The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-02
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFoRM

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displayed in its construction.
II IS printed elsewhere in this paper,
and is respectfully commended 10 the
public rs n document which they
may, with profit, as well us entertain
meni. read. mark and inwardly digest.
While the wonders Of this remarkable
production do not break abruptly upon
the view, al the first glance, the prima-
~ clause AT once cnlists the interest
Of the reader, and invites his attention
To further research II pledges its
anew To the teachings
and traditions of IA party whose sym
pathies have fcrvently yearned toward
the enemies Of the common government
for the past quarter of "A century, and
whose aims and purposes have been full
Iy In accord with the traitorous defiance
of national supremacy in the field, and
the seditious advocacy of states rights by |
unrepentant rebels in the national legis- |
lature. THIS plank is made the stepping |
stone, so to speak, of platform upon |
which the Democracy have placed a man |
who honorably fought for the triumph |
of those principles which the BOurbons
of the north and south have labored IN
season and ont of season to overflow,
and the ripe fruitiOn of whose hopes is
only conditioned upon the accession of
the Democratic party to power in 1881.
The second plank. in the face and eyes
of the fact that the Republican majori-
ties of at least five southern states have
been suppressed by forciblc and revolu-
| tionaTy methods, which have met the
sanction of the Democratic party at
large, brazenly inveighs against "a
Capitalization of power, and that danger
Gus spirit of cncrOachment which tends
TO dcspOtism" With AS notable con
sislency, il lyocates the enforcement of
church and state, while bidding for aud
commanding the solid vote of the
| Catholic church, whose scciarian de-
mands have modified the policy of the
party in every papal stronghold in the
country.
Apparently forgetting the shameful
and guilty record which the Democracy
has made for itself in its persistent III
tempis To dchase the national currency
by wild and unwholcsomc initiation, and
its inccndiary efforts to annul the bcnili-
cent results of resumption, the trainers
of the platform dare To pirate of 'hOnest
money" and that "strict maintenance of
the public faith" which was accomplish.
ed by the Republican party in its hand
tohand fight with the Democratic enc
mics of the national credit at home and
abroad.
Loud in its protests of respect for In
Dor and friendship for the laboring man
the platform declares for tariff for rev
enuc only, thus proclaiming its sympa
7 thy with those measures which will adj
c nit the free importation of foreign prod
d ucis, and thus bring the pauper labor o
/ the old world into direct competition
f with our native and resident artisans. Ii
f strange cOnsonance with its professions
:. in this regard, it also endorses poll
e CIV which degrades tothe level of scris anC
a slaves millions OF toIlers in the most ia
vOrcd and productive section of our fai
/. republic, and denies 10 the producers q
L the southern states those civil and politi
e cal rights which were purchased at til
D fearful expense of seas of patriotic bloc
Il and millions of treasure.
is Repudiating, through its public press
Il and by an overwhelming expression q
l. its delegates in the national convention
Ie the claims of Samuel j. Tilden To
"vindicatIon" by means of renomini
ton To an office which every Democra
al in the country has been relisiousl
at taught to declare was stolen from hiI
W in 1876, the party has the intinit
n audacity to incorporate in its platform
y fraud plank, in which is recounted III
n wrongs of man whom history Ia
H. proven an INSCRIPTIONS trickster, who's
~ shameless duplicity has made him IL
y object of oblOquy and scorn even wit
C. his own party, and who was final
II wounded to death in the house of h
I'd pretended friends Proclaiming IL
~ author of the cipher dispatches and Il
champion railroad wrecker of the 19I
century man, "who, in elevaiIng Il
:" standard of public morality, adornin
" and purifying the public service, meri
v the lasting gratitude of his country al
party" il has shown its utter distrust
his record by going to the extren
length of even turning deaf ear to Il
nS persuasive jingle of those golden arg
In menis that So completely ravishe'i q
lai Democratic ear in 1876.
IN With the revolutionary echoes of
~, prolonged extra session, the expense
IN. which to the country was $4,000 p
* day, still sounding in the people
ears, and with the fact staril
them in the face that the expenditures u
- der the auspices ola Democratic MAORI
~, in congress for the fiscal year ending in
30, 1890, were $6,OOO,OOO more than
1870 II, when the Republicans had CO
=. troll, the platform eulogizes the homes
and economy of the Democratic pari
which il falsely claims has reduced Z
public expenditures $I0,OO0,OOO yei
Advocating free ballot us an ins
tuition preservative of all rights, I
| pihilttih utItouuCtS slS touSlilIaNy '
- election laws enacted by Republic
~ congress TO protect the purity of the b
lot box against Democratic ward bul
mers and reporters in the north and VIII
ca- leaguers and ku-kluXkers in the sOut
YER and thereby justifies those incendia
id methods which have cementcd with {
ent blood of hundreds of loyal colored vote
rus the possible foundation of Democrat
in success, namely. solid south, fl
ice states of which have been rendered De
ial ocratic by the Acknowledgement of n IL
Sc jority of their legal voters.
in These, in brief, are the claims to I
gu support Of the popular franchise urg
ess by party which has no fixed prin
ice pies, whose dominant policy is a true
tly ling to expedients, whose aims and lofti
ambition are consuming and eterI
hungering and thirsting for official en-
NJ luments, and which trims its sails to eve
10 false wind of doctrine which will be
oy the shattered old hulk out of the ia
INC shadows into which its hopeless mar
ei" ers have steered its course
on
lily Senator Hoar, whose ability to form
on Judgment ON the subject is surpassed
as that of no other man in the count
ing says of the Credit Mobilier char
Dr's against General Garfield: Il was one