Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-12
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Platform of the Missouri Democratic COH-
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 glazing
frauds by which the will of the people at the
last Presidential election was defeated. Its
refusal to do SO was i'll violation of the spirit
of the law under which it was organized, and
wtile 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 III our
Judgment final, that decision ought not TO
preclude a 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 III coin
That the right to coin money and regulate
the value thereof can be exercised under the
constitution by Congress alone, and that the
possession of the power imposes the duty
of its exercise to all gold and silver bullion
offered for coinage at the minis of the Unltet
States, and we regard the limitations ane
restrictions imposed by Congress upon th'
coinage of silver as impolitic and unjust
/ and should at once be removed.
The platform demands the repeal of TIM
resumption act: opposes contraction; favor
tariff for revenue only; favors the judicior
Improvement of the Mississippi river and it
/ tflDutarleS; IaYOrS q reQuctlOu CT expense
and taxes, and demands such legislation a
will restrict and limit the jurisdiction o
courts to such matters as are clearly con
templated by the constitution, and espresso
in the judi ;iary sc5 of 1877.
| The following ticket was then nominate
and the convention adjourned: Judge o
the supreme court, Elijah Norton; registe
of deeds, j. E. McHenry; State superintend
ent of public schools, r. D. Shannon; raj
way commissioner, A. M. Seavier. Th
three first named are present incumbents.
Previous to the adoption of the report
speech was made by exGov. Woodson who
among other things, said that "the ma
whom the Democrats elected to the Pres
dency, when the crisis came, proved himsel
unequal to the contest, and if he had th
courage of Wade Hampton, of South Care
lima, and had stated to the people of til
United States, you have elected me to th
first office in your gift, and by the etern'
God. will be President, he now would /
President