The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-08-05

| The Democrats ofthe United States, in con
| vention assembled, declared:
1. We pledge ourselves anew to the cOnsti-
tutional doctrines and traditions of the Dem
ocratic party, as illustrated by the teaching
and example Of long line Of Democratic
| statesmen and patriots, and embodied in tho
| platform of the last National Convention of
| the party.
:. Opposition to Capitalization and to that
dangerous spirit of encroaehment which tends
| TO consolidate the powers of all departments
| in one, aud thus to create, whatever be the
form OF government, n real despOtisln; no
sumptuary laws separation of church aud
| State for the good of each; common schools
fustered and protected.
8. Home rule, honest money, consisting of
| gold and silver and paper convertible into
coin on demand; strict maintenance of public
| faith, State and national; aud tariff for rev.
enue only.
4. Subordination of the military to the
civil power, and general and thorough reform
| OF the civil service.
D. The right to free ballot is right pre-
servative OF all rights, and must and shall be
maintained lnevery part OF the United States.
o. The existing administration is repre-
sentative OF conspiracy only, and the claim
| OF right TO surround 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 despOtio
power, insults the people and imperils their
institutions.
z. The great fraud of lS76-77, by which
| upon false count OF the electoral votes of
two States the candidate defeated at the pOlls
was declared to he President, and for the first
| time In American history the will of the people
was set aside under the threat of military
violence, struck a deadly blow at our system
| OF representative government. The Demo-
cratic party, to preserve the country from civil
war, submitted for the time in the firm and
patriotic faith that the people would punish
| this crime in 1880. This issue proceeds and
| dwarts every other; it imposes q moro sacred
duty upon the people OF the Union than ever
addressed the conscience OF q nation Of free
| men.
| 8. We execrate the course of this admins
tration in making places in the civil service a
reward for political crime, and demand reform
by statute which shall make it forever impos.
sibe for the defeated candidate to bride his
way 10 the seat OF the usurper, by billeting
villains upon the people.
| 9. The resolution of Sam1 j. Tilden not
again to be a candidate for the exalted place
to which he was elected by q majority of his
countrymen and from which he was excluded
by the leaders of the Republican party, is re-
| eeived by the Democrats OF the United States
with sensibility, and they declare their conf
dence in his wisdom, patriotism and integrity,
| unshaken by the assaults of q common enemy
and they further assure him that he is followed
| into 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 service, merits the lasting
gratitude OF his country and his party.
TO- Free ships and a living chance for
American commerce on the seas and on land;
no discrimination in favor of transportation
lines, corporations or monopoles.
! IL. An amendment to the Burlingame
| treaty; no more Chinese immigration, except
for travel, education and foreign commerce.
and therein carefully guarded.
II Public money and public credit for pub
lie purposes solely; and public land for actual
| settlers.
Is The Democratic party is the friend of
labor and the laboring man, and pledges itself
to protect him alike against eOrmorants and
| the Commune.
| H. We congratulate the country upon the
honest and thrift OF the Democratic Congress-
which has reduced the public expenditures
si0,oOo.oO0 a year; upon the. continuation of
prosperity at home and national honor abroad,
and above all upon the promise of such q
change in the administration Of the govern.
inent as shall insure us genuine and lasting
reform in every department of the public
| service.