Litchfield enquirer., 1878-09-26
The Democratic Platform.

The following is the platform adopted by the Democratic State Convention which met at New Haven, last week:
 ResoECed, That the democratic party of Con- necticut again pledges itself to the principles which it has invariably adopted, and which majority of the people of this state have re- peatedly approved.
 1. The constitution and the Union shall be maintained, with the supremacy of the civil over the military authority the largest indi- vidual liberty consistent with public order ;the equality of rights for all citizens; local self government and the limitations of the consti- tuition to be observed by those administering the affairs of the federal government
 3. We demand that rigid economy shall be observed in every department of the state and federal government and that the salaries of public officers shall be reduced as the neces- sities of the times require.
 5. That the deep-seated and continued cor rupti0n among federal effice-holders and em- ployes shall cease and wedemand of congress that it shall rigidly and consistently pursue in vestigations to uncover fraudulent practices and ring contrivances which deplete the treas ury and add to the burdens of the people.
 4. We condemn the monstrous frauds and the daring and unrighteous action by which the people of the United States were cheated and deprived of their choice in the last Presi- dential election-a bold plot and unparalled fraud which struck at the heart of the repub- lie; plot and fraud which shall not be con- doned, and shall never be repeated.
 Q. That the public lands shall be preserved for the benefit of actual settlers, and subsidies of money or lands to corporations and specu- latOrs shall cease forever.
 C. That the constitution of the United States recognizes gold and silver as the standard money of the Union; and this stan- dard is the most stable basis [cries of No No!] for the commercial necessities of the world. The democratic party of the Union has never failed to recognize and support this essential principle. A great and costly war and republican financial fraud and corruption brought an irredeemable currency, under which prices of every commodity have fiuctu- ated, industrial interests have suffered, labor has been deprived ofits just reward, and many business men brought to bankruptcy 1; but the laws of trade, with large balance of foreign exchange infavor of this country, have brought us to the dOor of redeemable currency and Q sound basis for an improved and prosperous state of affairs which will place the creditor ana oeDtor of the government on the same financial plane.
 [. That the resumption act, SO called, was in its inception unwise, uncalled for, and not demanded at the time of it's enaction by those laws of trade which govern with unerring certainty the finances of country and having confidence in the senators and representatives of this state in the congress of the United States we unhesitatingly rely upon their integrity and judgment, believing that they will be con trOlled in their action upon the question of re- sumption by those well-known principles which underlie the necessities of commerce and the best interests of the people of this state
 s. We condemn all repudiation and de- mand an honest and just payment of the pub. lie debt; we denounce the financial policy of the republican administration as the direct and shortest way to universal bankruptcy and total repudiation, and we declare that what ever currency is issued should be for the ben- eft of the whole people.
 g. That we demand of oursenators and rep- resentatives in congress earnest efforts to in- crease our trade with foreign nations.by such legislation as will tend to restore our commer- cial tonnage to itsfOrmer equality with that of Great Britain and place annually in the hands