The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-08-28
The Democratic Platform,
ADOPTED AT AUSTIN, JULY 10, ;ls7

The following is the full text of
the State Democratic platform, adop-
ted by the Democratic State Con
vention, at Austin, Friday the 10Th,
of July: -ua aiu 5 In lll
Hon. NJ. ID X Taylor, President of the DEM
ocrotic State Convention; WV 'iHut 10.
Whereas, 1t is right and proper
that the friends of constitutional
government should reasseit their de-
votion TO II and TO proclaim the prln-
ciples upon which II should be adj
ministered; therefore be il
| Resolced, BY the Democratic par
| ty of Texas, in convention assem-
bled, that we have an abiding conf
dence in the devotion of the National
Democratic party to the correct prin-
| ciples of government, and we pledge
ourselves to cooperate with il, as an
integral part thereof, in its efforts TO
restore the administration of the gov
ernment to the principles upon which
| 1t was founded. III. XIII, b..
2. That the powers of the general
government are restricted to The ex-
pr SIS grants of the constitution, and
all powers not granted are reserved
to the States and the people thereof.
3. That we pledge our devotion to
the union of the States under the
constitution, and to the. constitution
itself. ...i....
4. That faithful adherence TO the
following principles is necessary as
an essential to the preservation of the
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supremacy of the civil over the mill
tary power; the separation of church
and State; the equality of all citi-
zens before the law; absolute acqui-
escence in the lawfully expressed will
of the majority, and the maintenance
and perfection of u common school
system. ..t .t... .-'... %.
8. That the investigation of the
frauds committed ut the last Prcsi-
dental election in Florida and Louis
lana ought TO have been made by the
electoral commission its refusal to
do so was violation of the spirit of
the law under which it was organ
lied, and gross outrage ON the peo-
pie of the United States; and whilst
the decision, us made by the Forty
fourth Congress, on the question Us
to who should be declared President
of the United States for the present
Presidential term should not, in our
judgment, be disturbed, that decision
ought not to preclude an invcstiga-
ton and exposure by proper author
ity of all the frauds connected with
that election and the due acco,min-
bility of all who were guilty con-
nected Herewith. ,.'-..
6. That commercial and industrial
stagnation which has so long pre-
vailed throughout the country, and
the consequent widespread want and
suffering are due to the pernicious IL
nancial legislation of the Republican
party, which we hereby arraign for
its acts and charge -..40f..
/. That at IA time when the country
was weighed down with debt created
on the basis of the full volume of pa
per, added to both the precious met
ais as money, il enacted sweeping
change in the measure of value, |
wholly in the interest of moneyed |
capital, by demonetizing silver and |
decreeing the destruction of legal |
tender paper, and thereby wrongful |
ly added, in fact, hundreds of mil
lions to the burden of debt and taxes
upon the people. XIII, If .,.-ig' !.
2. BY pursuing its mcrciless policy
of contracting the paper currency
and boarding gold it has greatly APP
preciated the value of money and
correspondingly depreciatcs the val
ne of all other property, aud cspe-
cially of capital designed for prodiic-
tive use and required for the employ
ment of labor, thus depressing in
stead Of fostering industry, compell- |
ing idleness instead of sustaining
trade and commerce, and now this |
party declare that the question of
finance has been settled. We deny
this declaration, and while we con
graduate the country that the down
ward course to bankruptcy and ruin
involved in the Republican policy
has been partially arrested by the
Democratic measures passed at the
late session of Congress, restoring
the debt-paying powers TO the silver
dollar, made law in spite of the
Presidents veto, and stopping the
further retirement Of greepbacks, we
demand, Ms further acts of Justice rs
well as measures Of relief, the repeal
of the resumption act, the lawful Ii
baton of the coin boarded in the
treasury, the removal of all rcstric-
tons to the coinage of silver, fraud
ulently demonetized, the substitu-
ton of United States legal tender
for national bank notes, and its per-
manent re-establishment as the sole
paper money OF the country, made
receivable for all dues to the Govern
ment and Of equal tender with coin,
the amount of such issue to be regu-
lated by legislative or organic law,
so as to give to the people an assur-
ance of sufiiciency and stability in
the volume Of the currency and con-
sequent stability of value. No fur
thur increase in the bonded debt no
further sale of bonds for the pur-
chase of coin for resumption purpo-
ses, but a gradual reduction of the
public debt by payment according to
the original contract by which it was
created; rigid economy in all
branches Of the public service, and
tariff for revenue only.
l. We favor one currency for the
government and the people, the la
borer and the ofliceholder, the pen
sioner and the soldier, the producer
and tho bondholder, 49HI ~
2. We hold that the right of States
IN tiny rrnnarty in tho Statac 10 inv;