The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-07-15
Ths Demcc attic National il form.

The Democrats of the United
States, in convention assembled, de
clare:
/. We pledge ourselves anew to the
constitutional doctrines and traditions
of the Democratic party as illus
tTated 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 encroacIl-
memt which tends to consolidate the
powers Of all the departments in one,
and thus create, whatever the form of
government, real deSpotism: no
sumptuary laws; separation of
Church and State for the good of
each; common schools fostcred 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 tarifT
for revenue only.
1. The subOrdinatiOn Of the mill
tary to the civil power, and genuine
and thorough reform Of the civil
service.
D. The right to free ballot is
right preventative of all rights, and
must and shall be maintained in every
part Of the United States.
e. The present administration is the
representative of conspiracy only, and
its claim Of right to surround the
ballo;-boXes with troops and deputy
marshals, to intimidate and obstruct
the election, and the unprecedented
use Of the veto to maintain its cor
rupt and lespOtic powers, insult the
people and i.npcriI their institutions.
Z. We exec:ate the course of this
administration i'll making places in the
civil service a reward for political
crime, and demand reform by statute
which shall make it forever impossi-
bic for Il defeated candidate to bride
his way to the seat of Il usurper by
billeting Williams upon the people.
s. The great fraud of 18T6-1S77,
by which, upon false count of the
electoral votes Of two States, the can
didate defeated at the polls was de-
cIared to be President, and for the
first time in American history the will
Of the people was set aside under Il
threat Of military violence which
struck a deadly blow at our system of
) representative government. The
Democratic party, to preserve the
country from the terrors of a civil war,
submitted for the time in firm and
!. patriotic faith that the people would
) punish tbs crime in 1880. This issue
, precedes and dwarfs every other. 1t
imposes Il more sacred duty upon the
: people than ever addressed the CON
5 science of a nation of freemen.
8. The resolution of Samuel jill
den not again to be candidate for the
exalted place to which he was elected
by Il majority of his countrymen, and
, from which he was excluded by the
leaders Of the republican party, is re
! ceivcd by the Democrats Of the United
: States with deep sensibility, and they
. declare their confidence in his wisdom
patriotism and integrity mistaken by
the assaults Of the common enemy
and they further assure him that he i
followed into the retirement the ha
chosen for himself by the sympath,
d and respect of his fellow-citizens, VIII
+ regard him as one who, by elevatins
0 the standard of public morality anc
9 adjoining and purifying the public ser
: vice, merits the lasting gratitude Ofhi
t country and his party.
a 10. Free ship and q chance fo
+ American commerce on the seas, an,
Il on the land no discrimination in favo
J of transportation lines, corporations o
} monopoHes.
: II. Amendment of the Burlingam
! treaty ; no more Chinese immigration
= except for travel, education and fol
. eign commerce, and it even CAREFUL
guarded.
u. Public money and public credi
for public purposes solely, and publ
land for actual settlers.
-. The Democratic party is tn
e friend Of labor and the laboring man
. and pledges itself 10 protect him alik
i against the cOrmorants and the Con
= mune.
It II. We congratulate the countr
, upon the honesty and thrift of Dem
e ocratic Congress which has reduce,
} the public expenditures $40, 100000
r year; upon the continuation of pros
If peritv at home, and the national homo
Il abroad, and, above all, upon tn
d promise of such change in the ad
/ ministration of the Government a
e shall insurer us genuine and lasting re
IF form in every department Of the pull
: lie service.