Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-17
TRUMPET TONED.
THE VOICE OF THE TENNESSEE
DEMOCRACY.
Ringing Arraignment of the Radical Re-
publican Party--And Clear and Unmis-
taxable Enunciation of Principles--The
Standard Observation-Disclosures Congress
sioual Nominations---MisceI Po-
liticaI Notes.
Tennessee Democrats.

this morning, and adopted the following resO-
lutions:
| In the name of the Democratic party of Ten
nessee, we, its delegates in convention assem-
bled, solemnly arraign the radical Republican
party, national and State, before the bar of
| public opinion, as the author of all the mis-
fortunes which now Cypress and threaten the
people. Protesting its friendship for the federal
Union it sought to destroy it in Capitalization.
Declaring it's purpose to establish Justice, it
trampled it under it's feet
To ensure domestic tranquility, it's pro-
claimed mission, it preached the gospel of hate
and filled the land with blood, misrule, and
! anarchy.
Pretending to provide for the common de-
Tense it fruitlessly sqnandered millions OF the
peoples money.
Affecting to promote the general welfare, it
betrayed the public. Affirming its design to-
secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and
posterity it forged for the people the chains
of perpetual slavery.
Ostensibly the financial agent of the people,
it was in fact the plant tool of the money
power.
1t betrayed it's trust when it converted the
non-interest bearing debt into an interest bear
ing debt, which is bllghtng the people.
1t betrayed its trust when it repudiated
contract dischargable in treasury notes and
u
the people.
1t betrayed its trust when it demonetized sill
yer and made payments to public creditors in
the cheaper notes provided for IN the con-
tract
1t betrayed it's trust when it organized a
privileged class with close banking corpora
tion usurping all the banking power, and in
vested it's creatures with the exclusive corpo-
rate power to destroy the business and prop
erty of the people.
Itbetrayed its power when it tixed an arbitrary
period for resumption.
1t has squandered the public wealth by do
nations to powerful cor porations.
1t has wrung enormous taxes from the peo-
pie and applied them to unworthy partisan
purposes, under the pre-: ense of protection to
home industry.
1t has robbed many interests by unfriendly
legislation.
1t has driven American ships from the high
seas and destroyed our foreign commerce.
1t made the army an instrument in the an
inhalation of republican government IN the
South.
BY the use of the army it put the people of
the United States in fear and robbed them of
the Presidency.
1t insults the laboring people of the country
by demanding an increase of the army for the
purpose of a standing menace to them.
For the purpose of excise duties upon to-
bacco and alcoholic productions, it has encour-
the false prctense of protecting the revenue
service it has turned loose upon the people ir-
responsible and bloodthirsty men who killed
and destroyed property at will, and confessing
want of jurisdiction in the federal courts to
punish them, yet it refuses to allow these enc
mics to be challenged anywhere for their
crimes.
Acquiring power by accident, it has pepetu-
ated it by fraudulently driving the ignorant
blacks of the South and misleading the credu-
lous masses at the North.
1t has uniformly abused its power by adj
ministering the government in the interest of
creditors and against the debtor class, in the
interest of the tax consumer and against the
tax payer; in the interest of the rich and
against the poor i'll the interest of the strong
and against the weak; in the interest of the few
and against the many.
AS the legitimate fruit of it's administration,
it has paralyzed all industrial pursuits; has de-
stroyed the value of all our property; has de-
prived labor of employment and reward; has
Impoverished and bankrupted the country and
denied the poor an opportunity to earn bread;
has filled the land with unrest, discord and
agitation, the unmistakable precursors of revo-
lutionary resistance to oppression, injustice and
wrong.
For these crimes against humanity and good
government, we denounce the radical Republi-
can party as unworthy of trust and confidence
of intelligent and patriotic people.
AS representatives Of the Democratic party
we congratulate the people that our party has
at last won a victory for them over the radical
Republican party and its allied monopoly, the
money power.
Through the labors and policies of the Demo
cratic party domestic governments, Republic
can in spirit well in form, have been re-
stored to the Southern States, and these States
replaced in the federal circle with functions
and rights co-equal with other members of the
Union.
We pledge the people that our party will never
lower its banner nor take step backward till
the prosperity of the whole people shall be
held to be supreme of political administration.
In the name of the Democracy we denounce
an interest-bearing public debt public
curse.
We denounce protection public robbery
| We denounce monopolies hateful and
destructive to public liberty, and demand they
may be put away from among the people.
| We demand the restoration of the federal
government to constitutional limits, and the
return of its administration to its original
economy, simplicity and impartiality.
We demand that the military shall be sub
ordinate to civil authority in fact as well as in
theory; the repeal of laws which have destroyed
our commerce.; repeal of the declaration that
| the currency bonds of the government shall be
| paid in coin, and the payment in treasury notes
of so much of said bonds as may be found
| due after deducting the difference between the
thereon according to the contract. The imme-
diate repeal of the resumption act; that the
odious national banking act be repealed, and
greenbacks be substituted for the circulation
of the national banks; that treasury notes be
made receivable for all government dues; that
no more interest bearing bonds be issued; that
| all bonds required by the government be raised
by issuance of non-interest bearing treasury
notes; that the coinage of silver be
made unlimited, and while it be a
cheaper metal, that it be, paid
| upon all bonds Justly payable in coin; that the
value of all foreign silver coin be regulated
| and made receivable for all government dues
to be received by the government and paid out
to its creditors; the repeal of all laws which
deny to the people of the several States the
| right to determine for themselves whether they
| will authorize banks or not; that capital in
every form be required to bear the burdens of
government equally with labor and production;
that the present financial policy of the govern
ment to contract the circulation of treasury
notes. disparage silver, magnify gold and national
bank notes, to be revised, and every legitimate
mode adopted to swell the volume of currency
with silver and treasury notes.
! For five years the national radical Republi-
| can party upheld and protected an irresponsi-
! BILE minority in the usurpation of our State
| government and permitted it to waste the sub
stance of our unrepresented and impoverished
people by burdensome taxation and the issue
and sale at an enormous discount of millions
/ of bonds, the proceeds of which, in great part,
were converted to the private use OF
its party favorites, and when the control of the
State government was recovered by our people
they were threatened with a military govern.
ment, if they presumed to question the validity
! of the bonds SO issued. We undertook to pro