The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-10-12

i've pledge ourselves aucw 10 the constftu-
tional doctrines ard tzadffium Of The Democrzfic
party, - HlusazHted BY he tsaching and example
Of long line of Democratic statesmen and palri-
ots, and embodied in the platform Of the last
national convention Of the party
3 Opposition TO centTalizati0n and 10 that
dangerous spirit Of encroachment which tends
to consolidate the powers Of all the departments
in one, and thus create, whatever the form of
government, q real despotism. No sumptuary
laws Separation Of Church and State, for the
good Of each. Common schools fostered and
protected
g. Home rule, honest money, consisting Of gold
and silver and paper convertible into coin on de-
mand strict maintenance Of the public faith,
State and national, and tariff for revenue only.
4 Subordination Of the military tn the civil
power, and a general and thorough reform of the
civil service
g. The right 10 free ballot il the right preser-
vatiye of all rights, and must and shall be main
tained in every part of the United States.
O. The administration is the representative of
q conspiracy only, and its claim OF the right 10
surround ballet boxes with troops and deputy
marshals to intimidate and obstruct elections,
and the unprecented use Of the veto to maintain
its corrupt and despotic power, insults the peo-
pie and impcrils their institntions.
2. The great fraud of 1851, by which, upon
n 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 Ameri-
can history the will of the people was set aside
under the threat of military violeDce-struck
deadly blow at our system of representative gov
ernment. The Democratic party, to preserve the
country from civil war, submitted for the time,
in firm and patriotic faith, that the people
would punish this crime in 1880. This issue
precedes and dwarfs every other. 1t imposes n
more sacred duty upon the people of the Union
than ever addressed the conscience of nation
of freemen.
g. We execrate the course Of this administra-
ton in making places in the civil service re-
ward for political crimes, and demands reform
by statute which shall make it forever impossible
for defeated candidate to bribe his way 10 the
seat of a usurper by billeting Williams upon the
people.
g. The resolution of Samuel J. Tilden not
again to be q candidate for the exalted place to
which he was elected by majority of his coun-
trymen, and from which he was excluded by the
leaders of the Republican party, is received by
the Democrats of the United States with sensi
bility; and they declare their confidence in his
wisdom, patriotism and integrity mistaken by
the assaults of a common enemy And they
further assure him that he is followed into the
retirement he has chosen for himself by the sym
paihy and respect of his fellow w-citZens, who re-
gard him as one who, by raising the standard of
public morality and adoring and purifying the
public service, merits the lasting gratitude of his
country and his party.
TO- Free ships and q living chance for Amer
ican commerce on sea and on land. Nodiscrim-
ination in favor of transportation lines, corpor-
ations or monopolies.
II. Amendment of the Burliagame treaty.
No more Chinese immigration, except for travel,
education and foreign commerce, and therein
carefully guarded.
12 Public money and public credit for public
purposes solely, and public land for actual set
tiers
13. The Democratic party is the friend of labor
and the laboring man, and pledges itself TO pro-
tect him alike against cormorants and cOmmu-
nists.
IA We congratulate the country upon the
honesty and thrift of the Democratic Congress,
which has reduced public expenditures $4,000, :
600 year; upon the continuation of prosperity
at home and national honor abroad and, above
all, upon the promise Of such a change in the
administration of the government as shall insure
US a generous and lasting reform in every de-
partment of the public service.