Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-09-20
PROGRAMME AND PLArFORm
of the New York state Democratic
Convention Held at Syracuse
September IIth, 1879.

of the New York state Democratic
Convention Held at Syracuse
September nth, 1879.
The Democratic party of the State
of New York in convention assem-
bied, profoundly sensible of the inn
| pOrtant consequences depending
| upon the immediate result Of their
deliberations, do declare and reas-
sert the principles of popular liberty
and rights laid down by Washing
| ton, Jefferson and the other found
ers of the republic. We hold to the
Constitution with all its amend
ments sacredly maintained and
enforced, and to the rights of the
States under the Constitution. The
tendencies of the Republican party
to Capitalization and consolidation
institutions. The United States
form a nation in the sense, to the
extent and for the purposes defined
in the Federal Constitution, and we
resist every attempt to transform it
into an empire. We insist on unity,
fraternity and concord, and that the |
issues settled by the war shall not |
be revived. We deprecate the eff
forts of the Republican managers to |
revive sectional feuds and to rekin- |
die the passions of the past. We |
demand honest elections and an |
honest count of votes. Never again |
by fraud or force shall the popular |
will be set aside to crafty unscru-
pulous partisans. The Democracy |
oppose all favoritism. No single |
interest or class of persons should be
protected at the expense of others.
Democracy means the government
of the whole people for the whole
people and by the whole people, but
if any class is to receive special con-
sideration it is the working people,
whom all other governments oppose
and crush. The rights of the people
should be scrupulously protected
from the encroachments of capital
and the despotic greed of corpora
tions. The Democracy believe now,
as they have always believed, in
gold and silver as the constitutional
money of the country. We con-
denim the speculative methods of
the present Secretary of the Treas
ury, the questionable favoritism he
has shown to particular monetary
or sO-called hsyndi-
cateS," and the extravaganza he has {
permitted in his department in con-
nection with his refunding schemes. '
We look with shame and sorrow on
the disgraceful reputation of all ;
their professions of civil-service re-
form by the Executive and his sup ,
pOrters. Federal offices have been ,
freely given for despicable partisan :
services leading officers of the '
are making partisan :
speeches, managing political cam 4
Oafgns and requiring their subordi- 4
lateS to contribute to campaign =
undS, in derogation of every prin- n
.iple and promise of an honest civil q
ervice. The 100000 Federal Off :
,ers constitute an army moving un- q
Ter single direction to keep the !,
party in power, and +
his vast patronage is now used as a n
corruption fund against the people. II
We congratulate the people of New +
York on the results of Democratic I
administration in the payment of n
he State debt, the reduction of ex- Il
lenses and the diminished burden q
# taxation. We condemn the eff q,
orts of demagogues to create ieal- ;,
usy and antagonism between the 3.
ity of New York ard the rest of e,
he State, when their interests are 10
IDENTICAL and The growth of the one 90
) the prosperity of the other. PC
The Democratic officers of the n
tate Of New, York by the ability n
nd fidelity with which they have =,
ischarged their duty during the oTI
asst three years, by their conscien- .
iOus application of constitutional -,
asts to the acts of every department &c
the State Government, by their W W
lccessful resistance to private and Il;
artial legislation and by their tr :,
conduct of the finances NJ
nd reduction of expenses of the ~
tate Government have entitled ~
lemselves to the gratitude of their u,
of all parties. hs
The people of New York-farm- ,,e De
>, manufacturers and merchants ~
ike-demand that they shall have o. 81
J. the advantages which accrue to NJ
lem from their favorable position, ea ~
i'd that the railroads they have 9o
and endowed with vast w
I'd profitable privileges shall be %
for their benefit and not b,
+ their ruin. We therefore indOrse ~ ~
our expression of the foregoing III
'inciples the following: ei'
PLATFORM.
First-Honesty, efficiency and