Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1880-07-03
NATIONAL PLATFORM.
ADOPTED BY rHE cINc1ssAr1 coNvEsr1o

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in convention assembled, declare:
First-We pledge ourselves anew to the
constitutional doctrines and traditions of the
Democratic party as illustrated by the teach
ing and examples Of a long line Of Democrat.
ic 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, q real dep
otixm; no sumptuary laws; separation Of
church and State for the good Of each; COM
mon schools to be fostered and protected.
Third-Home rule, honest money, the
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 only.
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 administrator is repre-
sentative of conspiracy only, and its claims
of right to surround the ballot boxes with
troops and deputy marshals, to intimidate
and obstruct the elections, and by unprece-
dcnted use of the vote to maintain its cor
rupt and despotic power, insults the people,
and imperils 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 be President, and
| for the first time in American history, the
Will of the people was set aside under the
| threat of military violence, struck deadly
blow at oui system of representative govern.
ment. The Democratic party, to preserve
the country from the horrors of civil war,
| submitted for the time, in the firm and pat
| riotic faith that the people would punish this
crime in 1880. This issue precedes and
dwarfs every other. 1t imposes more sacred
duty upon the people of the Union than was
ever addressed to the conscience of nation
freedmen.
| Eighth-We execrate the course of this ad-
ministration 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 q usurper by villainies upon the peo-
pie.
Ninth-The resolution of Samuel j. .Tilden
not again to be candidate for election, the
exalted place to which he was elected by a
majority ofshfs countrymen, and from which
he 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 sympathyan and respect of his fellow-cit
izens, who regard him as one who, by ele
waiting the standard of public morality ans
adorning and purifying the public service
merits the lasting gratitude of his country
and his party.
Tenth-Free ships and living chance fo
American commerce on the sea and on tn
land, no Discriminate in favor of transpor
tation lines, corporations or monopolies.
Eleucnh-Amendment Of the Burlingans
Treaty; no more Chinese immigration ereer
y for travel, education and foreign commerce
and therein carefully guarded. ~
: Twelfth-Public money and public credi
| for public purposes solely, and public land
for actual settlers.
, Thirteenth-The Democratic party is tn
friend of labor and the laboring man, an
pledges itself to protect him alike again
: the cormorants and the commune.
\ Fourteenth-We congratulate the countr
upon the honesty and drift of the Democrat
ic Congress which has reduced the public e.
penditures to $40, 100000 year; upon tl
continuation of prosperity at home and tt
b national honor arboad, and above all, upo
the promise of such a change in the admin
tration of this government as shall insure j
genuine lasting reform in every department
the public service.
= The importations of wool at New Yo,
u have been very heavy this year, Ame,
!. Il can buyers actually controlling the En-
> lish wool market, Total imports sin
"a January to May 2l, reached 6s,2t
a bales against l7,70s bales for the san
~ time in 1879. The receipts of domest
"a wool at New York since Jan. ! to M,
& FL, were 1906 bales, against 1855
10 for the same time last year. At Bost1
Is the total receipts Of domestic wool sin
'o Jan. l, 1880, have been S5,767 balt
7. and of foreign 72,446 bales, against e.
re $50 bales domestic and 1881 bal
is foreign for the same time last year.
It, EXTRACT from Hancock's order pr
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