Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-15
DEMoCR4TTC PRINCIPLES

candidate for governor Of Illinois, is doing
yeoman's service in the cause of the party
in that State. For month past he has
spoken almost every night to large and en-
thusiastic audiences, and has succeeded in
making many converts. In recent speech
at Bellville he elucidated the creed of the
Democratic party with much conciseness and
clearness. He said:
THE Democratic creed is broad and liberal,
1t is opposed to monopolies and all special leg
islation which is calculated to foster and bene-
fit one class of citizens or branch of industry
at the expense of another, and to sumptuary
laws which interfere with the individual rights
of man, his religion, habits or customs, no
matter to what race he may belong, what faith
he may profess or from what country he may
have come, provided he does nothing to dis
turb the peace of society or encroach upon the
rights of others. All the traditions of the
currency of gold and silver, and
of such paper only as is convertible
into coin on demand of the holder.
Since the Democratic party obtained control
of the House of Representatives the annual
expenses of the Government have been dimin-
ished many millions of dollars. and would
doubtless have been diminished many millions
of the government also. 1t was only the
treasury leaks upon the outside which the
Democratic House was able to see and stop,
but once put inside the treasury, it would no
doubt discover many others, not visible to the
eye on the outside. The Democratic party re-
cognizes the right of both labor and capital to
protection, but at the same time recognizes the
fact-that labor was before capital and its orea-
tor, and therefore is entitled to its first consid
Grafton Hence 1T ia OnnOsed IN and u1i
legislation which enables aggregated wealth,
whether in the hands of corporations or indi-
Viduals, to take advantage of or Cypress labor.
So far as it is permitted to do this, the laborer
becomes slave TO moneyed, the meanest of
all aristecracies.
A party with such principles and with such
record cannot fail to meet with the ap-
proval of large majority of the people of
the country. What it can point to with the
the greatest pride, however, is the fact that
whatever pledges it has made in the past
have been redeemed to the letter. It prom
ised to reduce the expenditures of the gov
eminent as far as possible, and when the
opportunity offered the promise was carried
out. An average reduction in the ex-
penditures of about forty million dollars
annually has been effected since the Demo-
Gratis obtained control of Congress, and this
reduction would have been increased but
for the opposition of the Repub-
licans having control of the
executive and administrative departments.
1t promised to reform the civil service,
and as far as was in the power of the mem
bers of Congress and Senators that promise
has been kept. It is now pledged to effect
reforms in other direchons-to revise the
tariff; to protect the rights of the laboring
man; to reduce the large army Of oficehold-
ers to the lowest possible limit; to prevent
the interference of the military with the civil
power; to guarantee to every citizen the
rights to free ballot; to encourage ship
building and commerce by removing the re-
striotions imposed on them by the Republi
can party; and to prevent the importation of
servile labor to compete with free labor. All
of these pledges will be faithfully fulfilled.
The candidates of the party are men of
known probity who have each declared their
full agreement with the principles of the
platform and pledged themselves to labor
diligently to carry them into practical eff
feet.
The promises made by the Republican
party have been as ropes of sand, made only
to be broken. Its idea of free ballot con-
sists of freedom to vote the Republican
ticket, with bayonet for those who choose
to vote the Democratic ticket. Its idea of q
tariff is tax that will foster the enterprises
of the rich at the expense of the poor. It
believes in multiplicity of offices, and that
the officers should govern instead of serve
the people. It believes in crushing out
American shipping and compelling our cora-
merce to seek foreign markets in foreign
ships. Itprofesses friendship for the color
ed men, but has persistently ignored their
claims to Office, treating them with decency
only as long as their votes can be controlled
by the party. Between the two parties all
decent men will be able to decide without
great difficulty.