The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-06-17
NKW YORK DEMOCRATIC PLAT
FORM.

lOrGn Dy Cle NaLlOnhl OomOOlaIAO OOh
vention at st. Louis, and approved by
decisive popular N.ajorities in the Presi
Dental election in 1876. The victory
then won was in the name and for the
sake of reform. The people we're de-
frauded of the fruits ofthat victory by a
false count of the electoral votes. Re-
form throughout the Federal administra'
ton is still an imperative necessity. 1t
remains for a truly national party to re-
store the National Government to the
fraternal spirit, the constitutional prin-
ciples, the frugal expenditure AMI the
administrative purity of the fathers OF
the Republic. But the Democratic party
ofNew York also declare their settled
conviction that the success of that con-
spiracy against the peoples constitution
al sovereignty which by perjuries, for
geries, brides and violence in effect dis
~franchised 4.3OO. 316 voting citizens, a
large majority of all and which by a false
count of the electoral votes reversed the
re,ult of the last Presidential election,
Compels the next to turn upon a single
commanding issue. That issue precedes
and dwarf5 every other, 1t imposes a
more sacred duty upon the people of
this Union han ever addressed the con.
sciences of a nation of freemen. The
lawful exercise and orderly transfer Of
the peoples power through successive
administrations of the government de-.
scribed by the peoples choice is the
fundamental condition of a representa-.
tive Democratic Republic. 1t is the po-
litical object for which constitutions and
laws are framed. 1t is the first of popu.
lar rights, for, besides being the greatest
Of them, it is the one without which the
others cannot exist. 1t is hat for which
a Republic is anywhere preferred above
a monarchy, where the transfer is by
hereditary success as an escape from
usurped magistrates and civil wars. 1t
is the substance of civil liberty, as for
Democracy (the peoples rule) the PEG.
ple's right to rule, it is the very breath
of its life. This, then, is the moment.
GUS issue-the right of the people to ex
ercise and enjoy an elective %self-govern.
ment without impediment by force or
fraud from any quarter, least of all by
fraud and force from their temporary but
discarded servants. Shall the c~onspira-
cy ofl877 be sanctioned as a precedent
by the impunity # its authors and the
submission of it's victims? It's victims
are the honest citizens of all political
parties. To destroy a d stIgmatize that
corrupting precedent by inhiCting a fatal
blow upon the Republican party, whose
recognized and rewarded leaders we're
guilty Of it, is the supreme duty of the
American people. Neglected now, in the
nature of the case, it is lost forever. Not
now TO make that crime odlous is to in.
vite its repetition. The polluting infa-
my UNPUBLISHED and sanctioned, must 90
on, democrat ing all political PARTIES,
their leadership at the mercy of
brigands and injecting their healthful
contentious with disease and de tn. The
character, the future of this Republic
are all at stake in the next Presidential
election.
The Democratic party of New York
add to their condemnation of the electo.
conspiracy of 1876 an emphatic dec.
aration Cf their continued confidence in
he character, ability and fitness of that
distinguished citizen of New York, who
vas then elected to the highest Office in
he peoples gift, and who was in his
,wn person the object of their joint at
,ack on his party, his fellow-cilizens and
he cause Of free government. The blow
which deprived the country of it's chosen
uler was aimed not SO much at him as
1t the Democratic millions who stood be-
lind him. While making no instruc-
ions as to candidates, and committing
o our delegates, as heretofore, the duty
If joining in the deliberations of the Ma.
ional Convention, we respectfully sug-
lest TO our brethren of other States that
he dignity and welfare # the party and
lation demand of them that they take
UGH action as shall best present this
reat issue to the people. Higher than
other party duties is the solemn obi
alton to give to the free voters of the
and an opportunity to pass their judg.
nent upon this monstrous crime against
rights. On any such issue the
tate of New York will speak with
doubtful voice. TheDemocratic party
f New York hereby readopt their res.
lutlons adopted in the State Convention
f1864, 1868, 1872, aud 1876, as follows
Re8olUed, That the delegates to the
Democratic National Convention to be
~ppointed are hereby instructed to enter
hat convention as a unit and to act and
.ote as a unit in accordance with the
Vill of a majority of the members there
and in case any of its members shall
10 appointed a delegate by any other or
anization and shall not forthwith in
decline such an appointment his
eat shall be regarded as vacated and the
delegates shall proceed to fill the same,
nd it is hereby also empowered to fill
II vacancies by death, absence, resigna-
ion, or otherwise, and whereas the Dem
CFhIlC party VI Julb OLhL5 udb III Gu6 ldSJ
our national contests instructed it's del.
cations to the Democratic National
Convention to enter the convention as a
nit for the purpose of protecting itself
hereby against fictitious and fraudulent
Of the seats of the regularly APP
ointed delegates, therefore.
RESOLVED, That if any attempt should
70 made to dismember or divide the del
CATION by contrasting the seats of a por-
ion of the delegates appointed by this
invention should countenance such at
empt by assuming to act separately from
be majority of the delegation appointed
y this convention, or to enter the Ma
ional Convention separately from such
the seats Of such delegates
hall be declared to he vacated.
WHEN Mr.. Tilden was Governor Of
lew York, he succeeded in reducing
one half. THIS economical adj