Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-09-26
MINNESOTA DEMOCRATS.
The Tick ct and PlatfOpn,

ST. PAUL, Sept. 26;-AJ Gne session OF the Sbate
democratic convention last evening the ticket
was completed as follows:-Secretary of State,
Felix A. Bower, of LIE Seure; State Treasurer,
Lyman B. Cowdry, of Olmstead; Attorney Gen.
Commissioner, VIM. Colville, of Goodhue.
Majority and minority reports were made
from the committee on resolutions, the majority
report, expressing the views Of the hard money
wing OF the party, being finally adopted. The
platform is as follOwS:-"We, the democracy of
Minnesota, in convention assembled, pledge
ourselves to the support Of the following prtn-
ciples OF public policy: ",First. The tinted
States is an indiSSoluble union Of indeStructible
states. The federal government Is supreme
within the limits given by the Constitution and
its amendments; the powers not thereby con-
ferred upon it nor prohibited to the states are re-
served the states respectively or to the people,
The preservation In their separate integrity
Of the joint powers Of the Union and Of the
states as parts Of the harmonious whole; the
maintenance Of the national authority and To-
cal self-government, as well as is essential to
the perpetutty OF our free institutions, and we
shall resist all attempts to dismem5er the
Union by nulliticatlon or secession, or to eX-
1inguish the states by Capitalization or usurpa-
tion as alike unconstitutional, revolutionary
butte which the provinces OF the west are COM
relled to pay to the monopolists of the east by
the present system Of protection, Is an intolera-
as right that our people shall be allowed to
buy and sell in the markets Of the world un-
trammeled by veXations and oppressive tariffs.
We ldNOT SpS6uy 6SUdUllSulucuUO VI ITCe JTdUe
as the permanent commercial policy of the
country. Third We demand the thorough re-
vision Of our patent laws, to the end that the
using the Same in good faith, shall be protected m
from harassing and oppressive suits for the In
fringement OF patent rights. Fourth. We hold
that gold and silver coin Is the money OF the
Constitution, and all paper currency should be
at all times convertible Into coin at the option
OF the holder, and its volume should be regu-
lated by the business OF the country; that we
q Gf UQr
coin and its immediate restoration to its origi-
nal place as money the same as gold. Fifth. We
favor the genuine reform OF the civil service of
the country, to the end that honesty and eff
cheney shall alone be the test of public employ
ment.. Such reform, TO be permanent
should 81 not only be put into the form ana
adjustment of superfiuous offices and such
wholesome reduction of salaries that the ex-
penses Of partisan campaigns cannot be paid
out OF the public funds by the indirect method
of political assessment upon official incomes.
Sixth. We hold the democratic maxim that that
government is best which governs best, which
liberty consistent with the public peace and
welfare. And while it affords protection to life
and property leaves the creeds, habits, customs
ana Dqsnsss oi she people nnfettered by sump
nOpOlieS. Seventh. We demand a tree ballot
and an honest count of the votes cast at all
elections as the inaltenable right of American
citizens; the presence of armed troops at the
polls upon election day and of partisan officials
clothed with arbitrary power to intimidate, ar
rest, and impriSon voters without legal process,
is 1ntolerable in a free country direct blow to
the rights of all adopted citizens and suited
only to the schemes of desperate party deter
mined to retain political power at all hazards.
Never again by fraud or force shall the will of
the people, constitutionally expressed be nulli-
fed by reasonable conspiracy Of unscrupu-
lous partiSanS
Resolutions were also adopted condemning
the republican administration for unnecessary
extravaganza in expenditure; demanding legiS-
latiOn for the regulation of railroad and eleva-
tor corporations in the interest of the people,
and condemning the mismanagement of the
state institutions, and especially the squander-
ing Of public funds by the officials of the state
asylum at st. Peter.