Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-30
SOUND DOCTRINE.
The Platform. 41opted by the Ohio De-

n.ocrdcy.
The Democratic party of Ohio in convention
assembled. hereby reaffirm the following
clauses IN the platform of the convention of
July 10Th, 1877, Endorsed by majority of
more than g, 600 last fall by the people of
Ohio We renew its pledges of devotion to
the Union and the constitution, with the
amendments. 1t declares as essential to the
preservation of the government faithful adj
herence to the following principles: Strict
construction of home rule; supremacy of the
civil over the military power; separation of
church and state; equality of all citizens be-
tore the law; liberty of all individual action
unvexed by sumptuary laws; absolute acqui-
essence in the lawfully expressed will of the
people; opposition to all subsidies; preserva-
ton of public lands to the use of actual
settlers. and the maintenance and protection
OF the school system, as pertinent to the issues
now pending before the people.
RESOLVED, That the investigation of frauds
committed at the last Presidential election IN
Florida or Louisiana ought to have been made
by the electoral commission. Its refusal to do
SO was violation of the spirit of the law
der which it was organized, and gross insult
to the people of the United Ssates, and whilst
the decision, as made by the forty-fourth Con-
gress. of the question as to who should be ce-
clared President of the United States for the
present Presidential term was, in our judg-
ment. final, that decision ought not to preclude
authentic investigation and exposure of all
frauds connected with that election and the
due accountability of all who were guilty, con-
nected with them.
Reso1red, The commercial and industrial
| stagnation that has SO long prevailed through
out the country, and the consequent wide
spread want and suffering is due directly to
| the pernlcious financial legislation of the Re-
publican party, which we hereby arraisn for
its acts, and charge. first that at a time when
the country was weighed down with debt, Gre
ated on the basis of a full value of paper, adj
/ ded to both the perncious metals as money it
enacted a sweeping change in the measure of
value, wholly in the interest of moneyed capt.
tall by demonetizing silver and decreeing the
destruction of legal tender paper, and thereby
| wrongfully added, in effect, hundreds of MILL
ions to the burden of debt and
taxes upon the people Second, by
pursuing its merciless policy of contracting
the paper currency and boarding gold, it has
| increased continuously the value Of money and
securities that that partake of the enhance
ment of money, and decreased the value of all
| other property, and especially of capital de-
| signed for productive use, required for the en-
ployment of labor, thus REFRESHING instead of
fostering industry, compelling idleness instead
of sustaining trade and commerce, and now
thus party In Ohio puts forward in its platform
the declaration that the financial question has
been settled. We deny this declaration, and
while we congratulate the country that the
downward course of bankruptcy and ruin in
volved in the Republican policy has been par
tally averted by the Democratic measures
passed at the late session of Congress,
restoring the debt-paying power to
the silver dollar made law in
spite of the Presidential veto, and stopping the
further destruction of greenbacks, we demand
as further acts of Justice as well as measures
n ral fhn of folr ,y,f5n aot md
the lawful iberrtion OF coin boarded in the
treasury; the removal of all restrictions to the
| coinage of silver and the re-estabishment of
| silver as money metal, the same as gold, as it
was before its fraudulent decentralization; the
gradual substitution of United States legal ten
der paper for national bank notes. and its per-
manent establishment as the sole paper money
able IF for all dues DA'' of et gov
eminent and legal tender with coin, the
amount of such issues to be as regulated by
legislation or organic law, as to give the people
the assurance of stability in the volume of
currency and consequent stability of values; no
further increase In the bonded debt and no
further sale OF bonds for the purchase of coin
for resumption purposes, but gradual extinc-
ton of the public debt and rigid economy, re-
duction of expenditures in all branches of the
public service and tariff for revenue only.
Resol0ed, The interests of the industrial
wealth-the producing classes-is the para
mount interest of the people of the United
States. Those whose labor and enterprise pro-
duce wealth should be secured in its employ
ment. Our warmest sympathy is extended to
the laboring classes, who have been thrown out
of employment by the ruinous financial policy
and unjust legislation of the Republican party,
and all pledges Of the Democratic party are to
the revisal of that policy, and restoration of
all rights they are entitled to upon its ascend
ency to power.
! RESOLVED, There can be no legitimate employ
| ment of organized force in the country except
to execute the law and t. maintain public
! peace; that no violence should be counten-
| anced to obtain redress for any alleged griev-
ance, but should be repressed at every cost till
| relief can be secured by legal methods. We
congratulate the country upon the adoption
of the constitutional and pacific policy of To-
| cal self-government in the States of the South,
SO long advocated by the Democratic party,
| and which has brought peace and harmony to
| that section of the Union.