The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-09-23
Tire National Democratic Platform.

The Democrats of the United
States, in convention assembled, de
clare:
l. We pledge ourselves anew to the
constitutional doctrines and traditions
Of the Democratic party as illus
zrated 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.
2. Opposition to Capitalization and
to that dangerous spirit Of encroaeh-
ment which tends to consolidate the
powers of all the departments in one,
and thus create, whatever the form of
government, a real despotism: no
eImptuary 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 a tariff
for revenue only.
4. The subordination of the mill
ttary 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 States.
6. The present administration is the
80 g nd
It's claim of right to surround the
bnllot-boxes with troops and deputy
marshals, to intimidate and Ohstruct
the election, and the unprecedented
use Of the veto to maintain its cor
rupt and despotic powers, insult the
people and imPeril their institutions.
Z. We execrate the course of thiE
administration in making places in the
civil service a reward for political
crime, and demand a reform by statute
which shall make it forever impossi
bic for defeated candidate to bride
his way to the seat Of usurper by
billeting williams upon the people.
8. The great fraud Of 1S76-1877
by which, upon a false count Of the
electoral votes of tGO Stntcs, the can
didate defeated at the polls was de
clared to be President. and for the
first time in American history the vii
of the people was set aside under +;
threat of military violence which
struck deadly blow at our system o
representative government. Th'
Democratic party, to preserve thu
country from the terrors of a civil war
Submitted for the time IN finn anC
patriotic faith that the people woulC
punish tbs crime in 1880. This Issue
PROCEEDS and dwarfs every other. |
imposes a more sacred duty upon thu
people than ever addressed the con
science 0f nation of freemen.
8. The resolution of Sam lei Jill
dan not again to be candidate for tn
exalted place to which he WAS electet
by q majority of his cOuntrymen, ant
from which he was excluded by tn
leaders Of the republican party, is re
ceived by the Democrats Of the Unite
States with deep sensibility. and the
declare their confidence ia his wisdom
patriotism and integrity mistaken b
the assaults of the common enemy
and they further assure him that he
followed into the retirement the la
chosen for himself by the sympath
and respect of his fellow-citizens, VIII
regard him as one who, by elegatin
the standard of public morality an
adjoining and purifying the public SCI
vice, merits the lasting gratitude ofhi
country and his party.
10. Free ships and a chance fl
American commerce on the seas, IN
on the land no discrimination in fave
of transportation lines, corporations {
monOpolies.
II. Amendment Of tho Bmlingam
treaty DO more Chinese immigration
except for travel, education and fol
eigA commerce, and it even CAREFUL
guarded.
II. Public money and public cred
for public pnrposes solely, and publ
land for actual settlers.
-. The Democratic party Is tn
friend of labor and the laboring mar
and pledges itself To protect him alik
against the cormorants and the Con
lnune.
ii. We congratulate the countr
upon the honesty and thrift of Den
ecratic Congress which has reduce
the public expenditures $40, 000, 900
year upon the continuation of pro.
perity at home. and the national hone
abroad, and, above all, upon til
promise of such change in the az
ministration of the Government {
RhAll insure us genuine and lasting r
form in every department Of the PuI
JIG service.