Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-30
The Platform.
The Doctrine of the Democrats for the
Coming Campaign.

The Doctrine Of the Democrats for the
Coming Campaign.
The following is the platform adopt
ed by the National Democratic Con-
vestion at Cincinnati
The Democrats of the United States
in convention assembled declard:
FIRST. We pledge ourselves anew
to the constitutional doctrines and ira
ditions of the Democratic party, as illus
trated by the teaching and example of
a long line of Democratic statesmen
add patriots and embodied in the plat
form of the last National Convention of
the party.
SECOND. Opposition to centralization
and to that dangerous spirit Of en-
croscbmeut which tends TO consolidate
the powers of all the departments in
one, and thus to creste-whatever be
the form of government-a real des-
potism. No sumptuary laws; separa-
ton of Church and State fer the good
of each common schools fostered and
protected.
THIRD. Home rule honest money,
consisting of gold and silver and paper
convertible into coin on demand the
strict maintenance of the public faith,
State aud national, and tariff for rev.
enue only.
FOURTH. The subordination of the
military to the civil power and gen
eral aud thorough reform Of the civil
service.
FIFTH. The right to a free ballot is
the righ: preservative of all rights, and
must and shall be maintained in every
part Of the United Ststes.
Sixth. The existing administration
is the representative of conspiracy only,
and its claim Of right to surround the
ballot-bo1es with troops and deputy
marshals to intimidate and obstruct the
electors, and the unprecedented use Of
the veto to maintain its corrupt and
despotic power, insults the people and
imperils their institutions.
SEVENTH. The great fraud of 1876
Thy which, upon false count Of
the electoral votes of two States, the
candidate defeated at the polls was de-
clared to be President, and for the first
time in American history the will oi
the people was set aside under a threat
of military violence-struck q deadly
blow at our system of representative
government The Democratic party, tc
preserve the country from the horror:
of civil war, submitted for the time
, 10 firm and patriotic faith that the peo-
pie would punish this crime in 1880
This issue precedes and dwarfs every
other. 1t imposes q more sacred dpty
upon the people of the Union than eveI
addressed the conscience of nation ol
freemen.
EIGHTH. We execrate the course o
this administration in making places il
the civil service reward for political
crime, and demand reform By statute
which shall make it forever impossible
for the the defeated candidate to bribe
bis way to the seat of usurper by bill
letting villains upon the people.
NINTH. The resolution of Samuel j
Tilden not again to be candidate fol
the exalted place to which he was elect
ed by a majority of his eountrymen
and from which he was excluded by the
Republican party, is received oy the
Democrats of the United States with
sensibility, aud they declare their con
fdence in his wisdom, patriotism and
integrity. mistaken by the assaults Of a
common enemy, and they further as
sure him that be is followed into the
retirement he has chosen for himself
BY the sympathy and respect Of his fell
low citizens, who regard him as one
who, BY elevating the standards of pub