Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1880-09-25
NATIONAL PLATFORM,
ADOPTED BY THE CINCINNATI CONVENTION

ADOPTED IY THE CINCINNATI CONVENTION.
The Democratic party Of the United States
in convention assembled. declare:
First--We pledge ourselves anew to tie
constitutional doctrines and traditions of the
Democratic party as illustrated by the teach
ing and examples of a long line of Democrat
jc statesmen and patriots, and embodied
III the last national convention of the party
Second-Opposition to Capitalization and
that dangerous spirit OF encroachment which
tends to consolidate the powers of all the de-
partlnents in one, and thus to create, what
ever be the forms Of government real dep
otisrii; no sumptuary laws; separation Of
church an,i 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
Oh demand; the strict maintenance Of the
public faith, State and national, and tariff
&! for revenue only.
| Fourth-the subordination of the military
to tile civil power, and general and thor
ough reform OF the civil service.
/ Fiith-Right to free ballot as the right
preservative of all rights, and must and shall
be maintained in ercry part OF the United
| States.
! Sixth-The existing administrator is repre-
sentative OF conspiracy only, and its claims
of right to surround the ballot boxes with
troops and deputy n,arshals, to intimidate
and obstruct the elections. and by unprece-
dcnted use Of the vote to maintain its 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 at
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 a civil war,
submitted for the time, i'll the firm and pat
riotic faith that the people woull punish this
crime in 1850. This issue precedcs and
dwarss every other 1t imposes more sacred
duty upon the people Of the onion than was
ever addressed to the conscience of a, nation
of freedmen.
Eighth---We exerrate the course oi this adj
mlnistration i'll making places for political
criminals, and demand a reform by statute
which shall make it forever impossible for a
defeated candidate to brbe his way to the
seat Of II usurper by yillainies upon the peo-
pie.
Ninth--The resolution of Samuel j. Tilden
not again to he II candidate for election. the
exalted place to which he was elected by a
majority of hts countrymeu, and from which
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 sympathyand 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 fo,
American commerce OH the sea and on the
land, no discrimination in favor of transpor.
tatiOn lines. corporations or monopolies.
ElevenM-Amcndmcnt Of the Burlingan''
Treaty; no more Chinese immigration ercer
for trarel, education and foreign commerce.
and therein carefully guarded.
, Twelfth-Public money and public credi
/ for public purposes solely, and public land
for actual settlers
Thirteenth-The Democratic party is tn
e friend of labOr &nAl the laboring man, ant
pledges Itself to proteet him alike aSains
, the cormorants and the commune.
4 Fourteenth-We congratulate the country
upon the honesty and drift of the Democra
ie Congress which has reduced the public e,
j. pendtures to S40,0OO,0oO Il year; upon tn
continuation Of prosperity at home and til
national honor arboat, and above all, upo
0 the promise Of such change in the admins
|. tratiOn of this government as shall insure il
e genuine lasting reform in every department {
}. the public service.