Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-07-20

| VIZ a strict siibordinatioh of the fhilitar'
| TO the ciyil power; opposition TO large stand
tions and their absolute freedom from all in
| terference by the officers of the Federal Gov
ernment, civil or military; profound respec
pressed at the ',allotiboI; 4 fixed purpose to
| expose ana publish all political frauds ant
corruption; the political equality of all citi
zens; the largest right of individual liberty
consistent with the rights of others; univer
| sal education, and general and active par
ticipation of the body of the people in pub
Resoired, That we congratulate the country
from m mt 9he ' cessation Of hestiiities, asst state oi
peacs in accotdahte with the Constitution
and laws has been reached in oir Southern
States. -,
.. We solemnlS arrniEn ard condeifin the
high Electoral Commission as faithlass to
the people of the United States in refusing 70
investigate and expose the wicked and glar-
ing frauds by which the will of the people at
the last Presidential election was defeated
its refusal to do so was in violation of the
spirit of the law under which it was organic
ed /; and while the decision made by the For
ty-fourth Congress of the question as to who
should be declared President. of the United
State, for the Presidential term; wis
I'm our iudgrtient flnal. that decision ought
not to preclude a full investigation and ex-
posture of all frauds connected with that cleo
ton and the due accountability of all who
were guilty concerned with them; and we
heartily commend the action of a majority of
the House of Representatives in pursuing
such investiEatiDfil
3. We regard the national banking system
as being oppressive and burdensome, and
demand its abolition and the retirement from
circulation of all national bank notes and the
issue of legal tender notes in lieu thereof,
and in quantities from time to time sufficient
to supply the wholesome and necessary bust
ness demands of the entire country, and that
all greenbacks so issued shall be used I'm the
purchase and retirement of the bonds OF the
United States, so that the interest bearing
debt of the country may be lessened to the
extent OF the greenbacks thus put into eircu
az a
greenbacks, should be a legal nder iii pay
nent OF all iebts, public and private, except
such obligations as are, in the terms of the
original contract, expressly made payable in
coin. That the right to coin money, and to
regulate the value thereof, can be exercised
under the Constitution by Congress alone,
and that the possession ofthe power imposes
the duty of its exercise to the extent of all the
gold and silver bullion offered for coinage at
the mtnts of the United States, and we re.
gard the limitations and restrictions imposed
by Congress upon the coinage of silver as
iimpolitie and unjnst,and they should at once
be removed,
4. That a return to specie payments is I'm.
possible in the present financial condition oi
the country, and We demand the immediate
and unconditional repeal OF the act OF Janu-
airy IA, 1875, known as the Resumption act,
holding the same to be unwise and ruinous
to the interests of the people.
.. The policy inaugurated ana maintained
by the Republican party of contracting the
active circulating medium OF the country,
constituting ns all admit it does the standard
the country, and regulating as well the prices
paid r all labor. stands pre-eminent In the
long list of its oppressive measures as the
most stupid, inexeusable and oppressive OF
them ALL
6. Being opposed TO ali monopolies and
all laws discriminating in favor of one
class of our people at tile expense of anc to
the prejudice OF all others we declaI e our un
qualified hostilityto all protective tariffs, and
demand that there shall be u tariff for reve-
nue. only.
Z. The Democracy tenders to tho debtor
est sympathy. and pledges itself at the earli-
est moment TO reverse the cruel and deStruc-
tive. policy of the Republican party which
has brought ruin upon theiii.
8. We demand that all legislation shall be
so enacted and administered as to secure TO
each man as nearly as practicable the lust
reward of his own labor.
8. That in view of the large approrria tfons
that have been made by the Federal Govern
seaboards % % wand and I the iSkes Justice to the peo
pie of the Mississippi Valley demands that
appropriations shall be made for the i'm
provement of the Mississippi River and its
cil wants and interests OF the section of the
country, and, believing in the constitutional
struction of national enterprises, which serve
to benefit large sections OF the country, and
which can not be accomplished by individual
enterprise or State action, we favor such leg
fslatfon in this behalf as will not increase the
national indebtedness or impose any addi-
poicy in G%gns onr Opinion It Would Cheap
EN- the cost of transportation and add to our
agricultural wealth, woald afford remunera-
tive employment to the surplus labor OF the
country.
10. That there can be no legitimate en-
ployment of organized force I'm this country
except to execute law and maintain the pub
lie peace.
Ii. That reform must be made in Ma
tional, State and Municipal governments by
the reduction of expenditures and taxes, the
dismissal of unnecessary and incompetent
officers and employees, and the strict en-
forcement of official responsibility.
IL In the language of the Indiana Democ.
racy, we declare that the jurisdiction claimed
and exercised by the Circuit Courts of the
United States upon questions of private end
individual rights arising under the laws of the
States tends TO Cypress and burden litigants
to such an extent us to amount to n practical
denial of justice in many cases, and we cOnsid-
er the legislation which has conferred such
Jurisdiction as unwise and hurtful to the true
interests of the people, and we demand such
legislation as will restrict and limit the juris-
diction of such courts to such matters as are
clearly contemplated by the Constitution and
expressed in the Judiciary act of l7s9.
13. We favor and invite Immigration to ouI
State from all sections of the country.