The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-07-04


gress 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 authentic investigation and ex-
posure of all frauds connected with that
election, and the due accountability of all
who were guilty connected with them.
"Resolred, That the commercial and in
dustrial stagnation that has so long pre-
vailed throughout the country, and the con-
sequent widespread suffering, is due directly
to the pernicious financial Legislation of the
Republican party, which we hereby arraign
for its acts, and charge: First-That at the
time when the country was weighed down
with debt, created on the basis of q full vol
ume of paper, added to both the precious
metals as money, it enacted a sweeping
change in the decrease of values, wholly in
the interest of moneyed capital, by demon
etizing silver, and decreeing the destruction
of legal tender paper, and thereby wrong
fully added in effect hundreds of millions to
the burden Of debt and taxes upon the
people. Secondly pursuing its merciless
policy of contracting the paper currency,
and boarding gold, it has in
creased continuously the value of
enhancement of money, and decreased the
value of all other property, and especially
of capital designed for productive use, and
required for the employment of labor, thus
REFRESHING instead of fostering industry,
compelling idleness, instead of sustaining
trade and commerce.. And now this party
in Ohio puts forward in its platform the
declaration that tie financial question has
been settled. We deny this declaration,
and while we congratulate the country that
the downward course to bankruptcy and
ruin, involved in the Republican policy,
has been partially averted by the Demo-
cratic measures passed at the late session
of Congress, restoring the debt paying
power to silver dollars, made a law in spite
of a Presidential veto, and stopping the
further destruction of ~greenbacks, we de-
mand, as further acts of justice, as well as
measures of relief, the absolute repeal of
the resumption act, and the lawful
liberation of the coin boarded up in
the Treasury; the removal of all re-
strictions to The coinage of silver, and re-
establishment Of silver as a money metal,
the same as gold, the same as it was before
its fraudulent characterization the gradual
substitution of United States legal tender
paper for national bank notes; and its per.
manent establishment as the sole paper
money of the country, made re
ceivable for all dues to the government, and
Of equal tender with coin; the amount Of
such issues to be SO regulated by legislation
or organic law as to give the people an
assurance of stability in the volume oil
currency, and consequent stability Of value
no further increase in the bonded debt, an6
no further sale of bonds for the purchase o.
coin for resumption purposes, but tht
gradual extinction of the public debt. rigit
economy in the reduction of expenditure
in all branches of public service, and a tariff
for revenue only.
"Resolued, The interests of the industrial
wealth producing classes is the paramount
interest of the people of the United States
Those whose labor and enterprise produc,
wealth should be secure in its enjoyment
Our warmest sympathy is extended to tn,
laboring classes who have been thrown on
of employment by the ruinous financia
policy and unjust legislation OF the Repub
lican party, and we pledge the Democrats
party to a reversal of that policy and a res
t~oration of all rights they are entitled t
upon its ascendency to power.
Resolued, That there can be no legitimat
employment of organized force in thi
country except to execute the law and t
maintain public peace; that no violenc
should be countenanced to obtain redres
for any alleged grievance, but should be re
pressed at every cost until relief can be 81
cured by legal methods. We congratulate
the country on the adoption of the const
t~utional and pacific policy of local govern
ment in the States of the South, SO long &C
vocated by the Democratic party, an
which has brought peace and harmony t
that section of the Union"
The resolutions were adopted unani
mously as a whole, and without discussion