New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-17
THE TENNESSEE DEMOCRACY.
THEIR LONG PLATFoRM-IHE REPUBLICANS DE
NOUNCED FOR EVERYTHING ALMosr--REsoLU
TONS Or STATE FINANCES

0cratic Convention reassembled at . a. N. to-day
After the adoption of a platform, the following
names were put in nomination for Governor: Alfred
Caldwell and John NJ Fleming, of Knoxville; John
B. Savage, of McMinnville Arthur S. Colyar, of
Nashville. and John A. Gardner, of Weakley County
The following is the platform adopted:
In the name of the Democratic party of
Tennessee, we, its delegates in convention
assembled, sOlemnly arraign the Radical Re
publican party, National and State, before the
bar of public opinion as the author of all the
mlsf0rtunes which now Cypress and threaten
the people Protesting its friendship for the
Federal Union, it sought to destroy 1t in CEN
tralization declaring its purpose TO establish
justice, it has trampled it under its feet; to
insure domestic tranquility, its proclaimed
mission, it preached the gospel of hate, and
filed the land with blood, misrule and an
9rchy pretending to provide for the COMMON
defence, it fruitlessly squandered millions OF
the peoples money !; affecting to promote the
general welfare, it betrayed the public veal
affirming its design to secure the blessings OF
liberty to ourselves and pOsterity, 1t forged
for the people chains of perpetual slavery Os-
tensibly the financial agent of the people, it
was in fact the plant tool OF the money
power it betrayed its trust when it converted
the nOn-interest bearing debt into an interest
bearing debt which is a bighting public curse;
1t betrayed its trust when it reDudiated con-
tract dischargeable in Treasury notes and sub
stituted q coin contract to the prejudice of
the people it betrayed its trust when 1t de-
mOnetiZed silver and forbade payment to the
public creditors in the cheaper metal provided
for in the contract 1t betrayed its trust when
1t organized q privileged class into close
banking corporation, and, usurping all the
banking power, invested its creature with the
exclusive corporate power to destroy the Dusl-
ness and property of the people it betrayed
its trust when it fixed an arbitrary period for
resumption it has squandered the public
wealth by donations to powerful corporations;
it has wrung enormous taxes from the peO-
pie and applied them to unworthy partisan pur-
poses; under the pretence OF the protection of
home industry, it has systematically robbed
the many in the interest of the few;
by unfrendly legislation it has driven Ameri-
can ships from the high seas and utterly de-
strOyed our foreign commerce 1T has made
the Army an instrument in the humiliation
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 avowed purpose OF standing
menace to them by the levy of excessive
excise duties upon tobacco and alcoholic pro-
auctions It has encouraged violations of the
revenue laws, and under the false pretence of
protecting the revenue service 1t has turned
loose upon the people irresponsible, blood
thirsty men, who kill and destroy property at
will, and yet cOnfessing the want of jurisdic-
ton in the Federal courts TO punish them, it
refuses to allow these enemies OF society to be
challenged anywhere for their crimes. Acquir-
ing power by accident, IL has peTpetuated it
BY fraudulently deceiving the ignorant blacks of
the South and misleading the credulOus masses
of the North and it has uniformly abused
its power by administering the Government
in che interest of the creditors and against the
debtor class, in the interest of the taX-cOn-
sumner, and against the Taxpayer, in the in
terest of the rich and against the poor III the
interest of the strong and against the weak,
in the interests of a few and against the
many as the legitimate fruit of its admins
tration it has paralyzed all industrial pursuits,
has destroyed the value of all our prosperity,
has deprived labor of employment and re-
ward, has impoverished and bankrupted the
country, has denied the poor the opportunity
TO earn bread, has filed the land with un-
rest, discomfort and agitation, the unmistaka-
bic precursors of revolutionary resistance to
oppression, injustice and wrong. For these
crimes against humanity and good govern
ment, we denOunce the Radical Republican
party as unworthy the trust and confidence
of an intelligent and patriotic people.
AS representatives of the Democratic party,
we congratulate the people that our party has
at last won victory for them over the Radl-
cal Republican party and its allies, monopoly
and policies OF the DemOcratic party, dOmes-
tic government, republican In spirit as well
as in form, have been restored to the South
ern States, and these States replaced in the
Federal circle WlIN IuUctlOno dUu TlSHJS CO.
equal with the other members of the Union.
For the accomplishment of this great work,
this political organization deserves the graf
itude of the South and the respect
full consideration of the whole Republic.
The gratitude OF the former is due
the blessings of restored political and
civil liberty. The respectful consideration
of the National Republic is due because, by
the success of Democratic policies in this re-
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ternal administration, Capitalization arrested
and ancient forms and methods of the Federal
system reestablished. We pledge the people
that our party will never lower its banner, nor
take step backward until the prosperity of
the whole people shall be held to be the
supreme law of political administration,
In the name OF Democracy, we denOunce an
Understanding public debt as II public curse
we denOunce protection as public robbery,
we denOunce mOnOpOes rs hateful and de-
structive to public liberty, and demand that
they 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 econ
Omy, simplicity and impartlality.
We demand that the military shall be sub
ordinate TO the civil authority III fact as we'll
us in theory the repeal OF laws which haye
destroyed our commerce; the repeal or 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 deductlng
the difference between the value of the gold
paid and the currency due thereon according
to cOntract the unconditional repeal of the
resumption act that the odiOus National bank
ing act be repealed, and greenbacks be sub
stituted for the circulation OF the National
banks; that Treasury notes be made receiya-
BILE for all Government dues; that no more in
terest bearing bonds be issued; that all loans
required by the Government be raised by the
Of nOn-intpr( at bearing Treasury
notes; that the coinage of silver be made un-
limited, and while it is the cheaper metal that
it be paid to the public creditor exclusively
upon all bonds justly payable in coin; that
the value of all foreign silver coins be regu-
lated and that they be made receivable for all
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