declare:
We solemnly condemn and arraign the
high electoral commission as faithless to the
people of the United States in refusing to
investigate and expose the wicked ana glaring
frauds by which the will of the people at the
last Presidential election was defeated. It's
refusal to do SO was in violation of the spirit
of the law under which it was organized, and
while the decision made by the Forty fourth
Congress of the question as to who should
be declared President of the United States
for the present Presidential term was in our
Judgment final, that decision ought not to
preclude full investigation and exposure of
all frauds connected with that election and
the due accountability of all who were guilt
lily concerned with them, and we heartily
commend the action Of the majority of the
House of Representatives in pursuing such
investigation.
We regard the national banking system as
being oppressive and burdensome, and de-
mand its abolition and the retirement from
circulation of all bank notes and the issue of
legal tender notes i'll lieu thereof, and in
Quantity, from time to time, sufficient to
supply the wholesome and necessary business
demands of the entire country that all
greenbacks issued shall be used in the pur-
chase and retirement of bonds of the United
States, so that the interest bearing debt of
the country may be lessened in extent of the
greenbacks thus put in circulation, as legal
tender notes, commonly called greenbacks,
should be made legal tender in payment of
all debts, public and private, except such
obligations as are in the terms of the orig
inal contract expressly made payable in coin.
That the right to coin money and regulate
the value thereof can be exercised under the
possession of the power imposes the duty
offered for coinage at the minis of the United
restrictions imposed by Congress upon the
coinage of silver as impolitic and unjust,
and should at once be removed.
The platform demands the repeal of the
resumption act: opposes contraction; favors
tariff for revenue only; favors the judicious
improvement of the Mississippi river and its
and taxes, and demands such legislation as
will restrict and limit the jurisdiction OF
courts to such matters as are clearly con
templated by the constitution, and expressed
IN the judi siary ct of 1877.
The following ticket was then nominated
and the convention adjourned: Judge OF
the supreme court, Elijah Norton: register
of deeds, j. E. McHenry; State superintend
ent of public schools, r. d. Shannon; rail
way commissioner, A. M. Seavier. The
three first named are present incumbents.
Previous to the adoption of tile report {
speech was made by ex-Gov Woodson who
among other things, said that "the mar
whom the Democrats elected to the Presi
dency, when the crisis came, proved himsel1
unequal to the contest, and if he had the
courage of Wade Hampton, of South Caro-
lima, and had stated to the people of the
United States, you have elected me to The
first Office in your gift, and by the eterna
God, will be President, he now would be
President