The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-13
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PENNSYLVANIA.
Platform Unanimously Adopted by tho Demo
cratic State Convention held at Pittsburg,
MAY 22, 1873,

The Democracy of Pennsylvania
unanimously declare that the RepubliN
can party, its measures and its men are
responsible for the financial distress, the
misery and want that now exist It has
had control ofthe legislation Of the coun'
try and has enacted and perpetuated a
policy that has enriched the few and lm>
poverished the many. Its system OF IL
nance has been one Of favors to the
moneyed monopoly, ofunequal taxation,
of exemption of classes, of high rates OF
interest and of remorseless contraction,
which has destroyed every enterprise
that gave employment to labor Its
present hold on Federal power was Sc
cured by fraud, perjury and forgery.
Its laws are unjust and its practices are
immoral. They distress the people and
destroy their substance.
The only remedy for these evils is in
an entire change Of policy and the de-
thronement of those in power, and we
resolve that the further contraction of
the volume of United States legal tender
notes is unwise and unnecessary. They
should be received for customs duties
and reissued as fast as received. Gold,
silver, and United States legal tender
notes at par Herewith, are the just bases
for par circulation.
A close connection of the federal gov.
eminent with the business interests of
the people through national banks, tends
to monopolv and Capitalization but in
changing the system, uniformity otnotes,
security of the note holder, and protec'
ton of the capital invested should be
provided. Treasury notes issued IN eX>
change for bonds bearing low rate of
interest is the best form in which the
credit ofthe government can be given in
paper currency.
Labor and capital have equal demands
upon and equal responsibility to law.
Commerce and manufactures should
be encouraged so that steady employ
ment and fair wages may be yielded to
labor. Whilst safety to investment and
moderate return for its use belong to
capital, violence or breaches of order in
support of the real or supposed rights of
either should be promptly suppressed by
the strong arm of the law.
The Republican party, by its legislaH
ton in 1872 which reduced the tariff up>
on bituminous coal from one dollar and
twenty five to seventy>fve cents per ton,
and upon iron, steel, wool, metals, pa
per, glass, leather and all manufactures
of each of them ten per cent, struck a
fo..1 klou, - tLa ;nduetriac and lahor Of
Pennsylvania.
The public lands are the common
property of the people and they should
not be sold to spectators nor granted to
railroad or other corporations, but should
be reserved as homesteads for actual
settlers.
Our public debt should be held at
home, and the bonds representing it
should be of small denominations in
which the saving Of the masses may be
safely invested.
A thorough investigation into the Elec.
toral frauds of 1876 should be made, the
fraud should be exposed, the truth vim
dicated and the criminals punished but
we oppose any attack upon the Presi-
dental title as dangerous to our institus
tions and fruitless in its results.*
The Republican party, controlling the
legislation of the State, has refused to
execute many Of the reforms of the new
Constitution. Among other things it has
neglected and refused to compel the ac-
ceptance of all its provisions by the cor.
porations of the State to prevent undue
and unreasonable discrimination in
charges for transporting the raw materl-
al of the state in such manner to such
points as they may prefer, and to publish
= good faith monthly statements Of
where the money of the people was kept.
The Republican party, creates new
Offices and adds enormous perquisites to
others, and fills them with favorites
whose chief duty is to manage its politi.
cal machinery. Its administration ofth
State Government grows more expen.
sive with each succeeding year of its
rule.
Legislation has been directed by Re-
publican lobbyists, who in turn manipu>
late and control the nomination of the
Rupuplican party, and its candidates
are the creations of a junta whose de-
crees are accepted as the irreversible
mandates of an absolute hereditary
power. We denounce these methods,
these measures and these men as
unworthy the support of an honest
and free people, and.we invite all of
every shade Of political opiuion to unite
with us in delivering the commonwealth
from their hateful rule.
*The " Presidential It'll" e"-"the fraud
should be exposed" and all that-can
"fraud" give true " "title7" If the
"traud /" is clearly established, what be-
comes of the title ED. Dem.