Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1880-10-23
NATIONAL PLATFORM,
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ADOPTED BY THE CINCINNATI ceNrrNrrcN.

ArorTED BY THE CINCINNATI ceNrRST1oN.
The Democratic party of the United States
in convention assembled. declare:
First-We pledge ourselves anew to TIE
constitutional doctrines and traditions Of the
Democratic party as illustrated by the teach
ing and examples of long line of Democrat
&c statesmen and patriots, and embodied
In the last national convention of the party.
Second-Opposition to Capitalization and
that dangerous spirit of encroachment which
tends to consolidate the powers of all the de-
partments in one, and thus to create, what
ever be the forms of government, real dep-
otlsm; no sumptuary laws; separation of
church and State for the good of each; COM
mon schools to be fostered and protected.
Thlrd-Home rule, honest money, th
strict maintenance of public faith, consisting
Of gold, silver and paper convertible to coin
on demand; the strict maintenance of the
public faith, State and national, and a tariff
for revenue onlv
Fourth-the subordination of the military
to the civil power, and general and thor
ough reform of the civil service.
Fifth-Right to free ballot as the right
preservative of all rights, and must and shall
be maintained in every part OF the United
States.
Sixth-The existing administration is repre-
sentative OF conspiracy only. and its claims
OF right to surround the ballot boxes with
troops and deputy n,arshals, to intimidate
and obstruct the elections, and by unprece-
dcuted use of the vote to maintain its cor
rupt and despotic power, insults the people,
and imperis their institutions.
Seventh-The great fraud of 1876, by
which, upon false count of the electoral
vote of two States, the candidate defeated at
the polls, was declared to he President, and
Tor the first time in American history, the
will OF the people was set aside under the
threat of military violence, struck deadly
blow at oni system of representative govern
inent. The Democratic party, to preserve
the country from the horrors of civil war.
submitted for the time, in the firm and pat
rlotic faith that the people would punish this
crime in 1880. This issue precedes and
dwarfs every other. It imposes more sacred
duty upon the people of the Union than was
ever addressed to the conscience of a nation
of freedmen.
Eighth-We execrate the course OF thisad-
mlnistration in making places for political
criminals, and demand reform by statute
which shall make it forever impossible for a
defeated candidate to bribe his way to the
seat Of a usurper by villainies upon the peo-
pie.
Ninth-The resolution of Samuel j. TiIden
not again to be candidate for election, the
exalted place to which he was elected by a
majority of hfs countrymen, ani from which
ne was excluded by the leaders of the Re-
publican party, is received by the Democrats
OF the United States with sensibility, and
they declare their confidence in his wisdom
and patriotism and integrity, unsullied by
the assault OF the common enemy, and they
further declare to him that he is followed
into the retirement he has chosen for himself
by the sympathy and respect of his fellow cit
izens, who regard him as one who, by ele.
waiting the standard of public morality and
adorning and purifying the public service.
merits the lasting gratitude of his country
and his party.
Tenth-Free ships and living chance for
American commerce on the sea and on the
land, no discrimination in favor of transpor.
tatlon lines. corporations or monopolies.
Eleuenth-An naemdment Of the Bur1imganae
Treaty; no more Chinese immigration encep
for t'ouel, education and foreign commerce,
and therein carefully guarded
Twelfth-Public money and public credit
for public purposes solely, and public lands
for actual settlers,
Thirteenth-The Democratic party is the
friend of labor and the laboring man, and
pledges itself to protect him alike against
the cormorants and the commune.
Fourteenth-We congratulate the country.
upon the honesty and drift of the Democrat
ic Congress which has reduced the public ex
penditures to $4O,0OO,OOO year; upon the
continuation of prosperity at home and the
national honor arboad, and above all. upon
the promise Of such a change in the admins.
tration Of this government as shall insure its
genuine lasting reform in every department of
the public service.