The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-07-29
Tie Democratic National Platform.

The Democrats of the United
States, In convention assembled, de
clare -
l. We pledge ourselves anew to the
constitutional doctrines and traditions
of the Democratic party as Illus
trated by the teachings and example
of 4 long line of Democratic States
men and patriots, and embodied in
the platform of the last national cor
vention of the party.
2. Opposition to Capitalization and
to 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 a tariff
for revenue only.
4. The subordination of the mill
tary to the civil power, and genuine
and thorough reform Of the civil
service.
5. The right to free ballot is a
right preservative 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
ballOt-bOXes with troops and deputy
marshals, to intimidate and obstruct
the election, and the unprecedented
use Of the veto to maintain its cor
rupt and despotic powers, insult the
people and imperil their institutions.
Z. We execrate the course of this
administration in making places in the
civil service a reward for political
crime, and demand a reform by statute
which shall make it forever impossi-
bic for defeated candidate to bride
his way to the seat of n usurper by
billeting Williams upon the people.
8, The great fraud of 1S76-1S77,
by which, upon false count of the
electoral votes of two States, the can.
didate defeated at the polls was de-
'clared 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 a civil war
submitted for the time in firm and
patriotic faith that the people would
punish tbs crime in 1880. This issue
precedes and dwarfs every other Il
imposes a more sacred duty upon the
people than ever addressed the con
science of a 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 II majority of his countrymen, anC
from which he was excluded by the
leaders of the republican party, is re
ccived 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 h il
followed into the retirement the hal
chosen for himself by the sympathy
and respect of his fellow-citizens, VIII,
regard him as one who, by elevatins
the standard Of public morality anC
adjoining and purifying the public ser
vice, merits the lasting gratitude Ofhi
country and his party.
10. Free ships and n chance fo
American commerce on the seas, ant
on the land no discrimination in favo
of transportation lines, corporations 0
mOnopolies.
IL. Amendment of the Burlingam
treaty no more Chinese immigration
except for travel, education and for
eign commerce, and it even CAREFUL,
guarded.
II. Public money and public credi
for public purposes solely, and publ
land for actual settlers.
Is. The Democratic party is tn
friend of labor and the laboring man
and pledges itself to protect him alik
against the cormorants and the Com
1nuno.
II. We congratulate the countr
upon the honesty and thrift of Dem
bcratic Congress which has reduce,
the public expenditures $40, 100000
year; upon the continuation of pros
perity at home, and the national homo
abroad, and, above all, upon tn
promise of such a change in the ad
ADMINISTRATION of the Government a
shall insure us genuine and lasting rt
form in every department of the pull
tic service.