The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-09-02
The Mountaineering Platform.

The democrats 81 the L mted (
States, III convention assembled, de !
clare:
/. We pledge ourselves anew to the !
constitutional doctrines and traditions
of the Democratic party as illus
,trated by the teachings and example
of Il long line Of Democratic States
men and patriots, and embodied in
the platform of the last national con-
Yention of the party.
2. Opposition to Capitalization and
10 that dangerous spirit Of encroach-
ment which tends to consolidate the
powers Of all the departments in one,
and thus create, whatever the form Of
government, a real despotism: no
.sumptuary laws; separation of
Church and State for the good Of
each common schools fostered and
protected.
3. Home Rule; honest money,
consisting of gold and silver and pa
per convertible into coin on demand
the strict maintenance of the public
faith, State and national, and IL tariff
for revenue only
/. The subordination of the mill
.tary to the civil power, and IL genuine
and thorough reform of the civil
service.
>. The right TO free ballot is
right preventative Of all rights, and
must and shall be maintained in every
part of the United States
: 6. The present administration is the
representative Of conspiracy only, and
its claim of right to surround the
},allot-boXes with troops and deputy
lnarshals, to intimidate and obstruct
the election, and the unprecedented
Use of the veto to maintain its cor
rupt and lespotic powers, insult the
people and imperil their institutions.
Z. We eXecrate the course of this
administration in making places in the
civil service reward for political
crime, and demand Il reform by statute
which shall make it forever impossi-
bile for Il defeated candidate to bride
his way to the seat Of usurper by
billetimg Williams upon the people.
8. The great fraud of 1S76-1S77,
bv which, upon false count of the
electoral votes Of two States, the can
dida;e defeated ut the polls was de
CIared to be President, and for the
first time in American history the will
of the people was set aside under a
threat of military violence which
struck deadly blow at our system of
representative government. The
Democratic party, to preserve the
country from the terrors Of civil war,
submitted for the time in firm and
patriotic faith that the people would
punish tbs crime III 1880. This issue
prccedes and dwarfs every other. 1t
imposes Il more sacred duty upon the
people than ever addressed the con-
science of nation of freemen.
9. The resolution Of Samuel jill
den not again TO be candidate for the
exalted place to which he was elected
by a majority of his countrymen, and
from which he was excluded by the
leaders of the republican party, is re
ceived by the Democrats of the United
States with deep sensibility, and they
declare their confidence in his wisdom,
patriotism and integrity mistaken by
the assaults of the common enemy
and they further assure him that he is
followed into the retirement the has
chosen for himself by the sympathy
and respect Of his fellow-citizens, who
regard him as one who, by elevatino
the standard of public morality and
..tlorning and purifying the public ser
vice, merits the lasting gratitude ofhi.
country and his party.
10. Free ships and a chance fol
American commerce on the seas, ant
on the land no discrimination in favor
of transportation lines, corporations o.
,{4onopolics.
II. Amendment of the Burlingamt
treaty no more Chinese immigration
except for travel, education and for
.cign commerce, and it even carefully
.guarded-
~. Public money and public credi
for public purposes solely, and public
land for actual settlers.
13. The Democratic. party is til,
friend of labor and the laboring man
and pledges itself to protect him alik,
against the cormorants and the Com
smune.
II. We congratulate the countr,
upon the honesty and thrift of Dem
ocratic Congress which has reduce,
the public expenditures $40, 100000 ;
wear; upon the continuation of pros
.Icrify at home, and the national homo
abroad, and, above all, upon TIN
promise of such change in the ad
ADMINISTRATION of the Government IL
shall insure us genuine and lasting re
form in every department of the pub
JIG service.