The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-07-18

greenbacks, should be made legal tender in
the payne ut of all debts, public and private,
except such obligations as are in the terms
of the original contract expressly mace pay
able in coin.
That the right to coin money and regulate
the value thereof can be exercised un- er
th- Constitution by C.ngress alone, and that
possession of the power imposes the duty
of it's exercise to the interest of all gold
and silver bullion offered for coinage at the
mints of the United States, and We regard
the limitations and restrictions imposed by
Congress upon the coinage of silver rs i'm
polite anu un u t, and should ut once be
removed.
That a return to specie payments is impos
sible in the present financial condition of
the country, we demand the immediate
and unconditional repeal of the act of Con-
gress of Jauu,ry 1, 1879, known as the Re-
sumption Act, holding the s me 10 be unwise
and ruinous to the interest of the people.
The policy inaugurated and maintained
by the Republican party of contracting the
active circulating medium of the country,
con tituting, as all admit does, the s and
ard of value of the property and product
of The country, as well as the prices paid
for all labor, stands pre-ep,inent in the
long list of its oppressive measures a, the
most stupid. inexcusable and oppressive of
them all. Being opposed to all monopolies
and all laws discriminating in favor OF one
class of our peop at the expense OF and
to the prejudice of all others, we declare
our unqualified hostility to all protective
tariffs, and demand that there shall be a
| tariff for revenue only.
The Democracy tenders to the debtor and
labOring classes of the country its warmest
sympathy and pledges itself at the earliest
moment to revise the cruel and destructive
policy of the Repub lean party which
brought ruin upon them. We demand that
oil lori ell hal ha ar
minis cred as to secure to each man as
nearly as practicable the just rewards of his
own Labor
Tie Democrats of Michigan met on the
10th July, and nominated State ticket as
| follows: For Governor, Orlando M. Barnes;
for Lieutenant Governor, A. P. swineford,
Of Marquette; for Treasurer, Alex.
t ry of State, George H. Murd"ck, of Ber-
rien; for Auditor General, w. J. B. Scher-
merhorn, of Lenawee; for Commissioner of
the state Land Office, George FL. Lord, of
| Bay; for Attorney General, A. B. worse,
of Ionia; for Superintendent of Public In
! struction, z. Tfiesdale; for Member of the
Board of Education, E. F. Uhl, of Grand
Rapids; for Chairman of the State Central
| G mmittee, William B. Moran, of Detr it.
| The resolutions indorse the investiga-
! ton of electoral frauds, and declare
| that gold and silver coin is the money of the
Constitution, and all paper currency should
| be convertible into such coin at the will of
the holder; oppose the further forcible re-
duction of the volume of the currency, and
affirm the action of Congress prohibiting
such reduction; declare that the PROSTATE
| condition of the business interests of the
county imperatively demands that taxa
| tion, both State and National, shall be re-
duced to the lowest point consistent with
the attainments of objects for which such
taxes shall be levied, and that economy
shall be practiced in every department of
the Government; congratulate the country
upon the reduction of over fifty million dol.
lars in the Ma ional expenditures during
| tho 1aS four vaars .