The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-08-05
The Democratic National Platform.

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
trated 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 encroach
ment 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 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 q tariff
for revenue oVly.
4. The subordinatiOn of the mill
try to the civil power, and genuine
ANA thorough reform of the civil
service.
5. The right to n free a ballot is Il
right preventative Of all rights, and
must and shall be maintained in every
part Of the United States.
q. The present administration is the
representative Of conspiracy only, and
its claim Of right to surround the
ballot-boXes with troops and deputy
Inarshals, to intimidate and ohstruct
the election, and the unprecedented
Use of the veto to maintain its cor
rupt and aespotic powers, insult the
people and impcril their institutions.
Z. We eXecrate the course of this
administration in making places in the
civil service n reward for political
crime, and demand reform by statute
which shall make it forever impOssi
bic for defeated candidate to bride
his way to the seat Of usurper by
Dillcting Williams upon the people.
8, The great fraud of 1S76-1S77
by which, upon false count of the
electoral votes of two States, the can
,iidate 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. The
Democratic party, to preserve TIT
country from the terrors of civil war
submitted for the time in firm anC
patriotic faith that the people would
punish tbs crime in 1880. This ISSUE
lrecedca and dwarfs every other.
imposes Il more sacred duty upon thu
People than ever addressed the con
science of nation of frcemen.
9. The resolution Of Samuel Jill
den not again to be Il candidate for tn,
exalted place to which he was elected
10y Il majority of his cOuntrymen, ant
from which he was excluded by tn
leaders Of the republican party, is re
ccived by the Democrats Of the Unitet
States with deep sensibility, and the,
declare their confidence in his wisdom
patriotism and integrity mistaken b,
the assaults Of the common enemy
and they further assure him that h
followed into the retirement the ha
chosen for himself by the sympath
and respect of his fellow-citizens, VIII
regard him us one who, by elevatin!
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 chance fu
American commerce on the seas, an
on the land no discrimination in fave
of transportation lines, corporations {
monopolies.
II. Amendment of the Burlingam
treaty no more Chinese immigration
except for travel, education and fn
eign commerce, and it even caret, II
guarded.
-. Public money and public cred
for public purposes solely, and publ
land for actual settlers.
ID. The Democratic party is I'll
friend of labor and the la6oring MAJ
and pledges itself to protect him alib
against the cormorants and the Con
mune.
II. We congratulate tho countr
upon the honesty and thrift Of a Den
ocratic Congress which has reduce
the public expenditures $40, 900, 900
year; upon the continuation of pro
perity at home, and the national hone
abroad, and, above all, upon ii
promise of such a change in the a.
ministration of the Government
shall insure us genuine and lasting /
form in every department Of the pu
lie service.