The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1880-07-15
Democratic Inconsistencies

IL is perfectly safe to say that il
the Com mittee on Resolutions of tho
Cincinnati convention had known
that General Hancock would be the
nominee, several OF the resolutions
embodied in the platform would read
differently than they do II there
had been time, or more thought
concerning the platform, after the
nomination was affected, there is no
question that some parts Of il would
have been changed. As it is the
lack Of harmony between candidate
and platform is so glaring that il
cannot fail TO attract the attention Of
even the most casual observer. The
platform declares. in the most pos
tive terms, for the "suborlinatiun
OF the military TO the civil power.
Yet in the face Of this the convention
selected fer the highest civil Office
III the government a man who has
worn the uniform and sword Of
soldier all bis lifo-a man who has
never performed civil function ex-
cept as the subordinate of the War
Department, aud subject to the mil
itnry power of the government.
Again, the platform declares in
favor Of free ballot in every part Of
the United States How does such
a declaration barmonize with the
undisputed fact that in three fourths
of the States controlled by the DEM
ocratic party to-day they owe their
supremacy to the suppression of
the free ballot" The Democratic
pnriy secured their majority in the
Congress by preventing free aud fair
elections in majority OF the SInth-
ern States, 10y disfranchising
thousands aud tens OF thousands of
negro voters in the South, by resort
to violence, murder and other intim.
idating expcdients, Here is the only
political party that was ever benefit
ted bya suppression Of tho freedom
of the ballot. solemnly declaring in
favor of such freedom
Next we find in this Democratic
platform declaration in fav or Of
tariff for revenue only-whch is but
another term for free-trade-and
then nominating a Pennsylvania t.
catch the vote Of the Old Keystone
State. The Protectionists Of our
great common ealth will not te cap.
tured by such chaff. In declaring
against Protective tariff the con,
vention has been true to the Demo.
cratic party, and in this only has
there been consistency. Pcunsylva.
MIA, it was thought by the platform
builders. could he caught with Han
cock aud New York with the Free
trade resolution. The democratic
party is thus, in the present cam.
paign, committed squarely against
the policy Of protecting our Ameri-
ican industries. "A tariff for reve.
nue only" is not quite so grating u
term as free-trade, but it practically
the same thing-it is oppos
site Of tariff for protection. Our
present tariff laws are for revenue
aud protection combined, but tho
Democratic party, il it had the pow
,r. would strike down the protective
feature aud expose all our industries
10 merciless competition With the
,heap labor products of Earope.
There is one other feature Of the
platform where Inconsistency stand.
,ut with marked prominence A
number of the resoln-
ions are devoted to an elaboration
If the "frand ISSUE" which might
Iave been perti.ent had Mr. Tllaen
'esn nominated, but when Mr.. Til
len was thrown overheard the
fraud issue was, to all iuteuts and
abandoned
But there is no need OF going fur
her. The platform is either incon
istent with its candidate, false in its
assumptions, and untrue as compar-
ID with the facts of history, in every
particular. 1t is Democratic plat.
orm, and that tells the whole story.
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