Litchfield enquirer., 1880-07-01

Total vote, 736. Necessary to a choice, 492. At this point, just as the result of the ballot was about to be declared, changes began from other candidates to Hancock. One State after another fell into line for him, till, as finally announced, the vote stood, 705 for Hancock i; 30. for Hendricks 2, fer Bayard and 1, for Tilden. MT. William H. English, of Indiana, was then nominated for Vice President na- tional committee was chosen, the platform re- ported from the committee on resolutions was adopted, and the convention adjourned sine die
 It will be observed that MT. James E. Eng fish had but one vote on the first ballot. He had many friends in the NewYerk delegation, and much promise of. support elsewhere, but the Hancock stampede prevented the realiza- ton of the hopes of his friends. It is now de- clared that the entire movement in his favor was without his consent. The Tilden men, concentrate on Randall of Pennsylvania, but with very poor success. Hancock had no votes from Connecticut till the final stampede. Mir. Barnum seems to have failed most sig nally in all the combinations he engineered, and even in controlling the Connecticut dele- gation; capital thing, which we hope may be followed by decline of his influence in this State.
 The following is the platform adopted: 'The Democrats of the United States in convention assembled declare
 "1. We pledge ourselves anew to the con- | stitutonal doctrines and traditions of the Dem- ocratic party as illustrated by the teaching and | example of long line of Democratic states men and patriots and embodied in the plat l form of the last National Convention of the l party.
 | "2. Opposition to centralization and to 1 that dangerous spirit of encroachment which tends to consolidate the powers of all the de- 1 partments in one, and thus to create. whatever | be the form ot government, real despotism; 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 paper convertible to coin on demand {; the strict maintenance of the | public faith, State and national, and tariff for revenue only.
 | "A. The subordination of the military to the civil power and a general and thorough re- form of the civil service.
 "5. The right to free ballot is the right preser vatve of all rights and must and shall be maintained in every part of the United | States.
 t6. The existing Administration is the re. presentative of conspiracy only; and its claim of right to surround the ballot-bsxes with 1 troops and deputy marshals to intimidate and | ho al ho oJ l of the veto to maintain it's corrupt and despot. ic power insults the people and imperils their l institutions
 ''7. The great fraud of 1876-7, by which, upon a false count of the electoral votes of two States, the candidate defeated at the polls was declared to be President, and for the first time in American history the will of the people was set aside under threat of military violence, struck 8 deadly blow at our system of repre-. sentative government. The Democratic party to preserve the country from the horrors of a civil war, submitted for the time in firm and patriotic faith that the people would punish this crime in 1880. This issue precedes and l dwarfs every other. It imposes a more sacred duty upon the people of the Union than ever I addressed the conscience of nation of free men.
 .'S. We execrate the course of this Admin istration in making places in the civil service | 8 reward for political crime, and demand a reform by statute which shall make it forever impossible for the defeated candidate to bribe his way to the seat of a usurper by billetine villains upon the people,
 '''9. The resolution of Samuel J. Tilden no again to be candidate for the exalted plac, to which he was elected by a majority of hi. countrymen and from which he was excludec by the leaders of the Republican party, is re ceived by the Democrats of the United State with sensibility, and they declare their conf dence in hls wisdom, patriotism and integrit, unshaken by the assaults of acommon enemy and they further assure him that he is followed into the retirement he has chosen for himsel by the sympathy and respect of his fellow-cit lzens, who regard hlm as one who, by elevat ing the standards of public morality anc adorning anu purifying the public service merits the lasting gratitude of his country anc
 '.10. Free ships and a living chance fol American commerce on the seas and on tn, land. No discrimination in favor of transpor tation lines, corporations or monopolies } I'll. Amendment of the Burlingame treaty
 No more Chinese immigration except for tray el, education add foreign commerce, and there
 in carefully guarded.
 lS. funlie money and public credit fo
 public purposes solely, and public land for act ual settlers d
 '13. The Democratic party is the friend o
 labor and the laboring man, and pledges itsel
 to protect him alike against the cormorant . and the Commune
 "A. We congratulate the country upon tn
 honesty and thrift of a Democratic Congres
 which has reduced the public expenditure $40. , OOO, 600 year; upon the continuation of pros perity at home and the national honor abroad , and above all upon the promise of such change in the administration of the Govern
 ment as shall insure us genuine and lasiin
 reform in every department of the public SCI
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