The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-10-06

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| ployment, is a standing threat upon busi-
ness men and should at once be repealed,
without any condition whatever"
IowA-Democratic Convention, Nav II,
lS76.-That we believe that
forced and sudden resumption of specie
payment, such as is contemplated BY the
so-called Sherm an resumption act of 1875
will cause widespread disaster and ruin to
our business interests, has had, and is now
having, blighting effect upon all industry,
and, being one OF the many financial blum
ders of the Republican party, should be at
once repealed"
KANsAs-Democratic Convention, May
IS, 1876" That the government paper
currency be made legal-tender in the pay
ment Of debts, public and private, and that
the same be receivable for all demands on
the government, including duties on i'm
ports.
"That We regard the act of Congress re-
quiring resumption of specie payments in
1879, the retirement Of legal-tenders, and
the substitution of the inferior cur
rency of the national banks in its stead, as
a fraud and an outrage, and we demand
that the Democratic House OF Representa-
tives in Congress Immediately pass bill
for its unconditional repeal, and that the
responsibility for the continuance of that
infamous measure on the statute-book be
thrown on the Senate and President"
KENTUCKY - Democratic Convention,
May 25, 1876" That, in view of the pres
ent distressed condition of the country,
we declare that we favor the immediate
and unconditional repeal by Congress of
the act of Jan. Ia, 1875, commonly known
as the resumption act"
TENNESSEE - Democratic Convention,
May 81, 1885," The unconditional repeal
| OF the resumption act, the policy
OF the Republican party having rendered
early resumption impossible without the
ruin and bankruptcy of the country"
WEST VIRGINIA-Democratic Conven-
ton, June 8, 1876" That we
favor an immediate repeal of the specie
resumption act"
The views expressed in the extracts given
above were in full force at the Democratic
national convention which nominated Til
den and Hendricks. as appears below:
Democratic National Convention, June
29, l676.-"We denounce the financial i'm
becility and immortality of the Republican
party, which, during eleven years Of peace
has made no advance toward resumption
no preparation for resumption, but instead,
has obstructed resumption by wasting our
resources, and exhausting all our surplus in
come, and while annually protesting to in
tend a speedy resurn to specie payments,
has annually enacted fresh hindrances
thereto. AS such hindrance we denounce
theresumption clause of the act of 1875,
and we here demand its repeal"
The State conventions held in 1877 and
1878 failed to perceive the blunder of the
party, although this blunder became greater
and more inexcusable as the months passed
away and the day of resumption surely ap
preached. The following extracts chow the
position of the party in the States in those
years:
OHIo-Democratic Convention, July 25,
1S77.-"That as a means of relieving the
distressed portions OF the community and
removing the great stringency complained
of in business circles, we demand the imme-
diate repeal of the resumption act.'
Iow-Democratic Convention, Aug. 8,
1S77.-"That as means of relieving the
distressed portion Of the community, and
removing the great stringency complained
of in business circles, we demand the i'm
mediate repeal of the specie resumption
act"
MINNESOTA Democratic Convention,
Oct 2, 1877.-The platform denounced
the Republican party for passing the re-
sumption act.
INDIANA-Democratic Convention, Feb.
20, 1878.-"We are in favor of the imme-
diate and unconditional repeal OF the re-
sumption act"
OREGON Democratic Convention, April
10, 1875" We regard the forced resump.
tion of specie payments as greatly aggra-
waiting the depression and distress conse-
quent on long season of initiation and ex-
travagance. We therefore favor the repeal
of the act requiring resumption Jan. l,
1879."
ILLINoIs-Democrati Convention, April
II, 1875" That we are in favor of the
immediate and unconditional repeal OF the
resumption act"
IowA-Democrati Convention, May 26,
1875" We favor the immediate and un-
conditional repeal of the resumption act"
ARKANSAS - Democratic Convention,
July 4, lOf o. we ueIuduu
fed and unconditional repeal Of the odious
resumption act"
CoLoRADo-Democrati Convention, j uly
II, 1873 :" That the commercial and in
dustrial distress that has so long prevailed
throughout the country is the legitimate
result of the vicious financial legislation
of the moneyed power, effected through the
agency of the Republican party in Con-
gress; that by the enactment of the resump-
tion law, and the retirement and destruction
of legal-tender notes, this same moneyed
power have prostrated labor, bankrupted
merchants, robbed widows and orphans,
filled our poorhouses with paupers trans
| formed industrious men into tramps and
outcasts, and filched from real estate Gall
over the land) more that one-half of what
ought to be the minimum value.
"That we demand the repeal of the re-
sumption act, and the lawful liberation of
the coin boarded in the treasury"
TENNESSEE - Democratic Convention,
Aug. 5, 1S7S.-"We demandkthe uncon-
ditional repeal of the resumption act"
KANSAS Democratic Convention, Sept.
A. 1873" We favor the unconditional re.
peal of the resumption act Of 1875"
CONNECTICUT Democratic Convention,
Sept. IL, 1875" That the resumption act
so called, was in its inception unwise, un-
called for, and not demanded at the time
of its enactment by those laws OF trade
which govern with unerring certainty the
finances Of country.
"That we condemn the fnan.
cial policy of the Republican administra-
tion as the direct and shortest way to uni
versal bankruptcy and total reputation"
WISCONSIN. - Democratic Convention,
Sept 26, 1S77.-The platform declared the
party's hostility to the financial policy Of
the Republican party in attempting to
force resumption when it would bring ruin
upon the general business interests of the
country, and demanded that the resump-