Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-06-27
Political Conventions.

terday and nominated for Secretary OF State,
David Il. Page; for Supreme Judge, A. i.
Humes; for member of Board Of Public Works. |
Rush Field.
The convention adopted the following reso
buttons:
Resolved, That an investigation Of the frauds
committed at the las! Presidential election 10
Florida and Louisiana ought to have been made
by the Electoral Commission. Its refusal to do
80 was violation of the spirit Of the law under
which it was organized and gross outrage
upon the people of the United States, and while
the decision as made by the forty fourth Coz
gress of the question as to who should be de-
clared President Of the United States for the
present Presidential term Was. 10 our judgment,
| final, that decision ought not to preclude au.
| thentio Investigation and exposure OF all frauds
connected with that election, and the due &C.
countability Of all who wero guilty connected
with them.
Resolved, That the commercial and industrial
stagnation that has so long prevailed through
out the country, and the consequent and Wide
spread suffering, is due directly to the pcrnlc'
Gus financial legislation of the republican party,
which we hereby arraign for its acts, and charge:
! First-That at the time when the country was
weighed down with debit created on the basis
of a full volume of paper, added to both the
precious metals as money, it enacted sweep
| inc change 10 the measure of value. wholly IN
the interest Of moneyed capital, by demonetiz.
| ing silver and deoreciog destruction OF legal
tender paper and thereby wroDgiuly added 10
effect hundreds of millions to the burden Of
debt and taxes upon the people, Secondly
pursuing it's merciless policy OF contracting the
paper currency and boarding gold it has 10.
creased the value OF money and securities, that
partake of the enhancement of money, and
decreased the value of all other property, and
especially Of capital designed for productive use
and required fer the employment oil labor. thus
REFRESHING instead of fostering Industry. com
polling idlencss instead OF sustaining trade and
commerce.; and now this party in Ohio puts
forward 10 it's platform declarations that the
financial question has been settled. We deny
this declaration, and while We congratulate the
country that the downward course to bauk
ruptcy and ruin involved 10 the republican
policy has been partially avoided by the demo.
cratic measures passed at the late sesslon OF
Congress, restoring debt paying power to silver
dollars, mado law in spite of Presidential veto,
and STOPPING further destruction of grccnbacks
we demand as further acts Of Justice, as we'll as
measures of relief, the absolute repeal OF the
RESUMPTION act, and lawful liberation OF tho
coin boarded in the Treasury; the removal of
all restrictions to the coinage oil silver, and the
re establishment Of silver rs money metal, the
same as gold, the same as 1t was before It's
fraudulent decentralization; Inc gradual substl
tuition of United States legal tender paper Tor
national bank notes, aud its permanent esab
Esbmcnt az The sole paper money Of the country,
made receivable for all dues 10 he Government,
ADD of equal tender with coin, tho amount OF
such issues to be regulated by tho legislation or
organic law as to give the people assurance OF
stability 10 the volume Of currency and the con-
seuucnt stability of the value. No further In
crease in the bonded debt, and 10 further sale
of bonds for the purchase feoln tor resumption
PURPOSES but the gradual extinction OF the
pubc debl; rigid economy, the reduction OF
expenditures in all branches Of the public Scr
vice aud tariff for revenue only.
Resolved That the interests of the Industrial
wealth producing classes is Of paramount inter
est to the people OF the United States. Those
whose labor and enterprise produce wealth
should be secure 10 lts enjoyment. Oar warm
est sympathy is extended to the aborlng classes
who have been thrown out Of employment by
the ruuous financial policy and ufj ust leglsla'
ton of the republican party, and VIC pledge the
democratic party to Is reversal OF this policy
ADD to restoration Of all the rights they arc
entitled to upoo it's asccndency to power
Resolved, That there can be no legitimate
cmpoymcnt Of organized iorce in this country,
except to execute law end mantaln public
peacc; that no violence shall be countcnsnced
to obtain redress for any alleged grievance, but
repressed at any cost until relief can be secured
BY legal methods We congratulate the coun
try ou the adoption of the constitutional and
pacific policy Of local government 10 the States
of the South, so long advocated by the demo-
cratic party, and which has brought peace and
harmony to that section Of the Uoion.
The Illinois republicans also had their State
convention Mr. Slade vas nominated for SUI
Derintendent of Public Instruction, and Con.
j, G.. Smith for Treasurer. The platform they
adopted was modelled after that of their politi
cal friends in Indiana. 1t is as follows:
The delegated Representatives Of the Repub.
licsn party of Illinois, in convention assembled,
hereby declare our unfaltering faith in the prln-
ciples and patriotism Of the Republican party,
State and national, and in its permanent fitness
aud ability, over all othor parties, to administer
the governments of both State and nation wisely
and successfully; that the democratic party, be-
ing largely composed Of recent rebols and their
sympsthizers, cannot be safely lntrusted with
the administration of the affairs of the Govern
ment; that the partial success of the party in
Congress, as we'll as in several of the States.
only shows its grossly partisan character and
general incspscity and lack OF honor and pa
triotism. For tho financial system created by
the Republican party duringthe war we express
our unqualified admiration. BY its provisions
the people have been supplied with large
amount of paper currency, safer and more uni
form in value than they hsvo over before enjoy
cd. The CT edit Of the nation has steadily I'm.
proved, while both the principal and interest of
the public debt, as we'll as the burdens of taxa
ton, have been steadily diminished: Such
results can only DO produced by honesty,
economy and wigdom in the management
of public affairs. We are opposed to any fur:
ara in favor of such currency as can be main
tanned at par with and convertible into coin at
the will of the holder. We favor sach currency
being received for import duties, and deprecsto
the defeat of the recent bill for that purpose by
the democratic House of Representatives. The
permanent paciAcstion of the Southern section
of the Union, and the complete projections of all
its citizens in their civil, political and property
| rights is 8 duty to which the party is sacredly
pledged In order to redeem this pledge it