Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-07-03
The Democratic Platform.

The Democrats OF the United States,
in convention assembled, declare that we
pledge ourselves anew to the cOnstitu-
tiOnal doctrines and traditions of the
Democratic party, as illustrated by the
teachings and example of a long line of
Democratic statesmen and patriots, and
embodied in the platform of the last
national convention of the party.
Opposition to cetraliZatiOn and to that
dangerous spirit of encrOachment which
tends to consolidate into one, and thus
to create, whatever the form of the gov
eminent, real dsopOtism; no sumptu-
airy laws; separation of church and state
for the good of each; common schools
fOstered and protected.
Home rule, honest money, consisting
of gold and silver and paper cOnverti
bile into coin on demand The he atri riot m oin j
national; and tariff for revenue only.
The subOrdinatiOn of the military to
the civil power, and genuine
thorough reform of the civil service.
The right to free ballot is the right
preservative to all rights, and must and
shall be maintained in every part of the
United States. The existing admins
tration is the representative of cOnspi-
racy only, and its claim of right to sur
round the ballot boxes with troops and
deputy marshals to intimidate and OBJ
struct electors, and the unprecedented
use of the veto to maintain its corrupt
and despOtic power insults the people
and imperils their institutions.
We execrate the course of this admin
| istratiOn in making places in the civil
service a reward for political crime, and
demand reform by statute which shall
make it forever impossible for a defeat
ed candidate to bride his way to the seat
of a usurper by billeting villains upon
the people.
The great fraud of 1857, by which,
upon a false count of the electoral votes
| of two states, the candidate defeated at
the polls was declared to be President,
and for the first time in American his
| tory the will of the people was set aside
under threat of military violence struck
a deadly blow at our system of repre-
sentative government. The Democratic
party, to preserve the country from the
horrors of civil war, submitted for the
time in the firm and patriotic faith that
the people would punish ithis crime in
1880. This duty proceeds and dwarfs
every other. 1t imposes more sacred
duty upon the people of the Union than
ever addressed the cOnsciences of a
nation of freemen.
The resolution of Samuel ]. Tilden not
again to be a candidate for the exalted
place to which he he was elected by a
majority of his cOutrymen, and from
which he was excluded by the leaders
of the Republican party, is received by
the Democrats of the United States with
deep sensibility, and they declard their
confidence in his wisdom, patriotism
and integrity mistaken by the assaults
of the common enemy, and they further
assure him that he is followed into the
retirement he has chosen for himself by
the sympathy and respect of his fellow
citizens, who regard him as one who,
by elevating the standard of the public
morality, and adOrning and purifying
the public service, merits the lasting
gratitude Of his country and his party.
Free ships and living chance for
American commerce upon the seas and
ON the land.
No discrimination in favor of trans
portatiOn lines, corporations and
mOnOpOlies.
The amendment of the Burlingame
treaty. No more Chinese immigration
except for travel, education and foreign
commerce, and therein carefully guard
ed.
Public money and public credit fol
public purposes solely, and public lands
for actual settlers.
The Democratic party is the friend OF
labor and the labOring man, and pledges
itself to protect him alike against the
cOrmOrants and the commune.
We congratulate the country upon the
honesty and thrift of a Democratic Con.
gress, which has reduced the public ex-
penditure $40OO0OOO a year; upon the
continuation of prosperity at home
and the national honor abroad; and
above all, upon the promise of such q
change in administration of the govern
ment as shall insure genuine and last
ing reform in every department OF the
public service.
Our drug stores are now supplied with
"Malt Bitters," the new Food Medicine
which has done SO much good and comes
to us so highly recommended. Try it. II
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