The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-08-19
The National Democratic Platform.

The Democrats Of the United
States, in convention assembled, de.
clare:
l. We pledge ourselves anew to the
institutional doctrines and tradition.
Of the Democratic party as illus
tr ated by the teachings and example
of long line of Democratic States
men and patriots, and embodied in
the platform Of the last national con.
vention Of the party.
z. Opposition to Capitalization and
to that dangerous spirit Of encroach-
ment which tends to consolidate the
powers Of all the departments in one,
and thus create, whatever the form OF
government, a real dcspOtism: no
sumptuary laws; separation of
Church and State for the good of
each; common schools fostered and
protected.
3. Home Rule; honest money,
consisting of gold and silver and pa
per convertible into coin on demand {;
the strict maintenance of the public
faith, State and national, and u tariff
for revenue only.
f. The subOrdinati0n of the mill
tary to the civil power, and genuine
and thorough reform Of the civil
service
5. The right to free a ballot is a
right preservative of all rights, and
must and shall be maintained in every
part of the United Suites.
6. The present administration is the
representative of conspiracy only, and
Its claim Of right to surround the
ballot-boXes with troops and deputy
, marshals, to intimiCii,te and obstruct
the election, and the unprecedented
use of the veto to maintain its cor
rupt and lespotic powers, insult the
people and imperil their institutions.
Z. We eXecrate the course of this
administration in making places in the
civil service a reward for political
crime, and demand reform by statute
which shall make it forever impossi-
bic for defeated candidate to bride
his way to the seat Of a usurper by
billeting Williams upon the people.
8, The great fraud Of 1876-1S77,
by which, upon a false count of the
electoral votes Of two States, the can
didate defeated at the polls was de
clared to be President, and for the
first time in American history the will
of the people was set aside under a
threat Of military violence which
struck Il deadly blow at our system of
representative government. The
Democratic party, to preserve the
country from the terrors of civil war,
submitted for the time in firm and
patriotic faith that the people would
punish tbs crime in 1880. This issue
precedes and dwarfs every other. 1t
imposes n more sacred duty upon the
people than ever addressed the con-
science of nation of freemen.
8. The resolution Of Samuel Jill
den not again to be candidate tor the
exalted place to which he was elected
by Il majority of his countrymen, and
from which he was excluded by the
leaders of the republican party, is re-
-ceived by the Democrats Of the United
States with deep sensibility, and they
'declare their confidence in his wisdom,
patriotism and integrity mistaken by
the assaults Of the common eslemv :;
ami they further assure him thSt he is
followed into the retirement The has
chosen for himself by the sympathy
and respect of his fellow-citizers5, who
regard him rs one who, by e&evating
the standard of public morality. and
adorning and purifying the 3galhlic ser
vice, merits the lasting gratitude ofhis
country and his party
10. Free ships and chance for
American commerce on the seas, and
on the land no discrimination in favor
of transportation lines, corporations or
- monopolies.
II. Amendment of the Burlingame
treaty no more Chinese immigration,
except for travel, education and for
eign commerce, and it even carefully
guarded.
II. Public money and public credit
for public purposes solely, and public
land for actual settlers.
AZ. The Democratic party is the
friend of labor and the laboring man,
and pledges itself to protect him alike
against the cormorarts and the Com
muIe.
II. We congratulate tho ceGntry
upon the honesty and thrift of a Dem
ocratic Congress which has reduced
the public expenditures $4,000, 600 Il
year; upon the continuation of pros
perity at home, and the national honor
abroad, and, above all, upon the
promise of such change in the adj
ministration of the Government as
shall insure us genuine and lasting re-
form in every department Of the pub
lie service.