The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-07-22
Democratic National Platform.

The following platform and resolutions were
adopted by the National Democratic Conven-
ton assembled at Cincinnati, June 90, 1880:
The Democrats Of the United States in con-
vention assembled declare:
l. We pledge ourselves anew to the Constitu-
tional doctrines and traditions of the Demo-
cratic party as illustrated by the teaching and
example OF long line of Democratic statesmen
and patriots and embodied in the platform Of
the last National Convention of the party.
Q. Opposition to Capitalization and to that
dangerous spirit of enCroachmcnt which tends
to consolidate in one, and thus to create what
ever the form of government a real dispotism;
no sumptuary laws; scpaT ton of church and
state for the good Of cach;l mmon schools fos-
tered and protected.
g. Home rule; honest money, consisting Of
gold and silver and paper convertible into coin
on demand, and strict maintenance of the
public faith, State and National. and tariff of
revenue only.
G. The subordination of the military to the civil
power, and genuine and thorOughreform of the
civil service.
8. Theright to a free ballot is the right pro3er-
yatiye of all rights, and must and shall he MAIN
| aimed in every part of the United States
6. Theexisting administrations hcrcprescnt-
| alive of conspiracy only, and its claim of right
to surround the ballot-boxes with troops and
elections, and the unprecedented use of the veto
| to maintain its corrupt and dcSpotc powers, in
| suit people and imperil their institutions.
7. Weexecrate the course of this administration
| in making places in the civil service a reward
for political crime, and demand u reform by
| statute which shall make ii forever impossible
| for defeated candidate to bride his wav to the
seat of usurper by billeting villains upon the
| people.
g. The great fraud Of 1876 and 1877 by
| which upon a false count of the electoral votes
| 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 threat of military
violence, struck deadly blow at Our system Of
| representative government The Democratic
| party to preserve the country from the horrors
of civil war, submitted for the time in the
| firm and patriotic belief that the people would
| punish this crime III 1880. This issue precodes
and dwarfs every other. 1t imposes more ga
cred duty upon the people of the Union than
| ever addressed the consciences of nation of
| frcemen.
Q. Tho resolution of Samuel j. Tilden not
| again to DO candidate for the exalted place to
which he was elected by majority of his conn
trymen, and from which he was excluded by
the leaders of the Republican party, is received
BY the Democrats OF the United States with
deep sensibilty, and they declare their conf
dence in his wisdom, patriotism and integrity,
mistaken by the assaults of the common
enemy; and they further assure him that he is
| followed into the retirement he has chosen for
| himself by the sympathy and respect of his fell
low citizens, who regard him az one who, by
| elevating the standards Of the public morality,
and adjoining and purifying the public service,
merits the lasting gratitude Of his country and
| his party.
10. Free shipsand living chance for American
commerce upon the seas and upon the land.
No discrimination in favor Of transportation
lines, corporations or monOpoies.
II. Amendment Of the Burlingame Treaty. No
more Chinese immigration except for travel,
education and foreign commerce, and therein
carefully guarded.
H. Public money and public credit for public
purposes solely, and public land for actual set
tiers.
10. The Democratic party is the friend oflabor
and the laboring friend of labor and the labor
ing man, and pledges itself to protect him alike
against the cormorants and the Commune.
A. We congratulate the country upon the hon.
esty and thrift Of a Democratic Congress
which has reduced the public expenditure s4O,-
0OO, 900 year; upon the continuation Of pros
perity at home, and the national honor abroad,
and above all, upon the promise of such
change in the administration of the Govern
ment as shall insure US genuine and lasting
reform in every department Of the public
| service.