The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-09-09

miraole declaration OF principles.
1t is honest and straightforward
There has been absolutely no differ.
ence Of opinion among Democrats
regarding it. Like the Prodigal son,
it returns to the house of its father
the Democratic household of the
Faithful. 1t turns it's back upon the
Greenback heresy and confidently
looks forward to an honest currency
and restored public confidence. 1t
is well that it has done so. The uni.
versal testimony concurs in the
statement that disaster has followed
in the path of an. abandonment of
principle. Success will return now
that we have gotten back to the di.
vergiug point. The country has al
ways been with the real doctrines of
the party. The heart of the people
beats in sympathy with an organi-
zation which is identical with the
best periods of the Republic, and
with which its prosperity and great
ness are indissolubly connected. 1t
only requires that the party shah be
what it was then-an advocate of
sound finance and liberal principles
'of government-to restore it to the
prestige it has lost. The folly of
permitting.the Republicans to place
themselves upon a financial platform
which should have been occupied by
the Democratic party, is apparent to
the most Indifferent student of poll.
tics. The Republicans were the au-
thors of fat money. They inaugu-
rated an irredeemable currency
They should have been saddled
with the odium which it has brought
upon the country. On the contrary
every instinct, principle and tradi-
ton of the Democratic party is wed.
ded to a hard money standard for
the currency. Gold and silver has
from the beginning Of the party,
held its mistaken allegiance, until
in an evil hour it lent an unwilling
ear to leaders who persuaded it into
the Greenback craze. That fatal
delusion has come near sapping the
foundations of its life. It has got
ten away from it, as the terror-strick-
en- native avoids the fatal upas tree,
and its political manhood and old.
time integrity is restored. That be-
ing done, together with the-adop.
ton of a sound, conscientious plat
form on the issues involved in the
tariff lnaugurated by the Republi.
can party, the country is now assur-
ed brilliant Democratic future
The people of the South particularly
are tired of paying tribute to mo-
nopoly. To compel the agricultural
States and the gold and silver pro
ducing West, to pay an enormous
impost to the manufacturing East,
for no other reason than to sustain
and build up its monopolies, is an
intolerable burden, justified by no
sentiment Of justice and no princi.
Pile of political economy. We are
consumers of manufactured goods
and we are entitled to the benefits
which free trade and competitive
:
prices can give. From the ALE
ghanies to the Rocky Mountains the
people are a unit for free trade. 1t
is the underlying principle Of an
honest government. The Democrat.
ic party has championed it from
the beginning aud it cannot afford
to desert the principle on the TIRES
hold of its accomplishment. We do
not therefore assume too much in
saying that the Democratic party is
committed by principle and tradi-
ton to Hard Money, and a Tariff,
for Revenue only. 1t is strict con:
struction party, and is opposed to
Capitalization. 1t is a States Rights
party to the extent that the States
are not Provinces of the Federal