San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1880-07-03
ISSUES Of 1850.
Platform Adopted by she NH'
sIenaI IlcmecratIc Convene
Hon.

The following is the platform adopt
ed by the Democratic national oonven'
ton at Cincinnati. revised and correct.
ed to conform to the official report OF
the proceedings
/. We pledge ourselves anew to the
constitutional doctrines and traditions
of the Democratic party, as illustra-
ted by the teachings and example Of >
long line of Democratic Statesmen and
patriots and embodied in the platform
of tho last national convention Of the
party. j.. -.
2. Opposition to Capitalization q nd
to that dangerous spirit Of encroach'
ment which tends to consolidate the
powers Of all the departments ,ip one,
and thus to create. whatever the form
Of government, real despotism. No
sumptuary laws; separation of church
and state for the good Of each; COM
mon schools fostered and protected.
3. Home rule honest money, con-
sistiug of gold and silver and paper
convertible into coin on demand; the
strict maintenance Of the public faith,
state and national. and . tariff for
revenue only.
4. The subordination Of the militia.
~ to the civil power, and q genuine
and thorough reform Of the civil ser.
vice.
5 The right to . free ballot
is right preservatiyeof all
rights, and must and shall be
maintained in every part Of the United
States.
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 intimidate and obstruct
tho election and the unprecedented use
Of the veto to maintain its corrupt and
despotic powers, insult the people and
imperil their institutions.
Z. We cxecrate the course of this
administration in making places in the
civil service reward for political
crime, and demand a reform by statute
which shall make it forever impossible
for defeated candidate to bride his
way to the seat Of a usurper, by billet
ing villains upon the people.
8. The great fraud of 1867, by
which, upon false count Of the electo
raj votes of two states, the candidate
defeated at the polls was declared to be
president, and for the first time in
American history the will Of the peo-
pie was set asid aside under a threat
Of military violence, struck deadly
blow at our system of representative
government. The Democratic party,
to preserve tho country from the hor.
ors of civil war, submitted for the
time, in firm and patriotic faith that
the people would punish this crime in
1880 This issue precedes and dwarfs
every other. Itimposes a more sacred
duty upon the people Of the Union
than ever addressed the consciences Of
nation of treemen.
9. The resolution of Samuel j. Til.
den not again to be q candidate for
the exalted place to which he was elect
ed by a majority Of his countrymen,
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 declare their confidence in his
wisdom, patriotism and integrity un
shaken 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 public morality and
adjoining and purifying the public SER
vice, merits the lasting gratitude of
his country and his party.
10. Free ships and living chance
for American commerce upon the seas
and upon the land; no discrimination
in favor Of transportation lines, corpo-
rations or monopolies.
IL. Amendment of the Burlingame
treaty no more Chinese emigra ton
except for travel. education, and foreign
commerce, and it even carefully
guarded.
II. Public money and public credit
for public purposes solely, and public
land for actual settlers.
ID. The Democratic party is the
friend of labor and the laboriug man
and pledges itself to protect him alike
against the cormorants and the cou.
mune.