The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-08-12
The National Democratic Platform.

The Democrats of the United
States, in convention assembled, de
clare:
/. We pledge ourselves anew to the
constitutional doctrines and traditions
of the Democratic party as illus
trated by the teachings and example
of long line of Democratic States
men and patriots, and embodied in
the platform of the last national con-
vention of the party.
z. Opposition to Capitalization and
to that dangerous spirit Of encroach-
ment which tends to consolidate the
powers of all the departments in one,
and thus create, whatever the form of
government, Il real despotism: 10
sumptuary laws; separation of
Church and State for the good of
each common schools fostered and
protected.
3. Home Rule; honest money,
consisting of gold and silver and pa
per convertible into coin on demand !;
the strict maintenance Of the public
faith, State and national, and Il tariff
for revenue only.
4. The subordination Of the mill
tary to the civil power, and genuine
and thorough reform of the civil
service.
5. The right to a free ballot is a
right preservative Of all rights, and
must and shall be maintained in every
part of the United States.
6. The present administration is the
representative of conspiracy only, and
its claim of right to surround the
ballot-boXes with troops and deputy
marshals, to intimidate and obstruct
the election, and the unprecedented
use of the veto to maintain its cor
rupt and aespotic powers, insult the
people and imperil their institutions.
Z. We eXecrate the course Of this
administration in making places in the
civil service Il reward for political
crime, and demand a.reform by statute
which shall make it forever impossi,
bic for defeated candidate to bride
his way to the seat of usurper by
billeting williams upon the people.
8. The great fraud of 1S76-1S77,
by which, upon false count of the
electoral votes of two States, the can
didate defeated at the polls was de
clared to be President, and for tho
first time in American history the will
of the people was set aside under &
threat of military violence which
struck deadly blow at our system Of
representative government. The
Democratic party, to preserve the
country from the terrOrs Of n civil war
submitted for the time in firm anC
patriotic faith that the people would
punish tbs crime in 1880. This issue
Precedes and dwarfs every other Il
imposes n more sacred duty upon the
people than ever addressed the con
science of a nation of freemen.
9. The resolution of Samuel Jill
den not again to be Il candidate for the
exalted place to which he was elected
by a majority of his countrymen, anC
from which he was excluded by the
leaders of the republican party, is re,
ceived by the Democrats Of the United
States with deep sensibility, and they
declare their confidence in his wisdom
patriotism and integrity mistaken by
the assaults of the common enemy;
and they further assure him that he i,
followed into the retirement the has
chosen for himself by the sympathy
and respect of his fcllow-citizcns, who
regard him as one who, by elevatine
the standard Of public morality anC
adjoining and purifying the public ser
vice, merits the lasting gratitude ofhii
country and his party.
10. Free ships and Il chance fol
American commerce on the seas, anC
ON the land no discrimination in flvo
of transportation lines, corporations o.
monopolies.
II. Amendment Of the Burlingam,
treaty no more Chinese immigration
except for travel, education and for
cign commerce, and it even Garrett l.,
guarded.
y. Public money and public crcdi
for public purposes solely, and publi
land for actual settlers.
Is. The Democratic party is tn
friend of labor and the laboring man
and pledges itself to protect him alik
against the cormorants and the Com
munc.
II. We congratulate the countr,
upon the honesty and thrift of Dem
ocratic Congress which has reduce,
tn public expenditures $40, 900, 900 E;
yer; upon the continuation of pros
perity ut home, and the national homo
abroad, and, above all, upon tn
promise of such change in the ad
ministation of the Government Il
shall insure us genuine and lasting re
form in every department Of the pub
lie service.