The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-07-18
CUSTOMS AND INTERNAL REVENUE.
State Conventions.

The Missouri Democratic Convention at
its recent session in Jefferson City, appoin-
ted the following ticket: Judge of the SUI
preme Court, Elijah Norton Register of
Lands, ]. E. McHenry State Superintendent
of Public schools, z. d. Shannon Railroad
Commissioner, A. NJ. Sewer. The three first
named are the present incumbents. A eso-
luton was passed condemning the high
Electoral Commission as faithless to the
people of the United States in refusing to
investigate and expose the wicked and glar-
ing frauds by which the will of the
people at the last Presidential cleo
ton was defeated. Its refusal to do
so was in violation of the spirit of
the law under which it was organized, and
while the decision made by the Forty-fourth
Congress Of the question as to who should
be declared President of the United States
for the present Presidential term, was in our
judgment final, that decision ought not to
preclude a full investigation and exposure
of all the frauds committed in that election,
and the due accountability of all who were
guiltily concerned with them, and we
heartily commend the action OF the majority
of the House of Representatives in pursu.
ing such investigation.
In respect to finances the Convention saws
in its resolutions:
We regard the National banking system
as being oppressive and burdensome, and
demand its abolition, and the retirement
from circulation of all bank notes, and is
sue of legal tender notes in lieu thereof,
and in quantities from time to time sufi-
Client to supply the wholesome and neces
sary business demands of the entire coun-
try, and that all greenbacks so issued shall
be used in the purchase and retirement of
bonds of the United States, so that the in
terest-bearing debt of the country may be
lessened to the extent of the g~reenbacks
thus put in circulation. Legal-tender notes,
commonly called ~greenbacks, should be
made legal tender in the payment of all
debts, public and private, except such obi
cations as are in the terms of the original
contract expressly made payable in coin.
That the right to coin money and regulate
the value thereof can be exercised under
the Constitution by Congress alone, and
that possession of the power imposes the
duty of its exercise to the interest of all
gold and silver bullion offered for coinage
at the minis of the United States, and we
regard limitations and restrictions imposed
by Congress upon coinage of silver as i'm.
polite and unjust, and should at once be
removed.
That return to specie payment is i'm
possible in the present financial condition
of the country, and we demand the i'm.
mediate and unconditional repeal of the act
of Congress of January 1, 1875, known as
the Resumption Act, holding the same to
be unwise and ruinous to the interests of
the people.
The policy inaugurated and maintained
by the Republican party of contracting the
active circulating medium of the country,
constituting, as all admit it does, the stand
ard of value Of the property and product of
the country, as well as the price paid for all
labor, stands pre-eminent in the long list of
its oppressive measures as 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 people at the expense of and to the
prejudice of all others, we declare our un
qualified 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 Republican party which
brought ruin upon them. We demand tina
all legislation shall be so enacted and ad
ministered as to secure to each man a,
nearly as practicable the Just rewards of hi
own labor.
The Democrats of Michigan met on tn,
10th OF July nominated a State ticket as fol
lows: For Governor, Orlando NJ. Barnes
for Lieutenant Governor, A. P. Swineford
of Marquette; for Treasurer, Alex
auder McFarlin, of Genesee; for Seere
tary of State, George H. Murdoch, of Der
rien for Auditor General, w. J.. B. scher
merhorn, of Lenawee; for Commissioner o
the State Land Office, George H. Lord, O
Bay: for Acknowledgement, A. B Morse, o
Ionia; for Superintendent of Public In
%struction, 2. Triesdale; for Member of tn,
Board of Education, E. F. Uhl, of Crane
Rapids; for Chairman of the State Contra
Committee, William B. Moran, of Detroit
The resolutions indorse the investiga
ton of electoral frauds, and declar,
that gold and silver coin is the money o
the Constitution, and all paper currenc,
should be convertible into such coin at tn
will of the holder; oppose the further forci
BILE reduction of the volume of the currency
and affirm the action of Congress pro
hibiting such reduction: declare that tn
PROSTATE condition Of he business interest
! of the country imperatively demands tina