Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1880-10-02
NATIONAL PLATFORM,



ADOPTED BY THE CINCINNATI CONVENTION
The Democratic party of the United States
in convention assembled. declare:
First-We pledge ourselves anew to the
constitutional doctrines and traditions of the
Democrntic 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 centralization and
that dangerous spirit Of encroachnent 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.
otism; no sumptnary laws; separation Of
church and State for the good Of each; CON-
mon scho"ls to be fostered and protected
Third-Home rule, honest money, til
strict maintenance of public faith, consisting
ot 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.
Fonrth-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 intimtiate
and ol'struct the elections, and by unprece.
dcnted use Of the vote to maintain it's 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 ut
the polls, WIS declared To he President, and
for the first time in American history, the
will of the people was set aside under the
threat of military violence, strack 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 peuple woull punish this
I
dwarfs every other. 1t imposes more sacred
| duty upon tl.c people of the Union than was
ever addressed to the conscience of nation
Of freedmen.
Eightl-We execrate the course of thisad-
mlnistration in making places for political
criminals, and demand u reform by statute
which shall make it forever impossible for a
| defeated candidate to bribe his way to the
seat "f usurper by vilainies upon the peo-
pie.
Ninth-The resolution of Samuel j. Tilden
not again to be Il candidate for election, the
exalted place to which he was elected by Il
majority of hfs countrymen, AMI from whicl,
he was excluded by the leaders of the Re-
publican party, is received by the Democrats
Of the United States with sensibility aud
they declare their confidence in his wisdom
and patriotism and integrity, nnsullied by
the assault of the common enemy, and they
further declare to him that he is followed
into the retirement lie 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-Frec 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.
EtcrenM-Amcndmcnt Of the Bmlinganc
Treaty; no more Chinese immigration rrcep
for t'm,el, 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
Fourteentli-We congratulate the country.
upon the honesty and drift of the Democrat
ic Congress which has reduced the public ex
penditures to $40, 10000 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
tration of this government as shall insure its
genuine lasting reform in every department u
the public service.