The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-07-15
The Democratic Platform.

The Democrats Of the United States, in con.
ventiou assembled, declared:
]. We pledge ourselves anew to the consti-
tuition / aoctrines and traditiOns 81 the Dem
ocratic party, as illustrated by the teaching
aud example Of a ,olg line of Democratic
Statesmen and patrl0ta, and embodied in the
platform o the last National Convention Of
the I arty.
q Opposi icr 20 cen ,ralization and to that
dangerous spirit 3 eaoroaehment which tends
to consolidate tae powers Of all departments
in oae, lil ID - to create, whatever be the
form of government i real despotism; no
snmptuary laws; separation Of church and
State Eor the good Of each; common schools
fOstered and pro- ected.
3. Home rule; no lest money, consisting of
gold and silver and paper convertible into
coin on demand; strict maintenance of public
faith, State and national; and q tariff for rev.
cnre only.
4. Subordination of the military to the
civil power, and general and thorough reform
of the civil service.
S. The right to free ballot is right pre-
sentative Of all rights, and must and shall be
maintained in every part Of the United States.
b. The existing administration is repre-
sentative of conspiracy only, and tho 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 ito corrupt and despotic
power, insnlts the people and imperils sheir
institutions.
z. The great fraud of ls76-77, by which
upon false count of the electoral votes of
was declared to be President, and for the first
time in American history the will Of the people
was set aside under the threat of military
violence, struck o deadly blow at our system
OF representative government. The Demo
cratic party, to preserve the country from civil
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patriotic faith that the people would punish
this crime in 1880. This Issue preeedes and
dwarfs every other; it imposes . more sacred
duty upon the people Of the Union than ever
addressed the conscience of nation Of free
men.
8. We execrate the course Of this admins.
tratiOn in making places in the civil service q
reward for political crime, and demand reform
BY statute which shall mako it forever impos.
sible for the defeated candidate to bribe his
way to the seat Of the usurper, by billeting
villains upon the people.
3. The resolution of Sam'l j. Tilden not
again to be candidate for the exalted place
to which he was elected by majority Of his
countrymen and from which he was excluded
by the leaders Of the Republican party, is re.
ceived by the Democrats of the United States
With sensibility. and they declare their conf
dence in his wisdom, patriotism and integrity,
unshaken by the assaults of o 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-citizcns,
who regard him as one who, by clevatinR the
standard Of public morality and adjoining and
purifying the public service. norris the LASTING
gratitude Of his country and his party.
TO- Free ships and q living chance for
American commerce on the seas and ON land;
no discrimination in favor of transportation
lines, corporations or mon0pOlies.
III. An amendment to the Burlingame
treaty; no more Chinese immigration, except
for travel, education and foreign commerce,
and therein carefully guarded.
J2. Public money and public credit for pub.
Lie purposes solely; and public land for actual
settlers.
-. The Democratic party is the friend of
labor and the laboring man, and pledges itself
to protect him alike against cormorants and
the Commune.
IL We congratulate the country upon the
honest and thrift of tho Democratic Congress-
which has reduced the public expenditures
SAC, 100000 year; upon the continuation of
prosperity ut home and national honor abroad,
and above all upon the promise of such q
change in the administration Of the govern.
ment as shall insure us genuine and lasting
reform in every department of the public
service.