The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-10-21
The Democratic Platferm.

The Democrats ofthe United States, in cor
ventiOn assembled, declared:
| i. We pledge ourselves anew to the const
tstional doctrines and traditions of the Dem
ceratic party, as illustrated by the teaching
and example of long line of Democratic,
statesmen and patriots, and embodied il, III
platform Of the last National Convention ii
the party.
:. Opposition to Capitalization and to that
| dangerous spirit of encroachment which tends
| to consolidate the powers of all depart mcBt y
| III one, and thus to create, whatever he ,h-
form OF government, real ,iespotism ;
| sumptuary laws; separation of church and
State for the good of each; common schools
| foStered and protected.
s. Hs,ae rule; honest money, consisting of
| gold and silver and paper convertible into
coin On demands strict maintenance ef public
| faith, State and national; and turiif Tor rev
cnue only.
a.. Suborlinatisn of the military TO tho
CIVIL power, and general and thorough reform
OF the civil service.
5. The right to free ballot is right PRE-
servative OF all rights, and must and shall DO
maintained inevery part OF the United States.
o. The existing administration is repre-
sentative of conspiracy only, and the claim
OF right to surround ballot boxes with troops
and deputy marshals to intimidate and Oh
struct electors, and the unprecedented use of
the veto to maintain its corrupt and despotic
power, insults the people and impesils their
z. Tho great fraud of Ts76-77, by which
upon false count of the electoral votes If
two States the candidate defeated at the polJs
was declared to he President, and for the first
time in American history the will Of the people
was set aside under the threat of military
violence, struck a deadly blew at our system,
OF representative government. The Denn-
cratic party, to preserve the country from civil
war, submitted for the time in the FIRM ami
patriotic faith that the people would punish
this crime in 1880. This issue preeedes amt
dwarfs every other it imposes u more sacred
duty upon the people of the Union than ever
addressed the conscience OF q nation of free
men.
.. We execrate the course of this admins
tration in making places in the civil service "A
reward for political crime, and demand reform,
by statute which shall make it forever impos-
slble for the defeated candidate TO bride his
way to the seat of the usurper, by billetirg
villains upon the people.
g. The resolution of Sam1 j. TiIden 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 exclnd.,I
by the leaders of the Republican party, is re-
celyed by the Democrats Of the United States
with sensibilty, and they declare their conf.
dence in his wisdom, patriotism and integrity.
unshaken by the assaults of q common enemy,
and they further assure him that he is followed
into retirement he has chosen for himself by
the sympathy and respect OF his fellow citizens,
VINO regard him as one who, by efevating tho
standard OF public morality and ad0rning and
purifying the public service, merits the lasting
gratitude of his country and his party.
III. Free ships and living chance for
american commerce on the seas and on land;
no discrimination in favor of transportation
lines, corporations or monepolies.
ii. An amendment to the Burlingane
treaty. no more Chinese immigration, eXceut
for travel, education and foreign commerce..
and therein carefully guarded
). u Public money and public credit for pub
lie purposes solely; and public land for actual
sc ttlers.
IL. The Democratic party is the friend of
labor and the laboring man, and pledges itself
TO protect him alike against corm0rants and
the Commune
H. We congratulate the country upon tho
honest and thrift Of the Democratic Congress
which has reduced the pnblic expenditures
$4O,O0OOOO year; upon the continuation of
prosperity ut home and national honor abroad,
and above all upon the promise of such ~
change ia the administration of the govern
ment as shall insure us genuine and lasting
reform in every department Of the pubic