The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-07-08
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM! !!
Let Every Voter Read, Carefully!

Let Every Voter Read, Carefully!
{ We trust that every voter will take
time to carefully peruse the platform
adopted by the Democratic Convention
at Cincinnati. Too frequently par
ty platforms deal in ''glittering
generalities," and are merely the work
Of the hour, to be thoughtlessly cast
aside, as soon as adopted, by the poll
ticians who frame them The plat
form adopted at Cincinnati was evi-
IDENTIFY prepared with view to catch
ing votes. The Democratic party has
long assumed to itself all there was Of
craftsmanship in American politics,
and has made especial claim to friend
ship for the poor man. We have even
known Democrats to claim that they
constitute party Of progress. But
we claim that Democracy is unchang-
ing and Interchangeable; the party has
always been rule or ruin party;
and quite a considerable portion of its
record is taken up with the account of
it's expressions Of the poor. 1t as
sumes many .disg aises, but invariably
shines out in its true light at the end
of each succeeding campaign. Letus
look at the platform:
gSG SG Of ss & R part al
Illustrated by the teachings and example of a long
bodied in the platform the last national convention
of the party.
The doctrines and traditions" of
the Democracy are that the powerful
or wealthy class have right to COM
pei the poor man to labor, and steal
his wages. ''We pledge ourselves
anew" is good. The long line Of
Democratic statesmen Of course in
cludes James Buchanan, Raphael
Semmes and Jeff. Davis.
silver and paper convertible into coin demand the
strict manenaHee of of the public faith State and ma
''Honest money" from party
which has been claiming for years,
that the Government should issue
money "equal to the demands Of
trade whether it be stamped upon
leather, rags or corn-stalks. "Main-
tenance Of the public faith, State and
NATIONAL from a party which has
openly advocated the reputation of
the National debt, and which has, in
some of the strong Democratic States,
made the attempt to repudiate' the
State debt!
Let every laboring man-every man
connected with the great iron indus
try, read the latter part of that plank
carefully, "a tariff for revenue only"
A tariff for revenue means tariff up
on the articles that are largely i'm
ported-such as tea, coffee and sugar,
and no tariff upon pig-iron, which can
be manufactured in this country.
Mind you, no protective tariff-but a
tariff for revenue only! Democratic
stumpers will dodge that plank. Let
every furnaceman cut it out and paste
it in his hat.
4. The subordinaton of the military to the civil
power, and genuine and thorough reform of the
civil service.
This by Convention which nomi-
mated the most tyrannical soldier in
America as candidate for the Presi-
deney!
of ali rights and must and shall be maintained in ey
cry part of the United States.
This, according to Democratic rea-
soning, means the right of every Dem
ocrat to stuff half pack of tissue bal
lots into every ballot-box, after the
polls are closed.
g. The present administration the representative
ofconspiracy only and its claim Of rightto surround
intmidate and ohstruct the election, and the unpre
despotc power % Insults the people and mpes their
institutions.
This means that the Marshals, by
their presence, intinidate the Demo-
Gratis who undertake to stuff ballot
boxes. There was not a man at Gin
cinnati who ever saw a .. S. Marshal
drive Democrat away from the polls,
unless the Democrat had committed a
felony.
s. The great fraud of 1911 by which upon a false
count of the Electoral votes of two States the candi
and for the first time in American history the will
the people set aside under threat military vi
olence struck deadly blow at system of repre-
sentative government. The Democratic party to
a civil
submitted for the time in firm and patriotic
the people would punish this crime in 1880 This
sue precedes and dwarfs every other. 1t imposes a
sacred duty upon the people than address,
ed the consciences of Il nation of freemen.
That is as rich a bit of American
humor as we ever read. "The Demo-
cratic party, to preserve the country
from the terrors of civil warr' The
only aim the Democrats had in sub
mitting, was the preserving Of their
''hind sights" from a load of grape
shot. Had Mr. Tilden attempted to
seize the capital, there would not have
been two thousand Democrats North
Of Mason & Dixon's line who would
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