Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-06-26
THE DECLARATION.
what the Democrats of h National
Convention and their Followers
are Willing TO stand by.

are willing TO stand Dy.
CINCINNATI, June 24.-The Democrats Of
the United States, in Convention assem-
bled declare:
First-We pledge ourselves anew in the
constitutional doctrines and traditions of
the Democratic party, as illustrated by the
teachings n example of a long line of
Democratic statesmen and embodied in the
platform of the last National Convention
Of the party.
Second-Opposition to Capitalization
and that dangerous spirit Of encroachment
which tends to consolidate the powers of
all departments in one, and thus create,
whatever be the forms of government, a
real despotism; no sumptuary law; the
separation of church and state, for the
good of each common schools, fostered
and protected.
Third-Home rule; honest money; the
strict maintenance Of the public faith,
consisting of gold, silver and paper, con-
vertible to coin on demand; the strict
maintenance of the public faith, State and
National, and q tariff for revenue only.
~Fourth-The subordination of the mill
tary to the civil power, and a general and
thorough reform OF the civil service.
Fifth-The right to a free ballot as the
right preservative of all rights, mt and
shall be maintained in every part of the
United States.
Sixth-The existing administration is a
representative of conspiracy only, and its
claim of the right to surround the ballot
boxes with troops and deputy marshals, to
intimidate and obstruct elections, and the
unprecedented use of the veto to maintain
its corrupt aud despotic power insult the
people and imperil their institutions.
2ax-anth Tho Oraok fronl - 1910 hv
which, upon a false count of the electoi al
vote of two States, the candidate defeated
at the polls was declared to be President,
and for the first time in American history
the people were set aside, under a threat of
military violence, struck a deadly blow at
our sy. tenn of representative government.
The Democratic party, to preserve their
country from the horrors of a civil war,
submitted for the time, in the firm and pa
triotic belief that the people would punish
this crime in 1880. This issue precedes and
dwarfs every other. 1t imposes a more sa-
cred duty upon the people of the Union
than ever addressed to the conscience Of a
nation of freemen.
Eighth-We e~xecrate the course of this
administration in making place for politi-
cal crime, and demand a reform by statute
which shall make it impossible for a de-
9bCa " y lid way 1ACdl W bhO
seat of an usurper by billing villains upon
the people.
Ninth-The resolution of Samuel J. Til
den not again to be a candidate for election
to the exalted place to which he was Sc
lected by a majority Of his countrymen,
and from which he was excluded by the
leaders of the Republican party, is received
by the Democrats of the United States with
sensibility, and they declare their conf
dence in his wisdom, patriotism and integ-
rity, which have resisted the assaults Of the
common enemy, and they further assure
him that he is followed into the retirement
he has chosen for himself by the sympathy
and respect of his fellow-citizens, who re-
| gard him as one who, by elevating the
standard of public morality and adjoining
and purifying the public service, merits
the lasting gratitude of his country and his
party.
Tenth-Free ships and a living chance
for American commerce on the sea, and on
the land no discrimination in favor of
transportation lines, corporations or mo-
nopolies.
Eleventh-The amendment of the Bur-
lingame Treaty. No more Chinese immi-
grafton except for travel, education and
foreign commerce., and therein carefully
| guarded.
Twelfth-Public money and public credit
for public purposes solely, and public land
! for actual settlers.
Thirteenth-The Democratic party is the
friend of labor and the laboring man, and
pledges itself to protect him alike against
the cormorant and the
Fourteenth-We congratulate the coun-
try upon the honesty and thrift of the
Democratic Congress, which has reduced
the public expenditures forty million dol
lars a year, with the continuation of pros
perity at home and the National honor
abroad. and above all, upon the promise of
such a chaDgei in the administration Of the
Government as shall insure its lasting
reform in every department Of the public
service.