The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-06-28
The Demooratie PIatforn,.

4 no DcAAoGF8gfC ST1ANtOrAs1.
The following is the platform adopt
ed by the Democrats OF Ohio:
| The Democrats in council assembled
hereby rea1frm the principles of the
party as expressed in the primaries and
the state and national platform In re-
gard 10 personal liberty, the true func-
tions Of government, and as embraced
in the political creed expounded by the
founder of the Democratic party, Thorn
as Jefferson; the application of these
principles to our present condition de-
mands the purification of the
public service; the punishment
of the robbers of the public
treasury; the equalization of all public
burdens; the arrest of the profligacy and
extravagance that corrupts the admins
tration of public affairs, and total
change in the policy that has been long
pursued by the Republican party of ia,
voring individual and class interests at
the expense of the laboring and wealth.
producing people of the country; and
we reItefate our previous declarations
for stable money, the gradual extinction
of the public debt, and the payment of
pensions to disabled soldiers and their
widows and orphans.
Second-We favor tariff tor revenue
limited TO the necessities OF the govern ]
ment, economically administered and so
adjusted in its application as tospnegent
unequal burdens, encouraae pE0auctlve
industries and soaallow ilIz4 cczspsnsaea
ton TO labor, but not to create or foster
monopolies-
ThIrd-The act of the Republican COM
gress in reducing the tariff on wool,
while at the same time increasing il on
wooden goods, already highly protected,
was iniquitous legislation, discrimin-
ating IN favor of monopoly against the
agricultural interests of the country and
ought to be corrected, and We heartily
approve the action of the Democratic
members of the Ohio delegation in con-
gress in voting against thai increase.
Fourth-The Democratic party is, and
always has been, opposed to sumptuary
legislation and unequal taxation IN any
form, and Is in favor of the largest lib
ertY of private conduct consistent with
the public welfare and the rights of
others, and of regulating the liquor
traffic and providing against the evil
resulting theretrom, by judicious and
properly graded license system.
FIfth-The abuses of the present con-
tract system in our state penitentiary,
by which the products of the labor of
the convicts are brought in competition
with products of honest labor with
great detriment To the latter, are MUIR
ious and unwise and ought to be cor
rected, and she promises of the RepublI-
can party to abolish this system ARE
shown to be false and hyprocitical, by
its failure to do SO while il has had the
power.
Sixth-The production of the govern
ment is dae to all American citizens,
native and foreign, born abroad as we'll
az at home.
Seventh-W reaf6rm the resolutions
of the state conventions of Ohio in 1880,
'8f, '22, and of the Democratic national
Of 1872, 1876 and 1890, de-
handing a thorough reform and ramili-
cation of the civil service, and charge
that the Republican party has violated
every pledge it has heretofore given for
the reform thereof, and bias failed during
its long administration of the govern
ment TO correct even the most trifiing
abuses, and We demand, therefore, a
change in the executive administration
of the government itself as the reform
erst of all necessary, as made still more
manifest by the recent star route trials,
thereby ousting corrupt rings confeder-
ated TO protect crime and prevent the
punishment or crimInals, and by so do.
ing to make it p0saible again to punish
fraud and theft in the public service