Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1880-10-30
NATIONAL PLATFORM,
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ADOPTED BY THE CINCINNATI CONVENTION.

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ADOPTED BY THE CINCINNATI CONVENTION.
The Democratic party of the United States
in convention assembled, declare:
First-We pledge ourselves anew to tae
constitutional doctrines and traditions of the
Democratic party as illustrated by the teach
ing and examples of long line of Democrat
ic statesmen and patriots, and embodied
in the last national convention of the party.
Second-Opposition to centralization 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.
Third-Home rule, honest money, tn
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 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 administration 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 despetic 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 ut
| 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
| of freedmen.
Eighth-We execrate the course of thisad-
ministration in making places for political
| criminals, and demand a 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. Tilden
not again to be candidate for election, the
| exalted place to which he was elected by q
majority of hfs countrymen, AMI from which
j 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 sympathya and respect Of his fellow-cit-
liens. 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.
tation lines. corporations or monopolies.
Observation-Disclosures of the Burl;uqome
Treaty; no moro Chinese immigration ercep
for t'avel, 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 s4O,O0O,OOo year; upon the
continuation Of prosperity at home and the
national honor arboad, and above all, upon
the promise of such change in the admins
tratlon of this government as shall insure its
genuine lasting reform in every department Of
the public service.